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A suspected tornado has brought down more than 20 trees and forced a number of roads to be closed in part of Staffordshire. The Met Office reported high winds of more than 40mph (64kmph) on Thursday evening for Kidsgrove and the surrounding county. It issued a yellow warning ahead of the approach of Storm Darragh until 03:00 GMT on Friday, covering the West Midlands among other areas, while Staffordshire County Council said it was expecting strong winds and heavy rain. People on social media reported branches in Kidsgrove hitting buildings including a church and some described what they had seen as a "loud tornado". Others said they had seen big trees blown down along with fences and roof tiles. Staffordshire Police said it had reports of 25 trees having been blown down. The Met Office said there were typically about 30 tornadoes a year reported in the UK. They are usually small and short-lived "but can cause structural damage if they pass over built-up areas", a spokesperson said. Paul Phillips, from Kidsgrove, said one of the trees which was brought down by the wind was in his garden. He told the BBC: "I was sat in the back room mending a Christmas decoration and I thought 'what the hell is that noise?' "It was pretty loud and then someone knocked on the door and said you'd better come out the front." He said he planted the tree 30 years ago and was glad it had not injured anyone when it came down. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds , Facebook , X and Instagram .fish protein 。

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Kobe Sanders tied a season high with 27 points as Nevada claimed fifth place in the Charleston Classic with a 90-78 victory over Oklahoma State Sunday afternoon in South Carolina. Sanders helped the Wolfpack (6-1) earn a second win following one-possession games against Vanderbilt and VCU. After hitting the decisive 3-pointer with five seconds left in Friday's 64-61 win over VCU, Sanders made 7 of 10 shots, hit three 3s and sank 10 of 13 free throws Sunday. Nick Davidson added 223 points as Nevada led by as many as 19 and shot 58.9 percent. Brandon Love contributed 11 on 5-of-5 shooting as the Wolfpack scored 46 points in the paint and scored at least 85 for the fourth time this season. Marchelus Avery led the Cowboys (4-2) with 15 points and Arturo Dean added 13. Robert Jennings and Abou Ousmane added 11 apiece but leading scorer Bryce Thompson was held to seven points on 1-of-9 shooting as Oklahoma State shot 42 percent and 73.2 percent (30-of-41) at the line. After Avery's 3 forged a 12-12 tie with 13:41 remaining, Nevada gradually gained separation. The Wolfpack took a 24-15 lead on Chuck Bailey's jumper in the paint with 8:28 left but the Cowboys inched back, getting within 33-31 on a dunk by Avery with 4:11 left. Another Bailey jumper staked Nevada to a 40-33 lead by halftime. Nevada began pulling away early in the second half as it scored eight in a row for a 52-40 lead on a basket by Love with 16:44 left. A 3 by Sanders opened a 62-43 lead with 14:06 remaining before Oklahoma State charged back. After Nevada made eight straight shots, the Cowboys countered with 11 straight points and trailed 62-54 with 11:19 left on a 3-pointer by Avery. Thompson made his first basket by sinking a jumper with 10:37 left to get Oklahoma State within 64-56 left, and Keller's triple cut the margin to 70-64 nearly three minutes later. The Cowboys were within 78-72 on a basket by Avery with 3:56 remaining, but he fouled out about a minute later and the Wolfpack outscored Oklahoma State 12-6 the rest of the way as Sanders sank five free throws. --Field Level MediaESPN college football writers Mark Schlabach and Kyle Bonagura unveiled their latest College Football Playoff projections on Sunday, unanimously predicting one team to make the national championship game in January. While both writers' 12-team bracket predictions featured the same 12 teams, the seeds and the paths each team took through the bracket differed slightly. Still, as the playoff picture comes further into focus, both longtime analysts could agree about one team that's continued to separate itself this fall. Oregon, the lone undefeated team remaining in FBS, was included in both writers' projected national championships. While Bonagura had the Ducks facing off against Texas, Schlabach had them taking on Georgia. © Ken Ruinard / staff / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Both theoretical matchups would put Oregon up against the SEC, a conference it has struggled with historically. Since 2011, the Ducks are just 1-4 against SEC teams. If they want to win their first national championship in school history, they'll need to shake the curse, as both Bonagura and Schlabach have three SEC teams in their projected playoff fields. The Ducks will be in action again on Saturday as they host Washington before heading into the Big Ten Championship Game, which could hold tremendous weight in terms of playoff seeding. If the Ducks win out, they're all but guaranteed the No. 1 seed. If they lose one or both of their next two games, they're more likely to miss out on a bye week. In other words, there's still plenty to be decided about the 2024-25 College Football Playoff field with just one week left in the regular season.

Activists participate in a demonstration with a sign that says "we don't have another year!" at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. via Associated Press The UN’s annual environment summit is meant to be a place where countries come together and agree to act on tackling the climate crisis. But the 29th gathering of the conference of the parties (COP29) seemed more fractious than ever, with some representatives even walking out of the final negotiations. Advertisement Despite the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warning that “failure was not an option” last Thursday – and scientists fearing that 2024 may be the hottest year on record – many countries now feel betrayed by the final agreement of this year’s summit. Described as “one of the most poorly led and chaotic COP meetings ever” with offerings from developed countries written off as mere “crumbs”, here’s a look at the issues which split the conference. The big one: climate finance The primary target of this year’s COP was to come up with a new sum for how much money should be sent to developing countries to help them recover from climate emergencies while also transition to cleaner energy systems. Advertisement COP previously agreed to offer those countries $100 billion (£79bn) per year, but that deal expires in 2025. Experts believe the world now need to aim to raise around $1.3 trillion (£1.08trn) per year by the end of the decade to meet the needs of vulnerable countries. But a draft of the final COP29 text shows the fund only reaching $250 billion a year by 2035 instead – a number most delegates from developing nations did not think was anywhere near enough. Advertisement After representatives from small island nations walked out of negotiations in fury, the number was increased to £300 billion – which is still a long way off the target. The least developed countries and island states - the moral voices of climate justice - have walked out of the talks as they refuse to be associated with a text that will undermine climate action for the next decade #NoDealIsBetterThanABadDeal pic.twitter.com/cqu3eGBHnp — Mohamed Adow (@mohadow) November 23, 2024 That sum would also be given to the developing world in grants and low-interest loans from wealthier countries. It would only increase to the £1.3tn figure if private investors or extra taxes on fossil fuels were introduced for individual countries. The deal eventually secured the approval of all attending nations on Saturday night, but the sum was dismissed as an “abysmally poor” amount by India’s negotiator Chandni Raina. Advertisement Claiming the decision was not reached by consensus, she said : “This document is little more than an optical illusion.” The bloc of least developed countries (LDC) – constituting of 45 countries and 1.1 billion people – also claimed the agreement unpicked three years of negotiations on climate finance. And Panama’s special representative for climate change, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, said: “Developed nations always throw text at us at the last minute, shove it down our throat, and then, for the sake of multilateralism, we always have to accept it, otherwise the climate mechanisms will go into a horrible downward spiral, and no one needs that.” Speaking before the deal was struck, he also slammed the suggested $250bn sum, saying it was a “spit on the face of vulnerable nations like mine”. Advertisement He added: “They offer crumbs while we bear the dead. Outrageous, evil and remorseless.” Similarly, the charity ActionAid UK said: “There’s no sugarcoating it: this text is a complete catastrophe and a farce. “With floods and droughts tearing through the Global South, the goal announced remains a drop in the ocean compared to the trillions needed to help climate-hit communities adapt and recover, especially women and girls who are among the worst impacted.” But others still felt the overall sum was too high – and too much pressure was on developed countries to pay up. One European negotiator told Reuters : “No one is comfortable with the number, because it’s high and (there is) next to nothing on increasing contributor base.” Advertisement “They offer crumbs while we bear the dead.” - Panama's special representative for climate change, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez Some nations also raged that the funds would be shared with countries that had stronger economies, like India. Others complained the offering was only a fraction of what was being spent on war globally in the last few years and pointed out that there was a lack of definition around what exactly they mean by climate finance. What about the 1.5C limit? The Paris Agreement, from COP21, saw 196 countries pledge to limit the global temperature increase to just 1.5C compared to pre-industrial levels. Advertisement The world is already dangerously close to that target. At the present rate of progress, it’s expected to reach 1.5C by 2040. A climate scientist at Berkeley Earth told Bloomberg that the 1.5C limit has been “deader than a door nail” for some time now. There have therefore been some argument that COP’s ongoing goal of staying below 1.5C is pointless, because they believe it is no longer feasible. However, it is still a symbol of the pressing climate crisis and so it remained a pivotal part of the talks. Advertisement As Imperial College London’s professor Professor Joeri Rogelj said : “Much has been said about whether limiting warming to 1.5C is still possible, and the odds are no longer in the world’s favour on this one. “However, with every fraction of a degree of warming, life on earth will become much more dangerous. It doesn’t matter what the number is. Every country has to deliver emissions reductions that are as deep as they can possibly be.” Extreme weather: People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024. via Associated Press The questionable hosts Last year, COP was controversial because it was held in the UAE, which makes most of its money through fossil fuels. Advertisement This year, it had the same problem – oil and gas make up 90% of Azerbaijan’s exports and fossil fuel interests. The president of the hosting nation, Azerbaijan leader Ilham Aliyev, even praised oil and gas as a “gift of God” when the summit started. He also accused western nations of “double standards” for buying fossil fuels from his country while urging the world to go green. So it is no surprise that Mohamed Adow, director of the climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, laid into the hosts of this year’s conference. Advertisement He said it was “one of the most poorly led and chaotic COP meetings ever”, saying this presidency is “one of the worst in recent memory”. Speaking shortly before an agreement was reached, he said: “We only have a matter of hours remaining to save this COP from being remembered as a failure for the climate and embarrassment for the rich world. “We need Mukhtar Babayev [COP29 president] to get his act together.” Babayev is a veteran of the oil industry, and Azerbaijan’s ecology and natural resources minister. Adow added: “No deal is better than a bad deal. Poor countries don’t need to be held hostage in Baku. If rich countries fail to deliver what they owe in climate finance, then they should be forced to come back next year in Brazil with a better plan.” Fossil Fuels – are they in or out? COP26′s president Alok Sharma was left in tears in 2021 when the wording on reducing dependency on coal was watered down in the 11th hour negotiations for the final agreement. Advertisement COP27 just kept the same wording – a promise to reduce dependency on coal – without expanding it to natural gas or oil, or offering a time frame. COP28 managed to move the dial a bit more, so countries pledged to transition away from all fossil fuels. But this year, the European states who want countries to promise to move away from the fossil fuel industry faced backlash from Arab states. Then Saudi Arabia was even criticised for obstructing much of the final text, and allegedly tried to remove references to “transition away from fossil fuels”. Advertisement In the end, COP29 just repeated that pledge to move away from the carbon-emitting industry but without strengthening it or offering a time line. Still, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay told HuffPost UK that COP itself remains a strong forum which “offers the chance to bring nations together to act and move away from the fossil fuel economies that are destroying our planet and making life intolerable for millions in the global South.” He added: “A COP that excludes the fossil fuel companies and their lobbying arms while supporting representatives of countries and indigenous peoples most impacted by climate change can transform all our futures.” An attendee reacts during a closing plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) via Associated Press Advertisement Where were all the major players? There was a noticeable absence of major world leaders at this year’s COP. Neither US president Joe Biden nor Chinese leader Xi Jinping turned up, despite leading the world’s two largest economies (which also have the largest carbon footprint.) UK PM Keir Starmer was one of only two G7 leaders who spoke at the summit. For an ambassador from One Young World – a youth forum which sent a delegation of activists to Baku this year – that was not enough. Bodhi Patil, a climate “solutionist” from Canada and CEO of Inner Light said it was “deeply concerning” leaders from major polluting countries were absent this year, especially the when fossil fuel lobby had 1,700 representatives there – making it the fourth-largest delegation. But he told HuffPost UK: “We can’t wait for global leaders to take action. “It falls to grassroots movements, indigenous leaders, and local communities to drive change and hold the world accountable for climate finance commitments.” Advertisement The final lacklustre deal also meant even those who did attend were under fire for claiming to be climate leaders – like the British. The UK’s nature representative Ruth Davis said “the UK continues lead the way” at COP29, prompting ActionAid to accuse the government of trying to put a “shine on a terrible deal”. It said the agreement was a “far cry from [Labour’s] lofty claims of putting climate change at the heart of foreign policy only months ago.” Corporations over indigenous voices Before the deal concluded, scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Bill Hare warned that it was a “step back” not to include small islands and the least developed countries more in negotiations. Advertisement Similarly, another One Young World ambassador told HuffPost UK his hope that this year’s summit could be different were dashed. The founder of Barlig Rainforest Coffee Project and Indigenous Youth Eco-Cultural Warriors of Mountain Province, Daniel Maches said he wanted COP to bring “concrete solutions” while recognising indigenous rights. “It is our ancestral domains that are looked upon as vital in combating GHG emissions, so they should be as loud as any others at a summit like COP,” he said. However, he added: “There is a tendency for these events to focus on spectacle rather than impact. I was hopeful that COP would be different, but it’s shown that world leaders aren’t taking climate change seriously. How can they be when corporate players continue to lobby and control government initiatives? Advertisement “I am hopeful that things can improve, and young people in particular push to actualise effective climate policies. “But COP29 hasn’t alleviated my fear that the climate crisis is slipping beyond our grasp, and that farmers and indigenous peoples - whose survival is inextricably linked with the land - will suffer the most.” What about next year? Donald Trump , who is returning to the White House in January, is expected to have a major impact on the overall fight against the climate crisis. He pulled the US – which is world’s top historic greenhouse gas emitter – out of the Paris Agreement (1.5C limit) during his first term in office. Advertisement He is expected to have an even stronger impact on the global environmental challenge in his second term too, having already shown a preference for fracking. Even away from the US’s impact, it looks like the next summit is already beset with its own challenges. Set to be held in Belem’s Brazil, the impoverished city has been racing to prepare to host the next COP, trying to clean up its river filled with untreated sewage and garbage quickly before thousands of delegates descend. There are also heavy expectations that COP30 will be a turning point, marking three decades of climate negotiation. Advertisement But perhaps that’s a reasonable expectation. After the disaster and division of COP29, things certainly can’t get too much worse. Related Climate Change climate crisis cop29 COP29: Host Of Climate Change Summit Praises Oil And Gas As 'Gift Of God' COP29: Are We Losing Faith In The World's Largest Climate Summit? Exclusive: Brits Warn Labour Not To Let Donald Trump Derail Fight Against Climate ChangeDaniel Penny Manslaughter Charge Dismissed; Legal Debate over Lesser Charge; Jury to Return MondayInternational Business Machines Corp. stock underperforms Thursday when compared to competitors despite daily gains

Pittsburgh quarterback Eli Holstein was carted off the field with 5:32 left in the first quarter with an apparent left ankle injury during Saturday's Atlantic Coast Conference game against host Louisville. The freshman was sacked at the Panthers' 49-yard line by Louisville's Ashton Gillotte, who rolled on the quarterback's ankle. Holstein was in a walking boot as he was helped to the cart. Holstein missed last week's game against Clemson after suffering a head injury in the loss to Virginia two weeks ago. Holstein was 3-for-5 passing for 51 yards and an interception before exiting. Nate Yarnell, who threw for 350 yards in the loss to Clemson, replaced Holstein. --Field Level MediaPutin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza receives award at Canadian security forum

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The Prime Minister used an op-ed in the Mail on Sunday to vow to “get to grips” with the cost of welfare after figures suggested more than four million people will be claiming long-term sickness support by the end of the decade. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will announce a package of legislation next week designed to “get Britain working” amid Government concerns about the projected rise. Official forecasts published by her department this week show that the number of people claiming incapacity benefits is expected to climb from a pre-pandemic figure of around 2.5 million in 2019 to around 4.2 million in 2029. Last year there were just over three million claimants. The Prime Minister wrote: “In the coming months, Mail on Sunday readers will see even more sweeping changes. Because make no mistake, we will get to grips with the bulging benefits bill blighting our society. “Don’t get me wrong, we will crack down hard on anyone who tries to game the system, to tackle fraud so we can take cash straight from the banks of fraudsters. “There will be a zero-tolerance approach to these criminals. My pledge to Mail on Sunday readers is this: I will grip this problem once and for all.” Ms Kendall’s white paper is expected to include the placement of work coaches in mental health clinics and a “youth guarantee” aimed at ensuring those aged 18-21 are working or studying.