when they called me, i recorded it with my other phone. alim has shared recordings of those calls. we ve adapted a few to mask key details. we paid a visit to your family in xinjiang. my colleague collected their details. if you want to see them, i can set up a video call. yes, please arrange that. i just want to talk to them and find out how they are. i won t ask about anything else. ok, no problem. i ll arrange that for you. alim was granted a very unusual video call with his mother. the officer connected them by holding two mobile phones facing each other. he used one phone to connect with my mother, and then he used another phone to contact me, allowing me to see my mother through his screen. when i saw my mother, i couldn t contain my emotions. it had been six to seven years since i last saw her, and it was an incredibly heart wrenching moment. there was a price to pay. the officer wanted something in return. we ve heard that the uyghur activists are planning to meet nex
out north sea energy. it s also providing up to £20 billion for carbon capture projects, including the first in scotland, ?which the government says will?create 20,000 newjobs. 2050, when we are at net zero, it is forecast that around a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas. that s why technologies like carbon capture and storage are important. but what is important then as we get that oil and gas in the best possible way and that means getting it from here at home. the british government insists today s announcements are entirely consistent with it s commitment to reach net zero by 2050 which is set down in law. but the prime minister?stands accused?of watering down the government s?targets. miles behind in the polls he clearly sees an opportunity to take the fight to keir starmer. labour say they won t grant any new drilling licenses if they?win?the next election. the labour mayor in? london is imposing new costs?on the?drivers of polluting vehicle
in the past 2a hours, triggering a series of by elections and raising questions about the future of rishi sunak s government. the latest to announce he s stepping down with immediate effect is nigel adams, a big supporter of former prime minister boris johnson. on friday another political ally of mrjohnson, nadine dorries, announced she was quitting, swiftly followed by the former prime minister himself, claiming he was the victim of a witchhunt. that s after he received an advance copy of a report into whether he deliberately misled parliament over covid lockdown parties at downing street. charlotte wright reports. he is rarely farfrom the headlines, and last night he made more. borisjohnson bowing out with a blistering statement. criticising everyone from the privileges committee who were due to decide whether he lied to parliament over lockdown breaching apartments in downing street, to sue gray, who wrote the first report on those breaches, and the direction of his own pa
but many had wanted a strongerform of words calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from dubai. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause. and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here, and that was the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the presidency is calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these talks was in no doubt how important it was. together we have confronted realities, and we have set the world in the right direction. there was support from many countries, especially richer nations. this is a momen
Drill, baby, drill the republican slogan of 2018 not exactly rishi sunak s policy in 2023, but not far off. the prime minister today announced that hundreds of new licences for oil and gas will be granted. good for energy security, he says, good for the environment, and better than shipping it halfway around the world. but will it bring down domestic energy prices and is the timing right? last week, a temperature buoy off the florida coast registered 38 degrees celsius 101 degrees fahrenheit. and in iraq, the cradle of civilisation, the euphrates is now so dry there are whole villages on the move. july was the hottest month on record. have we already reached the point of no return? good evening, it s energy week here in the uk. the prime minister has today made a big commitment to?the?oil?and gas? industry. the?government is intending to issue hundreds of new licences to max