www.ntv.co.ke To raise awareness on the risk the Maldives face from rising sea levels and climate change, President Mohamed Nasheed chaired a cabinet meeting underwater, yes, under the sea. Seated around a table and using hand signals and slates, the cabinet endorsed an “SOS” message from the Maldives to be presented at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. This was a first.

Speaking in between the two biggest CO2-emitting nations - China and the United States - Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed makes desperate plea to the United Nations to make sure that the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen will not be a failure. “We can not make Copenhagen a pact for suicide,” he told world leaders.

Sir David Frost talks to Mohammed Waheed Hassan, the vice-president of the Maldives, about climate change and why something has to be done to save the Maldives from rising sea levels.