food program won the 2020 nobel peace prize for its work on world hunger during the pandemic. i bet the world hunger program could find a use for $6 billion, no doubt about that. christine romans thank you so much. new day continues right now. good morning t is monday, november 1st. i m john berman with brianna keilar. wolf blitzer also joins us from scotland this morning, where president biden has arrived at a critical stop on his visit to europe, he s attending a climate summit in glasgow. while he is overseas he could be poised finally for a major legislative victory here at home with key votes on his domestic agenda likely this week. overnight the president rolled out a long-term strategy to get the u.s. to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. there are five key things, five key points. 100% clean electricity by 2035,
absent from the global event is the russian president vladimir putin, putin did not attend the g20 summit in rome over the weekend. joining us now to discuss is fiona hill the former top russia adviser for president trump, and the author of the new book there is nothing for you here. fiona, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, putin skipping trips to the g20 in rome, now the climate summit in glasgow. what is this calculation for sitting all this out? well i think the biggest calculation, wolf, is the pandemic, because if putin leaves right now, it s sending a bad signal at home. russia actually has its highest infection and mortality rates from the coronavirus, highest than any other point in the last couple of years. so this is really quite a test for him on the home front. so i think there was no choice really about whether he stayed or came to gloss gao but of course in his absence there s going to be a lot of scrutiny
this is bbc news. i m annita mcveigh, live in glasgow, where world leaders are gathering for the cop26 climate summit. as it begins, borisjohnson warns humanity has run down the clock on climate change and says urgent action is needed. this is very, very urgent. notjust for our country, for the whole world. and if i had to give a comparison, i would say it was a one minute to midnight moment. and the clock is ticking. un scientists warn that extreme weather events are the new normal and the past seven years are on course to be the hottest on record. but the leader of china the world s biggest polluter will not attend the summit in glasgow president xi
as we ve been hearing from huw, it s the opening day of the climate summit in glasgow where world leaders have been meeting. london s mayor also headed there today with other leaders of global cities to call for more funding and more powers to make the neccessary changes. 0ur environment correspondent tom edwards takes a closer look at the challenges facing urban areas. this summer, flash flooding hit parts of the capital. experts say they ll become more frequent as the climate warms. at euston this morning, mayors from 12 countries took a message to the climate conference in glasgow. the action from world leaders is needed to stop climate change. we ve got to make sure that we can lobby governments across the globe, including our one, to give mayors in cities the powers and resources they need to take action to move away from carbon emissions, to sustainable ways of creating energy, renewables, solar, wind. we have got to retrofit our buildings. we have got to electrify our buses. t
we talk about low cost goods and the quality and choice of stuff we have got and maybe we ve been scared of talking about the environmental impact. we didn t want to seem too green or hippie but people now know that is the conversation. charity workers nurturing parts of glasgow s open woodland demand c0 p26 succeeds. i hope it will. it has to. it must do. if it doesn t, then we have the right to be incredibly angry. i have more faith in the grassroots things that are happening in glasgow and around the world than i do in the cop system. glasgow s own environment is being tested now by a bin workers strike. piles of rubbish are not what anyone wants this summit to be remembered for. coming up shortly there s more from glasgow. here s kirsty wark. straight after the news, do stick with us. we re at cop26 in glasgow,