today continue to listen in. today i'm proud _ continue to listen in. today i'm proud to _ continue to listen in. today i'm proud to announce - continue to listen in. today i'm proud to announce that} continue to listen in. today- i'm proud to announce that the va will and expand the number of cancers covered under the pact act. to all veterans who served at k2 airbase in is pakistan, conflicts surrounded by toxins for that we want to honor you, we want to have your back just like we honor you, we want to have your backjust like we did an agent orange, just like we're working to make sure you don't have to prove your illness as a consequence of your service. which is often too hard to do. god willing will make sure any rare condition you make sure is covered for that were committed to getting this rule in place by the end of my term. folks, this matters. too many of our nations veterans have served only to return home to suffer

from permanent affects of poisonous chemicals. too many of died. like our son bo and like sergeant first class keith robinson. forwhom like sergeant first class keith robinson. for whom the pact act was named for the couple of years after i signed that pact act i was handed a pen to his daughter. she and her mum with us today. i don't know where you are but god you. there you are. stand up, ladies. cheering. applause. j are. stand up, ladies. cheering. applause. ., , cheering. applause. i mean is, i will cheering. applause. | mean is, i will never _ cheering. applause. i mean is, i will never forget _ cheering. applause. i mean is, i will never forget after _ cheering. applause. i mean is, i will never forget after i - i will never forget after i handed the signing pen to that beautiful young lady who lost her whole world she held the pen in her hand and she looked at me and said," thank you, thank you for my daddy." for

the god love you, honey. but i don't think she was thanking me, she was thinking all of you here. all of us. everyone who fought hard and came together to keep our promise to our veterans. to keep the faith. my fellow americans, we stand here today we think about all that our veterans have given to our nation. serving and sacrificing in uniform just as they serve and sacrifice here at home. as educators, firefighters, law enforcement officers, construction workers, entrepreneurs, doctors, nurses, elected leaders. and so much more. just as routinely they put aside the differences to work together. this is a moment. this is the moment to come together as a nation. to keep faith in each other. the

war was dependent on each and all of us, all of you to keep honoring them, the women, the men, the families to keep protecting everything they fought for. to keep striving to heal our nations wounds. to keep perfecting our union for that we're the only nation in the world built on an idea. every other nation is based on things like geography, ethnicity, religion but we're the only nation, the only one of the world based on an idea. that idea is we're all created equal. created equalfor all our lives so that we haven't lived up to it every time but we've never walked away from it. even when it's hard. especially when it's hard. and today standing together to honor those americans that have dared all, risked all and give it all to our nation i must say

clearly, we never will give up. god bless our veterans. and theirfamilies. and may god protect our troops today and always. god love you. thank you so much. �* �* ,, always. god love you. thank you so much. �* ~ ,, , so much. applause. president biden and _ so much. applause. president biden and what _ so much. applause. president biden and what he _ so much. applause. president biden and what he said - so much. applause. president biden and what he said was - so much. applause. presidentj biden and what he said was the last time he will stand here at arlington as commander—in—chief. he said it was an honor to serve and defend the members of the military on this veterans day, which is a celebration or commemoration or both those who were serving and those who serve the living and the dead. us veterans day being marked at arlington national cemetery in virginia for that that was president biden urging the nation to come together and quoted linking saying it was time to bind up with the nations wounds. we leave that ceremony. we move on to some of the days other news.

the un has warned this year is on track to be the hottest on record, as its annual climate conference — cop 29 — begins in baku. these are the latest live pictures from baku. world leaders and heads of states are meeting for the first time since reports that average global temperatures are expected to exceed the threshold of 1.5 degrees celsius above industrial revolution levels. the united states' climate envoyjohn podesta told the conference that donald trump's election victory was a "bitter disappointment for anyone dedicated to climate action", but said many people in the us would continue their efforts to contain climate change. injanuary, we're going to inaugurate a president who's relationship to climate change is captured by the words hoax and fossilfuels. he's vowed to dismantle our environmental safeguards and once again withdraw the united states from the paris agreement.

it may put climate action on the back burner under donald trump, the work to contain climate change is going to continue in the united states with commitment and passion and belief. representatives are due to appear at cop29 in azerbaijan. keir starmer is making his way to the summit. the only 6—7 leader expected to attend for the american model mccrone and german chancellor ola schulte said they will not travel to azerbaijan neitherjoe biden or his successor donald trump are expected to attend the summit. india's prime minister narendra modi and the chinese president eugene peng have not said they will attend. the european commission president ursula von der leyen is not expected in baku. der leyen is not expected in baku. samantha burgess is the deputy director of copernicus climate change service — which is a eu body providing climate data.

the warning is quite startjust at the start of this cop29 conference.— at the start of this cop29 conference. ., ~ , ., ~ conference. thank you. after ten months _ conference. thank you. after ten months of _ conference. thank you. after ten months of 2024 - conference. thank you. after ten months of 2024 it - conference. thank you. after ten months of 2024 it is - ten months of 2024 it is virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record in the first year that we faced the pictures above 1.5 degrees, above preindustrial levels. ., . , , ., ., levels. how much is this data likel to levels. how much is this data likely to affect _ levels. how much is this data likely to affect the _ levels. how much is this data likely to affect the com - levels. how much is this data | likely to affect the cop29 and what decisions are made there. we heard some of the senior leaders from some of the big countries around the world are not going to be there at all. the scientific evidence has been very clear for a long time. we're facing a climate crisis. we understand why. it's the concentration of greenhouse gasesin the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. we know what to do about it. this united nations conference is the 29th in the series. the progress that has been made at

those conferences has been much slower in many countries that many people would like due to the escalation of the climate crisis. and the extreme events we have seen around the world. tell us about going above one and a half degrees celsius and the significance of that. what is the actual impact? mi is the actual impact? all countries _ is the actual impact? rm countries agreed and committed in 2015 during the paris cop which is caught 21 to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees, to below 1.5 degrees if possible. we know from other scientific reports like the ipcc report which was published in 2020, the six report for every additional degree of warming in our atmosphere we get more extreme events. in those extreme events more intense. we've seen many examples of that this year with hurricanes that have been more intense hitting landfall. hitting latitudes higher than

they normally do and all the extreme storms that have impacted not only europe but the rest of the world as well. in the previous cop there was an agreement to try to limit the use of fossil fuels with no data attached to it. what are you expecting in terms of concrete pledges or hoping in this particular cop? it’s this particular cop? it's alwa s this particular cop? it's always hard _ this particular cop? it's always hard to - this particular cop? it's always hard to say - this particular cop? it�*s always hard to say the level of ambition from participants in the cop process. obviously, we're day one of the conference. today is information day. so the countries have been presented with the latest earth information data about the state of the climate in the world meteorological organization have also released their report today highlighting where we're at in terms of climate and what action they expect from countries. what countries need to be doing is committing to a mission reduction —— in emission reduction —— in emission reduction for the sooner we

true dues turn off the tabs to global emission the sooner we stabilize. , ., ~ ., stabilize. there is a kind of element — stabilize. there is a kind of element to _ stabilize. there is a kind of element to this _ stabilize. there is a kind of element to this clearly - stabilize. there is a kind of - element to this clearly because it's political leaders who go to these conferences. how much difference do you think the possibility of a trump pregnancy coming up is going to influence —— trump presidency. to influence the things that you think ought to be done? it's really challenging to add to that. i think the reality is that climate change and the climate crisis is no longer a future problem, it's not a rhetoric that we can talk about impacting our children or our grandchildren. the reality is it's impacting every single person every day of our lives. with seasons changing becoming earlier, disrupting the lateral cycles, impacting droughts, impacting heat waves, impacting human health. the reality is it's impacting everyone. and the tide has turned in terms of

the tide has turned in terms of the overwhelming evidence of how our climate is changing. in the technological solutions. even though we've had a democratic election where someone is a climate denier in charge of a nation, that won't impact the tide of climate action that we're seeing around the world in my opinion. samantha burgess, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. a senior bishop says justin welby must resign as archbishop of canterbury over an abuse scandal in the church of england. the bishop of newcastle, the right reverend helen—ann macleod hartley, told the bbc his position was "untenable". her comments follow a damning report into abuse byjohn smyth, who ran youth camps for the church. dr welby became aware of the abuse in 2013 — but did not report smyth to authorities. very hard to find the words to respond adequately to what the report tells us,

truly horrendous, horrific and shocking, and i know through my diocese in the work we have done with survivors, just how deep and long—lasting this whole systemic, years and years of abuse, the impact notjust on perpetrator, but all survivors of church abuse, they are rightly asking questions, can we trust the church of england to keep us safe? i think the answer at the moment is no. political correspondent harry farley has more on the calls for the archbishop to stand down. there have been growing calls for a few days now for the archbishop of canterbury to resign but up over the weekend a number of members of the church of england general national assembly launched a petition calling forjustin welby to stand out. this is the first time that a senior leader in the church of england has joined those calls forjustin

welby to quit. it all relates to a man named john smyth who a jeep fuse dozen of boys to a man named