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State department, i would tell you that the president has been very clear that we want to maintain a diplomatic presence in afghanistan. its important to have that presence to continue to further the kinds of progress, social, political, and economic we have been able to foster inside afghanistan, keep to that and making sure that we have security at the airport, and the department offense is focused on these discussions with the turks to have the security in place. >> bret: you listen to the u....

To keep the commitments we made in providing close air support, making sure that their air force functions and is operable. resupplying their forces with food and equipment and paying all their salaries. but theyve got to want to fight. they have outnumbered the taliban and i am getting daily briefings. i think there is still a possibility of a significant new of our equivalent of a secretary of defence, bismillah khan, who is a serious fighter. i think they are beginning to realise theyve got t...

Have your plan to with drew troops changed at all? >> no. we spent over a trillion dollars, over 20 years. we trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 afghan forces. after again leaders have to come together. we lost thousands -- death and injury, thousands of american personnel. they have to fight for themselves. fight for their nation. the united states insists to continue to keep the commitments we made. providing close air support, making sure that their air force functions an...

>> no. we spent over a trillion dollars, over 20 years. we trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 afghan forces. afghan leaders have to come together. we lost thousands -- lost death and injury, thousands of american personnel. theyve got to fight for themselves. fight for their nation. the united states we continue to keep the commitments we made. providing close air support, making sure their air force functions and is operable. supplying forces with food and equipment and pay...

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Powers, saudi arabia, for example, russia. forthose powers, saudi arabia, for example, russia. for those governments to accept what is being said does mark accept what is being said does mark a shift in the way that climate science is being regarded and if we cast forward to glasgow, to the climate summit in november, its going to be very hard to see how governments in the negotiating chamber will be able to wriggle out of commitments, givenjust chamber will be able to wriggle out of commitments...

And cost them a huge amount of money on the health costs, and they were on the right track, and they were decommissioning coal-fired plants, and they were decommissioning under obamas plant, and then they came in, and said that we would not loing inner -- no longer honor their obligation, but now we are back to the table, and the biden administration said that we would cut the carbon emissions by 50% in the next decade and de-carbonize our energy sector by 2025, and that is going to provide some...

Action. when the conference starting glasgow cop26, there will be a lot of pressure to come up with tangible targets to help reduce the global temperature. we have heard today from ministers involved in that process that 70% of the world economy is now covered by net zero targets. they want it to be higher, in particular they are pointing to 620 in particular they are pointing to g20 countries and saying to them, you need to come up with firm commitments to deal with some of these climate change...

Habitats. ecosystem degradation reduces natures ability to reduce the force of climate change. and as the force of climate change. and as the ipcc working group reminds us, reducing greenhouse gases will not only slow down climate change, but will improve air quality, it is all connected. it is time to get serious because every tonne of c02 emission adds to global warming. as it was noted last week, 110 countries, 110 out of 191 parties to the convention have submitted new or updated ndc is ahea...

Has there been any debate about this at all in terms of planning regulations and so on, about whether these premises should continue to be built? there are existing ones, but the new ones to be built. yeah, i think this is a really, really important point that rachels flagging here, that actually historically our planning system has favoured car use, and the more that we build roads and build things like drive—throughs, the more we encourage and enable and support car use and the more people w...