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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. With a government reopening this week, air traffic controllers have been paid for the first time in more than a month.
--:-- Joel Rose: NPR's Joel Rose reports the Federal Aviation Administration says they have controllers received their first installment of their back pay. Air traffic controllers received about 70% of the take-home pay they earned during the shutdown, according to the Department of Transportation.
--:-- Joel Rose: They're supposed to get the rest later this month, including any overtime or shift differential pay they've earned. Those can be significant sums because many controllers work six days a week with mandatory overtime.
--:-- Joel Rose: Controllers had been required to work without pay since the shutdown began. Some took on second jobs and many called out sick, leading to staffing shortages at many air traffic control facilities.
--:-- Joel Rose: But most controllers now seem to be back at work, with only a handful of staffing shortages reported in recent days.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The FAA has begun taking steps to restore flights at the nation airports citing improvements in staffing levels at air traffic facilities.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Traffic reductions at dozen major airports will be lowered from 6 percent to 3 percent this weekend.
--:-- Giles Snyder: At the annual UN Climate Summit, host country Brazil's proposal for an accelerated roadmap away from fossil fuels appears to be gathering support.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Developed countries such as Germany and Britain and developing nations, including Kenya, are backing a scheme that would see the world move away from coal, oil and gas at a faster rate.
--:-- Chris Bowen: Australia's Energy Minister Chris Bowen is also on board. Renewable energy investment doubled. The investment in fossil fuels around the world, $2 trillion, which shows that the rest of the world understands that what's good for the planet is good for your pocket.
--:-- Chris Bowen: And we understand that in Australia as well. The Australian government knows it. The Australian industry knows it.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The summit being held in Brazil, hundreds of demonstrators marched today.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Trump administration declined to send a U.S. delegation to the summit.
--:-- Giles Snyder: YouTube television subscribers can now access Disney programming again after a two-week blackout prompted by a contract dispute.
--:-- Matt Bloom: NPR's Matt Bloom reports the two media companies settled on a distribution deal late Friday.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Disney executives said in a statement they were restoring content in time for viewers to watch weekend programming including college football games on ESPN.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The company pulled its channels from YouTube TV late last month after talks broke down.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Disney said the streaming giant had refused to pay fair rates, while YouTube TV said Disney was proposing costly terms that would lead to higher prices.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The companies didn't release specific terms, but YouTube said it preserves value in its service.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Morgan Stanley analysts estimated that the lockout cost Disney about $30 million a week.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Alphabet, which owns YouTube TV and Google, is a financial supporter of NPR.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump says he will sue the BBC, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he will likely seek up to $5 billion.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The BBC has apologized for a wrongly edited video of a speech Trump delivered on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol, but says there is no legal basis for his claim.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A hearing is set for next week on OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's efforts to settle thousands of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Yesterday a bankruptcy judge said he plans to approve the deal which would require members of the Sackler family to pay up to billion in overtime.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Purdue filed for bankruptcy back in 2019.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Bridget Jones is to be celebrated with a new statue in London's Leicester Square, 25 years after the first film came out.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Vicki Parker reports from London. Immortalized in bronze, moments like this.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Why is it there are so many unmarried women in their 30s these days, Bridget?
--:-- Renee Zellweger: Playing Bridget Jones, actor Renee Zellweger. Well, I don't know. I suppose it doesn't help that underneath our clothes, our entire bodies are covered in scales.
--:-- Helen Fielding: Helen Fielding, whose newspaper column started it all, told the BBC Bridget is messy, funny, deeply human and deeply British.
--:-- Helen Fielding: To have a character like that endure for three decades and end up as a statue in Leicester Square is wonderful.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Fielding and Zellweger will be present at Monday's unveiling.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. And I'm Giles Snyder.
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