Contact with her. Hello and welcome to world news today. Millions of people, including many children, have been taking part in demonstrations around the world, demanding tougher action on Climate Change. This was the scene in new york, which is the latest city to see another climate strike by pupils skipping school to join the protests. The teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who protested alone outside the Swedish Parliament last year to draw attention to Climate Change, is leading the demonstration. Similar protests have been seen in cities in more than 150 countries. With the story of one of the biggest co ordinated global protests on record, lets hear from our correspondents around the world. There have been more than 100 events gcioss there have been more than 100 events across austria as this country sta rts across austria as this country starts to kick start a global day of action. Thousands of people have gathered here in sydney to campaign for what they are calling Climate Justice across australia. I was talking to a high school student, a teenager, and she said she was too scared to think about ever having children because the future was far too bleak. What they want is for australia to have no new coal, oil 01 australia to have no new coal, oil or gas projects and also to shift to 100 Renewable Energy. Will be per minister Scott Morrison be swayed by all of this . Probably not will be per minister . He said there has been too much activism in classrooms. Lam in i am in new delhi, in front of environment of ministry and sciences, they have joined the Global Climate try. It started off withjust a few Global Climate try. It started off with just a few hundred people but the crowd quickly swelled into several hundred. What do we want . Climate justice . When do we wanted . 0ver Climate Justice . When do we wanted . Over the last hour, there have been hundreds of people gathering here, many of them with her home made placards. 0bviously, many of them with her home made placards. Obviously, there are many students, school age children, university students. You might be able to hear in the background, the speeches have started. They are to go on until 3pm this afternoon. For those to expend why they are here, we can be joined those to expend why they are here, we can bejoined by lola and fatima. Why are you here . I am here because i believe Climate Change is the defining issue of our generation. The policies we want, a green new deal, education reform, our planet is on the line. There are hundreds of protesters here, Climate Change, climate activists who have come out in the middle of nairobi. They are marching towards the government office. They have a petition. There are numberof office. They have a petition. There are number of issues they want to highlight here in kenya, prevention of the four station two deforestation, as well as. They say coal energy is not clean and thatis say coal energy is not clean and that is not. Here in africa, the impact of Climate Change has already been felt. Even though it contributes significantly less to Climate Change as well. That is a flavour of the protests. As we heard, the swedish teenager Greta Thunberg has become the voice of the climate protest movement. She was asked if she ever thought she would be able to galvanise so many people. This is not only my voice, this is the voice of millions of people around the world, and i think it is because we are young and we are the ones who are going to have to live with this in the future, and we are not the ones who have caused this crisis. And just that we speak truth to power. We are not worried about how it will affect our reputation or oui how it will affect our reputation or our income or things like that. We tell, say what we want to say and we say how it is. Were not afraid to be, become unpopular in that sense. Greta thunberg there. Samira hussainjoins me now from new york. We have been watching the clock, the world spinning round, protests and all the different time zones. Attention focused on new york. What is happening there . Look, the protests began earlier this morning and this been going on for several hours now, we marched from one area of new york and came down to lower manhattan. Here we are in battery park, and there are thousands and thousands of people, and the energy here is certainly veryjovial. We just had some performances from young music singers that have really been getting the energy of the crowd up, buti been getting the energy of the crowd up, but i would also say that there is still a certain amount of urgency because at root, what has brought all of these people together is Climate Change and the real need to act, and we certainly feel that importance, or certainly get that from the people that ive spoken to. And in different parts of the world, theres been different bits of controversy about schoolchildren going on so called strike and theres been some criticism. What is theres been some criticism. What is the feeling there in new york . The new York Public School system had allowed all of their 1. 1 million stu d e nts to allowed all of their 1. 1 Million Students to be absent, to take part in this, but of course this is the United States and a lot of things often become politicized, so it was also made clear by the new York Public School system that teachers we re Public School system that teachers were not allowed to participate, because this could be seen as a political action. A real sign that, yes, on the one hand you see thats there have been, this has been open to stu d e nts there have been, this has been open to students to participate in. But on the other, you certainly see that there is a Strong Political tinge to this Climate Change issue, and that was certainly made true by the statement made by the new York Public School system. Just briefly, just mark our card for us. What is expected to happen there over the next couple of hours . Over the next few hours, we are going to hear some more speeches, some more people talking and really just more speeches, some more people talking and reallyjust trying to ta ke talking and reallyjust trying to take advantage of the energy. Look, it is by design this protest is happening just before the un Climate Summit, when World Leaders would be coming here to new york, and people will be asking them for concrete plans and not platitudes, but real action that can be taken to try and stem the curb, curb the flow of Climate Change. Ok, Samira Hussain in new york, thanks very much for bringing us up to speed with everything thats happened. Fridays protests come ahead next weeks un Climate Change summit in new york, where World Leaders will discuss how best to address global warming. Heres our science editor, david shukman. A stark reminder of what the protests are all about. For these people on a pacific island, its a matter of life and death of whether their country can actually survive in future. As the planet heats up, the seas rise. And, for millions of people in low lying communities, the threats are already extreme and theyre set to become much worse. I saw for myself two weeks ago how the ice of greenland is melting adding to the level of the oceans. And scientists fear that more melting will follow. All the time, human activities keep adding to the problem. This is indonesia right now. The fires are immense, like in the amazon, and they release Carbon Dioxide into the air, and that makes the rise in temperatures even faster. The challenge is that the world is on a course towards Dangerous Levels of warming. The global average temperature has already risen by one degree celsius over the last 150 years or so. And Scientists Say 1. 5 degrees is the maximum safe level. Anything more risks a range of damaging impacts. But were currently heading towards a three degree rise by the end of the century and thats even if all the climate promises made by governments are kept. If nothings done, some fear an increase of four degrees with potentially catastrophic results. So what can be done . Well, the un wants more Renewable Energy like wind turbines. Today, the British Government approved hundreds more and theyll cost far less than expected. In the same way, the price of solar power has fallen. And the un is hoping the summit next week will see new promises to build more installations like this. But hard facts remain. Much of the world depends on coal the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. And moving away from it is difficult. And leaders including President Trump support it. There will be a struggle ahead. David shukman, bbc news. Away from Climate Change, lets see what other stories are hitting the headlines around the world. A prominent pakistani human rights activist, gulalai ismail, has fled to the us after months in hiding. She is seeking political asylum after receiving death threats. Ms ismail is an outspoken critic of human rights abuses, especially against women and girls, in pakistan. India has announced sweeping tax cuts in a bid to kick start its economy. The finance minister said domestic firms would now benefit from rates similar to those in other asian countries. Indias growth has slipped to its lowest in five years. The parliament in indonesia has suspended a vote on a bill that would criminalise sex outside marriage and same sex relations. The vote, due next week, had been met with objections from a number of organisations. The revisions would also include new punishment for women who have abortions. A woman who claims she was abused by britains Prince Andrew as a teenager has given her First Television interview about the allegations. Virginia Roberts Giuffre told nbc news in america that she was trafficked to Prince Andrew, whom she described as an abuser. Her allegations first came to light in court papers lodged against the billionaire businessman jeffrey epstein, whod been accused of trafficking underage girls. Buckingham palace has empathically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual contact, or relationship with ms roberts. 0ur royal correspondent jonny dymond has more. The prince, the teenager and the socialite. Now an adult, for the first time outside a court, Virginia Roberts alleges she was trafficked to Prince Andrew. The link is this man, jeffrey epstein, now dead. The hugely rich businessman became a friend of Prince Andrews. The prince stayed at his houses and flew on his jet. Virginia roberts says she was introduced aged 17 by Ghislaine Maxwell to Prince Andrew. I was so young. Ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said, youre going to meet a prince today. I didnt know at that point that i would be trafficked to that prince. She says they went to a nightclub and that she danced with Prince Andrew. Then she left. We leave club tramp and id hop in the car with ghislaine and jeffrey, and ghislaine said, he is coming back to the house and i want you to do for him what you do for epstein. Buckingham palace says it is emphatically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Ghislaine maxwell also denies any wrongdoing. These allegations have been made before, but this is the first time theyve been made without the Legal Protection of the court. Virginia roberts is challenging the people she accuses to sue. Jonny dymond, bbc news. Stay with us on bbc world news. Still to come well have all the latest from the Rugby World Cup, where the hosts japan have kicked off the competition with a victory against russia. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. There is people alive and there is people not alive. Whatever we got. A state funeral has been held for princess grace of monaco at the church where she married 26 years ago. It looked as though they had come to fight a war, but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and no on earth needs it so badly. The governments case has been represented by the justice minister. He has campaigned vigorously for abolition. Elizabeth spent much of her time at this grotto, and hundreds make a privilege every year. Now that she isa saint, privilege every year. Now that she is a saint, it is expected this area will be inundated with tourists. Yet another blessing of saint elizabeth. This is bbc world news today. The latest headlines climate activists of all ages have gathered in new york as a day of action reaches its climax. Millions have taken part around the world. President trump has insisted his dealings with foreign leaders are totally appropriate after a whistle blower claimed he made promises reportedly to the president of ukraine. Returning now to our lead story. Millions of people have been taking to the streets around the world, demanding tougher action on Climate Change. Sweta chakraborty is a risk and behavioural scientist. Shejoins me now. Thank you very much for your time. Lets start with the millions of people coming out around the world today, do you think it nudges the dial at all . I believe think it is such an unprecedented, Global Movement that really is unique, this is the largest environment to protest in history. Remember, this upcoming week is action week. There were three components to it. One is today, aliens of people around the world, thousands of unique protests and strikes that are happening all rally around this cry of the 16 year old who is so soft spoken but so authoritative, Greta Thunberg, who has one message. If we are going to school and studying, we need to study about our future. The climate emissions, how quickly is warming, they need to do theirjob. We that is what we are seeing and it is unprecedented. Inherent new york at the un, as we are kicking off this week, you can feel the movement, and is very palpable. Ok, but its palpable. The people have taken to the streets, had their say. It does depend on what the politicians of policy decide at events like week, the uns summits. What do you want to see out of that . Its really critical this time around to take it vantage of all this energy and to really move it towards notjust pledges and commitments, but scalable action, and so that is what is being asked of all of the participants coming and attending, and not just those participants coming and attending, and notjust those in positions of making decisions but also the youth leaders. Also those who have been disenfranchised or maybe not part of the Decision Making process, really creating a voice for themselves that is putting that pressure on, that is going to result notjust in that, lets do this, but actually come up with a plan. How to do it. Notjust, we need to do it. This is the first time the un is meeting where the sciences really settled and that is the starting point, that is the foundation for these talks. The science is settled. But america, especially his leadership at the moment, hasnt bought in, isnt as enthusiastic. As perhaps countries in the rest of the world. Thats right, and thats really importunate. For the unfortunate. The us has been this leader to come up with them limitation strategies, and so given that this it ministration has been responsible and lacking in this duty as the global leader, we are looking towards the rest of the world and to some of these other voices that normally would not take pa rt voices that normally would not take part in the International Relation policymaking process and the like a Greta Thunberg, for example, we are looking to them for leadership for really implement to both strategies. If that can be done, no leadership can be better than that leadership. If the us can stay out of the way. I think as a good ministration comes m, i think as a good ministration comes in, we can get the United States back involved new administration comes in. We are looking for alternative leadership this time around. Is that possible . If the us is not involved, china, although it is not involved, china, although it is doing well on renewables, is also hugely reliant on coal and things like that. You have these huge nations are not actually involved, how realistic is any kind of change . The one thing that came out recently is, germany taking real steps towards recognising the Younger Generation and the green party, and the increasing support around those sort of reasonings for what needs to happen coming forward, that is the hope that we have and the leadership thatis hope that we have and the leadership that is already being demonstrated is the biggest polluter in the european union, germany, making this big commitment towards clement policy budget. That is the kind of thing i think we can see coming out of east asia climate policy. Thing i think we can see coming out of east asia climate policy. Ok, sweta chakraborty, thank you for your time sweta chakraborty, thank you for yourtime and we sweta chakraborty, thank you for your time and we will keep an eye on those un Climate Summit talks next week. Time for a look at the sport. Hi, connie. Good evening to you, lewis. The waiting is over. The Rugby World Cup is finally under way in japan. Its the first time the tournament has ever been played in asia and its expected to draw in a huge global audience. Like samurai warriors, the hosts kicked things off by putting russia to the sword in a convincing 30 10 victory in pool a in tokyo. Wing Kotaro Matsushima scored a hat trick. The teams been preparing for four yea rs, the teams been preparing for four years, for the world cup opening game. At times, it was obvious the pressure had got to some of our players, i can see that. Im pretty proud of that would we battled through that and then were able to score 30 odd points. So thats the first match of the 2019 Rugby World Cup already done and dusted. There are 3 matches on saturday across japan. The biggest of them sees the defending champions new zealand take on south africa in yokohama. Also, france face argentina, but the first game is in sapporo, where australia take on the unpredictable fiji. 0ur reporter Tulsen Tollett is there for us. Two games this weekend in sapporo, australia and fiji and england and tonga. Sapporo is not unfamiliar with posting major events. In 2002, a few games in the football world cup, so australia up against fiji. What can we expect . The aussies lester did not have a great time. They lost nine of their 16 test match is played, which is not good enough for them. The fijians, they beat france in paris back in november, 13 of their four test match played this year. The australians, we are expecting a lot from them. Being so close to asia, defence have taken advantage of it. This is my seventh or eighth trip to japan, and it is why ive come to japan, and it is why ive come to japan or the rugby. We come here is australians to ski and japan is the most awesome, most addictive country, and to combine japan and by country, and to combine japan and rugby is like the dream. She is talking about rugby. Give us your prediction australia prediction. Australia prediction. Australia is going to make the final and going to win next make we dont care what the result is as long as england dont when have a great time. Look at our jackets. You dont when have a great time. Look at ourjackets. You want one of those, dont you . The wallabies fans euphoric. They think their team is going to go all the way. Let me just catch you back to 2007, wales beaten by fiji at the Rugby World Cup. It was quite a shock. Can it happen ain . Was quite a shock. Can it happen again . Well find out in the coming hours. There is one game in the English Premier League this evening southampton hosting local rivals bournemouth. The last time these two sides met it was an 6 goal thriller ending in a 3 3 draw. Bournemouth are 2 1 up at the moment. You can keep up to date with it via the bbc sport website and app. Hazy conditions have overshadowed preparations for the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend with the citys worst air pollution in three years causing some concern but practice has been taking place today. Valterri bottas crashed in the first session, hitting the barriers of the street circuit. He missed the rest of the session as a result. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in second practice ahead of qualifying tomorrow. Thats all the sport for now. Thanks, connie. Do stay with us here on bbc news. We will keep you right up today with all the climate protests right around the world, the list is focused on new york, where they are out on the streets, being led by students, children and plenty of adults there as well. And that is ahead of the un Climate Summit that sta rts ahead of the un Climate Summit that starts next week. We will keep you up starts next week. We will keep you up to speed on all of that. For the moment, you can catch me on twitter. Im lvaughanjones. This is bbc news. Bye bye. Hello, good evening. The message is really to make the most of the sunshine tomorrow before the weather changes. Today, we had lots of sunshine around, the highest temperatures were in highland with a high of 25 celsius. You can see from the earlier satellite picture how most of the cloud has been kept well away, but its this area of cloud here that will bring a change in from the atlantic during the second half of the weekend. Ahead of that, though, weve seen some thin cloud across eastern parts of england earlier on. That could reform actually for a while and drift its way into eastern scotland. Its been quite blowy today as well, and that breeze is still there overnight, so less fog around, could be some bits and pieces through the vale of york for example, but it wont be as cold as it has been over the past few nights either. Now, lets set up the weekend and High Pressure has brought the sunshine over the past few days. That is drifting its way further east across europe, which is why the winds are picking up, but its a southerly wind and hence those high temperatures. Waiting in the wings, we saw the cloud earlier on, this weather front here will start to push in from the atlantic. And we may start to see a bit of cloud developing across the Far Southwest of england and wales and then later into Northern Ireland and maybe one or two showers as well. But elsewhere, a lot of sunshine around and could see some cloud pushing its way into the Northern Isles for a while, but it is going to be quite breezy once again, a noticeable breeze, with some gusty winds across many western parts of england and wales together with Northern Ireland. But a warmer day for most of england and wales. East wales through the midlands and across towards the home counties, temperatures may get up to 25 degrees here. But the weather starts to change really overnight as though showers develop, and they could turn heavy and thundery. Everything you can see slowly pushing up from the southwest, and behind the showers, weve got this band of more organised rain which could be quite heavy as well. Thats moving northwards and eastwards, so it should be clearing away from wales and the south west on sunday afternoon. Turns a bit cooler and fresher here, northeastern parts of scotland may well have a dry day but ahead of this rain, temperatures could get as high as 22 or 23 in the north and east of england. That weather system is going to be pushing the rain northwards and generally out into the north sea by monday. Weve got a window of drier weather before the next weather system comes in. And this area of low pressure is going to be dominant as we head into next week. Never too far away, the weather looks much, much more unsettled. Showers or some longer spells of rain, quite a bit cooler and at times rather windy. This is bbc world news, the headlines a day of worldwide protests on Climate Change is reaching its climax in new york, with a rally addressed by Greta Thunberg. The swedish teenager says she hopes the protests will mark a social tipping point. President trump says there was nothing inappropriate about a controversial conversation he had with a foreign leader. Us media has reported mr trump asked the president of ukraine to investigate the son of his democratic rivaljoe biden. The woman who claims she was abused by Prince Andrew speaks out. Buckingham palace emphatically denies the duke of york had any sexual contact with her