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Hello and welcome to bbc news. Leaders of the G7 Group of wealthy nations have been attending a lavish reception hosted by Queen Elizabeth to highlight the need to tackle climate change. The Eden Project, in south west england, consists of a series of bio domes housing the worlds largest indoor ra i nfo rest. Lets Ta Ke lets take a look. Here is the queen with the uk prime Minister Borisjohnson and the french president emmanuel macron. On the second day of the summit, the leaders are expected to sign a declaration aiming at preventing further global pandemics. This report from our political editor laura kuenssberg. Getting to this remote part of the Country Isnt easy. Theyve come from five continents to cornwall. But the winding Last Mile of the journies of the most powerful leaders in the world ended down on the beach. Coronavirus kept prime ministers, President S and millions of us apart. But now the leaders of some of the most powerful democracies in the world are lining up together
hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. they really only tell us so much, but it does seem that the tsunami or the eruption has taken out the one main underwater communications cable. there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was t
of families in the uk have seen their disposable incomes shrink in the last two years. i wish i was older so i could pay the bills with her. and the 2022 edition of the golden globes will not be broadcast on nbc as the television network dropped the show following a backlash over diversity. good afternoon. the health secretary sajid javid says the omicron variant of coronavirus now accounts for 20% of all new cases. he called it a race between virus and vaccine, saying no variant before had spread as quickly. in london, omicron is expected to become the dominant strain as early as tomorrow. the prime minister says at least one person has now died in the uk with the new omicron variant of coronavirus. meanwhile, there have been long queues at vaccination centres after the prime minister announced the ramping up of its booster programme to offer everyone over the age of 18 a jab by the end of the month in england. mrjavid said in future, people would need a boosterjab to get
the middle of the island, is about 70% contained, and officials are also dealing with a third fire in up country maui, with no estimate on its containment. in just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. these are images from the historic town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. we are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors, like this one, where one family was forced to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. the ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. but, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. i said, we re not going to die, and we re here, we re alive. an unprecedented logistical effort is underway from all over the united states as government agencies are mobilizing resources to send to hawaii. the state s national guard has chartered planes to help fly first responders an