Jane Deith blogs:

Gordon Brown has warned of “climate catastrophe” unless the world can come to some sort of agreement to tackle global warming.

In the East Midlands town of Kettering people don’t need convincing climate change is real, they’ve woken up and smelled the carbon.

The United Nations came to Kettering to ask 100 of its ‘global citizens’ what kind of climate deal they want the world to cut in Copenhagen.

Their verdict was harsh, but fair. read more

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Photographs of science correspondent Julian Rush, travelling with British astronaut Tim Peake to see the space shuttle Discovery launch.

Pictures courtesy of their cameraman, Dai Baker.

Lightning above the lauch pad postpones the Discovery’s first liftoff slot. read more

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I’m looking for someone to tile my bathroom; do you think I could get NASA to do the job?

I’m standing underneath the belly of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The urge to reach up and touch the hundreds of heat-streaked tiles on the underside of the space craft a couple of feet above my head is almost impossible to resist. read more

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“You’re Tim Peake, aren’t you?  The new British astronaut?” read more

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Our team have been blogging all last week from Afghanistan on the elections, but they’re not the only ones commenting.

Soldiers who know the front line only too well have been posting their comments on our blogs, including Lt Col Brown on Nick Paton Walsh’s reports from his embed at Camp Keating.

Read, digest and feel free to join the debate.

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For the past week the Channel 4 News team has been on the frontline of the Afghan elections.

The team has been with soldiers in Helmand to the hospital wards of Kandahar and into the halls of political power – it’s been a week of insight and analysis.

The pictures displayed were taken from our team based in Kabul, showing cameraman Soren Munk at work.  

On Monday we had a special report from inside one of the US army’s remote outposts on the Pakistani border. Nick Paton Walsh and cameraman Stuart Webb encountered the reality of the conflict as they came under heavy fire whilst on patrol with coalition forces.

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Nima Elbagir guest blogs from Kandahar hospital, Afghanistan. The pictures are taken by and copyrighted to Jacob Simkin. 

When the Obama administrations’ then nominee for the top job in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal faced the Senate Armed Services committee in early June his message was unequivocal – civilian casualties were the major operational issue.

“This is a critical point. It may be the critical point. This is a struggle for the support of the Afghan people.”

Just under a fortnight later the British launched Operation Panther’s Claw in the North of Helmand, quickly followed by the US’s Operation Strike of the Sword to the south. Both designed to clean out the Taliban stronghold that Helmand had become.

A month into Panther’s claw we travelled to Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar City.

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Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb comes under fire as he video-blogs from the “incredibly dangerous” Camp Keating US Army base in Afghanistan.

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I feel as if I went to bed in one country and woke up in another.

Yesterday, I saw thousands of Iranians laughing and happy as they queued in the sunshine to vote. Today, thuggish looking secret policemen with walkie-talkies stood on every street corner, while riot police with truncheons roared around the city on motorbikes beating up the same young people who had been dancing in the streets earlier in the week. The air was full of smoke and menace. read more

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