COP26: climate goals at stake in Glasgow

Gideon Rachman speaks to James Crabtree, former head of the Asia programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and author of The Perimeter, about Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, his first in a decade. What do Washington and Beijing hope to gain, and what does th ...  عرض المزيد

Gideon talks to Lloyd Austin, who served as US defence secretary under the Biden administration, about the need to adapt to new forms of warfare, accusations that he presided over a ‘woke military’ and how he headed off a nuclear threat from Russia in the early days of the Ukrain ...  عرض المزيد

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We introduce the second season of Heat of the Moment, a podcast that like And Now The Hard Part, tells stories from the front lines of one of the world's biggest challenges: the climate crisis. Now that COP26 has wrapped up, we wanted to take a second look at our episode Paris' P ...  عرض المزيد

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In a giant conference hall in Glasgow, leaders from around the world have gathered for the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26. This is the 26th such session.

Many say this may be the last chance to avoid climate disaster. Will ...