A very warm welcome to the programme. Us president Joe Biden has arrived in geneva ahead of Todays Summit with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in decades and Mr Biden has already said he will lay down americas red lines during the discussions. Gary odonoghue reports from geneva. For days, he has been among friends but now it is time for President Biden to meet one of his foes. ~ ,. ,. His foes. We should decide where in his foes. We should decide where in our his foes. We should decide where in our mutual his foes. We should decide i where in our mutual interest, in the interest of the world, to co operate. And see if we can do that. In the areas where we do not agree, make it clear with the redlines just make it clear what the redlines. This with any particularly the city of geneva i used to high stakes meetings. It was here that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev began the Cold War for 36 years ago. With both curr
Hello there, and a very warm welcome to Bbc News. The G7 Summit gets underway in cornwall in the South West of england later today. Leaders including britains prime minister, borisjohnson and us president joe biden, they are expected to collectively agree to provide A Billion doses of covid 19 vaccine in an effort to end the pandemic in 2022. Joe biden has already promised to donate 500 Million pfizer vaccines for 92 countries and the african union. Under the prime ministers plan, the uk will provide 5 Million doses by The End of september, with 25 Million more by The End of 2021. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Summits can sometimes be talking shops, pictures of World Leaders rubbing solders, or at least elbows, not matched by Policy Decisions that will change lives. This g7 could be different. Forthe change lives. This g7 could be different. For the wealthy nations which make up this group, they have a chance to take real action to tackle the covid and demick. In a
Risking their lives to reach europe through turkey many never make it the news reports from eastern turkey and the symmetry of the 9 list. Plus as president Joe Biden pledges a sustainable us economy and millions of green jobs leaders at the Oil And Gas rich takes it where samo are already discovering a future with count also fields. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program India has reported the worlds highest daily count of new coronavirus cases for the 2nd day in a row more than 330000 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours in response canada is banning all flights from both India And Pakistan and the u. K. Is also putting new restrictions. Traveled soon from india they on president had spiked comes after Coronavirus Case Number 1st rose 2100000 per day by last september and then dropped off again through the winter x. New virus variants and recent super spread the gatherings have contributed to the lightest. Mourning their loved ones who died at this hospital not from c
deforestation of the amazon rainforest. iam i am live at cop26 in glasgow where we will be looking in more detail at those two big announcements of the day so far. i will also be talking to the former australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull. convicted of taking and sharing pictures of two murdered sisters. two met police officers, are told to expectjail terms. calls for plastic in wet wipes to be banned. a labour mp is proposing a new law that could put an end to this. good afternoon. world leaders at the global climate summit in glasgow are today agreeing two major deals, to try to combat rising global temperatures. let s cross live to my colleague annita mcveigh who is at the cop26 climate conference. thanks jane and welcome to glasgow, where as you say leaders are agreeing two major deals. the first is a pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade. the second, which is being led by america and the eu, aims to cut methane emissions by at least 30%