and give the uk the cheapest electricity in europe by 2050 are set out by the government. to get more renewables, including nuclear, you do need to decarbonise the whole energy economy so it is really two parts of the same thing that this is a massive investment. and one of the biggest animals ever to walk the earth the skeleton of a dinosaur is the latest addition to london s natural history museum. hello and welcome. there are claims that russia is promoting the use of nuclear weapons, with state propaganda trying to make russians think a nuclear war is not a bad thing. in an interview with the bbc, the russian journalist and nobel peace prize laureate dmitry muratov said state tv channels have been talking about a nuclear tsunami that would wash away america and he said he couldn t rule out president putin pressing the nuclear button. he s been speaking to the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg. translation: russia editor steve rosenberg. two generations have lived transl
i m joined now by dr wesley morgan, senior researcher at the climate council who s spent over a decade in the pacific region. as a majorfossilfuel exporter, what difference might this make to australia s future? australia is the world s third largest fossil fuel exporter after russia and third largest fossilfuel exporter after russia and saudi arabia and today, the un general assembly has asked the international court ofjustice to clarify the obligations the countries like australia have to protect people from the impact of climate change, to protect people s human rights from the impact of climate change and so australia will need to take seriously its obligations to tackle climate
so you can work with countries with whom you have grave differences. even while ukraine was happening under the 0bama administration, i was working very closely with foreign minister lavrov and we worked to get chemical weapons out of syria. we worked on the iran nuclear agreement, the paris agreement, we worked on environmental issues like making the ross sea the largest marine protected area in the world. so we found a way to agree. and that s what diplomacy is about. war is the failure of diplomacy. diplomacy solves those problems under the most exigent circumstances and that s what we have to do now. let s turn the microscope inward to the united states for a moment and talk about the credibility of the us leadership. when you were serving as secretary of state under the barack 0bama administration, the us was actually massively expanding its fossil fuel production in terms of fracking for oil and gas right across the united states, becoming a majorfossilfuel
expanding its fossil fuel production in terms of fracking for oil and gas right across the united states, becoming a majorfossilfuel producer in a way that frankly, the us still appears intent on being, despite all of the work you re doing in a very different direction. fossil fuel is still in the financial system of the united states, still subsidised massively across the country. and those subsidies have to end and president biden knows those subsidies will have to end and he calls on them to end. he doesn t have a political system to which ensure those subsidies do end. it is one thing to call for it, another thing for it to actually happen. you re absolutely correct. that s what politics and elections are about. so how credible is us leadership? you don t speak your credibility, president biden has put forward a doubling of the money put in an extra $11.1; billion to get the hundred billion we need. yet the poorer countries in the world say that the us committing 11 billion a year
so we found a way to agree. and that s what diplomacy is about. war is the failure of diplomacy. diplomacy solves those problems under the most exigent circumstances and that s what we have to do now. let s turn the microscope inward to the united states for a moment and talk about the credibility of the us leadership. when you were serving as secretary of state under the barack 0bama administration, the us was actually massively expanding its fossil fuel production in terms of fracking for oil and gas right across the united states, becoming a majorfossilfuel producer in a way that frankly, the us still appears intent on being, despite all of the work you re doing in a very different direction. fossil fuel is still in the financial system of the united states, still subsidised massively across the country. and those subsidies have to end and president biden knows those subsidies will have to end and he calls on them to end. he doesn t have a political system to which ensure those subs