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The world still stands on the brink of climate catastrophe, she said. all this happened at a time when experts say the population of our world hasjust reached eight billion. how much should we be worrying about this as well? i turned to steph hegarty, the bbc population correspondent. the past billion, it's been mostly china and india, so it's really come from asia, then various countries in africa, but the next billion is predicted to come from only eight countries. one of them is india, because it will keep growing even though fertility levels have come down in india. but where we're going t...

The climate conference cop27 reached an agreement of sorts at sharm el—sheikh, setting up, among other things, a fund by which richer countries can help poorer ones which are seriously affected by the violent weather events which are becoming more and more frequent. should we breathe a sigh of relief? no. the un secretary—general antonio guterres said our planet remains in the emergency room. mary robinson, head of the elders group and a former president of ireland, was even more blunt. the world still stands on the brink of climate catastrophe, she said. all this happened at a time when e...

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Along with the federal government. like daniel said, not before they fixed the democracy. >> we all agree on that. absolutely. let's switch gears. the big news what we are coming on the air this hour. elon musk saying donald trump is back on twitter. it was based off a twitter poll that he conducted. i think you said 150 million people voted. >> 750 million people. >> [laughter] >> eight billion people. i'm back. you know. i know. it i belong here. freedom is back. >> who do you think is more nervous about trump being back on twitter? ron desantis or mike pence? >> [laughter] i'm sorry! >> i t...

In introducing a spending cap for individuals. the chancellor's announced £2.8 billion extra for social care next year, rising to 4.7 billion the year after. it's a very difficult decision to delay those reforms. we remain committed to them, but we recognise an immediate issue, particularly in hospitals, where we have 13 and a half thousand people who are ready to discharge, but we're not able to do so. that is having a knock—on effect in areas like ambulances and the flow through hospital and the prime cause of that, not the only cause, is around social care. so it's right that we're targe...