here in the uk leaked footage, appears to show downing street officials joking about a covid christmas party the prime minister insists never took place. and the list of words most mangled by the newsreaders in 2021. and this grammy winners surname is one of them. good evening. it is almost 80 years to the day the united states declared war onjapan, following the attack on pearl harbour which, in the current context, might serve to remind the white house that peace can t always be guaranteed or preserved from a position of weakness. so today s virtual summit with president putin presented the american president with his highest stakes meeting so far. what could he and his nato allies put in front of the russian president to change his calculus on ukraine? here is the national security adviser, speaking just a short time ago. there was a lot of give and there was some finger wagging but the president was crystal clear about where the united states stands in all of these issu
endeavour over the line. one of donald trump s former top aides, steve bannon, has been indicted by a grand jury, after refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the january the sixth attack on the capitol and, britney spears has been handed back control of her life and career by a court in los angeles welcome to the programme. the official deadline for an agreement at cop 26 in glasgow has passed but delegates and negotiators are now working into the night to try and sign off undertakings that can be agreed across the board. a 3rd draft is being worked on to replace the last one where some of the language had been strengthened but also weakened elsewhere, for example on the requirements for governments to reduce the use of carbon emitting fossil fuels. experts recognise that the agreements made at the summit will not limit warming to under 1.5 degrees a key threshold which would avoid the worst effects of climate change. let s cross live to the conference in
we start in glasgow at the cop26 climate change summit. today, young people from around the world will be setting out the action they want to see from global leaders. on thursday, a0 countries pledged to phase out the use of coal power the single biggest contributor to global warming. but the world s two biggest economies, the us and china, are not signing up, and nor are india or australia. it comes as scientists warn fossil fuel emissions are rebounding to pre pandemic levels much faster than expected, as rebecca morelle explains. moving away from coal is the future aim, but what is happening to greenhouse gas is now? since the 1990s, carbon dioxide levels have been mainly rising, but during the pandemic when the world shutdown, they fell sharply. this year though they have increased rapidly again to almost same amount. behind those numbers is really a big rebound in coal in particular, and so probably what is happening is probably that the stimulus packages to go out of
that s the key message of the secretary general, gutierres, that s our message. world leaders are leaving glasgow later, leaving their technical teams to thrash out the detail in the next two weeks. in other news: the former presidents of world and european football are charged with fraud over the unlawful transfer of more than $2 million. hello, welcome back to glasgow, and the second and final day of the world leaders summit at cop26. there have been more significant announcements in particular, two significant announcements to try to address the climate emergency. let s just run you through the proposals. first, a global partnership aims to cut methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030. it s being led by america and the eu, and more than 100 countries have signed up. but china, russia and india are not part of the pledge. earlier in the day, there was another significant pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade. there was also a plan to adopt aff
general. and the queen, who can t attend in person due to medical advice, sends a message to the world s leaders in glasgow. none of us underestimates the challenges ahead. but history has shown that when nations come together in common cause there is always room for hope. hello and welcome to glasgow, the end of the crucial opening day of the cop 26 summit. 120 heads of state are here for the first day of negotiations, and already a handful of developments. arguably the most significant came from narendra modi, who announced that india would will meet a net zero emissions target by 2070. it is quite the step for the world s third largest polluter, which until now had resisted pressure from the international community for a net zero committment. critics say that 2070 is at least 20 years too late. but mr modi also pledged to have 50% of his country s energy generated by renewables by 2030. we ll discuss that in further detail later in the show. we also saw speeches from a num