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Testimony of azeem rafik. on tuesday, the former yorkshire players spoke to a committee of mps and described english cricket as institutionally racist. today, members were joined by representatives from all 18 first—class counties and the players union, but the pressure firmly and then to come up with a plan of action that goes far enough to tackle the issue. irate action that goes far enough to tackle the issue.— action that goes far enough to tackle the issue. we will continue to listen, t...

Changes, these commitments that leaders are being asked to make, and how they understand the stakes about. them i say that because tonight we are seeing the results of, among other things, what has been a long and relentless campaign to direct action from all different kinds of groups and individuals urging congress to pass president bidens agenda, the sunrise movement is a group that you may have heard of. they are national camp cain of young activists pushing for solutions to the climate crisi...

Which it seems all the targeted nonviolent action directed at that issue is not moving, specifically one person not moving moving is joe manchin tos do what he needs to do to get o legislation passed in the senate. well talk about that this hour. direct action certainly doesnt always work, but sometimes it feels like its the only thing that does. and i think it deserves a little more recognition in terms of what is driving some of the moral framing of these issues that are all moving right now i...

Its a failure. it should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got ourselves into it in the first place. it has turned into a pr event where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing commitments and targets. >> all right. so sarong words for sure. but tuneberg has a message for acuts. >> we say no more blah, blah, blah, no more exploitation of the plapts, no more exploitation, no more blah, blah, blah. whatever the [ bleep ] theyre doing inside there. >...

Prepared to make commitments. we are _ prepared to make commitments. we are quadrupling what we have done _ we are quadrupling what we have done before and we are also starting _ done before and we are also starting up a new initiative with— starting up a new initiative with other countries, that is all with other countries, that is aii about— with other countries, that is all about the developed world actually providing the support that the — actually providing the support that the develo...

So teen climate activist greta thunberg definitely had a busy week. she marched at the un climate conference at glasgow on friday. joining other fridays for the future activist, she praised the group for being the true climate leaders. plus, she had this message for world leaders. >> it is not a secret that cop26 is a failure. it should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that goes into it in the first place. the cop has been turning into a pr event where leaders are...

Dozens of initiatives were launched in Glasgow, but ensuring they’re followed will be a challenge.

>> reporter: alex theres a lot of anger and frustration among the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets of glasgow today. what theyre angry about is that they say these promises and these pledges made by countries are way too out in the future. they want action on climate change now. they dont want countries to reach net zero emissions by 2050 or cut greenhouse gases in half by 2030. they said thats way too late. the earth will have changed dramatically. they want action now, a...

Footprint of the worlds richest people threatens the goal of keeping global warming under one point five degrees celsius — despite commitments made in the run up to the cop26 conference. the carbon footprint of the worlds richest 1% is on track to be 30 times higher than whats needed to limit global warming to i.5c. but emissions of the poorest 50% will continue to be below climate goals. noah diffenbaugh, climate scientist at stanford university, told us we all need to take responsibility. we...

Financial encouragement they need. i think we came here fully prepared to meet our commitments and we are quadrupling what we had done before and we are also starting up a new initiative with other countries that is all about the developed world actually providing the support that the developing world needs. there is no question in president biden in his remarks today that he did not hold any hunches in terms of admitting that we have enhanced responsibility to help the rest of the world and tha...