COP Heavy

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

World leaders gather in Egypt and UN chief warns of “climate hell”. Adam is joined by Chris from the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss Rishi Sunak’s first international outing since becoming prime minister. They untangle the day’s diplomacy with climate scientist, Dr Tamsin Edwards. Also, Nigel Topping, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, joins Adam to explain how the biggest polluting countries could make up for environmental impacts on developing countries. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Gareth Jones and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, so much news about Twitter at the moment, which is now in the hands of Elon Musk,
0:09.6	the tech billionaire, and so much stuff about people leaving Twitter for another social
0:14.4	network called Mastodon.
0:16.7	So what's that all about?
0:18.3	Best way to find out is to give it a go, isn't it?
0:20.4	So I've opened up the web page from Mastodon.
0:23.9	The first thing you see is its description as a decentralized social media powered by
0:28.8	Mastodon.
0:29.8	Now, from my research, that means actually the servers that run the social network are
0:35.6	all in kind of the hands of different people.
0:38.5	So rather than being one kind of controlling company that controls access to the whole social
0:43.2	network, it's all lots of different servers.
0:46.2	So right, let's click on Create Account.
0:50.4	Creating an account on this server is currently not possible, okay?
0:52.8	So I have to find another server.
0:54.9	I have heard lots of stuff about servers being a bit overwhelmed because they've had
0:58.8	thousands and thousands of new users.
1:01.4	Right, scrolling down.
1:02.4	Here are all the servers I can have.
1:04.5	2don.eu, we're a radical leftist, anti-authoritarian community.
1:09.0	Metalhead focused on metal music content hosted in Germany powered by 100% green energy.
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