police brutality out of the atmosphere. india s covid crisis the country records the world s highest ever number of new infections in a day. buyer, by baby. baby, goodbye. # bye, bye, baby. # baby, goodbye. and the lead singer of the bay city rollers, hello and welcome to the programme. first, the un secretary general, antonio guterres has claimed the tide is turning for action after a number of world leaders, including president biden, made new pledges to cut emissions on the opening day of a global climate summit. the us, canada, japan and south korea all announced revised targets but two of the biggest emitters, india and china, made no fresh commitments. the latest data shows china is the world s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide estimated at 28% in 2019. the us was second at 15% and india was third at 7%. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. the more the world heats up, the more dangerous it becomes. that s what this is all about. more intense flooding in the uk
pictures inside the church, come a few kilometres from where george floyd was merited in the same city. the reverend al sharpton is to give the eulogy. we will listen to that lie. the united states bring dozens of world leaders together in a push to stop climate change. joe biden makes a big promise. the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half by the end of this decade. india has recorded the highest one day tally of new covid i9 infections of any country since the pandemic began. close to 315,000 cases have been registered in the past 2a hours. 315,000. india now has 16 million confirmed cases second only to the us. but its exponential rise far outstrips any of the other most affected countries. and this fear is this second wave hasn t even peaked yet. here s one professor in chennai. models suggests that the current situation of this huge number of cases, they have exceeded 300,000 new cases a day. now this is been going on for the last few days
hours, british travellers try desperately to get back to the uk. documents released at the high court suggest there was a controversial a formal government apology after failing to commemorate properly more than 100,000 black and asian people who died fighting for the british empire during the first world war. nasa s perseverance rover makes breathable oxygen on the surface of mars. # bye bye, baby, baby, goodbye.# and the lead singer of the bay city rollers, les mckeown, has died at the age of 65. president biden has opened a major global climate summit with a call to other world leaders to step up to the challenge. joe biden pledged to cut us emissions by at least half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade, but he warned his country couldn t take action alone. he told world leaders that scientists were calling this the decisive decade for tackling climate change and action was needed now. this graph shows how global carbon emissions have risen over the years. they we
another black man shot dead after a routine traffic stop over expired licence plates. i come to minnesota to tell| you your tags have expired. your tags of racism have expired. also in the programme india has recorded the highest one day tally of new covid 19 cases anywhere in the world. they are dying in record numbers, and many while waiting for oxygen. the oscars socially distanced. but on sunday, hollywood s finest will, at least, walk the red carpet, and all the way to union station. we ll explain all as we give you the runners and riders. hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. it s earth day, and world leaders tried to put their strategic rivalries aside today at a virtual white house summit on the climate crisis. after president trump spent four years trying to tear up everything president obama had done on climate, now president biden is trying to lead from the front again. as the us is the second biggest polluter in the world after
newsreel: these are men who are responsible - for the observance of the blockade. the black and asian soldiers who died fighting for the british empire in world war one the prime minister offers an unreserved apology for the failures to properly commemorate them. and are they sowing the seeds of change? the conservative council that labour is trying to win back after 15 years. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel leicester city take on west bromwich albion in a match that has consequences on both the top and bottom of the table. good evening. president biden has opened a major global climate summit the first in several years with a call to world leaders to step up to the challenge. joe biden pledged to cut us emissions by at least half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade, but he warned his country couldn t take action alone. he told world leaders that scientists were calling this the decisive decade for tackling climate change, and action was ne