During the pandemic, shes been reassessing her life. Ive come here to la, where rebel is now based, for this bbc 100 women interview. We talk about why she lost weight, her challenges with fertility, and how shes balancing that with her professional move into becoming a director, and she talks to me about how shes hoping that move will empower her to make cultural changes in the industry after experiencing Sexual Harassment herself. Rebel wilson, thank you so much for talking to bbc 100 women. It is my pleasure. How are you . I feel like im very bbc today as well im very serious, profesh. I think you could almost, like, be a newsreaderfor us. I could, you know. Coming up now at the am hour wait, is that what they say . No. Coming up breaking news, um, yeah i i probably wont get hired from this. Its so interesting because you are one of the most high profile actresses in hollywood. Id say youre a household name. Im in the top 1,000, for sure, id put myself. Youre one of the top 1,000 ac
The cruel world of politics. Also on the programme a year on from the start of the war in ethiopia, the government claims to be on the brink of victory but tigrayan fighters are advancing towards the capital. And Yorkshire Cricket Club is suspended from hosting england matches amid a row over racism. Its 9 00am in singapore, and 1 00am in glasgow at the cop26 Climate Conference, where the British Government says the end of coal is in sight. Thats after more than a0 countries promised to phase out the fossilfuel in the coming decades. Poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast growing economies that now say theyll reduce their coal use. But as our Science Correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports, other big users of coal such china and america havent signed up to the deal. A dinosauron a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. Listen, eole, message for humanity. Listen, peeple. I message for humanity. Listen, peeple. I know message for humanity. Liste
Adam. It is a butter based croissant, i am told. What are you talking about, adam . Basically, the greatest piece of Investigative Journalism ive done in my entire career was here at cop26, the Climate Change conference in glasgow. Id gone for breakfast one morning, and this has reached Legendary Status already, and weve already talked about it on the podcast on bbc sounds this week but here is the tv version. With added pictures of chris mason eating a croissant, in case you didnt know what one looks like i was surprised to find out that a plant based croissant had a bigger Carbon Footprint than a bacon roll. Of course, that seems a bit counterintuitive because we are always being told one of the things you can do to help reduce Greenhouse Gases is eat less meat. So, of course, that went on social media, farmers loved it because they said, oh, this shows that we are not the bad guys. But it turns out it was wrong. Theyd put on the Carbon Footprint for the wrong kind of croissant. They
Live from our studio in singapore, it is bbc news, newsday. Were spending a lot of time talking about Climate Change with all the events happening in glasgow, and well have more on that in a moment. But, some new Research Hasjust been released about Carbon Emissions, which are expected to rebound this year to levels last seen before the coronavirus pandemic. The findings, published in the Global Carbon budget by a team of climate scientists, show that Carbon Dioxide releases into the atmosphere will rise by almost the same amount that they decreased in 2020, when many countries went into lockdown. The findings challenge efforts to limit Global Warming to one point five celsius the Tipping Point for dangerous Climate Change. Researchers say that if present trends continue, we could exceed that limit in 11 years unless Ambitious Goals to cut emissions are achieved. At the cop summit, banks and investors have been making pledges towards fighting Climate Change. 130 trillion has been set a