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the current political mood. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraines energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country — including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent...

again try to end the protests that have now raged for seven weeks. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraines energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country, including the capital, kyiv, where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles, but it was able to shoot down most of them. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travellin...

Environment minister who came back into lulas coalition for this presidential race, marina silva, who some people believe may take the environment ministry again and really work hard to curb deforestation. anything he wants to do on that front he has to deal with congress and if he doesnt have a majority that makes it harder? i think he will weave together a majority depending on particular legislative bills, with regard to the environment, the monitoring of laws and regulations, the environment...

Administration? i think at this point he is giving every signal plans to build his administration out wide along the contours of his electoral coalition, and that would include the estranged former environment minister who came back into his coalition for this presidential race marina silva who some people believe may take the environment ministry again and really work hard to curb deforestation. anything he wants to do on that front he has to deal with this congress and if he doesnt have a majo...

We always wanted to curb deforestation, but how to do it, how to do it? its not to give money to international ngos that you dont know, dont have any accountability. its to create green or... some serious ngos, ok, but thats not the only thing to do, and thats not the main thing to do. the main thing to do is to create conditions for the people to have decent livelihoods in the amazon. one of the things would be legal mining. legal mining under all the sustainable conditions could be good for th...

We always wanted to curb deforestation, but how to do it, how to do it? its not to give money to international ngos that you dont know, dont have any accountability. its to create green or... some serious ngos, ok, but thats not the only thing to do, and thats not the main thing to do. the main thing to do is to create conditions for the people to have decent livelihoods in the amazon. one of the things would be legal mining. legal mining under all the sustainable conditions could be good for th...

So, one of the things that i tried to do was to create more awareness about that and to help create instruments to generate real clean green jobs for those people. so, no, i think youre reasoning from totally incorrect premises, as i said, that dont correspond to the facts. we never wanted to have the room free for more deforestation. thats absolutely not the case. we always wanted to curb deforestation, but how to do it, how to do it? its not to give money to international ngos that you dont kn...

Listen. of course its difficult because politicians are not willing to listen. >> this is what democracy looks like! >> reporter: many of these protesters have grown up experiencing the disastrous effects of climate change. they want their calls for more action to be heard by world leaders meeting a few blocks from here at the u.n. climate summit. inside the summit in the past week, they have pledged to curb deforestation. but protesters, like rebecca richie, who traveled here from california ar...

At really high voltage. . thats a technology coming - from formula e four years ago. so the kind of track to roads link is very strong in formula e - and thats where we are. but this summit isntjust about what happens at the top level. fans have got involved also. around the country, they have been taking part in a challenge to cut their carbon footprint, and when the cop26 trophy. i , when the cop26 trophy. the super league has been fantastic in engaging in fans and especially young fans and fa...

And there is also money there for a network of electric charging stations and funds for the people of the road and public transport networks. it is the biggest spending on infrastructure in this country in decades. and president biden has also said that it will lead to the creation of thousands of jobs. david willis reporting. midway through the cop26 climate summit in glasgow. were midway through the cop26 summit in glasgow where action is being taken to curb deforestation, phase out coal, end ...