100000 people skip School College or work to take part while in thailand hundreds of young people Death Outside the Environment Ministry demanding action. We. Were missing. In indonesia the police took time while protesters rallied along the main road. Dont let it die and in india the message was no less passionate it would be personally getting deluded had the climate is close to the change in mindset of our government of the people of. This protest in south africa was no less noisy. This groundswell of global thanks tim passion for action and change from young people has surprised. Governments many have been inspired by the teenager gretta thornburg who last year started skipping school on fridays to protest outside the swedish parliament. In just a few days World Leaders will meet in new york at the United Nations conference on Climate Change the decisions they make will affect the future of these young people far more than themselves and he would aljazeera in london. Weve already l
Planet. Winning start a at the rugby world cup, running for tries to secure a 30 points victory over russia. Anchor hello, welcome to the program. We begin in yemen, where the rebels say they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drones and other weapons. The statement, the head of political office, said they expect the saturdays to stop targeting yemeni territory. And the reserve the right to respond if rehab continues to target react continue react continues to target them. We will cease to target saudi arabia and territory with military drones, Ballistic Missiles and all forms of weapons. We wait for a move from them or for them to declare all kinds of attacks, including aerial bombardment, will cease. We reserve the right to respond if they fail to respond positively to this initiative. The continuation of this war will not be positive for anybody. We say this knowing the ones who suffer more our enemy nations. A journalist spoke to al jazeera earlier and said of saudi arabia doesn
Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t
DrugmakerJohnson Johnson must pay 572 million for its part in fuelling the states opioid addiction crisis. The largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk has been felt in lancashire. And. Record breaking weather the hottest Late August Bank Holiday sees temperatures hit 33 degrees celsius. Good evening. The Prime Minister has told european leaders meeting at the g7 summit in biarritz not to listen to british politicians who say they can stop brexit. He told reporters at the close of the summit that hed reminded the eu britain will leave on october 31st even if no agreement is reached, and he said colossal preparations have been made for a no deal scenario. Also at the summit, leaders agreed measures to try to help deal with the fires in the amazon. Well hear more about that in a moment. First, our Political Correspondent, vicki young, reports on the mood around brexit in biarritz. Its not easy keeping World Leaders in line. Order, order. Boris order there are
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And our talking point for today scientists in the us have found that optimists live longer than pessimists in fact, up to 15 longer. So are you a Glass Half Full type of person . Do you agree that thinking positively will add years on to your life . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The pharmaceutical companyjohnson and johnson says it will appeal against a judges ruling, and a fine of more than half a billion dollars, for involvement in the us Opioid Epidemic. The attorney general of the american state of oklahoma said that Marketing Campaigns by the company caused thousands of deaths by fuelling addiction to pain killers. Heres our north america correspondent, peter bowes. The scourge of risk in drug abuse. An opioid academic that has claimed almost 400,000 lives in over two decades epidemic. Now a landmark ruling after the state of oklahoma accused John