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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Sunday 24th November, these are our main stories.
The UN Climate Summit in Azerbaijan has agreed that richer countries will raise their climate finance contribution to support poorer countries to $300 billion a year by 2035.
A day of intense Israel airstrikes and gun battles has left dozens dead in Lebanon, and the Sudanese army says it's recaptured a provincial capital from its paramilitary rivals, the rsf.
Also in this podcast, how artificial intelligence is being harnessed to save red squirrels in the UK and we begin in Azerbaijan.
Saturday was a hectic and chaotic Day at COP 29, the UN climate summit in the country which at times teetered on the brink of collapse.
At one stage, dozens of representatives from small Pacific island nations threatened by rising sea levels walked out, disrupting the summit, which had already overrun by a day.
Then came a final draft proposal aimed at resolving the bitter dispute between the richer and poorer countries countries over climate financing.
The COP 29 document pledged to raise support for underdeveloped countries to $300 billion a year.
By 2035, those countries had demanded 500 billion, but late into the night they agreed to the lower figure.
Before that, there was one smaller breakthrough, an agreement to establish a global market for buying and selling carbon credits.
Earlier On Saturday, the BBC's climate editor Justin Rolat caught up with some of the negotiat as they scuttled from room to room to try to get a sense of what was holding up a deal.
We're a day over the deadline for an agreement and the representatives of dozens of the world's least developed countries have just stormed out of a key meeting.
Cedric Schuster of Samoa represents the world's small island states.