We can hit UK’s big carbon cut without disruption to people’s lives, says Starmer – UK politics live

PM confirms target of 81% emissions cut at Cop climate summit but says ‘I’m not going to tell people how to live their lives’

Leadbeater introduces the next speaker, Nat Dye, who has terminal cancer. She says she thinks his views are the most important for people to hear at this press conference.

He says he has known “positive” experiences of death. His fiance and his mother both had relatively peaceful deaths. He says palliative care can work for some people.

Imagine I am dying and palliative care hasn’t improved. Well, I have no choice whatsoever: I die in pain or I die in pain.

I see this as a chance just to act with kindness and a choice for people at their darkest hour.

Continue reading...

Aid entering Gaza is lowest in months, says Unrwa, as US deadline approaches – Middle East crisis, as it happened

This live blog is closed.

Images sent over the news wires show smoke billowing over Beirut after Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital.

Lebanese media is reporting that two people have been killed and six wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Hermel, which is in the north-east of the country near the border with Syria.

Continue reading...

Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say – ABC News

  1. Growing pollution in Pakistan's Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say  ABC News
  2. India, Pakistan blanketed in smog so thick, it's visible from space: See pictures  USA TODAY
  3. How India, Pakistan and China Might Cooperate on Air Quality  Forbes
  4. Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city  BBC.com
  5. Hundreds hospitalised in Pakistan as smog reaches record levels  Al Jazeera English
Posted in Uncategorized

Trump nominates Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new efficiency department to ‘restructure federal agencies’ – live

Tesla CEO and onetime Republican presidential hopeful put forward to lead department to ‘dismantle government bureaucracy’

Joe Biden is meeting with two foreign leaders at the White House today.

At 11.15am, he will speak with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, then with Indonesia’s president, Prabowo Subianto, at 2pm.

Continue reading...

Starmer refuses to back Justin Welby after clamor for archbishop to resign

Prime minister says victims of serial abuser John Smyth ‘failed very, very badly’

Keir Starmer has refused to back the archbishop of Canterbury, who has faced growing demands to resign over his handling of an abuse scandal.

Pressure on Justin Welby has been intensifying since the publication last week of a damning report on the church’s cover-up of John Smyth’s abuse in the UK in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later in Zimbabwe and South Africa. About 130 boys are believed to have been victims.

Continue reading...

BBC confirms Gary Lineker’s departure from Match of the Day

Corporation says presenter will quit highlights programme at end of 2024-25 season but will cover 2026 World Cup

Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, the BBC has said.

The BBC confirmed earlier reports that Lineker would stay with the broadcaster to cover the FA Cup in 2025-26 and the 2026 Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, but step back from its flagship highlights programme at the end of the 2024-25 season.

Continue reading...

Metro Bank fined nearly £17m for failure to monitor potential money laundering

Problems were raised by junior staff three years before they were completely resolved, says FCA

Metro Bank has been fined nearly £17m by the UK’s financial watchdog for failings in its money-laundering controls over four years, in a fresh blow to the lender a year on from its near-collapse.

In a surprise announcement that also triggered the early release of Metro’s third-quarter results on Tuesday morning, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it had found shortfalls in the bank’s financial crime checks between 2016 and 2020.

Continue reading...

Girl, 17, who died after being hit by car on M5 had fled police vehicle

Avon and Somerset police referred themselves to watchdog, who said girl was being transported to custody

A teenage girl who was killed by a car while on foot on the M5 had fled a police vehicle before she was struck, it has emerged.

Avon and Somerset police said the motorway was closed between Bridgwater and Taunton in Somerset after the fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a car at 11pm on Monday.

Continue reading...

Starmer warns against climate ‘inaction’ as Trump looms over COP29 – POLITICO Europe

  1. Starmer warns against climate ‘inaction’ as Trump looms over COP29  POLITICO Europe
  2. UK commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions must be ‘starting point, not finish line’, climate advisers say – Cop29 day two, as it happened  The Guardian
  3. Starmer: New UK target for 81% emissions cut by 2035  BBC.com
  4. Sir Keir Starmer tells private sector to 'start paying their fair share' on global climate change  Sky News
  5. Starmer and Trump on collision course over climate change ambitions as PM unveils bold target  The Independent
Posted in Uncategorized

Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles – Responsible Statecraft

  1. Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles  Responsible Statecraft
  2. China Is Enemy No. 1 for Trump’s New Team  Bloomberg
  3. Trump’s First 3 Foreign-Policy Moves  Foreign Policy
  4. Moderate Dems breathe early sigh of relief over several Trump picks — including Elise Stefanik  New York Post
  5. Trump continues appointments with key foreign policy picks  DW (English)
Posted in Uncategorized