Optimist Borisjohnson News Today

For dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme bringing together bbc specialists with the correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week — borisjohnson�*s finance minister opens the taxpayers�* purse as the prime minister himself tries to persuade world leaders to open theirs to mitigate climate change. plus, is famine stocking afghanistan? joining us to discuss all that is henry chu of the la times, who keeps ...

$100 billion mark for another few years. so that is going to be discouraging for poorer countries to hear, who already this year have seen rich countries not making good on their vaccination pledges through covax. latika, scott morrison, the australian prime minister, said this week, or in the last few days, that he has come up with a uniquely australian solution, having been one of the laggards in this international debate on climate change. tell us more. well, the australian way, as the prime ...

Hello, welcome to bbc news. im david eades. our top stories: the un climate summit opens in glasgow with borisjohnson warning the pledges made so far by world leaders are inadequate. there are no compelling excuses for our procrastination. not only have we acknowledged the problem, were already seeing first hand the devastation climate change causes. earlier, leaders of the worlds richest nations meeting in rome fell short of setting specific targets for reducing carbon emissions to net zero. au...

Probably not. maybe not the new age of optimism just yet. thank you. the chancellor was able to delete one line of expenditure this week. 20 years of funding a military presence in afghanistan has ended. a different sort of funding may already be needed, though, aid to avert famine. afghanistan is bankrupt and the taliban is floundering. challenged in the house of commons to help, borisjohnson said the uk could not write a completely blank check for a country that risks becoming again a haven fo...

Committed to. both sides of parliament, in legislation tied to gross national income. that is not going up any time soon, yet suddenly they have found this money for all the other things like the overhaul of booze taxes. they can make it cheaper to fly domestically in the uk but they cant find the money to restore that original promise, which is actually tied to gross national income anyway. it is not a lump sum that they then have to tweak back. it naturally tapers down, as the economy expands ...

Well either pay through our taxes or we pay for it - the amount— we pay for the products and services that we consume. and, you know, the cost of this is going to be astronomical. - stuff, isnt it? stop, it becomes more expensive to sustain where we are, let along grow that? there are some partsl which are an easy win. the uk we have had a hugej success with offshore wind, a big part of- the energy mix now. even the prime minister used to joke about wind power ,didn�*t he, when he as a journ...

The cop26 climate summit has opened in glasgow as the un published a scientific report saying the planet is entering uncharted territory because of record concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, while extreme weather conditions have become the new normal. earlier, leaders of the worlds richest nations in rome fell short of setting specific targets for reducing carbon emissions to net zero. the british prime minister borisjohnson warned that the pledges made by heads of state at the...

The bbc�*s business editor simon jack. cop26, which begins in glasgow this weekend, is supposed to be the moment when the worlds nations present individual beefed—up pledges to mitigate climate change, agreed rules to prevent double counting and honour previously agreed plans in which the poorer countries can adapt to survive. the summit host, that perennial optimist borisjohnson, says its success or failure is in the balance. the queen, usually a valuable asset in the last—minute lobbying...

A glow about that? probably not. maybe not the new age of optimism just yet. thank you. the chancellor was able to delete one line of expenditure this week. 20 years of funding a military presence in afghanistan has ended. a different sort of funding may already be needed, aid to avert famine. afghanistan is bankrupt and the taliban is floundering. challenged in the house of commons to help, borisjohnson said the uk could not write a completely blank cheque for a country that risked becoming aga...

Morning herald in australia. and here in the studio, the bbc�*s business editor simon jack. cop26 begins in glasgow this weekend. it is supposed to be the moment when the worlds nations present pledges to mitigate climate change, agreed rules to prevent double counting and honour previously agreed plans in which the poorer countries can adapt to survive. the summit host, perennial optimist borisjohnson, says its success or failure is in the balance. the queen, usually a valuable asset in the l...