Running out of time to tackle climate change
On Monday, the United Nations will launch its toughest – and potentially most alarming – report yet on climate change. Jon Snow meets Ban Ki-moon in Greenland.
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On Monday, the United Nations will launch its toughest – and potentially most alarming – report yet on climate change. Jon Snow meets Ban Ki-moon in Greenland.
Jon Snow is in Greenland looking at climate change with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who believes that this is the greatest threat to mankind’s capacity to live together in harmony.
She was the muse behind Brown Sugar and Lady Grinning Soul, yet Claudia Lennear has her own enviable back catalogue. Here, decades later, she speaks to Jon Snow about her loves and life.
Chair of the Better Together campaign, Alistair Darling, tells Jon Snow that a currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK ‘”will not work” and “will not happen”.
Jon Snow talks to Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Station Commander Jess James, the local councillor for Datchet Jesse Grey, and local art dealer Julian Bettney about the Thames flooding crisis.
Jon Snow takes a boat into the heart of the Thames flooding crisis, to meet people whose homes and businesses are submerged. He finds people angry at the amount of help they are getting.
DJ Fat Tony talks to Jon Snow about the jump in HIV infections among London’s gay men attributed to the sex party drug: “I know doctors, I know lawyers.. injecting it recreationally.”
Saint Vincent, a small Caribbean island state, suffered one of the most violent storms in living memory. Jon Snow was there to witness the aftermath.
The murder of a politician in Lebanon could be as decisive a turning point as the assassination that started the first world war. Jon Snows reflects on the spiraling Sunni-Shia conflict across the Middle East.
Jon Snow speaks to soul singer Simphiwe Dana and actor Tony Kgoroge, asking if the political legacy of Nelson Mandela continues under President Zuma, who was booed on appearing at Mandela’s memorial.
Jon Snow speaks to some of the thousands of people who make their way to his huge open-air memorial Johannesburg, including a man imprisoned alongside him in Robben Island, and a five-year old boy.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan tells Jon Snow he hopes one of Nelson Mandelas legacies will be a “robust African civil society” that believes in forgiveness and reconciliation.
Poet and “praise singer” Zolani Mkiva will be performing at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. He gave Jon Snow a sample of what he will be saying on Tuesday.
Romanians are too often used to excuse Britain’s problems, their ambassador tells Jon Snow.
Todays Scottish government blueprint is not just a road map to an independent Scotland, Alex Salmond tells Jon Snow – it also explains what the country can do once it has achieved independence.