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To arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. as the flavour of the challenge there but already we have had a taste of the problems as well because as the world's richest nations, the g20, have been gathering in rome and the leaders there were accused of failing to make the commitment needed. the british prime minister borisjohnson admitted minister boris johnson admitted the minister borisjohnson admitted the pledges there were too vague and not enough. the un secretary general said the time for diplomatic niceties was over. he called the glasg...

Now, after i suppose very nearly 50 years of trying to raise awareness of the growing climate and environmental crisis, i'm at last sensing a change in attitudes. when cop26 begins in glasgow tomorrow, quite literally it's the last—chance saloon. as the diplomatic caravan moves from rome's streets to scottish streets, borisjohnson still has a lot of arm twisting to do. do you like roma? i love rome. in glasgow, nobody is under estimating that challenge ahead. as we were telling you, the world meteorological organisation has just published a report stating that the last seven years have been ...

Celsius target alive, emissions need to half within the next decade and to reach net zero where the world's taking out as much carbon from the atmosphere as it is putting into it by the middle of the century. the 200 countries being represented here at cop26 are being asked for their specific plans to meet that goal. the success of this conference will be based partly on countries' willingness to outdo each other when it comes to emission reduction. the uk's own net zero strategy has been widely praised. government's promised to fully our electricity display —— electricity supply and to ph...

Current and future generations, reinforcing, frankly, the need for urgent action now. well, helen mountford �*s vice president for climate and economics at the world resources institute and spoke to my college christian fraser was at the cop26 in glasgow about the devastating impact of climate change. we have been seeing this, flood events, fire, wiping out communities and towns. we are seeing that already at 1.1 celsius was a people get so much worse for each action of a degree we go up and the pressure really is on now, here in glasgow, to keep local warming at levels of no more than 1.5 c...

Cop26, i'd love to hearfrom you. i'm on twitter. well, you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... australia opens up to international travel after imposing some of the world's strictest border controls. the israeli prime minister, yitzhak rabin, the architect of the middle east peace process, has been assassinated. a 27—year—old jewish man has been arrested and an extremist jewish organisation has claimed responsibility for the killing. at polling booths throughout the country, they voted on an historic day for australia. as the results came in, it was clear —...