power of our ideals. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: swedish activist greta thunberg has branded the cop26 climate conference a failure , describing it as a global greenwashing festival. marilia mendonca, one of brazil s most popular singers, dies in a plane crash at the age of 26. the pharmaceutical company pfizer says a clinical trial of a new pill to treat covid 19 shows that the drug is highly effective. the product is called paxlovid, and is reported to have achieved an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death that s among adult patients with coronavirus who are at high risk of progressing to severe illness. president biden says
this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: swedish activist greta thunberg has branded the cop26 climate conference a failure , describing it as a global greenwashing festival. marilia mendonca, one of brazil s most popular singers dies in a plane crash at the age of 26. climate conferences like cop26 don t talk enough about threats to the species that make up the natural world, according to the director general of wwf international. speaking at the glasgow summit, marco lambertini told our environment reporter, navin khadka, that because of climate change and how economies have been evolving, the suffering of animal species in all ecosystems is grave, and that more attention should be paid to their intrinsic value.
welcome to bbc news. i m rich preston. our top stories: climate activist greta thunberg leads thousands of young protestors through the streets of glasgow, demanding world leaders take stronger action at the cop26 climate summit. we are tired of their blah, blah, blah. our leaders are not leading. this is what leadership looks like. marilia mendonca, one of brazil s most popular singers, dies in a plane crash at the age of 26. prosecutors in georgia allege that ahmaud arbery, an unarmed black man killed last year, came under attack from three white men who are on trial charged with his murder. and here in the uk, resignations at yorkshire county cricket over the racism row which has
the brunt of its effects. in other news, the brazilian country singer, marilia mendonca, has been killed in a plane crash on her way to perform in a concert in the southeast of the country. four other people her uncle, her producer and two crew members also died when the small private plane went down in a mountainous area. ms mendonca, who was 26, was a feminist icon in the country and won a latin american grammy in 2019. the bbc s courtney bembridge gave me more details. well, the plane crashed not far from where the concert was due to take place on friday evening. as you said, it was a mountainous area beneath a waterfall, and television images show the damaged aircraft there as rescue crews went in, but unfortunately, all five people on board were killed in that crash. an investigation is now under way into exactly what happened. there s been some reports that the plane may have hit powerlines, electricity lines, in that area as i said, it was not far from it was due to land