against rivals manchester united. good morning. as we go through this week it good morning. as we go through this week it will good morning. as we go through this week it will turn much colder with some week it will turn much colder with some of week it will turn much colder with some of us week it will turn much colder with some of us seeing snow. today we had snow across some of us seeing snow. today we had snow across parts of the north and north-east snow across parts of the north and north east of scotland. as we can further north east of scotland. as we can further sound cloudy with limited sunshine further sound cloudy with limited sunshine and still relatively mild. the cold sunshine and still relatively mild. the cold air will feed into night and through the rest of the week. all the and through the rest of the week. all the details later on in the programme. it s monday, the 6th of march. our main story. asylum seekers who cross the channel in small
against him on thursday. and with the us midterm elections just days away, president biden and donald trump continue on the campaign trail, in the push to win crucial votes. hello and welcome to the programme the cop 27 climate summit has begun in egypt with dire warnings about the state of the planet. extreme temperatures, wildfires, drought and flooding have all been made worse by the last eight years being the hottest on record, according to the world meterological organisation. the un secretary general antonio guterres insisted the summit had to produce ambitious, credible climate actions . our climate editor, justin rowlatt, has the latest. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. floods displaced more than1 million people in nigeria last month, while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. our planet is sending a distress signal, the un conference in egypt was warned. the last eight years
in a measure of the challenge facing the talks, the us climate chief john kerry said, i don t think anybody here wants to be associated with the failure to live up to this responsibility. not a lot of people in public life are asked to make life and death choices historically. this is a war for survival. live now to carl nasman in dubai, where everyone is waiting on a new draft agreement. everyone is waiting and you get the feeling as if we are standing in the airport terminal and you look on the screens that list the different leavings and summits and press conferences that are supposed to be taking place, they are pretty much blank, all flights cancelled, everyone waiting for this next edition of potential draft documents to be released, since the mummy so last night which disappointed pretty much everybody involved. since the document was published last night. david, this is not yourfirst cop. you have seen plenty of these go down. what you make of the situation goin
is a consummate professional by all accounts. it says a lot about the current conservative party and white rishi sunak finds current conservative party and white rishi sunakfinds it current conservative party and white rishi sunak finds it so current conservative party and white rishi sunakfinds it so hard to manage the rabble that we have had all sorts of crackpot conspiracy theories rolled out for an appointment which is, i can understand why they might find it embarrassing that people are looking to labour and want to work with labour as potentially the next government, but i think it s sad that some conservatives have chosen to traduce the reputation of a good civil servant in this way or pretend that they have not been examples in the past, ed llewellyn was a diplomat before and after working for david cameron as his chief of staff. it s one of these stories which preoccupies a lot of people in westminster, i doubt most people across the country care very much at all about this st
wendy morton, a senior member of liz truss s government. in a series of texts published in the sunday times, he accuses her of rigging the ticket allocations to the queen s funeral in september, to exclude mps who were critical of liz truss, something she denies. a number of his texts contain expletives. he refers to her as stupid and warns there is a price for everything. so, what did his ministerial boss make of this? that ss not acceptable, he shouldn t have said it. he said he regrets doing so. so what are the consequences for him? he s given some context, which was that this was at the time of heightened frustration. downing street say the first time the prime minister saw sir gavin williamson s texts was in a sunday newspaper and, yes, rishi sunakfinds their content unacceptable. but number 10 will not comment further into while the conservative party is looking into the official complaint against sir gavin. but opposition parties are not holding back. liberal democrats have ca