Six In The Morning Sunday December 14

14 December 2014 Last updated at 09:46

UN members agree deal at Lima climate talks

United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change.

Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year.

Differences over the draft text caused the talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days.

Environmental groups have criticised the deal as a weak and ineffectual compromise, saying it weakens international climate rules.

The talks proved difficult because of divisions between rich and poor countries over how to spread the burden of pledges to cut carbon emissions.

'Not perfect'

The BBC's Matt McGrath in Lima says none of the 194 countries attending the talks walked away with everything they wanted, but everybody got something.

Ten years on, a survivor’s fear of torture doesn’t go away

Jabuli endured seven months in a torture chamber in a central African country, an ordeal that has left him struggling to recover

• Spencer Ackerman
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• The Observer, Sunday 14 December 2014

Jabuli prefers to stay indoors, on his own. When he does go out, he seeks crowded public spaces so that there will be witnesses if his tormentors reappear to kidnap him again. Ten years on, time and distance have not healed the damage that comes from torture.

“You live with the fear that the people who tortured you may come back to torture you again,” he said, “regardless of if you are in a safe country.”

Triggers are everywhere. Armoured vans on the street make him think of the station where he was tortured. He fears intimacy, because he doesn’t want someone to see him having nightmares, or to watch him wake up crying. He worries that he will not be “good enough to have a family”.

Violent Dutch gang-war spreads across Europe

The feud over a missing shipment of cocaine has already claimed at least 14 lives around the continent

CARL FELLSTROM

 

 

Sunday 14 December 2014

Death came swiftly and without mercy for Stefan Eggermont when he parked near his Amsterdam home. The 30-year-old father of one had parked after spending the evening with brother Jordi watching Netherlands beat Brazil 3-0 in the World Cup in July this year. After opening his car door, a gunman killed him with a burst of automatic gunfire.

Despite his violent death Stefan was no gangster. He was a respected, hard-working customer service manager at a web-based marketing firm. His only crime was that he lived near to and drove the same make and colour of car as the gunman’s intended target.

He had become the first civilian casualty in a bloody war currently raging between two Dutch gangs over a missing £14 million cocaine shipment most of which was destined for the UK, which has now claimed at least 14 lives across Europe.

Turkish police raid media outlets associated with Erdogan rival

Turkish police have staged "anti-terrorism" raids on a TV broadcaster and a newspaper, detaining several people. The media outlets have ties to a US-based Muslim cleric who is a bitter rival of the Turkish president.

Turkish police early on Sunday raided various addresses, including a television station and a newspaper, in Istanbul and 12 other cities, arresting several people,Turkish media say.

Among those detained were a top executive, producers and directors of a television channel close to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. The news agency said at least 14 people in all were detained.

The anti-terrorism police also raided the offices of the Zaman daily, which, too, has links with Gulen. However, a huge crowd outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul forced police to leave without arresting any of its employees.

Farhana Yamin's simple yet radical idea: zero emissions

Ms. Yamin has been a key actor in getting that ambitious goal into the discussion of carbon emission reductions under way at the UN climate talks in Lima, Peru.

By Karl Ritter, Associated Press

LIMA, PERU — Pulling a worn, yellowed copy of the 1992 U.N. climate change convention from her handbag, Farhana Yamin points to the paragraph that states its goal: To stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous warming.

It doesn't provide any guidance on how to do that.

But Ms. Yamin does. And, in a historic first, dozens of governments now embrace her prescription. The global climate pact set for adoption in Parisnext year should phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, says the London-based environmental lawyer.

Another US citizen enters N.Korea, slams US govt: CNN

North Korea Sunday put on display an American who had apparently entered the country illegally and who strongly denounced the US political and economic systems.

The man identified himself at a press conference in Pyongyang as Arturo Pierre Martinez, aged 29 and from El Paso in Texas, CNN reported.

He entered the North from China in November, according to a North Korean statement cited by the broadcaster, just two days after the US spy chief James Clapper arrived in Pyongyang to secure the release of two other detained Americans.

Martinez had earlier tried to swim across the Han river between the two Koreas to enter the North, only to be caught and sent back to the US where he was placed in a psychiatric hospital, his mother told CNN.