star puneeth raj kumar. he wasjust 46. finally, the robot rolling stone by mickjagger may have some competition as finger. —— lead singer. hello, welcome to the programme. with the crucial cop26 climate summit getting under way on sunday, the pope has called on global leaders to make radical decisions and to offer hope to the world. in a message recorded for the bbc, pope francis said those attending should act now to tackle global warming. the pope also met us president joe biden who's in rome for a meeting of 620 leaders. our north american editor jon sopel is travelling with the president and sent this report. the ruler of the world's pre—eminent superpower en route to meet the world's most powerful religious leader. but forjoe biden, only america's second roman catholic president, this is an audience with his spiritual guide and clearly someone he admires enormously. you are the most significant warriorfor peace i have ever met. and with your permission, i'd like to be able to give you a coin. i know my son would want me to give you this to you. the president gave him a coin as a gift, and thenjoked about his irish heritage. i'm the only irish man you've ever met who's never had a drink! and the pope chose the bbc today — in particular, thought for the day on radio 4 — to deliver a firm message to the political elite ahead of next week's crucial c0 p26 summit. translation: the political- decision-makers who will meet at cop26 in glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and, in this way, to offer concrete hope to future generations. joe biden agrees with the pope about the urgency, but will words be matched by actions? the motorcades will be sweeping through rome this weekend, through glasgow next week. world leaders tasked with saving the planet. so, no big deal, then. around the world, there have been protests of varying size to chivvy world leaders into action. this was the scene in tel aviv today. in glasgow, outside where the summit will be held next week, the demonstrators seemed to be outnumbered by security guards. and in london, greta thunberg was the star attraction — she's buried somewhere in this mob of photographers — and she had this message for president biden. when you are leader of the most powerful country in the world, you have lots of responsibility. and when the us is actually, in fact, expanding fossil fuel infrastructure, that is a clear sign that they are not really treating the climate crisis as an emergency. and this salvo to other nations from the former california governor and terminator star. all of those countries that come and give speeches, this "we are not going to go and losejobs because of going greener" — they're liars. or they're alljust stupid and they don't know how to do it. joe biden, on this trip to europe, wants to show that america is leading the world on tackling climate change. but his 85—vehicle convoy — most of which were flown in from the us — may not be leading by example or, in this holy city, practising what you preach. jon sopel, bbc news, rome. political editor laura kuenssberg is also at the g20 in rome. she says the pressure to get a positive result at the summit is only going to get worse for the british government and its prime minister. do not underestimate how much political pressure there is on borisjohnson, having made this a priority for his goverment literally playing host to the world by the time all of the huge big show on the road here moves to scotland at the end of this weekend. there is of course a formidable alliance, whether that's the pope, arnold schwarzenegger, joe biden, borisjohnson, or other western leaders, who want to help the brits in their task of pushing the world further and faster on their commitments to help halt changes to the climate, but there are also formidable powers on the other side to aren't as enthusiastic, who aren't as reluctant — whether that's china or india. it's certainly not a slamdunk for downing street. they know that these big climate talks coming are vitally important and they're at this stage not at all confident that they're going to be able to pull off what they want to achieve. after meeting the pope, president biden went on for talks with his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. relations between the us and france have been strained since washington announced a security deal with australia and the uk. the aukus deal to sell submarines to australia scuppered a previous french arrangement and was said to have cost the country billions. president macron said they were rebuilding confidence, while president biden admitted things could have been done better. what happened was, to use an english phrase, what we did was clumsy. it was not done with a lot of grace. i was under the impression certain things had happened that hadn't happened. but i want to it clear — france is an extremely, extremely valued partner. new york city officials are preparing for a shortage of firefighters, police officers and other first responders after the deadline passed for unvaccinated staff to be immunised. leaders of unions representing firefighters and police officers said the city could put more than a third of their members on unpaid leave when the enforcement of vaccine mandates come into effect on monday. earlier, ispoke mandates come into effect on monday. earlier, i spoke to andrew ansbro, president of the uniformed firefighters association of greater new york, asking how many of his members were unvaccinated. well, the deadline to report your vaccination status was several hours ago. the department hasn't released that information, but i can imagine that we're probably somewhere between 30 and 40% unvaccinated for firefighters. that's not counting fire officers — they're an older group — we expect that more of them are going to be vaccinated. they're probably between 20 and 30% unvaccinated. that's quite a sizeable number, especially when you're talking about a city like new york. what are the risks for the city if these people can't turn up to work on monday? well, i'm asking my members to show up for work. they took an oath to protect lives and property of new york city residents, and i'm telling them to go to work and i'm hoping the mayor allows them to work. in new york city, based on last year's statistics, every day there's 65 structural fires on average. every day there's 1,400 life—threatening medical emergencies on average. every day there's 80 cardiac patients per day, on average. the survivability of a cardiac patient, for every minute you take longer to get there, decreases by 8%. there are so many people that are going to go without vital services for so many additional minutes. it will without question put people's lives at risk, and some people's lives will be lost. if it takes us 15 minute to get to a heart attack patient, they're not going to make it, and by contrast, today's covid rate in new york city, there are currently nine covid deaths per day in a city of eight million people. in a city that's going to have 80 heart attacks tomorrow with the current survivability rate of 32%. we're going to lose more people tomorrow to heart attacks than we are to covid. we're not counting people hit by cars, kids hit by cars, trauma, shootings, stabbing, we're not even counting those, and all those patients will be waiting as well. it's worth highlighting for those viewers watching, in the united states, firefighters often attend medical emergencies and that's why you're talking about heart attacks as being an issue. can you explain, why are some of your members unwilling to get vaccinated? well, 70% of my members have already been infected with covid, and they feel that they have natural immunity. a lot of them have no need, they feel, to get the vaccine. i truly understand that some studies have shown that the vaccine protection is better, but you have to understand that to be a new york city firefighter you're basically young and healthy and if you've already lived through this you expect to have the same outcome if you get this again. now, you also have to take into account, everyone says what about the other person? you know, i was vaccinated the first day, we are not anti—vaccine. i was vaccinated day one. it was available for us december 27. my wife was vaccinated in may, she got covid in august and gave it to me, and i gave it to another vaccinated firefighter. three people vaccinated that spread this, so we can't even say that this vaccine stops the spread of this. i guarantee you, we all know that it decreases the effects of it, but so does having a previous infection. there is no question about that. and my members feel that they should have that option. now, what happened was the mayor put a mandate in place and gave us a nine day window within which to make this decision. in the new york city fire department you need at least 30 days to retire. we have members that are having a hard time even retiring now the retirement office is flooded, and they're going to go without pay. we're asking for the city to give us the time to negotiate the terms of transition and allow some of our court cases that bring up natural immunity to make their way through court. andrew ansbro of the uniformed firefighters association in new york. the polish parliament has approved the plan to build part of a wall in response to what it says is an unprecedented wave of migrants and refugees in recent months. the estimated 353 million wall will replace existing fencing along more than 100 kilometres of the eastern border. microsoft has overtaken apple as the world's most valuable company, shares in the tech company closing at a record high in new york, ballingup at 2.119 trillion. the iphone maker's shares have continued to decline because of recent shortages in chips. seeking a religious exemption to covid-19 seeking a religious exemption to covid—19 vaccine mandates. the court rejected a request made by nine unnamed plaintiffs. the mandate came into force in maine, florida, came into force on friday, meaning jobs could be lost. a row between britain and france overfishing rights in uk waters has escalated further. the french prime minister has written to the european commission asking it to begin proceedings that could lead to retaliatory tariffs on uk goods entering the eu. the british government denies it is withholding licenses. arriving in rome with a diplomatic row brewing, the prime minister stressed the ties that bind the uk and france. an old ally and friend, but the french president tonight told the financial times the uk's credibility is at stake in the row over fishing. this is the front line of this fight, which has been rumbling for months. the authorities here injersey and across the uk say they have stuck to agreements made after brexit and issued licences to french boats that can prove a history of fishing these waters. but france says dozens have been unfairly denied. local fishermen, like their counterparts across the channel, are frustrated and worried. the feeling amongst the fleet yesterday was one of absolute despair. certainly, there are real difficult times ahead and our big worry down here is how are we going to try and preserve the fleet and come out the other end with a fishing fleet intact? the row escalated this week when this british trawler was detained by french authorities — a warning shot about what might follow. france has threatened further checks and restrictions on british vessels, even suggested it could disrupt cross—channel trade. the prime minister said he'd be surprised if that happened but the uk was ready to do what's necessary. the government is ready to retaliate. two can play at that game is what i would say, but in the first instance, what we're doing is raising this with the european commission. it's always open to us to increase the enforcement that we do on french vessels, to board more of them if that's what they're doing to our vessels. in a further sign of tension, the french ambassador was summoned to the foreign office, where she was given a dressing—down. the language on both sides is ramping up, but they are still talking. both here and in france, fishing is an emotional issue which carries political clout. borisjohnson promised british fishermen brexit would mean a better deal. in france, president macron is facing an election which brings its own pressures. both sides have reason to take a tough stance but both know a serious escalation could be damaging. this spring, french boats staged a protest offjersey over the same issue. the uk says it does want a diplomatic solution to this ongoing dispute. france has set a deadline of tuesday for it to be resolved. there is a time for flexing muscles and put your trump cards on the table, and there are times for negotiations. the next step is really negotiation. but for now, it's the fishermen that are caught in this diplomatic row. alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster. hello, you're watching bbc world news. the latest: pope francis calls for radical decisions at next week's climate change summit in a special message recorded for the bbc. and firefighters in new york protest as a deadline passes to force them to receive a covid jab orface suspension from theirjobs. here in the uk, a woman who attacked her husband with a kitchen knife has been found guilty of his murder. penelope jackson, 66, admitted manslaughter but denied murder, claiming she had been subjected to coercion, control and physical violence throughout her marriage. she is expected to serve at least 18 years in jail. andrew plant has this report. february this year, and police arrive at a bungalow on the somerset coast. pennyjackson opens the door, filmed on police body cam. inside, her78—year—old husband is dying. the retired lieutenant colonel has called police to say she stabbed him. paramedics arrive. cpr is being done at the moment. as she waited for the police, she told 999 she'd stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife. while she waited, pennyjackson wrote this note entitled "confession". she said, "i have taken so much abuse over the years," adding, "may he rot in hell". the retired accountant claimed she'd been subjected to control, coercion, and violence throughout their marriage. the court heard david jackson had been aggressive to his wife on three occasions, 20 years ago. but the judge said it was pennyjackson who'd been the controlling one in their marriage. he said he had no doubt that she had intended to kill her husband, and he added she'd shown "not one shred of remorse" for what she'd done throughout this whole trial. there's only been one voice in this trial, and that's of penelope jackson. david jackson hasn't been able to respond to the allegations put to him around the history of domestic abuse, and that was a really difficult issue for the jury to make a judgement on. david and penny's daughter isobel said she'd had two fantastic parents. but from the moment an officer knocked on her door she knew she had lost not just her dad but her mum too. penny jackson was sentenced to life in prison — she will serve a minimum of 18 years. andrew plant, bbc news, bristol crown court. there has been an outpouring of grief from fans of the indian film star puneeth rajkumar, who has died at the age of 46. thousands gathered in the streets of the southern city of bengaluru following news of his sudden death from a heart attack. aru na ayengar reports. he was known as �*power star�* for his action roles in the kannada language industry. he may not have been as famous as his bollywood fellow actors but to his fans in southern india, puneeth rajkumar was a dancing and singing superstar. prime minister narendra modi led tributes, tweeting that: . i think everybody is in just a state of shock, myself included, becausejust yesterday, he was performing on stage with his brother and with a very prominent star called yash on stage, and to hear this news this morning just has taken everyone by total shock. there were angry scenes outside the bengaluru hospital where the actor died. authorities enhanced security around his house, fearing violence by his fans. some chased the ambulance in which his body was taken from the hospital. puneeth rajkumar was the son of the legendary actor known simply as rajkumar. he starred in around 30 films with his debut action comedy film appu being one of his biggest hits. hindi—language bollywood is india's biggest film industry, but the country also produces hundreds of films in its 21 other official languages every year. the kannada language is spoken in the indian state of karnataka and its neighbouring southern states. the death of rajkumar is seen as a huge loss to the kannada language film industry. aruna iyengar, bbc news. a week of events to celebrate the contribution that immigration has made to british culture and life has begun. a concert showcasing the immigrant experience begins in the week. nitin sawhney at the royal albert hall rehearsing his new work highlighting the contribution immigrants have made to the uk. it is the opening concert of a festival he has created, which focuses on this topic. the idea was to counteract any negative ideas of influence and who they are. i really think people who came to this country from the caribbean or from africa or india, or pakistan, a lot of them have got very strong, amazing and inspiring journeys that i wanted to reflect in the music. nitin sawhney�*s parents emigrated from india in the 1960s. he was born and grew up in kent, and he is worried about what he sees as a tougher stance on immigrants and refugees today. i've seen attitudes change within the concourse of my lifetime. when i was young, there was the national front, who actually were very, very anti—immigrant. there was a time during the 2012 olympics where we were really embracing multiculturalism. things have shifted again, ithink. there's been a lot of anti—immigrant sentiment. do you understand why people have concerns when they see the daily crossings from calais and there are people losing their ownjobs and are struggling? no, i don't see it. i get frustrated when i see it. i think it's based on bigotry and prejudice. this woman is an american of indian heritage has been living in the uk for the past decade. as an indian female violinist, to be able to come and be at a very important english institution that's historical, that is classical, that kind of dichotomy and that interaction is really special. it's important for voices like mine to be heard because we have the potential to impact the next generation. born in right or wrong location... sanjeev bhaskar will be reading one of nitin sawhney�*s poems, the two of them france since university, and together they developed these gadgets goodness gracious me. —— the sketch show. -- the sketch show. bombay is the restaurant _ -- the sketch show. bombay is the restaurant capital - -- the sketch show. bombay is the restaurant capital of - the restaurant capital of india, so how come every friday we end up here? that is what you do. you go out, you get tanked up when you go for an english. when we started, we didn't see people like us that were in a position to have a public platform which you could cure it. —— kuwait a week like this. —— curate a week like this. we just didn't see those kind of people around. and i think we are very much now part of, you know, the fabric of society, whether people like that or not. and while this is only the start of the journey festival, nitin sawhney helps its impact will continue to travel. colin paterson, bbc news. spot the robot dog has become something of a celebrity in recent years. developed by a team in boston, it mimics natural movements and has been used in a variety of different roles. now, spot seems to be launching something of a musical career, joining up with rock royalty, as tim allman explains. start me up by the rolling stones plays. for anyone wondering, mickjagger is the one on the left. although in some ways, it is quite hard to tell. # if you start me up. # if you start me up i'll never stop... to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their album tattoo you, the rolling stones got together with the engineers at boston dynamics to create this unusual video of their song start me up. it is notjust mick — there is a robot keith, robot charlie and robot ronnie as well. every move, every guitar lick and every drumbeat synchronised to match the original. # you make a grown man cry! why, you might ask? well, why not? # do you like it like this? this is by no means the first time spot has dabbled in some classic rock �*n�* roll. # do you love me? along with fellow robot atlas, the a—legged automaton has become quite the mover. no easy task for the programmers, but you can't always get what you want. it can be frustrating sometimes. the robots crash a lot. it is kind of a choreographed routine, you know, it is an athlete that has practised these moves dozens or hundreds of times even to get that high level, that exciting, you know, capability. perhaps this will be the beginning of a beautiful career, spot making cameos in countless music videos. a robot that brings true satisfaction. tim allman, bbc news. before we go, the pope may have some big ideas about what should happen at the climate summit in glasgow but so does one german artist who has just rolled into town. he has been getting around town using a giant sphere and is hoping to raise awareness of what every individual can do to tackle climate change. the journey from his hometown to the host city lasted three months and took him through seven countries and more than 60 cities. that's us for now. goodbye. skies have cleared across some parts of the country and it's even dried out but in other areas, it's raining again and the next weather front is currently moving into western parts of the uk and the whole weekend is going to be very changeable, from rain to sunshine back to rain again. so here's the satellite picture, and you can see lots of weather systems circling around the north atlantic, some of them moving in. this is the one that's over western parts of the uk right now so if it's raining where you are at this very moment, it's as a result of this weather front, and you can see it here through the early hours of the morning. the rain will be heaviest around south—western scotland, wales and also the south—west of england. in some areas, there could be 20, 30, maybe even 40mm of rain. at the same time — and this is 7am — it's dry in newcastle, hull and just about dry in london as well. but watch the weather front — it moves into central parts of the uk and then pushes eastwards by late morning and certainly by lunchtime, the bulk of that rain is out in the north sea and the weather improves across most of the uk. it's not going to be completely dry — there will be some showers around — but there's certainly going to be a lot more sunshine around the second half of the day. 15 in london, around 11 degrees for belfast and also glasgow. then on saturday night, a wind of opportunity, a window of drier weather before the next area of low pressure sweeps in. and just certainly worthy of a mention — it's the fact that the clocks go back early hours of sunday. so here we go, sunday's weather map. here's the low pressure moving into the uk. now, a lot of isobars there, pressure lines, so that means there's going to be quite a strong wind blowing into western and south—western parts of the country — gale force winds, in fact. here's that band of rain in the morning. and then by the time we get to lunchtime, the bulk of that rain, again, is out in the north sea and it dries out, not completely — some areas, particularly around the irish sea, northern ireland here, we will have showers. now, the good news is for some of the trick—or—treaters, at least, that the skies will be clear enough and i think there'll be some drier weather around as well, but not completely dry — always some showers about. and the forecast shows that the weather will be changeable through the first half of the week but towards the end of the week, things should settle down. bye— bye. the latest headlines: pope francis calls for radical decisions at next week's climate change summit in a special message recorded for the bbc. he says people feel increasingly powerless and fearful. preparing for a shortage of firefighters, police officers and other first—line responders. and otherfirst—line responders. unions say and other first—line responders. unions say the city could lose more than a third of their members. a prominent film actorfrom southern their members. a prominent film actor from southern india, puneeth rajkumar, has under the age of 46. doctors say he died of a heart attack. he described as a superstar. puneeth rajkumar has acted in several blockbusters.