Now on bbc news: dateline london. Hello, i m shaun ley. Welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators, journalists born overseas who ply their trade in the uk, along with bbc specialists, dateline london. British labour, founded in part by the unions, appears to be in trouble this weekend. It s a different sort of union, that of the nations of the uk, also under threat. The uk is basking in the success of its vaccination programme. Is it time to share its good fortune more widely? and the latest on hot air. No, not politics, but global warming. To shed more light than heat, at least i hope so, two veterans of the newspaper trade. An american by birth, janet daley, has lived in the uk since the 1960s. Her politics shifted over the years from labour to conservatives back in the 80s. She s a columnist for the sunday telegraph. Polly toynbee has penned a column for the guardian for more than 20 years. She s supported labour except for a period in the 80s when sh
espn. she is here. plus the climate whistleblower. [bleep]. get out away! jesse: the mainstream media s hyperfocus on the republican primary, the trip indictment, the desantis attacks and the vivek show. this is by design. the joe biden presidential campaign is not being covered because it does not exist. what is joe biden s reelection message? what policies would he implement in a second term? nobody knows? he has not announced them. but he has never been asked. to biden has not asked about anything. and that is the reelection strategy. but this is becoming a problem. everyone of the big potential vulnerabilities of a button reelection effort is an enthusiasm problem, we are seeing that are seeing that in small donors. jesse: not only is there no enthusiasm for a biden reelection. the overwhelming majority of voters say he is too old to serve another term. president biden s approval rating sits at just 42% according to a new poll. and what has to be even more a
hello, i m luxmy gopal. is the planet warming faster than we thought and are current targets signed off by world leaders enough to tackle the most damaging effects of global warming in the years to come? new evidence from the eu s climate service, copernicus, highlights that for the first time, the world was 1.5 degrees warmer than pre industrial levels for a whole year. scientists say a combination of greenhouse gas emissions and dramatic sea temperature rises are to blame. our climate editor, justin rowlatt, explains the significance of the 1.5 celsius figure. it s reckoned to be an arbitrary boundary at which we avoid the worst effects of climate change. there was a landmark un paper in 2018 which found it would be really significantly greater impacts at 2 degrees and urged all efforts to be made to try and keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees which was also the target set at a landmark climate summit in paris in 2015, world leaders agreed they would make all possible ef
by world leaders enough to tackle the most damaging effects of global warming in the years to come? new evidence from the eu s climate service, copernicus, highlights that for the first time, the world was 1.5 degrees warmer than pre industrial levels for a whole year. scientists say a combination of greenhouse gas emissions and dramatic sea temperature rises are to blame. let s go live now to cardiff and speak to our climate editorjustin rowlatt. explain the significance of that figure. it s reckoned to be an arbitrary boundary at which we avoid the worst effects of climate change. there was a landmark un paper in 2018 which found it would be really significantly greater impacts at 2 degrees and urged all efforts to be made to try and keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees which was also the targets a landmark climate summit in paris in 2015, world leaders agreed they would make all possible efforts to keep it to 1.5 so nudging as close as we are and having passed it for a sin
it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says