with less tha 48 hours until us midterm elections, president biden and donald trump continue on the campaign trail, in the push to win crucial votes. and elon musk threatens a permanent ban for twitter users who create false orfake profiles. we will tell you all you need to know. a very warm welcome to the programme. at the cop 27 climate conference in egypt, world leaders will highlight the steps they are taking to tackle global warming, as developing countries hope for reforms of the climate finance system. richer nations are to outline their programmes for reducing carbon emissions. poorer countries have welcomed the prospect of a debate on setting up a compensation fund. our climate editor, justin rowlatt, has the latest from the conference in sharm el sheikh. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. floods displaced more than a million people in nigeria last month, while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even c
to start the process. south korea said that its own assessment has found that japan s plan complies with international standards, which is something that the iaea chief had said earlier in the week and he reiterated it today in a press conference before heading out to seoul. he said that the impact, the radiological impact is going to be negligible on the environment. he was in fukushima and he met with local officials and localfishermen. and he acknowledged that the concerns that they have are legitimate, they re understandable. but also reiterated his agency s objectivity. he said that this is neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. this is about science and it s about the facts. and ultimately, it s up to japan to make that decision. remember, this is water that has been accumulating for years now, more than a million tonnes of water in over 1000 tanks.
to the mediterranean. inland, there are others poland, belarus. for now, though, that international response is fragmented, with the people on these ships caught in the cracks. stephanie prentice, bbc news. 19 people are now known to have died after a passenger plane crashed into lake victoria in tanzania while attempting to land in stormy weather. authorities say more than 20 others survived the crash. donna larsen reports. huddled on the wings of a sinking plane. these are the survivors of a crash that plunged more than a0 people into the waters of africa s largest lake. disbelieving crowds gathered around the shoreline offering help, and localfishermen ferried survivors back and forth to dry land. despite their efforts, many of the passengers were unable to be saved.
officials were expecting numbers to fall quite dramatically as we went into autumn, as they have done in previous years. but it s now clear this is an all year round operation because it is so lucrative to the people smugglers organising the crossings. recently a boat was found in the channel with 88 people on board if each paid around £3000 on board if each paid around £3000 on board that would ve made the smugglers a quarter of £1,000,000 from that single boat. let smugglers a quarter of £1,000,000 from that single boat. from that single boat. let me bring ou some from that single boat. let me bring you some pictures from that single boat. let me bring you some pictures without - from that single boat. let me bring you some pictures without these i from that single boat. let me bring | you some pictures without these are the scenes live outside the hospital in calais where the injured, and i fear also the bodies are being taken of those who have tried unsuccessfully to cross t
uk waters has escalated further. the french prime minister has written to the european commission asking it to begin proceedings that could lead to retaliatory tariffs on uk goods entering the eu. the british government denies it is withholding licenses for french boats to fish in british waters. with the latest, here s our political correspondent alex forsyth. arriving in rome with a diplomatic row brewing, the prime minister stressed the ties that bind the uk and france. an old ally and friend, but the french president tonight told the financial times the uk s credibility is at stake in the row over fishing. this is the front line of this fight, which has been rumbling for months. the authorities here injersey and across the uk say they have stuck to agreements made after brexit and issued licences to french boats that can prove a history of fishing these waters. but france says dozens have been unfairly denied. localfishermen, like their counterparts across the channel, are frustrat