Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett Jones and coming up later in the program we'll get the latest on the US Russian proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine and we'll take a look at the politics of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.
We'll discuss what prompted the firebrand member of President Trump's MAGA movement to call it quits.
But we begin with the conference we've heard so much about over the last month,
the COP30 Climate Change Summit in Brazil.
It's ended with a compromise that would cheers as the COP30 president, Andrei Correia-Delago,
announced that the agreement on a framework to promote a collective understandings in line with the Paris Agreement had been finalized.
United Arab Emirates Just Transition Work Programme.
contained in documents CMA slash 2025 L dot 14.
Typically technical language coming out of COP 30.
Some, despite those cheers, were not all that happy.
Delegates did agree to boost finance for poor nations,
but one person there said they'd never seen so many people so underwhelmed by so little progress at a COP.
One of the key issues was the role of fossil fuels in climate change,
and there was no consensus on that.
So there was no explicit mention of fossil fuels in the final agreement.
It is being put into a so-called roadmap instead.
That has less force behind it.
One of the countries that was unhappy with the final outcome was Panama.