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has been chosen. speaking ahead of the climate summit, the un secretary—general antonio guterres has told the bbc that governments need to stop subsidising fossil fuel industries if the world is to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. britain's main political parties have blamed each otherfor a law that allowed the perpetrator of friday's terror attack on london bridge to leave prison early. a review of the release conditions for convicted offenders has been ordered. now it's time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the telegraph, who report 7a convicted terrorists are being vetted in the wake of last week's london bridge attack, and according to the paper's sources "a number" are expected to be sent back to prison. meanwhile the guardian says uk prime minister borisjohnson has been accused of twisting the facts
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of the london bridge attack in a "distasteful" attempt to turn it into an election issue, after he blamed labour for the release of the terrorist who killed two people. the times of malta reports maltese prime ministerjoseph muscat has announced he will step down in the new year, amid a crisis over over the inquiry into journalist daphne ca ruana galizia's death. he said he would ask the ruling labour party to begin the process to choose his successor on 12 january. in the times‘ business pages, mark carney is to become the united nations special envoy for climate action and finance when he steps down as governor of the bank of england. the announcement comes ahead of the un's annual climate change conference, which begins today in madrid. the financial times looks ahead to this week's opec meeting, as saudi arabia is planning to use its leading position in the cartel to buoy global oil prices before the $25 billion stock market debut of its state—owned oil giant. and finally, on the guardian
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website they are calling it an "apostrophe catastrophe" as a group dedicated to preserving the correct use of the punctuation mark has decided to close down. 96—year—old chairman john richards who started the apostrophe protection society in 2001 said "ignorance and laziness" had won. you disagree with that. with me is cornelia meyer, who's ceo of mrl corporation, a business consultancy firm. in the uk, nearly all the front pages have on it a picture of saskia jones, who has been revealed as the second victim, the 23—year—old girl, of the attack on london bridge on friday. a very emotional day today for those who have been impacted by this. it is very sad, and yesterday you had the
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gentleman, jack merritt, both of them were both working, they came from a criminology programme out of cambridge and were working with offenders and also with terrorist offenders to try and do you radicalise them. so this is truly, truly tragic. the telegraph looks in particular at the 7a convicted terrorists who are being vetted now, apparently, in the wake of what happened on friday. sources have told the telegraph a number of those may have to be sent back to prison. one has a ready been sent back, a cohort of another person. but that is the right thing to do, to look at who has been released early, and whether that is viable, andi
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early, and whether that is viable, and i think the authorities are doing exactly what author —— authority should do a case like that. in the meantime the guardian is saying that the prime minister has been accused of exploiting this in the midst of an election, winning votes. do you think that is fair, the article... well, the thing is, labour says there has not been enough money into the penal system, and they are right, and you could avoid things if one knew more about prisoners and so on. minister says, well, the... mr khan was released, the ability of mr khan being released came under labour guidance, thatis released came under labour guidance, that is fine, i think it is very sad, this is a solemn moment and this is a moment where the country needs to come together, we have had so needs to come together, we have had so much division over brexit and other things, so if anything this is a solemn moment and i think on either side, this must not be made a political thing. the words of the
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father of jack merritt were" please, no knee—jerk reaction, honour the work of our son and the other victim, by not having knee—jerk reactions, if you have new laws fine, but let's not do this in a knee—jerk faction. we should take guidance from the parents of these young victims. the times of malta is looking at the political crisis engulfing malta at the moment, many would say now at last the prime minister has agreed to resign, but some are saying actually this is not enough, protests continue, they want him to go immediately, joseph muscat, and not in the middle of january. when you look at the pictures out of malta, that is an angry population. it
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is very tragic, daphne caruana angry population. it is very tragic, daphne ca ruana galizia, angry population. it is very tragic, daphne caruana galizia, her death, dying ina daphne caruana galizia, her death, dying in a car bomb, that is the sort of thing you don't expect from a democracy, in a democracy to happen, and apparently the prime minister's chief of staff has been implicated in some ways, so, but thatis implicated in some ways, so, but that is not proven, and nobody is guilty until it is proven, but it is tricky times in maltese politics. i know little about maltese politics but it looks like a tricky time in maltese politics. a very difficult situation the prime minister finds himself in, he has had to step down and resign, not something he would wa nt to and resign, not something he would want to do or would agree to do, but he has been forced in many ways by those extremely emotional and relentless, determined protest on the part of those who say they need to see justice for that journalists who was assassinated, essentially.
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it is good to see civil action, good journalism is very important for democracy, and it's good to see that people care about good journalism. we have got a story, a lot more detail on that by the way, so look on our website if you want to find out more about what happened to daphne caruana out more about what happened to daphne ca ruana galizia out more about what happened to daphne caruana galizia and what has been unfolding in malta. the business pages of the times looks at the newjob for marconi, he has been governor of the bank of england for some time, very difficult time, when he first took the job he was persuaded, his arm was twisted quite substantially, by the... by the chancellor of the exchequer at the time, george osborne. this was before the referendum on our membership of the eu, he was therefore the global financial crisis as
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well. no, he was appointed in 2013... he was the head of the stability board of the central bank governors. an awful lot of experience in banking and finance. he is now going to translate that into climate change for the united nations. he has been one of the first ones are saying, look, the financial sector must be at the heart of tackling climate change. he is very much of a mind with the former head of the imf are now head of the european central bank, christine lagarde, his is the same thing. —— who says the same thing. when you look at big names, what do they finance, they —— he has a point. there was a big study done in switzerland, a big financial centre, at switzerland has a much bigger impact on climate change than its economy because the banks finance so many things. let's move onto the
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opec meeting while we are about climate change, because you are going to go to that. i have not missed one for 15 years. it is in vienna on thursday, the opec cartel, saudi arabia is looking to float a little bit of aramco on markets. the issue of climate change, fossil fuels, how does this work? it is difficult in the sense that, you know, opec is doing a very good job of trying to give a little bit of stability to the price, so it is not isolating too much because an oil price that oscillates too much is neither good for producers nor consumers. and climate change, what has started to bother me a little bit is, because i move in both circles, the climate change circles and the oil and gas circles, and those circles don't mix. on one hand you have the climate change people
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in while agreement with each other, then you have the oil people looking, gas people and energy people looking sceptical to a certain degree at what is happening, and these two need to start talking more if they are —— more effectively with each other. because we want to achieve the climate change goals, but at the same time we don't want the lights to go out. we don't want the lights to go out. we don't want the lights to go out. we don't want the lights go out, but from your perspective, what is being done in the oil and gas world about this?” think very briefly, when i look at some of the oil companies, the europeans, shell, bp, they are addressing it, notjust europeans, shell, bp, they are addressing it, not just for themselves but for their clients, their customers. thank you cornelia. hello there. we have more frosty weather around at the moment. not exactly in the same place as it was last night,
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mind you, because although we have this cold area of high pressure just drifting a little bit further south, allowing milder atlantic air to topple around the north of that, feeding its way into scotland and northern ireland. so for scotland, nowhere near as cold as it was last night. with the clearer guys for england and wales, this is where we will have a widespread frost to start the day today. plenty of sunshine at least to begin with. more cloud coming in on the south—westerly breezes for northern ireland and scotland. patchy rain for scotland, mainly highlands and ireland. this cloud may well work its way down through the irish sea and into northern parts of england and wales, leaving the sunnier skies towards the south and south—east. temperatures again, 6, 7 degrees, a bit milder in the far north of scotland where we have the rain. that's on the weather front there which will tend to push away through the evening. we still have high pressure dominating but it is centred more towards southern parts of england and wales. here there mayjust be enough moisture and light winds to give us mist and fog returning overnight and into tuesday. particularly across parts of east wales and the south—east of england where it could lingerfor a while. should be a dry day by tuesday across scotland, some sunshine here, and across
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northern ireland. sunny spells for england and wales outside of the mist and fog. temperatures again, temperatures 6—8 degrees. as we head to the middle part of the week, a weakening weather front heads into the north—east from the atlantic. the centre of the high drifts further in to continental europe but still light winds and clearer skies overnight to bring a pinch of frost for england and wales and probably mist and fog and low cloud, quite a dull day for some. not a great deal of rain on the weather front as it pushes across scotland towards cumbria. quite milder here but cold where it stays grey across central parts of england. by the time we get into thursday, the winds should be pushing away that mistiness and greyness and fog and instead, an active weather front will bring heavy rain into the hills of western scotland. some patchy rain elsewhere and dribs and drabs into northern ireland, the far north of england still dry and bright further south with sunshine but windy weather together with that rain in the
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north—west. keeping the temperatures up and blowing milder air across the whole of the country could make double figures even across south wales and south—west england. turning milderfrom the north over the weekend. ahead of that, more patchy frost and fog before it turns wetter and windier later on.
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good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: remembering the victims of the london bridge attack. cambridge graduates saskia jones and jack merritt will be honoured at a vigil in the capital. london bridge has now re—opened — we'll be there throughout the morning as the city reflects on another attack. one of the longest railway strikes in british history begins. south western railway passengers face a month of disruption as a 27—day walkout led by the rmt union starts today. i'll be speaking to both sides and getting the view of commuters. also on the programme — we continue our meet the leader series. the snp‘s nicola sturgeon joins us on the sofa. there's no silver lining for the everton manager. marco silva is under real pressure after another defeat.

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