the polling company. welcome to the programme. prime minister rishi sunak has changed his mind and will now attend the comp 27 climate summit in egypt. the u turn comes in the wake of widespread criticism, including from conservative mps after rishi sunak said he was too busy dealing with the economy. his change of heart comes from the un report of changes in europe of more than twice the global average in the past 30 years in the highest in any continent and when given reason is that a higher northern areas of the globe are the fastest morning. we are joined northern areas of the globe are the fastest morning. we arejoined by northern areas of the globe are the fastest morning. we are joined by a former un special representative on sustainability and a former adviser to the uk government for comp 26. she is at the university and welcome to the context and i noticed you are one of the people who signed a letter saying that rishi sunak should be there. what does it make such a
10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, is it time for ukraines leaders to acknowledge they are in a war they cannot win . Geopolitics, economics, and public sentiment dont seem to be working in kievs favour. My guest was ukraines Prime Minister until a year ago. Arseniy yatsenyuk described his own premiership as a kamikaze mission. So how does his nation avoid Self Destruction . Arseniy yatsenyuk, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Seems ukraines crisis has lurched into a new level of urgency in recent days with a blockade, which has been imposed by people who are actually nominally supportive of ukraines government, a blockade which is restricting all trade between the Eastern Breakaway regions and the rest of the country. Why is this happening . The reason is very clear. Under the minsk deal russians had to launch a full fledged ceasefire on the ground, to pull back its forces, and to pave the way for the political solution. Whats really happening . They ar
10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, is it time for ukraines leaders to acknowledge they are in a war they cannot win . Geopolitics, economics, and public sentiment dont seem to be working in kievs favour. My guest was ukraines Prime Minister until a year ago. Arseniy yatsenyuk described his own premiership as a kamikaze mission. So how does his nation avoid Self Destruction . Arseniy yatsenyuk, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Seems ukraines crisis has lurched into a new level of urgency in recent days with a blockade, which has been imposed by people who are actually nominally supportive of ukraines government, a blockade which is restricting all trade between the Eastern Breakaway regions and the rest of the country. Why is this happening . The reason is very clear. Under the minsk deal russians had to launch a full fledged ceasefire on the ground, to pull back its forces, and to pave the way for the political solution. Whats really happening . They ar
not as heavy here. and brightening up across northern ireland and the west of scotland through the course of the afternoon. into saturday evening, bonfire night, not entirely dry, but certainly not a wash out. still some outbreaks of rain, chiefly in the south of england. and on sunday, that weather front pulling away towards the near continent. with it, some heavy rain for a while, and then showers follow on behind. so, here s sunday, a closer look. you can see that wet weather across parts of the east and south east of the country clearing away through the course of the day. elsewhere, some sunshine a rash of showers. quite windy where we have that heavy rain as well. once again, temperature similar around about 11 to 15 celsius. and then, as we approach next week, we ve got low pressure up towards iceland, keeping things fairly unsettled. bands of rain at times, or some showers at least. and once again, winds coming in from the south, so certainly nothing cold on the horizon. on m