Month: November 2021

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China and India will have to explain themselves to climate-vulnerable nations, COP26 President Alok Sharma has said as the summit ends. It comes after the two nations pushed for the language on coal to change from “phase

Getty Images A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases. The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more

PA Media The husband of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended his hunger strike after 21 days. Richard Ratcliffe has been protesting outside the Foreign Office, demanding the government does more to secure his wife’s release from Iran. He said he did not want to “go out in an ambulance” but to “walk out with

Getty Images The COP26 summit has passed its scheduled finishing time, as negotiations on a deal to avert the worst impacts of climate change continue into Saturday. Sticking points include subsidies for coal and other fossil fuels, and financial help to poorer nations. On Friday, envoys from small island nations threatened by rising sea levels

Getty Images While many European countries are seeing steep rises in coronavirus cases and preparing to step up Covid restrictions, the UK has been going in the other direction. Experts say differences in levels of immunity and people’s behaviour are the likely explanations. The UK had been seeing the highest rates of cases and deaths

Getty Images The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is entering its final day, amid growing fears that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is unlikely to be met. UN Secretary General António Guterres bluntly told the Associated Press news agency that goal was on “life support”. He said the summit would probably not

PA Media The UK has come together for Armistice Day, a year after ceremonies were disrupted by the pandemic. Remembrance in 2020 was reduced by Covid rules with people encouraged to stay home and remember the fallen. With no restrictions in place, people observed a two-minute silence at cenotaphs across the UK to commemorate those

EPA Lives are at risk because patients are facing unacceptably long waits for a 999 response, UK paramedics say. Average waits for emergency callouts for problems such as heart attacks and strokes are taking more than twice as long as they should in England. Targets are being missed elsewhere in the UK too, with reports

Getty Images Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit. The document says vulnerable nations must get more help to cope with the deadly impacts of global warming. It also says countries should submit long-term strategies for reaching

Reuters Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow – urging nations to “pull out all the stops” to limit warming. The first draft of an agreement setting out how countries will cut emissions to avoid temperature rises of above 1.5C is due to be published later. The agreement –

Getty Images Frontline NHS staff in England will have to be fully vaccinated against Covid to protect patients – and the NHS, the health secretary has announced. A deadline is expected to be set for 1 April next year to give unvaccinated staff time to get both doses, Sajid Javid told the Commons. About 103,000

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man who was injured while caving in the Brecon Beacons on Saturday has been rescued. After he was lifted to the surface on a stretcher, he was clapped and cheered by rescuers before being taken to

Getty Images Vulnerable countries at COP26 say rich nations are pushing back against their attempts to secure compensation for the damage caused by climate change. Poorer countries see it as critical that money for loss and damage be part of negotiations this week. Negotiators agreed in Paris in 2015 to address the issue, but there