Hello Australia! - The world reaches a climate deal over worries that it is not enough to save the planet as we know it - Swiss cops arrest two on explosives charges - A former soldier allegedly confesses to talk radio about committing atrocities against civilians - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Nearly 200 nations signed onto a deal to halt global warming at 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels by reducing the consumption of fossils fuels.  "I see the room, I see the reaction is positive, I hear no objection. The Paris climate accord is adopted," declared the leader of the COP21 conference, French FM Laurent Fabius.  That was followed by applause and much hand-shaking and back-patting.  "Our work here is done and now we can return home to implement this historic agreement," said Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.  "This is a pivotal moment," she added.  US President Barack Obama tweeted, "This is huge," and credited "American leadership" for reaching the deal.  It addresses the concerns of the poorest and least developed countries by infusing them with US$100 Billion a year to develop their economies along new, greener pathways.  Fabius described the deal as "dynamic, balanced, and legally binding".

But critics say that's bunk and there is no enforcement.  Environmentalists and some scientists fear the last, best hope of stopping the predicted ravages of global warming doesn't go far enough.  Primarily, it doesn't mandate how much each country must reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.  Former NASA chief climatologist James Hansen didn't mince words:  "It’s a fraud really, a fake," he said.  "It's just bullshit for them to say: 'We'll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.'  It's just worthless words.  There is no action, just promises.  As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned."

Others are cautiously optimistic:  Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo writes, "There's much in this deal that frustrates and disappoints me, but it still puts the fossil fuel industry squarely on the wrong side of history."  He added, "This deal won't dig us out the hole we're in, but it makes the sides less steep."  Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp says, "It makes a moral call for dramatic action that leaves no one behind, and moves us closer to the crucial turning point when global carbon emissions, which have been rising for more than two centuries, finally begin to decline."

But as Christine Lagarde - Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund - said, "Governments must now put words into action."  The deal is only as good as the ways 198 nations implement it, and it now needs to be ratified by individual governments to take effect in 2020.

Moving along..

Police in Geneva arrested two people with Syrian passports for "suspicion of manufacture, concealment and transport of explosives and toxic gases," as well as alleged links to Middle Eastern terrorism.  On Thursday, Geneva officials raised the city's terror alert status and searched for four men linked top the 13 November attacks in Paris, but the two people arrested are not accused of that.

Medecins Sans Frontieres says the US airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan killed 42 people.  That's far more than the 30 reported dead just after the 3 October attack, and the medical charity attributes the discrepancy to human error.  The US also claims human error, saying that the crew of an AC-130 gunship mistook the hospital for an Afghan government building seized by the Taliban during the terrorist group's siege on the city.

At least 87 people have been killed in political violence in Burundi.  Many of them were found with hands bound and with gunshot wounds to the head, which many are calling revenge by the police and military for earlier attacks on government buildings.  Violence has flared in Burundi since April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his decision to run for what many felt was an unconstitutional third term in office, which he won in an extremely questionable election in July.

About 2,000 people protested in Montenegro against joining NATO.  The issue has divided the tiny country of 600,000 people:  Many remember the NATO bombs that fell on their country during the 1990s Balkans Wars; others cite traditional closer ties with Moscow, whose relations with NATO are increasingly frayed.

Chilean authorities arrested a 62-year old former soldier who called in to a radio show and confessed his involvement in the horrific murders of Leftists for the fascist junta of US-backed dictator General Augusto Pinochet.  Guillermo Reyes Rammsy gave his name as "Alberto" to the show which specialized in nostalgia; and for 25 minutes he recounted taking several people to the desert, shooting them in the head, and blowing them up with explosives.  He said "not even their shadow was left".  Senator Isabel Allende says her Socialist party will support the investigation.  Her father was Salvatore Allende, the democratically-elected president who was either killed or forced to commit suicide when the fascist scum took over.