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of climate change. exactly. we can feel the effects everywhere in a different way. i think that is very clear on how that is in every corner of the world. and you know, what we need here is some kind of north star, like the 1.5. so it's a set of indicators that we couldn't agree at this cop. and of course, we need to significantly scale up finance on this issue to help those countries and those peoples that are the most affected. at the wwf so much of what you focus on has to do with nature. what would a north star for nature look like? well, of course we want a nature positive world by 2030. we need to be halting and reversing the destruction of nature. so i think that that we saw, again, some positive signals.
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there were many pledges connected to nature on mangroves. there was a mangrove breakthrough. there were pledges, as you mentioned, in the pacific in the formal text, we saw some recognition of nature. we have been seen that since the cop in glasgow. it's time to now operationalize those pledges and those promises and those good intentions because now we have a framework, the global biodiversity framework that came out of kunming last year and we need to connect that with this convention here to maximise the benefits of nature to society. so this is very, very important. and we also saw a call for countries to reduce deforestation by 2030, to eliminate deforestation, and we think that's important. in glasgow we had a pledge that was outside the formal negotiations and here it made it to the negotiation somehow. briefly, if you don't mind, but you're from brazil. the cop30 will be hosted in brazil, actually in the amazon. what's the significance of that, especially given the importance of the amazon for our climate? i think that, you know, when we talk about common but differentiated
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responsibilities in this process, it's very clear that, you know, as the countries that are consumers and producers of oil, the countries that harbour resources such as the amazon, and brazil has the most of it, they have the responsibility to protect this very fragile ecosystem that it's about to get to a tipping point. so it's key that we do that. and i think that, you know, one thing that was mentioned is the troika between brazil, azerbaijan and the uae. and now they are on emission 1.5. it's really clear that they take that seriously and create the enabling conditions to deliver on the way to the cop in brazil. fernanda carvalho, head of climate and energy policy at the wwf. never too early to be looking ahead to the next cop already. thank you so much
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for coming tojoin us. as we heard earlier, rishi sunak has seen off a tory rebellion over his flagship rwanda bill, but he still faces a battle to get it through parliament. the legislation passed its first commons hurdle with a majority of 44, but there will be further votes in the new year. rishi sunak has promised to get rid of the asylum backlog by the end of the year. the home officer said it is on track to meet that pledge but to do it record numbers of asylum cases are being granted under racket of people have been withdrawn from the asylum system. with more on this, here's our political correspondent nick eardley. there were a lot of promises made by the government when it came to asylum and stopping the small boats and we have been looking at some of the key promises, and another
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significant pledge made by the prime minister one year ago today to get rid of the legacy backlog of asylum cases by the end of this year, that's all the cases of people who applied for asylum before the end of june 2022. the number when rishi sunak made the pledge was around 91,000 cases. as you can see from this graphic the number is falling. there have been quite a lot of cases dealt with this year and it has gone down quite significantly towards the end and at the start of december there were around 18,000 cases still to be processed. insiders at the home officer told the bbc they got to a point where around 4000 cases were being processed every single week and the home office has told us they think they are on track to meet they think they are on track to meet the target of getting rid of this completely but what is really interesting to us is how the backlog
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is being reduced and here we have taken a deep dive into the numbers. have a look at what is happiness in 2010. this is how many cases have been processed every year since the conservatives came to power. how many are being granted, how many are being withdrawn and how many are being withdrawn and how many are being refused. you can see in the last three years the number of cases being approved has grown quite significantly and although we have only got the first nine months of this year, figures for the first nine months, already more asylum applications have been accepted than in any year since 2002. it is inevitable no the number of people given asylum in the uk is going to be the highest on record. a lot more cases are being processed so it was always likely more would be approved by the government is also sped up
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the system for approving cases from afghanistan, eritrea, libya, syria and yemen and you don't have to go far our meeting any more, it's all done on paper. this is the number of people withdrawn or taken out of the system and is at a record high. almost three times higher than last year. five times higher than the year. five times higher than the year before. part of the reason people are being withdrawn or taken off the backlog is if they don't maintain enough contact with the home office they will now be removed from the backlog figures. finally the number of people being refused applications is the lowest proportion of the total ever. if the government does meet its target it seems that will be in no small part because a record number of cases are being approved really quickly and a racket number are also being taken out of the system. finally, the
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cases of people who have come to the uk and claimed asylum sincejune 2022. we can see that here and it is going up steadily. last figures, more than 90,000. you can read more reporting by neck on the bbc website. —— nick. more now on the news that dozens of people have been injured after russia launched a wave of missile strikes at the ukrainian capital overnight. ukraine's air force says it took down ten targets over kyiv early this morning, but falling debris damaged homes, cars and a children's hospital. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, said 53 people were hurt, including six children.
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odesa also saw a series of drone attacks. well, jessica parker sent this update a short while ago from the ukrainian capital. i'm standing in a children's playground in a district of kyiv. but part of it has been totally destroyed. let me show you some of what we can see here. first of all, you'll see a group of people just here and there's a massive crater in the ground — that must have been the point of impact from last night's blast. and then look up at the apartment�*s windows blown out everywhere. some of those flats have been completely destroyed, others very badly damaged. they're doing what they can to try and make those buildings structurally safe or the site as safe as possible. and then also just look over here. there is a burnt—out car. now, what we're told is it was actually parked near the apartment blocks, but the force of the blast blew it over here right into the middle of the children's playground. we've been speaking to residents. clearly, many of them are having to find somewhere else to stay.
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some have family and friends they can go to. others are having to go to a school that is being provided as a temporary shelter. one man i spoke to, he got very visibly upset when we were talking because he said he had seen some of his neighbour's children injured following last night's missile attack. and he also called, as i spoke to him, for continued western support, that, of course, as president zelensky has been in washington, dc to try and unlock a $60 billion package of military aid, but so far has failed to break the deadlock. netflix has released viewer data on 99% of its catalogue for the very first time. with almost 250 million subscribers globally, netflix is the largest streaming service in the world. the streaming giant has been criticised in the past for not being transparent about how content performs on its platform. the bbc s azadeh moshiri has more on what we all watched. netflix has finally released all of its viewing stats, and that's after a long push by content creators as well as actors.
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but before we get into that, let's take a look at what we've all been watching. netflix has published its report and it shows that they've monitored 18,000 titles betweenjanuary and june of this year. so that's nearly all of its catalogue. and in that six—month period, it showed that they included around 100 billion hours of viewing time. so that's a lot of streaming time. now, the top show ended up being the night agent. it raked in 812 million hours of viewing time. it's a political thriller. the top film was the mother featuring jennifer lopez, and that took in 249 million hours of viewing time. now, on our website, you'll see that we have a list of some other popular shows, those included ginny and georgia season two, the glory wednesday and queen charlotte, which you can see right there. but why release all of this data now? well, that's because netflix has released a new subscription service and it includes adverts.
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advertisers, though, want to see viewing data because they're obviously putting money into this so they want to know which shows are truly popular. but actors and content creators are going to be looking at this data very closely themselves because they've long been pushing for higher royalties for shows and films that are performing particularly well on the netflix platform. now, the co—ceo, ted sarandos, has acknowledged that that lack of transparency about its data has led to distrust in the creator community. but he says that it's because netflix has needed to guard all that data from competitors as it's been growing out its business. either way, they've said that they're going to be releasing this data every six months now, so more people will have access to it. and if you want to find out more about what else was popular on the platform, then do check our website. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there. for eastern parts of england
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it's been a dull and damp day with some cool winds as well, all rotating around this area of low pressure that's been bringing the cloudy, damp weather. that's going to move away into continental europe. we've got the next weather system, though, coming in from the atlantic. in between, things have been turning a little bit quieter with the best of the sunshine earlier on in scotland and northern ireland. but these are the temperatures early in the evening, so they're falling away fairly quickly. and there is the possibility where we keep those clearer skies just for a while into the night, the temperatures could get close to orjust below freezing, but the window of clearer skies is going to be closing because whilst this cloud and damp weather will finally clear the southeast, we've got cloud and outbreaks of rain coming in from the atlantic. briefly, some snow over the scottish mountains,
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the tops of the northern pennines should turn back to rain, though, later because temperatures are going to be rising and those temperatures will be above freezing by thursday morning. the wet weather clearing scotland and northern ireland still to move away from england and wales. it's mostly light. rain and drizzle could linger across east anglia in the south east into the afternoon. but elsewhere we should see a cheering up with more in the way of sunshine around. a few showers for scotland and northern ireland, mainly for northern scotland where it's still going to be quite blustery. but temperatures are going to be higher than today by something like two or maybe even three degrees. it will feel pleasant enough when the sunshine does come out. that weather system out of the way. the next one is going to come in from the atlantic around the top of this area of high pressure. it's going to bring a lot of cloud as we head into friday for northern ireland and particularly into scotland. and that weather front may well bring some outbreaks of rain eventually to northern and western parts of scotland, but elsewhere it should be dry. as you can see, there'll be quite a bit of sunshine for england and wales. temperatures across eastern parts of england about eight degrees, but head further west and those temperatures are rising significantly.
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we've got milder air coming in from the atlantic here in the west and that will push its way across the whole of the country by the time we get into the weekend. you can see there is colder air to the north of scotland. that's to the north of that weather front there, that's going to hang around into the weekend before eventually pushing a little bit further south. but there will be a lot of cloud through this weekend and we're going to find temperatures around 12 or 13 degrees quite widely on sunday. some uncertainty, but it looks like there could be some patchy rain, especially in the north. live from london, this is bbc news. it is so decided. an historic deal is agreed at the cop 28 climate summit — calling on all countries to move away from using fossil fuels. leaders of major economies and climate broadly welcome the agreement, but express reservations about it limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees celsius. we have come to the conclusion that the course correction that is needed has not been secured. we have made an incremental advancement business as usual.
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israel says it's carried out more than 250 strikes in gaza in the last day, and a ceasefire would be a mistake. and 53 people are injured after russia launches a wave of missiles at the ukrainian capital, damaging homes and a children's hospital. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. after days of negotiations a new climate deal has been approved by almost 190 countries at the un climate summit in dubai. the deal calls on all countries to move away from the use of fossil fuels. the deal does not include any wording on the phasing out of fossil fuels. something that many governors have wanted. small i shouldn't nation say does not do enough to protect them while developing country site does not require originations to provide financial support. cop 28 now closed our
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