Erstellt am: 9. 12. 2015 - 15:40 Uhr

Homs

A ceasefire, but does it tell us anything? Reality Check speaks with Dr. Taha Rajab who's originally from Homs.

A local ceasefire has been agreed in the Syrian city of Homs to allow hundreds of rebel fighters to leave the last neighbourhood they control. Homs saw some of the first protests against President Bashir al-Assad and was once known as the capital of the Syrian revolution. So what does this deal signal about the war? We spoke with Dr. Taha Rajab, Research Fellow at the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York, who is originally from Homs.

• COP21

Time is ticking away as negotiators in Paris at the climate summit make a final push for what could be an historic agreement. But there remain serious issues to be sorted out. Chris Cummins reports from Paris.

• The Trial of Beate Zschaepe

The alleged member of a neo-Nazi group in Germany is making her first statement in her two-and-a-half-year trial. What questions still need answering? We went to Berlin and heard from our correpondent there, Kate Connolly.

• The UN’s largest appeal campaign

The United Nations is launching an appeal for over 20 billion dollars in funding for next year. It’ll be the largest humanitarian appeal in history, five times greater than the figure sought a decade ago. So have world crises really got five times worse in ten years? We speak with Adrian Edwards from the UNHCR.

• Climate REDD Protests

One of the many schemes to stop climate change is REDD, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. It works in part by getting rich countries to finance incentives to communities in poorer countries not to chop down forests. But not everyone thinks it's a great idea; we hear from some anti-REDD activists in Paris.

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