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This is bbc news. welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im rich preston. our top stories: hospitals overwhelmed in sierra leone after a hundred people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion. many more are injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. the death of a pregnant woman sparks protests in poland against the countrys near—total ban on abortion. shes said to be the...

Could say was, well, the market is transitioning. presumably, all the scientists would say, yes, but not fast enough! i think thats true. there was a very neat narrative earlier this year. president trump gets elected, comes into office, very quickly reinstates americas membership of the paris agreement, which donald trump had taken american out of. very quickly announces a summit. on that day, in april, announces his own plan for america to halve its emissions by 2030 — extremely ambitious, a...

As a delivery summit. its a summit where people have made all kinds of promises to do all kinds of stuff, net zero by 2050, and all that kind of thing, but, actually, what everyone is looking for, what the science is looking for, is action very soon in the coming years and, until the building blocks are in place in washington, its very hard to see how joe biden can deliver. i see read that are ways and mechanisms and so forth but, at the moment, im definitely picking up in the corridors here que...

This is bbc news. im rich preston. our top stories: hospitals overwhelmed after a hundred people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion in sierra leone with many more injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. thousands of demonstrations take place around the world to demand urgent action to combat climate change as the cop26 summit continues. and the death of a pregnant woman sparks protests in...

This is bbc news. im reged ahmad with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. hospitals overwhelmed — after 100 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion in sierra leone — many more are injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. thousands of demonstrations take place around the world to demand urgent action to combat climate change — as the cop26 summit continu...

This is bbc world news. im rich preston. our top stories: hospitals overwhelmed in sierra leone after a hundred people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion. many more are injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. rapper travis scott was on stage at the time. the death of a pregnant woman sparks protests in poland against the countrys near—total ban on abortion. shes said to be the first wom...

Welcome to bbc news — im rich preston. our top stories: hospitals overwhelmed in sierra leone after 100 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion. many more are injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. the death of a pregnant woman sparks protests in poland against the countrys near—total ban on abortion. shes said to be the first woman to die as a result of the law. and demonstrations...

Welcome to bbc news — im rich preston. our top stories: hospitals overwhelmed in sierra leone after 100 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion. many more are injured. us police are investigating reports that someone at a houston music festival was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded. demonstrations around the world demanding urgent action to combat climate change as the cop26 summit continues. and the death of a pregnant woman sparks protests in poland against the coun...

Summit in 2015, there were multiple visits by all kinds of world leaders to beijing. clearly, covid is a factor, but i think it illustrates how difficult it has been for the uk to have any influence and they cant really control. i think they are trying to look at other parties, like the eu, perhaps the americans, to bring some influence. there has been a phone call between boris johnson and president xi but there is limited influence and the hope must be that others can bring some influence to b...

How are the british as the kind of chair of this event handling this? do you get a sense as you talk to officials off the record that they have a strategy for engaging china on this issue? its a great question and its very sensitive and very difficult. because however you look at it, relations between the uk and china are not exactly brilliant. you can pick from a long list of topics that cause tension. hong kong, for example. chinas treatment of the uighurs. the fact that the royal navy has jus...