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On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…

She is best known for her starring role in the hit comedy Derry Girls, but now Siobhán McSweeney, who plays Headteacher Sister Michael in the show, is turning her hand to the real life beauty to be found in Northern Ireland. 

We spoke to Jonny Brownlee, who won gold in the mixed triathlon. The victory was his third medal in an Olympic career that began nine years ago in London and we began by asking how these Games have been different for him.

The Science Museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing to take care not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation, Channel 4 News has learnt. 

More than 40 former military commanders are calling for urgent action to help Afghans who served alongside British forces to settle in the UK.

The British Medical Association has warned that it’s the government’s Covid strategy that is causing “rocketing case numbers”. I spoke to the head of the BMA Council, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, and I began by asking him what he thought would happen to the number of cases in the coming days and weeks?

The government is demanding “significant changes” to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the deal that Boris Johnson signed with the EU in 2019 to govern trade in Northern Ireland after Brexit.

David Cameron was not one for formality when he lobbied his old colleagues on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital. 

I am joined now by Professor Andrew Hayward, Director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care at University College London.

One young artist from Wiltshire has created a comic, in a style partly influenced by Japanese anime, as a way to document the pandemic and encourage people to reach out and get advice if they need.

Well earlier I spoke to flood forecasting expert Dr Linda Speight and began by asking why the floods in Germany were so devastating.

We’re joined now by Professor Ravi Gupta from Essex.  

Record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks and the intensity of the floods that followed have now claimed more than 120 lives. Towns and villages have been left devastated as buildings collapsed, and residents were left stranded. Germany has been the hardest hit. In the country’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, at least 43…

Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar has passed away at the age of 98. The actor became synonymous with tragic roles in a career that spanned more than six decades.

Four years on from the Grenfell fire disaster, and hundreds of thousands of homeowners are facing hefty bills to remove cladding, often running into tens of thousands of pounds.