welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we start in moscow where president vladimir putin has been playing host to one of his most important remaining allies, china s president, xijinping. it s the chinese leader s first visit to russia since russia invaded ukraine last year. beijing still maintains that its position in the war is neutral and it s come up with a plan for peace talks between the two sides. mr putin who just days ago was accused of war crimes by international prosecutors said he was looking forward to discussing that plan. our russia editor steve rosenberg, has sent this report from moscow. just three days ago, vladimir putin was named as a war crimes suspect by the international criminal court. but that didn t stop china s president flying in and shaking his hand. putin and xi have met many times before, but never before has russia s president been under such pressure. his war in ukraine not going at all according to pla
over of the troubled bank credit suisse. we begin in switzerland, where the un secretary general has warned that the climate time bomb is ticking, urging rich nations to slash emissions sooner after a new assessment from scientists said there was little time to lose in tackling climate change. the inter governmental panel on climate change says the worst can still be averted if emissions are cut rapidly. but even that is unlikely to stop global temperatures rising by less than the target of 1.5 degrees celsius. here s antonio guterres. humanity is on thin ice, and that ice is melting fast. as today s report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change details, humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. the rate of temperature rise in the last half century is the highest in 2,000 years. concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least two million years. the climate time bomb is ticking. let s look through the key findi
tonight bringing us the context are amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. exactly 20 years ago today, us forces, with the uk and other allies, invaded iraq. the stated aim to rid the country s dictator saddam hussein of his weapons of mass destruction weapons that in the end were never found. it was part of the us s war on terror , started by president george w bush after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. let s remind ourselves those first moments of the war. on this day in 2003, the first raids were on the capital baghdad it was called shock and awe . it took the us just over a month to defeat iraqi forces and saddam hussain s regime collapsed. president bush declared iraq to be free. but rather than an end to conflict, it was the beginning of many years of bloodshed for iraq and the wider region. the failure to plan for the aftermath of the invasion led, in part, t
for them to be reviewed. now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week, the team are in vegas, making faces for cash. hacking for cash. and free cash! vegas, home to casinos. elvis sort of. uh-huh! superfast knot tying. wide open spaces. limos. the strip. and, this week, the largest hack fest on the planet. if there s one week of stuff in vegas that isn t staying in vegas, it s this week s bsides, black hat and notorious defcon gatherings. this is the week where hackers rub up against law enforcers and everyone peeks over each other‘s shoulders and networks. so, let s get straight into the action. and, for our first hack of the show, daniel here has got an extra piece of software running allowing him to hear what s being typed on the other end of a skype call. so how does it work? our skype&type software during a skype call learns how your keyboard sounds like, and if you later during the call type something sensitive, like a password or e mail, we can understand what y
because of the rain. notjust because of the showers, but because of the rain we had last night as well. low pressure is close by, generating showers racing across the country. some of them are very heavy indeed. some of us are missing them all together. the far south east of the country, through this evening, this is 6pm, staying dry. through tonight, the first part of the evening, the showers are continuing in many areas. in the early hours of monday, it clears up. lots of clear whether across the south and central areas. the pesky showers still continuing in some northern and western parts of the uk. pretty chilly in the north, down to 5 degrees in rural spots. tomorrow, we do it all over again. the showers continue for 2h hours, particularly in the north and west. the south will be drier. hello. this is bbc news. president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it s doing nothing to halt north korea s weapons programme, after pyongyang test fired its second intercon