in the conservative leadership race. with more countries fighting wildfires, the us special envoy for climatejohn kerry tells the bbc that president biden is considering whether to announce a climate emergency. we are moving forward, but we re not making enough progress and we are not moving forward fast enough. good afternoon. the port of dover says work has been continuing around the clock to help holidaymakers and lorries get across the channel, after they faced lengthy waits over the past two days. queues at the port are expected to be reduced to about an hour this afternoon. the port s chief executive, doug bannister, has thanked travellers and residents of dover for their understanding during what he described as a challenging period . but people using eurotunnel to travel to france have been warned to expect long delays at folkestone. and this is the picture live there now near the entrance to the eurotunnel. as you can see cars and lorries are still queuing up. the
last year and this latest extreme weather, a reminder of the deadly impact of our changing climate. gareth barlow, bbc news. let s get some of the day s other news. and we will be looking at the impact of climate change later on with our correspondentjonah fisher. passengers are being warned of long delays at the port of dover in the coming days because of a surge in demand. the authorities have advised all passengers to allow at least two hours to complete check in and border control checks. last weekend, queues built up on the roads around the port lasting several hours the delays blamed on a shortage of french border officers because uk travellers are now subjected to enhanced checks following brexit. the un has said protestors in the democratic republic of the congo have targeted two more peacekeeping bases
got us over a bit of a barrel, because we need the agreement to have our immigration controls in france and their immigration controls, that is part of the problem, are based near our channel ports. what we need is a better measure of co operation between the two governments and frankly with the situation as it is, i can t see that happening and heaven forbid if we lose the juxtaposed controls in france, we will be in trouble in terms of controlling our borders. what you re describing is that border control checks are done on our side of the channel for people who are going to france and vice versa, the checks are done by british border force officers versa, the checks are done by british borderforce officers in france. . why would that be a problem if that falls apart? we