This is bbc news, im samantha simmons, the headlines at eight. We are out of time it will be just to meet make life or death decisions on Climate Change now. A warning from sir David Attenborough. Weve been putting things off year after year. Weve been raising targets and saying oh, well, if we do it within the next 20 years or. The moment of crisis has,. Us senate chief Justicejohn Roberts of crisis has,. Us senate chief Justice John Roberts has of crisis has,. Us senate chief Justicejohn Roberts has sworn in to preside over the impeachment trial proceeding start next week to decide if donald trump fate. Knife crimes and with the wells the highest they have beenin been ina been in a decade. What went wrong for labour at the last election . 0ne of the candidates of the parties
leadership says they need to look back a lot further to find the answers. 0ne one in five debts around the world are due to the life threatening conditions sepsis, a new study has revealed. We will be speaking to the uk sepsis trust on how to spot the symptoms. Sir David Attenborough says a moment of crisis has arrived for the world over Climate Change and action is needed. In some of his strongest comments yet, sir david says we have been putting matters off for too long. His warning comes as bbc news begins a year of special coverage on the subject of Climate Change ahead of the uns International Conference in glasgow at the end of the year. Heres our science editor david shukman. A stunning view of our fragile planet, the blaze of lights evidence of the many impacts were having on the globe. Whole forests in madagascar cut down to create farmland. In germany, huge mines gouging out coal for power stations. Cities sprawling into natural habitats, and all this a scale so large that its even changing the climate, and the world now faces crucial decisions. The moment of crisis has come. Sir David Attenborough tells me time is running out. As i speak, south east australia is on fire. Why . Because the temperatures of the earth have been increasing. That is a Major International catastrophe, and to say its nothing to do with the climate is palpably nonsense. And who have been affecting the climate . We have. We know that perfectly well. The biggest cause of rising temperatures is well known. Burning fuels like coal gives off gases that heat the planet, and more of this keeps happening. And were all involved in this. Nearly every home in the uk is heated by a gas boiler, and they also give off Carbon Dioxide. The result, in a warming world, is that the level of the oceans keeps rising, which means that flooding is set to become more frequent. And life in many countries, including parts of britain, with to much more extreme heatwaves and potentially much drier landscapes like this, the mediterranean section of the eden project here in cornwall. So a glimpse of what may be in store for some areas. The climate is already looking different. And its striking how, over the last 170 years, the average global temperature has changed. Relatively cool early on,
then getting warmer and warmer until the present day. For Elizabeth Thompson and anyone younger than 35, temperatures have been rising for their entire lives. From when she was born in 1989, every single month as she has grown up has been warmer than the long term average. She hopes the rise will stop, but fears more severe heatwaves if it doesnt. If were seeing more heatwaves and more extreme events like this and theyre becoming more frequent, then im worried that when im older, we wont have the capacity to deal with those, especially if theyre even worse than what weve previously experienced. But i am still optimistic because we are seeing a lot of action now notjust on an individual level, but at the local, national and global. One reason she is optimistic is the surge of climate protests by young people. And sir David Attenborough is inspired by them as well. There has been a huge change in public opinion. People can see the problem. Particularly young people can see the problem. And that must force governments to take action. Flashes of lightning in a warming world. Its a key year for negotiations on the future of the climate, and many hope it will be a turning point. David shukman, bbc news. In australia hundreds of bushfires continue to burn. So much forest has already been devastated but now firefighters are reluctantly having to cut down even more trees to try to create fire breaks and take away the fuel for the blazes. Clive myrie joined one fire crew in new south wales. The fires eating this land have burnt from the mountains to the sea. In between, eucalyptus, bottlebrush and pine. Its hard, but save the forest and you save australia. Man is having a terrible time trying to stop
what Mother Nature is doing to us. But this is definitely the worst fire season that ive seen and most of my colleagues will have ever seen. You see how the wind really influences what the fires doing. Zeb is charged with protecting 2. 5 million acres of forest in the state of new south wales. Several villages and towns are just a few miles away, right in the path of oncoming flames. It wouldnt be that active if it wasnt so windy. Zebs team has already cleared some scrub, taking away fuel for the fire, but wisps of smoke are creeping through like water under a door. How long before the main firefront appears . Its been a long bushfire season for zeb and his crew. Its 4. 36 in the afternoon and we cant see anything. Days bizarre when smoke has blocked out the light of the sun. And frightening days when people died. But times running out to stop the latest blaze spreading. More of the forest needs to be cleared to create a big enough firebreak. Its a real shame to have to do this. But these fires this season are not behaving normally. And if we dont start putting these breaks in to stop it, more fires are just going to burn. A nearby backburning. Zebs team deliberately ignites part of the forest, destroying fuel for the oncoming monster. Well, this fire was litjust a couple of minutes ago and you can see how it has taken hold, blown by these really strong winds. And these are the conditions that the authorities have been having to deal with during this appalling bushfire season. Night and day, fires are being deliberately lit by emergency crews. This, the neighbouring state of victoria. But are the latest attempts to hold back the firefront working . So thats about the last of it, eh . Its all lit up now. Good job. Doesnt take much, does it . Well done. Thats got that contained anyway. Zeb and his team have won this battle, but is australia winning the war . Well, were having a go and were steering them and at times we can have small wins. We bite off small pieces. So were not winning, but were not losing either. Clive myrie, bbc news, in southeast australia. The government is revealing proposed new laws under which farmers will be rewarded for protecting the environment, tackling Climate Change and boosting wildlife. The new agriculture bill will replace eu rules which mean farmers are paid according to how much land they own. Soil protection is a core issue
at the heart of the bill as there is three times more carbon held in soil than in the atmosphere, but losses of carbon are due to farming are fuelling Climate Change. More now from our science editor, david shukman, about the opportunities there might be for World Leaders to take the action on Climate Change environmentalists say is massively overdue. Verbal phrase the moment the crisis has come is really aimed at an event that do to take place here in glasgow later this year. At the Climate Centre across the river clyde behind me. Thats were there could be what will be the largest gathering of foreign leaders on british soil ever. They will be here for a United Nations summit on Climate Change that is widely regarded as readily important. Its an event where government is coming here and are meant to come up with
more ambitious and tougher targets for cutting their emissions of the gases like Carbon Dioxide and we all know are hitting a planet. At the moment, globally, those emissions are still going up rather than down as climate Scientists Say they must. This will be a key test, this event, and will be british diplomacy, United Nations efforts for the course of this year to try to prepare for the summit and try to encourage key governments around the world and step up and take the kind of action that sir david and many others that is needed. And the bbc news channel will be in glasgow tomorrow, focussing on Climate Change. We want to put your questions on this complex issue to our experts. You can do so on twitter using the hashtag bbcyourquestions and you can email us on yourquestions bbc. Co. Uk. Please remember to leave your name and where you are from. Businesses have also been laying out their plans for tackling the climate emergency. The Worlds Largest food Company Nestle is pledging to spend
£1. 6 billion to increase the availabilty of recyclable plastics for use in the food industry. Today microsoft has pledged to remove all of the carbon from the environment that it has emitted since its was founded in 1975. Chief executive Satya Nadella said he wanted to achieve the goal by 2050. To do so, the company will become carbon negative by 2030, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits. So what are businesses and councils here in the uk doing to make an impact on reducing Carbon Emissions . Stroud council in gloucestershire was the First Council in europe to be Carbon Neutral. Green councillor Simon Pickering is chair of its environment. In siu now. Welcome to you, thank you so for being with us. Quite an achievement and i guess what we all wa nt to achievement and i guess what we all want to know is how have you done it was yellow its a combination of a cts a cross was yellow its a combination of acts across a whole load of different things. Mainly insulating peoples houses, private houses to
reduce their Carbon Emissions weve also insulated counsel houses and pumps and solar panels on them. Cut the emissions in our counsel buildings, we also put solar panels on both of our latest sensors and combined heat and power boilers. We actually know how much Carbon Emissions we admit and saving more of our interventions then we are actually emitting. We have not declared to Climate Change emergency just last year as we did take much more actions. Which we have just only started. We have gone com pletely only started. We have gone completely electric or hybrid, and i think we are putting the Carbon Neutral policies in our purchasing policy, our Business Plan and our audit plan. Its all part of the Council Business thats ingrained in with the council is doing. So credit
to you for implementing these policies but a lot of them are expensive, arent they . Solar panels on counsel buildings, electric and hybrid cars, how are you paying for it all when Many Councils are criticising the government for budget cuts . Its expensive and in the past we have been very savvy of getting government grants and various investment and borrowing actually to invest in our counsel houses. We borrowed for their money to do that. Certainly there is a need for government funding to match Council Funding but also need for government funding to match councilfunding but also private individuals. The average citizen probably emits i2 individuals. The average citizen probably emits 12 to 13 tonnes of carbon a year, only about half of that the Council Government could do anything about. The other half is personal behaviour and majority. Its a pact between local government, National Government and people to take action. And having a shift in personal behaviour towards more Environmental Policies . Yes,
and stroud, what are the things we reintroduced a new recycling scheme a couple of years ago and people really took to it. Recycling their food waste which goes into an anaerobic digestive and put back into the grid. We now throw away less waste than any other local authority in the country. So they think a key role of councils is to enable and allow people who want to do something to take action. You say youve just started but your counsel is kind of a head of the game, its nearly 25 years but your counsel started thinking about being environmentally friendly and the government is committed to net zero k Carbon Emissions by 2050 will stop give us some advice for other councils who might be listening from around the country. Who are far larger than yours and perhaps might have greater challenges than you have greater challenges than you have locally. The key thing is to
monitor accurately what your Carbon Emissions are and to understand them. And identify where the big things are in the easy wins are. But also think long term. Its not the cycle of a counsel, counsellors collected for every four years. You need to think long term it was the long Term Investments and how limited do it over the next ten yea rs . Limited do it over the next ten years . These are going to be the next ten years and will be are doing in our local plank of our local plant is not consultation at the moment we have said hopefully the government will excepted that all New Buildings and stroud district will be carbon zero, but also proposing areas within our district for new wind farms and solar panels. So actually taking these long term views more than the electoral cycle you need to do. Thank you very much for talking to us. Good advice there. The headlines on bbc news. We are out of time and reallyjust need to make life or death decisions on Climate Change now in a warning from sir David Attenborough. Us senate chief justice us senate chiefjustice john us senate chiefJusticejohn Roberts is born and to preside over the impeachment of donald trump and proceeding start next week to decide donald trump is my fate. But if i debts around the world is due to the life threatening conditions sepsis. We speak to the uk sepsis trust about how to spot the symptoms. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sportscenter, thanks very much. Lets start with the slow going for england in day one of the third test against south africa. They closed on twitter 2a 44 newport elizabeth and joe wilson was watching. South africas captain could foresee many scenarios when the test began. It is what they saw. England batting with
the assurance. They reach lunch without losing a wicket. Crawley and sibley, the signs were encouraging. But south africa set a trap specifically a fielder right there. They called for 36 and as crawley would have seen that they did not stop him falling for it. Gone for 44. In the catchy reaction to one of the days highlights. The columnist at the portal elizabeth coast was sometimes matched by the tranquility of the cricket. Slow going. Any a fast bowler does that its triumph. But he had just dismissed the england captain so drained every drop of celebration. Every drop. Its a tight match but a tight
series but only pope back and ben stokes will both resume and in one scenario stokes will both resume and in one scenario tomorrow stokes will both resume and in one scenario tomorrow both batsmen could ta ke scenario tomorrow both batsmen could take control will stop joe scenario tomorrow both batsmen could take control will stopjoe wilson, bbc news. Manchester united have agreed a deal to sell actually young after eight and a half years at old trafford. The fee for the former England International is around £1. 3 million. It does include add ons and he will have a medical in milan. Staying with football and the championship side derby county could base a points deduction after being charged by the Football League for a breach of spending rules. It relates to these losses in the three years up to these losses in the three years up tojune to these losses in the three years up to june 2018 to these losses in the three years up tojune 2018 despite the sale of their stadium. Rules around championships clubs to lose £39 million of red three year period. The american 15 year old coco gauff will take on Venus Williams in this
first round of the australian tennis open. He stunned by knocking the grandson of champion out of the first round of wimbledon last year and that when traits from her life as she went on a run to the last 16. Serena williams is a potential or final in australia. While tens joanne it will play in tunisia and dan joanne it will play in tunisia and da n eva ns joanne it will play in tunisia and dan evans meets the american mckenzie mcdonald. Evans could end up mckenzie mcdonald. Evans could end up facing defending champion