Government on the planet to declare a climate emergency. But climate experts say that the Emergency Response never came. For the greens, cutting emissions is one of their main objectives. It is a key policy area. So this is seen as a huge failure for them. Today, the co leader of the scottish greens accuse the snp of selling out future generations. She also said that humza yousaf can no longer be trusted. So it appears that it had become impossible for the two parties to continue working together. So what happens next . The snp leader will now form a Minority Government until the next Scottish Parliament elections in 2026. Live to glasgow and lets talk to Political Comentator brian taylor, who was the bbc s former Political Editor at bbc scotland. Thank you forjoining us. I wondered if i could get your reaction, having covered the scottish politics for many decades, due todays events. fix, many decades, due todays events. Remarkable set of events. I think humza yousaf was in difficult
Book with points. On thursday attorneys for President Donald Trump sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author of fire and fury inside the Trump White House demanding the book not be released next week they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author Michael Wolff that Donald Trump Jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen president ial election it would be really nice to do it in a at a white house meeting thursday the president downplayed ranker between him and his former strategist and. Me that you. Dont really know me very bad last night so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick but on wednesday and enraged president son of bannan when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind bannon hit back on twitter saying i wont speak about who lost their minds or ever had won the books release comes at a troubling time for the white house special prosecutor Robert
Instability and now the news north and south korea are set to hold talks after two years of silence the meeting on tuesday will initially focus on the north a split dissipation in the Winter Olympics in the south next month but seoul says discussions are expected to move on to what it calls other areas of common interest florence three reports from seoul in a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north Korean Leader kim jong il would initiate a dialogue in his new years day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u. S. And south korea agreed to postpone annual military drills shed used for the end of february these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. Leaders agreed not to conduct sauce cr
There was animated debate in the Council Chamber before the discussions began to members taken aback by the lack of notice from the u. S. In calling for this public debate the u. S. Ambassador adamant that it was essential iran be called to account if the founding principles of this institution mean anything we will not only hear their cry we will finally answer the Iranian Regime is now on notice the world will be watching what you do russia had vehemently opposed what it saw as an unacceptable intervention in irans internal affairs but also argued that the u. S. Had another motive in pushing for this meeting. Used to mean put up the real reason for convening today is not to protect human rights or promote the interests of the iranian people but rather a veiled attempt to continue to undermine the Iranian Nuclear agreement would have an agreement that the french ambassador maintained in his speech was crucial also distancing himself from the u. S. Decision to call these discussions wi
Orthodox christmas celebrations the alleged sale of church land to israelis sparked tense scenes as june explains from bethlehem. The protests were unprecedented in a display of anger toward the Greek Orthodox patriarch of jerusalem demonstrators attacked the convoy of the office the third as it made its way to bethlehems manger square in the occupied west bank behind all this recent news reports alleging the patriarch has been involved in property sales to foreign tax havens and those properties may end up in the hands of israeli businesses. Protesters believe the allegations and say it will make it harder for palestinians to establish their own state but the live now to mount a clear and simple we want the patriarch to resign we want to reform the patriarchate and assign a Legal Committee to evaluate the situation representatives of the Greek Orthodox church of jerusalem deny the allegations and the handle of the snow. We did not as they claim to sell our lands to the Israeli Occupat