glasgow aims to lead the fight against climate change, the city wants to become carbon neutral in the next ten years. i ,it , it comes amid fresh warnings about global warming with the last decade the hottest on record. carbon neutral by 2030 is a big challenge, it's certainly one that we're taking very seriously, and it's not enough for a few people in the council to be working on it. it's a challenge that everybody has to take part in, that we need to get everybody across the city engaged with, and that we need to be working on now. and as one of the world's biggest companies, microsoft, promises to remove all the carbon it has created since 1975, we look at how that ambition can be achieved. also this

lunchtime: companies hand over their data so they can research what the online world does to children's mental health. downing street confirms eu citizens won't be automatically deported if they fail to sign up to the government's settled status scheme after brexit. all stoked up — ben stokes does it again with a century against south africa. and the coin made for king who abdicated sells for £1 million. and coming up in sport later in the hour on bbc news, saracens could face automatic relegation from the premiership in days if they can't prove that they‘ re not breaking salary—cap rules again.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. glasgow could become the first city in the uk to become completely carbon neutral. it's promising to achieve the ambition in the next ten years, but that will mean radically cutting emissions and planting enough trees to absorb the carbon in any remaining fumes. it comes as the city prepares to host an international summit on climate change in november. we're taking a closer look at the changes glasgow wants to make as part of our series our planet matters. my colleague annita mcveigh is there this lunchtime. thank you very much, i am at the glasgow science centre, quiet here now, but it has been filled with the noise of children learning enthusiastically all morning, learning about how life can become more sustainable. and let mejust more sustainable. and let me just show you, across the river from where we are, let's go gci’oss river from where we are, let's go across the river clyde to the

opposite bank, you can see the exhibition centre which will be the focus of that un climate summit later this year, at which up to 200 world leaders, along with many thousands of delegates, will be trying to produce an international response to the climate emergency. that is the challenge. as part of that, of course, the uk has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. scotla nd to become carbon neutral by 2050. scotland by 2045, and as we mentioned in the introduction, glasgow even more ambitiously to 2030, the end of this decade. so our science editor, david shukman, has been looking at how exactly the city might try to do that. the morning rush hour in glasgow. commuters pour into scotland's biggest city, nearly all their cars releasing pollution. motorways run straight through glasgow. for decades, the car has been king. but now there is a radical plan to go carbon neutral.

new charging points for electric vehicles are being installed. the aim is to make the city green in ten years. and the council's gritting lorries are going to be adapted to run on clean hydrogen, as well as diesel. but this is only one very small part of a long list of what needs to be done. how big a challenge is it? getting to carbon neutral by 2030 is a big challenge, it's certainly one that we're taking very seriously, and it's not enough for a few people in the council to be working on it. it's a challenge that everybody has to take part in, that we need to get everybody across the city engaged with, and that we need to be working on now. already, more and more of the uk's electricity is becoming carbon free. here on the edge of glasgow is one of europe's largest wind farms. there are big plans for many more turbines, and more solar panels, but going totally carbon neutral won't be easy.

we've done some studies recently which show that we need to start installing 4000 heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points every day across the uk... every day? every day in order to meet the targets that we've set ourselves for becoming carbon neutral. is that remotely feasible? if we start now. hardest of all will be making glasgow's housing greener, and that's the case across the country because most homes are heated by gas. the mass of pipes being worked on here is part of a scheme to draw warmth from the river clyde and use it to heat an entire district. we're not burning anything on the site, that's the beauty of it... i asked dave pearson, who is in charge of the project, if glasgow is really on course to be carbon neutral. i don't think so, i think in all honesty, momentum is all about progress. there's lots of ideas, lots of talk, but we need to actually decide that the city will become gas free by a date and how best to do that. at the moment, we haven't even started. it's hard to believe,

as things stand, how glasgow or any major city could possibly be carbon neutral in as little as ten years' time. but the council says it wants to send the signal that at least it's trying. and this matters because an international summit on climate change is due to take place here in november, and the world will be watching what this city does. david shukman, bbc news, in glasgow. microsoft has promised to remove from the environment all of the carbon it's created since it started in 1975. to do so, the company will have to absorb more carbon than it emits. it aims to achieve that within three decades. here's chris fox. please welcome satya nadela... microsoft's chief executive takes to

the stage, not to introduce new products but an ambitious plan to tackle carbon emissions. we need to raise the ambition on ourselves, so we thought it was appropriate to start the year, this new decade, by committing ourselves to achieve two goals that i don't think any other company has yet embraced. when a company has yet embraced. when a company says it is carbon neutral, it effectively aims to add no further carbon to the atmosphere, and it can do that by balancing emissions, by removing carbon from the atmosphere, or it can avoid making emissions in the first place, perhaps by switching to renewable energy. mostly, companies focus on offsetting their emissions by investing in green projects around the world. microsoft wants to go further — it wants to be carbon negative, removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. we need better technology, direct air ca ptu re, need better technology, direct air capture, for example, runs the entryway machine, and the machine

removes the carbon from the air, it then sequesters the cabin under the out. how might a horse it might start by planting a lot of trees, although it will need lots of them. —— how might microsoft achieve its goal? it might also remove carbon dioxide from the air, although technology like that is still in development and it is far from refined. i am sceptical, because we probably don't have the resources available to construct a wind farm on that scale in that timeframe. simply for a company like microsoft to become carbon neutral. microsoft does not just plan to become carbon neutral. microsoft does notjust plan to go carbon negative. it wants to remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975, although it is still doing the sums on how much that might be. it knows its plan is a moon should it might not achieve, but it hopes it can inspire others

to minimise the impact on the environment. i'm joined now by our scotland correspondent lorna gordon and david shukman, our science editor. how much detail have the authorities in glasgow actually given about how they hope to achieve this carbon neutral target by 2030? lots of ideas and an acknowledgement that the ideas have to be translated into action and fast, so of course we have the obvious stuff like more pedestrian areas, more cycleways, more ambitious ideas like perhaps a council owned bus company where tickets could be free to encourage people out of their cars, big challenges, now, 70% of people in glasgow live in flats, how do you encourage them to use electric cars? might they use streetlights to charge cars overnight? and then of course the other big is heating, we saw one of those ideas in action in david's report, and another is

whether they could put ground—based heat pumps into the parks, there are a lot of parks in glasgow, it can be done. there is a big district heating system in copenhagen, where almost all of the houses run on district heating. but these are ambitious ideas, the council cannot do it on its own, there will have to be private sector involvement, and individuals too if the city is to move from its industrial heritage passed to a green future. coordination is absolutely key, david, talk about the wider uk picture, because scotland clearly being very ambitious. well, indeed, and the uk target of being net zero by 2050 cannot be delivered unless it is, like glasgow, stepping up as well. the key thing here is that the climate change committee, the independent government advisory panel, has said that while we have the uk target for 2050, there are not a national policies yet in place to deliver that, and that is releva nt to deliver that, and that is relevant to glasgow as well, because the city council here only has

certain levers of power to deliver this target. it needs national policy to support it as well. so an awful lot to be worked out at the national level, scottish and local, to deliver this target. thank you both very much. and the owners of electric taxis in nottingham will $0011 electric taxis in nottingham will soon be able to charge their vehicles wirelessly. there is obviously linking into our coverage today. nottingham council has received more than £3 million from the government to trial the new technology. to find out more about climate change and what you can do, go to our website, that's bbc.co.uk/news or the bbc news app. many thanks, thank you very much.

leading psychiatrists have said companies like facebook should be forced to hand over their data to researchers so they can study whether social media technology is harmful to children. the royal college of psychiatrists wants independent experts to assess how youngsters are affected by their experiences online, amid concern from parents and schools. she had so much to offer. molly russell's death... and that's gone. ..sparked a national outcry. these are companies that count their profits in the billions, and they turn round and say to us that they can't protect our children? questions about young people and mental health. do you have the power to compel them to do what you think needs to be done? yes, absolutely. focussing public anger on the tech giants and demands for greater regulation. announced in the queen's speech, the government's plans for a new independent regulator and a statutory duty of care. my ministers will develop legislation to improve internet safety for all.

but the royal college of psychiatrists wants tougher action. social—media companies are very wealthy, they have got a huge amount of knowledge, they can create complex algorithms which hook young people into their platforms. why can't they be using that same amount of energy, knowledge and funding to try and harness the positive benefits, and help try and protect children and young people more? tech giants should be forced to share data with university researchers. and be taxed on their global turnover. molly russell's father ian fully backs the plans. and if there was a levy that was forced upon them so that they had to pay, it would be a tiny amount in terms of their profits, but it only needs to provide for good, proper academic research with anonymised data so that the whole world can better understand the sort of problems that are driving young people into desperate places.

radical solutions which may not be popular with an industry making billions from the children using its products. angus crawford, bbc news. downing street has confirmed that eu citizens won't automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the government's settled status scheme by the deadline ofjune next year. let's get more on this from our political correpsondent iain watson at westminster. iain many have signed up for settled status, but quite a few haven't. absolutely, ben, 2.8 million eu citizens have applied for settled status allowing them to work here, 2.5 million applications have been processed, but that still leaves about half a million who have not, and the eu parliament's brexit coordinator, guy verhofstadt, has been meeting with ministers seeking

further assurances on behalf of eu citizens. he is important because if he doesn't like what he hears, he can try to put a spanner in the works of the brexit withdrawal agreement. so far, he does sound relatively as downing street has said that if people don't meet the june 2021 deadline for applying for settled status, they will not be automatically deported. now i think, to be fair, though, this is a logical conclusion to the government's existing position, which was to say people had reasonable grounds for not applying on time, they would be given another go. but there was another issue where he was also seeking reassurance, and perhaps he has not got it, because guy verhofstadt said wa nted got it, because guy verhofstadt said wanted people to be have a hard copy of settled status outcome in the future, if they have difficulties proving their status, government has said they could print something out, but the home office has clarified this, saying, yes, you can print out what you like but it won't be worth

the paper it is printed on, there will be no legal backing to any paper document you have, the settled status is a digital scheme so there will be worries that older citizens may have difficulties engaging with this. nonetheless, i have to say that the mood music between the european parliament and the government sending a —— sounding a bit more harmonious as we approach brexit day. iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei, has led friday prayers in tehran for the first time in almost a decade. he's appealed for unity following anti—government demonstrations in iran over the shooting down of a passenger plane by the country's military. paul adams reports. chanting. a potent display of loyalty, for a leader underfire. this has been a turbulent fortnight for ayatollah ali khamenei. his first appearance at friday prayers since 2012 a chance to reassert his authority

and rally his supporters. it's been two weeks since the supreme leader's most trusted general was killed in an american drone strike outside baghdad airport. the man looking down on worshippers now revered as a martyr. those who killed him condemned in familiarfashion. translation: the spokesmen of the wicked american government have said repeatedly they are on the side of the iranian people. they are lying. iran's revolutionary guard is under rare pressure, the subject of angry protests over its role in shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane. the supreme leader called the crash a bitter accident, but said general soleimani's quds force was humanitarian organisation, was a humanitarian organisation, with human values. translation: those few hundred people who insulted the picture of our proud martyr, commander soleimani, are they the people of iran?

or this great million—strong crowd in the streets? iran's revenge for the general‘s death has, so far, been limited to missile strikes on bases housing american troops in iraq. washington initially said no one was hurt, but now admits at least 11 of its troops were treated for concussion. the threat of further conflict seems, for now, to have receded. but ayatollah khamenei's defiant words suggest the underlying differences remain as deep as ever. the time is 1:18. our top story this lunchtime... glasgow is aiming to become carbon neutral in the next ten years, with radical plans to cut emissions. and coming up, england's rugby champions saracens hold a special

meeting with their squad as the threat of relegation looms. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news... we'll have the latest from port elizabeth as england look to build a big first—innings total against south africa in the third test. more heavy rain has been falling in australia, dampening the bushfires that have raged for months now on the east coast. the downpours have brought relief to exhausted firefighters — there's even been flooding in some areas. nick beake sent this report from new south wales. yes! they prayed for rain and, today, the heavens opened. this farmer in new south wales capturing the jubilation many felt. send it down! finally, respite from the drought which has fuelled this australian summer of fire and misery. but, here, the immediate threat no longer flames, but floods. the residents of an animal park

scrambled to safety. survivors in a country where there's been so much devastation. although the danger has not gone away. the rain may have lashed down in the city, too, but authorities warned that days of this are needed to put out the remaining fires. still, relief in sydney. this is the wettest day in many, many months. we've only had about four days of rain in the last four months. and that rain has been only short and truly the wettest day for a very long time. we need a bit of rain and water to help with the fires, especially because of how dry it was the past couple of days and i think it will help with the haze as well, just push everything further out. these downpours will not dilute to the anger many australians feel over their government not doing enough to tackle climate change, which scientists say is causing more violent and more regularflooding and fires across the world. prime minister scott morrison joined

mourners at the funeral of a firefighter killed last month. a reminder of the sacrifice being made to defend australia from an almighty and ongoing danger. nick beake, bbc news, new south wales. china's economy grew by 6.1% last year, its slowest rate for nearly three decades. china has faced weak domestic demand and a bitter trade war with the united states. it's announced measures to try to stimulate growth, including tax cuts. a british teenagerfound guilty of lying about being gang—raped in cyprus, has launched an appeal against her conviction. the 19—year—old returned to the uk last week, after being given a four—month suspended jail sentence. she says police officers in cyprus pressurised her to withdraw her accusation. one in seven people in britain are said to be neuro—diverse —

a term describing people with dyslexia, adhd, autism and other neurological differences. more and more employers are trying to attract people with neurodiversity, the intelligence agency gchq has been doing so for many years. and a major record label has produced a book aimed at making the working environment more inclusive. chichi izundu has more. put these goggles on and what they will do is turn your world upside down. can you see? yes. now try and shake my hand. pleasure to meet you. people see the world differently. something universal music uk picked up on when discussing diversity in the workplace, especially neurodiversity, which refers to people with adhd, dyspraxia, dyslexia and the autism spectrum. the record label wanted a guide on how to talk about neurodiversity in the workplace but, when they couldn't find one, they made one. to help support our existing staff

and also to try and reach out to all of that untapped talent out there, that's why we're doing it. you know, there are brilliant folks out there that we've already spoken to as part of this research that just wouldn't even have considered applying to the likes of us or, indeed, many companies. not every work environment is like universal music uk. 31—year—old yvonne is a marketing consultant who works in a typical office, open plan, lots of phones and computers. colour post—its and colour books that we've got as well, so thatjust helps me to distinguish what's going on in terms of the information and i can dial down to what's important and i can see it clearly. so you are neurodivergent. yes, lam. what is your neurodivergency? so, i am dyslexic. my ds and bs tend to get mixed up. i don't easily recognise errors in terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar. one need that is often not met is even how you apply for a job. employers should think of more options. applying for a job for some can be tricky. employers still expect you to fill

out an application form and if you have a neurodiversity like dyslexia, that can be challenging. so how about sending in a short video explaining exactly why you are the right person for thejob instead? what are you working on, april? matt boyd started the neurodiverse recruitment agency exceptional individuals. he couldn't get a job because of his dyslexia. many of our community that we work with have been told almost what they are bad at and not what they are good at, so when they get to the workplace, if employers can focus on the benefits and strength areas of the individual, and society as a whole, it will make a big difference for everyone with adhd, dyslexia or dyspraxia and autism. there are employers who actively seek neurodiverse people, like the intelligence agency gchq, and the government does offer a grant for employers to help meet any needs of neurodiverse people. but until the traditional way of work changes, they are a community

who will continue not to be included in any diversity conversation. chichi izundu, bbc news. england's champion rugby club, saracens, have held a special meeting with their squad as the threat of relegation looms. saracens were docked points and fined after breaking rules over payments to players. now they must prove they didn't break rugby's salary cap rules this season — or else they will be relegated. let's speak to joe wilson. how real is that a threat of relegation? well, the saracens players were here first thing this morning, i know because i saw them and we are talking about some of the most famous players in world rugby, owen farrell, mario eto'o g, and saracens have been punished heavily this season for financial irregularities but have continued to win games with those players —— itoje. so if you are a rival club,

you want to see that wage bill slashed right now or saracens be relegated. implications for the players? well, england would love them to stay here, even if it meant playing in the second tier of english rugby so they could continue to select them for england but, if you are a player, what is going through your mind? there are other avenues, not least of the road towards the south of france where players are paid a lot of money. so i think, one way or another, we are looking at the possibility and the probability of the dismantling of the most illustrious rugby squad england has ever seen. joe wilson, thank you. its that man again. international cricketer of the year ben stokes completed another century for england this morning in the third test against south africa in port elizabeth, a short time ago, england were 425-7, with a short time ago, england were 425—7, with ollie pope scoring his first test 100. andy swiss has been watching the action. if they were hoping for some

flag—waving fun, well, the england fans were in for a treat. ben stokes batting and guess what? stokes started the day on 38, but didn't stay there long, as the newly crowned world player of the year set about living up to his title. at the other end, he found solid support. ollie pope, only 22, playing with a composure beyond his years. but stokes was simply inspired. commentator: he's cracked that. and he's cracked that a long, long way. so far, in fact, it went clean out the ground. there it is, bouncing down the road. new balls please? well, not quite. as one intrepid fan finally retrieved it. stokes, though, was soon doing his best to lose it again. commentator: oh, it's a biggie. that took him to the double of 4,000 test runs and 100 wickets, the first englishman to do it since ian botham. and another landmark soon beckoned.

100 it is for ben stokes. not too much celebration but then again, brilliance for stokes is now almost business as usual. south africa did eventually snaffle him for a mere 120, although his glove—throwing frustration suggested he would have liked even more. without him, though, the runs kept coming. with sam curran even clearing the pavilion windows, england's hopes are also heading rapidly upwards. andy swiss, bbc news. for the first time, a british coin has been sold for a million pounds. the sovereign was made when edward viii became king but never went into mass production because he abdicated in 1936. the coin has been bought by a private collector, in a deal brokered by the royal mint. here's kevin peachey. revealed, a £1 million treasure. 22 millimetres across weighing nearly eight grams and with

a face value ofjust £1. this coin is worth so much more because only six such sovereigns were ever made as part of a trial set. this is why. i have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as i would wish to do. edward viii abdicated in december 1936, a month before the sovereigns were due to go into mass production. what fascinates collectors and historians isn'tjust its rarity but how the king broke the rules. for centuries, convention dictated that each new monarch faced the opposite direction to its predecessor, but not edward. so, edward viii is quite a vain character and the way the monarch faces should alternate by reign. the long tradition that goes back centuries, but edward viii would have been the first monarch to have broken those centuries of tradition, purely because of vanity. he insisted on facing the same way as his father because he believed that that was his best side.

this coin is so rare and precious i am not allowed to touch it. nearly six years ago, it sold for a record £500,000 but the new owner says, for a once in a lifetime opportunity, they were prepared to pay twice as much. when you are paying £1 million, you want the real thing. here in a lab at the royal mint, they test and authenticate coins and precious metals. we are able to provide a service to our customers where they can feel confident in buying coins, especially coins of this significant amount of money, that they can feel confident that it has been through the authenticity checks that we do here at the royal mint and that it is a genuine coin and that they paid a fair price for it. a price which, for the time being at least, makes this the uk's most valuable coin. kevin peachey, bbc news. the actor derek fowlds has died at the age of 82. he's best known for his role as the hapless bernard woolley in the bbc political satire yes minister, and it's yes minister, and its

sequel yes prime minister.