as new restrictions come into force in bars and restaurants. as covid 19 cases increase rapidly in france, home working will become mandatory for at least three days a week wherever possible. in new york, children age 12 and over now have to be fully vaccinated to enter into restaurants and leisure facilities. as infections rise in the city. remembering archbishop desmond tutu, south africa has begun a week of events to commemorate the anti apartheid leader who died on sunday. now here on the bbc news it is time for political thinking with nick robinson. 0h oh my god, how do you know a ball someone said to me the other day assuming the only reason you might know my guest on political thinking for this christmas special is because of his dancing on strictly convincing, winning the celebrity best home chef or making all those documentaries on bbc two. i pointed out to someone who was about my children s age before all of that stuff he was a serious politician being when i first
wanted to remove it. the deal also asks all countries to upgrade their climate pledges next year, and rich countries are asked to double their climate adaptation finance by 2025 from 2019 levels. with more, here s our science and environment correspondent, rebecca morelle. from wildfires thatjust kept on burning, to devastating droughts as temperatures soared, and floods that destroyed homes and lives, extremes have become the new normal. so, at the climate talks in glasgow, can a deal be done to stop things getting worse? the talks in here have now gone into overtime, and negotiators have had yet another sleepless night. and this morning a third draft of a possible agreement has been published. the question is, can enough be done in the next few hours to finally push this over the line? so, we are on the third draft now of this cover agreement, and when the first draft came out we all said, oh, its got lots of things in it we haven t seen before, including reference to fossi
walked for gordon brown, we talked about future generations as if they were other people who had not been born. this isn t about future generations it is about our kids and grandchildren. somebody who has kids in the 20s, this is about the rest of their lives. 2050, they will be my age, a bit less. this is about people we know, people we love and the future that they are going to live in. that has added an urgency. the kids demonstrating last friday and over the weekend, they are future voters, they are talking to the parents, telling the parents that you have got to do something about this. that has affected the cop and it will only affect them further into the future, as those voters become, as those kids become voters and some become politicians. we have left it too late, but that is what this has to be, some kind of a turning point where the politicians in power recognise it is the next generation of macro lives at stake. l it is the next generation of macro lives at stak