in half and announcing deep cuts in public spending. one of those stories in a moment or two. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan pa rtak. newcastle will hope they don t go the same way as manchester united. absolutely, we re looking ahead to the final round of european champions group matches. it s the final round of european champions league group matches on wednesday, with newcastle united among the sides hoping to reach the knockout stages. eddie howe s side are up against ac milan. it s 20 years since their last champions league campaign. if it s to continue and they re to reach the knockout stages they have to beat the italian side and hope paris st germain don t win against the already qualified borussia dortmund. i think being under lights here is very special but champions league, we have something to play for and everything to gain. we would have taken this position before the paris game. it could have been very different but we
the president of cop28, sultan al jabar, said, it s an historic agreement that sets the world in the right direction. but many had wanted a strongerform of words calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from dubai. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause. and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here, and that was the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the presidency is calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these talks was in no doubt how important it was. together we have confronted realities, and we have
there were many pledges connected to nature on mangroves. there was a mangrove breakthrough. there were pledges, as you mentioned, in the pacific in the formal text, we saw some recognition of nature. we have been seen that since the cop in glasgow. it s time to now operationalize those pledges and those promises and those good intentions because now we have a framework, the global biodiversity framework that came out of kunming last year and we need to connect that with this convention here to maximise the benefits of nature to society. so this is very, very important. and we also saw a call for countries to reduce deforestation by 2030, to eliminate deforestation, and we think that s important. in glasgow we had a pledge that was outside the formal negotiations and here it made it to the negotiation somehow. briefly, if you don t mind, but you re from brazil. the cop30 will be hosted in brazil, actually in the amazon. what s the significance of that, especially given the im
but many had wanted a strongerform of words calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from dubai. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause. and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here, and that was the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the presidency is calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these talks was in no doubt how important it was. together we have confronted realities, and we have set the world in the right direction. there was support from many countries, especially richer nations. this is a momen