it s been handled. ukraine s president zelensky has sacked the head of the armed forces we ll bring you the latest on that. and we re still waiting for early results from pakistan. the votes are being counted at the end of a very tense few days. good evening. back in 2015, the world leaders gathered in paris to agree a target, to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. that target was seen as crucial in preventing the worst effects of global warming. today, the eu s climate service copernicus, revealed that last year that 1.5 degrees limit was met or exceeded every single month. in fact, these past eight months have been the hottest on record. and, what s more, the sea temperature, has been rising every single day since april although that has been driven in part by the current el nino effect. here s our climate editorjustin rowlatt. this is where the electricity company sse plans a £2 billion water battery. the hydro
good evening. president biden s memory has been called into question after an investigation by a us prosecutor in to how he handled classified documents, after serving as vice president in 2017. the report found that mr biden had wilfully retained and disclosed material but said he will not face criminal charges. the report says that s partly because mr biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during his interview, as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. our north america correspondent john sudworth is in washington. not easy reading forjoe biden. it isn t, sophie. we ll come to the political ramifications of all this in a moment, they are significant, of course, but in legal terms at least this is a vindication for president biden. the report by a former trumpjustice department former trump justice department official find former trumpjustice department official find there is former trumpjustice department officialfind there is insuf
and the ukrainecast presenter vitaliy shevchenko has been following developments. he gave me some background on the general who s been dimissed. valerii zaluzhnyi, to put simply, he was in charge of the ukrainian army. and as such, he was the architect of ukraine s initial counteroffensive backin ukraine s initial counteroffensive back in 2022. he is the face of ukraine s relative military success. he is credited well with the fact that ukraine s still there, still fighting, and yet he has been sacked. it s a move that will not go down particularly well with some parts of the military and the public in ukraine. general valerii zaluzhnyi has been very well thought of, respected and revered by many, so questions have been asked and are being asked about why this has happened. there s a lot of talk about a personality clash between the two leaders, between volodymyr zelensky and valerii zaluzhnyi. i keep presidential adviser in ukraine said that one important reason why a reshuf
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. sir keir starmer has confirmed that labour is ditching a pledge to spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. enviromental groups have called the move shortsighted, and the conservatives have described it as a major u turn on a flagship policy. but speaking to the bbc, sir keir said the target had to be scaled back because the conservatives had crashed the economy. 0ur political editor chris mason is in westminster good evening, sophie. labour, two and a half years ago made this promise of spending £28 billion per year on green investment projects. then last summer they diluted the promise. in recent weeks and months they have been going a bit wobbly about whether they were keeping the promise or not. and today they have a lob to that number into a skip. 28 billion is becoming about 5 billion. they say that £5 billion would be paid for, half by borrowing, half by extending a windfall
hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. now to a big political story in the uk, with the main opposition labour party being accused of a major u turn. the party is to announce that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge 2.5 years ago. let s get more on this major political move. sir keir starmer has just been speaking about labour s green plans to our political editor chris mason. keir starmer, let s be clear. what are you binning today and what are you keeping? since we ve announced the green prosperity plan, we ve made a number of very important commitments, like green steel so we continue to make steel in this country, giga factories so we can do the next generation of cars, a national wealth fund so that we can have investment coming in for the jobs of the future, and green energy, which will be