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News Item 1 联合国气候变化大会在巴黎召开 The United Nations Conference on Climate Change has opened in Paris with world leaders all describing global warming as an urgent threat. Leaders of the countries, most vulnerable to drought and rising sea levels said immediate action was required to prevent catastrophe. Negotiators have 12 days to reach agreement on limiting the rise in global temperatures to two degree Celsius about pre-industrial levels. Nigeria’s environment minister Amina Mohamed said there was an air of optimism around the conference on its first day. “Everybody is pretty upbeat here. The pressure is to keep the momentum and the ambition and I think people are hopeful. And certainly we are having conversations here in Paris that haven’t happened over the last few years. A lot is already on the table. It is really for us to try to put that into agreement.” News Item 2 发现马航MH370疑似残骸 The French authorities will fly a piece of aircraft debris from an Indian Ocean island to France later today where it will be examined to see if it comes from a missing Malaysian airliner. Experts say it appears to be a wing component from a Boeing 777. Jennifer Park reports from Kuala Lumpur. “Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak says initial reports on the debris show it was very likely from a Boeing 777 but that it is too early to speculate whether it belongs to MH370 until his investigators can examine it. One Malaysian team has been sent to where the debris was found and another to the French city of Toulouse for the inspection. Officials say it may be several days before they have any answers.” A top Australian official has told the BBC he’s increasingly confident that the wreckage found in Reunion is from the missing Malaysian airliner. Martin Donald heads the Australian Transport Safety Bureau which is leading the search for the plane in the Eastern Indian Ocean. He said he still believed the search would eventually find the passenger plane. “The analysis that weve done with the sa