in the canary islands as fears grow that lava flowing into the sea could create dangerous gases. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. at a virtual summit on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly, president biden asked world leaders to pledge to vaccinate 70% of the world s population against covid i9 by september next year. he said america would buy an additional 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine to donate to poorer countries. research underlines a stark contrast richer countries have vaccinated much of their populations, while poorer ones are lagging far behind. our health editor, hugh pym, has more details. wealthier nations are pushing on with boosterjabs, but it s a different story in low income countries in africa and around the world, where vaccination rates are much lower. that divergence has been criticised by the world health organization, and there ve been growing calls for more
latest on the volcano eruption in the canary islands, as fears grow that lava flowing into the sea could create dangerous gases. hello and welcome to the programme. at a virtual summit on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly, president biden asked world leaders to pledge to vaccinate 70% of the world s population against covid 19 by september next year. he said america would buy an additional 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine, to donate to poorer countries. research underlines a stark contrast richer countries have vaccinated much of their populations, while poorer ones are lagging far behind. our health editor hugh pym has more details. wealthier nations are pushing on with boosterjabs, but it s a different story in low income countries in africa and around the world, where vaccination rates are much lower. that divergence has been criticised by the world health organization, and there ve been growing calls for more vaccine doses to be diverted to tho
contributions currently being offered. the national contribution is the ndc, the pledge that in the run up to cop26, we are asking every country to cut carbon. we are going to go down by 68% by 2030, 60 8% cut in carbon by 2030, 60 8% cut in carbon by 2030, compared to where we were in 1990. we are making a bet on hydrogen, we will be expanding our nuclear capacity and you can see the logic of going for more renewables when you look at the spike in hydrocarbon prices, particularly gas. we are helping people to retrofit their homes with new sources of heating. jet zero, the first guilt free, carbon free passenger plane. we also recognise this is notjust about using technical fixes, technology to cut c02. we also need to work together, around the world, to restore the balance between humanity and nature. a balance that s obviously been proved to be so hopelessly out of whack by the emergence of a zoonotic pandemic, for instance. we need to reverse the loss of trees and biodiver
and lithuania tells people to throw away their chinese phones they say they ve found security risks in huawei and xiaomi models. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has told the un general assembly that november s climate summit in scotland is a critical turning point for humanity. mrjohnson called for substantial reductions in carbon emissions by 2030. he urged developing countries to phase out power generation from coal, but said richer countries needed to help fund the changes. my friends, the adolescence of humanity is coming to an end and must come to an end. we are approaching that critical turning point, in less than two months, in just over a0 days when we must show we are capable of learning and maturing and finally taking responsibility for the destruction we are inflicting, notjust upon our planet, but upon ourselves. it s time for humanity to grow up. us to listen to the warnings of the scientists. if you look at covid, if you want to see an example of the
this week we re looking at the world of extremism in gaming. also, meet your robot squash coach. let s play squash! and we all know that mosquitoes suck, but so do these anti mozzy machines. hey, welcome to click. hope you re doing 0k. this week we are going to be talking about video games, but not perhaps in the way that you might think. i don t know about you, lara, but my boy is now playing more games online with his friends, which means i m starting to have to think about the type of games that he wants to play and who he s talking to online. are you at that stage yet? no, we re not therejust yet, but we are hoping, when the time comes, she s just now into the nice, light hearted stuff, i really don t like shooting games. yeah, exactly. we know that there are constant suspicions about links between violent games and violent people, and that s something that infuriates the gaming community, but that is not actually what we are talking about this week. we are notjust talkin