than 1.5 celsius, and of course cooperation and unity from all countries has been urged by everyone attending and organising the summit. the leaders of more than 200 countries are expected to attend, but president putin will not be one of them. the kremlinjust but president putin will not be one of them. the kremlin just announcing that vladimir putin will not be travelling to glasgow for the cop26 summit, the united nations climate change summits, and questions also over the attendance of the chinese president, so confirmation from the kremlin that president putin will not be there. obviously it had been absolutely hoped by the organisers that he would be among the attendees, and we were write reaction from the uk government which is organising this conference very to that news. the select committee investigating january s attempted insurrection at the united states capitol has unanimously approved a report recommending a key associate of president trump be held in contempt of congres
so you have been following this. in terms of climate change summits, put this in perspective for us. what are they hoping to accomplish? it s unprecedented. you have 196 countries in the world agreeing that global warming is an issue and virtually all of them pledged to cut the pollution that causes global warming. we have a debate about it. the rest of the sworld gathering in paris and saying, okay, it s settled. it is a problem. we re coming the table. what makes it an interesting human drama is president obama is trying to lead on the issue. at the opening ceremonies, given three minutes to speak and he went nine minutes. he is trying to lead. meanwhile, he has delegation of members of congress there talking to his colleagues, to his co-negotiators trying to undermine the deal. they think it s rue nous for the american economy. it s high stakes. the idea is to walk away with a pledge, right? some kind of agreement on how to lower carbon emissions?