Rich and developing countries alike have criticised the draft climate agreement at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which has now gone into overtime as wrangling continues. Newshour hears from Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Postsdam Climate Institute. Also in the programme: The disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal; and sinkholes in China. (Picture: The venue of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 22, 2024. Credit: Reuters)

A new draft of a global climate agreement at the COP29 summit proposes rich countries provide two hundred and fifty billion dollars annually over the next decade to help poorer nations combat global warming. Africa's delegation denounced the figure as "unacceptable". Also, is Russia giving North Korea weapons -- as well as oil -- in return for Pyongyang's support in Ukraine? And we will hear about some brand new recordings of the jazz great Miles Davis that have come to light. (Photo: Some...

Israel and allies denounce the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Newshour hears from former MK Ruth Wasserman Lande. Also in the programme: Matt Gaetz withdraws nomination for US attorney general; and Ukrainians evacuating from the east. (Picture: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum, during a discussion on the subject of hostages kidnapped during the...

The International Criminal Court has issued arrests warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and the former defence minister for crimes against humanity. A warrant has also been issued for a Hamas leader who's believed to be dead. Also on the programme, Russia has struck Ukraine with what may be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, a first in the war; and, is one banana really worth more than $6 million? (Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav...

A senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, says the US has no choice but to keep bolstering its military support for Kyiv. Also on the programme: The wife of Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye on her husband’s arrest; a BBC reporter’s encounter with the lookalike of the media personality Logan Paul; and a tribute to guitarist Vic Flick, famous for his riff on the James Bond theme tune. (Picture: Flags signalling landmines on a demining training field at...

Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong's most influential pro-democracy figures, has testified in court for the first time in a national security trial that may see him sentenced to life in jail. Also in the programme: Washington is sending anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine in a reversal of previous policy as the Russian advance gathers pace; and we speak to Richard Flanagan, the first writer to win both the Booker Prize for fiction and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. (Picture: Media mogul...

It is 1000 days since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and senior Republican on the Armed Forces Committee in the US Senate, Roger Wicker, has welcomed the decision by President Biden to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russia, but argues that it should have come sooner. He tells Newshour: "The best way to combat the illegal breach of international law is to be strong". Also in the programme: Ukraine's former national security adviser on what his country can expect...

Moscow says Ukraine has launched American-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. Also on the programme: we speak to the wife of one of the 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who have been given long jail terms; and, Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of france's mass rape trial, makes her final statement to the court. (Photo: US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) firing a missile into the East Sea during a South...

Russia has vowed to respond if Ukraine uses US long-range ATACMS missiles to hit its territory. We'll hear views from Ukraine, Russia and Germany. Also in the programme: armed looters hijacked almost 100 trucks carrying aid supplies into Gaza; and French singer-songwriter Charles Dumont, who composed Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", has died. (Photo: A resident carries outs items from his house heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike on Odesa, Ukraine. Credit: REUTERS/Nina...

President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with American long-range missiles has prompted scorn in Moscow. What difference will the move by the outgoing administration make - and might other Western allies follow the US' lead? Also in the programme: We'll hear from Delhi, the Indian city which gasps under unrelenting toxic smog; and he leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet in Brazil - but are they just marking time until Donald Trump returns? (Photo shows a file...

US media say President Biden has made a major policy change, by letting Ukraine use long-range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia. Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, has long called for the change. There's been no confirmation from the White House. Also in the programme: An Israeli airstrike in central Beirut is reported to have killed Hezbollah’s media chief; Russian opposition protestors take to the streets in Berlin; and a proposal in the new Zealand parliament, which would...

Russia has again targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure; we hear from the governor of one of the regions that has been hit. Also in the programme: Israeli airstrikes on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza kill at least forty-six people in a multi-storey building; why Maoris and their supporters are marching to protest against a proposed change to New Zealand’s founding treaty; and the drama that portrays former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an amateur sleuth. (IMAGE: Firefighters work at...

US and Chinese leaders to discuss “delicate transition” in Lima as President Biden holds his last talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on sides of APEC summit. Also in the programme: families of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Donald Trump’s hopes to secure the hostages release; and we ask what happened on the dark side of the moon nearly three billion years ago? (IMAGE: President Biden the APEC summit in Peru. CREDIT: Reuters/Leah Millis)

President Zelensky says that with Donald Trump in power in the US, Ukraine's war with Russia will end sooner than expected: does this signal a big change in his thinking? We hear from a Ukrainian MP. Also in the programme: we hear live from South Africa where a stand-off continues between police and illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine; and we follow the Afghans leaving their homeland in the hope of making it to the UK. (IMAGE: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press...

European vaccine shares fall on the nomination by Donald Trump of vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Junior as US Health Secretary. We look at his views on food, nutrition and agriculture. Also on the programme: why the South African authorities are determined to starve thousands of illegal miners to force them out of a mine; and the man caught smuggling hundreds of tarantulas and bullet ants by plane at great risk to himself. (Photo: Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville in...

Donald Trump is continuing to build a controversial administration, having picked vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary. Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK Jr, has a history of spreading health information that scientists say is false. We hear from a senior adviser to the Trump 2024 election campaign, as well as a former CDC director with serious concerns about the choice. Also on the programme: the latest from the...

The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has exceeded 800 million, more than quadrupling since 1990. This is according to new data published in the journal The Lancet on World Diabetes Day. Also on the programme: Police in Brazil say an attack on the Supreme Court was a terrorist incident; and there is growing anger over Donald Trump's choices for some of the most powerful positions in the next US government, particularly his choice of Attorney General. (Photo: A person using a set...

Donald Trump has nominated former Republican US Congressman Matt Gaetz for the role of US attorney-general. He is a man with many critics, including within his own party. So will the Senate approve the nomination? Also on the programme: Super Typhoon Usagi makes landfall in an already storm-battered Philippines; and the academic from London who is under house arrest in Azerbaijan while the UN climate change conference continues. Photo: Former US Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz speaks at a...

President Biden and Donald Trump have held initial transition talks in the White House as the Republicans makes further significant nominations including Marco Rubio for secretary of state and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. We hear from Estonia's foreign minister Margus Tsahkna. Also in the programme: a cheap way to reduce damage from contrails; and more heavy flooding in the Valencia region of Spain. (Picture: US President Biden hosts President-elect Trump at the White...

How will the NATO military alliance and support for Ukraine hold together with Donald Trump in the White House? Also on the programme: the United States will continue to send military support to Israel despite the passing of a deadline for improved conditions in Gaza; and, a conversation with Samantha Harvey, whose novel "Orbital" has won the Booker Prize.  (Photo: ETTORE FERRARI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14868645ab) NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte speaks during a joint press conference...

The Israeli army has announced the opening of a new aid crossing into Gaza, just as a US deadline demanding the improvement of humanitarian conditions expires. As humanitarian agencies say the situation is still desperate, we'll hear from the Israeli military. Also on the programme: The spiritual leader of the Anglican Church resigns over a child abuse scandal, the Russian doctor jailed for five years after a patient denounced her comments on the war in Ukraine; and one of the greatest...

The UN chief, Antonio Guterres, has told the COP climate summit in Azerbaijan that to double down on the use of fossil fuels is "absurd" and that the "clean energy revolution" has arrived. However, the host, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, described his country's reserves of oil and gas as "a gift from God". We speak to a woman in Canada's Nova Scotia province whose six-year-old son was killed by flash floods linked to climate change. Also in the programme: the leader of the Anglican...

The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan has opened with a warning from the United Nations that this year is almost certain to be the hottest on record. Also in the programme: is it time to rethink the war in Ukraine? And new information on the planet Uranus. (Picture: A night view shows the venue of the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 11, 2024. Credit: Reuters/Murad Sezer)

The UN has warned 2024 will be the hottest year on record, as its annual climate conference begins in Baku. Also on the programme: BBC on set with Squid Game's director; how an international effort caught one of the world's most prolific online child abusers - we'll hear from some of his victims; and China's mass bike-ride for breakfast buns! (Photo: Dr al-Jaber (left) handed Babayev the COP gavel at the opening of the summit this morning. Credit: Reuters)