UN officials,climate experts,environmental activists and  more than 40 world leaders gather in Copenhegen for two-week conference on climate change to begin  Monday,December 7th.Their aim is to achieve a legally binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions.VOA Sonia   Pace sent this preview from our European bureau in London.
    The Copenhegen conference has been built as the last best chance to  clinch  a  deal.But doubts have been raised whether it can do that .The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for  heating  up  the atmosphere.And since industrialized nations were  greatest polluters for years,they more than others  under pressure  to cut emissions.But many say developing countries also need to do more.They in turn, want  financial help to make the transition.Most scientists say human activity is behind global warming and it's up to humans to make changes to stem the tide,
Copenhegen is supposed to come up with the successor  to the  1997   Kyoto  Agreement that  demanded  cuts in the emissions.It expires in 2012.Sonia  Pace,VOA news,London.

     US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States does  not  know where  about  Al-Qaeda  leader  Osama Bin Laden ,and has not had good intelligence on its location in years.In a televised interview to be seen today  on AVC television network,Secretary Gates says the US would go in *get  Bin  Laden  if it could gather reliable information on his location.US  and  ally  military official have said they believe Bin Laden  is hiding somewhere along the mountainous  boarder  between
Pakistan and Afghanistan.

    Pilippine troops have arrested more than 60 people with  suspected links to a political massacre after President Gloria  Arroyo  imposed marshal law  in suspended civil rights in the southern province of Maguindanao.Thousands of  troops have taken control of the province to crack down on the powerful Ampatuan clan. Andal Ampatuan Senior and his  son Zaldy were taken  into  custody on Saturday,another son is already in jail.Military officials say soliders onload a large cache  of weapons  and ammunitions  of  the  fimily's property .Authorities say the government  fear the Ampatuans  were planning  a rebellion  in response to the crack down on them since the  massacre .

       Mourners in the Russian ural city of Perm   attended the first  on Sunday for victims of  a night club fire that killed at least 12 people .Official says the death toll from the early Saturday blaze could rise ,because many victims ar  阅读全文>>