from the islamic state group. hello and welcome to bbc news. three days before the crucial cop26 climate summit, the pope has called on the global leaders to make radical decisions and offer hope to the world. in a message recorded by the bbc, pope francis called on all those at the summit to act now to tackle global warming. later, he met the us presidentjoe biden, who s in rome for a summit of 620 leaders. our north america editor, jon sopel, is travelling with president biden. he sent this report. the ruler of the world s pre eminent superpower en route to meet the world s most powerful religious leader. but forjoe biden, only america s second roman catholic president, this is an audience with his spiritual guide, and clearly someone he admires enormously. you are the most significant warrior for peace i have ever met. and with your permission, i d like to be able to give you a coin. i know my son would want me to give you this to you. the president gave him a coin as a gi
i think are of massive long term benefit this country and to the world. president putin tells his troops to seal off a steel plant in mariupol where the last ukrainian fighters in the city are holding out while president biden promises another 600 millions pounds of military help three people have been found guilty of murdering five year old logan mwangi in bridgend last year. his body was dumped in a river after he was killed lastjuly. a man s been found guilty of murdering 6 year old rikki neave in peterborough almost 30 years ago. the killer was just 13 when he when he killed rikki in 1994 in the last hour, mps have approved an inquiry into claims that the prime minister misled parliament about downing street parties during lockdown. earlier the government abandoned attempts to delay such an inquiry by the commons privilieges committee and a short time ago, it was approved by mps without a vote. but it won t begin until the metropolitan police complete their investig
but beyond the pr and the press conferences, there s another story victims and their families facing scepticism, leading to life changing consequences. ..and a company drowning in the scale of injustice. i m mobeen azhar, and i m back injapan to investigate the aftermath of the biggest child sex abuse scandal in japanese history. i ve been watching this story unfold blow by blow for more than a year from the other side of the world, so it s so nice to be back injapan, so i can be on the ground and actually get a handle on what s been happening. it s hard to grasp the scale of this story. johnny kitagawa died in 2018. his company, johnny & associates, ruled the entertainment industry for decades. even after his death, they seemed unstoppable. but the revelations of abuse in 2023 brought the empire to its knees and its 60 year old legacy to an end. since then, a new company has been set up to deal solely with the compensation ofjohnny s survivors. it s called smile up. since
unofficial israel lebanon border are rising. israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah trade strikes across the frontier almost every day. andrea tenenti, a spokesperson for the united nations interim force in lebanon, explained more about the investigation. three ogl observers, military observers, unarmed, were in the area together with their language assistants and they were injured. luckily they are stable at the moment, so we have launched an investigation to look into this incident and into the explosions. i know there are a lot of speculations at the moment, but in relation to what we do as an organisation, we need to verify the information through our own investigations. so i hope we will be able to find out more shortly. we have been in touch with everyone, with both sides, and we have been in touch even when we are doing patrolling. we informed the parties that we are going to different locations. and unifil, we are very visible, we have white vehicles with the u
israel denies involvement. tensions along the unofficial israel lebanon border are rising. israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah trade strikes across the frontier almost every day. andrea tenenti, a spokesperson for the united nations interim force in lebanon, explained more about the investigation. three ogl observers, military observers, unarmed, were in the area together with their language assistants and they were injured. luckily, they are stable at the moment, so we have launched an investigation to look into this incident and into the explosions. i know there are a lot of speculations at the moment, but in relation to what we do as an organisation, we need to verify the information through our own investigations. so i hope we will be able to find out more shortly. we have been in touch with everyone, with both sides, and we have been in touch even when we are doing patrolling. we informed the parties that we are going to different locations. and unifil, we are