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we start in glasgow at the cop26 climate change summit. today, young people from around the world will be setting out the action they want to see from global leaders. on thursday, a0 countries pledged to phase out the use of coal power the single biggest contributor to global warming. but the world s two biggest economies, the us and china, are not signing up, and nor are india or australia. it comes as scientists warn fossil fuel emissions are rebounding to pre pandemic levels much faster than expected, as rebecca morelle explains. moving away from coal is the future aim, but what is happening to greenhouse gas is now? since the 1990s, carbon dioxide levels have been mainly rising, but during the pandemic when the world shutdown, they fell sharply. this year though they have increased rapidly again to almost same amount. behind those numbers is really a big rebound in coal in particular, and so probably what is happening is probably that the stimulus packages to go o ....
worried about disinformation because i run into it all the time, but when people i m bringing groups of six people together all the, time sometimes from different parties, sometimes opposing views, and they managed to have a good conversation with each other, all the. time so much more hopeful about the discourse that it can get us somewhere, that empathy still lives, but people are dwelling off of a lot of bad information. they are making decisions off of entirely false information. usually, there are getting it from social media. that part worries. me i look forward to your conversation on saturday. you said saturday? saturday and sunday. i ll bring it to you both days. well i will see you on sunday ali, thanks very much. we are going to get this done. just maybe not today. that s how president biden described the state of his spending plans after meeting with the house democratic caucus this afternoon. one day after the house missed its self-imposed deadl ....
plus that is the road, but check this out, it is washed out just over here. more destruction as relentless rain pounds parts of the northeast. and for the first time today, u.s. senators get a classified briefing on artificial intelligence. what they could learn about bots and national security. good morning. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with president biden preparing to address fellow alliance leaders as the two day that nato summit gets under way. biden s major win overnight. melissa bell is live at the summit with the latest. and this win coming at the 11th hour here for president biden. what do we expect him to say? reporter: he was wrangling until the very last minute that brought to an end the deadlock that had for a year prevented sweden from becoming the member of nato as it wished to do. and what it means is that essentially securities architecture of europe is transformed with now not just finland with the huge border it shares ....
it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in washington where a powerful house committee is debating wether to allow president biden to completely ban the chinese owned app, tiktok, which is used by more than 100 million americans. the white house has already ordered government agencies to wipe tiktok off federal devices within 30 days. and it s notjust the us. the european parliament has also banned the video sharing app from staff phones citing security reasons, following canada which imposed a similar ban. but china has hit out at the us and this is what a government spokesperson had to say. translation: the united states, the world number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application that young people like so much that they completely lack any self confidence. we firmly oppose the us s wrong approach to overstretching the concept of national security, abusing national power, and unreasonably suppressing the companies of other countries. earlie ....
china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space vi ....