good evening i'm tulsen toilet and this is your sports news where we start with football. manchester united remain on course for their first trophy since 2017 after a 3—0 win over nottingham forest in the first leg of their efl cup semifinal. jim lumsden watched the action. forest fans would have flinched at the memory of manchester united's last visit. united were now in the running forfour trophies. marcus rashford with 20 goals to his name made it 21. forest were strangers to the ball for a while until they scored on the break.

var beg to differ. i disallowed gold let the forest fire. united are a better side since the new dutch manager and they were brought into the comfort zone with a second goal. they got three past forest at old trafford and looks likely to mirror that feat and it was bruno fernandes who added a third and fired his side to uphold trip to wembley. uefa are planning to introduce some changes to the nations league to make it �*a more compelling' competition. europe's football governing body hopes that the introduction of quarterfinals and promotion play—offs will make it a better tournament. the new expanded format will begin in september 202a. after russian flags were waved and security guards allegedly threatened. russian and belarusian flags have been banned by the tournament. on the court, nine—time champion novak djokovic is into the semi—finals,

after sweeping aside russia's andrey rublev in straight sets. the serbian channelled his emotions into a ruthless win over his fifth seeded opponent in melbourne. djokovic was the only major champion in the men's quarterfinals, and is favourite for the title as he chases a record—equalling 22nd grand slam. poland's magda linette is a name that keeps hitting the headlines in melbourne. the world number a5, had never previously been beyond the third round of any grand slam, and is into the semi finals. she beat karlolina pliskova to continue her dream run. and alfie hewett reached the semi—finals of the men's wheelchair singles by beating gordon reid before the british pair made a winning start to the defence of their doubles title. there's a familiar tale of penalty heartbreak. england are out of the hockey world cup after they blew a two goal lead to lose to germany in a shoot—out in their quarterfinal in india.

they led the quarterfinal quite come to live up until a final two minutes but the german came back to take the game to penalties and ansell missed in the penalty shoot—out in germany in advance to the semifinals where they will play australia. memories of the world cup are just about still with us, and maybe it feels like football is everywhere. but what if i told you there was still one country left on the planet without a team? it's the sunny marshall islands but they've been left in the dark when it comes to football, until now. sanny rudravajhala has more. welcome to football's final frontier. halfway between australia and hawaii, slap bang in the middle of the pacific ocean, lie the marshall islands, population 60,000, and out of 195 nations on earth, they are the last without a football team. but all that is about to change and it is being spearheaded by a man from oxford.

this has been a whirlwind, so, for me, it only started in december, so i haven't been out yet, but the good thing about it is that the fa staff board have been fantastic. newsreel: the s-szs - with the hydrogen bomb tucked in its belly is airborne. to many, the marshall islands are familiar for one reason. the legacy of nuclear testing in the 1940s and �*50s remains, but its people are keen to look towards the future. young kids have gained so much interest in sport. it's just sad to see that there's no league being developed and no training. facilities especially. we just need a lot of funding in order to get soccer balls, uniforms, the basic stuff that you should have. their surroundings may be idyllic but they may also have a say.

this is a nation most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. by 2050 most of the islands may disappear. the safety of my children and yours hangs in the balance. this will be the decade that determines the rest of human history. maybe football can change the world but it could bring the worlds gaze maybe football cant change the world but it could bring the worlds gaze to the marshall islands. we want to be part of world cup, what we want to be part of mainstream football. i think in ten years there's no reason that wouldn't happen. the locals are dreaming big and a new dawn is on the horizon. the horizon. sanny rudravajhala, bbc news. that's all the sport for now.

we face a massive dilemma. last year was officially the uk's warmest year on record. london was burning california's fuel choked, highly flammable forests, combined with drier conditions linked to climate change. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. national records have been broken in eight countries and regional- records in three others. climate change is making extreme weather more likely. so, tackling it is more urgent than ever, but... prices are rising at their fastest rates for a0 years. food and fuel, and energy. all of us have seen the cost of living going up. - cost of living. we buy less and we buy cheaper products. - if they're not going to give us the wage rises, we can't compete with inflation. the uk has been trying to lead the global effort to tackle climate change. it's time for humanity to grow up.

but climate change is far from the prime minister's only concern. our country is facing a profound economic crisis. but warnings about the effects of climate change are getting louder. we are on a fast track to climate disaster. but climate change is far from the prime minister's only concern. climate activists say there is no time to waste. if we don't end our contribution to climate change, we will see more frequent and extreme weather events. so, here's the question can britain afford to tackle climate change? let's start this journey with a phrase you need to understand. net zero. when we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide. some of it is taken up

by plants as they grow. the oceans absorb a fair bit, but the rest goes up into the atmosphere. and carbon dioxide is a bit special. it traps the sun's heat. it's why we don't freeze during the night. but the more we put into the atmosphere, the warmer the world gets, which is where net zero comes in. the idea is we need to reduce emissions as much as we can, but at the moment there are lots of things which we just can't make carbon free, things like concrete or aircraft. so, scientists and engineers are trying to find ways to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and store them away forever. the aim is the net result will be zero emissions, hence the name net zero. and back in 2019, the then prime minister theresa may made this promise. we will be ending our contribution to climate change by 2050, and legislating for a net zero

emissions target. borisjohnson continued the effort and made climate policies a cornerstone of his premiership. the uk government has decided to become the world leader in low cost, clean power generation. cheaper than coal, cheaper than gas. and all the major parties have put the net zero principle at the heart of their strategies. it's a rare consensus in british politics. aberdeen is the oil and gas capital of europe. let us resolve today to now make it the net zero capital of the world. move trillions of dollars, yen, euros and pounds out of fossil fuels and into renewables. 100% clean power by 2030. so what's the problem? well, a group of vocal tory mps say we are moving too fast. nobody knows what this cost. everyone says, i love it. it's a great idea. here's the bill of it. and then the public starts saying,

"ah, why are we doing this when the uk is a 1% output of c02 and china is 30% and growing?" the net zero scrutiny group was set up by two prominent eurosceptics, craig mckinley and steve baker, who's a junior minister in the new government. young people in my constituency are at once learning to drive and also demanding green measures. i think they're going to be very disappointed when they discover they can't own a car, can't go on a holiday. we'll have expensive heating that comes up to a lower temperature. they've been saying the net zero plans are too big, too hasty and most important, too expensive for voters to stomach. they claim to have up to 50 supporters in parliament, but wouldn't give us their names. the net zero scrutiny group says it isn't questioning whether climate change is real, but its leaders are closely associated with a think tank operating out of that building over there, the global warming policy foundation.

now, it has been questioning the scientific consensus on climate change for years. the group says climate policy is a ticking time bomb in uk politics. we've been down this road before with brexit and that's why i'm warning that we'll have a terrible political crisis if we don't sort it out. sound familiar? and guess who's taken up the issue? we want a referendum on whether the net zero agenda makes sense. what are our demands? a petition calling for such a referendum was submitted to parliament last year, but it got fewer than 25,000 signatures. no major political party supports the idea either. nigel farage has made his career questioning established consensus so small as his campaign may be. is he onto something? how's things? things are all right if you can afford it.

why a referendum on net zero? one of the reasons i've got involved in this debate is this. we've been busy for the last 15 years. we are exporting manufacturing jobs by having some of the most expensive electricity against america, against europe, against obviously the far east and our competitors. so we exportjobs and we import energy. we could produce our own energy, which interestingly would be at a lower c02 output for the world. all i'm arguing is this. you know, am i saying that we should not move towards sensible forms of renewable energy now? i'm not saying that. what i am saying is that if we think by closing down british manufacturing, if we think by not producing our own gas, coal that we still need for steel, etc., that we're somehow saving the world. it's a delusion and a very expensive. we led the world into the industrial revolution that created this kind of huge production of carbon dioxide. why don't we leave the world out of it with new clean technology? why don't we lead the world out

of it with new clean technology? become world beaters because you in a new industry, because number one, you can't do it at the moment without the back—up of substantial amounts of fossil fuel. and therefore the logic is, rather than importing it, we may as well produce it ourselves. the point i'm making in this discussion with you is not the point global warming is a nonsense, is not that i'm saying we should ignore our responsibilities to future generations. i'm not saying any of that. what i'm saying is what we're doing in the name of combating it is making us uncompetitive and is not actually, in many cases, lowering global c02. we've actually that's because we switched from coal to gas, which is a much lower carbon carbon content, and we've started using lots of offshore wind. there are a couple of things. so let's on the broader point,

you say we're begging ourselves, arguably, we're creating new industries, new renewable, clean industries and exporting and beginning to export the skills we've got here in the uk abroad. who's building the offshore wind turbines in america? british engineers. i tell you what, we're not exporting electricity, we're importing it. can you believe it? we import electricity, but that makes a lot of sense. what the ukraine war has showed us actually is when it comes to energy, food, the things without which life, normal life of any kind can't continue. there is an argument, even if it's a teensy bit more expensive. there is an argument for self sufficiency. on not being dependent on foreign regimes. it's so interesting. mr farage clearly thinks he's on to something. he clearly thinks that he can mobilize millions of people against net zero. so, you know, is a movement forming?

is the momentum beginning to gather? i mean, to be honest, i'm not so sure. but let's be honest, the political elites here in britain massively underestimated the popularity of brexit. so could the call for a net zero referendum become the springboard for a political movement? how are you doing? esther webberfrom politico has been following the story closely. it does seem at the moment that there's been no kind of real breakthrough kind of moment that has seen the campaign explode or really hit home. so if you can contrast what's happened here with, say, the election in france, which was driven a lot by petrol prices. so actually you've written about the parallels between brexit and net zero. what do you think they are? first of all, you

have the personnel. so there's a kind of subset of the conservative party who are questioning how these policies are made and who has consented to them just as there was with brexit. so the campaigners are really looking at lower income voters and trying to sort of position them against what they call the kind of cosy elite consensus. and they're trying to use the same kind of wedge argument on net zero. has net zero got the traction that brexit had? you see in polls, there's sort of general and rising support for the idea of tackling climate change by the government. but it's more of a split when you drill down into people's views on how those things should be paid for. and that's the kind of area that the sceptics

are looking to get into. do you think the energy crisis that was brought about by the ukraine war, do you think that will dilute the commitment of politicians in westminster to net zero? what's really interesting, i think, about the dynamic of this current conservative party is we've had a lot of new mps elected in seats that had never been tory before, the so—called red wall. and people are seeing that perhaps those employees are going to be sceptical of net zero. in fact, it's more mixed than that. and a lot of those employees see the net zero agenda as key to creating newjobs in places like the northeast. well, the net zero sceptics have

certainly plugged into some serious concerns the energy crisis, inflation, the cost of living. what about the costs of not zero? the costs of not decarbonizing our economy? that is certainly what lots of climate activists argue. hey, how are you doing? great to see you. good to see you. thanks so much. nice electric car. fantastic. this lady is an energy and climate analyst. so, we are in the middle of a massive cost of living crisis. is this really the time to be pouring money into going net zero? fossilfuels, gas, oil, coal. inherently volatile markets. they cost an absolute fortune and they've driven up household bills by almost double already. that's simply unacceptable. fossil fuels are actually driving the cost of living crisis, and they're working

against our national interest. what would we see if we didn't go net zero? if we don't go net zero, we don't end our contribution to climate change. and if we don't end our contribution to climate change, we will see more frequent and extreme weather events. we will see more extreme heat flooding, which is going to cause untold damage to human lives, livelihoods, agriculture, biodiversity, our infrastructure, our economies. the reality is, is that every fraction of a degree matters. the sooner that we can end our contribution to climate change, the fewer of these devastating events that we'll have to tolerate. how much would it cost us not to tackle climate change? there are economic costs and they're human costs. we know that 200,000 homes and businesses on the coastline of england alone are at risk

of rising sea levels by 2050. and this is already happening. but that's a human cost. but we will also see a cost to our economy. it's been estimates of around 7% of our gdp by the end of the century through climate impacts. you say it's worth the cost worth investing in net zero. but the truth is, what is the point? if other countries around the world much bigger emitters than britain, britain's just 1% of global emissions, other countries aren't making the effort. what is the point of britain making the investment? last year alone, china built more offshore wind capacity in one year in 2021 than the uk as a whole over a decade. we are in a position where we can actually get ahead, develop the technologies, develop the net zero dividend not only for our citizens, but that we can then export across the world. it's a win win.

but what people like nigel farage say is, look, there's no democratic mandate. the public haven't been asked if they want to make these investments in tackling climate change, have they? there absolutely is a public mandate on this. we've seen it time and time again. climate change and environment is consistently in the top three concerns of the british public going legislating for net zero. going for net zero policies was on the front page of the conservative party manifesto in 2019, which the public voted for. and we've polled the public on... hold on labour and the lib dems all support net zero as well. there isn't a choice for the public. there was no one that they could vote for if they didn't support net zero. we've polled the public and we've seen that actually. rather than wasting time on a referendum by by a factor of 2 to one, theyjust want to see the government to get on with delivering their manifesto commitment to implement net zero. i mean, look around you now. i mean, the truth is these wind turbines aren't turning. renewable energy isn't

a reliable source of power. the point of a future electricity system, is that it's diversified. you have a huge range of sources. you've got onshore wind, you've got offshore wind, you've got solar, you'll have hydrogen. you depending on the policy choices that are made, you may even have some some nuclear, you may have some abated gas. but the reality is, is that our electrical engineers, these are serious people who have been working on this issue for a very long time, and they know what they're talking about. they're notjust some hippies protesting about climate change. they are saying that they can run on 100% renewables by 2035, which is the government target. so who are we to argue? even if we do transition to net zero along the way, we're going to need to use some fossil fuels. yeah. so why not use domestic fossil fuels? why not exploit the resources in the north sea, the shale gas that we've got under our feet here? the north sea is a very mature basin. frankly, there's not really much more we can squeeze out of it.

this isn't the 1980s any more where we had prolific supplies of gas. there are not 50 years worth of shale gas beneath our feet. actually, the best estimates say around six months worth at best. and to get at that is going to be hugely expensive, hugely disruptive, and the public simply don't want it. as the bbc�*s climate editor, i'm often responsible for bringing some pretty terrifying warnings, warnings about the future of the places where we've built our lives, built our communities, which is why i've come to east yorkshire. this place already experiences some of the worst coastal erosion in europe.

up to ten metres of coastline vanishes into the sea in a bad year. this is happening for a number of different reasons, but the rising sea levels and more extreme weather climate change will bring are likely to make the problem worse. now how we get to net zero is an open question. depending on who you ask, you might get a different answer. but what most politicians from all the main political parties agree is the need to get there. and the science is clear on this. reaching net zero and fast is our best hope of tackling climate change.

hello. after a week of weather contrasts so far, thursday brings a bit more evenness to the weather across the uk and most will be dry. some decent sunny spells as well, particularly in the west. now, the reason for the change is that the weather fronts, which brought the heavy rain through the evening across east anglia and southeast, will have cleared into france overnight, allowing this ridge of high pressure to even things out. now, it doesn't mean we won't be without frost and ice, particularly across central and western areas, but temperatures still will be nowhere near as low as they have been through recent nights. a few mist and fog patches in the west, too, but for the vast majority, it is going to be a dry and sunny day. northern scotland will see a few showers and across south east scotland into eastern england, this is where we'll see some showers come and go throughout the day. not everyone will see them. many will stay dry and still a lot brighter across east anglia and the southeast compared with the grim conditions of wednesday. but here and across many eastern counties, it will be quite a blustery day. but temperature—wise, as i said, we're evening things out. 6—9 degrees across much of the uk, which is not far off where we should be for this stage in late january.

now, as we go into thursday evening and overnight, there will be some showers across eastern england, perhaps tracking a bit further westwards, especially for northern england, most of them will be dry. partly clear skies, a chance of some fog across scotland, northern ireland and northwest england, and it will be a little bit colder as well. more widespread frost to take us into friday morning with a risk of ice where showers have continued. but if anything, friday should be another pleasant day for most patchy cloud across england, a bit more in the west compared with thursday. and then later on, northwest scotland and northern ireland will see cloud increase, some rain into the western isles before the day is out. and temperatures similar to thursday's values with lighter winds. into saturday, though, more cloud on the scene. there will be sunshine in particular eastern scotland, southern counties of england. but this sort of cloud here with patchy rain, this is a weather front which is just toppling round our area of high pressure because it's within the area of high pressure — not much in the way of rain on it. it will clear through off into the near continent. but another batch of more active weather fronts into sunday will push into the northwest.

we start with the frost again, particularly across some southern areas. but sunday, there'll be some sunny spells across england and wales especially, but increasing cloud to scotland, northern ireland, heavy rain and strengthening winds. gale force winds, if not gusts of wind in excess of 60 mph by the end of the day. will lift temperatures up, though, compared to the next few days, but it will feel cooler in that breeze.

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