Early bird: China plans to reduce its emissions. Zelensky accused Putin of wanting to expand the war to other countries.
The largest carbon polluter in the world, which is China, will reduce emissions by 7 to 10 percent by 2035. At least that's what her president Xi Jinping claims. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj told the UN General Assembly in New York that Russian operations are already spreading to other countries and Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it.
China Announces New Climate Target
China, which is the world's largest carbon polluter, will reduce emissions by 7 to 10 percent by 2035, announced its president Xi Jinping on Wednesday at a climate summit when the country with the world's largest carbon polluter announced an ambitious target. At the same time, he stated that over the next ten years, China plans to increase the installed capacity of wind and solar energy to more than six times the level of 2020. It also plans to increase its share of non-fossil fuels in domestic energy consumption to more than 30 percent, wrote the television website Al Jazeera.
According to Zelensky, Ukraine is not enough for Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian head of state Vladimir Putin of wanting to expand the war to other countries besides Ukraine. In his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, he also expressed the belief that only weapons and strong partners, not international law, decide who survives.
"We are now experiencing the most destructive arms races in history,"
quoted Zelensky's agency AP.
"Ukraine is only the first. Now Russian drones are flying over Europe and Russian operations are already spreading to other countries and Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it,"
said the Ukrainian president furthermore.
The airport in the Danish city of Aalborg was closed due to drones
The airport in the northern Danish city of Aalborg was closed due to drones in its airspace, Reuters reported overnight, citing the airport's press office. The police stated that the authorities closed the airspace. The airport in the capital, Copenhagen, was already closed on Monday evening due to the flight of drones. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described the flight of drones over the Copenhagen airport as the most serious attack on Danish infrastructure to date. She linked the incident to a series of similar events in Europe recently, such as the recent flight of Russian drones over Poland and Russian fighters over Estonian airspace, the server Ceskenoviny.cz reported.
YouTube to open its platform to those blocked for misinformation about COVID-19
YouTube will offer creators the chance to reconnect to the streaming platform if their content was blocked for violating policies on misinformation about COVID-19 and other topics. The decision to restore blocked accounts, according to the operator, stems from demands for freedom of speech. Technology companies, particularly during the pandemic and following the 2020 elections, cracked down hard on misinformation. Since then, however, they have been under pressure from President Donald Trump and other conservatives, who claim that this process illegally suppresses right-wing voices, AP reported.
Sources: Ceskenoviny.cz, AP, Al Jazeera
