News the licences will help britain meet its net zero pledge. Were announcing these new licences in the north sea with more to come , which will ensure more to come, which will ensure our Energy Security moving forward. It means well be less reliant on hostile foreign actors for our energy baseload, for the fossil fuels that were going to be relying on. For some years come, which will mean years to come, which will mean that will be reducing our c02 that we will be reducing our c02 emissions not importing those emissions by not importing those fossil fuels. But the announcement on future and further Carbon Capture and storage projects means that well be taking that Carbon Dioxide of atmosphere dioxide out of the atmosphere and it onto the north and storing it onto the north sea, means that getting to sea, which means that getting to net zero will be more achievable i k m an k man has been a british man has been released from prison in cyprus after sentenced for the after being sentence
We back well be talking to we come back well be talking to the lawyer of david hunter who has now been released from prison so called prison after that so called mercy killing of his wife. Very emotive it. Emotive topic. Lets do it. Patrick, thank you. Patrick, thank you. Good afternoon from the gb newsroom. Its 3 01 members of the uks largest Teaching Union have accepted a 6. 5 pay rise for teachers in england. The for teachers in england. The National Education union says. National Education Union says. 86 of its members voted to accept the latest pay offer, with a 60 turnout. It comes after Union Members staged eight days of strike action in state schools since february in a dispute over pay education secretary Gillian Keegan has welcomed the decision as good news for teachers. Parents and children. The Prime Minister children. The Prime Minister says the planned expansion of oil and gas drilling in the nonh oil and gas drilling in the north sea is entirely consistent with the gover
A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the sense of its identity with the soft power of our country. Well the British Council plays a vitally Important Role in projecting the u. K. Soft power. But it has been generating an increasing proportion of the resources it needs
That will have significant gaps in terms of the number of voters just two years ago and i guarantee it will reflect on in my opinion negatively on the kind of policy makers that would make a difference in those issues and Economic Opportunity issues and equality and civil rights issues inside new mexico and in the country. It happened during the last two decades of course the proposition changed the dynamics of the state and the only republican elected to the office the biggest mistake the Latino Community can make is to stay home in protest of whatever it is whether its the administration. Through our vote we send a message to leadership here in washington as to whether or not we are going to be a community and a force to be reckoned with. If we stay home then we become invisible and we are not factored in. [applause] so through our vote we will send a message to washington, to the state legislators that we are going to hold elected officials accountable. And if they dont support our
Now the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Talks about the upcoming g20 summit in st. Petersburg russia. Following his remarks white house advisor for International Economics Caroline Atkinson on the summits history and purpose. From the center for strategic and International Studies, this is 45 minutes. Good morning. My name is matthew goodman. I hold the assignment chair at csis and im delighted to welcome you all here. Thank you for peddling here this morning on a soggy friday morning in july. Let me recognize our on line audience in addition to the many people in the room. We have a strong on line audience. You are welcome to follow us on twitter at csis and tweet a way. Please turn off all of your noise makers and other devices so we dont disrupt the speakers. We have started a tradition of doing it sounds like this ahead of these big summits. G20 is the biggest of them all in the area i work on. It will be held labor day just after labor day in st. Petersburg russia and we normally