By Guy Faulconbridge and Gabriela Baczynska LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union said on Friday that Britain had made no move to seek a compromise on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and cautioned London against triggering emergency unilateral provisions in the Brexit deal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson s Brexit negotiator David Frost ruled out immediately triggering such provisions, a move that would sour ties with the EU, concern the United States and anger Ireland. But Frost made clear he wanted Brussels to offer more. Maros Sefcovic, a deputy head of the bloc s executive European Commission, said the EU had seen no move at all from the UK side. We hear a lot about Article 16 at the moment, Sefcovic said after talks with Frost. Let there be no doubt that triggering Article 16 to seek the renegotiation of the Protocol would have serious consequences. Britain has repeatedly warned that it may trigger emergency measures called Article 16 which allows either side to take
By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro s security detail allegedly used violence against Brazilian reporters covering his trip to Rome for the Group of 20 major economies meeting, local media reported on Sunday. The alleged attacks against Brazilian reporters, who Bolsonaro has long accused of treating him unfairly and publishing fake news, capped a grim weekend for the far-right president. Videos from G20 events showed him as an isolated figure, who was not part of the photo taken at the Trevi fountain with world leaders. Out on the streets of Rome, he was loudly criticized for his handling of the country s brutal pandemic, with critics calling him genocidal. More than 600,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, the second highest tally in the world after the United States. Bolsonaro has questioned the severity of the virus, shunned lockdowns, sowed vaccine doubts and pushed unproven cures. A Senate panel has recommended he be indict
By Elizabeth Piper GLASGOW (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell a climate summit on Monday that it s one minute to midnight and we need to act now as he calls on leaders to go beyond their pledges to developing nations and act on coal, cars, cash and trees . Hosting the United Nations COP26 summit, Johnson is hoping to keep alive a target of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - the limit scientists say would avoid its most destructive consequences. But it will be no easy task as Johnson found at a meeting of leaders from 20 of the word s biggest economies over the weekend. The Group of 20 agreed on the need for meaningful and effective action to limit global warming but offered few concrete commitments. Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change. It s one minute to midnight and we need to act now, Johnson will tell the opening ceremony, according to excerpts of his speech released by his office. If we don t
SYDNEY (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him over the cancellation of a submarine building contract in September, and indicated more was needed to be done to rebuild trust between the two allies. Macron and Morrison were in Rome for the G20 summit, the first time they had met since Australia scrapped a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with France as part of a new security alliance with the United States and Britain announced in September. The new security alliance, dubbed AUKUS and which could give Australia access to nuclear-powered submarines, caught Paris off guard and saw the French ambassadors recalled from Washington and Canberra amid accusations France had been betrayed. I have a lot of respect for your country. I have a lot of respect and a lot of friendship for your people. I just say when we have respect, you have to be true and you have to behave in line and consistently with this value, Macron told a group
ROME (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of 20 rich countries called for meaningful and effective action to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius in a final communique seen by Reuters on Sunday ahead of its publication. However, the communique contained few concrete actions and made no reference to a specific 2050 date to achieve net zero carbon emissions that scientists say is vital to stave off disastrous climate change. The final document says current national plans on how to curb emissions will have to be strengthened if necessary and includes a pledge to halt financing of overseas coal-fired power generation by the end of this year. We recognize that the impacts of climate change at 1.5°C are much lower than at 2°C. Keeping 1.5°C within reach will require meaningful and effective actions and commitment by all countries, the communique said. (Reporting by Crispian Balmer and Jan Strupczewski; Editing by Gavin Jones)