if climate change is not prioritised, we are all doomed, that is the dire warning from the head of the un. a sharp rise in the number of people crossing the channel in small boats more than 38,000 have arrived in the uk this year. and millions of children used to watch this every dayjust before the six o clock news. as the bbc turns 100, we look back at children s tv over the decades. and on bbc london. day one for prime minister rishi sunak coming on the bbc news channel, liverpool and tottenham in testing delicate touching distance of the knockout stages. good evening. rishi sunak has appeared before mps in parliament on his first full day as prime minister and announced yet more unravelling of liz truss s plans for growth. the ban on fracking in england is back in place after it was briefly lifted by the former prime minister. the government s economic statement due to be delivered on monday has now been pushed back by almost three weeks to november 17th. and the decis
change must be a priority again. as russia conducts drills by its forces president putin is on hands to personally observe them. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1:30 in the morning in iran, where security forces have opened fire on protesters in several cities, a0 days after the death of mahsa amini in police custody. our correspondent reports. chanting. day forty of iran protest and forty days since the death of mahsa amini, the young iranian kurdish woman who has become a symbol for iran s protest movement. this is the city of saqez, her birthplace. the authorities did everything to stop people attending her memorial day. they blocked the roads and closed all the schools and universities of kurdistan province. but they failed. and thousands of people marched to her grave. the violent crackdown of the protests have failed to stop them. videos show demonstrations in tehran, the capital and at least another 30 citie
but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. his excellency, more market duffy, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un charter and then pretending to wrap it up. it should not be called the security council. it should be called the terror council. muammar gaddafi made no mention of the pan am bombing over locker b, or [inaudible] president kennedy. we want to know who killed him. somebody by the name of lee harvey. and then another, jack route ruby, killed harvey. why did he kill him? [inaudible] the un and the white house. i would try to wouldn t try to better part of the afternoon. the speech from the libyan dictator muammar gaddafi was weird. weird, weird. he called for the un headquarters to be relocated to libya so
new american leader was making his first appearance at the annual united nations general assembly. president barack obama was just eight months into his first term, and the un meeting was his big debut on the global diplomatic stage he and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, were greeted warmly by american allies as they announced a more cooperative approach to international affairs as opposed to the with us or against us attitude of the prior administration. president obama was not the only world leader attending his very first un general assembly that day. another first timer got almost as much attention as obama. but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. his excellency, moama gadafi, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un c
when vladimir putin ordered his invasion force into ukraine in late february, is this the scenario he imagined for earlyjune? a brutal war of attrition in the donbas, a defiant ukrainian government deploying more heavy weapons from western allies, russian losses mounting, a punishing sanctions regime on moscow and more nato expansion in the offing? well, my guest, in an exclusive interview, is russia s ambassador to the united nations, vassily nebenzia. where does russia go from here? ambassador vassily nebenzia at un headquarters in new york, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon, london time, mr sackur. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, ambassador. let me ask you this. after more than 100 days, would you say that russia s invasion of ukraine is going to plan? well, i think it is progressing. nobody promised to deliver it in three or seven days, as some pundits are saying now, that the russian special military operation stalled and is not progressing at the pace that wa