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Its awkward . And can we put the long term interests of our country before the short term political needs of the moment . Even if it means being controversial . Controversial . Well, that was just a couple of hours ago, but already the move has ignited quite a significant backlash. More than 250 charities and businesses have been urging the government not to weaken green targets. Shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth says the Prime Ministers decision puts pressure now on households. Pressur...

Foes of our farmers will debate all of that and more, but that will follow the news with polly middlehurst. At middlehurst. At nigel, thank you and good evening to you. Well, the top story tonight is that the Prime Minister has set out this afternoon revised plans to his net zero in a controversial overhaul of the governments green policy. Among the measures green policy. Among the measures was a weakening of the phasing out of gas boilers , as well as out of gas boilers, as well as easing the t...

Actually, ive written a lot about race and media and also have, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian, so weve got a little bit many common here. [applause] so our esteemed guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job. Wow. Out of high school. And also had a magazine for expats in mexico. Inside mexico . Yeah. Started working on Hidden Figures in 2010. Wow. And became a New York Times n...

Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is real...

[inaudible conversations] may i have your attention, please. Please take your seats, the presentations about to begin. Before we get started, id like you to be aware there will be, most likely, a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. When its time, youll be able to go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage. Id like to introduce a tv critic for npr. [applause] how you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it. As was said, my names...

The afterburn of the powerful tropical storm is set to hit Britain bringing yet more brutal weather.

According to forecasts, before the final period of warm weather, the UK will be hit by three ex-Hurricanes over the next week.

Tuesday and Wednesday will see rain and windier conditions spread from the west across most parts of the UK, marking a return to more traditional autumnal weather.

One weather expert said the UK would be hit by three ex-hurricanes rather than two as the UK braces for wet weather.

Street flood threat too