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It must, for who wants to be surprised all the time? Rowland Manthorpe is the technology correspondent at Sky News. He found a serious issue in European efforts to tackle competition issues posed by the Silicon Valley giants. This is his analysis.

In a wide-ranging interview at the start of her second term as European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager acknowledged reforms demanded from firms such as Google don't "necessarily change anything" because the companies had "already won the market". She cast doubt on the effectiveness of future changes to Google's Android mobile operating system, saying she was "not holding my breath". But although Ms Vestager said Google would be introducing a "preference menu", offering users a choice of different browsers in the new year, she admitted she was not sure whether it would work.

She told Sky News: "One of the very impressive competencies of Google as a company is their competence of making people make choices. Asked if she meant that Google would drive users towards its own products, she replied: "This is why it will be very interesting to see, how will such a menu of different options - how would that actually work?

Ms Vestager is beginning a second term as European commissioner for competition, with an expanded role that has seen her labelled the 'most powerful regulator of big tech on the planet'.

In her first term, she levied record-breaking fines against Google and forced Amazon and Apple to pay huge sums in unpaid tax, drawing the ire of US President Donald Trump who said she must "hate the US". Yet although she said she had been able to stop companies breaking European competition law, and punish past misconduct, she acknowledged that "recovery of the markets" was a "work in progress".

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, and now a number of national agencies and private companies are planning on returning mankind to the moon by The US space agency NASA plans to not only return to the moon before , but to journey beyond it and land a human on Mars , although that may not take place within the decade.

Marking the 50th anniversary since the Apollo 11 mission in which humans first stepped onto the moon, Mr Bridenstine has told Sky News the agency is sending a woman to the moon in Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, has claimed it would be easier for his company to land on the moon first rather than try to convince NASA that the company is up to the task.

An even richer billionaire, Jeff Bezos, has also announced his plans for his own private space exploration company Blue Origin to send a spaceship to the moon. China's space agency also landed a lunar rover this year as part of its Chang'e 4 mission which has been on the dark side of the moon since January.

The head of the China National Space Administration, Zhang Kejian, has announced its plans to land human crew on the south pole of the moon within the next 10 years.

Watch Live. Fill 2 Copy 11 Created with Sketch. Monday 6 January , UK. And question marks also hang over a key plank of the new plan, which is to try to remove the link to deforestation from consumer goods sold in developed countries. One aspect is eating meat from animals, raised on imported soy grown on cleared lands.

Will governments push companies and consumers to eat less meat to save the world's most important forests? Ecologist Dr Nigel Sizer called the agreement "a big deal" - but that some will find the target of disappointing.

The deal's signatories include a number of key countries. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil , a product found in everything from shampoo to biscuits. Production is driving tree destruction and territory loss for indigenous people. Meanwhile, Russia's huge natural forests, with more than one fifth of the planet's trees, capture more than 1.

In the planet's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, deforestation accelerated to a year high in under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Asked whether leaders like Brazil's Mr Bolsonaro could be trusted to abide by the pledge, the UK's Environment Secretary George Eustice said "we should be really positive when countries engage". It's a big step for them. But pressed on whether the agreement will be enforceable, Mr Eustice said: "It doesn't go as far into talking about enforcement mechanisms and so forth, that's not the nature of these agreements.

He said what was different about this pledge in particular is that there is "the finance to back [it] up". US President Joe Biden said he was "confident" the global pledge could be met, telling world leaders: "All we need to do is summon the will and do what we know is right.

We can do this. Read more about the COP26 summit here. Ana Yang, executive director at Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator, who co-wrote the report Rethinking the Brazilian Amazon , said: "This deal involves more countries, more players and more money. But the devil is in the detail which we still need to see.

But many people living in the Amazon, including in its urban areas, depend on the forest for their livelihoods and they need support in finding new incomes, she added.

Prince Charles told COP26 delegates that nations had to "honour" the rights of indigenous people as they were "experienced custodians" of their habitats. And speaking to members of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities - representing 24 countries with tropical rainforests - he said: "We've got to work harder to save your forests, for all our sakes. Tuntiak Katan, from the Coordination of Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Basin, welcomed the deal, saying that funds should be invested in supporting indigenous communities who are able to manage and protect forests.

Without us, no money or policy can stop climate change," he said. One of the biggest causes of forest loss in Brazil is to grow soy beans, much of which goes to China and Europe for animal feed for pigs and chickens, said Dr Sizer.

It's a very serious problem that we're all connected with. Trees are one of our major defences in a warming world. They suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, acting as so-called carbon sinks. They absorb around one third of global CO2 emitted each year. Under present targets, the world is on track for warming of 2. Currently an area of forest the size of 27 football pitches is lost every minute. Without such actions, the middle class in emerging economies will continue to surge ahead while remaining stagnant in the U.

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