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Tens of thousands to descend on Westminster this weekend in biggest protest against climate inaction
TENS of thousands of people are expected to descend on Westminster this weekend to join Britain’s biggest ever protest against the combined climate emergency and political crisis.
The four-day action organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR), which will be joined by actors, authors, musicians, trade unionists and human rights activists, is demanding that the government takes immediate action to tackle the linked crises.
“People’s pickets” were formed outside 16 government buildings earlier today to kick off the campaign of protest, calling for urgent new policies to tackle the climate emergency affecting people and communities across the country.
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Further details can be found on the XR website.
EU Lawmakers call on UK to scrap Rosebank oilfield plan ahead of summit
https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/west-of-shetland/497677/eu-lawmakers-call-on-uk-to-scrap-rosebank-oilfield-plan/
A group of 40 European Union lawmakers have called on UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to scrap plans to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field ahead of an energy summit next week.
Members of the European Parliament, led by Michael Bloss from the Green party, said in a letter seen by Bloomberg that development of the project operated by Equinor ASA threatens globally agreed climate targets.
“It is evident that the exploration and development of new oil and gas fields is incompatible with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius,” said the letter, signed by a cross-group selection of MEPs and sent to Sunak. “Rejecting the proposed Rosebank oil field would be a step in the right direction.”
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https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/north-sea/west-of-shetland/497677/eu-lawmakers-call-on-uk-to-scrap-rosebank-oilfield-plan/
BBC issues correction after saying Corbyn refused to apologise on antisemitism
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/antisemitism-bbc-correction-corbyn-refused-apology
Clarification published over false Newsnight claim following ban on former leader running as Labour candidate
The BBC has published a correction after a news item last month falsely claimed that former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not apologised over antisemitism in the party.
The clarification referred to an episode of the flagship current affairs programme Newsnight on 28 March, following the decision by Labour’s executive committee to ban Corbyn from standing as a candidate in the next election.
The programme referenced Corbyn’s alleged “refusal to offer up any kind of apology” over accusations of antisemitism in the party under his watch.
It also questioned whether the former leader would refuse to apologise “as he has all the way up to now”, if the issue of antisemitism arose in an election campaign.
“To be clear, Mr Corbyn apologised for antisemitism in Labour on a number of occasions as Party Leader, including ahead of a meeting with Jewish community leaders in April 2018,” the BBC said on Thursday, in an entry on its “Corrections and Clarifications” page.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/antisemitism-bbc-correction-corbyn-refused-apology