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Really? the un, of course, tries to raise emergency monies from the nations of the world forjust these sorts of crises. there's the world food programme, a whole host of other un and multilateral agencie which go in to crisis situations and try to alleviate the worst of the suffering and certainly to avoid famine. is that not working? the system has worked in the past. the last time we were worried about drought conditions in east africa, the international community did come together, did deliver billions of dollars worth of aid. 0rganisations like 0xfam were part of a relief... ..relief opera...

Looming in a region. and, of course, the resources, especially from donor countries, just not being delivered into a system... really? the un, of course, tries to raise emergency monies from the nations of the world forjust these sorts of crises. there's the world food programme, a whole host of other un and multilateral agencies which go in to crisis situations and try to alleviate the worst of the suffering and certainly to avoid famine. is that not working? the system has worked in the past. the last time we were worried about drought conditions in east africa, the international community d...

That's naive, it's never going to happen. and yet we've delivered an aid system. if we'd said a few years ago, there's no way that rich countries would agree to a loss and damage fund to pay for adaptation against climate change in the poorest countries, and yet that's what came out of the last climate negotiations. sure. all i would say is that there's a big difference between agreeing and delivering, whether it be on aid as a proportion of national income, or whether it be on the climate change promises to give some sort of reparations to those countries worst affected, who were not responsi...

Says he's expanding the capital's low emissions vehicles zone, the ulez, to cover the whole of the capital from next summer. it's estimated 200,000 cars and vans currently on the road will be liable for the £12.50 daily charge. after public consultation, it was found a majority of people, opposed the expansion. teachers in scotland will strike for another 16 days, in their dispute over pay. the largest teaching union, the eis says the consecutive days of action across country, will take place injanuary and february next year. strike action yesterday, closed nearly every primary and secondary ...

Behind the scenes, in all of their tents providing hot food. there are people who help, people bringing in food and making themselves available. 0rganisations, these warehouses. this a shopping centre, it has been completely turned into a temporary emergency area where people can get a bit of sleep. this is happening all the time, volunteers in high vizjackets explaining to family members, i have a driver that can take it to this and this destination. they have never met, they do not know each other, but they had talked. people are opening up their homes, coming here to bring people onto the n...