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as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history ....
sequoia, known as the grizzly giant, to protect it from the flames that are ripping through at this hour. this tree, the national park service says it s the second largest tree in yosemite. what we know about this fire is that it has doubled in size in the past 24 hours. nearly 1600 acres have already burned and fire officials are warning that they do expect this fire to continue to grow as they are also expecting continued hot, unusually hot temperatures. escalating drought, climate change, a horrible combination, also adding to this yearly threat of wildfires. how are federal officials dealing with all of that? we have been talking to, on the federal level, the national park service. this is something they are very concerned about as far as the impact of climate change on places like these national parks. most of the national parks across the united states are impacted, if not by extreme temperatures, wildfires, it s the sea level. they are working, on the federal ....
we love space news here on the context. and tonight, it s the next step in china s ambitious space programme. the country s space agency has launched a rocket that it s hoping will make history. this is the moment the chang e 6 mission blasted off from the wenchang space launch centre in southern hainan province. on board is a probe that will aim for the first time to collect samples from the far side of the moon. the spacecraft will attempt to make a soft landing on the south pole aitken basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system. it then hopes to return the samples successfully to earth. the journey is expected to take 53 days to complete. i m pleased to say former nasa astronaut, who was once the commander of the international space station, leroy chiao joins us now. leroy, always a delight to talk to you. i love talking to you about space, and give me your sense of how significant this is not only that china has launched this probe that i ....
and will argue that the uk has over delivered on confronting climate change and that other countries need to pull their weight. among a number of core policy changes, rishi sunak is considering pushing back the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035. and the phasing out of all gas boilers by 2035 would be weakened. instead the government would only require 80% to be phased out by then. homeowners and landlords would be told that there will be no new energy efficiency regulations on homes. the prime minister is considering announcing these and other changes later this week. this was the green mp, caroline lucas reacting. it is so economically illiterate as well as being a prime example of environmental vandalism. peter saulljoins me now from westminster. this news breaking in the last few hours, what else is being considered? hours, what else is being considered? . , considered? eight different policies are bein: considered? eight different policies ....
correspondent has been following the negotiations around the demands and interests of various groups. 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 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 country, especially richer nations. this is a moment where multi lateralism has come together and people ha ....