Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to a BBC journalist being “humbled” by Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali when questioned about carbon emissions.
The President hit out at BBC journalist Stephen Sackur after being asked if the country planned to extract oil and gas along its coast.
He went on to criticise the journalist for trying to “lecture” the country on climate change when its forest stores 19.5 Gigatons of carbon.
“Fancy berating the leader of a country with the fastest growing economy in the world, the arrogance, the smug, sanctimonious arrogance of the BBC,” Ms Panahi said.
“Why shouldn’t a relatively poor South American nation enrich itself and its citizens via fossil fuels?
“Just like every other advanced economy has done.”
31 мар 2024