as world leaders gather in egypt for cop27, can they prevent geopolitical issues from casting a shadow over tackling climate change? and the 34 year old singer and rapper aaron carter has been found dead at his home in california. hello and welcome to the programme. the crucial us midterm elections, which will decide who controls congress, are just days away and president biden and barack obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. mr biden urged the cheering crowd in his home state to back the democrats john fetterman for the senate. he said the elections would shape the country for decades to come. this is not a referendum this year. it s a choice. a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood butjohn and i believe all, it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of my, my objective when i ran for president was to build an economy from
hello and welcome to bbc news. the crucial us midterm elections, which will decide who controls congress, are just a couple of days away and president biden and former president obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. they re trying to get every last vote out for their candidate john fetterman, who s up against republican mehmet oz, who s been endorsed by donald trump. president biden said this is a defining moment for us democracy. this isn t a referendum this year, it s a choice a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood, butjohn and i believe that all it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of my my objective when i ran for president was to build an economy from the bottom up and the bottom up and the middle out. it s a fundamental shift compared with the oz and the mega maga republican trickle down economics. booing.
the world, as renewable energy, in particular, is becoming more affordable. the difficulty is to mobilise money for adaptation, are responding to climate change impacts. this is what the poorest countries in particular need. and with the physical crunch on and western governments, rich countries everywhere, really the main priority is to buffer energy price increases as well as food price increases as well as food price increases, and these exact things are making life harder in the poorer parts of the world as well, so this is really difficult. but, you know, there is certainly lies at the end of the tunnel of this and is released to the energy policy aspects of the crisis as we see them unfolding. crisis as we see them unfolding. in terms of commitments, - unfolding. in terms of commitments, in - unfolding. in terms of i commitments, in terms unfolding. in terms of - commitments, in terms of promises, what can we expect from cop27? from cop27? look, we aren t exoecting from cop27
so this is really difficult. but, you know, there is certainly lies at the end of the tunnel of this and this relates to the energy policy aspects of the crisis as we see them unfolding. in terms of commitments, in terms of promises, what do you think we can expect from cop27? look, we aren t expecting too much in terms rail passengers have faced severe disruption today, despite strike action being called off. tens of thousands of rail workers had been due to walk out in the long running dispute over pay and working conditions. strikes planned for monday and wednesday have also been cancelled, as negotiations between the rmt union and train operators are stepped up. here s our business correspondent, marc ashdown. no strike, no picket line but no trains, either. today s walk out was called off with such little notice that rail operators say it was too late to run trains they d already cancelled. it s left passengers feeling frustrated and confused. we were hoping the strike wasn t go