This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 25th of October,

these are our main stories.

The UN says the world is on track to miss global warming limits by a

catastrophic margin unless there's a huge push to cut carbon emissions. A US

prosecutor recommends the resentencing of two brothers Eric and Lyle Menendez

who were jailed for life over the killing of their parents in 1989. The

Canadian government says it will sharply cut immigration targets as public support for new arrivals Wains.

Also in this podcast, would you kiss for the BBC please?

Yay!

Oh!

But seriously, why did we humans start kissing in the first place?

We've had climate summit after summit,

warning after warning.

But the UN is now saying that the chances of limiting global warming

to the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit pledged in 2015 are virtually zero unless huge cuts in carbon

emissions are made now. The UN says without this world temperatures are now

on course to rise to as much as

three degrees Celsius. That's double the limit agreed at the COPS summit in Paris

nearly a decade ago. The warning from the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterresh

comes ahead of the next COP summit which is due to be held in a major fossil fuel

producer Azerbaijan next month. The message of today's Emissions Gap report is clear.

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