the tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. jeff bezos is stepping down as amazon s chief executive. the online retail giant s founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. he will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazon s cloud computing business. and this comes as the firm reported $386 billion in sales in 2020, that s up 38% on the year before. their profits almost doubled, rising to $21.3 billion. so what s been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss? duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a digital marketing and advertising agency. duncan, welcome to the programme. executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. what do you think about this move? i responsibility. what do you think about this move? i think it is a bit of think about this move?
the last day of cop26. the day when the final agreement between the nations is published arguably the most important document that will emerge from the conference in glasgow because unlike the last major climate conference in paris in 2015, what emerges here will not be a new treaty, but a series of decisions and resolutions that build on the paris accord. so what do we know already? the us and china say they ll work towards keeping global heating to 1.5 degrees, a goal set out in the 2015 paris agreement. and the cop26 draft agreement calls out fossil fuels as the main culprits of climate change for the first time. major financial institutions, with a combined net worth of around $130 trillion dollars, have also said they want to help bring global emissions down to zero. eliot whittington is the director of the uk and european corporate leaders groups at the university of cambridge institute for sustainability leadership. of the pledges we ve seen this week, which are th
over the next decade, in a surprise announcement at the cop26 summit in glasgow. this gives global negotiators a boost as they aim to reach a final deal on carbon cutting targets by the end of the summit on friday. china and the us are the worlds biggest carbon emitters whose economies are dependent on fossil fuels and although they say they will work together neither have joined a pledge to reduce the use of coal, a promise that more than a0 other nations have made at the conference. we in china have no shortage of differences but on climate, on climate, cooperation is the only way to get this job done. today s focus at cop26 is cities and regions how to become more energy efficient with cities currently producing more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from heating and cooling buildings and powering cars and lorries. joining me now isjohn hart, republican strategist & co founder, c3 solutions a warm welcome to the programme. it is a huge challenge, isn t
it s 5:00 in the morning. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. welcome back, christine. i m laura jarrett. we begin with testimony in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. the defense team plans to call several more witnesses today in the teen s murder trial including a doctor and a kenosha police officer. rittenhouse broke down in tears on the stand wednesday describing the moments before he fired his ar-15. he insists he was acting in self-defense and didn t do anything wrong. everybody that you shot at that night you intended to kill, correct? i didn t intend to kill them. i intended to stop the people who were attacking me. by killing them. i did what i had to do to stop the person who was attacking me. by killing them? two of them passed away, but i stopped the threat from attacking me. one problem with that testimony, in cross-examination rittenhouse said he knew one of the men he killed was unarmed. the nation is watching closely toe see the next mov
legal strategy from donald trump s defense and classified documents case. his attorneys are asking the judge for a lengthy delay of his trial. judge cannon who will oversee the case from federal court in fort pierce, florida, had originally said in august trial date, and special counsel jack smith asked for december. late last night, trump s lawyers submitted a 12 page filing, requesting the trial be delayed until after the presidential election. the filing says that trump is, quote currently the likely republican party nominee. this undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, and that effort will continue until the election on november 5th, 2024. trump s team also implied that the case was political, calling it, quote, a prosecution advanced by the administration of a sitting president against his chief political rival, himself, a leading candidate for the presidency. but for facts s sake, the prosecution is not being advanced by joe biden or his administrat