Alex Ritson

Heidän takanaan on jo tehty rauhallisuusoperaatiota. Heavaa maatilannetta, joka yrittää tukea haastatteluun. Mutta se ei ole mitään verrattuna diplomatiikkalaisuuteen eteenpäin, jossa on jäänyt rauhassa, jossa on jäänyt rauhassa. Joo, inward.

At a time when the supply of oil and gas from the Middle East is coming under increasing pressure, the focus is switching in many countries to renewable energy. According to the energy think tank Ember, a record number of solar and wind farms were installed around the world last year.

Meanwhile in the US the Trump administration has announced it's paying the French company Total Energies one billion dollars to walk away from its contracts to supply wind power off the coasts of North Carolina and New York. Making the announcement on Monday the US interior minister Doug Burgum said the company will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead.

Here's our environment correspondent, Matt McGrath. I think, Alex, if you look at what Doug Burgum, the US Interior Secretary, said in his comments there, one of the key words was the word secure. And security, national security, is an element that the Trump administration has tried to use against wind energy. President Trump's antipathy towards wind has long been known.

Famously in 2012 gave evidence against a wind farm off his golf course in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. And he has in his presidency tried to essentially move the country away from wind. And they tried last year to shut down five wind farms on the grounds of national security. And they issued stop work orders, but those orders were thrown out by the courts. This new tactic now seems to be to go to the companies and offer to pay them back the money they've spent on leases, which they got under the Biden administration.

He've done that with Total, and they're going to pay them back $928 million. In return, Total are scrapping the leases. They're also committing not to build any other wind in North America, and also to invest in liquid natural gas and gas plants in Texas. And according to Total, the company, they said it's a win-win situation for them. They say it's a pragmatic decision. They've changed their mind on the importance of wind since President Trump came to office.

They're not renouncing onshore wind, but they think offshore wind is too expensive to make electricity from. Is the US an outlier in this respect, though? Surely the trend in many countries is towards renewables.

Kyllä, hyvin paljon. Ja kuten Emberin kertoisi aiemmin, ratkaisut osoittavat, että viime vuonna kohdallaan kohdallaan kohdallaan kohdallaan kohdallaan kohdallaan

But it does depend on where you are. Very much developing countries have embraced renewables very much. So China is racing ahead with renewables while also building a lot of coal. And countries like the United States are essentially also looking at going back to coal in some respects. And we've seen that from the President Trump's administration. A greater emphasis on trying to make the Department of Defense buy electricity from coal-fired stations to enhance the life of these particular assets. So very much a different picture from different parts of the world on this issue.

Very briefly though, away from the environmental arguments, do they have a point? I mean their own gas is presumably more secure than a lot of things. Well it's a very tough question on the question of gas itself. I mean yes the United States is world leader in producing gas so it's quite a safe supply for them. I think though there's more a political and ideological aspect to the

Kiitos kun katsoit videon.

Matt McGraw. To Cuba now, which has spent most of its weekend without power. The Trump administration's fuel blockade has meant that no oil shipments have reached the country in three months. Some of the worst affected are the elderly, children and pregnant women, with many saying that they've received no state support and are frightened at the prospect of having a baby during a blackout. Our correspondent Will Grant reports from Havana.

As Washington shows no sign of letting up its near total oil blockade on Cuba, most hospitals on the island have been plunged into darkness. Many are only accepting emergency cases. But the lights inside Havana's specialist maternity and neonatal hospital, the Ramon González Coro, have stayed on throughout the crisis. How much time is left? Next week.

Kukaan ei ymmärrä, kun tapaamme yhden asiakkaan, Mauren Echavarria Peñaa. 26-vuotias, ensimmäinen lapsi, lapsi, tulee myöhemmin viikkoon. Mauren on ollut kohtuullisesti kohtuullisessa perässä, sillä hänellä on järjestäytynyt diabetesi ja kroninen hypotensio. Hän ei ole jätetty peräopetuksen, koska se alkoi kolme kuukautta aiemmin.

Me ha puesto los medicamentos, me ha puesto las insulinas. Things have been tough, admits Mauren, with her doctors watching on. But here in the hospital they've done everything they can for me. They've given me the medicines and insulin I need for the health of the baby and the placenta. She says, though, that the rolling blackouts have her worried about the impending birth. Me ha puesto los medicamentos, me ha puesto las insulinas.

Viikon jälkeen kansainvälinen yhdistykset, kuten USA-ryhmä Code Pink, tuli Havannaan ja laittoi Cubaa vahvistumaan. Heille ottiin tuotantoja, kuten Gonsalves-Coron-maternityhospitoilta. Kun presidentti Yhdysvallan käyttää kolonialaista kieltä, että minä otan sen, jos haluan. Tämä on sama kieli, joka käytetään Palestinein ja Gazaan. Tämä on sama kieli.

Cuba's aging Politburo and President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised unwavering support to the revolution. The governments used the visit of international pro-Cuba groups to highlight a simple message, that the island's not alone.

However, conditions for most ordinary Cubans remain near unbearable. And while Maoren says she's been well cared for during her difficult pregnancy, many of the other 32,000 pregnant women on the island say they've had to face these extremely challenging conditions with no tangible support from the state.

Indira Martínez is one of them. Seven months pregnant, she invited me into her home in the middle of a power cut.

With no working stove or fridge, her calorific intake has dropped significantly in the last few months of her pregnancy. Her husband is also worried about her stress levels. I haven't received any of the humanitarian aid sent to Cuba.