we have a right to do it, every court has shown we have that right. attempts by unions have so far failed to block the city s mandate. earlier there was a blow for those protesting compulsory vaccinations. a legal defeat at the hands of the conservative dominated supreme court, which rejected an appeal against a mandate in the state of maine for public health workers lodged on religious grounds. so far, the courts have repeatedly backed vaccine mandates for government employees, but in another legal move ten republican led states are suing the biden administration for going too far in insisting employees of federal contractors be vaccinated by december 8th. the lawsuit says it is unconstitutional, unlawful and unwise. it pits americans against americans and it will only worsen the workplace shortage and supply chain issues hindering our economic recovery.
focused on the climate and that issue, perhaps an agreement will be rather tougher for these leaders to reach because a draft communiqu seen by some news agencies shows that even though leaders will aim to have a cap of the global warming at 1.5 degrees, they will largely avoid firm commitments. and language too seems to have been watered down rather from what we had hoped and what leaders had hoped, talking about meaningful and effective actions to try to achieve net zero carbon emissions rather than immediate actions. so that gives you an immediate sense of the tough talks on the climate issue that are ahead. 0ne talks on the climate issue that are ahead. one of the issues that the 620 has brought to the four is the chance to reraise multilateralism and for some of these leaders to meetjoe biden, the us president, who is attending his first in person 620 summit, and our north america
laura, and i must say, we are a bit worried that france may be about to become in breach or is already in breach of the trade and cooperation agreement that we struck. president macron is going around questioning your credibility, you ve been summoning the french ambassador into the foreign office in london what are you going to do about it? we re going to get on and do the things that matter to both of us and make sure that we work together on tackling the big issues that face the world. there s some turbulence in the relationship. if one of our partners decides to breach the trade and cooperation agreement that we struck, then obviously that s a matter that we will have to pursue. the prime minister may want to play nice with the french president and their other high ranking friends, but if macron goes further, that power hug might not last.
actions to try to achieve net zero carbon emissions rather than immediate actions. so that gives you an immediate sense of the tough talks on the climate issue that are ahead. one of the issues that the 620 has brought to the fore is the chance to reembrace multilateralism, and for some of these 620 leaders to meetjoe biden, the us president, who is attending his first in person 620 summit, and our north america editor has been following all the day s events. good to go, and with that thumbs up, from the american president, the biggest gathering of world leaders since covid arrived could get under way. and everyone s relearning social etiquette. to mask or not to mask unmask. to shake hands or not shake. and with everyone back in the same room, the host, the italian prime minister, made a tentative call to order. i think we can start.
from trump, rudy giuliani was involved and let s face it his track record is not great, there were us officials dismissing it as russian information, be material that was on his laptop, but i want to ask you now that all the noise has gone from that, what do you see in some of these e mails? was some of the true? i have been able to confirm the sum of the e mails from this leaked laptop, including one in which this ukrainian representative of charisma, as you mentioned, was thanking hunter biden for the opportunity to meetjoe biden and one in which there was a discussion of hunter biden possibly holding equity and a venture on his father s behalf, so those e mails are genuine. the interpretation of them, we don t know exactly what happened or what didn t. joe biden has said he has never discussed and his campaign has said he never discussed