Transport day at COP26

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Attendees at the UN climate conference in Glasgow are focusing on greener transport today. 33 nations and a number of automakers have committed to working towards selling only zero emission new cars in leading markets by 2035. The declaration wasn't signed by the world's two biggest car firms, Toyota and Volkswagen. But Ford did sign up, and we find out more from Cynthia Williams, global sustainability director at the firm. And we get an assessment of whether what's been agreed in Glasgow will make a serious dent in carbon emissions from Julia Poliscanova of the campaign group Transport and Environment. Also in the programme, Afghanistan's ex-finance minister has blamed the government's fall on corrupt officials who invented "ghost soldiers" and took payment from the Taliban. We have an in-depth interview with Khalid Payenda. Plus, Europe's second most powerful court, the General Court, has upheld a 2017 European Union ruling that fined Google $2.8bn for abusing its dominant position in internet search to favour its own comparison service, Google Shopping. Thomas Vinje is a lawyer at Clifford Chance who represented Google's rival internet search companies and explains the background to the case. Today's edition is presented by Mike Johnson, and produced by Vishala Sri-Pathma and Russell Newlove. (Picture: UK transport secretary Grant Shapps charges a car. Picture credit: PA.)