the report a code red for humanity. joining us now, matt bradley. give us more details from this report. reporter: mika, this report doesn t necessarily say a lot of things that a lot of people didn t already know. it s the authoritativeness of it. it was approved by 195 countries and based on 14,000 other reports. so it s really a meta analysis. and it s building on that 2013 report which was the report that paved the way for the paris climate accord, you remember that, barack obama joined it, president trump famously withdrew from it. and now what is so menacing about the report is it lays any doubts that anyone had about climate change to the side and says that all of this is definitively done by human contributions to the atmosphere. it says that so far the earth is there are warmed by 1.1 degrees
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issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. tonight, we have the numbers here. how quickly the earth is warming. much faster than they thought. our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and parts o europe heat in 30 years. some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. the developing headline from washington at this hour. president biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. the senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as early as tomorrow morning. rachel scott standing by with live reporting from the hill. and what democrats immediately plan to do next. the developments involving new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. his top aide now resigning. what she s saying. there is also news breaking involving prince andrew, now facing a new lawsuit tonight filed by jeffrey epstein accuser virginia due fray. with u.s. troops coming
have died in our communities and we ve seen it and we know that it s not a figment of our imaginations. so i know some of that heavy lifting needs to be done by black clergy as well. absolutely. the tuskegee experiment was having no medicine. having medicine withheld. if you re worried about what you re putting in your body, ask yourself what s in coca-cola and mcdonald s. christina greer, matthew dowd, thank you both very much. up next, the spike in covid among children. how do you keep your kids safe, especially in states where republican governors refuse to protect them? also, new information on the former president s plot to subvert the election and the help that he was getting from inside the justice department. plus, code red for humanity. the bombshell new report on the climate crisis. is it already too late? and tonight s absolute worst is preaching bipartisanship
and in lashkar gar, they are making slowly progress in dislodging taliban militants from the city. the fighting has been intense there for the past two weeks. a taliban spokesman has said they are now trying to launch attacks on different cities in the north. the headlines on bbc news: a code red for humanity a united nations report says it s unequivocal that human activities are responsible for global warming and says its findings must be the death knell for fossil fuels. the un report comes as fire and smoke force holidaymakers and residents to flee a greek island. forests continue to burn out of control across the country. three more afghan cities fall to the taliban, as they dismiss international calls for a ceasefire.
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