the beginning of the end of climate change _ former conservative cabinet minister geoffrey cox says he doesn't believe he broke the rules, after images appeared to show him using his westminster office for private work. from midnight, people working in care homes must be double jabs against covid. homeowners fear it could mean a percent of their staff will leave. a he said to be in good spirits. england's hopes of reaching t20 are 7 by new zealand. and we'll be hearing from the woman who spent decades trying to find out what happened to her father after the ship went down in world war ii. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. "stop sitting on your hands and give a determined push to get a deal on limiting climate change over the line." there has been a rarejoint declaration. committing both countries to long—term strategies on reaching net zero. the language is strong. beijing's employee has called climate change and accidental threat. a draft text spoke of the urgent need to correctly reduce emissions. this is borisjohnson�*s message to world leaders tonight. there would be an immense backlash from the public if this summit does not produce an ambitious agreement on serious cuts. in the past hour, we heard from president biden�*s envoy on climate, john kerry. president biden had a conversation with president xi a number of weeks ago in which both of the leaders expressed their hopes that despite areas of real difference, and we know there are, we could cooperate on the climate crisis. now the two largest economies in the world have agreed to work together to raise climate ambition in this decisive decade. a little earlier, we also heard from borisjohnson. he warned leaders would deface immense backlash. can the world agreed to slow down the release of the gas is heating the planet? can it do what it takes to reduce the melting of the polar ice? and will this be enough to limit the rise of the sea? with the conference now entering its final days, delegates are trying to find common ground, and the uk as housed has come up with a draft of a possible agreement. seven pages of text, welcomed as a first step by some but criticised by many. the words are almost mild in many places, and the world is on fire, we have seen the australian wildfires, koala bears being burnt alive, we have to make sure that we have got power and proactive commitments on the table. any document like this is bound to be a compromise, so the calls for the first time for coal to be phased out, but it doesn't give a date. it pushes for 1.5 celsius to be the limit of global warming, but currently, no one is on course to achieve that, and it urges countries to update their climate plan is not in 2025, but far sooner, in fact next year, but there is no obligation. it needs to be clear. there's no room for ambiguity and fudges. i see in this latest text, theres a lot of urging and calling for. that kind of soft language, and it will need to be sharpened up, otherwise it will be very difficult to claim that this summit has succeeded. the prime minister has stepped in, briefly, but, faced with an uphill struggle, he is now trying to manage expectations. the cop26 summit here in glasgow is not going to fix it in one go. we're not going to arrest climate change right here, right now, isjust impossible, and i think everybody has got to be realistic about that, but there is the possibility that we will come away from this with the first genuine road map for a solution to end climate change. to try to keep a sense of momentum there is a government initiative for electric cars for a global deadline to phase out petrol and diesel engines by 2040 at the latest but some of the most important countries have not signed up. on any objective analysis this - doesn't go far enough, quick enough, to get to net zero by 2050, i so progress, but lots of gaps. in this last phase of the talks, distant perspectives are colliding, industrial giants like china that don't want to see their businesses restrained and places like madagascar, victims of climate change, are desperate for this conference to get them help. let's try and assess where they are. with me is dan lunt, professor of climate science at the university of bristol and a lead author of the recent ipcc report, and also i'm joined by yamide dagnet, director of climate negotiations at the world resources institute. dan, we've had thisjoint declaration from the united states and china tonight. is it good news that at least those two seem to be in some senses singing from the same hymns7 in some senses singing from the same h mns? , , ., ., ., hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is that _ hymns? yes, my initial reaction to this statement is that is _ this statement is that is encouraging. there has onlyjust come out. we have to assess that statement carefully. there are some encouraging things that we will be collaborating on. china said it will accelerate its transition away from coal and they will be working together to cut methane, but perhaps most importantly, thisjoint most importantly, this joint statement most importantly, thisjoint statement might be the sort of morale booster that's needed with these absolutely critical two days left to. . these absolutely critical two days leftto. . , left to. yamide, i suppose the questions _ left to. yamide, i suppose the questions are _ left to. yamide, i suppose the questions are can _ left to. yamide, i suppose the questions are can we - left to. yamide, i suppose the questions are can we trust - left to. yamide, i suppose the . questions are can we trust china? questions are can we trust china7 can we trust any nation when they promised action, but can we trust china when they are using so much coal7 i china when they are using so much coal? ~' ., china when they are using so much coal? ~ ., ., , , coal? i think one of the things is that a lot of _ coal? i think one of the things is that a lot of it _ coal? i think one of the things is that a lot of it is _ coal? i think one of the things is that a lot of it is happening - coal? i think one of the things is l that a lot of it is happening behind closed doors, and it can be hard to know what the mood in the room is. thankfully, this draft a document that has come out allows us to assess the state of progress in this discussion with two days remaining. i think these discussions have to be made in good faith, and i think that's a crucial part. i have to be collaborative. yeah, we do have to trust that these countries will commit to what they say they will do. otherwise, to coin a phrase, it isjust blah. do. otherwise, to coin a phrase, it isiust blah-— isjust blah. yamide, i was asking ou that isjust blah. yamide, i was asking you that question. _ isjust blah. yamide, i was asking you that question. what - isjust blah. yamide, i was asking you that question. what do - isjust blah. yamide, i was asking you that question. what do you . isjust blah. yamide, i was asking l you that question. what do you see is china's position7 can we have faith? i is china's position? can we have faith? ~' is china's position? can we have faith? ~ ., is china's position? can we have faith? ~ . ., , , is china's position? can we have faith? ~ . .,, , , faith? i think what has 'ust been said, it is faith? i think what has 'ust been said. it is very h faith? i think what hasjust been said, it is very important - faith? i think what hasjust been said, it is very important that i faith? i think what hasjust been| said, it is very important that the solidarity— said, it is very important that the solidarity instead of the country... inaudible what we need to do after this joint announcement by the us and china is... announcement by the us and china ism not— announcement by the us and china ism notiust— announcement by the us and china is... notjust aspirational... we need _ is... notjust aspirational... we need something more. we is... not just aspirational... we need something more.- is... not just aspirational... we need something more. we are having a few problems — need something more. we are having a few problems with _ need something more. we are having a few problems with your _ need something more. we are having a few problems with your sound - need something more. we are having a few problems with your sound there. i few problems with your sound there. we'll carry on talking to dan while the sort that out. what are your overall expectations and hopes from this cop26 summit7 we are reaching the endgame very soon. what do you think we're going to get from glasgow? think we're going to get from glasuow? ~ ., ., glasgow? well, one thing to hiuuhliht glasgow? well, one thing to highlight at _ glasgow? well, one thing to highlight at this _ glasgow? well, one thing to highlight at this stage - glasgow? well, one thing to highlight at this stage is - glasgow? well, one thing to| highlight at this stage is what we've seen so far. it's only a sort of draft of what will finally come out. i am an optimist by nature, so i do have some hope that some parts of this draft document may be strengthened, some new texts may appear. however, it is possible that other parts might be weakened or even removed, so like i said, i am an optimist. what i would like to see is some more form commitments —— firm commitments. we know under current policies, we are on track for 2.6 degrees of warming, and that is, where is the paris agreement says we should be at one and a half ideally, so current policies mean that we are entering a world with enhanced extreme events. we are talking about really terrible impacts on those parts of the world. they are least able to adapt. what i would really like to see is some firming up of the language that's there, and also — and this is been brought up again and again in the discussions by many of the less developed countries — much firmer commitments on the financial parts of the agreement. for example, the finance that's already been promised not been delivered to these countries to help them cut their emissions, this certainly needs more teeth in the final agreement if we're going to be on track to meet those targets. also, how do we support those less developed countries to pay for the losses and damages that they've already experienced7 as one of the key speakers said, asking the poorest countries in the world to pay for the damages due to climate change is a bit like asking the passengers of a bit like asking the passengers of a car to pay for the cost of the crash. this is something that needs to be heightened up.— to be heightened up. yamide, let's to be heightened up. yamide, let's t and to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk — to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk to _ to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk to you _ to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk to you again. _ to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk to you again. do - to be heightened up. yamide, let's try and talk to you again. do you i try and talk to you again. do you think the target of 1.5 degrees is still realistic or is that passed us by? i still realistic or is that passed us b ? ~' still realistic or is that passed us b ? ~ �* , , still realistic or is that passed us b 7 ~ �* , , ., still realistic or is that passed us b ? ~ 2 , ., by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but by? i think it's still... to achieve it- itut we _ by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but we cannot _ by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but we cannot afford - by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but we cannot afford to - by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but we cannot afford to let i by? i think it's still... to achieve it. but we cannot afford to let it | it. but we cannot afford to let it pass, _ it. but we cannot afford to let it pass, and — it. but we cannot afford to let it pass, and this is why this is so important _ pass, and this is why this is so important. make it or break it. i think what— important. make it or break it. i think what we see here, we are not here to _ think what we see here, we are not here to question the science. this is a threshold... we don't need to question— is a threshold... we don't need to question it — is a threshold... we don't need to question it. we need to do everything to accelerate action. we need solidarity, cooperation and to make _ need solidarity, cooperation and to make it _ need solidarity, cooperation and to make it possible to be resilient. this is— make it possible to be resilient. this is not— make it possible to be resilient. this is not a walk in the park. yamide, _ this is not a walk in the park. yamide, i'm _ this is not a walk in the park. yamide, i'm sorry, the sound isn't much better so we will leave it there. thank you very much indeed to you both for your thoughts on what you're hoping to hearfrom the you both for your thoughts on what you're hoping to hear from the cop26 summit on climate change. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are sonia sodha, chief leader writer at the observer, and david bond, deputy political editor of the evening standard. do tune in for our paper review. the united states and china promised joint action on climate change. the former conservative cabinet minister sir geoffrey cox says he does not believe he broke the rules after pictures emerged showing him using his westminster office for private work. at midnight tonight, people working in care homes in england have to be double jab against covid. 0wners fear it could mean that 80% of their staff will leave. let's cross over to the bbc sport centre. thank you very much indeed. good evening. england's hopes of making the final of the men's t20 world cup hopes have ended after a five—wicket loss to new zealand in abu dhabi. joe wilson has more. 3000 miles from yorkshire, this team knows what's at stake. that crisis in cricket culture is discussed, says the captain. whatever county they came through, his players he says share their experiences. he stands by the diversity and unity of his side. against new zealand, deeply respected opponents, a well—placed contribution to england's endings. all building to a big finish. well, to an extent. this from mo and allie, who scored 51, helped england to a 166 —— moeen ali. new zealand started slow, but accelerated. devon conway missed this time, stumped. in football terms, and on goal. steve bruce enjoyed it. more fun when you're not the manager. jimmy took over, six is everywhere. sustained by darryl mitchell, everything changed. remember a final settled in the last millisecond, this game ended with an over despair, and this world cup will not be england's. joe wilson, bbc news. new newcastle head coach eddie howe says it will take a lot of hard work, but that newcastle has the ability to stay in the premier league. he was speaking to the media for the first time since being given the position. newcastle are without a win all season and lie 19th in the league. in ten days' time after the international break, they face brentford at st james's park, when howe will take charge for the first time. the new boss refused to be drawn on the controversial saudi—backed ownership of the club and insisted he took the job for football reasons only, but he says he can stop the club from being relegated. i'll commit 10096 i'll commit 100% every i'll commit 10096 every day to bring success for — i'll commit 10096 every day to bring success for news _ i'll commit 10096 every day to bring success for news castle _ i'll commit 10096 every day to bring success for news castle for - i'll commit 10096 every day to bring l success for news castle for everyone connected with the club. 7 moeen ali castle. i believe we have the ability to achieve that —— newcastle. in terms of the player giving everything they have to try and commit to the objectives that we need to. paris saint—germain has confirmed that one its female players has been arrested following an alleged attack on a fellow team mate last week. on a fellow teammate last week. aminata diallo, who's been a psg player for six years, was taken into custody this morning by versailles police following an attack which allegedly left her teammate kheira hamraoui with injuries to her legs. press association are reporting that two masked men dragged hamraoui out of her car and attacked her. paris saint—germain say they condemn the violence committed and has taken all measures to guarantee the health, well—being and safety of its entire women's team. france international hamraoui joined from barcelona injuly. arsenal got a much—needed win in the women's champions league this evening. they beat danish side koege 5—1 to keep up the pressure on group leaders barcelona. after a tight first half an hour in denmark, steph catley broke the deadlock with this brilliant free—kick. and arsenal didn't look back from there with four goals in the second—half. jordan nobbs rounding things off with arsenal's fifth. british number two dan evans is into the quarter finals of the stockholm 0pen after beating alejandro davidovich fokina in straight sets this morning. andy murray has also joined him in the last eight. he upset the odds to beat the top seed, italy's world number tenjannik sinner, in straight sets. murray said it was his best win this season. that's all the sport for now. we'll have more for you on the bbc news channel later on. thank you very much indeed. see you later. the prime minister who says 7 the back says mps who break the rules should be punished. he said he did not believe the uk is a corrupt country. it comes after the conservative mp sir geoffrey cox said he has not reached the rules governing mps' behaviour after he was filmed apparently using his office to carry out paid work. laura kuenssberg reports. not always pretty from the outside of the inside other. of the inside either. he was a cabinet minister seem to work as a lawyer from what seems to be his cabinet office. the bell went off, he says. in other words, he had to leave this lucrative session to go and vote. and here he was again working in the caribbean, whilst travel restrictions were tight. there are real drawbacks, it becomes a political tool... pondering that while declaring outside work was the right thing, it could cause some problems. mps are allowed to do other jobs, but the booming brexiteer sir geoffrey has been the top outside earner in the commons and using premises funded by the taxpayer for other work is not allowed. after a couple of days of silence, a statement appeared on his website, saying... prime minister, are you running from sleaze allegations7 borisjohnson might have boarded an early train to glasgow, but 400 miles didn't give him a political distance. there are plenty in his own party as well as the odd person greeting him in glasgow, deeply unimpressed. pressed for answers at the climate conference, he would not say sorry for how he has handled mps with second jobs. anybody who breaks the rules should be punished and should face the appropriate sanction. country, nor do i believe that our institutions are corrupt. labour won't let up because it thinks the prime minister although, as an mp before he became leader, keir starmer earned more than £100,000 part—time doing legal work. there are many different strands and claims of sleaze, that toxic mixture of money and politics, that creates such suspicion. it is the behaviour of a few dozen mainly conservative mps that's being called into question, but the whole of this place and the prime minister's judgment have been mired in a mess. the prime minister must feel the need to say to the world that our parliament and politics are not corrupt, but allegations day after day do laps at the edges. faith, if lost, is hard to restore. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. we can speak now to tim montgomerie. he is a political journalist who created the conservativehome website. he's also a former special adviser to borisjohnson. there are a sort of drip of these allegations, papers like the daily mail running them day after day. absolutely. i think when you have newspapers that are on the political spectrum as diverse as the daily mail, taking a similar line to the guardian. that should be ringing alarm bells in downing street, and i think there is a general problem. there's also been the issue of sleaze allegation that have been dominating the headlines, but i think middle england, there'sjust this general sense that there's something a little bit that they don't like about the conservative government at the moment. whether it's the cuts in the aid budget, some of the rhetoric towards the eu. there's a sense the conservative government is not as ethically serious as they would like it to be. i think that is something that concerns mps. i hope downing street will take it more seriously. d0 i hope downing street will take it more seriously.— i hope downing street will take it more seriously. do you think boris johnson- -- — more seriously. do you think boris johnson... laura _ more seriously. do you think boris johnson... laura talked _ more seriously. do you think boris johnson... laura talked about - more seriously. do you think boris johnson... laura talked about his. johnson... laura talked about his judgment. do you think he got things wrong with his support of eoin patterson7 wrong with his support of eoin patterson?— wrong with his support of eoin patterson? ., ., ~ ., ., ., patterson? look, i would have to declare, patterson? look, i would have to declare. eoin _ patterson? look, i would have to declare, eoin patterson - patterson? look, i would have to declare, eoin patterson is- patterson? look, i would have to declare, eoin patterson is a - patterson? look, i would have to| declare, eoin patterson is a friend of mine as well. i think there are some of us who saw how much he suffered with the suicide of his wife, and perhaps all of us thought a little bit too much about that. patterson has paid of further heavy price in terms of leaving parliament. i think that chapter may have been mishandled, but it's now closed. the key thing from the conservative party is to ensure that the rules in parliament are enforced properly, but the country sees ethical standards being held in parliament. i think there are some issues with the pro current process, but the most important thing at the moment is i do not believe britain is corrupt, but we must be absolutely clear to ensure that as many places as possible to have confidence that the case. there's one thing we _ confidence that the case. there's one thing we know _ confidence that the case. there's one thing we know in _ confidence that the case. there's one thing we know in history, - confidence that the case. there'sl one thing we know in history, that voters don't like sleaze, as it is broadly termed. whether or not you think this is a sleaze in terms of mps having second jobs, it could be cleared up by not having second jobs from members of parliament. boris johnson said he thought that would be detrimental to parliament, but what's your view on that? should we have professional members of parliament who do nothing else? i think that would be a very retrograde step. i've heard a lot of people say recently, being an mp is a full—timejob. well, it people say recently, being an mp is a full—time job. well, it clearly isn't because we have transport ministers, health ministers, shadow ministers. 150 two 200 on the front bench do otherjobs as in representation... if you require after they have been on the front bench that they go back only to their constituencies duties, the result will be a lot of good mps leaving parliament. ithink ultimately, we don't want people who spend their lives inside parliamentary committees and work in parliament. we need a diverse range of people. d0 parliament. we need a diverse range of --eole. parliament. we need a diverse range of eole. , ~ of people. do we need somebody like sir geoffrey cox _ of people. do we need somebody like sir geoffrey cox who _ of people. do we need somebody like sir geoffrey cox who was _ of people. do we need somebody like sir geoffrey cox who was spending i sir geoffrey cox who was spending a lot of time on his legal work, going off to the british virgin islands? how well is he representing his constituents? i how well is he representing his constituents?— how well is he representing his constituents? ., , ., ., ., constituents? i was going to mention geoffrey cox- — constituents? i was going to mention geoffrey cox- he _ constituents? i was going to mention geoffrey cox. he was _ constituents? i was going to mention geoffrey cox. he was a _ constituents? i was going to mention geoffrey cox. he was a superb i geoffrey cox. he was a superb cabinet minister, but he is the extreme example of taking the freedom that i do support for mps to have second jobs perhaps to the limit, perhaps beyond it. but ultimately, i think rather having ruled that often don't understand the subtleties of the situation, what we need is transparency. every voter in geoffrey cox's devon constituency knows what he's been up to, and it may well be a liberal democrat challenges him and punish him over what he's done. that's where i think punishment should be, at the ballot box. let local people decide whether they think they're mp is observing themselves and their country well rather than having rules that may stop mps from practising in the health service, from being the kind of diverse representative to the people that i think we all benefit from. irate representative to the people that i think we all benefit from.- think we all benefit from. we saw another u-turn _ think we all benefit from. we saw another u-turn from _ think we all benefit from. we saw another u-turn from the - think we all benefit from. we saw i another u-turn from the government another u—turn from the government last week. there have been quite a few from this government. all due at one stage or another, but how many more can this prime minister get away with?— more can this prime minister get away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns. away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns- i— away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns. i cut _ away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns. i cut my _ away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns. i cut my teeth - away with? well, i'm not a fan of u-turns. i cut my teeth when i u—turns. i cut my teeth when mrs thatcher was the prime minister. what i think, and ifear thatcher was the prime minister. what i think, and i fear downing street has learned, i don't think the public mind u—turns. they think it's a politician who moves closer to that position, they will forgive that willingness, the initial error. i don't like it and i don't think any of us should like it because it's just a sloppiness at the heart of government. ultimately, it means that seriousness about reforms, it just means that the government doesn't have direction. i fear boris johnson in the downing street operation think there is no political cost to u—turns, but there certainly is a cost in the quality of government. it’s certainly is a cost in the quality of government.— certainly is a cost in the quality of government. it's always good to talk to you- — of government. it's always good to talk to you. many _ of government. it's always good to talk to you. many thanks _ of government. it's always good to talk to you. many thanks for i of government. it's always good to talk to you. many thanks for being | talk to you. many thanks for being with us tonight. let's check out the latest weather forecast with louise. good evening. we may well have seen some glimpses of sunshine continuing across scotland today, but for many of us, it's been a rather drab afternoon, with the cloud thick enough for some light patchy rain and drizzle. that's going to be the story across england and wales overnight tonight, so quite a lot of cloud, quite a murky night developing. some clearer skies across northern england and northern ireland. another weather front pushing into the far north west of scotland. so, first thing tomorrow morning across central and southern england, fog could be an issue. some of it will linger, as well, and then slowly lift into low cloud. so, tune into your bbc local radio station if you're up and off early enough for travel and traffic updates. so, it's a grey start for england and wales. after that chilly start across northern england, northern ireland, some early sunshine as we go through the day. some light patchy rain into scotland slowly easing, but as we go through the afternoon, the cloud will gather into the far north west. the arrival of another weather front is going to bring some wet and windy weather for friday. hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines — the united states and china promise joint action on climate change. us climate envoyjohn kerry says the two superpowers will cooperate on the fight against global warming. now the two largest economies in the world have agreed to work together to raise climate ambition and this decisive decade. it comes on the day a draft cop26 agreement is published urging countries to go further in cutting their carbon emissions and give poorer countries more help. here in glasgow, the world is closer than it— here in glasgow, the world is closer than it has— here in glasgow, the world is closer than it has ever been to signalling the beginning of the end of anthropogenic climate change. former conservative cabinet minister sir geoffrey cox says he doesn't believe he broke the rules after pictures seemed to show him using his westminster office for private work. from midnight tonight, people working in care homes in england must be double—jabbed against covid. care home owners fear it could mean 8% of their staff will leave. the caver trapped underground in wales is named as george linnane. he's said to be in "good spirits" after hundreds helped in his rescue. let's return to our other main story. today is the last day that unvaccinated staff can work in care homes in england unless they're medically exempt. the rule applies to most people entering care homes including agency workers, tradespeople and occupational therapists. the health secretary sajid javid says the new rule was announced several months ago and will make care homes safer. 0ur social affairs editor alison holt has more the end of a breakfast shift for daniela and the end of a job she has loved. she has worked in a care home for older people with dementia for nearly four years, but because she will not have the covid jab, she had to leave by tonight's deadline. she is worried about vaccine side effects and says she already has high antibody levels from having the virus. it was difficult this morning, and it was a bit heartbreaking. but, yeah, i had to, because i love what i do, and i love the people, i love the staff, and it's been hard to break from that, because i can't see myself doing something else. and the number of staff leaving remains a real worry, according to the national care forum, which represent services employing 16,000 people looking after 11,000 residents. in a snapshot survey, its members believe they will have lost 3.5% of their workers by midnight tonight, and another group will leave when they can no longer self—certify that they have a medical exemption. in these services alone, that adds up to more than 1000 staff going. care homes feel that they've been guinea pigs in terms of the implementation of this policy. it means that the work force that we need to take in new people who require care particularly whether they're coming from hospitals or the community, are just not there. at this croydon nursing home they expect to lose three staff before christmas, when self—certified medical exemptions end. here, like many places in the car sector, they struggle to find nurses. l there are just not the nurses that i come to want to work in care homes. we've interviewed several nurses and asked them the question i are they vaccinated? and they've said no. they don't want be vaccinated. but information sessions run with their local council and nhs have persuaded most of their staff to have jabs. some had been put off by what they read on social media. i think the information is the key. i think that people shouldn'tjust busy themselves with what happens on social media because 90% of what they write there or what they say there is lies. what did you think when you had it? were you nervous7 well, when i was going there, i was a bit worried, but when i went there, they talked to me about the vaccine so i had it and it was nothing. and despite existing staff shortages in the care sector, council bosses believe that homes will cope, with support. many of them have been| recruiting to replace staff that will be leaving, . so you cannot rule out that there will not be a problem in a small number of places. i but overall this has been well managed and the sector- will come through it. but whether care homes will be able to find enough staff to replace those who are going is still uncertain. alison holt, bbc news. i'm joined now by anita astle, managing director at wren hall nursing home. she's also director of the national care association. what are your thoughts on this? do you think it will draw people out of care home—working7 it you think it will draw people out of care home-working?— you think it will draw people out of care home-working? it always he has civen care home-working? it always he has given people — care home-working? it always he has given people out _ care home-working? it always he has given people out of _ care home-working? it always he has given people out of care _ given people out of care home—working and what we would now say it will also draw people out of home care and out of our nhs. and home care and out of our nhs. and how many. — home care and out of our nhs. and how many. do _ home care and out of our nhs. and how many. do you _ home care and out of our nhs. and how many, do you think was meant we have heard that figure of 8%. how many, do you think was meant we have heard that figure of 896.— have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it is — have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it is around _ have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it is around on _ have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it is around on average i have heard that figure of 896. yeah, i mean it is around on average 896. | i mean it is around on average 8%. there are care homes where they have got 100% vaccination. equally there are care homes where they have got only 70% of their staff vaccinated. so the average is probably around 8%. i so the average is probably around 896. ., �* ~ ., so the average is probably around 896. ~ ., , 896. i don't know if you number the --eole 896. i don't know if you number the people who — 896. i don't know if you number the people who have — 896. i don't know if you number the people who have not _ 896. i don't know if you number the people who have not been - 896. i don't know if you number the i people who have not been vaccinated, the care home staff who have not been or don't want to be, is it possible to persuade them that they should be or do they have quite strong reasons for not being vaccinated7 i strong reasons for not being vaccinated?— strong reasons for not being vaccinated? ~ ., , ., , , , vaccinated? i think obviously they do have strong — vaccinated? i think obviously they do have strong reasons _ vaccinated? i think obviously they do have strong reasons for - vaccinated? i think obviously they do have strong reasons for not i vaccinated? i think obviously they i do have strong reasons for not being vaccinated. 0therwise do have strong reasons for not being vaccinated. otherwise they would not remain unvaccinated. but we have to do is use the carry approach rather than the stick approach to encourage them to be vaccinated. but than the stick approach to encourage them to be vaccinated.— them to be vaccinated. but surely that has been _ them to be vaccinated. but surely that has been tried _ them to be vaccinated. but surely that has been tried in _ them to be vaccinated. but surely that has been tried in the - them to be vaccinated. but surely that has been tried in the last i them to be vaccinated. but surelyj that has been tried in the last few months was up show people like you have been them to have the vaccine and they have not wanted to. 50. have been them to have the vaccine and they have not wanted to. so, i'm t in: as and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an — and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an employer— and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an employer but _ and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an employer but is - and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an employer but is it - and they have not wanted to. so, i'm trying as an employer but is it my i trying as an employer but is it my role to try and get the stat to be vaccinated. surely that is our government's role to prove to people that it government's role to prove to people thatitis government's role to prove to people that it is safe. you heard just before a care worker saying that she does not want to be vaccinated, she is not convinced it's safe. it is not the employer's role to educate staff, although we do spend time doing that. if the government's role. figs doing that. if the government's role. �* , doing that. if the government's role. a , ~ role. as you say then, people think the have role. as you say then, people think they have strong _ role. as you say then, people think they have strong reasons _ role. as you say then, people think they have strong reasons for- role. as you say then, people think they have strong reasons for not i they have strong reasons for not being vaccinated and therefore actually it's pretty unlikely that any attempt to persuade them will work. so that's when the government feel compelled to make it mandatory. i risk losing staff when we are already short of staff. that does not make sense at all.— not make sense at all. they are t in: to not make sense at all. they are trying to make _ not make sense at all. they are trying to make care _ not make sense at all. they are trying to make care homes i not make sense at all. they are i trying to make care homes safer. so trying to make care homes safer. sr let's look at this, shall we? when the pandemic started, we did not have any vaccination. we did not have any vaccination. we did not have any vaccination. we did not have any testing and we had very little ppe. 0ur have any testing and we had very little ppe. our staff, have any testing and we had very little ppe. 0urstaff, because have any testing and we had very little ppe. our staff, because they were not vaccinated, were going in and risking their lives because people have died of covid—19 to care for the vulnerable. so many staff have now cared in three ways as we have now cared in three ways as we have had three ways of covid—19, and at a time when we are likely to have at a time when we are likely to have a fourth wave, and that fourth wave is going to be exacerbated by flu, we are making the country is making the workforce and social care more depleted. how does that make sense? and when those care home staff leave, how easy or actually how difficult is it to replace them? how hard is it to get new staff? 50 is hard is it to get new staff? so is extremely _ hard is it to get new staff? so is extremely difficult _ hard is it to get new staff? so is extremely difficult now - hard is it to get new staff? so is extremely difficult now to i hard is it to get new staff? so is extremely difficult now to get i extremely difficult now to get staff. the reason being is many staff. the reason being is many staff were frightened of working through covid—19 initially. some staff worked through covid—19 and then suffered the equivalent of posttraumatic stress disorder and so have left the sector. many have felt aggrieved that they are being mandated to do something. whether they believe in the vaccination or not, they believe that if we are being mandated in this sector, what else will be likely to be mandated for7 else will be likely to be mandated for? and so they have chosen to leave. and then we have got the things that you know there are far better paying jobs than working in care. when you work in social care, we are not even respected in the same way that our colleagues in the nhs are respected. so we work in social care, through the pandemic we were blamed for covid—19 coming into care homes, for causing the death of many people living in care homes, so why would you work in care homes when you are not valued either by your government or in general by society? so we have got to change society7 so we have got to change that or we have got to show people that or we have got to show people that social care is a great place to work. but we have also got to value the staff, have to pay them well, to show that they are valued, that we know that they are skilled at what they do. know that they are skilled at what the do. �* , ., , know that they are skilled at what the do. �* , ., they do. and when staff leave, say from our they do. and when staff leave, say from your care _ they do. and when staff leave, say from your care home, _ they do. and when staff leave, say from your care home, i _ they do. and when staff leave, say from your care home, i don't i they do. and when staff leave, say| from your care home, i don't know, maybe ten or 20 will leave or have left, what happens? you don't shut down obviously but what does that mean for the people, that you are looking after? 0ne mean for the people, that you are looking after? one of the implications in other words for the care you can provide? 50 implications in other words for the care you can provide?— implications in other words for the care you can provide? so you've 'ust said obviously — care you can provide? so you've 'ust said obviously you i care you can provide? so you've 'ust said obviously you don't i care you can provide? so you've 'ust said obviously you don't close i care you can provide? so you've justj said obviously you don't close down, well obviously some care homes have closed down. and for others it means that they reduce their capacity. so if they lose 10% of their staff, sight, and end up with having to close the result of their beds, that they reduce the other thing is our sector is struggling to recruit social care staff, so home care agencies are struggling to recruit staff. that then means that people do not move out of hospital when they need care at home. it also means that if there are not enough care home beds then people are not being moved or are being moved into hospital because there is nowhere else for them to be cared for. so if our hospital beds are filled with people that need either care at home and cannot access it or are ill and cannot be supported in care homes, it then means our hospital beds get blocked. it also means that operations of people are waiting to have don't happen, waiting lists extend and basically we are becoming stalemated. 0ur nhs does not function. so what we are doing at the moment by reducing the amount of staff working in social care is compounding the problem for our whole health and social care system and something has to be done about that. �* ., .., and something has to be done about that. �* . ., ., , that. and he that came out really iood to that. and he that came out really good to talk _ that. and he that came out really good to talk to _ that. and he that came out really good to talk to you _ that. and he that came out really good to talk to you and _ that. and he that came out really good to talk to you and you i that. and he that came out really good to talk to you and you give l that. and he that came out really i good to talk to you and you give us some insights into what is happening in care homes at the moment was a very interesting indeed. that is a managing director of the grand hall nursing home and also director of the national care association. thank ou. the government's latest coronavirus figures for the uk show there were almost 40,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period, which means on average, there were 33,866 new cases reported per day in the last week. 214 deaths were recorded, that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. on average in the past week, 165 related deaths were recorded every day. and more than 10.9 million people have received their booster jab. germany's chancellor, angela merkel, has told president putin of russia that he must stop what she called the "inhumane" exploitation of the migrant crisis at the border between poland and belarus. thousands of people have massed in the area, wanting to cross into poland and enter the eu. poland's prime minister has accused belarus of "state terrorism" over the crisis. nick beake sent this report from the border. for those who hoped to find a new life safe in the european union, there's a grim realisation that this could now be home. trapped between belarus and poland. the bbc was sent these pictures as journalists and crucially aid agencies are being kept away. we managed to contact a man who was a scientist in iraq. he wants eu member poland to let them through. my message is we should get across the border to poland. why should poland open the border to you? one day, two day, three day, people will die. poland has been accused of pushing back migrants illegally. but it wants to highlight this, troops from belarus appearing to force migrants along the border, and it has accused belarus of terrorism masterminded by russia. the european union says that this is a man—made political crisis. this is a challenge to the whole of the european union. and this is not a migration crisis. this is the attempt of an authoritarian regime to try to destabilise its democratic neighbours. but russia has hit back, saying the eu was provoking belarus. moscow released footage of two bombers being sent to patrol its ally�*s airspace in a demonstration of solidarity and strength amid a growing international crisis. this huge forest is one of europe's oldest woodlands, but it's now the epicentre of the continent's newest migrant crisis. thousands have been trying to make their way from belarus through these trees to here in poland. and many more are set to follow, determined to take their chances in this wilderness if it means reaching eu soil. because in belarus' capital, minsk, more families were preparing to head to the border after being welcomed by president lukashenko's regime. they're apparently undeterred by the spiralling misery that awaits them. nick beake, bbc news, on the poland—belarus border. the bbc has become the latest organisation to withdraw from the lgbtq+ charity stonewall�*s diversity programmes, through which members get advice on making workplaces inclusive. a statement issued by the corporation said it had "participated in the diversity champions programme to support our objective to create a fully inclusive workplace. however, overtime, our participation in the programme has led some to question whether the bbc can be impartial when reporting on public policy debates where stonewall is taking an active role". stonewall has said it's a "shame", but it will still engage with the bbc on a number of fronts. the headlines on bbc news — the united states and china promisejoint action on climate change. us climate envoyjohn kerry says the two superpowers will cooperate on the fight against global warming. former conservative cabinet minister sir geoffrey cox says he doesn't believe he broke the rules after pictures seemed to show him using his westminster office for private work. from midnight tonight, people working in care homes in england must be double—jabbed against covid. care home owners fear it could mean 8% of their staff will leave. an experienced caver who was trapped underground for more than two days in wales has been named. george linnane from bristol is said to be in "good spirits" after his remarkable rescue. more than 300 volunteers worked to free mr linnane, after he was injured in a cave system in the brecon beacons. andrew plant reports. george linnane on the right in the same cave system believe the brecon beacons last summer and within that time, maxine bateman, who was one of the first to come to his rescue. when i first saw george, i was really, really upset. it made me feel quite sick in my stomach to think that a friend of mine had had an accident, but later on it was much, much easier, knowing that we were all here for him and making progress. and he was going to come out of that cave. george linnane is an experienced caver, well—known for his expertise and caution. he'd fallen as rocks collapsed. his rescue took more than 50 hours and more 300 volunteers. the passage to get to where george was is tight, flat out crawls, squeezing over boulders and what they say is for every hour you cave, it takes ten hours to rescue you. i set out to go to the cave at 6am on sunday morning and it took about an hour for us to reach where the rescue had got so far. i held his hand and stroked his fingers, and he gave a squeeze of the hand back and it was nice to feel that from him. i felt like that was him telling me, i'm 0k. and just be able to give him that of comfort. it's more intimate, it's that feeling of, we are here for you. george had suffered multiple injuries, including a broken leg and jaw, but he's said to be in good spirits, recovering in hospital thanks to the expertise of the caving community. you never know who it might be. it could be me, and you hope it would never be a big enough rescue to need as many people as george did, but in this case it needed a lot of us and a lot of us turned up and we were there for him. a couple in the us have spoken of their "hell" after finding out they'd been given the wrong embryo during ivf treatment. daphna and alexander cardinale arranged dna testing two months after giving birth to what they thought was their biological daughter. they tracked the other couple down and swapped the girls. the cardinales are suing the los angeles fertility clinic which was responsible. mr cardinale says they'd already started to bond with the birth child. once we decided to do ivf, we knew it would be a lot, and it was. it was. we were just hoping it would be successful, as everybody does. i think we were hoping if at least one of us was genetically related to her, then we could keep her. but i think the biggest fear in all of this is, like, am i going to lose my baby? adam wolf is the lawyer representing the cardinale family. he explains how the family are coping. daphna and alexander cardinale, like millions of people around i the world, went to a fertilityj clinic in order to have a baby they were having trouble conceiving naturally. i the clinic made an embryo for them, his sperm, her egg, transferred i an embryo to daphna and nine months later daphna gives _ birth to a healthy little girl. but much to their surprise, this| girl didn't really look like them. they weren't sure i what to make of this. so, finally, a couple of months later they get a dna test. i the dna test yields - what was their worst fear, which is that this child wasn't related to either— alexander nor daphna. to say this was a surprise is an understatement. i it has had and will have lifelong consequences for them. - so they, you know, they grew this baby, birthed this baby, _ daphna is breast—feeding this baby, they are raising this baby— and for four months they raised this baby as their own. - now four months later, i three or four months later, i they go to the fertility clinic. and they say we just got our dna test, this baby isn't ours. and the fertility clinic a couple of weeks later says, _ yeah, sorry about that, - we gave you the wrong embryo. and as it turns out, the fertility clinic i gave their embryo to somebody else, so they had a little girl— genetically related to them who was out in the world i being raised by complete strangers as well. - they ended up speaking with the other family, i and daphna and alexander met their little girl, - their genetically—related little i girl, on a photo over text message four months into her life. now they resorted to a legal process, they ended up i gaining parental rights— to their genetically—related child. they had to give up this girl- they had raised for four months to the other couple, and they effectivelyl had a baby swap. let's be clear — this mistake should not have happened. i apparently what we assume occurred is that daphna and alexander's - embryo and the embryo for the other couple were out of the freezer- i of the freezer at the same time, i and the lab mixed up the embryos. they had both embryos out, i they didn't have two sets of eyes on these embryos, and some careless employee there switched _ the embryos and the vials i they were in so that alexander and daphna's embryo went into a vial that was marked for another- couple and vice versa. it's armistice day tomorrow, when the nation remembers those who have lost their lives in conflict. but the families of almost 400 men who died in world war ii in one of the worst maritime disasters in uk waters are also still searching for answers. in 1943, the aircraft carrier hms dasher exploded and sank off the ayrshire coast. relatives believe some of the dead were washed ashore and buried in an unmarked mass grave. hugh pym has been talking to one woman who's spent decades searching for the truth. i want to honour him, and i want to honour the others. it's been a long journey for mary, but it's not over. she's determined to find out what happened to her father and other men who were lost at sea in world war ii not far from this beach in north ayrshire. she thinks the truth has been withheld. the thought of my father, of other men, being totally forgotten, being deliberately hidden, is so wicked that ijust must put it right. hms dasher, an aircraft carrier, sank in the firth of clyde after an explosion on board, thought to have been caused by a petrol leak. mary's father george was one of 379 men who died out of a total of more than 500 on board. i remember the telegram coming, and my mother opened it and screamed. barry, who's 96, remembers the day dasher went down. i was walking back from the bus, and the next thing i looked back, and there wasjust the flames, smoke. everyone seemed to have been told "no, don't talk about it," even the survivors. there are just 23 known graves of those who perished on hms dasher and whose bodies were washed ashore, including some here in ardrossan cemetery, but it remains a mystery what happened to the others. two local residents, john and noreen steele, have spent the last few decades trying to find out. they've interviewed survivors and eyewitnesses who said there were more bodies than officially recorded. the survivors told us _ they were taken down to the mortuary to try and recognise them. they said there was about 50 bodies laid out for them. i what do you think happened to them? they're in a pit somewhere. ina pit. just dumped. a royal navy spokesperson said the creation of a mass unmarked grave would have gone against official policy on the burial of wartime casualties. it's been suggested that for morale reasons, news of the sinking was suppressed and wasn't confirmed until 1945. documents released in recent years here at the national archives at kew shed some light on the loss of hms dasher. 0fficials did not want to reveal details to relatives. the papers refer to bodies being washed ashore more than a week after the loss of the ship. a former head of the royal navy thinks the whole truth has yet to come out. that a large ship like that with a very large ship's company should sink in enclosed waters, relatively enclosed, close to land, that there should be so few bodies that were actually buried, together, i have real concerns that we haven't seen the full truth about what happened to those bodies. for mary, the search for answers continues. she hopes to one day find out where her father's final resting place is. hugh pym, bbc news, north ayrshire. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. good evening. we may well have seen some glimpses of sunshine continuing across scotland today, but for many of us, it's been a rather drab afternoon, with the cloud thick enough for some light patchy rain and drizzle. that's going to be the story across england and wales overnight tonight, so quite a lot of cloud, quite a murky night developing. some clearer skies across northern england and northern ireland. another weather front pushing into the far north west of scotland. so, first thing tomorrow morning across central and southern england, fog could be an issue. some of it will linger, as well, and then slowly lift into low cloud. so, tune into your bbc local radio station if you're up and off early enough for travel and traffic updates. so, it's a grey start for england and wales. after that chilly start across northern england, northern ireland, some early sunshine as we go through the day. some light patchy rain into scotland slowly easing, but as we go through the afternoon, the cloud will gather into the far north west. the arrival of another weather front is going to bring some wet and windy weather for friday. this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds. the glasgow climate summit enters its final phase, and tonight, a surprisejoint pledge from the world's top two polluters. the us and china commit to ramping up their climate ambitions, but what can we glean from the lofty promises7 the conservative mp sir geoffrey cox denies any wrongdoing over his second job. the british prime minister says if ministers break the rules, they must be punished. thousands of migrants remain stranded in freezing conditions along poland's border with belarus at the centre of an escalating international row. plus, the fizzy orange drink that's making glasgow's international visitors fizz with excitement — scotland's unofficial national drink.