joe biden has unveiled the team that will shape us foreign policy under his presidency, claiming "america is back, ready to lead the world". the biden team's global worldview differs shaply from president trump's america—first approach. mr trump still hasn't conceded the election, but the transition is gathering pace. us airports are filling up for the thanksgiving holiday, as travellers ignore public health warning to stay home to stop the spread of covid—19. since the start of the pandemic in march, holidays have triggered outbreaks of the virus including after the 4th ofjuly. christmas has been given the go—ahead across the uk, with families being told they can celebrate together. ministers from all four nations have agreed on broad rules, which strike a balance between allowing people to meet loved ones and the risks involved.

new rules allowing three households to celebrate christmas together have been welcomed by those desperate to spend time with friends and family again. but for others, the chance to socialise more is throwing up all kinds of dilemmas. jon kay reports from plymouth. all sam wants for christmas is... ..christmas. it's the only time of the year that i get everybody together. it is very important, it is special. she is desperate for her children and grandchildren to see the tree inside and to celebrate like they do every year. it's not the presents, it's having all my family around me. that is the important thing. even if it is only just for one day, just to let families get together to enjoy christmas. what about the risks to public health of people mixing? i think that's the problem. people cannot go silly. they have to be sensible if they want to do this,

otherwise we will have a rotten january. little gatherings would be ok maybe? hopefully. it's a big decision for politicians and for families right across the uk. some say it should be up to individuals, not governments. others say it is wrong to prioritise one religious festival. hi, dad! hi, how are you? i guess this is what christmas might be like. if this is as good as it gets. naomi and roy are resigned to an online christmas and have decided not to make their usual trips between devon and south wales even if it is allowed. i would love to do it, but no, i will be advising them that that's not a good idea, especially as there is so much hope with the vaccine development. it seems like it is too high risk regardless of what we are allowed to do. and what the rules say. how do you react to that, roy? the only thing that's missing

is the physical contact and if that has to be, i would rather miss out in 2020 if it guaranteed we could do what we normally do in 2021. but he will miss having fun with his grandkids. looking a bit santa claus with the beard. you are not the first one to call me that. it's all about family, family and making memories. tonight sam is hopeful, building a grotto in the garden planning for the christmas she has been dreaming of. jon kay, bbc news, plymouth. indonesia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil and in the last two decades vast areas of forest have been cleared to make way for plantations. the remote province of papua — home to asia's most extensive remaining rainforests — has escaped fairly untouched, until now. this film investigates how papua has become the new frontier for aggressive palm oil expansion.

west papua, indonesia. some of the last untouched rainforests on the planet are being cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. indigenous tribes paid less than $10 us a hectare for their ancestral lands.

here, a south korean palm oil giant carried out deliberate and illegal burning on its land. you have to develop a technique that can determine if a fire is intentional or not. this can bring liability to big corporations who are in charge of these concession sites. the company at the centre of this story associated with the world's leading sustainable certification body. sings the forest of west papua are some of the most biodiverse

in the world. filled with unique flora and fauna, these rainforests are sacred and essential to the hundreds of indigenous tribes who call them home. mandobo tribal elder petrus kinggo explains how the sago palms that grow wild in these forests are a staple food for his community. six years ago he got involved in something that changed his tribe's fate forever.

he negotiated with a korean palm oil giant, called korindo, and persuaded his tribe and ten other clans to accept just $8 a hectare as compensation for their land. he shows our bbc team a map of the area he claims is his ancestral forest. this receipt showing he received just over $30,000 us for 5000 hectares of land.

korindo say they paid an additional $8 for the trees, an amount set out by the indonesian government, who gave them the permit. petrus says they felt pressure to sign. the company deny this and say all their dealings complied with indonesian law — laws made 4000 kilometres away in the capital, jakarta. west papua, a former dutch colony, became part of indonesia in the 1960s, after a controversial referendum overseen by the united nations.

jakarta maintains it is an integral part of the nation, recognised by the international community. but a low level separatist movement has been waged here ever since. translation: this is my land. our ancestors gave us this land. we want independence. indonesia has stolen our land from us. how long have we been suffering in the jungle, how many people have died? there are just so few of us now. last year, the biggest independence protest in decades turned into riots and ended in deadly clashes with the army.

control over the region's vast national resources — gold, copper and the forests — are one of the key flashpoints. despite its rich resources, it is amongst the poorest regions in indonesia. jakarta has vowed to change that, pumping money in, building infrastructure, and opening up the region to investors. korean palm oil giant korindo has benefited greatly. they now control more land in papua than any other company, clearing nearly 60,000 hectares of forests, an area the size of chicago or seoul. their vast plantations now protected by state security forces.

in may this year, when a local farmer turned up at the local office of korindo to complained about the destruction of his banana plantation, the police were called. three hours later, he was dead. his daughter grieves over his body, at the health clinic where he died.

police say he died of a heart attack. cctv footage seen by the bbc captures a police officer hitting him.

korindo, while having no role in his death, says they gave the family $15,000 us and will pay for his two children's education up to university. his daughter says nothing will make up for the loss of her father. our team heads deeper into the heart of papua to reach another korindo concession.

here also, our team found palm oil development has bitterly divided tribes and families. elizabeth left her village to work in the city. when she returned she found out her brother, now deceased, had sold their land to korindo. there is no electricity here or clear running water. those who can afford it use generators, but it costs four times more than in the capital, jakarta.

korindo turned down our repeated interview request, but said in a statement they have paid their compensation to communities and have put an additional $14 million us into social programmes. many of the tribe's allegations were investigated for two years by the leading global green certification body, forest stewardship council, or fsc, of which korindo is a certificate holder. the final report was never released but the bbc obtained a copy.

it found evidence that korindo violated the rights of papuans and benefited with close military ties for its own economic benefit. the report recommended korindo be stripped of its fsc membership, but they decided to work with them. the fsc logo is meant to tell you as a consumer that the product comes from an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company. the logo is used everywhere here in europe. it was on the sandwich napkin i was given with my lunch, and on the train ticket that got me here. we are here at the headquarters of the fsc to ask why this logo is being given to korindo. these things that happened in breach of our values, they were in breach of our values, they would remain in breach of our values. what is the best thing to do with that? they haven't, right? is the best thing to do

is to say, they were in breach of our values, and we're not going to have anything to do with that anymore. that is one option, that environmentalists would say you are taking a strong stance and therefore maybe other companies will feel they cannot get away with it as well? the end result, i think, and the logic of the board has been, we want to see the improvements happen. we want to actually see if we can help those communities that have had problems, that have been treated in wrong ways, that have not been listened to, that have not been understood, to actually get something in terms of options, possibilities, remedy for what happened. remedy, he says, could be in the form of restoring forests, land rights orjobs. but he admits it will be a process that could take up to three years to work out. in a statement, korindo denied they were involved in any human rights violations, but acknowledged there is room for improvements, and say they are implementing

new procedures and economic programs for locals. the fsc‘s investigation found no evidence of deliberate and illegal use of fire by korindo. it's also something the company strongly denies. researchers from the group forensic architecture, based at goldsmith university, have been testing this claim. we had images and video footages that were looking, that were showing fire, and the smoke coming out of it, and it wasn't clear whether they were intentional or not. and with that, we started our research. this footage, taken from a plane by greenpeace indonesia in may 2013, shows stacks of timber burning.

using clues in the image, they located it in satellite images, inside a korindo concession. they then went back to 2011, when this area was all forest, and used a technique that detects patterns of land clearing from satellite images. the blue, thick vegetation. red shows cleared earth. so, when i play this month by month analysis, you will see that the pattern and the direction of clearing is very clear, it is moving from the central area, very clearly towards the east. next they added the heat sources picked up by nasa satellites, hotspot data, and they put the two together, over the same period of time.

the patterns, the direction and the speed with which fires were set matched perfectly with the direction, the pattern and the speed with which land clearing had occurred in this concession site. that is evidence that the fires were set intentionally. if the fires were set from outside the concession sides, or due to weather conditions, they would have moved with a different directionality. they would be diffused. they would be going up and down and south and west. but in the cases that we are looking at, there was a very clear directionality. korindo says there were many natural fires in the area, especially in 2015, due to an extremely long dry season. it insists all the land clearing was carried out with heavy machinery, and that the fires found in their concessions were started by villages to hunt giant wild rats hiding

under stacks of wood. the people living near this concession told our team a different story. another man said smoke from the fires covered their community for years.

every year in indonesia fires send a thick haze across the region, causing breathing problems and sending large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. if korindo had deliberately used fire to clear land it would be in breach of the law. the indonesian government turned down our request for an interview. the fsc says the company agreed to stop all further forest clearing for now. in august, the fsc board met again, deciding korindo was on track and that they would continue to work with them on improvements.

i believe there is a shift that needs to happen in korindo. they need to improve in a number of different areas and one of them is to actually seek and get the approval of the community. do they understand that? why would we ask for training of all their staff this year to happen if we thought they understood that? we don't think they understand. we think it is a new concept to them. isn't it too late for that? isn't this about putting a rubber stamp on something that has already happened? we are taking the bet, you could say, that what we are doing is the best chance for the people and the forest to get into a better situation faster than any other track we could have taken. elizabeth, whose brother took compensation for their ancestral forests from korindo, is sceptical that anything can make up for what has been lost.

others have decided to go and work for the oil pump company, hoping to build a new future there.

petrus is fighting to protect what is left of the mandobo tribe's forest that now fall within korindo's concession. he carries a heavy burden.

music plays. as investors eye this, one of the last untouched corners of the planet, petrus hopes other tribes hear his story. music plays hello again. we had some big weather contrasts across the uk on tuesday, england and wales,

a lot of dry weather with some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, some fine sunsets to end the day particularly for eastern areas, but it was north wales that was the real mildest spot in the country, 15 celsius, mild weather across most areas. contrast that with the rain that just wouldn't stop across scotland and northern ireland, thanks to this weather front, this cold front, and as this pushes east over the next couple of days, colder air will be arriving across all parts of the country. back to what we have at the moment, that weather front is still bringing some splashes of rain across wales and western england. it will very gradually move eastwards, bringing rain into parts of the midlands and central and southern england before long. a few showers for northern ireland and scotland, otherwise with clear spells, cold, might see 1—2 areas with a touch of frost. our weather front continues to push eastwards, but it gets stretched out between these two areas of low pressure — one in scandinavia and one in spain and portugal. so the front will weaken very quickly as it slowly edges its way eastwards through wednesday, the rain becoming increasingly light and patchy as it dribbles its way across

the midlands into east anglia and southeast england. there's no great rainfall amounts for these areas. the mild airjust hanging on across the east. 14—15 celsius in the very warmest spots but further north and west, it's much colder. temperatures down into single figures. following that, wednesday night, we will see patches of frost developing and maybe a few areas of fog to start the day on thursday. thursday looks like being a pretty decent day. yes, it will be cooler than it has been of late, but most areas will be dry and we should see fairly lengthy spells of sunshine developing. it will be cool for the time of the year, temperatures generally into single figures, just 5 celsius in glasgow, maybe 7 in belfast. then it looks like we will see some more mist and fog patches developing as we head into friday morning along with some frost. so for some of us, friday promises to be quite a slow start to the day and quite

murky, some of those mist and fog patches may linger all day. where that happens, temperatures will be in the low single figures, but even in the brighter spots on friday, it looks like being a particularly chilly day for this stage of november. the weekend, mostly dry, but we will continue with the cool weather conditions, with frost and some morning mist and fog.

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