hello and welcome to the bbc s newsroom here in new broadcasting house in london. this week on unspun, the ferocious riots right across france seems to have died down after the shooting of a 17 year old boy at a police check. in cities and towns, the housing estates and the grim outer suburbs, kept far away from the attractive centres have seen people of mostly arab, north african or african backgrounds out on the streets. translation: being a young - north african, black or arab male in the estates is intolerable for french police. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banne
welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. the german government has pledged to put fighting climate change at the heart of its agenda. it has just hosted world leaders to help lay the groundwork for international talks in november. but for many, the two week long gathering failed to make sufficient progress on climate finance and the pace of cuts in carbon pollution. my guest isjennifer morgan, germany s american born envoy for international climate action. until last year, she was leader of the environmental campaign group greenpeace international. how far does she feel her climate change credentials are being compromised in her new role? jennifer morgan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. so there you were in february last year. you stepped down as head of greenpeace international. in march, you became germany s international envoy for international climate action. why did you accept the role? well, you know, when minister baerbock called in this german government which ha
an unnamed bbc presenter is facing fresh allegations in the sun newspaper of being pictured in his underwear on a video call to a teenager he allegedly paid for sexually explicit photos. the bbc says it treats any allegations very seriously. us president, joe biden, will arrive in the uk later, ahead of a meeting with prime minister, rishi sunak amid a disagreement over the us decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, is leaving china after a visit which she says put relations between the 2 countries on a surerfooting , after a long period of tensions over trade. and researchers are investigating whether an extract from daffodil flowers could help reduce the amount of methane released by cows. tests are being carried out on adding the extract to the animal s food. now on bbc news. unspun world withjohn simpson.
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