of two murdered sisters and shared the images on whatsapp groups have been jailed for two years and nine months each. a barrister for the victims of the grenfell tower fire tells the public inquiry into the disaster that governments lack of openness should be regarded as one of the major scandals of our time. and every household in wales will be offered a free tree to plant in an effort to help tackle climate change. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the goverment has set out a ten year strategy for dealing with drugs in england and wales. the prime minister says the focus will be on supporting the rehabiliation of drug addicts, doing more to discourage recreational users, and coming down hard on drug gangs. £780 million will be spent on improving treatment services over the next three years. £300m has been pledged to crack down on drug gangs. it s thought there are more than 260,000 heroin addicts in england and almost a million people using cocaine every year in en
of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine urges the world to invest more to prepare forfuture pandemics, saying the next one could be even worse. anger in nigeria as it is added to the red list of uk travel restrictions from today. also coming up. lucky to be alive. the gap year student who was dragged under by a crocodile and lived to tell the tale. the government is promising to crack down on drugs gangs as part of a ten year strategy for tackling drug misuse in england and wales. ministers say they want to dismantle county lines drugs gangs. they re also promising the biggest ever single investment in treating and rehabilitating addicts, who are responsible for a large proportion of crime. according to the home office, drugs are connected to nearly half of killings in england and wales. they re also linked to two thirds of shoplifting, more than half of burglaries and just over a quarter of robberies. our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani, has this report. and a warni
the husband of the detained british iranian aid worker, nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, is ending his hunger strike outside the foreign office after 21 days. hundreds of migrants remain trapped along the border between belarus and poland caught up in the middle of a political stand off. and, the conservatorship that s controlled britney spears life for 13 years has been brought to an end. welcome to glasgow and the cop26 negotiations which are now in overtime, as negotiators from nearly 200 countries try to strike a deal on tackling climate change. a new draft agreement was published this morning. let s bring you some of the main points. most crucially, the reference to phasing out inefficient fossile fuel subsidies is still in the agreement. even after some countries reportedly wanted to remove it. the deal also asks all countries to upgrade their climate pledges next year, and rich countries are asked to double their climate adaptation finance by 2025 from 2019 levels. with
i m joined now by david waskow, director of the global research non profit organisation, world resources institute. at the beginning of the summit, i spoke to one of your colleagues, and he was saying that it wanted the delegates gathered here, the leaders gathered here to have the same sense of urgency to dealing with the climate crisis as they have done in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. do you think they have? n pandemic. do you think they have? i think there has been a sense of urgency here and one of the outcomes we have most wanted is really on the table and we hope it gets over the finish line and that s for countries to come back in the next couple of years or even next year, to strengthen their targets for taking action on climate but in the text we saw this morning, once again, we do hope that that actually manifests when we see the final outcome. haw when we see the final outcome. how essential would when we see the final outcome. how essential would that
is breezy out there too but still very mild for this time of year. we have got an area of low pressure with us at the moment. it is going to edge further eastwards but still bringing outbreaks of rain and over the next few hours it will be heaviest in the pennines. further south the rain light and patchy. one or two sharper showers moving through on the breeze. bit of brightness here and there, but the gusts of wind between 40, 45mph round coast and hills in the north an west. temperatures round 10, 15 degrees so several above average. as we move into the evening hours most of the rain eases away to the east. it becomes light and patchy in the south. clearer sky also be for western scotland, into north west england so temperatures here just about into singlify yours but for most a frost free mild night. double figures to kick off the weekend. we start saturday, a bit of cloud. a breeze close though the east coast, bringing showers for east anglia, the sett too. the cloud incr