These short term targets were so weak as to be almost 00 01 02,426 4294966103 13 29,429 impossible to miss. If this trend continues, the uk could achieve targets agreed with the government for Methane Reduction which campaigns for a rapid and fair transition away from Oil And Gas production says, this is all smoke and mirrors. Impossible to miss. Mark wilsonjoins me now from 0euk where he is health, Safety Environment and operations director. Good to have on the programme. What is your response to that, that actually, the targets were easy to meet so that you could have a good, positive narrative about the North Sea . The taruets about the North Sea . The targets that about the North Sea . The targets that were about the North Sea . Lie targets that were said about the North Sea . Tue targets that were said through the North Sea Transition Deal allow the industry to demonstrate that it in infrastructure alone, if used to its full extent in the North Sea, would cause three times the emi
Growing at a slower rate for the past two months, but inflation remains at nearly 8 , four times higher than the official target. Hannah miller has this report. For father of two peter, sorting out the Family Finances is proving hard. He and his wife bought their first home using the help to buy scheme. But when their mortgage comes up for renewal early next year, theyll have to find an extra £750 a month in repayments. Somehow were supposed to spend less and find £750 extra a month to pay for that. So, you know, for many families, its a terrifying situation. If you have young families like ourselves who have been swayed into the Housing Market by government, whose advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things become unaffordable, you cant simply turn around and say, thats your problem. A rise of 0. 25 Percentage Points would take the Bank Of Englands base rate to 5. 25 , the highest since april 2008. For someone with an average Tracker Mortgage of £200,000, tha
secretary of state antony blinken that there must be an immediate ceasefire in gaza. but mr blinken wants humanitarian pauses . israel, though, insists there will be no temporary truce until all hostages are released. thejordanian foreign minister ayman safadi said the killing of civilians by israel could not be justified by its claim of self defence. he said the entire region was sinking into a sea of hatred that could define generations to come. secretary blinken s visit is exactly four weeks after the hamas attacks on israel in which 1,400 people were killed, and there is no let up in the israeli military response in gaza. its offensive is focused on the north of the territory, where it s thought up to 400,000 people are still living, even though israel has urged civilians there to move south. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 9,400 people have been killed there in the past four weeks. we will have more on the diplomacy shortly, but we start our cover
Will be more sunshine than yesterday. For scotland and Northern Ireland, more of a breeze and cloud. Later, the rain will turn more persistent in the north west and by the time we get to the end of the night, this is where it will be, with blustery winds around it. We will see some mist and fog forming and some frost. Some of that will lift. Parts of the south east and east anglia could hang onto it, not just overnight but into tomorrow as well. Tomorrow for england and wales, a lot of cloud and brighter breaks. For scotland, the rain since south. Some brighter breaks across Northern Ireland. Unseasonably mild across the fog. We are back on air live onjanuary three. Over the festive period you can watch a programme featuring some of the stories we have brought you this year. This is bbc news with gavin esler. Singin in the rain star Debbie Reynolds has died aged 84 after suffering a stroke, just a day after the death of her daughter carrie fisher. The head of the Royal College of gps h