southern parts of scotland. still quite a windy day for many. some sunshine through the midlands, east anglia and the southeast. and here, temperatures could reach 18 celsius. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the national living wage will increase to £9.50 per hour next april. with the government insisting it s enough for those struggling to meet the rising cost of living. the un warns millions of people in afghanistan are facing starvation this winter the bbc has found evidence that some families are even selling their children to get money forfood. facebook whistleblower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. and, a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. the government says it will spend just short of six billion pounds in an attempt to clear the record nhs backlog
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this $100 billion figure has been hanging over the climate talks for 12 years now. it was 12 years ago that the richer countries promised that they would make good on this this hundred billion figure. it hasn t materialised. the uk government, which is running the cop26 talks today, have released a report showing a delivery plan, how to get to this figure. and they say they are confident they can get there by 2023, and over 100 billion by 2024 and 2025. and so, if you take it altogether, it will roughly add up to about 100 billion a year over the five year period. and that s what they say it s unfortunate they weren t able to make it this year, but they say it is a good idea. however, developing countries and environmental campaigners are not happy with that. they think it s too little, too late. they think it s a question of trust. and they feel it s a difficult situation going into two weeks of tough negotiations not to have fulfilled this promise and to really have the money deliver
facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. the real thing we re seeing here is facebook accepting little, tiny additions of harm, like when they way off how much harm is worth how much growth for us? but facebook has told the bbc it has rules against harmful content, and has halved the amount of hate speech on its site. the prevalence of hate speech on facebook is less than a fifth of a percent. that s less than .05%. and that s a result of the progress we ve made in developing technology to find and remove that kind of content. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. when s your birthday? may 5th, why? oh, i m just making a list of people s birthdays. 0h, mine s december. yeah, whatever. and tributes pour in for james michael tyler who starred as gunther in friends and has died at the a
but the british number two dan evans is already out of the competition he lost in straight sets to the spanish teenage carlos alcaraz, who s ranked a2 in the world. that s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. back to you, then. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders are due to meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. the richest nations had promised to raise $100 billion a year for developing countries by 2020, but this won t be achieved until 2023 at the earliest. earlier, our environment correspondent matt mcgrath said it was not an ideal backdrop ahead of next week s cop26.