justin rowlatt, thank ou autumn of last year. justin rowlatt, thank you very _ autumn of last year.wlatt, thank you very much _ autumn of last year. justin rowlatt, thank you very much indeed. - labour is to announce later that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge two—and—a—half years ago but is now expected to say it's making the change because the economic outlook is different. 0ur political correspondent peter saull has this report. rachel! applause and cheering. this was the labour conference of 2021. back then, the party was trailing in the polls. so, step forward the shadow chancellor with a policy to grab the headlines. i can announce today labour's climate investment pledge. an additional £28 billion of capital investment in our country's green transition for each and every year of this decade. applause. it became a central plank of labour's offer, with the money earmarked to bring about a green industrial revolution. but last summer the spending promise was watered down with rachel re

here�*s our climate editor, justin rowlatt.battery. the hydroelectric plant, the biggest engineering project in the highlands since the �*40s, will store excess renewable power. so, here is the plan. they are going to build a dam 92 metres high and 600 metres long, across the end of the glen to create a huge reservoir. but here is the really clever bit. the whole project is designed to exploit the key weakness of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. they are great when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. then they often generate so much electricity that the price goes to zero. in fact, there are wind farms here in scotland that are sometimes paid not to supply electricity to the grid. at times like that, turbines will pump water up to the new reservoir. when it�*s dark or the wind isn�*t blowing and electricity is scarce, the water can be released, spinning the turbines to generate enough electricity to power three million uk homes for 2h hours. the benefits are that the consumer, the uk consumers, are going to

justin rowlatt, bbc news, the scottish highlands.e killing of a man during the conflict in northern ireland more than 50 years ago. three other former soldiers are also facing prosecution for attempted murder. the decisions were announced after a police investigation into the activities of an undercover army unit known as the military reaction force. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page reports. it was this bbc panorama programme in 2013 which led to a police inquiry into the military reaction force. members of the small, secretive army units patrolled belfast in unmarked cars at the height of the conflict known as the troubles. it's not revenge that we're after, but it's the truth. pat mcveigh was the eldest of six children who lost their father, patrick. he was shot dead near their home. if my father had have been a gunman, i wouldn't be sitting here today. i would have just said, "well, you live by the sword, you die by the sword." and that would have been the end of it. but he wasn't a gunman, and he doesn't deserve to have his c

here's our climate editor justin rowlatt.opened in a blaze of publicity back in 1984. i have great pleasure in formally opening the joint european torus. applause the ceremony may not have gone exactly as planned... archive: eventually, the cord was discovered... ..but the ambition of the project was stellar. its aim was to recreate the nuclear fusion reaction that powers the sun and all the stars. so, this is the reactor. when research was under way, the core was almost certainly the hottest place in the universe. scientists would heat hydrogen gas to temperatures of more than 200 million degrees celsius... ..to try and get the atoms to fuse together. that fusion would create helium and a huge burst of energy. the hope was to harness that energy to create potentially unlimited supplies of carbon—free electricity. thejet lab did not achieve that, but during its a0 years of operation, it transformed the world's understanding of the physics of nuclearfusion. jet's pioneering work will be taken forward at a new and even bigger f

here�*s justin rowlatt.great pleasure in formally opening thejoint european torus. the ceremony may not have gone exactly as planned... archive: eventually, - the cord was discovered... ..but the ambition of the project was stellar. its aim was to recreate the nuclear fusion reaction that powers the sun and all the stars. so, this is the reactor. when research was under way, the core was almost certainly the hottest place in the universe. scientists would heat hydrogen gas to temperatures of more than 200 million degrees celsius... ..to try and get the atoms to fuse together. that fusion would create helium and a huge burst of energy. the hope was to harness that energy to create potentially unlimited supplies of carbon—free electricity. thejet lab did not achieve that, but during its 40 years of operation, it transformed the world�*s understanding of the physics of nuclear fusion. jet�*s pioneering work will be taken forward at a new and even bigger fusion reactor being built in the south of france — though

justin rowlatt, bbc newsm the scottish highlands.aving to wait more than 62 days to start lifesaving treatment. 0ur health editor hugh pym is here. how concerning is this? it is an absolutely key target for the nhs, somebody needing cancer treatment after a referral should start it within 62 days. on the percentage within the target, which is 85%, has been steadily falling. you can see this chart for england. in blue, the numbers who start their treatment within a 62 days. that is pretty static. it's the numbers waiting longer, who didn't start within 62 days, in red, which is the real concern. macmillan cancer support, one of the charities, said the figures are shocking and a desperate situation for patients and theirfamilies. nhs england make the point that what you can see from the graph is that the numbers have been going up and up in terms of the numbers actually being treated, and there was industrial action last year. but i think the problem is this starting treatment. in scotland, wales and northern ireland have had similar i

our climate editor, justin rowlatt, explains the significance of the 1.5 celsius figure.ned to be an arbitrary boundary at which we avoid the worst effects of climate change. there was a landmark un paper in 2018 which found it would be really significantly greater impacts at 2 degrees and urged all efforts to be made to try and keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees which was also the target set at a landmark climate summit in paris in 2015, world leaders agreed they would make all possible efforts to keep it to 1.5 so nudging as close as we are and having passed it for a single year does not mean the boundary has been passed, it is a longer term average, ten years or more above 1.5 to breach the paris commitment but for a single year, it shows just how close to the boundary we are getting and when you drill down into the figures you see just how dramatic the temperatures have been over the past 12 months. eight of those months were record high temperatures for those months, the highest august, september, october and november, all the way through to january and sea tempera

our climate editor, justin rowlatt, explains the significance of the 1.5 celsius figure. 1.5 is reckonedundary, an arbitrary boundary at which we avoid the worst effects of climate change. there was a landmark un paper back in 2018 which found there would be really significantly greater impact at 2 degrees and urged all efforts to be made to try and keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, 1.5 was also the target set at a landmark climate summit in paris in 2015, world leaders agreed they would make all possible efforts to keep it to 1.5 so nudging as close as we are to 1.5 and having passed it for a single year does not mean the boundary has been passed, it is a longer term average, ten years or more above 1.5 to breach the paris commitment but for a single year, it shows just how close to the boundary we are getting and when you drill down into the figures you see just how dramatic the temperatures have been over the past 12 months. eight of those months were record high temperatures for those months, the highest august, september, october and november, all the way through to january and

now —— justin rowlatt there in cardiff.ur party being accused of a major u—turn. the party is to announce, that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge two and a half years ago. sir keir starmer is expected to say it's making the change, because the economic outlook is different now. here's our political correspondent peter saull. rachel. applause and cheering this was the labour conference of 2021. back then, the party was trailing in the polls. so step forward the shadow chancellor with a policy to grab the headlines. i can announce today labour's climate investment pledge. an additional £28 billion of capital investment in our country's green transition for each and every year of this decade. applause it became a central plank of labour's offer, with the money earmarked to bring about a green industrial revolution. but last summer, the spending promise was watered down, with rachel reeves saying that they wouldn't spend £28 billion a

justin rowlatt, bbc news, the scottish highlands.nt comes on the same day that the opposition leader here in britain sir keir starmer confirmed that he is ditching a pledge to spend twenty eight billion pounds a year on the green transition if the party wins the general election. -- 20 £8 —— 20 £8 billion a year. environmental groups have called it short—sighted, and conservatives have described it as another starmer major u—turn on a key flagship policy. but speaking to the bbc�*s political editor chris mason, sir keir said the target had to be scaled back because the conservatives had crashed the economy. keir starmer, let's be clear. what are you binning today and what are you keeping? since we've announced the green prosperity plan, we've made a number of very important commitments — like green steel, so we continue to make steel in this country, giga factories, so we can do the next generation of cars, a national wealth fund, so that we can have investment coming in for the jobs of the future, and green energy, which will be a p

we'rejoined now by our climate editor, justin rowlatt who's in cardiff.teady increase of global temperatures and a slight exception this year— temperatures and a slight exception this year which is the weather fluctuation that happens in the pacific— fluctuation that happens in the pacific ocean where winds change direction — pacific ocean where winds change direction and draw warm air up to the surface — direction and draw warm air up to the surface which gives extra power to global— the surface which gives extra power to global temperatures and raising them _ to global temperatures and raising them about 0.2 degrees which is why we are _ them about 0.2 degrees which is why we are seeing record—breaking temperatures. that's going to continue. _ temperatures. that's going to continue, so we expect this year, 2024. _ continue, so we expect this year, 2024. to— continue, so we expect this year, 2024. to be — continue, so we expect this year, 2024, to be another exceptionally hot year _ 2024, to be another exceptionally hot year and possibly another record y