wimbledon is back for another year. men s defending champ novak djokovic secured a win in the first round. he s going for a record 24th grand slam. and time now to leave you with ten seconds of panda cuteness. zin zin has been celebrating her 33rd birthday with a specially made apple cake at her home in a mexico city zoo. she is one of the six longest lived pandas in the entire world. and you re all caught up now. see ya later! this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. the german government has pledged to put fighting climate change at the heart of its agenda. it has just hosted world leaders to help lay the groundwork for international talks in november. but for many, the two week long gathering failed to make sufficient progress on climate finance and the pace of cuts in carbon pollution. my guest isjennifer morgan, germany
gaza, especially civilians and children, is too high. he says gazans must be allowed to return to their homes wall street supporting us support for israel. he and benjamin and yahoo discussed efforts to release all remaining hostages and get you humanitarian aid into gaza. this all comes as the hamas run health ministry says 126 people have been killed in gaza in the last 24 have been killed in gaza in the last 2a hours. it says 57 deaths were reported in one central gaza hospital alone. the situation in israel s northern order with lebanon remains volatile, with locations on either side targeted by the idf and hezbollah. this is what antony blinken told the press conference afterward. figs blinken told the press conference afterward. a , ., , blinken told the press conference afterward. a , . , afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower intensity - afterward. as israel s
heat. 2023 was the year the world woke up to the climate change threat. i don t think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. what have we learned and what will next year look like? plus, landmark act. world leaders agree to transition away from fossil fuel, the chief driver of the climate crisis. we re not turning back, that is the future. but with loopholes in the agreement, is it enough? former vice president al gore is ahead. and seeing green, as governments around the world struggle to combat climate change, what role does wall street have to play? who s got the money on lock by being able to make it profitable. i ll ask the multibillionaire investor who is focused on climate change. ray dalia is coming up. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is sounding a very clear alarm. we are closing out 2023, a year we may look back on as the time that people started to truly grasp that the climate crisis is here and
american economy hostage. lifesaving health care denied or delayed, we will talk to one of the doctors behind a new study showing a pattern of serious health complications caused by post roe abortion ban. and a dire warning from the u.n. s top weather and climate scientist and what we can do about it. plus the velshi banned book club goes to court. this week we ll talk to two previously featured authors of banned books who have joined with free speech activists, parents and the largest publishing house in the country and hauling book banners to federal court. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday may 20th, i m ali velshi. as the old saying, goes if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after one bad election cycle the gop would have regrouped and reassessed its shortcomings so it could rebound. it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significant wind. donald trump s electoral college victory in 2016. sinc
let s start in the us where some of the worlds leading money managers are warning the collapse of another american bank could lead to a credit crunch and an economic slowdown. constrained lending as a result of stricter banking regulation could stifle credit to the us economy at a critical time. we ll get an expert view on this in a moment but first here s my colleague samira hussain on the collapse of first republic. as of monday, first republic customers turning up at their bank are in fact customers ofjp morgan chase. the signs above will soon change. first republic had been under pressure since the collapse of silicon valley bank and signature bank two months earlier. last week, first republic revealed deposited had removed $100 million in the space of a few months. customers feared their money was not safe. investors became convinced that it too was about to fail. riding to the rescue of america s distressed financial system, the boss of america s biggest bank, jamie dim