schoolchildren lead a world wide protest against climate change. it could be the biggest demonstration yet against global warming, with protests planned in more than 150 countries. the younger a person is, the more the changing climate will impact them as they grow and the less of a voice they're given today. we'll have the latest from our correspondents in sydney, nairobi and paris. also this lunchtime. a race against time for thomas cook. they must find £200 million to stay in business. new brexit talks in brussels, but is a deal any closer? the attacks on saudi arabia's oil installations, our security correspondent is at the scene. the missiles were able to penetrate through saudi arabia's very expensive multi—billion dollar defences that they bought at vast cost from the west.

previous winners, england. and the rugby world cup kicks off in tokyo. coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news, jofra archer gets his reward after a brilliant debut summer — an england central contract for all forms of the game. why did they good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. children around the world have stayed away from school to lead what could be the biggest day of protest yet against climate change. thousands of separate demonstrations are taking place in 150 countries, including the uk. the protestors are demanding

more action from both governments and businesses, as duncan kennedy reports. what we want? climate action! when do we want it? now! home to 7.5 billion people. beautiful, but fragile. robust, but warming. and today, the stage for a global message. the pacific island of vanuatu helped send the first of those messages. and no wonder. their low lying homes could be among the first to disappear, if sea levels rise. in sydney, children also put climate before classroom, thousands marching with teachers and other workers to call for government action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. the younger a person is,

the more that the changing climate will impact them as they grow, and the less of a voice they are given today. considering we have such a short amount of time to turn this issue around, it's vital that young people are at the forefront of this conversation because they will be impacted more than anyone else. i think this is the most important issue of our time and i'm here for my children's future. i think it is that important. this isn't a fringe movement, this isn't a greeny issue, this isn't a lefty issue, this is a human issue. they have to stop making political advantage of this issue and unite the country behind a crisis approach to dealing with modifying our economy to be carbon free. it's absolutely essential. the swedish environmental activist greta thunberg later tweeted her support. the new day in south africa brought singers and dancers onto the streets.

here in johannesburg, they also wanted to send a message to next week's un conference on climate change that the speed of action must be increased. in india, the crowd seemed more modest. but, in a country whose economy is expanding at around 7% a year, the government has argued growth can exist alongside climate controls. from thailand, where this was still a day that found room for humour... ..to berlin, where the crowds gathered to demand change. in britain, around 300 protests are taking place across the country. this was hove on the south coast. a place bathed in sunshine, for

campaigners basking in the solidarity of their joint action. what do we want? change! when do we wa nt what do we want? change! when do we want it? now! at harrogate in north yorkshire, children were again the focus. the government said it could not endorse eight school day being missed but that message seemed lost here amid the enthusiasm of their time protest. —— first time protest. bikes have been integral to nottingham since the 19th century and today campaigners used to pedal power to push their climate message here. this is the most important, only important thing going on at the moment. there is no planet, there no nothing. i have never been a protester before but we have to act i'iow protester before but we have to act now otherwise it'sjust protester before but we have to act now otherwise it's just too late. does it annoy you? yes, they're in the red, i've got deliveries to make. the biggest presence has been

in westminster, thousands on the march here, all part of a day of action involving 150 countries. and quite possibly the biggest global warming protest yet seen. duncan kennedy, bbc news. 0ur correspondents have been following the protests across the world, starting with phil mercer in sydney. there have been more than 100 events across australia, as this country helps to kick—start a global day of action. thousands and thousands of people have gathered here in sydney to campaign for what they are calling climate justice. i was talking to a high school student, a young teenager, and she said that she was too scared to think about ever having children because the future was far too bleak. they are angry, they are scared and they are insisting that the world is on the edge of a climate catastrophe.

what they want is for australia to have no new coal, oil or gas projects and also to shift to 100% renewable energy. all of this, of course, in a country, australia, that relies on coal for the vast majority of its electricity. will the prime minister scott morrison be swayed by all of this? probably not. in the past, he says that there has been too much activism in classrooms. here in paris, hundreds of thousands of schoolboys and schoolgirls have decided to ditch classes this afternoon and join this demonstration, one of many such demonstrations across france and indeed across europe. as the youth movement seems to weigh upon the consciences of decision—makers around the world. the call, here as

elsewhere, is on governments to get serious. to take not what they would call half measures, but really important life changing steps to bring the rise in global temperatures under control. because, and it is the age—old unanswerable charge of the young against the old, if nothing is done, it's not you who will suffer, you will be gone. it's us will suffer, you will be gone. it's us who will pay the price. here in paris, hundreds and thousands of teenagers, schoolboys. .. those are thousands of teenagers, schoolboys... those are some of our correspondence. impressive protests in terms of the number of them and the scale of them but will they make any difference? these strikes have been going on sometime now and they already have made a difference. you see politicians around the world,

many of them actually wants to act on climate change and cut emissions but they need the political legitimacy and these young people shouting that they want their rights, dragging their parents along with them, radicalising their pa rents, with them, radicalising their parents, has given a lot of politicians much more confidence to go ahead and tackle climate change in various ways. and also, we did not mention this but industry is also involved in this upcoming un summit. today's protesters will be tomorrow's consumers so they are trying to do their bit, many of them. and pressure on governments to act, the uk government has made an announcement today on wind power? yes, a very big announcement. a few yea rs yes, a very big announcement. a few years ago, offshore wind power looks prohibitively expensive, less then five years, the price has dropped by two thirds. so the new tranche of wind wind farms being commissioned today will deliver power often without any subsidy at all and that's something no one thought possible of years ago. i have to say in the uk although it's doing well

in terms of electricity, there is still major problems with the government in getting emissions from transport and housing down. roger, thank you very much. thomas cook could go in to administration this weekend, unless it can plug a £200 million funding gap. britain's oldest package holiday firm is in talks with stakeholders, after its banks demanded that it comes up with contingency financing. without a rescue deal, the firm is likely to collapse, leaving more than 150,000 british holiday—makers in need of repatriation and threatening 9000 jobs in the uk. simon gompertz reports. holidays in danger. at any time, there are up to 100 thomas cook flights in the air. now there is mounting concern they will not be able to keep going. people who have booked have been turning up at shops to see how they are affected, likejean in london, hoping to go to tunisia next month. she thinks the government should step in. we have just got to keep our fingers crossed, haven't we?

and hope for the best and we will hopefully know by sunday, or whenever. are you worried that thomas cook might be in financial trouble? i don't think so. i think they are a big company. i mean, they will find a way of getting out of it, obviously. well, hopefully they do. already overseas with thomas cook right now, more than 150,000 uk travellers, mostly on package holidays with atol protection to bring them back. but tens of thousands are on flight only deals without that guarantee. the cost of repatriation is put at £600 million, organised by the civil aviation authority. that includes paying for some to finish their hotel stay. there are 22,000 jobs at risk, 9,000 of them in the uk. a big question is who qualifies to be brought back without paying. when monarch failed two years ago, the government did intervene and paid for everyone to return. that set a precedent which ministers

would find hard to ignore. your flight will be organised by the civil aviation authority and you will be brought back pretty much as normal. it is people who have maybe got a half term booking, christmas or new year trip, or indeed who have booked for next summer who will find that, while they will get their money back, either from their credit card company or under the atol scheme, of course there will be fewer holidays out there and prices probably will have gone up. thomas cook is in the throes of negotiating a rescue deal with the chinese group fosun, which already owns club med and wolves football club. but what has thrown all of that injeopardy is a demand from thomas cook's banks to show it can produce £200 million in funding to tide it over the lean winter months. the pilots' union says that since one of the banks calling for more financial assurances is state—owned rbs, it should be

making sure the company is rescued rather than putting it underfurther pressure. thomas cook, his statue in leicester, founded the business back in the 1840s. it might still survive much longer but, if it doesn't, we could see the biggest ever emergency return of holiday—makers. simon gompertz, bbc news. the brexit secretary stephen barclay has been holding talks in brussels with the eu's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier. it isn't yet clear what progress, if any, has been made. ireland's foreign minister, simon coveney, has said the ‘mood music has improved' — but he also there's still ‘quite a wide gap between the two sides'. damian grammaticas is in brussels now. i gather the talks have just finished? yes, they finished a short time ago. we are waiting to hear

from the brexit secretary stephen barclay, we haven't yet but we have ina barclay, we haven't yet but we have in a couple of minutes gone past, just had a statement from michel barnier saying the talks concluded, and, he said, they agreed that technical talks will continue on the first set of concepts, principles and ideas that the uk have put forward but he said that the eu reminded the uk that it was essential a fully workable and legally operational solution to the irish border issues is found. i think that, if you read between the lines means, technical talks, that's not serious political high—level talks. that means not much sign of progress. reminding the uk that there has to be a solution to the backstop issue, that is also not a sign of progress and none of that is very surprising because those comments from the irish prime minister, deputy prime minister this morning, simon coveney, where pretty strong stuff. he said basically, we are not close to a deal right now and he went on to say that there are

serious problems arising because of the change of approach by the british prime minister. what does he mean? boris johnson is british prime minister. what does he mean? borisjohnson is trying to undo theresa may's deal, boris johnson's approach applies some kind of customs checks on the irish border, that is a big no for the eu and irish sides because they think it will threaten the peace process and the functioning of the single market. and stephen buckley said yesterday that the uk does not want to address alternative mitigating arrangements until further down the track in the future, after the uk has left, they say that is the appropriate time to talk about that. the eu has made clear that this statement from michel barnier, in arrangement have to be made now as pa rt arrangement have to be made now as part of a withdrawal deal, they cannot be deferred to the future because there is in the eu's view no workable guarantee. in essence if you look at it from the eu's point of view, you stand back, things have

gone backwards from where they were a few months ago in the discussions under theresa may and harder to see a way through to a solution, if anything, now. we will see what comes from these ongoing technical talks but the eu clearly does not have what it needs at this stage. damian grammaticas, thank you. a number of conservative party members have been suspended for posting or endorsing islamophobic material online. action was taken by the party after it was informed of 20 incidents by the bbc. a spokesman says the party is still "establishing the terms" of a wider inquiry. alex forsyth is in westminster now. bring us up to date? we were passed details of 20 people who under social media identified themselves as conservative party members, these we re as conservative party members, these were handed to us by a twitter user who has campaigned on this issue. and collated data. we went through

each case to independently verify. some people might have liked, endorsed or shared what could be considered offensive material on one or two occasions, others seems to be continually posting what we deemed islamophobic material. we gave these to the conservative party, the conservative party said that it looked at them and all of those it could establish were conservative party members have been suspended immediately pending further investigation. this is the latest tranche of cases like this and it has fuelled calls for the conservatives to hold an independent inquiry into alleged islamophobia. during the party leadership race, borisjohnson suggested he might back such an independent inquiry, he has since said he would like a wider inquiry looking at all forms of racism. the conservative party said they are establishing terms of such an investigation at the moment and there has been no detail beyond that, and once again today people are saying the party has to come up

with details of this inquiry, and soon. at the moment, that detail seems lacking. the party says that they have processes in place to deal with these incidents when they are brought to their attention, but it has not quietened calls from people including the muslim council of britain, who want tougher action. thank you, alex forsyth. the time is 13:18. our top story this lunchtime: schoolchildren lead a worldwide protest against climate change. and coming up, the conservative party has been targeting older facebook users with political adverts about brexit. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, the rugby world cup is under way. the first match of the tournament sees the hosts japan play russia in tokyo. we'll have the latest. every year, fires are started in indonesia and malaysia to clear land forfarming — it creates a smoky haze that can end

up blanketing the region, affecting millions of people. this year alone the fires have devastated more than 800 thousand acres of land — and schools and businesses have been forced to close as air quality has worsened dramatically. rivan dwiastono reports from kalimantan. firefighters and volunteers struggle to put out this fire, one of the thousands of hotspots burning across the island. but their water resources are running out. the community is praying for rain. translation: our main problem now is water. here in palangka raya the long dry season has made our water sources run dry. it's difficult to get water close to the hotspots. from the air, their homes are barely visible for the haze. hundreds of thousands of acres of burning forest and peatland has

thrown a toxic blanket over the region. it's having a devastating effect on people's health. tens of thousands of people are now suffering from haze—related illness. this local hospital has set up this clinic with meds and oxygen for the locals who have been breathing in toxic haze for weeks. and the air outside is having a real impact on locals. some of the worst affected are children. this five—month—old baby has been struggling to breathe. he is being treated alongside his sister. endangered orangutans are also suffering while the fires destroyed more of their shrinking habitat — their forest cleared to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations. indonesia is the world's largest producer, and these fires were lit illegally to clear more land.

helicopters water bomb hotspots and thousands of troops have been deployed to fight the fires. these peatland fires released enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. at the peak of the 2015 fires, the worst in two decades, the blazes are estimated to have emitted more greenhouse gases than the entire us economy in the same period. after those devastating fires, indonesia vowed to prevent it from occurring again, but observers say that week—long enforcement and corruption is the major barrier to stopping them coming back every year. rivan dwiastono, bbc news, kalimantan. the boyfriend of the murdered teenagerjodie chesney has told a court that she screamed continuously for two minutes after she was stabbed,

and it took around 15 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. two men and two teenagers are on trial charged with the murder of the 17—year—old who was stabbed in a random attack in march. dan johnson is at the old bailey now. just bring us up to date with what the court has been hearing? eddie coyle, jodie chesney‘s boyfriend, has been giving evidence about the 1st of march, a friday evening when he, jodie 1st of march, a friday evening when he,jodie and a 1st of march, a friday evening when he, jodie and a group of friends we re he, jodie and a group of friends were set in a park in east london. they had been smoking cannabis, they we re they had been smoking cannabis, they were listening to music and chatting. eddie described how two men were such close to them in the park but left, and about half an hour later he saw two men, he believed to be the same two, towards the group. one approachjodie, who had her back to him. he demonstrated

to the court how he saw the man plunge what he believed to be a knife into jody's plunge what he believed to be a knife intojody‘s back. jodie was in shock at first, he said, she did not know what had happened and started screaming. he said she screamed very loudly, continuously, for about two minutes straight, and began to faint. he said had some friends went to get help, some people who live nearby came to the park to try to do what they could. he said he did not realise at first has seriousjodie's injuries were because of how thick her coat was. he said it was about 15 minutes before the police and paramedics arrived to help, but she could not be saved. the court has also heard this morning thatjodie's character, eddie coyle said she was a great person, very funny, silly, sensible sometimes. he was asked, is there any reason why somebody would wa nt to there any reason why somebody would want to hurt her? eddie coyle could think of no reason. the prosecution suggest this was a row about a drugs

deal of whichjodie suggest this was a row about a drugs deal of which jodie chesney was suggest this was a row about a drugs deal of whichjodie chesney was no party, she was an innocent victim. the trial will continue this afternoon. thank you, dan johnson. the bbc has been taken to see the saudi oil installations that were attacked with missiles and drones last weekend. the attack — which saudi arabia has blamed on iran — struck at the heart of the country's economy and threatened global oil supplies. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner reports from one of the facilities that was hit. the missiles were able to penetrate to saudi arabia's very expensive multibillion—dollar defences which they bought at great cost from the west, now there is a lot of head scratching trying to work out how to protect places like this, this vulnerable, critical infrastructure, from a repeat attack. so what we're looking at here is what's called a separation tower. this is where khurais oilfield, part of saudi aramco's operations, separates out the gas and the oil from the crude mix that comes out of the ground. this is what they've got to do

before they can even transport it and export it. it's the vital beating heart of this country's oil economy. and that's really what this country depends on. now, the incoming missiles that smashed into this and further east, the uptake processing plant, crippled temporarily around half the country's capacity. they've managed to repair quite a bit of it. but the longer question is this. while there is still this huge rivalry between saudi arabia and iran and the yemen war is continuing, what's to stop this happening again? frank gardner reporting. the conservative party has been targeting older facebook users with political adverts about brexit, according to research by bbc news. in contrast, younger facebook users are being shown ads by the party on issues such as policing and mental health. joe tidy is here now with more detail. political advertising on facebook is everywhere, but we only ever see

a fraction of it. if you are 45 years old or over, you may have seen this ad from the conservatives — pro—brexit, anti—remain mp message. however, if you're a man under 45 you may have seen this one. a message about increased resources for policing. same party, different message. this targeting is happening across the political spectrum to varying degrees, and thanks to bbc analysis, we can make some interesting observations. firstly, our data team noticed that the conservatives are running more ads than other parties. a significant number, 700, almost, compared to the other parties. the other parties are running less than ten, the ones who are not on there. we also noticed that there was a big difference in the sort of messages the conservatives are choosing to use depending on age. pro—brexit for the over 45s, policing and mental health for the under 45s. we also saw similar audiences split for the lib dems who are also campaigning on brexit — albeit to stop brexit. they are mostly targeting younger voters.

the labour party have been less strongly targeting in general. brexit is also less of a campaign issue for the party — facebook users are being targeted with issues like the environment or general calls to action. that is things like calls for signing up and things like that. but there are hints of a strategy based around gender. 73% of the people who've seen this message on fox hunting are women. targeted advertising on facebook is of course nothing new but having the ability to drill down in this detail is something that's helpful particularly in the current political climate. sam jeffers, co—founder of who targets me, which monitors the use of political ads on social media, says this reflects a growing trend. i think there is evidence that people are switching to facebook and other channels from more traditional channels. you can control more directly the message that people are seeing and go to them again and again ina seeing and go to them again and again in a way that is much more difficult with a small number of volu nteers difficult with a small number of volunteers knocking on doors and handing out leaflets, so we are

seeing a switch and campaigning methods and people looking for online weights to reach people. we know that facebook has become a huge and controversial tool for political campaigning and over the next few months, no doubt things will only get more active. frankie very much, joe tidy. the rugby world cup has kicked off with a spectacular opening ceremony in tokyo. england aren't due to play until sunday, no or scotland or ireland. the hosts japan got the tournament under way, taking a lead against russia. "welcome," said japan to the world. arigatou! arigatou. thank you so much. for rugby, this is new territory, a voyage into the unknown. never before has the world cup come to asia. judging from the fans, it felt right at home. i think everyone's really revved up for it. you see the banners everywhere. the prime minister got in on the excitement for today. so, yeah, i think everyone's

super revved up for it. japan will win, yeah. and also we are looking forward to having a good communication with guests from all over the world, yeah. very excited! japan win! yeah! this may not be a rugby heartland, that you do get a real sense of occasion around this world cup. japan seems to have embraced its role as the host. it was a uniquelyjapanese welcome. there was dancing, singing, before emerging from mount fuji was all blacks legend richie mccaw to deliver the trophy. the odds suggest new zealand will have their hands on it again before too long. much of the tournament's success will depend on the hosts. the stakes could not be higherfor them. as heavy favourites against russia, it was a test of nerve as much as

talent. japan slanted earlier on, there mistake brutally punished. pressure, 20th in the world, had a shock lead. japan were down by seven but they hit back almost immediately, and in some style. quick feet and quicker hand setting up quick feet and quicker hand setting up the score. russia struggled to keep up, matsushima look to put japan into the lead. a closer look revealed he had lost control. no try, said nigel 0wens. but there was no keeping him out for long, again he found space, this time there was no doubt. japan led by five at half—time. that game is continuing in tokyo, japan heavy favourites against the lowest ranked side in the competition. they had their result tested but improved in the second half, scoring another try, peter labuschagne early in the second half and going over for about

labuschagne early in the second half and going overfor about 50 metres out.