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a this was the rosette we won a national last week. these changes look nice. feeling really solid. to come from nowhere on the dressage team, helping produce young horses to dressage, it was great to see. it was a bit different. goodbye! it was great, i can try and do well and tries inspired people, and if you work and the opportunities will come. i would you work and the opportunities will come. iwould be you work and the opportunities will come. i would be lying if i said that i would love to get to the olympics, it would be most riders dream, olympics or championships at least. i will keep working hard and see where it takes me. one to watch for the future. that's all from sportsday. just time to tell you before i go, celtic lead i—o just time to tell you before i go, celtic lead 1—0 at salisbury, arsenal also i—o celtic lead 1—0 at salisbury, arsenal also 1—0 up. more on bbc news throughout the evening. but now
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on sports day, goodbye. scientists and representatives from 195 governments are meeting in south korea this week to agree a report on what countries should do to introduce even more ambitious global warming targets. they want to drop the agreed limit to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre—industrial temperatures. it represents a tightening of the paris agreement target. my colleague jane hill spoke to sir david king former chief scientific advisor under both tony blair and gordon brown. he said that achieving the lower target was critical to the future of the planet. there is no doubt in my mind, there was one of those pushing very hard at the agreement to get the 1.5, if possible. i think if we wander up
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towards two and above, it becomes extraordinarily challenging to see how we can manage the risks to humanity going forward. i think the ip cc report that is shortly coming out is going to set out, i'm sure, how we can achieve this target, the 1.5 degrees target. it is critically important that we do but let me say, we are not even close to achieving that now. in other words, our burning fossil fuels continues and greenhouse gasses are still increasing, they are not on the decrease. 2015 was the paris agreement. if we are not even close, thatis agreement. if we are not even close, that is because of lack of political will, public inertia, the reasons? political will, i think, will, public inertia, the reasons? politicalwill, ithink, has evaporated since paris, as if making the agreement was enough. but, yes, public as well. i think other issues have raised their heads, in this
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country brexit, perhaps. but i think it is such a serious issue, i'm going to say, what we do over the next ten years to prepare for this crisis is going to determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. we are talking about crisis time. as if there was an object that was going to slam into the planet in ten years' time, as if we had that warning, we would be doing nothing else but trying to divert this away from us. that's the situation we're in today. it is alarming, the picture you outline. as ever, with this issue, does it not need to be joined as ever, with this issue, does it not need to bejoined up thinking? lots of big, rich economies need to be working together on this, don't they? it's in a bid, for example, britain saying we'll have all these targets, it's got to bejoined up
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political thinking, that has to come from the top, doesn't it? it has to come from the top and in paris it was very much driven, i will say the agreement was driven through by what happened during the blair brown period and then the 2008 parliament in britain, we were leading the way. who is leading the way now? california, we are seeing they have a net zero emissions target sooner is 2040. that is so interesting, one single us state, a very rich, powerful us state, but you're saying they are doing, they doing more than they are doing, they doing more than the rest of the us administration? yes, much more. iwould the rest of the us administration? yes, much more. i would also give some credit to china. they have really adopted a policy towards reducing emissions and they are succeeding. however, just across the border in india, india has been attempting and declaring that they would move towards solar and wind but they are using more and more coal each month as they go forward
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in time to meet the commitment to get electricity to every person. so one of the big challenges... which is also a fundamental part of decent living, it is hard to go to a country like that and say, you can't do that because we need to reach this figure of 1.5. but we are in the situation now where solar and wind are cheaper than coal for most parts of the world, so at least it's competitive and if you're running out to small villages, what you want is energy for those villages, you don't want to have to run the grid crossed every small village in india 01’ crossed every small village in india or africa. now, all of this requires good thinking and our foreign office said our policies to deal with this and ouraid programme said our policies to deal with this and our aid programme is very much assisting those countries to move on those directions. but i'm saying it's not just those directions. but i'm saying it's notjust the developed world, we've got all these emerging countries and that is where the major problem is. beyond 100 days coming upfor major problem is. beyond 100 days coming up for you injust a moment,
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but first, look at the weather. the weekend is just around the corner and the weather is going to be chopping and changing a lot. we have had some big contrast in the temperatures on friday, calling the north of the uk where is in the south we will have warmer weather. dubbed a school in the north. the battle between warmer air in the south and the colder air in the north atlantic takes place with this weather fronts moving across the uk now, you can see the colder air moving to scotland and northern ireland where is in the south the error is coming out of the south so here it will be quite a bit warmer. relatively speaking, it won't be that balmy. on friday morning, we will probably see temperatures of 10-12 in will probably see temperatures of 10—12 in some of the major cities across central and southern england, possibly wales, to, whereas glasgow and edinburgh around four degrees, and edinburgh around four degrees, and a touch of frost here and there
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ata and a touch of frost here and there at a time. the weather front, the battle ground between contrasting temperatures, right across central pa rt temperatures, right across central part of the uk on friday so in the south we hang on to the warmer weather, are still coming in from the south, where as in glasgow, edinburgh, belfast, stornoway, fresh atla ntic edinburgh, belfast, stornoway, fresh atlantic air coming in. but sunny here. if you don't mind the chill in the air, it will be a beautiful day, just a couple of sprinkles carried ona just a couple of sprinkles carried on a breeze here and there. cloudy across the lake district, yorkshire and wales, navy spots of rain, beautiful weather across east anglia and the south—east, hints of indian summer and the south—east, hints of indian summer here, 22 possibly in london. midlands cloudier, 18 or so, and fresher conditions for northern ireland, 10—12 in that sort of range. a huge change on the way for the south on saturday. saturday not a great day, windy, wet, chilly,
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southern counties seeing heavy rain, from 22 down to 13 from london. but for belfast, it looks like it will be fairly sunny on saturday. sunday, again, changing once again, improving in the south of the uk, with sunshine, where is in the north some cloud and rain. at colder everywhere, and, by sunday. you're watching beyond 100 days. the fbi report is in and senators are reaching a verdict on brett kavanaugh. and the early signs are that donald trump's nominee for the supreme court will be confirmed by next week. democrats cry foul play saying the investigation provides more questions than answers. it looks to be the product of an incomplete investigation that was limited, perhaps by the white house, i don't know. but two key republicans say they are satisfied that the fbi was thorough and found no evidence of sexual assault.
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also on the programme. more denials from moscow but the evidence the russian state was involved in the salisbury poisoning continue to grow. we now learn that four russian intelligence officers attempted to hack the lab in the netherlands that was investigating it.
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