Copenhagen: clashes inside and outside climate summit

China, India and their allies in the Third World were in open revolt at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen today as police fired tear gas and made at least 200 arrests to head off a march on the conference venue by environmental activists. As world leaders including Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez flew in for the final three days of the conference, the Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen personally took charge of the negotations for a global climate accord. But he immediately faced concerted interventions from the floor, led by China's Vice Foreign Minister, He Yafei, at a decision to publish two new negotiating texts designed to move the process up a gear.