welcome to bbc news. i'm mike embley. our top stories: a new report shows concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main gas behind global warming, are at record levels. the critical period is now and that the climate change we'll see and the decisions we'l make —— and the decisions we'll make will last not just for decades or for centuries, but potentially longer than that. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, acknowledges the political dimension in sunday's local elections which resulted in a landslide victory of pro—democracy parties. the world anti—doping agency calls for russia to be suspended from international sporting competitions for the next four years. tens of thousands take part in demonstrations around the world to mark the international day for the elimination

of violence against women. hello to you. concentrations of greenhouse gases in earth's atmosphere have reached new highs according to the latest figures, and there is no sign of any decline, not even a slowdown. one of the world's leading experts on climate change says he's now scared for the future of the planet after the latest report by the world meteorological organization. sir david king, the former chief scientific adviser to the uk government, says there is a lack of political leadership to tackle the scale of the problem. our chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt has more details. floods in england. record spring temperatures and wildfires in australia.

the worst floods venice has seen in a generation. scientists say extreme weather events like these will become more common as climate change intensifies. and today, we learnt that the gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, causing global warming, have hit record levels yet again. let's see how concentrations of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, have risen. back in 1800, in the early days of the industrial revolution, there were 280 molecules of carbon dioxide per million. there is a gradual rise until around 1960. then, look at this. it takes off. think cars, industrialisation in the developing world, mass aviation. today, we learned the concentration accelerated again this year, taking the total to 407.8 parts per million. we have again broken records in carbon dioxide concentrations and we have already exceeded

a00ppm level, which was regarded as a critical level that happened already two years ago and this growth of carbon dioxide concentration continues. we know what the problem is — almost everything we do as a carbon consequence. the way we travel, the food we eat, the energy we use to power our homes, how we build our homes. and we know what to do. scientists say we've got to almost halve emissions in the next 10 years if we're going to keep warming below 1.5 centigrade. let the temperatures rise above that, they warn, and we will all face more intense heatwaves, droughts and floods. i think the thing that we need to remember about climate change is that the critical period is now and that the climate change we'll see and the decisions that we make will last notjust for decades, not even centuries, but potentially longer

than that with melting of the ice sheets. so, it's really got to be the top of our agenda, i think, for many decades to come. the frozen regions of the world have already started to melt. and the sad fact is today's figures show that our efforts to cut emissions are not working. in truth, it is worse than that. the concentration of greenhouse gases has actually accelerated. we will have more on this just a little later in the programme. let's bring you up—to—date with the main use. don mcgahn must testify despite orders from the trump administration that he should not. the district judge in washington, dc rejected the argument from the white house and congress and has the power to compel senior executives to testify. a

second man had been arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 the medes people in essex in eastern england. the 36—year—old man is being held on suspicion of manslaughter. a 25—year—old lorry driver from county armagh has already admitted plotting to assist illegal immigration. the men are accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the uk illegally. peru's constitutional court has ordered the release of the opposition leader, keiko fujimori, after more than a year in pre—trial detention. she's awaiting trial in a corruption case linked to the brazilian construction giant, 0debrecht. the eldest daughter of the former president, alberto fujimori, denies accepting illegal contributions from 0debrecht for her presidential campaign eight years ago. the us navy secretary who was fired after falling out with donald trump over the handling of a misconduct case has told american cbs news the move risked discipline in the military. richard spencer sparked tensions with the president after he demoted a navy seal

who was pictured posing over the corpse of an is prisoner. here he is speaking to cbs reporter david martin. what were the ramifications of intervening in that review process? well, right now, we're not going to do it, is what secretary esper says. what message does that send to the troops? well, what message does it send? that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. it's the backbone of what we do and the trident review process, with the senior enlisted reviewing fellow senior enlisted is critical. the senior enlisted are the back bone of our military, they are the girder of good order and discipline. they can handle this, they can handle this in each one of their communities. former us navy secretary richard spencer speaking to cbs. let's go back to our top story — that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere have reached new highs, according to the latest figures.

james shaw is new zealand's minister for climate change. he's in new zealand. thank you very much for talking to us. thank you very much for talking to us. i know new zealand has passed a law which moves the programme on quite a bit. i know you are a green mp and you know the issues here. what do you say to all this? 0bviously what do you say to all this? obviously it is not great news, but it doesn't come as any great surprise either. we know that although a number of countries have started to make quite aggressive moves on climate change, we haven't yet bend the curve in terms of global c02 yet bend the curve in terms of global co2 emissions. they are still going up. you are talking about net zero carbon 2050, that is nowhere near 50011 zero carbon 2050, that is nowhere near soon enough. zero carbon 2050, that is nowhere near soon enough. well... the law we passed here in new zealand says that actually the most important thing is new zealand plays its role in

keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels. and that was really given to us by the ipcc report last year. there is obviously debate about what that means for any individual country, but one of the things we have done is to set up a new climate change commission modelled on the uk's climate change committee, which will give us authority of science —based targets and may be the targets that we have said will change over time in —— as circumstances change. we have said will change over time in -- as circumstances change. what you think about the rest of the world, particularly australia? well, we have told australia what we think of their policy and we continue to work with them constructively, particularly when it comes to the pacific. but obviously whole world needs to take a lot stronger action than what we seen to date. as a leader of the green party, it seems

clear that environmental concerns as well as the things i brought you into politics. how hopeful are you actually? it is a pretty depressing outlook. there are spots of hope all around the world. even in the united states, which has signalled that it tends to withdraw from the paris agreement, you are seeing some extraordinary action at the state level in places like california and new york, was at the city level and in other countries around the world. ido in other countries around the world. i do believe that as some countries really move into the front of this and demonstrate that you can ring down your greenhouse gas emissions and still have your economy grow and develop and see incomes and lifestyles improve at the same time, that will give hope to other countries that maybe they can do the same thing. new zealand's minister for climate change, thank you so much for your time. thank you for having me. the chinese government has responded to the landslide victory for pro—democracy candidates

in the hong kong elections by emphasising the territory will always be ruled from beijing. it's also warned against further protests. pro—democracy candidates won almost 90% of seats in local elections. the result is being seen as an outright rejection of carrie lam's leadership and a massive show of support for the anti—beijing protests that have been going on for months. rupert wingfield—hayes reports from hong kong. this is not the sort of media attention usually given to the winners of a local council election. but last night's victory for hong kong's democrats was no ordinary win. it was an unprecedented landslide. these newly minted young politicians won 85% of all the seats contested. we have five demands... today, they gathered to tell hong kong's government they will not be ignored. government parties, they have no more excuses for saying that rioters don't get the popular support.

now we see that they have popular support. hong kong people have learned a lesson, that they understand that without democracy, any freedom... ..all the freedom that we have is very fragile. it can be gone in one day by a tyranny. the message here today is that the hong kong opposition is now the most powerful political group in hong kong. it is no longer a protest movement. it now has a proper democratic mandate. and that means that the chief executive can no longer ignore their demands. time for the hong kong government to act may be short. in central hong kong today, prominent pro—beijing politician regina ip had to be escorted from her office by riot police withjeering, hostile crowds. out on a street corner this evening, paul tse was thanking his supporters. he's one of a handful of pro—government councillors who survived the election. but he says it has been a nightmare

for the pro—government camp. everything is wrong. i think we have to start with the government policies, government strategies, the composition of all kinds of things, the cabinet and what have you. i think this is a very loud voice of the people that they aren't happy with what they've been going through the last six months. but anyone looking for a hopeful sign from beijing today got nothing. a foreign ministry spokesman again insisting hong kong is china's internal affair, and everyone else should mind their own business. applause but without some acknowledgement of what happened here on sunday, the celebrations could soon turn back into violence on the streets. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. let's ta ke let's take you live now to hong kong. sharanjit leyl is in hong kong for us. carrie lam has been speaking. what

other top lines from that? that is right. i believe she still speaking at the moment, taking questions from journalists. her first public appearance and is commenting on those elections, since that landslide very by the pro—democracy candidates over the weekend, and she has been addressing, pretty much stating the obvious that this is an election for district counsellors, they have a duty to fulfil, but again, how this is really seen as a de facto referendum on the government. ultimately, most of the hong kong people have been saying, yes, it is actually. they did want to make their opinions expressed at the ballot box. you can hear them here, they are on the street. the people we have been hearing from our hearing —— not happy. it is relief that the elections went peacefully, something we heard from carrie lam as well. she said so in her press conference earlier that it is a sign

that these peaceful elections suggest people are fed up with the chaos they have seen on the streets of hong kong over the last six months or so, they want to see an end to this, and a lot of people say they have spoken at the ballot box now, which is a real change because previously they were not able to get through to the government and carrie lam so they took it to the streets. that is why the protests got increasingly violent and now there isa increasingly violent and now there is a real a lot of that might stop, because there is a way now that they feel they have a mouthpiece. because there is a way now that they feel they have a mouthpiecelj because there is a way now that they feel they have a mouthpiece. i think carrie lam mentioned this line coming from the police, but i do plan to enter the polytechnic university. —— that they do plan. that's right. she did say she hopes that those students who are still holed up at allergenic university will leave peacefully or do we know that those students have been there for the week there also —— polytechnic university. last week

the security forces basically surrounded the campus and are still —— there is still security at the capital to what you are seeing is a slightly softer approach. 0n capital to what you are seeing is a slightly softer approach. on monday we saw some pro— democratic candidates go and visit the campus, with or psychiatrist and medics really hoping to try to treat the stu d e nts really hoping to try to treat the students who are still in their. reports suggesting they are in a terrible condition, some of them feeling suicidal. there is real hope they can get the students out peacefully from polytechnic university. briefly, she is saying the government will seriously reflect on the views reflected by the voters, but of course we have heard again from the government in beijing that as far as they are concerned not much has changed. this is allan concerned not much has changed. this is all an internal matter for china, nobody else's business. what do you think of anything is likely to change as a result of this? well, it is hard to say. hong kong people are

determined they want change, they wa nt determined they want change, they want freedom and they want, they have constantly referred to the five demands, the need for greater freedoms from beijing and the central government, steps towards universal suffrage, they certainly wa nt universal suffrage, they certainly wantan universal suffrage, they certainly want an independent enquiry into alleged police brutality, we have seen a lot of that on both sides, from the processes and a security side over the last five months. a lot of frustration and it is really unclear as to how that might be resolved. i was talking to one of the candidates who ran into consistency earlier this morning and she said there is real hope they will try to heal divisions like there is really no policy yet put forth. carrie lam has talked about dialogue with the other side, but really, it feels like an open wound here, lots of frustration. thank you very much indeed. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the pricelessjewels stolen in an overnight heist from a museum in germany.

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 19605.

it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war with the cuban missile crisis. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: a new report shows concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main gas behind global warming, are at record levels. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam has acknowledged deficiencies in her government in her reaction to the landslide victory of pro—democracy parties in sunday's local elections. the world anti—doping agency, wada has recommended russia are given a four—year ban from sporting competition for falsifying laboratory data. this would mean that the country wouldn't compete in the upcoming 0lympics. they are also likely to be barred from staging major international events putting at risk the games scheduled to be held in st petersburg for euro 2020.

joining me now is richard mclaren, law professor at western university, london, ontario, and the person who investigated the russian anti—doping manipulation scandal. what do you make of this? what do you make of thi57m what do you make of this? it is rather extraordinary, but not entirely unsurprising. the data was com pletely entirely unsurprising. the data was completely failed up that was turned over to wada, and they had been suspended by wada as a result of the investigations several years ago, and this was part of the arrangement that would have allowed them to come back into the tent and be a fully operational body. instead, the data that was turned over has been manipulated stopping not only has it been changed, but conversations have been changed, but conversations have been inserted that were for vicious and people's roles were changed in the data, so a number of different changes that went on that resulted

in this recommendation of non—compliance with the code. in this recommendation of non-compliance with the code. what do you make of this announcement? you describe it is extraordinary?” think it is extraordinary because it is very strong, it is hard—hitting, it is going to have an impact if it is upheld, it has to be decided by the executive board of wada, for a four year period, potentially could be longer in circumstance can sense is --in be longer in circumstance can sense is ——in certain circumstances. be longer in circumstance can sense is --in certain circumstances. it is very likely to be challenged, do you think it will be upheld?” very likely to be challenged, do you think it will be upheld? i wouldn't wa nt to think it will be upheld? i wouldn't want to speculate on that, there is an automatic right to challenge by way of taking any decision to the court of arbitration for sport, and they would have the final say. i wouldn't want to speculate how they wouldn't want to speculate how they would deal with it. wouldn't want to speculate how they would dealwith it. no-one can really predict that at this point. if it is upheld, it would be a

national humiliation for russia, wouldn't it? it would, ithinkjust the fact that it has gone this far in the process of even getting to the executive committee of the wada board is humiliation, and the new head of the agency has been pushing ha rd head of the agency has been pushing hard inside russia for sweeping changes, warning that this was going to be the result, and it now is the result, but there haven't been any sweeping changes inside of russia. it is clearly intended to send a message, do you think it will have an impact on doping worldwide? definitely in russia and the behaviour of a number of people there, and therefore it has to have a ripple effect worldwide, because the more you keep russian athletes out who have been cheating, the more other athletes around the world are able to compete in the slots that the russians would have occupied. professor, thank you very much. marches have taken place

around the world to mark the international day of the elimination of violence against women. rich preston has this report. in switzerland, a vigil in memory of women killed by their partners stopping the united nations says that more than half of women murdered around the world are killed bya murdered around the world are killed by a partner or family murdered around the world are killed by a partner orfamily member. translation: in today's switzerland, domestic violence is a pressing issue. two out of five women have experienced domestic violence at some point in their lives. translation: we still have some way to go. they are just out of childhood so no i am teaching them the hard reality of adult life. women don't enjoy the same rights as men, we can't just women don't enjoy the same rights as men, we can'tjust stroll out in the streets the way that men can. in france, the number of women murdered bya france, the number of women murdered by a partner or ex— partner have gone up, by a partner or ex— partner have gone up, a by a partner or ex— partner have gone up, a promise to tighten the law, to crack down and remove pa rental law, to crack down and remove

parental rights from abusive partners. translation: when it can save lives, we want to give doctors the possibility of setting aside confidentiality when there is a serious risk of more violent. but the demos didn't go down well everywhere. in turkey, the antiviolence marches turned violent, with police using pepper spray to break up the crowds. in spain, the country's far—right party refused to sign an all—party declaration condemning violence against women. in russia, support for a new bill which would toughen punishments for domestic abuse, but which campaigners via is under threat of being watered down. translation: people are afraid to demonstrate because of political oppression so even 400 people gathering is a lot and russia. united nations says that despite movements like me two or

time is up, and everyone, including silent bystanders, have a responsibility to stop it. priceless jewels have been stolen from one of europe's oldest museums in the german city of dresden. three complete collections of jewellery including diamonds, rubies and emeralds belonging to 18th century royalty were ta ken. two men broke in through a window overnight. david sillito reports. dresden castle, the home of one of the world's greatest displays of royal opulence. the room of wonders — created to dazzle, to overwhelm people. it was the collection of augustus the strong, a man of extravagant appetites. it was rumoured he had fathered 300 children. the green vault is one of the greatest collections of aristocratic treasure in the world. however, a significant part

of it has been stolen. police arrived this morning to find a collection of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, described as part of the state treasury of 18th—century saxony, had gone. translation: the culprits evidently got in through a window. they cut through the bars and then smashed through the glass before they went straight to one the cabinets which they destroyed. they then left the building and disappeared. so, how did they do it? one clue is this burnt out electrical box, street lights failed, the museum alarm was silent. however, police say a camera did manage to capture images of two thieves as they broke in. the museum says around 100 jewel—encrusted items were taken. the value, the museum isn't giving a figure but says this is about more than just money. this collection is, they say, a nation's cultural heritage. david sillito, bbc news. there's more on that and all the

news for you any time on the bbc website. thank you for watching. hello there, there's a big change in the weather for all of us by the end of this week, but before then we have got more mild weather, more cloud, and some further rain and perhaps in some parts, strong to galeforce winds, with the worst of the weather through tuesday and wednesday expected across england and wales. the reason for the wet and windy weather, another area of low pressure, this one contains remnants of ex—tropical storm sebastian and that is going to stick around for the next couple of days. ahead of that, we have still got mild conditions by the morning, a lot of cloud, some further pockets of rain and drizzle but the wetter weather and windier weather will be toward the south—west, where the winds are up picking up in the morning. gusts of 40mph or perhaps 50mph. that will push that rain band northward throughout the day, could be quite heavy at times, push its way northwards across england and wales

into northern ireland and the central belt of scotland, some patchy rain and stronger winds for northern scotland. behind the rain band may get some sunshine but watch out for heavy downpours, particularly toward the south—east of england later on in the afternoon. but with this tropical air heading away, it could be quite warm in the sunshine, 14 or 15 degrees perhaps. but some wet weather for the south—east of england, east anglia into the evening, and our area of low pressure comes back towards the south—west of england and wales, picks up the rain here which will be quite heavy, and also strengthens the wind, and we will see gales pushing through the english channel coastal areas into the channel islands too. so, more rain for england and wales, could be heavy at times, and we are still going to have some wet weather across the far north of scotland. but mainly it's south—east scotland and north—east england that will see the rain turning heavier and more persistent as we head into the afternoon bringing the threat of more localised flooding. temperatures widely in double figures. as we head into thursday, we start to see some changes

because the low pressure is going to take a lot of that rain away into the near continent. our wind direction is going to change from that milder south—westerly to a much colder northerly wind, and that will drag down the cold air across the whole of the country. we have still got some rain to clear away on thursday and there is more of it now across england and wales, a little bit slower but we should see it brightening up for northern ireland and particularly across scotland with some sunshine knocking those temperatures down in that northerly wind, still some mild air across the south but only 11 or 12 degrees. as we move into friday morning, there may well be a frost around, perhaps all the way down toward the midlands as well. that's a significant change. we are also looking at drier weather to arrive on friday, that is going to mean more sunshine for a change, but those images will be lower, typically 5—8 celsius.

here, lots of frustration. thank you very much indeed.

this is bbc news. the headlines: new figures released show that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another record high. the statistics by the world meteorological organisation collected over 30 yea rs suggest the rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are driving the severity of climate change. there is no sign of any slowdown. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, has acknowledged deficiencies in her government following the landslide victory of pro—democracy parties in sunday's local elections. in her weekly address, she also said she hoped that students still occupying the polytechnic university would leave peacefully. she did not offer any concessions on the protesters' demands. the world anti—doping agency has called for russia to be suspended from international sporting competitions for the next four years for having falsified laboratory data.