i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: the un warns the world is way off—track in the battle against global warming. we look at why the food choices we make are having a major impact. it comes down to the key and highly controversial question of what we all choose to eat. indonesian investigators prepare to deliver their first report into the lion air disaster, a month after the crash in which 189 people lost their lives. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: how people with paralysis are learning to control devices with just their thoughts. i'll be speaking to one of the researchers behind new pioneering technology. at first impressions you could think i've had it easy, coming from somewhere which is so multicultural.

my somewhere which is so multicultural. my home town itself was just another concrete jungle. and four young poets share their experiences about what life is really like for asians in the uk. welcome, it is 8:00am in singapore and midnight in london. the united nations is warning that efforts to avoid dangerous increases in global temperatures are way off the mark. its latest report says there has been a rise in carbon dioxide emissions for the first time in four years. it also says countries including south korea and australia are missing their own targets, while only brazil, china and japan are currently on track. our science correpondent matt mcgrath has the details. they produce it every year, they've

done it for the last nine years, and it looks at the promises that countries have made the cut emissions under the paris agreement and it looks at the reality of what needs to be done to keep temperatures below certain levels, i.e. two degrees 1.5. and this year they found that the gap between where we are and where we need to be as bigger than ever, and that comes as bigger than ever, and that comes as something of a surprise because for the last number years essentially the growth of greenhouse gases and the growth of c02 particularly had been stable or had been declining, and people had thought in some respect that actually not necessarily with cracked it, but we were on the right track. this sends a message actually it is not so simple and it is not going in the right direction. but climate change isn'tjust caused by energy production and industry. it is also about the food we eat. our science editor david shukman reports on how what we put on our tables has an impact on the planet. every breath from a cow, and especially every burp, releases methane — 600 litres every day. most from the front end, not the back. and, because methane warms

the planet, the more we eat beef and dairy products, the more the temperatures rise. at this farm, researchers encourage the cows to feed inside this hood so they can measure the methane. so a cow came in, she was eating... professor chris reynolds explains what they have found. that one, she had five eru ptations, five belches. so each spike is a burp, is it effectively? it's a burp or a belch. there's been a huge increase in meat and milk consumption. that demand's going to continue, so i think we need strategies for sustainably producing that meat and milk. one option is adding special supplements to the feed. some of these make the cows a lot less gassy. so technically, it is possible to reduce the extraordinary amount of methane that cows produce. but on its own, that won't be enough to head off the worst of global warming, so it comes down to the key and highly controversial question

of what we all choose to eat. here at manchester university, researchers study the climate cost of food. the fertilisers, tractors and processing all generate gases that cause more warming. so add all that up, and these chocolates are responsible for up to 1.4 kg of carbon dioxide and other gases. that is the equivalent of driving for 12 miles in a car. producing this blt sandwich involves 1 kg of the gases. that is like driving for eight miles. and this serving of beef comes out top, creating more than 3.5 kg of warming gases. that is like a journey for 30 miles. we have got to reduce our carbon emissions across different sectors, and the food sector is absolutely paramount to that, because we all eat, and it has a significant contribution to our — notjust the uk emissions, but globally, so we have to do something about it.

and it won't be easy, and it won't be popular. so what does this mean for our everyday shopping? well, mike berners—lee helps supermarkets work out their climate costs. the differences are striking. so making the switch from beef and lamb down to plant—based proteins is about one 50th of the carbon footprint. his advice is to eat more of this, and to check if the produce is british and in season. also to avoid fruit and veg that has been flown here. it's the tenderstem broccoli that's come from kenya, and that will almost certainly have gone on an aeroplane. there are some simple rules of thumb, so is it either in season, or is it robust enough to have been able to travel from elsewhere in the world on a boat? mike and other experts say they don't want to preach about low—carbon food, but they say, if we want to tackle climate change,

we need to eat less of this. david shukman, bbc news. our other top stories this hour: voters in the us state of mississippi are casting their ballots in a run—off for the last senate seat of the midterm elections. the vote has been overshadowed by comments made by the republican candidate cindy hyde—smith about public hangings. that has reopened some old wounds in a state with a difficult history of race relations, as chris buckler explained from the city of oxford. you do get this real sense that race is overshadowing this whole debate. certainly these controversial comments have made the headlines. they would have been talked about in the streets, and when i was at the polling station this morning, there is absolutely no doubt that many people have come out and they are putting their votes in, because they have listened to these comments, and they have reacted one way or the other to them. but it does also give you the sense that potentially both democrats and republicans have managed to get their base out in this election. also making news today: a court in crimea has ordered that 12

of the ukrainian sevicemen captured at sea by russian forces be held for two months. it comes after the russian national security service, the fsb, released recordings of some of the men apparently making confessions. ukraine says the videos were recorded under duress. facebook chief mark zuckerberg was empy—seated at a westminster committee inquiry after he failed to turn up to answer questions in the uk parliament. the commitee brough together politicans from nine countries to push forward their inquiry into facebook‘s use of personal data. the absence of the facebook chief was heavily criticsed. we have never seen we have never seen anything quite like facebook where, while we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions, ourformer civil conversation, seem to have been upended by frat boy billionaires from california. so mr zuckerberg's decision not to appear here to me speaks volumes. the british prime minister, theresa may, is on a tour of britain to promote her brexit

deal to voters. mrs may insists that the deal, which has been widely criticised across the political spectrum, protects the vital interests of the whole of the uk as it leaves the european union. a giant rhino that may have been the source of the unicorn myth survived until at least 39,000 years ago, much longer than previously thought. known as the siberian unicorn, the animal had a long horn on its nose and roamed the grasslands of eurasia. new evidence shows the hefty beast may have died out because it was such a fussy eater. indonesian authorities are set to release the preliminary findings into why a boeing 737 max jet plummeted into the java sea, killing all 189 people on board last month. some of the grieving families have launched a legal challenge for compensation from boeing, and there is also intense pressure on the budget airline lion air over its safety record. the bbc‘s indonesian editor rebecca henschke has more. the almost brand—new plane crashed

within minutes after take—off into the shallow waters of the java sea. this man's son was on the flight with his cousin. they were heading home after watching a football match in the capital. translation: he was a really good kid. nothing about him was bad. he always listened and respected us. his remains were recovered, and they were able to hold a funeral for him. recovered, and they were able to hold a funeralfor him. his cousin hasn't been found, and his family is pushing for the search to continue out at sea and tell everyone is accounted for. translation: without accounted for. translation: without a grave we are never able to fully

healed. there is no closure. we are lacking the peace we so desperately need. ahead of the public release of the report into what went wrong, families met yesterday with investigators and were briefed on the early findings. investigators have indicated that a faulty system may have caused the crash. indonesia's national transportation safety boa rd is indonesia's national transportation safety board is he telling parliament that the captain and co—pilot were faced with different air speed readings as the plane soared and then sunk repeatedly. with the pilot fighting until the end to keep the plane in the sky. here, she is meeting the family of the pilot, who have travelled to indonesia from india. she says, whatever the outcome of the investigation, she hopes lessons are learned. i wish that all the airlines companies could be more better with the safety of the

passengers and crew, and then no more accidents like this. what has been released is the early findings of this investigation, based on the flight of this investigation, based on the flight data recorder and interviews. the cockpit recorder was never found. and families say they have been told that further investigations will need to take place, both here in indonesia and america, to determine exactly what went wrong with this plane. three paralysed people have been able to shop online and chat with theirfamilies by controlling a tablet using their minds. they use a brain implant which picks up signals of intended movement and sends them over bluetooth. the can also browse youtube, write emails, and even play the piano. earlier i spoke tojohn simeral, one of the researchers who developed this technology. i asked him to explain how his research is helping people. this particular research continues a

line of work that the brain gate consortium has been performing which aims to help restore mobility and independence for people with tetraplegia, paralysis of the upper limbs and the lower limbs, resulting from spinal cord als or other neurological disorders. in this particular study, the three participants in the clinical trial we re participants in the clinical trial were able to control the tablet through a small sensor placed in the cortex of the brain, and using that system, they were able to compose and send e—mails, chat online, browse through websites and complete other tasks, just thinking about moving and clicking a mouse, even though they were paralysed. this is quite extraordinary, john. how long did it take to get to the stage where you saw it being used in the idle scenario that you had hoped for, and what technology is being

used here? so this technology is being —— has been in evolving in our group for at least ten to 12 years. 13 participants have been involved ina 13 participants have been involved in a critical trial, having the brain surgery in the brain implant in working with us, before that lots of animal research which gave us the fundamental understanding of how the brain works. today we call this into cortical brain computer interfaces. turns out that even in someone with paralysis the brain still formulates very fine movement plans even though the muscles can't respond. and so i placing these sensors down onto the surface of the brain, we can get a very accurate estimation of their intended movements, so that the technology takes those signals out and feeds them through some machine learning algorithms, software, in real—time, and then by sending those commands, those point—and—click commands, those point—and—click commands over bluetooth, we can link their intended but impossible movements to give them control over a commercial tabletlike we showed in

this study. with anyone watching this study. with anyone watching this now who has a loved one with paralysis or someone who themselves suffer from paralysis, paralysis or someone who themselves sufferfrom paralysis, what hope paralysis or someone who themselves suffer from paralysis, what hope can you give them that perhaps this technology might be available to them one right, so in the long run, them one right, so in the long run, the hoped for this technology is that for even people with even more severe neurological deficits, including for example advanced stage als, which might impair or prevent speech, this technology can offer the potential to fluently typed, to connecticut with their loved ones, to convey clinical information to their caregivers. but certainly we are ina their caregivers. but certainly we are in a very, very early investigational stage, still, which meant that technology is only currently available to people involved in a clinical trial. we are making progress towards a mobile version and a wireless version and a simpler version of this they can be managed like a give and the user at home without us, and the idea is

that eventually this will truly improve independence for individuals with severe motor disability and the idea is that eventually this will truly improve independence for individuals with severe motor disability in their home. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: plans to relocate a us airbase on the japanese island of okinawa face fierce local opposition. we will be finding out why. also on the programme: in their own words, we hear from four budding young asian poets based here in the uk. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world. the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number 10 to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it's a funny old world." angela merkel is germany's first woman chancellor, easily securing the majority she needed. attempts to fly a hot air balloon

had to be abandoned after a few minutes, but nobody seemed to mind very much. as one local comic put it, "it's not hot air we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s. it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war with the cuban missile crisis. thanks for staying with us. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. yes, great to have you with us. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories: a new warning on climate change as the un says global greenhouse gas emissions reached

a record high in 2017. indonesian investigators prepare to release their first report into last month's lion air disaster. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the business standard reports on amazon's rise to become the leader in india's domestic e—commerce market. it says five years after setting up shop in india, the us retail giant has passed homegrown rival flip—ka rt, clocking $7.5 billion in sales. "duterte death squad" is the headline in the philippine star. the paper says the president is creating his own armed civilian group to kill suspected rebels in public places, in response to the new people's army forming a group of "urban assassins." and the south china morning post

reports on a researcher who claimed to have created genetically modified babies. this is a story that we have been reporting on as well. chinese science authorities have vowed to get to the bottom of whether the biologist bypassed regulations to make the children resistant to hiv. those are the papers. now, babita, what stories are sparking discussions online? knickers, to be precise! now, it pays to be different — here's the proof from western australia. what's thought to be the largest steer in the world has been saved from the slaughter house for being too big. the humungus beast, curiously named knickers, stands at six foot four inches and weighs 1,a00kg. well, no meat processor would rise to the challenge at a cattle auction. he'll now live out the rest of his days on a farm south of perth.

the governor of the japanese island of okinawa says he'll hold a referendum next year over a controversial project to move a us airbase. japan and the us want to relocate the us marines' futenma air station from an urban area to somewhere less populated. but many locals are opposed to the move, as well as the huge us military presence on the island. the referendum is scheduled for february, but won't be binding on the authorities. jon mitchell is a journalist with the okinawa times. i asked him what is so significant about the referendum. so, governor denny tamaki, who is okinawa's first half american half japanese governor, he said this referendum is going to be a chance

for okinawan people to express their will to the government injapan and also the government of the united states. time and time again at the ballot box okinawa ns states. time and time again at the ballot box okinawans have elected officials who have wanted to reduce the military presence on the island so they see this as a chance for the people of okinawa to express their opinion about whether this air station should be relocated from the crowded hard further north. as you probably know futenma has been dubbed the most dangerous military base in the world. it is surrounded by schools, surrounded by hospitals. there have been a number of accidents in recent years both in and around the base. just last week okinawa prefecture revealed that the water around the base has been contaminated by operations from the military with firefighting chemicals. we know it is notjust anger over safety. there has been anger over safety. there has been angerfor years anger over safety. there has been anger for years over anger over safety. there has been angerfor years over the anger over safety. there has been anger for years over the us

anger over safety. there has been angerfor years over the us military presence in okinawa in general. tell us presence in okinawa in general. tell us what has led to all of this anger? today okinawa is host to 31 american military installations which are 70% of the total number of military bases in japan. which are 70% of the total number of military bases injapan. so local residents for many years have had to put up with crimes committed by american servicemen, and these accidents. and most importantly today the bases are and economic impediment to the development of the island. bases take up about 40% of the main island but they only contribute about five or 6% to the economy. what is at stake with this referendum is really the future vision of okinawa. on one hand the government of japan and vision of okinawa. on one hand the government ofjapan and america wa nts government ofjapan and america wants okinawa to continue to be militarised but a lot of okinawan residents see okinawa as a peaceful zone, trading area betweenjapan and asia. so what is at stake is competing vision of the future of okinawa and what it will entail.

will it be militarised area or it be at place where trade can develop between asia and japan? what is life like for young asians living in the uk? we spoke to four young east and south asians, who also happen to be budding poets, to find out more about their lives, in their own words. first impressions, you would think i have had it easy. coming from the end, so multicultural. nah, my home in the house was another concrete jungle. had to play it smart. make the right friends, so i don't fall victim to the childhood fear of my life falling apart. this is for the third world kids, the ones that waltzed into this world with suitcases, the ones with more stamps on their passport than fingers or

toes, the ones whose heart will always be in a 3—way tie between places. the ones who learned early to pack all your memories, clothes and good buys into 23 kg and cabin baggage. -- boodbyes. our both never made it to the ballot boxes. instead they were cast at home. more specifically in the kitchen. because thatis specifically in the kitchen. because that is where our nannies and ummies found that they were paid the most election, rice and rhotis the process of power while thalis meant a landslide victory. have you eating at? nan would notice again i have starved myself for about a decade. hmm, cold winters. i crave hot bowl of greasy ramen. yes, we have moved

out of the kitchen and into the boardrooms, the operating theatres, the publishing houses, so you think some things would have changed but our hatred of each other because of hatred of ourselves meant everything stayed just the same. now i graduated with this degree i am at home with my pakistani family, and i feel like i can't do for my family what i did for my friends because there is so much i want to share about how mentally ill my life became, knowing that i can empower my relatives to do the same. my culture doesn't do that. it is still like how it was for my dad growing up like how it was for my dad growing up in karachi and no one talking about their feelings. and you will learn to trust on your own two feat that will never settle but will a lwa ys that will never settle but will always ta ke that will never settle but will always take you just where you need to be. ijust badly craved for people who would ask me if i have eating it. wow! powerful words from four young poets here in the uk. that was great, wasn't it, sharanjit? it was, yes, really powerful.

you have been watching newsday. i'm babita sharma in london. and i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. coming up: a thaw in tensions? more on the china— us trade issues. president trump's economic adviser says a deal to end the trade row with china may be possible. and before we go, here's something you don't often see. in the skies above the russian city of st petersburg, you can spot one aircraft giving a helping hand to another. local media reported that the helicopter was transporting the fighterjet from an airfield to a new military park nearby. so, while it may look rather strange, it's not just a flight of fancy. stay with bbc world news. headlines next. we will see you soon. hello there. we've replaced our

cold, dry weather now with something a lot more unsettled, wet, windy and much milder conditions, which will be with us in fact for the next few days. now, through today this next area of low pressure means business. it is going to be quite a deep area of low, bringing gales and heavy rain. infact of low, bringing gales and heavy rain. in fact there could be some destruction to travel throughout today so keep tuned to your bbc local radio for all the local updates. now we are starting the day off on updates. now we are starting the day offona updates. now we are starting the day off on a mild note. we have lost the overnight frost that we have seen for the last week or so. temperatures starting off around six to eight degrees. now we are dragging this milder airfrom the resource on the south—westerly wind. might not feel so mild though because of the gales and the rain but it really will be milder than we are being used to. spells of rain through the morning moving northwards follow followed by showery bursts of rain further south in the afternoon and then an area of heavy, persistent rain for scotland, where we could see some pretty high

rainfall totals on the hills. temperatures, double figures for all, as high as 1a or 15 across the south—east but it will be very windy indeed, 60— 65 mph on exposed western coasts and late in the day close to 70 miles an hour in scotla nd close to 70 miles an hour in scotland and the northern isles. and it isa scotland and the northern isles. and it is a brief window of fine weather during wednesday evening before the next bout of wet and windy weather spreads into the south of the country as we head into the early pa rt country as we head into the early part of thursday. now there could be a very windy spell of weather across parts of wales and the western half of england through thursday morning as this next little area of low pressure m oves as this next little area of low pressure moves north eastwards and with it again a spell of pretty heavy rain which will clear through and by thursday afternoon we should see a little bit of brightness breaking out, just a few blustery showers may be heavy and thundery across south—western areas. temperatures down a degree on wednesday's values closer to nine or 13 degrees. as we end the week low pressure still very much in charge. again very windy in northern areas as you can see, tightly packed

isobars. it will be a bright day on friday, most of the showers, blustery showers, will be across northern and western areas and these will be increasingly wintry over the hills, as it will be a chilly day across the north, very blustery with the risk of gales, maybe into the north of england. blustery across the south, though not quite as windy as further north, and you will notice a little bit cooler, with temperatures of 9010 or 11 celsius. as we head on into what's the weekend we maintain an unsettled theme, quite blustery, again fairly marred across england and wales ——9 or ten. turning a bit cooler, though, for scotland and northern ireland. you are watching bbc news. our top story: greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high last year. a new un report says efforts to tackle climate change are way off track. it warns that global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels unless countries radically revise their targets for cutting greenhouse gases. indonesian authorities are set to release the preliminary findings into why a boeing 737 max jet plummeted into the java sea killing

all 189 people on board last month. the world chess championship will be settled in london later today. two chess grandmasters, magnus carlsen of norway and the american fabiano caruana, have spent november locked in stalemate, with the world title up for grabs. a series of tie—breaking games must now be played to decide the contest. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, hardtalk‘s stephen sackur speaks to saudi dissident abdullah alaoudh.