On today's podcast, we hear from Radjendra Pachauri, head of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, he says developing nations such as China and India are unlikely to sign up to any post-Kyoto emissions deal unless rich nations take more of a lead. But while the US government drags its feet, economic realities are forcing the pace - a US oil magnate, T Boone Pickens, is building the world's biggest wind farm in Texas. Our correspondent, Ed PIlkington, meets him.
There's to be a recount in some constituencies in Zimbabwe, as President Robert Mugabe's government defies international pressure to release the result of elections there. A summit of regional governments in Zambia at the weekend has produced nothing of note, says our correspondent in Harare, Chris McGreal.
Tickets for the music festival at Glastonbury in south-west England usually sell out within a few hours. But this year, there are still spare tickets, more than a week after they went on sale. Organiser Emily Eavis defends this year's much-criticised lineup, which is headed by the US rapper Jay-Z.
David Hencke joins me from Westminster where there's news of a Cabinet split on terror laws plus more pressure on the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin.
The new head of the arts council in England, Alan Davey, has got his work cut out. Last December's funding settlement went down badly in the arts world, and he admits to the Guardian that relations between the council and the bodies it funds are in a tricky state.
