more than £8 billion the second largest result in its history. and australia s national football team criticises qatar s human rights record less than a month before the emirate hosts the world cup. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has accused russian commanders of craziness in their efforts to capture a town in the east of the country. bakhmut which sits in the donetsk region has been the centre of russian attacks for months. meanwhile, in the south, ukrainian forces advancing on the city of kherson have been hampered by heavy rain. russian forces are building fortifications and bringing in extra reinforcements. the area has been at the centre of the fiercest clashes in recent weeks. our correspondent hugo bachega is in kyiv and hejoins me now. let s start off with the comments from president zelensky about the tactics of russian commanders. what does he mean by craziness? he said the most sev
unpredictable since the end of the second world war. in northern ireland, the latest efforts to form a new governing executive have failed. there could be new elections by christmas. and why schools that tried to ban pupils from wearing their afro hair tried to ban pupils from wearing theirafro hair in tried to ban pupils from wearing their afro hair in a coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, we have a full round up in the british involvement in europe with manchester united, arsenal, west ham and all in action. good evening. the new prime minister rishi sunak has decided not to attend the global climate conference in egypt next month. the decision has been heavily criticised by political opponents and environmental campaigners. downing street says he has other pressing domestic commitments, including the autumn budget. but the decision has been heavily criticised by political opponents and by environment or campaigners. our climate editor, justin rowlatt, has more
since the end of the second world war. claiming he is buying twitter to claim save humanity. we look at how inflation is affecting voters. midterm elections we ll look at how inflation welcome to the programme. there s been another grim warning from the un that there s no credible way of limiting the rise in global warming to one of the key thresholds. a new report talks of woefully inadequate action by the world s governments to keep the increase below 1.5 degrees celsius. as leaders prepare to gather for cop27 the global climate conference taking place this year in egypt, the new british prime minister rishi sunak has decided not to attend. downing street says he has other pressing domestic commitments . us climate envoyjohn kerry told the bbc in order to achieve the climate goals, all countries urgently had to work together. if we get more countries directly engaged in changing their plans to more rapidly kill the omissions, to more rapidly transition, it is
dozens of people have received hospital treatment for suspected toxic poisoning in serbia after a train carrying ammonia derailed near the southeastern city of pirot. people have been warned not to leave their homes. a state of emergency has been declared after 20 carriages came off the tracks. police investigating the shooting of a 26 year old woman at a pub near liverpool last night have appealed for the public to come forward with any information relating to the incident. merseyside police said it did not believe the victim who was out with her sister and friends at the lighthouse inn in wallasee was targeted by the gunmun. four other people were also injured in the attack one is in a critical condition. 0ur north of england correspondent judith moritz reports. late on christmas eve, the lighthouse pub was full of people counting down the minutes towards midnight. it was a lively scene, butjust before 12:00am the pub s neighbours heard a particularly loud noise. i