worth of data. we re looking at them spilling untreated sewage for over half a month. the thames is a world famous river and it s a central part of london life. but despite its importance, parts of the river are being used as an open sewer. this is barnes, in south west london. now, the river s pretty low at the moment, so i m standing on what you might think is the riverbed. except, it isn t. it s a mound of wet wipes. ugh! it s just. look at these. it s just wet wipes after wet wipes after wet wipes. it sjust everywhere, you know? how can we live like this? debbie leach runs a river charity that s campaigning to clean up the thames. it s about the size of two tennis courts, and who knows what s down there in the river? this is just what we can see. you don t really realise what it is until you get down in this. yeah. ..and you start really prodding around it. yeah, yeah. i mean, every time the stick goes in, wet wipes come out. and when you re standing up there on the river
and this is a month s worth of data. we re looking at them spilling untreated sewage for over half a month. the thames is a world famous river, and it s a central part of london life. but despite its importance, parts of the river are being used as an open sewer. this is barnes, in south west london. now, the river s pretty low at the moment, so i m standing on what you might think is the riverbed. except, it isn t. it s a mound of wet wipes. ugh! it s just. look at these. it s just wet wipes after wet wipes after wet wipes. it sjust everywhere, you know? how can we live like this? debbie leach runs a river charity that s campaigning to clean up the thames. it s about the size of two tennis courts. and who knows what s down there in the river? this is just what we can see. you don t really realise what it is until you get down in this. yeah. ..and you start really prodding around it. yeah, yeah. i mean, every time the stick goes in, wet wipes come out. and when you re standin
world leaders preparing for the cop26 summit in glasgow that if they don t act on climate change now, it ll be too late. he told the bbc the richest nations had a moral responsibility to help. we caused it. 0ur kind of industrialisation is one of the majorfactors in producing this change in climate. we have a moral responsibility even if we didn t cause it. and coming up this hour, psychologists say many girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are being left undiagnosed. we ll hearfrom some of those women who ve been affected later in life. welcome to bbc news. our main story. millions of public sector workers are in line for a pay rise next year, after it was announced the chancellor is to end the year long pay freeze. the move will affect at least 1.3 million public sector workers. a temporary pause in pay progression was imposed last november because of the impact of the pandemic on the economy. ahead of tomorrow s budget, the chancellor says it is right that p
what exactly do we know about tomorrow s budget? let s look at the bi icture tomorrow s budget? let s look at the big picture and tomorrow s budget? let s look at the big picture and then tomorrow s budget? let s look at the big picture and then the tomorrow s budget? let s look at the big picture and then the detail. - tomorrow s budget? let s look at the big picture and then the detail. the l big picture and then the detail. the economic reality, the economy is stagnant. we are in recession. albeit a shallow one. taxes are through the roof by any recent historic standard. and family finances feel squeezed. then there is the political reality, the conservatives have been in government for yonks and there has been more than the odd economic and political calamity and their ratings, their popularity, is really poon ratings, their popularity, is really poor. so, enter the chancellor. ratings, their popularity, is really poor. so, enterthe chancellor. no pressure then for
in beijing would like to see winning the race for the white house. 0ur china correspondent steve mcdonell went to the great hall of the people to try to find out. later this year, the us announces their new president. what were the chinese comic party believe the of this equipment communist party. it s like pulling teeth. all clamouring there is a sense from the delegates that they don t want to speak out of turn when it comes to expressing an opinion on us politics. but they are worried about china us relations and they want them to improve. good effort from steven mcdonald there. let s get more on china s economic vision for the future now, and its leaders have set out what they re calling an ambitious economic growth target of around 5% this year. china is facing a property crisis, falling prices and high youth unemployment. here s china s premier li qiang on their strategy going forward. translation: these expected targets i are proposed taking into account. both dom