in a critical contest. it s a choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america. this tuesday, you must vote . republican in a giant red wave. tickets for next year s glastonbury festival have sold out. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the un s annual climate change summit has opened in egypt at the red sea resort of sharm el sheikh. over the next 12 days, more than 100 world leaders and thousands of delegates will attend the cop27 conference, billed as the world s watershed moment on climate action. in his opening speech, the conference president, sameh shoukry, announced that financing for climate change induced damages in poor countries will be included in the official agenda. we begin with this report from our climate editor, justin rowlatt. it has been a year of record breaking temperatures and climate related disasters around the world. but africa has been hit particularly hard. huge floods displaced more than a millio
and coming up at 3:30, operation relocation, looks behind the scenes of one of the uk s biggest hospital s transitions from old to new. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members, but it says those counted so far suggest support for strike action possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident and emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should carefully consider the impact on patients. and, as our health editor hugh pym reports, other health workers could also soon be staging industrial action. here s our health editor hugh pym. possible strike action is already looming of the nhs in scotland. members of two unions, including ambulance staff at the gmb, have v
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