Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week delhi is enveloped in toxic smog. Is that concentrating minds in government ahead of the madrid Climate Summit . Three weeks to go till the uk votes has it become the get brexit done election . And if not, then what . And as Prince Andrew quits public life, is it harder anywhere in the world to befriends with a sex offender . My guests today indianjournalist ashis ray, irish broadcaster brian oconnell, greg katz of Us News Agency associated press, and Agnes Poirier of french news magazine marianne. Welcome to you all. Four years ago, Climate Change barely registered as a voter issue in a british election. This time, its a priority. The same is true of the battle for the democratic president ial nomination in the us. But does voter anxiety translate into Government Action . Climate Scientists Say three in four countries have inadequate pledges on cutting emissions. Among them is india, whose capital has been choking on sm
Having said that, i think that this toxic smog is caused to a large extent by crop burning in neighbouring states. And that smoke is what aggregates the situation. It is a normal phenomenon which generally takes place in the month of november. But that said, i think that when it comes to overall, nationwide, mass consciousness about the environment, i think india still has some way to go. What i noticed, very encouragingly, was that schoolchildren were out on the streets demonstrating against parents and politicians because they are angry. They really feel let down by the older generation. And is that translating in any way into a sharpness of attention from the Indian Government when it gets to madrid . At this point, india has a Carbon Intensity pledge but it doesnt have a cutting emissions pledge. This pledge that india made in paris was that from the standards of 2005, india would reduce the emission intensity by 33 to 35 by 2030. I am not sure whether india will make it but india
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello. Welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week delhi is enveloped in toxic smog. Is that concentrating minds in government ahead of the madrid Climate Summit . Three weeks to go till the uk votes has it become the get brexit done election . And if not, then what . And as Prince Andrew quits public life, is it harder anywhere in the world to be friends with a sex offender . My guests today indian journalist ashis ray, irish broadcaster brian oconnell, greg katz of Us News Agency associated press, and Agnes Poirier of french news magazine marianne. Welcome to you all. Four years ago, Climate Change barely registered as a voter issue in a british election. This time, its a priority. The same is true of the battle for the democratic president ial nomination in the us. But does voter anxiety translate into Government Action . Climate Scientists Say three in four countries have inadequate pledges on cutting emissions. Among them is india, who
Consulate say about these rising tensions . Yeah, good morning to you, kira and sam. We had russian officials coming in and out and providing a no comment as a response to those sanctions. As you mentioned just moments ago we heard from the consulate general handing down the heavy sanctions against russias alleged cyberattack. To have influenced this past president ial elections. The president wants 35 Russian Diplomats out of the country by the weekend including those in cities in washington, d. C. , and right here in San Francisco. As we mention at the top of this, this is an impromptu conference and ask him directly about his thoughts on the sanctions. Heres what he had to say. We can see the lead sanctions complete complete completely unreasonable and very detrimental to the bilateral relations between two neighbors. Between the United States of america and the russian federation. Now, i went on to ask the consulate journal how many people would have to leave the consulate. He ment
It to us as a video text ovoid smell if we answer it on the show well send you a little surprise as a thank you catalog just on sc. Send us an email contact us on twitter or facebook. Coming face to me on you dirt from nigeria wants to know what language to robot speak. Do indeed have their own language but they dont all speak the same one. Wondering this week theres not. Many of us are familiar with c 3 p. O. s from the star wars movie you claim to be fluent in over 7000000 forms of communication in real life a robot can only understand its own programming language. That language dictates the particular instructions the robot has to follow in 1959 work by grace hopper. Led to the development of the 1st commercial programming language for use in business many other such codes followed each programming language is a set of rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks. Robots can be used for all kinds of jobs including things that humans are unable or unwilling to do boring