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Climate change: Australia pledges net zero carbon emissions by 2050

The 2050 target controversially omits new short-term goals and cuts to fossil fuel industries.

The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has announced a plan to lower emissions, but said it would not include shutting down the country's massive fossil fuel sectors. So what does this pledge mean in practice?

Sudan's coup has been condemned around the world. We speak to the Prime Minister's former deputy chief of staff, to a film-maker and to the UN in Sudan.

And we go to Afghanistan and what's being called a countdown to catastrophe - a special report from Herat where families are forced to sell their children for food.

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  • Tue 26 Oct 2021 05:06GMT