For the third year in a row, the philippines is being hit by a deadly typhoon as the United Nations hosts its annual Climate Summit. More than 90 people have already died. We will speak to lidy nacpil, a leading filipino climate activist. Then saleemul huq of bangladesh and how peru has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmental activists. It is a risk of life or death for us. If i stand in front of the loggers to represent my community and say to them, sir, you have to leave because this is our land and then it is a risk. It is been this way for a while. That was the voice of edwin climat chote. He and three others were killed by illegal loggers as they tried to stop them from cutting down the ancient trees on their land. Two of theak to widows of the men. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Protests continue across the United States over Police Killings of unarmed africaname
The decision that we must move to alert level four. The government in scotland says it intends to issue strengthened guidance over the relaxation of Christmas Covid regulations. The five day relaxation is a window of opportunity during which you can meet. It is not a period that we think it is safe or sensible to get together for. You should see it as a maximum, not a target. Injecting progress almost 140,000 people have been vaccinated for coronavirus so far in the uk. As london goes into tier 3, other areas of england are hoping to be moved down following a review today of covid restrictions. Nine year old Ella Kissi Debrah died in 2013, the inquest finds that air pollution did contribute to her death. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Christmas isnt cancelled, but leaders across the uk want you to be very careful. The rules over festive gatherings will not be changed despite growing pressure for them to be toughened. All four nations have agreed to not to make a formal change
Despite pressure to toughen the restrictions over christmas mixing theres to be no formal change to the relaxation of covid rules. The Prime Minister says hell stick to the rules allowing households to meet over the five day festive window but issues stronger guidance to families. We do think its absolutely vital that people should at this very, very tricky time, exercise a high degree of personal responsibility. Here we go again, mr speaker, ignoring the medical advice, and we know where that leads because weve seen what happened in the last nine months. But the Welsh Government issues separate guidance that only two households should meet over christmas and the nation will go into full lockdown from december the 28th. In scotland families are given guidance to only come together for one day
at christmas, not five. Well be getting the latest, live, from westminster, cardiff and glasgow and talking to our Health Editor. Also this lunchtime injecting progress. Almost 140,000 people have
Look inside the u. S. Air strike that took out soliemani, good evening. Good evening, shannon, to you. Learn more about that operation from the beginning to the end resulting from the death of Qasem Soliemani. It included special operations soldiers on the ground that followed his convoy. This is the picture of the aftermath obtained by fobbing news from a member of the u. S. Government. Special operation soldiers were following soliemanis convoy from the Baghdad Airport and they were half a mile behind when the drone hit. They were on the scene within a minute or two. They did what in the business is called a bomb Damage Assessment and took pictures of the scene along with confirming that the drone got the right car and soliemani was dead. Many of the pictures we have contain graphic and closeup pictures of the body. Its too gruesome. Hes missing limbs and is grossly disfigured. Sources who saw the pictures noted that soliemani died in much the way the americans died. This picture is