mp carolyn harris. can i thank the minister, can i thank the clerks. wonderful women, thank you. the pope calls for world leaders to consider radical decisions to tackle climate change, in an exclusive message recorded for the bbc ahead of the cop26 summit in glasgow and big bearand baby bear are different. and it s the spooky season let s find out what mark kermode thinks about disney s antlers and much more in the film review at 5.45. in the last hour a 66 year old woman from somerset has been found guilty of murdering her husband after a row over a family meal. penelope jackson stabbed david jackson to death at their home in somerset. after her arrest she told police she had stabbed him as he was an aggressive bully . she s beenjailed for a life, with a minimum term of 18 years in prison. jon kay has the background to the case. february this year and police arrive at a bungalow on the somerset coast. element can you come outside for a minute. thank you. pennyjackson o
recovery is losing steam. third quarter gdp showing that growth has fallen to 4.9% well below a poll of analysts that reuters conducted. also a sign that power outages and supply chain bottlenecks are taking a toll on the world s second largest economy. it s the weakestpace since the third quarter of 2020 and slowing from 7.9% in the second quarter. joining me now isjinny yan, chief china economist at icbc standard bank. welcome, great to see you, what do you think these figures tell us? actually, things aren t too bad. i think the key indicators suggest that the main slowdown is coming from the industrial activity. we also know that we had flooding, power outages, and obviously those emission targets set by the central government trying to be delivered by local government. but obviously perhaps too quickly, causing some outages in the certain sectors. and of course we have had local covid outbreaks, so given all of that i think isn t about performance. let s also remember,
you can do that on twitter. the chancellor, rishi sunak, has said british shoppers should be confident there will be enough presents on the shelves for christmas despite a logjam at the uk s biggest commercial port. the eu s ambassador to the uk says the european union has gone to the limits of what it can do to fix the row about trade in northern ireland. prince william tells space entrepreneurs to stop trying to reach new planets, and focus on solving the problems here on earth instead. it s the idea that we need some of the world s greatest brains and minds fixed on the repair of this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live. and where s wally? well, sort of. the british antarctic survey is asking for our help to study satellite images of around 15,000 square miles, to see how many walruses can be spotted, and where. hello and welcome to bbc news this morning. gp surgeries in england are to receive an extra £250 million this winter to help them see more
erected days later. now senate democrats are planning a vote next week to codify abortion rights into a federal law. here s what you may have missed in the leaked opinion. in a footnote, justice samuel alito notes that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the african american population. justice samuel alito goes on to suggest that because of roe v. wade a disproportionate percentage of fetuses is black. the man who helped get a voting rights and uphold white racial innocence is now moved to protect a black lives. he offers no context here because while brevity is the soul of what it is also clearly the soul of the dim-witted. we will offer context and a second. shout to the republican voters who paved the way for this very thing to happen. do not mind us. we are still here cleaning up this mess. the mess on our hands now is the trump appointed judges who helped create the conservative majority. now, they are empowered and emboldened at a tim
hello and welcome to bbc news. two british volunteers working to provide humanitarian aid in ukraine are understood to have been captured by the russian military. it s believed the men were working as part of a joint humanitarian operations centre project in the country to help provide food, medical supplies and evacuation support. it comes after the foreign office confirmed a british national was killed while fighting in ukraine. it s thought the man, who s not been formally named but is believed to be scott sibley, was fighting for ukrainian forces when he was killed. a second man is understood to be missing. meanwhile, several russian strikes hit kyiv on thursday and killed at last one person, as the secretary general of the united nations, antonio guterres, met ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky in the capital and visited nearby towns. mr guterres said he was shocked by the attacks, and admitted that the un s security council had failed in its role to prevent or end t