good afternoon. for the first time, there is a global climate agreement which calls on all countries to move away from using fossil fuels. delegates at the un climate summit in dubai reached the deal after negotiating through the night. the president of cop28 said it s an agreement that sets the world in the right direction. but many had wanted a stronger form form of words that called for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. the latest now from our climate editorjustin rowlatt who s in dubai. justin. well, yes, this is the, some people are disappointed this is a compromise, i have to say these deals always are. we have 198 countries trying to agree on an issue which touches almost every aspect of their society. every country has a different perspective and we are looking for a compromise that charts a course through it. the overall reaction here is that this is an ambitious deal, this deal does make progress, it has got that commitment to transitioning away from fossil fu
good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
recently released hamas hostages and the families of those still being held that currently it was not possible to bring all the captive israelis back. meanwhile, more details are emerging of the 7 october attack. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators have gathered more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. a warning, her report contains some distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge of rape and sexual assault, including graphic testimony from an eye witness interviewed by police. i realised they were raping her one by one. then she was passed to another man in uniform. she was still alive when she was being raped. the scale of sexual violence here is not clear bodies were muti
sunak and keir starmer are being quizzed by beth rigby, this evening s live show that started at 7pm. so let s speak to our political correspondent hannah miller who is inside the spin room for us, where journalists and politicians will be dissecting the leader s performances. hannah, isn t quite a debate, it s a different format so what can we expect? what can we expect? quite an interesting what can we expect? quite an interesting format, what can we expect? quite an interesting format, actually, i what can we expect? quite an - interesting format, actually, here this evening. both leaders will face a 20 minute interview with political editor beth rigby, that will be alive. after that they will have a 25 minute grilling by a studio audience, that has been made out to be politically representative of the whole country, it s got people from grimsley on the local area as well as some people who live around the country. from grimsby. whether they get into more policy, w