Summary
We're still assembled in Glasgow as the climate summit reaches its climax. After two weeks of intense talks, negotiations are continuing over a final deal to try and slow temperature rises. Former PM Tony Blair tells us what he believes can be achieved before the conference (finally) comes to an end.
Adam also catches up with the BBC’s Science Correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, and rubs shoulders with our broadcasting rival, Robert Peston, as we go through the changes to the draft agreement.
Plus, we speak to Newscaster Dr Amanda Edgeworth, who emailed in about the role she played in an extraordinary cave rescue earlier this week.
Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with producers Georgia Coan, Serena Tarling and Sally Abrahams. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:07.0 | What a day it's been. |
| 0:08.0 | It meant to be the last day of COP26, |
| 0:10.0 | but people think it probably won't be. |
| 0:12.0 | So I got here to the conference venue this morning as usual |
| 0:14.6 | about 20 past five having slept through my first alarm. |
| 0:19.8 | And we were expecting a draft of the latest text to have been published by then it hadn't |
| 0:24.9 | so I was frantically clicking refresh on my laptop as I told viewers of BBC breakfast. |
| 0:32.4 | And Adam the last scheduled day of this summit and it's going to go down to the wire by the looks of things. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, John, it's meant to finish at 6 PM, but everyone thinks it's going to run over. |
| 0:42.0 | Also running over is what we expected to |
| 0:44.3 | happen in the early hours of this morning, which was a draft of the latest agreement of the |
| 0:49.2 | Glasgow decisions. It has not appeared yet several hours later and I'm now constantly on my laptop just pressing refresh on the UN website over and over again |
| 0:58.2 | So then after that I went to the coffee shop that was open to get coffee for me, the cameraman and the engineer |
| 1:05.1 | and so as I was carrying three very overflowing coffee cups, reusable of course, |
| 1:09.8 | back to the camera position, my phone started buzzing because the texts had come out. |
| 1:15.0 | So I was trying to read them while carrying the coffee, pop them down, and then I gave my sort of first assessment and my first glance of these texts to Michelle Hussein on the |
| 1:24.8 | Today program. |
| 1:26.6 | What is your sense? |
| 1:27.8 | How different is it from the last draft text that we had? |
| 1:32.4 | Morning Michelle. |
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