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Jon Snow turned into ‘hologram’ to report on how climate crisis could impact humanity over next 80 years
Jon Snow has been turned into a ‘hologram’ to report on potential climate impacts over the course of the next century in a new project for Channel 4 News ahead of the COP climate conference in Glasgow.
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UK sets out net zero plan for ‘green industrial revolution’ and heat pumps
The government has finally published its plans for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Critics say government plans to meet net zero needs more funding
Less than two weeks away from the decisive climate COP summit in Glasgow, the government has announced a raft of announcements – but do they go far enough?
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How much is the government spending on its new net-zero strategy?
The government has published plans for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The Treasury has released its analysis of that plan today as well – here is what we learned.
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‘Cost of heat pumps will come down’, says business minister
We spoke to Lord Callanan, minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility, and asked how much the Treasury is investing into the government’s plans for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Heat pumps in poorly insulated homes is same as ‘a teapot full of cracks’ says Green MP
We spoke to Green MP Caroline Lucas and asked her what she made of the government’s strategy to replace gas boilers with heat pumps.
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Covid: UK records highest number of daily deaths since March
The latest 24-hour government figures show there have been another 43,738 new cases in the UK. Another 223 people are reported to have died with Covid – the highest daily number since March
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China Winter Olympics: Human rights groups call for boycott over Uyghur suppression
A cross-party group of MPs has called for their pension fund to divest from companies linked to Xinjiang, the Chinese province where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghur people have been sent to re-education camps and prisons.
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Woman who killed husband said she ‘should have stabbed him more’, court told
A woman who killed her husband told police officers “she should have stabbed him more” as she was being arrested.
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‘French Trump’ Eric Zemmour threatening to upset presidential election
Ethnic minority French nationals have told Channel 4 News they feel under threat from “anger” stirred up by a man dubbed the “French Trump”, as he surges in popularity ahead of the country’s presidential elections next year.
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Met Police tell woman she’s not ‘guaranteed anonymity’ in sexual assault case
A woman who made a complaint of a sexual assault against a high profile figure to the Metropolitan police has told Channel 4 News that she felt pressured to drop the charges.
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UK has ‘fallen behind’ its neighbours on measures to combat climate change, says Sir David King
We spoke to Sir David King, formerly the UK special representative for climate change, and first asked if the government’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is sufficient.
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The primary school children fighting air pollution
A class of primary school children in Bradford who are being affected by pollution in their area are now doing their own research into the air quality in the area.
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Democracy under attack: the killing of an MP
Political Correspondent Liz Bates looks back at the past few days in UK politics, as the country comes to terms with another politician killed in our democracy.
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Kerala floods: At least 28 dead after heavy rains
At least 28 people have died after heavy rains triggered flooding in the state of Kerala in southern India.
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Police speaking to more potential victims of paedophile Carson Grimes
Police are speaking to more possible victims of a convicted paedophile who have come forward after a Channel 4 documentary about the case.
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‘We’re living in an era of rationality inequality’ – psychologist Steven Pinker
From misinformation to quack cures and everything in between, we appear to be living in a world where conspiracy theories are on the rise and opinion can feel more important than facts.
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Climate change deniers host conference in Sin City
Today US Vice-President Kamala Harris is travelling to Lake Mead in Nevada to talk up the President’s climate agenda. It’s the biggest reservoir in the US, but it’s drying up because of the twin effects of the heat and the drought, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.
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President Biden’s climate plans under threat from within his own party
In the US, President’s Biden’s climate agenda is under renewed threat from inside his party.
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Boy arrested over Glasgow teenager’s killing
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a 14-year-old boy in Glasgow.
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Pizza Express ran out of bolognese sauce ingredients
With shortages becoming a feature of day-to-day life, another household name, Pizza Express, has fallen victim to supply chain issues.
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Colin Powell ‘was a trailblazer’, says former CIA director David Petraeus
We spoke to General David Petraeus, a former United States army general, who was in New York.
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Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of Covid complications at 84
Colin Powell, the first Black person to become America’s Secretary of State, has died at 84, from Covid-related complications.
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Government must ‘act now’ to bring down Covid cases, public health expert says
Is the UK going to have to change course on Covid in the face of rising cases, hospitalisations and deaths?
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Politics has become ‘considerably more sour’ in recent years, says Labour MP Chris Bryant
We spoke to Conservative MP Karen Bradley and Labour MP Chris Bryant, and started by asking Karen Bradley if, at this moment, it didn’t matter which party they were from.
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MPs pay tribute to Sir David Amess after he was killed
Members of parliament have been paying tribute to the life of Sir David Amess in Westminster today in a special sitting of the House of Commons.
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The story behind the first malaria vaccine
A chance to change the course of a disease that in 2019 killed more than 260,000 children in Africa.
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Ending MP-constituent contact would be ‘a terrible mistake for democracy’, says Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell
We were joined by Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell
