BBC NEWS DAILY

By Nafeesa Shan

Worries over patient safety as ambulance workers strike     Only call 999 for an ambulance in a life-threatening emergency today, contact 111 where possible and avoid "risky activity", as the health minister tells us here. Advice to use services wisely has been issued as thousands of paramedics, call handlers, emergency care assistants and technicians in ambulance services in England and Wales go on strike. Health bosses have already warned they can't guarantee patient safety but sent reassurances that emergency care will continue. Ambulance staff are walking out at different times, and not every area is affected  -  read our story, which includes what's happening where you live. The military will be on hand to help provide cover but they won't be involved in critical or clinical care. Services in Northern Ireland and Scotland are continuing as normal.  Talks between unions and the Health Secretary Steve Barclay were held yesterday afternoon, with discussions centring around what care would be provided. A key part of the dispute - pay - wasn't mentioned, meaning the meeting was "entirely pointless", Unite union said. Mr Barclay's boss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, insisted yesterday, when nurses staged a second walkout, he wouldn't budge on pay demands, instead focusing on reducing inflation by avoiding wage increases - here's the full story. But one Tory MP, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, has said there must be some flexibility as there will be people who desperately need the service over Christmas. The NHS is already dealing with winter pressures, as well as patients facing long waits for ambulances. And within 24 hours of this strike, eight ambulance services had declared critical incidents - follow how the day unfolds here. Get up to speed on why ambulance staff are striking Find out what ambulances will respond to Take a look at how this walkout will affect you

Zelensky to visit US in first foreign trip amid war     Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been handling diplomatic relations without stepping foot outside his borders. He regularly hosts in-person meetings with foreign leaders but they have visited the capital, Kyiv. Now, it has been announced that Mr Zelensky will visit Washington later, signalling the importance of Ukraine's relationship with the US, which has played a leading role in providing military support. He will meet President Joe Biden but the foreign trip is fraught with security concerns. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged members of Congress to be "present for a very special focus on democracy". Here's the full story, which charts how much military aid the US has given to Ukraine.

Pubs look to keep cost-of-living pressures down     Pubs, like many other businesses, are grappling with the pressures associated with the rising cost of living. Energy bills are going up and the industry is also struggling with staff shortages. So, what's the solution to keep costs down and run a viable business? One pub has told us it closes if regulars don't turn up and staff leave early. On Mondays to Wednesdays don’t expect the Barn Pub near Rugby to be open beyond 8pm. It isn't the only one making these kind of decisions, a survey by the British Beer and Pub Association suggests 86% of UK pubs are considering reducing opening hours over the winter. Read more here.

Migrants detained illegally, official email claims   Hundreds of migrants were illegally detained at immigration removal centres, according to Home Office emails obtained by BBC News. The detention centres were used to hold about 450 people - described in one email as "overflow" from the migrant processing facility at Manston. The email said their detention was "no longer legal," adding: "We need to move them to hotels ASAP." The Home Office said an unprecedented number of small boat arrivals had put "huge pressure" on the asylum system. It said it had "worked tirelessly to move people into hotels or other accommodation as quickly as possible". The email was sent on 4 November, the day after Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Manston amid pressure to get a grip on overcrowding at the site. According to a chain of emails, the Home Office's most senior civil servants were made aware of the concerns at the time.           Read full article >         Vinnie O'Dowd BBC News

What the papers say     The strike being held by ambulance workers dominates this morning's papers. Fears over patient safety is highlighted in the Financial Times and the i newspaper, while the Daily Mail asks: "How will they live with themselves if people die today?" NHS bosses are urging Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to step in, the Guardian writes, as the Daily Telegraph reports on Health Secretary Steve Barclay's position on the situation. Metro leads with advice issued by Health Minister Will Quince, telling readers "you'd better watch out…". This message appears in the Times, which reports that the public is being urged to "avoid taking risks". The Sun sums this up with the headline "don't have fun", and the Daily Star's take on the guidance is to "pretty much stay at home". Read the newspaper review in full here.

Daily digest         Twitter Elon Musk to quit as CEO when replacement found       Brixton Academy Worker killed in crush was selfless - family       Ros Atkins on... Why it's hard to assess China's Covid surge       Clarkson Presenter to stay as Millionaire host for now - ITV boss

If you watch one thing today How hiking helped a homeless man rebuild his life

If you listen to one thing today Why doesn't everyone clear up?

If you read one thing today The two sides of Scotland's gender law debate

Need something different?     What are the best biscuits to dunk in a cup of tea? Digestives, rich tea, ginger nuts? Nope, it's oat-based biscuits. They can last a whopping 29 seconds before breaking up after a quick dip, according to a study. But there is hope for anyone who likes digestives and shorties, less so for those of you who prefer rich tea biscuits. Check out how they fared here. Now, a brew and a good book are also a good combination, but best-selling author Emily St John Mandel doesn't want to talk about her novels. She wants to let us know about her love life. She’s divorced and tried to update her Wikipedia page but can't because apparently she's not an expert on her own life. Here's why. And finally, to someone you could say has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Albert Hall in London. She's given us a behind-the-scenes tour, telling us some interesting facts about one of the world's most recognisable concert venues along the way. Watch to find out more.

On this day     1988 A Pan Am jumbo jet with 258 passengers on board crashes on to the town of Lockerbie in Scotland.

From elsewhere       What are the NHS ambulance response categories? (The Guardian)         Will the working class strike back? History shows that numerical strength isn't everything (UnHerd)             Five takeaways from the final January 6 committee hearing (NPR)       The history of four festive sweets - from familiar favourites to the downright dangerous (The Conversation)

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Afghanistan: Taliban verbieten Frauen von Universitäten inmitten von Verurteilungen

Die Taliban müssen die unteilbare Menschenwürde der Frauen und der Kinder; die unteilbare Menschenwürde von uns allen anerkennen.

Salah Hamouri:

Salah Hamouri: “«Ich habe nur den Ort gewechselt, der Kampf geht weiter.» 

2.2 Die Zerstörung Israels
„Israel existiert und wird weiter existieren, bis der Islam es ausgelöscht hat, so wie er schon andere Länder vorher ausgelöscht
hat.“ (Präambel)

Mit dieser Präambel wird das Menschenrecht und die unteilbare Menschenwürde verachtet und mit Füßen getreten.

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Entsetzen

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Uster

Kantons- und Regierungsratswahlen 2023

Auf den ersten beiden Rängen setzen wir Grünen des Bezirks Uster auf die bisherige Kantonsrätin Karin Fehr Thoma und Julian Andrea Croci, Dahinter folgen Natalie Lengacher Steenaerts und Tobias Ulrich. Um den eingeschlagenen Kurs hin zu mehr Klima- und Naturschutz konsequent und erfolgreich voranzutreiben, braucht es weiterhin Martin Neukom im Zürcher Regierungsrat.

Standaktionen für die Kantons- und Regierungsratswahlen

Wir möchten Standaktionen durchführen, bei denen wir neben dem Wahlkampf auch noch für die Grüne Klimafonds Initiative sammeln wollen. Es wäre schön, wenn du uns dabei unterstützen könntest. Volketswil (21.01) und Dübendorf (28.01) https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/UTISWJFqcEZlUois  Uster (14.01, 21.01 und 4.02)  https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/cLjozfY4JCfp9Fc8

Neuwahlen Sekundarschulpflege Dübendorf-Schwerzenbach

Das Bundesgericht hat die zurückliegende stille Wahl für die Sekundarschulpflege Dübendorf-Schwerzenbach für ungültig erklärt.  Die Wahl muss darum an der Urne ordentlich wiederholt werden. Das ist eine Chance für Schwerzenbach, da damals nur Kandidat:innen aus Dübendorf gewählt wurden. Mehr Infos.

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December 19, 2022 - UK Edition ~~~~ DeSmog is hiring, but you’ll have to be quick! Applications for a new Deputy Editor close at 11.59pm on December 23. ~~~~ While many of us will be reflecting on how we can become better versions of ourselves in 2023, we all know others (the “new year, old me” types) who are stubbornly resistant to change. Step forward Benny Peiser, director of the UK’s main climate denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). As Adam Barnett reports, Peiser spoke at a Heritage Foundationevent on December 8, where net zero was branded a “religion”. In the same year that the GWPF published two reports rejecting the science of the greenhouse effect, Peiser used the webinar to claim that the energy crisis is caused by “a dogmatic prioritization” of renewable energy over alternatives such as shale gas or nuclear. That’s strange, because according to the International Energy Agency, the energy crisis is caused by the high wholesale cost of gas and fuelled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In other news, Matthew Green reported on Reuters Events how oil companies are targeting carbon markets to finance large-scale carbon capture initiatives and sell the world on – brace yourselves – “net-zero oil”. Northern Lights, a joint venture between Shell, TotalEnergies and Norway’s Equinor, aims to store carbon emissions from European industry in disused oil fields under the North Sea, the largest project of its kind in the world. All told, existing CCS projects store about 40 million tonnes of CO2 a year – amounting to just 0.1 percent of global emissions. Speaking of the North Sea’s buried secrets, last week DeSmog and the Times revealed that Russian-state owned energy giant Gazprom expects to continue exploring for new reserves in the North Sea, having paid itself a £28 million dividend from drilling operations in the area. Svitlana Romanko, founder of Ukrainian climate group Razom We Stand, was shocked that Gazprom was still being allowed to “fund Russia’s war machine” from North Sea profits. “Justice must be done by the UK government, by ending business with Gazprom,” she told DeSmog. If you're interested in what DeSmog's getting up to around the world, sign up to our international newsletter. As always, we love feedback on the newsletter. If you have anything to say, please email editor@desmog.uk. Image credit: Gary Bembrige/Wikimedia Commons Support DeSmog: donate today! DeSmog exists to hold the powerful to account on their climate pledges. If you think that's important too, then please support us. We are determined to keep DeSmog free to access. But we are independent, meaning we don't take advertising money and we don't have corporate donors. So we rely on the support of you, our dear readers, to continue our work. If you can, please donate today! NEW STORIES Gazprom ‘Anticipates’ Further North Sea Gas Exploration Amid Bumper Profits Gazprom expects to continue exploring for new reserves in the North Sea, having paid itself a £28 million dividend from drilling operations in the area, its latest accounts show. Subsidiaries of the Russian state-owned gas giant still have stakes in multiple fields more than nine months after the invasion of Ukraine began and despite its chief executive being under UK sanctions. Read more... Heritage Foundation Hosts UK Climate Science Denier at Event Opposing ‘Green Energy’ An influential US think tank has hosted a well-known UK climate science denier at an event attacking what one speaker called Europe’s “socialist” net zero policies. The Heritage Foundation panel on December 8, called “Lessons for America from Europe’s Green Energy Disaster”, featured Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Read more... House Committee Wraps Up Historic Investigation Into Oil Industry Congressional investigators released a new set of documents that underscored the oil and gas industry’s ongoing attempts to block climate policies and confuse the public about their long-term investments in fossil fuels. The latest tranche of documents caps off a nearly two-year investigation that appears set to come to an end with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in January. Read more... 1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World Two numbers. One long-term goal. In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. Read more... A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears   For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel. Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. Read more... Flagship EU Farming Reforms in Peril as Lobbyists Exploit Ukraine War Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. 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विश्व गुरु हमें जज करते हैं

सभी मनुष्य अविभाज्य मानवीय गरिमा हैं

ऐसे लोग हैं जो अविभाज्य मानवीय गरिमा को रौंदते हैं

एक परिवार के बराबर विश्व नागरिकता की एकता की कोई बात नहीं हो सकती

प्रस्तावना में आध्यात्मिक अभिजात वर्ग के उपदेश गरीबों, पीड़ितों, कमजोरों पर लागू नहीं होते हैं

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विश्व गुरु हमें जज करते हैं; कि हम छोटे दिमाग वाले हैं जब हम अपने लिए सोचना चाहते हैं और अपनी मान्यताओं और सिद्धांतों का पालन नहीं करना चाहते हैं

die Tatsache

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mit dem Vorwand

der Angst
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wir wollen
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Bewegung
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weiss

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Worte 
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ist derselbe

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ihrer alles
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