singer britney spears regains control of her life and career as a judge overturns a conservatorship imposed 13 years ago. hello, hello very warm welcome to bbc news. the official deadline for an agreement at cop26 in glasgow has passed, but delegates and negotiators are now working through the night to try to sign off undertakings that can be agreed across the board. experts recognise that the agreements made at the summit will not limit global warming to under 1.5 degrees, a key threshold which would avoid the worst effects of climate change. david shukman has the latest. sirens wail a warning from outside the conference about the state of progress inside it. world leaders are singled out for failing to keep their promises, for allowing the planet to become dangerously overheated. appeals for action came in the conference halls as well, activists calling on governments not to water down key points in the agreement — a plea echoed by the most vulnerable nations. our safety, the safety of my children and yours, hangs in the balance. as i said to the high ambition coalition this morning, it's time for us to level up. this will be the decade that determines the rest of human history. we cannot let it slip by. but some disputes are proving really difficult to settle. over coal, and what to say about phasing it out. how often countries should update their climate plans — every year, to reflect the urgency, or less often? and how much climate aid to give the poorest nations — notjust now, but over the coming decades? the whole point of these talks is to try to limit the rise in global temperatures, so how is that going? well, compared to pre—industrial times, we have warmed by at least 1.1 degrees celsius and record heatwaves are already becoming more frequent. above 1.5 degrees, many coral reefs are expected to die off, among a long list of other impacts. now, if everyone here keeps to the promises they've given — a big if — we're still on course for about 1.8, and that means even higher sea levels and even more people threatened by flooding. but being realistic, as things stand, a more likely outcome is 2.4, which means even longer droughts, affecting food production across vast areas of the planet. so i asked america's veteran climate envoyjohn kerry, would any of this slow down global warming? so, we are moving in the right direction. are we moving fast enough? no. but that is what this meeting is about. you know, scientists never said, "hey, you guys have to have this done "by the end of the cop." they said, "you have ten years." well, they said it was incredibly urgent. no, yeah, it is incredibly urgent and that is exactly why 65% of global gdp has said we're going to keep 1.5 degrees alive. meanwhile, as haggling continues, the conference chair made another plea for agreement. now we need that final injection of that can—do spirit which is present at this cop, so that we get this shared endeavour over the line. but emotions are running high and many delegations are worried. so for us, ambition of 1.5 is notjust a statistic, it is a matter of life and death. some among us are wasting precious time here in glasgow, attempting to renegotiate what was already agreed. so a long night of negotiations lies ahead and the plan next is to see what is possible tomorrow. david shukman, bbc news, in glasgow. earlier, i spoke to david sandalow. he is a professor at colombia university, and a former climate change negotiator in the clinton and obama administrations, including the very first cop. he just returned from glasgow on thursday. i asked him if we should be worried that the deadline for a deal has passed. it's no surprise that these negotiations are going past the deadline — that happens in almost every one of these meetings. the last one in 2019, i think the friday deadline was missed and the negotiations ended on sunday afternoon. but here's some good news — i think the conference has already produced some important successes. not enough to solve the global warming problem — that is the work of many years — but even during the first week of this conference, we saw important announcements on reducing methane emissions — or methane as we say here in the states — on cutting back coal use, on deforestation, on a number of other topics. so if the standard is whether progress is being made, i think we've already seen it. but we're not going to see a solution to the crisis at this meeting alone. you say that you're energised and positive about some of the progress that's already been made at this cop but the sticking point still includes big issues — subsidies for coals and otherfossilfuels, financial help for poorer nations and, of course, you mentioned that agreement on coal. key coal users and producers did not sign up to that agreement, so how useful, really, is it? i think it is a useful start. it isn't nearly enough, not where we need to be. and the statement by the delegate from tuvalu in the past day, incredibly powerful about the importance for his country. the only way that that country survives, and others avoid terrible damage is if we dramatically scale back coal use. that process is only starting. we need to move much faster on that. you also mentioned other areas of progress reached at this cop26, but where had you hoped to see more and what do you think those in the room could have done to perhaps push for a little bit more? you know, i think probably the single most important area is coal, that we were just discussing. i think — and hope — that there will be more on that. i hope there'll be more by way of mobilising capital to solve this problem, and there's really two parts to that — one of them is public money, but then even more important is private capital. and in the past year we have seen the beginnings of major mobilisation of private capital to help solve this problem, but that needs to be multiplied several times. we need significantly more to really get a handle on the global warming problem. you were a climate change negotiator in the clinton and the obama administrations. those two presidents are credited with making great strides on the environmental issue. to what degree do you think president biden should also be given credit on that front? i think president biden deserves enormous credit. he has started by appointing an all—star team. secretary kerry has decades of experience on this issue and brings enormous stature to the role of presidential climate envoy, and that is the beginning. we could go down the list of his cabinet secretaries, his national climate advisor, gina mccarthy — they're all extraordinary. and then, he has made very serious commitments on the part of the united states to significantly reduce emissions. it's developing regulations to address this issue, pushing policies within our congress and has already accomplished a lot. i think president biden is doing a greatjob on this issue. very briefly — you were at the first ever cop. how did this one compare? one major difference, alice, is the difference in profile. 25 years ago, this issue did not bring heads of state to meetings in the same way that we saw at this cop at the very beginning. it did not get the media attention that this meeting did, it didn't get attention from major financial players. we still do not have enough attention on this issue globally, but it's so much more than it was 25 years ago. i think that is progress. the humanitarian crisis along the border between belarus and poland is worsening as more migrants continue to head to the border, only to be caught in a political limbo between the two nations. alexander lukashenko, the belarusian president, is accused of deliberately orchestrating the crisis to challenge sanctions imposed on his country last year. our correspondent steve rosenberg sent this report from belarus. by day, the scale of this migrant crisis becomes clear. belarus�*s border with poland transformed into a camp for those desperate to get to europe. tonight, for the first time, belarusian border guards agreed to take us into the camp, right up to the border. behind the barbed wire, the european union, just metres away. many here are kurds from the middle east. the eu believes that belarus helped them get here, that the country is facilitating illegal migration into europe — revenge for sanctions. but poland won't let them in. we are, like, homeless. we don't have any place to stay there. it's about whether it's too cold — we just collect fire and burning our trees to make our bodies heat. and but still, we hope. we never give up. we've been told there are more than 2,000 people in this camp, living in pretty basic conditions. this story is a very human drama, but the backdrop, that's geopolitics. the migrant crisis is ratcheting up east—west tension. near the border, paratroopers from belarus and russia held joint exercises, signalling whose side the kremlin�*s on. increasing too is alexander lu kashenko's rhetoric. this week, he threatened to block the flow of russian gas to europe if the eu imposes more sanctions on belarus. but those who see belarus as a stepping stone to the eu, they couldn't care less about sanctions or geopolitics — they just want a better future. many of them have paid thousands of dollars for package tours that bring them to belarus and deliver them to the border with europe, but no further. for most, the journey stops here. and so, they have to wait, in the cold, while governments argue, waiting and hoping to be let through. steve rosenberg, bbc news, belarus. one of donald trump's former aides, steve bannon, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. he's charged with two counts of contempt of congress in connection with his failure to comply with a summons issued by a house select committee which is investigating the storming of the capitol in january. our north america correspondent peter bowes told us more about the charges. well, he has been charged with two counts. so the first count is refusing to hand over documents that the committee had requested — documents that the committee believes are relevant to their investigation. the second count is for refusing to appear in person to give a deposition to the committee. he steadfastly refused. he is claiming executive privilege, which is — really stems from something that the former president donald trump has said some time ago — almost an instruction to some of his closest allies — that executive privilege could be used — this is the confidentiality that often is applied to white house documents, conversations in the white house. but there is a tremendous amount of legal debate over whether a former president — not least his workers, his advisers, whether they could actually use that kind of rule to stop them being called before a congressional committee. that is going to be at the heart of the matter when this is decided. as you say, peter, this has really brought the whole issue of executive privilege to the forefront. what has donald trump had to say about all of this? well, donald trump has not, as far as we know, responded to today's developments. he has been actually relatively quiet — although his lawyers have actually been very busy this week because, using the same argument, executive privilege, he is trying to stop the release of some other documents from the white house and telephone records and visitor logs, and they will be the subject of an appeal court hearing in a couple of weeks�* time, and donald trump is fighting to keep those items secret, so it all goes in to essentially the same issue, as to whether that defence can be used to hinder the work of this committee. a reminder of our top stories: negotiations continue into the night at the cop26 summit in glasgow. delegates are now working on a third draft of a climate deal. the man in charge calls for one last push to get the deal over the line, but it's still not clear where compromises will be made. nearly 1,200 people crossed the english channel by boat to reach the uk on thursday — a new record for migrant crossings in a single day. more than 23,000 people have arrived from france in small boats so far this year — nearly three times the number in 2020. mark easton reports from dover. it was a day the uk lost control of its border. 1200 arrivals in 2a hours up the gangplank at dover's tug haven and into a hired marquee for processing, but the border force just couldn't cope. there's limited sanitary facilities. there's no way to get them hot food. it was never designed to be used in the way it is now. but there's no way to move these folk on to their next destination. the entire system is broken from end to end. conditions in the tent last night were described by one official as a humanitarian crisis, with 1,000 people traumatised, vulnerable and desperate — including, i'm told, at least one pregnant woman forced to sleep on the floor. the home office had expected migrant crossings to fall in the autumn but calm and mild conditions have actually seen record numbers attempt to reach the kent coast, despite a government commitment last year to make the route unviable. and the french have stopped over 18,000 attempted crossings so far this year, but the numbers speak for themselves. it is disappointing and shocking just how many migrants have managed to cross the channel. data obtained by the refugee council shows that in the 17 months to may this year, 70% of the 12,000 people arriving in small boats came from five countries — over 3,000 from iran, 2,000 from iraq and around 1,000 each from sudan, syria and vietnam. they're people fleeing war, persecution and terror. they want to come to the uk because they're able to speak some english. they might have a connection through their networks to the uk through family and they simply want to get on, rebuild their lives and make a contribution to our economy. the weather has been worse today with few migrants crossing — a relief to the border force, who have been working around the clock to clear the backlog of hundreds of exhausted and desperate people. mark easton, bbc news, dover. the dutch government has announced a 3—week partial lockdown to try to control surging coronavirus infections. the netherlands is one of the european countries worst affected by a fourth wave of the virus, but the restrictions have sparked violent protests. anna holligan has more from the hague. these were the people enjoying some final late—night drinks before the lockdown kicked in and most people here have accepted these measures as a necessary sacrifice, temporary sacrifice, the greater good but you know, dutch is divided. not farfrom here you know, dutch is divided. not far from here there were protests and police had to use water cannon to disperse the anti—lockdown, anti— vaccine protesters believe these rules are unnecessary infringements of their freedoms and actually, the dutch were initially seen as relatively relaxed, one of the last countries in the world make face masks mandatory, one of the last in europe to rule out —— rolled up the vaccination programme and yet here we are, the intensive care units are reaching capacity, there is talk of transferring people over the water to germany so it is hoped this short, sharp shock will be enough to bring those record—breaking numbers down but everyone here is asking when will this end? ajudge in los angeles has terminated britney spears�* conservatorship, which means the 39—year—old will regain control of her personal life and finances for the first time in 13 years. the conservatorship was first imposed on the pop star amid concerns over her mental health and gave her father control over britney spears�* finances, career decisions and personal affairs. the bbc�*s david willis told us how the free britney movement reacted to the news. three hours ago, outside this courtroom when the decision was announced — it came out on a tweet from somebody inside the court, apparently — those fans went absolutely berserk. they were so ecstatic. there were cheers and chanting, people were dancing in the streets here, because this is what they had been hoping forfor such a long time. but britney spears, basically following this decision, is free not only have control, complete control, over her own financial dealings but she is also free to do more arcane things, like drive her own car, for example, or have more children if she chooses to do, so, get married, for example, to her fiance and as far as performing and returning to the recording studio is concerned, that is something that she�*d vowed not to do all the time her fatherjamie was in control of her estate. she viewed that as an abusive relationship. now, just a month or so ago, jamie spears was relieved of his control over her life and now, the conservatorship as a whole has gone away and that begs the question will we see britney spears back on tour? is some sort of comebackjust around the corner for her? and of course, the hordes ofjubilant fans — we were just looking at pictures of them just now — are very much hoping the answer to that question will be yes. david, some of the details that you�*ve picked out about the conservatorship are extraordinary, aren�*t they? for example, the control over whether or not she can decide to have more children or not. is it fair to say that what has happened to britney spears has really raised a national debate within america over the legitimacy of the conservatorship tool as a whole? very much so. and there are those in congress who are advancing that particular argument. alice, they are saying in many cases, these are sort of guardianship restrictions are outdated and, in many cases, are conducted — the proceedings are conducted in secret — as they were, indeed, in this particular case for such a long time. but the thought is really that for something like this to go on for so long begs so many different questions, not least because in the time in which this conservatorship been in place, britney spears has released four albums — two of which went platinum — she has had a 4—year residency in las vegas which brought in millions of dollars, and she�*s served as a judge on shows such as american idol and the x—factor, begging the question how much support in her life did she really need? and that was at the heart, of course, of the #freebritney campaign, who maintained all along that essentially, britney spears was being held hostage by her father. let�*s get more on the court ruling from christopher melcher, a family law expert based in los angeles. many thanks for joining many thanks forjoining me here on the programme. rating news, of course, all of the britney spears fans out there, the #freebritney movement, they have been campaigning for this day for years now. just give us a bit more detail about what the ruling means in reality. i was there at the courthouse and people did go crazy after this happened. it was so long in the making. and necessary, because the conservatorship should never have been placed upon her in the first place. even if she was having mental health issues in 2008, this was not the type of conservatorship that is designed to manage that. this probate conservatorship that she was placed on other people in end of life you have dementia and even care for themselves by putting a roof over their head —— who have. the court should never have imposed this and then fritter go on so long and take away all of her rights will she clearly was able to work was an abuse of her. ,, . . , of her. such an interesting viewpoint- _ of her. such an interesting viewpoint. and _ of her. such an interesting viewpoint. and the - of her. such an interesting viewpoint. and the judge, | of her. such an interesting i viewpoint. and the judge, he viewpoint. and thejudge, he said today, didn�*t he, that an accountant serving as a temporary conservator should retain some powers, even after today�*s ruling, so what are these powers and what are the details that we should know about? . �* , , details that we should know about? . �*, , . ., , about? that's 'ust cleaning up some about? that'sjust cleaning up some financial _ about? that'sjust cleaning up some financial details - about? that'sjust cleaning up some financial details to - about? that'sjust cleaning up| some financial details to move the control of her money that�*s been handled by herfatherfor 13 years and then only recently this temporary conservator back to brittany so there�*s a lot of wealth and assets, some are held in trust, so some technical details that need to be managed so that she can retain control of those in an efficient way —— britney. that will happen within the next month, and then she, with consent, would hire managers and accountants and attorneys to help her manage that, this would not be imposed anymore but although her personal freedoms were restored today, there is a few details that need to occur so that her finances can be restored. do ou finances can be restored. do you think — finances can be restored. do you think it is fair to say that part of the reason why this story capture the public imagination the way that it has is that people have been really quite astounded by the details of what has been covered by the sort of guardianship, restrictions like not being able to vote, restrictions on how she sees her children, whether she can have more children, in fact. whether she can have more children, infact. earliersaid you don�*t believe this sort of conservatorship should have been imposed upon her. what do you make of the entire process, and what would have been a more suitable legal process?— suitable legal process? well, when she _ suitable legal process? well, when she had _ suitable legal process? well, when she had this _ when she had this conservatorship placed upon her by her father, conservatorship placed upon her by herfather, it conservatorship placed upon her by her father, it was without notice so the law required that she had noticed and she actually be brought to the courthouse so the judge could lay eyes on her but somehow, thejudge was lay eyes on her but somehow, the judge was convinced to dispense off that and even when she wanted an attorney, the court would not allow her to have an attorney is a fundamental rights were taken from her. now, she was under a mental health hold which is a state imposed guardianship type of proceeding or protective proceeding, when people have mental health issues, and it could have persisted if those mental health professionals thought it was necessary but they ended it. so the court was really fooled into allowing this conservatorship to be placed upon her. christopher melcher, _ placed upon her. christopher melcher, we're _ placed upon her. christopher melcher, we're going - placed upon her. christopher melcher, we're going to - placed upon her. christopher| melcher, we're going to have placed upon her. christopher. melcher, we're going to have to melcher, we�*re going to have to leave it there, fascinating, many for your insights. you are watching bbc world news. many thanks for watching. hello. well, the weather�*s quiet out there right now, and that�*s how it�*s going to stay through the course of the weekend. we have some sunny spells in the forecast but, generally speaking, i think a fair amount of cloud on the way. and it is going to be mild and a particularly mild morning — way above the average for the time of the year. now, this cloud is a low pressure which swept across the country during the course of friday. here is early hours of saturday out in the north sea. and in its legacy, this high pressure here, this ridge of high pressure, builds in. but it�*s also a fairly cloudy area of high pressure. some breaks in the cloud through the night around scotland, maybe the lake district, into lancashire but further south, pretty overcast. and look at those temperatures — 11 degrees in the south, seven degrees in the north. it should be closer to between three and six degrees, really, this time of the year. so here�*s the weather for saturday. sunshine developing across central areas of the uk. in fact, some areas could end up being quite sunny but either side of that, in the east and the west, i think a fair bit of cloud. really mild — 1a degrees in the south, around 12 or 13 in the north. so high pressure stays in charge of the weather through the course of the weekend but this weather front starts to nudge in during the course of sunday, so there will be some rain around in the western isles but for the vast majority of us, a dry day. and again, sunny spells possible almost anywhere on remembrance sunday. and again, look at the temperatures — 1a in london, 1a in belfast, a little bit fresher there in scotland, 11 degrees. the average is closer to around ten, 12 this time of the year, so we�*re not massively above the average during the day. again, it�*s the nights that are really, really mild. here�*s monday�*s weather forecast. bit of a change. some rain getting in — light, though — into perhaps northern parts of england, maybe wales too, but generally speaking, it stays on the mild side and dry for most of us, at least. so i think a cloudier day at least on the way for monday. and then tuesday, perhaps a little bit of rain getting into scotland as well but from around wednesday onwards — that�*s when the weather is expected to turn a little bit more unsettled. but on the whole, looking at the picture, it could be a lot worse this time of the year. it is a spell of relatively quiet weather upon us right now. bye— bye. this is bbc news. the headlines: as the un climate summit in glasgow runs into extra time, delegates are considering a third draft of an agreement to try to put a limit on global warming. the conference president, alok sharma, has called for a final injection of "can—do spirit". an ally of former president trump, steve bannon, has been indicted by a federal grand jury, charged with two counts of contempt of congress. mr bannon refused to give a deposition or supply documents to the committee investigating the attack on the us capitol last january. more than a thousand migrants are spending what for many is a fifth night trapped at the border between belarus and poland amid a continuing stand—off between the two countries. us presidentjoe biden has expressed his concern about the situation on the border.