it triggers 150 similar clocks across the major cities of the uk, counting down the seconds to 2030, the estimated deadline for limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels. but the uk s climate watchdog had a stern warning for the government today. the climate change committee said its confidence that the government would meet its own legally binding targets for cutting emissions by the end of the decade had fallen markedly. the anger and the impatience of the world will be uncontainable. at the un climate conference in glasgow two years ago, then prime minister borisjohnson vowed the uk would cut emissions by 68% on 1990 levels by 2030. the climate change committee said it just doesn t see the government showing the pace or urgency that will get us there. take flying. the government says it wants to cut
viewers! joe biden is on the road in chicago, trying to sell his economic policy, which has been dubbed as bidenomics. his economic theory rejects the idea of trickle down policies in favour of focusing on the middle class, with trillions of dollars in investment over the past two years. and in part, his plan has seen the us economy fare better than other major economies in dealing with inflation and the fallout from russia s invasion of ukraine. take this inflation graph, for example. the uk at the top in red is all the way up at 8.7%, the us at the bottom there is back down at 2.7%. but despite decent economic numbers, the public doesn t believe the president is doing a good job. in fact, only 33% of people think he is handling the economy well. so the president and his team are trying to change that perception in the lead up to the 2024 election. let s take a listen tojoe biden speaking a little earlier.
if he didn t know that paul singer was involved in that argentina case. even though it was a 71 vote, at the very least, if you don t recruit yourself, shouldn t we have basic ethical guidelines in the supreme court? that makes these justices, left and right, disclose those financial entanglements? well joe of course we should. i think because summary of the situation was complete, but for one fact. one ruling by the supreme court in paul singer s favor was worth 2.4 billion dollars to his company. we re not talking about minor rulings on issues that are irrelevant. these are substantial. here s a bottom line as far as i see it. the disclosures about justice leto, strangely, and sadly, parallel, the same disclosures about justice thomas. it appears that there is a feeling of the supreme court that it s none of our business. the public doesn t need to know about these conflicts of interest. and justices don t need to
ultimately they were unable to substantiate some of those things and in fact ended up not using any of the fines in the mueller investigation because they could not substantiate any of those accusations. and now what we see is something just the same thing with unverified allegations about joe biden. it s really painful to see and i hope the public doesn t buy any of it. but unfortunately as has been said so often is just putting these allegations out there into this fear and people don t bother to learn the details in by the time a retraction comes if it comes there once paying any attention. what are the waters just enough to get everyone dirty. ruth, the washington post found that fox dedicated over 200 our chunks of air time over a five-week period to this conspiracy theory. all of this has not materialized. going back to your point here about the dangers of distant
of those accusations. and now what we see is something just the same thing with unverified allegations about joe biden. it s really painful to see and i hope the public doesn t buy any of it. but unfortunately as has been said so often is just putting these allegations out there into this fear and people don t bother to learn the details in by the time a retraction comes if it comes there once paying any attention. what are the waters just enough to get everyone dirty. ruth, the washington post found that fox dedicated over 200 our chunks of air time over a five-week period to this conspiracy theory. all of this has not materialized. going back to your point here about the dangers of distant disinformation. when they are being amplified, not just by a handful of politicians but a network like fox than amplifies it to tens