this is bbc news. i'm sally bundock with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. let's face facts. the state of our planet is broken. humanity is waging war on nature. this is suicidal. we hearfrom the un secretary general who says tacking global warming will be central to the united nations next year — antonio guterres is taking part in a special bbc broadcast. one of donald trump's closest allies, the attorney general william barr, says he's found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the us presidential election. first details in the case of a

swedish man allegedly held captive by his motherfor nearly 30 years. china's lunar probe successfully lands on moon in an historic mission to collect the first rock samples in more than a0 years. south korea passes a ‘bts‘ law allowing k—pop megasta rs to postpone military service until the age of 30. glad to have you with us. "our planet is broken." that's what the secretary general of the united nations will warn today — and that "humanity is waging a "suicidal" war on nature". in a special bbc broadcast, antonio guterres will also announce that tackling global warming is now the central

objective of the un next year. here's our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt. 2020 has been a year of dramatic weather extremes. greenhouse gas concentrations are still rising in the atmosphere, despite the covid—19 lockdowns, says the head of the united nations. in a speech to be broadcast later today exclusively on bbc news, un secretary general antonio guterres will say there is no vaccine for the planet. biodiversity is collapsing, ocea ns biodiversity is collapsing, oceans are choking with plastic waste, and apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are the new normal. terrible wildfires raged across australia, burning vast areas, and there were huge wildfires

in california and even arctic siberia. the un secretary general says the world now faces a moment of truth. every country, city, financial institution and company should adopt plans for transition to net zero emissions by 2050 and ta ke net zero emissions by 2050 and take decisive action, now, to put themselves on the right path. it is five years since the world came together in paris to agree, for the first time, that every nation needs to play a part in tackling climate change. some progress has been made, but not enough, according to the un secretary general. antonio guterres will say economic pressures should be used to help curb emissions. it is time that those who pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases pay a price of what that pollution, he will say. you will urge countries to end all subsidies for fossil

fuels and say that taxes should move from income to carbon. it isa move from income to carbon. it is a bold agenda, putting tackling climate change at the very heart of the united nations' role. but the science is clear, the secretary general will say, unless the world reduces emissions, we face disaster. justin rowlett, bbc news. and you can hear the full speech from the secretary general exclusively on bbc world news on our special programme ‘state of the planet‘ at 1600 gmt. antonio guterres will also be joined by climate activists making a difference around the world, including sir david attenborough. and new zealand has become the latest country to declare a climate emergency. the prime minister, jacinda ardern, has also promised to make the entire public sector carbon neutral within the next five years.

england has entered a new period of coronavirus restrictions — despite borisjohnson suffering the biggest rebellion by his own members of parliament since becoming uk prime minister. the system of tiers, which replaces the national lockdown, will see nearly all of england in the two toughest levels. it was approved by parliament because most opposition mps abstained in the vote. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. with the end of a national lockdown in england comes a new three tier system of restrictions to get used to. from this morning, 99% of the population is under the highest two levels of controls for at least the next two weeks. here is how the new system of restrictions will work. shops, gyms and hairdressers will be allowed to reopen across the country. in tier i, the lowest

level of restrictions, groups of up to six people will be able to meet indoors or outdoors, pubs and restaurants can opener, with last orders at 10pm, and closing at 11pm. can opener, with last orders at 10pm, and closing at "pm. in tier 2, groups of up to six people will still be able to meet outdoors but not indoors, u nless meet outdoors but not indoors, unless in a support bubble. pubs can only reopen if they are opening as a restaurant and alcohol can only be served with alcohol can only be served with a substantial meal. in the highest level of restrictions, pubs and restaurants will be forced to provide take only, and there will be no mixing of households, except up to six people, in public outdoor spaces, like parks. so the ayes have it, the ayes have it. last night mps approve the plans, but not without a struggle. 55 conservatives voted against the government, the biggest backbench rebellion boris johnson has seen in his time as prime minister. it has passed with a majority of well over 200, it is a very important set

of regulations to help the uk bridge into the spring when we hope the vaccine will move us into a whole different place, and the reason these regulations mattered is it allows us to move to a tiered approach, backed up by mass community testing, which will help us keep control of the virus and avoid another lockdown. while the new tiers are stricter in some ways, there is plenty you can now do wherever you live in england that might make it feel like a return to something like life as normal. in another major change, people will be able to visit relatives in care homes. new guidance states that contact will be allowed in all three tiers, if those visiting have tasted negative for the virus. questions continue about the impact of restrictions, though. the labour leader sir keir starmer has challenged the government to publish more details of the economic impact of control measures, as many businesses face uncertain weeks and months ahead. jonathan blake, bbc news.

let's get some of the day's other news. three prominent pro—democracy activists have arrived at court for sentencing. joshua wong, agnes chow and ivan lam, have previously pleaded guilty to organising and taking part in an unauthorised assembly in june last year. the activists are facing up to three years in jail. german officials say five people were killed when a homeless man drove a borrowed car through a pedestrian zone in trier. the victims were a nine—week—old baby, two women and a man. some of the dozen people injured are in critical condition. police say the suspect faces murder charges. hungarian politician who unexpectedly quit his job has admitted it came after attending a house party in brussels, which broke her as virus rules. the belgian media described it as a gay sex

party. josef szajer is the ally of viktor 0rban and helped d raft of viktor 0rban and helped draft the constitution which campaigners say is hostile to 93v campaigners say is hostile to gay rights. the oscar—nominated actor formerly known as ellen page has announced that he's transgender. in a statement on twitter, the canadian star said his name was now elliot. page received international acclaim for playing a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film, juno. in a statement on twitter, the canadian star said his announcement has been widely praised by lgbt charities. donald trump's ally and top legal officer has damaged the president's hopes of overturning the us election result. the attorney general, william barr, said federal officials had found no evidence to support claims of widespread voting fraud. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes reports. a political friendship that could be wearing thin. we did not allowjudgments could be wearing thin. we did not allow judgments to could be wearing thin. we did not allowjudgments to be breached. william barr has been

a staunch ally of donald trump which is why his views as the country's top law enforcement officer, carry special weight. now he says working with the fbi agents, they have uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. he added... as news emerged of the attorney general because my comments, it appears president trump was engrossed in his twitter account, live tweeting a hearing in michigan in which his lawyer rudolph giuliani was producing further unsubstantiated claims about the election. a trump legal tea m the election. a trump legal team was quick to hit back at mr barr.

the president still apparently obsessing over and denying the election result, joe biden is getting on with building his tea m getting on with building his team for government. the president—elect says his top priority will be dealing with the coronavirus, and jump—starting the economy. in nominating some veteran figures with experience of dealing with past financial crises, mr biden said his priority was getting the country back on its feet. we are going to get this economy moving again, create jobs, reduce drug prices, advance racial equity across the economy, every restore the backbone of this country, the middle class. my message to eve ryo ne middle class. my message to everyone struggling right now is this. help is on the way. in washington a bipartisan group of politicians has outlined plans for a new coronavirus relief package more worth more than $900 billion. if passed by congress, it would produce much needed help for millions of

americans, as the pandemic rages on through the winter. right now, the us has soaring numbers of new cases. new yorkers returned home from thanksgiving holiday, only to have to queue for hours, as they waited to be tested for they waited to be tested for the virus. everyone's hoping the virus. everyone's hoping the vaccine will be available soon. it could be, in the next two weeks, at hospitals like this one in detroit. american politics may be frozen in deadlock during this lame—duck season but a thought is on the horizon and there is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. still to come... south korean k—pop megastars have been given a pass to prosper in military service so they can continue to boost the country's cultural status and economy. “—

country's cultural status and economy. —— have been given the victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums that had grown up around the factory. we cannot do anything. charles manson is the leader of the hippie cult suspected of killing many people. at 11 o'clock this morning just half a metre of rock and separated britain from continental europe. it took the drill isjust a continental europe. it took the drill is just a few moments to cut through the final obstacle. workers were shaking hands and exchanging flags with their opposite numbers.

you with bbc news. a reminder of the top stories. the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, urges people around the world to stop waging what he calls a ‘suicidal‘ war on nature. the us attorney general, appointed by president trump, says he's found no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the presidential election. a woman awoman in a woman in sweden has been found to have kept her son captain for 30 years.

the woman is suspected of imprisoning her son for 28 yea rs. imprisoning her son for 28 years. on sunday a woman who said she is his sister and hadn't seen him since he moved out as a teenager seized their opportunity after the mother was admitted to hospital. she broke into the apartment where she found the man, now 41, locked inside. translation: i walked into the kitchen and he flew up from a chair, ididn't kitchen and he flew up from a chair, i didn't know if he was going to recognise me or not a gonna put the lights on he saw me and he said my name over and over again. the victim is thought to have been held captive from the age of 12. the woman claiming to be his sister said she made repeated efforts to seek help from social services. translation: no one has believed in me, ever. this has beena believed in me, ever. this has been a constant story. it is being discovered now, but this has been my whole life. swedish

media says the man was found severely malnourished, had open wounds covering his legs, almost no teeth, and were struggling to walk and talk. he was taken to hospital and is currently recovering. translation: the woman who is on the probable cause suspected of unlawful deprivation of liberty causing grievous bodily injury and causing grievous illness is now being heard by the police together with a public defender. we of course wa nt public defender. we of course want to know what her explanation is and what her version of events is. the man will have the opportunity to tell us why he stopped going to schools, what his own was like, under what conditions he has lived and what the situation with his mother was like. neighbours say they had never seen the sun and expressed at the shock allegations. they assumed the woman lived alone. translation: she has been very nice and sweet. we had a baby in the summerso nice and sweet. we had a baby in the summer so she talked

about that. she told us that she had had a child that was born prematurely. we felt that she had been a nice, elderly neighbour. the mother has denied all charges. she will be keptin denied all charges. she will be kept in custody as the investigation continues and if found guilty could spend a maximum sentence of ten years in prison until the age of 80. a chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon. the change 5 touched down in a volcanic area. it'll spend three days scooping up samples to send back to earth. its the first mission to take samples from the moon in over a0 years. china's had two successful landings — but this will be the first to come back with moon rocks. well, who better to help us understand the significance of this mission than someone who has been to space no fewer than five times? i'm joined by former nasa astronaut and current mit professor, jeffrey hoffman. thank you so much for being on

the programme. just explain to us the programme. just explain to us how significant this is. of course, the apollo programme brought back samples in the late 60s and 70s. in the early 70s the russians brought back samples robotically. in its space programme, china has very quickly been duplicating and in some cases surpassing what the us and the russians did. they landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, and you know, we brought back samples from the moon but for the chinese to do it is definitely a first for them and bringing them back from a place that we haven't been to before, and it is in the sea of storms at, apollo 12 landed there, but the samples apollo 12 brought back were...

what will these samples tell us? what will they inform us about? what i was trying to say is that, whether chinese have landed is a much younger part of the moon. it is only about 1.5 billion years old as opposed to the 3 billion years, so it gives us a new view into lunar history. what happened chemically to the moon, and there could be some real surprises there. we will have to wait until the samples get back, but it is very exciting. what will it mean in terms of a mission to mars? well, the current river that is ensuite to mars and will land in february is going to actually collect samples. i am involved with that mission. i know how difficult it is going to be to bring those samples back. that

is the next goal for nasa, is to bring back samples from mars. that is a lot harder than bringing them back from the moon, because it is farther away, and you have to keep them com pletely away, and you have to keep them completely sterile, because the possibility of life on mars, we don't have to worry about that on the moon, because the moon is basically a date object. do you think that we are in the midst of a new space race as it were, with this move on the pa rt were, with this move on the part of china? you have got other countries with missions to the moon, and of course the private sector so heavily involved, the likes of elon musk, etc. there is a new interest and more money to get us interest and more money to get us into space. i wouldn't call ita us into space. i wouldn't call it a race, in the way that the us and soviet union were racing to convince the world of the superiority of their systems. it is definitely an attempt by the chinese to demonstrate that they have the same level of

technology that formally was just in the west and the soviet union, and they are doing a greatjob. i union, and they are doing a great job. i admire union, and they are doing a greatjob. i admire what they've done and i'm looking forward to getting those samples back. but it is not a real race in the same sense that we had back in the 1960s. why do you think it has taken more than a0 years to do this ain? more than a0 years to do this again? we had a lot of samples coming back from apollo, and they still haven't all been examined, soi they still haven't all been examined, so i think at nasa, they feel the need not to do a complex and expensive robotic missionjust to bring back complex and expensive robotic mission just to bring back a few more kilograms of lunar samples, and of course, when we sent people to the moon, they will be going to the south polar regions, which is very interesting, and i'm sure that they will be bringing back a lot of sa m ples they will be bringing back a lot of samples from there. so

there has not been back need for nasa to bring back more samples. it has been great to talk to you, thank you so much for being on the programme. good night. an extraordinary story from brazil now. an armed gang has stormed the southern city of criciuma in an elaborate bank robbery, escaping with an amount of money, so far undisclosed. explosions were first reported at just after midnight local time. the thieves also fired weapons as they entered the city in a convoy of vehicles. banco do brasil was then raided, a tunnel leading into the city was set on fire, it's thought to prevent police sending reinforcements, and the local police station was attacked. this footage posted on social media shows the getaway in a fleet of cars. although we can probably assume

the robbers didn't mean to leave all of that behind. this footage — posted on twitter — shows local residents picking up money in the streets. police say they've detained four people, who picked up $150,000. none of them linked to the robbery itself. good news for the fans of the south korean boyband — bts. the country's changed the law so k—pop stars, like them, won't have to sign up for compulsory military conscription until they're 30 years old. paul hawkins has more. doing your duty, every able—bodied south korean man must do their bit in a country guarded against north korea. military conscription lasts almost two years, and until now it has had to be done between the ages of 18—28. now a change to the law means people like this... we love you! can wait

until they are 30. the global key pop superstars boy band will by then be more of a madman, the exemption given to people who boost the country's cultural status and economy. bts pro $4.65 cultural status and economy. bts pro $a.65 billion to the south korean economy through merchandise, physical album sales and concert tickets or to put it another way, they are worth 0.3% of the country's gdp, gross domestic product, the country's entire economic output. by 2023, they are expected to contribute $a8 billion to the south korean economy. recently, they knocked the first ever number one single in the us with a song dynamite and grabbed an unprecedented grammy nomination. previously the only people accepted were musicians and athletes. heung—min son,

who plays for spurs in the premier league, was also given a special pass to set his sights on goal instead of the north korean border. the oldest member of bts is 27 and now has another three years of singing before picking up a weapon. previously he and the rest of the band had said they would fulfil their duties as required. ironic considering bts literally means bullet—proof boy scouts. one day they will get the chance to prove it. paul hawkins, bbc news. still to come, overthe top business stories. in the uk the top story has been the colla pse the top story has been the collapse of arcadia, and the news that the buyer or debenhams has now pulled out. debenhams has now pulled out. debenhams has now pulled out. debenhams has experienced an overwhelming demand for its fire sale goods online, and so therefore shoppers are trying to make the most of the opportunity. i will be talking to experts in retail about what

the uk high street might look like in the future. the crisis is currently being dealt with. i will see you soon. hello there. we are into the start of december and meteorological winter and it will feel very wintry for the rest of this week. we will see change behind this front, arctic air will spread and some showers which will turn increasingly wintry over northern hills through the course of today. windy for much of scotland and northern ireland with gales in the far northwest and a lot of showers, western scotland particularly, where some will be heavy with hail and thunder mixed in and increasing snow to the hills. the cold front sinking to the southeast will confine to the southeast, cloudy with rain here but the skies will brighten up later on in a cold air and temperatures in the single digits.

heading through wednesday night, showery snow on the hills in the north and we start to see it with the front bringing more organised rain in the parts of england and wales in the night, so here because of the wind, cloud and rain, not as cold as it was further north and snow showers and clear spells. thursday, a complex area of low pressure establishes itself across the country, northern half of the country will see sunshine and showers, snow in the hills down to lower levels at times. across southern england and wales, it will be really cloudy, wet with pretty heavy rain at times, gales through the channel and even a little bit of wintriness over the high ground across england and wales. it will feel cold wherever you are and temperatures of three to seven degrees. heading into friday, an area of low pressure sticks around and we will see two centres to it, one could bring some rain and hill snow, accumulating snow across parts of scotland. and we will see this front

pushing into central and eastern england to bring some heavy rain and you could see snow on the hills here in the pennines and wet sleety snow down to lower levels. the best of any dry and bright weather will be across northern ireland, wales and the southwest of england but it will be another really cold day wherever you are. our area of low pressure sticks around heading into the weekend. notice as we move to saturday and sunday it starts to weaken a little bit. part two of the week looks a little bit quieter. you can see both saturday and sunday will remain cold with further wintry showers on saturday and something a little bit drier and quieter on sunday.

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