it s been handled. ukraine s president zelensky has sacked the head of the armed forces we ll bring you the latest on that. and we re still waiting for early results from pakistan. the votes are being counted at the end of a very tense few days. good evening. back in 2015, the world leaders gathered in paris to agree a target, to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. that target was seen as crucial in preventing the worst effects of global warming. today, the eu s climate service copernicus, revealed that last year that 1.5 degrees limit was met or exceeded every single month. in fact, these past eight months have been the hottest on record. and, what s more, the sea temperature, has been rising every single day since april although that has been driven in part by the current el nino effect. here s our climate editorjustin rowlatt. this is where the electricity company sse plans a £2 billion water battery. the hydro
efforts to keep donald trump in office. recordings detailing how trump operatives scrambled to get fake elector ballots to washington in time for january 6th. also this hour, republican presidential candidate nikki haley trying to clarify her comments about the civil war after she failed to mention slavery as a cause for the conflict. the backlash to benight is grow as our republican opponents are pouncing. also tonight, paul whelan speaking exclusively with cnn as he marks five years of being wrongfully detained in russia. he s now pleading for the president to do more for his release as if he were the president s own son. i m kaitlan collins and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and i want to get right to the breaking news tonight because we have extraordinary behind the scenes details of the trump team s efforts to carry out a fake elector scheme as then president trump was trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and hold on to the white
the country has tried to stay neutral, and the war on ukraine has changed fin land s views of the kremlin, and their president said putin has himself to blame. take a listen. well, if that would be the case that we choose, my response would be that you caused this. look at the mirror. and neighboring sweden is also close to deciding whether it will also pursue nato membership cnn s nick robinson, good to see you nick, we spoke about people in the country questioning why it s happening so quickly and saying there was nothing to suggest russia would invade fin land, what is the leadership of the country saying about the speed of this decision and some of the criticism. the statement, along with the prime minister, is going to make a statement right around about this time. they are joining nato, it not the definitive joining. it will be in a key time in the parliament next week. it s going to set the direction and tone for the country. they have kept their thoughts and vie
Well, we dont have a platform. We recognize that, historically in the Republican Party, all kinds of people have had different views on all kinds of important issues. But, there have been certain principles that are broader than particular issues where every republican disagreed and they dont anymore. This has been turned on its head. Just to give you one example, americas involvement in the world, peace through strength, we had a majority of republican members of the House Of Representatives who voted against aid to ukraine. In the very near future, no republican would have voted against aid to ukraine, i mean, we tried isolationism in the 1930s and it didnt work out very well. Now, republicans are saying, in essence, okay, Vladimir Putin, take it. You want ukraine, it is yours. Trump has said he would invite Vladimir Putin to invade nato countries. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan saying that . We have gone from mikael gorbachev, tear down this wall to Vladimir Putin, have at it. It is
this is bbc news injerusalem. antony blinken is meeting leaders today. he called for humanitarian purposesin today. he called for humanitarian purposes in the fighting but the israeli prime minister said there would be no temporary ceasefire with hamas in gaza until all israeli hostages are released. an official from the un agency for palestinian refugees once it is increasingly little the organisation can do to protect people in gaza, the un secretary general and the who had condemned an israeli attack on an ambulance in gaza. yesterday the israeli defence forces admitted striking the ambulance convoy but said the figure was being used by hamas to try and transport fighters. it comes as fighters from the hamas health ministry said an israeli strike at a school that was being used as a shelter in the north of the gaza strip, no immediate comment from a stroke. the us says it believes the work is being contained and any broader regional conflict has been deterred. the comments