That s. Right. Because the. Forest. Plants. Commitments to reduce carbon emissions are expected as u. S. President joe biden hosts. A climate summit today the aim to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees celsius to avoid catastrophic climate change the u. S. China and the e. U. Are set to announce a significant reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 to make that happen india made. Pledges in the past but his campaigning for aid from bolivia missions to help build alternatives to coal plants india s coal based energy economy plays a large part in making it the world s 3rd largest emitter emitter of greenhouse gases after the u. S. And china and while government action is slow younger people in the country are already awake to the need for immediate changes. It may look like these young people are having fun. But they re here to join to national attention to a problem they say is threatening their future and that of their home state of goa in india. Their leader is activist pereira
what commitments they make to this effort well indeed will he get support from the other countries because the u.s. has been notoriously absent these past couple years. yet certainly has labor and we know that you know global trust in the u.s. as a leader on climate change certainly has been eroded over the last 5 years with president trump pulling the u.s. out of the paris climate accord rolling back he environmental protections president biden is trying to do is to again to show that the u.s. is back in here to stay and we did see broad consensus already from some of the u.s. as partners we saw german chancellor angela merkel showing her support for president biden and also japan coming into the summit saying they re going to cut missions by 46 percent by the end of the decade but the key here is really going to be what america s rivals commit to so china was invited to speak at the summit and president obama really is looking for a commitment from china from russian presid
a grief stricken family bids farewell to the u.s. black man who was shot dead by police during a traffic stop the officer says that she mistook her gun for a taser plus an about face or is it orders its troops back home after massive drills at ukraine s border tensions remain high after what was the biggest regional military buildup in years and in the years pandemic pain the country sets another global record for the new coated 19 cases hospitals are overwhelmed patients are dying from a shortage of what they need most to survive oxygen. i m off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome today is earth day and the united. is trying to make it count us president biden today pledged to cut u.s. carbon emissions in half by the end of the decade it s the most ambitious climate protection target ever set in u.s. history some 40 countries are taking part in the 2 day virtual climate summit that biden is hosting from the white hells and
justice department announces an investigation into the minneapolis police force. and is it the final whistle for the european super league? yet more clubs pull out and apologise to fans. hello and welcome to the program. we start in india which is being devastated by a second wave of covid. the prime minister is calling it a coronavirus storm. it s now at the epicentre of the pandemic, with cases accelerating faster than anywhere else in the world. in the past 2a hours more than 2,000 people have died but the true figure is thought to be higher. hospitals in many parts of india, including the capital delhi, are already overwhelmed. our correspondent yogita limaye is there. some may find her report upsetting. a capital on its knees. at its biggest hospitals, people being pushed to the limit of human endurance. my husband s in a very bad state, let me get through , this woman says. she s been carrying him around for ten hours. many of these people won t survive the night. s
hello and welcome. president biden will host a climate change summit later involving a0 countries. the leaders of india, china, japan, russia and the uk are among those invited to take part in the virtual meeting. they ve all been urged by mr biden to bring evidence of how they plan to cut emissions. the summit, on world earth day, comes ahead of a congress hearing with the teenage swedish climate activist greta thunberg. our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlett reports. john kerry, president biden s climate envoy, has been elbow bumping his way around the world in the past few weeks as part of the us a s effort to raise global ambition on the climate issue. we raise global ambition on the climate issue. climate issue. we will work together climate issue. we will work together to climate issue. we will work together to address - climate issue. we will work together to address the - climate issue. we will work - together to address the climate crisis. , ~ crisis.