麻豆社

President Anote Tong tells Newsday he is fairly optimistic of a deal in Paris at the climate change talks. He has now left the talks and is on his way back to his Pacific island nation, which is under threat from rising sea levels. While in London he came into the Newsday studio to talk to presenter Lawrence Pollard.

(PICTURE Millennium Island, one of 33 islands in the Republic of Kiribati in the Pacific, located at latitude 10 degrees South and Longitude 150 degrees 13 minutes West, about 2,800 kilometers (1,750 miles) south of Hawaii. Credit - AP/ STF/Katsumi Kasahara)