hello and welcome. president biden will host a climate change summit later involving a0 countries. the leaders of india, china, japan, russia and the uk are among those invited to take part in the virtual meeting. they ve all been urged by mr biden to bring evidence of how they plan to cut emissions. the summit, on world earth day, comes ahead of a congress hearing with the teenage swedish climate activist greta thunberg. our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlett reports. john kerry, president biden s climate envoy, has been elbow bumping his way around the world in the past few weeks as part of the us a s effort to raise global ambition on the climate issue. we raise global ambition on the climate issue. climate issue. we will work together climate issue. we will work together to climate issue. we will work together to address - climate issue. we will work together to address the - climate issue. we will work - together to address the climate crisis. , ~ crisis.
and it s time for lenny s last turn the comedian will present his final comic relief tonight after 39 years. plus do you fancy more rain? i did not think so, but another wet morning for many. this weekend sunshine at times and hopefully more brightness. it s friday the 15th march. our main story. exposure to violent online content is now unavoidable for children in the uk, with many seeing it while still in primary school, according to a new ofcom report. the regulator is urging social media companies to strengthen child protection on their platforms. our technology reporter shiona mccallum reports. how much time do you think you spend on your phone a day? even prince william is asking these questions when meeting with a group of schoolchildren at a west london youth centre yesterday. that s quite a lot. but i bet you feel better coming here. but when children are on their smartphones, their innocence can soon be compromised. ofcom say out of the 2a7 children it spoke to, a
to water, to food, medicine. what we are seeing is what martin griffiths quoted, this is the climax of an unprecedentedly barbaric assault. i say that president biden needs to stop talking about this. and mr netanyahu going over the top need to see a massive humanitarian mobilisation of protection of pallet testing palestinians. if the americans can get warships to the eastern mediterranean for military purposes. 20,000 us service personnel were mobilised with floating ships, with helicopters and they are on ships to evacuate the sick and wounded and dying. that is the kind of humanitarian response we need. the safe area, in inverted commas that israel has designated, is a six square miles, which is not enough for 1.5 million people even to stand up in. let s speak now to the military correspondence from the times of israel. you speak to a lot of people who are high up in the israeli military. what is the thinking in this sense of what will happen in rafah, from where you
you can see a large crowd of people leaving the hospital. the israel defense forces said its troops were opening a secure route to evacuate civilians sheltering near the hospital but it did not intend to evacuate patients and medical staff. israel claims that hamas uses this and other hospitals in gaza as cover for its operations a claim strongly denied by staff at the hospital. further to the south in rafah concerns are growing about the fate of a million people who have taken shelter in the city after israel said it was preparing a ground assault there. the un fears that more than a million people crammed inside rafah are staring death in the face . i spoke with bbc correspondent nick beake on the evacuation orders from the idf for civilians sheltering near nasser hospital. the idf are quite adamant that the orderfor people to the idf are quite adamant that the order for people to leave the hospital applies to civilians who have gathered there for safety, and they
watered down resolution? mainly it is too little too watered down resolution? mainly it is too little too late, watered down resolution? mainly it is too little too late, but watered down resolution? mainly it is too little too late, but a - is too little too late, but a ceasefire is the most urgent thing that needs to happen, so i hope it does pass. i think the call to take out the urgent suspension of hostilities by the us primarily is a shameful act and also deeply worrying for what might yet come. [30 worrying for what might yet come. do you think other countries will vote for it, there are has been anger from some arab states that it has been watered down and they have to swallow it for the sake of a deal or say it is too thin to bother with. i can t speak on the way they might vote, but we may see push back from russia and others. historically and other the last few weeks we have seen every vote that passes through the security council and the un assembly has supp