of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i ve worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it s a world of sources at our fingertips, so that we re able to contact those that we really wouldn t be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it s one of those crucial platforms for that, which, as we ve seen with this investigation, we wouldn t have had access to many of those people had it not been for some platforms like twitter. 0k, and we will come back to more of that, i m sure, later. but let s go for the big story this week. elon musk announced himself as chief twit last week when
president biden and donald trump continue on the campaign trail, in the push to win crucial votes. more than 100 world leaders are gathering for the annual un climate change summit cop27 in egypt. and it s begun with dire warnings about the state of the planet. extreme temperatures, wildfires, drought and flooding have all been made worse by the last eight years being the hottest on record, according to the world meterological organization. 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 thani million people in nigeria last month, while another year of low rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. our planet is sending a distress signal, the un conference in egypt was warned. the last eight years have been the warmest on record, making every heatwave more intense and life threatening, especially for vulnerable po
about a0 million americans have already cast their ballots. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a carfactory. now, that was a springboard, as we ll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making
into lake victoria in tanzania during stormy weather. and with the us midterm elections just days away, president biden and donald trump continue on the campaign trail, in the push to win crucial votes. hello and welcome to the programme. ukraine s president says russia is readying its forces for a large scale attack on his country s infrastructure. volodymyr zelensky said he believed moscow would focus on ukraine s energy sector first. the southern ukrainian city of mariupol has been left in ruins after being subjected to fierce russian bombardment early in the invasion. the city was besieged by russian forces and ukrainian officials now estimate at least 25 thousand people were killed there. our correspondent hilary andersson has been speaking to survivors from the city for bbc panorama. they give vivid and distressing testimony. and a warning that hilary s report contains references to suicide, and you may find some of it distressing. artem has seen what no child shoul
people survived the crash and were taken to hospital. now on bbc news, ros atkins on the week. the village of manston is a short drive from the kent coast. down the road as the port of ramsgate. in the village itself there was a church and thejolly farmer pub, and next door is the airfield and, because of that, manston has been welcoming new arrivals for years. in the 20s, students arrived for pilot training, in the 50s, it was used as a base to carry out drills. now manston airfield is hosting new arrivals again. thousands are coming across the channel by small boat. many are taking to this facility. you have an asylum system completely gridlocked. as more people arrived, the government has condemned an invasion. the system is broken. illegal migration is out of control. and so the small village in kent finds itself as part of a story that raises fundamental questions about how the uk responds to those who arrive on our shores. hello, welcome. now, this is the plan this week