must, it is easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single number. the concentration of carbon in our atmosphere, the measure that greatly determines global temperature, and the changes in that one number is the changes in that one number is the clearest way to chart our own story, for it defines our relationship with our world. for much of humanity s ancient history that number bounced wildly between 180 and 300. and so too did global temperatures. it was a brutal and unpredictable world. at times our ancestors existed only in tiny numbers, butjust over 10,000 years
the us military left this air base just north of kabul so fast at night, its new afghan commander was only told after they had gone. afghan security forces must now face the taliban alone in many provinces, including this one, in the country s north east. translation: the armed taliban tried to break the city s defence line and enter from yesterday until midnight, but they faced strong resistance from our defence and security forces. translation: i am a soldier of the national army and i will defend my homeland as long as a drop of blood remains in my body. butjust over 100 kilometres north of here, neighbouring tajikistan says more than 1000 afghan government soldiers have fled there. a number of afghan forces may well have fled, but the afghan national army, the afghan national police force, that we ve worked really hard to build up.