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In addition, most big uk firms and financial institutions will be forced to show how they intend to hit climate change targets. but green groups say the proposals do not go far enough. heres our science and environment correspondent, victoria gill. cautious optimism — that was how borisjohnson summed up the mood as world leaders concluded their two—day meeting at cop 26. the negotiations, though, will continue here. there have already been a flurry of early deals on reversing deforestation, ...

I think we got a lot done. despite the optimism, presidentjoe biden criticised the leaders of both china and russia for not turning up. the fact that china, trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader, not showing up? come on. today its set to be all about the money. the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to give details on how the uks financial institutions can help meet our climate goals. trillions of private sector capital is to be committed to decarbonisatio...

Goals. russia doesnt intend to meet these global goals. india doesnt plan to, why should we. >> because we want to be able to breathe. and we want to be able to lead the world. look, i mean it sincerely. i think presumption of me to say, talk for another leader but the fact that china is trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader, not showing up, come on. the single most important thing thats gotten the attention of the world is climate. everywhere. from iceland ...

>> because we want to be able to breathe and we want to be able to lead the world. but the fact that china, china assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader not showing up? come on. same with putin. he has serious, serious climate problems, and he is mum on willingness to do anything. i feel confident were going to get done what we have to do at home. >> reporter: yet, at home, his party is still struggling to lock in the votes for mr. bidens "build back better" plan, whic...

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That we had agreed this thing that we were going to try and cut c02 together, but it was also a slightly floaty feeling because we didnt know how on earth we were going to do it. and there was no road map, there was no very clear sense of how you could do that. i think what youre starting to see here at cop26 in glasgow is a sense of how actually you can deliver those cuts in co2. speaking in the last hour, president biden praised the accomplishments made in the last two days. however, he critic...

Plan to, why should we? >> because we want to be able to breathe and lead the world. i mean it sincerely, the fact that china trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader, not showing up, come on. the single most important thing thats got the attention of the world is climate. everywhere. from iceland to australia to -- i mean it just is a gigantic issue. and ive walked away. how do you do that and claim to be able to have any leadership now? the same with putin an...

Merrick garland misrepresenting the facts surrounding the memo you just heard senator grassley mention a minute ago what he called the school board memo. now, before we go into it further, here is what the memo actually said. this is a memo from the attorney general dated october 4th to the fbi director, u.s. attorneys, and the head of department of justices criminal division. quoting from the subject line, quote, partnership among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement t...

Members, teachers, and staff. goes on to direct the fbi to convene meetings with those officials to discuss strategies for handling the rise in criminal conduct against school personnel. which, if you have been watching the news lately or involved in your community, you know is a real thing. now what has the senators upset is that the memo came several days after the national school boards association, not the fbi, the national school boards association wrote a letter to the president in which i...

Will be pushed into capital but the current spending will be kept restricted so you will get the phenomenon, potentially of the equipment being there to deal with the waiting lists for example, but what about the staff? what about the pay? what about the number of operators of these mri scanners? look for that pattern across a lot of spending because it is easy, i think with the rules we are going to get, we havent got them by the way, easier do that than not. they have been broken routinely, fo...