Summary
A global climate deal has been agreed in Glasgow... and here's our episode on how it happened. Adam and Rebecca Morelle talk it all through as the final gavel comes down.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham. The studio director was Michael Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I am sitting on my bed in my hotel room in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon, |
| 0:09.2 | watching live pictures from the Cop 26 plenary, and this is meant to be sort of the closing |
| 0:14.7 | bit and it is extraordinary. I'm watching John Kerry, the US Climate |
| 0:19.3 | Envoy, and she Janwa, the Chinese Climate Envoy, standing by the side of the stage, both pointing at a |
| 0:26.6 | latest version of the draft text of the deal that's been done here, surrounded by their officials in real time chatting away. |
| 0:34.7 | John Kerry's got his specs on looking down his nose. |
| 0:37.9 | The translators and the interpreters are in there and other people are gathering around |
| 0:41.4 | to find out what they've agreed. |
| 0:43.0 | This is the actual end game of cop playing out on camera in real time |
| 0:50.0 | and I'm watching it while sitting on my bed, |
| 0:52.0 | having thought I could have a little break. |
| 0:54.0 | It's quite amazing and a minute ago, Alok Sharma, the cop president, was in between the two of them. |
| 0:59.8 | And you just think for Global Britain, that's quite a good image isn't it the UK |
| 1:06.7 | brokering between these two superpowers over the biggest issue facing the planet |
| 1:12.1 | I imagine Boris Johnson would be quite happy with that picture, |
| 1:16.7 | completely irrespective of what they then end up agreeing, which hopefully we're about to |
| 1:20.9 | find out as newscast at cop 26 I think draws to a close |
| 1:28.0 | newscast from the BBC when come at the frog sang it's not easy being green I want you to know that he was wrong |
| 1:36.6 | we can't have more clever words than not have action build back better blah blah |
| 1:41.3 | blah green economy blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:44.0 | We do have a deadline. |
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