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where talks on the deal have been taking place, support for a return to stormont. i think everybody from an economic standpoint would like stormont back, and that way the money will be released to the services that need them, such as education and the health service. money isn t being allocated to the areas that needed it. so absolutely. so it s a bit of a vacuum. yes, yes. we are almost two years - without a devolved government and it matters to people, - because it feels like there s no one in charge, no one in control, - no one there to make decisions. schools are not functioning some days. hospitals are not functioning any day as they should. there are massive problems across the entire public sector. two commentators on the perils of a power vacuum and, from a leading unionist newspaper, strong forces suggest a return to stormont. i think there are two things that are pushing jeffrey donaldson and his party back into stormont. the first is ideological. they believe ....
see some meteors. any techniques, any suggestions? get a big, wide field of the sky in your eyes. don t focus on any particular point. just look up. you ll catch them out of the corner of your eye as well. the other thing, of course, is that if you re in company, you basically both have to be looking in the same direction because they re so fleeting, typically half a second. half a second? yeah, you have no time to point them out. there are ones that last longer. if you ve a break in the clouds you ll be able to see the geminid shower wherever you are. it will be at its height tonight and tomorrow with dozens of colourful shooting stars every hour lighting up the skies. pallab ghosh, bbc news. more sky gazing now with ben roach with the weather. palla b pallab ghosh mentioned the cloud has been causing problems for many people looking for shooting stars tonight and over the next few days i have to this programme continues on bbc one. the eu makes an historic agreement to begi ....
applause many said this could not be done. but when i spoke to you at the very start of this cop, i promised a different sort of cop, a cop that brought everyone together. private and public sectors, civilsociety, ngos, faith leaders, youth, and indigenous peoples. everyone came together from day one. everyone united, everyone acted, and everyone delivered. we operationalised the loss and damage and started to fill the fund. we mobilised more than $83 billion us in new financial commitments. we launched alterra, the world s largest catalytic private investor that is 100% focused on solutions to climate change. and we delivered world first after world first. a global goal to triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency. declarations on agriculture, declarations on food, declarations on health. many more oil and gas companies stepping up for the first time. stepping up to deliver against a very ambitious goals and objectives. and, for the first time, to deliver on ....
that we there are many elements in the deal that we don t like. we would have liked that we don t like. we would have liked it that we don t like. we would have liked it to that we don t like. we would have liked it to have gone further and we would liked it to have gone further and we would have liked it to have gone further and we would have liked there to be all parties would have liked there to be all parties agreeing to absolute economy wide targets when they next do the next set wide targets when they next do the next set of wide targets when they next do the next set of targets. but they are economy next set of targets. but they are economy wide, that is agreed in the text economy wide, that is agreed in the text 15 economy wide, that is agreed in the text. 1.5 degrees is held as a north star, text. 1.5 degrees is held as a north star, exactly as the president of the cop star, exactly as the president of the cop said it needed to be in for ....
the first minister on the job that i do on behalf of people here in wales. that spring term will see the publication of our child poverty strategy, the final report of the independent commission on the constitutional future of wales, the future of steel making in wales will be on our agenda early in the senedd spring term, as well the senedd reform, conclusion of consultations about making the council tax fairer and the reform of the school year. module to be of the covid i9 uk inquiry will happen in wales during february and march. module 28. and of course a budget to february and march. module 2b. and of course a budget to pass through the senedd. there will be plenty of time for political obituaries and retrospection once i ceased to be first minister. but not before. in a five year period, which has seen wales deal with astarte, brexit, the covid pandemic, the climate crisis, wars in ukraine and the middle east and four different prime ministers so far, there ....