welcome to bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: dozens of people have been hurt in violent clashes in eastjerusalem during rival demonstrations by palestinians and a far rightjewish group. there are running battles now between the palestinians and the israeli security forces. try to move them back here. that's done grenade. —— stun. president biden urges world leaders to unite and fight climate change together as he pledges to cut us emissions by 50% of past levels by 2030. the funeral of daunte wright, a black man shot dead after a routine traffic stop,

has been taking place in the us city of minneapolis. well, we come today as the air fresheners for minnesota. we are trying to get the stench of police brutality out of the atmosphere. india's covid crisis — the country records the world's highest ever number of new infections in a day. # bye—bye, baby. # baby, goodbye. and the lead singer of the bay city rollers, les mckeown, has died at the age of 65. hello, welcome to the program.

dozens of people have been hurt in clashes in eastjerusalem amid rival demonstrations by palestinians and a far right jewish group. there were confrontations between the two sides and between palestinian demonstrators and the israeli police, who were trying to keep the groups apart. tom bateman reports from jerusalem. these tensions have been bubbling for nights now but this evening, it feels more angry, it is more organised and this seems like a culmination. they're from lehava, a far—rightjewish ultra nationalist group. there's been a spate of race hate incidents injerusalem with palestinians hitting or abusing ultraorthodoxjews and posting it on the social media site tiktok. and groups of far—right israeli youths have chased and assaulted some

palestinians in the street. explosion. that's the sound of stun grenades at the moment as the israeli security forces here have been clashing with palestinians, and it is only a couple of hundred yards from where the far—right ultranationalist jewish group has been trying to get to. there are running battles now between the palestinians and the israeli security forces. they're trying to move them back here. that stun grenade... you 0k? explosion. this is damascus gate. it's the holy month of ramadan for muslims. many gather here in the evenings. they've been complaining that the police have been stopping them gathering here. the police say they were simply trying to ease the flow of pedestrians through there, but this has really been at the centre of these tensions over recent days. that was tom bateman on the streets ofjerusalem for us.

the un secretary—general antonio guterres has claimed "the tide is turning for action" after a number of world leaders, including president biden, made new pledges to cut emissions on the opening day of a global climate summit. the us, canada, japan and south korea all announced revised targets but two of the biggest emitters, india and china, made no fresh commitments. the latest data shows china is the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide estimated at 28% in 2019, the us was second at 15% and india was third at 7%. here isjoe biden�*s pledge. the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half, in half by the end of this decade. that's where we're headed a nation. and that's what we can do if we take action to build an economy that's not only more prosperous but healthier, fairer and cleaner for the entire planet.

you know, these steps will set america on a path of net zero emissions in the economy there no later by 2050. i spoke to nathaniel keohane in new york city. he's the senior vice president for climate at environmental defense fund in the us, and served in the white house as special assistant to former president barack 0bama. he says these goals are feasible. i think i will start by saying the pledge made by president biden, this new target, is both ambitious and achievable. it is ambitious, it moves the us, actually, into the top tier of countries globally in terms of ambition which, of course, is not where the us has been the past few years. it is also achievable. we performed — the environmental defense fund — a number of analysis, and others have published similar analysis, showing there are multiple pathways to get to the 50%. it means deep cuts in the power sector and electrifying transportation and cutting methane from oil and gas,

but it is achievable and there is a number of pathways to do it. you say a number of pathways because lots of people watching, especially in the us, will be thinking "right, i may be behind this target but i perhaps don't want to give up my car, i want to carry on eating meat". what are the sacrifices that will need to be made? actually, i think you heard president biden talking about the vision of the way the people's lives will be better in a low carbon economy, talking about cleaner air, healthier communities, jobs, building electric vehicles, laying the power grid of the 21st century. i think we are seeing globally that the world is headed towards a clean energy economy and it means for america to compete in the 21st century, it needs to lead as well on that clean energy economy and i think that is a lot of what you've heard from president biden so this is about outcomes that will improve people's lives, a better and healthier and cleaner environment, not only for our children but for ourselves in the coming decade.

the other thing that people are often a bit reluctant about is making sacrifices in their own countries when they see, for example, china, india not signing up to the same kind of cuts. yes, well, i think the question of china is critical, it is the world's largest emitter and i think it was an opportunity or there is an opportunity for china to do more. president xijinping talked about controlling new coal—fired power plants, promoting green investment in the belt and road initiative, which is china's massive infrastructure initiative. i think the world needs to see more in terms of near—term, concrete actions to get to what the president has said will be carbon neutrality by 2060. last weekend, john kerry travelled to shanghai to meet

with his chinese counterpart xie zhenhua and there was a sign of cooperation and co—ordination there, rising signs that i think after four years of impasse, the two largest emitters can get back together and co—operate on climate. nathaniel keohane for us there. in minnesota, hundreds of people have attended the funeral of daunte wright — the 20—year—old who was shot dead by police near minneapolis. the usjustice department announced a federal investigation into the city's police department on wednesday — the day after derek chauvin was convicted for the murder of george floyd. from minnesota, here's the bbc�*s lebo diseko. it's a moment no parent should have to endure — daunte wright's mother and father arriving at his funeral. mourning with them, the community in which he lived and was loved. i never imagined that i'd be standing here. the roles should be completely be reversed — my son should be burying me. sobs.

my son had a smile that was worth a million dollars. when he walked in the room, he lit up the room. he was a brother, a jokester and he was loved by so many. he's going to be so missed. daunte leaves behind six siblings and a son, dauntejr. i didn't get to tell him i loved him before he left. he didn't deserve this. minneapolis... here, too, the families of george floyd and others of black people killed by police, lending their support to another enduring a pain they know all too well. daunte wright's life mattered! all repeat: daunte | wright's life mattered! it's almost two weeks since daunte was shot dead by police during a traffic stop. the officer, kim potter, says she meant to use her taser. she has since resigned and been charged with manslaughter. the wright family says this was murder. they want her charged and convicted as such.

they said that, well, the real reason they stopped was because his tags had expired. well, i come to minnesota to tell you your tags have expired. applause. your tags of racism has expired. your tags of police brutality has expired. daunte�*s death has raised questions yet again about the value of black life in america. how it is that something so routine as an expired tag on a licence plate can result in the death of a brother, son and father. lebo diseko, bbc news, minneapolis. india's coronavirus outbreak is getting worse and hospitals in the indian capital of delhi have run out of oxygen to treat seriously ill covid patients. india has report the august

daily rise in infections in any country since the pandemic began. nearly 315 -- nili 315,000 —— nili 315,000 cases and its fear this isn't even takeout. a professor from the us via michigan told us why she thinks things have deteriorated so quickly. yeah, so that, you know, last — the first wave in india, the virus curve started declining from september 2020 and steadily declined until february. but in the middle of february, we started noticing this uptick and i think the ferocity and the velocity that we are seeing, in like a virus inferno, is a confluence of different factors. it is definitely a lapse of covid—appropriate behaviour. as soon as the country reopened, weddings were happening, massive election rallies were going on, religious gatherings were happening, cricket matches were being played, malls and restaurants reopened, kids went back to school.

waning immunity from past infection could probably also contribute. but even with all of these factors folded in, it is very hard to explain the exponential surge that you are seeing in india without the potential of more transmissible mutant data circulating in the country. crosstalk. just to be clear on that point, is it — are you pointing to variants, then? new variants that, of course, right across the world we're all worried about — you think that must be a potential reason behind this? absolutely. it seems like you cannot really reverse engineer or construct the virus curve without having potentially more transmissible variants. i see. and what about the role of government? i know federal — largely federal administration across india as well, but central government as well, do they bear any responsibility here for relaxing those measures and giving people permission to gather in large groups and not wear masks or whatever? yes, i think the government really should have intensified its messaging.

0n the other hand, it should also have really required masks for its own political rallies for the election. i think that data denial is a big part of the policy makers, as well as the public. it's — once you are severely affected, only then you realise the virus is real. but we have learned enough that you cannot really wait to see this happening. you really have to track the silent footsteps of this insidious virus so i think in india, the ship has sailed. well, you say that, which is rather a pessimistic note. how do you try and get back on top of this? vaccines, vaccines, vaccines. and also, i think that india needs international help for oxygen supplies, maybe more oxygen vans taken, too, given the dire situation, but definitely vaccine. increasing vaccines apply, stringent regional lockdowns because if things continue to go this way, national lockdowns, sustained national lockdown would be the only option left for india.

but india has vaccinated only 1.4% of its adult population and i think we need to really speed that up. professor bhramar mukherjee for us there. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: tributes to the bay city rollers�* front man les mckeown, who's died at the age of 65. we take a look at what made the tartan—clad scottish singer such a star. the stars and stripes at half—mast outside columbine high. the school sealed off, the bodies of the dead still inside. i never thought that they would actually go through with it. choir sings one of the most successful singer—songwriters of all

time, the american pop star prince has died at the age of 57. i was — it's hard to believe it. i didn't believe it. we just — he was just here saturday. for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning next wednesday sitting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and lift—off of the space shuttle discovery with l the hubble space telescope, our window on the universe. | this is bbc news. the latest headlines: dozens of people have been hurt in clashes in eastjerusalem amid rival demonstrations by palestinians and far right jewish activists.

president biden promises to cut america's carbon emissions by at least half of past levels before the end of this decade. he called on other leaders at a virtual climate summit to take decisive action. the us senate has passed... ——the us senate has passed legislation to tackle the rise in violence and discrimination against asian americans. 94 senators backed the proposals — only one, republican josh hawley, voted against. attacks on asian americans increased during the covid—i9 pandemic — the measures will now be put before the house of representatives. here's senate majority leader, chuck schumer. passing this bill should send a message to the country that should be all too obvious by now. hate crimes will not be tolerated, and federal law enforcement will do everything in its power to detect, deter and if necessary prosecute crimes to the full extent of the law. al north american corresponded

david willis has more. a survey conducted in the last few weeks found that about a third of asian—americans lived in fear of being attacked and 80% thought that the violence against them as a group was increasing. indeed, a group which monitors these sorts of things said it had received close to 3,800 complaint over the course of the last year, basically over the course of the pandemic. largely it's verbal attacks, if you like, but there have been some physical assaults and even some deaths. some activists blame this in part, at least, on the rhetoric of the former president donald trump who was given to referring to the coronavirus, of course, as the china virus or their �*kung flu'. but there's another problem here and that is that it's quite difficult to bring hate crime prosecutions of this kind because in order to do so, prosecutors have to prove bias and that is something that can be quite difficult to prove.

so the hope is that this legislation will make that easier, it will set up a platform people to report cases of hate crimes, and it will also designate a single individual at the us justice department whose sole concern will be to look into reports of hate crimes against asian americans. the fear of the asian american community is that this sort of bigotry and this sort of discrimination will be a legacy either of the former president or of the coronavirus pandemic itself. it's a rare example of bipartisanship, this bill, in a deeply divided congress. we heard chuck schumer say there that it sends a signal that such hate crimes will not be tolerated in this country and the legislation will now go to the house of representatives which is expected to approve it, and then to the president to be signed. thanks, david. let's get some of

the day's other news. russian military commanders have been ordered to pull their troops back to base, in an apparent de—escalation of tension around ukraine. the russian defence minister said that soldiers had demonstrated their ability to defend the country and could return to barracks on friday. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has welcomed the news. doctors of the jailed russian opposition activist alexei navalny have urged him to end his hunger strike immediately. the five physicians, who've been denied access to him in prison, say they've been shown the results of medical tests conducted on tuesday. in a letter published by russian media, they say problems with his kidneys and nervous system suggest that if the hunger strike goes on even for a little longer, they will unfortunately have no—one to treat. elon musk has launched a $100 million prize to coincide with earth day to find new ways to remove carbon and put the brakes on global warming.

it comes as many countries mark this annual environmental day in their own way, as mark lobel reports. a dazzling display for earth day. buddhist monks on zoom congregate virtually and 300,000 candles. translation: we came up with the theme - - cleanse the mind, cleanse the world, which is to remind people to cleanse their minds before they start cleaning the world. but time is of the essence as the world gets hotter. if we are to live up to our promises and commitments in the paris agreement, we have to end fossil fuel subsidies, stop new exploration and extraction, completely divest from fossil fuels and keep the carbon in the ground. now. there's also another way to fight global warming — by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. but with technology to do

so not yet commercially viable, there's now a big incentive to discover a way that is. you're going to talk about the launch of the biggest prize ever? $100 million x prize for carbon capture. it'll be good to frame the debate and understand, 0k, what things are really going to move the needle, how much are they really going to move the needle? if we're talking getting tens or hundreds of billions of tons of carbon, in what form will that carbon be? will it be stable over time? and like, what is it going to cost humanity to do? it's all part of a mindset to protect what we have, like this river running through sao paulo. 0nce strewn with trash, now welcoming back some familiarfaces after a big cleanup. welcomed by the wider community, too. from cleaning up beaches

in israel, and australia, to appealing to political and industrial leaders to clean up their act in tokyo and jakarta. it's a call for action from all corners of the earth. mark lobel, bbc news. the bay city rollers singer les mckeown has died suddenly at the age of 65. the band, which had hits with tracks like bye bye baby and shang—a—lang experienced a level of fan hysteria similar to the beatles in the uk and the us during the 1970s. # bye—bye baby # ba by goodbye # bye bye baby # don't make me cry adored by teenagers, who copied the rollers�* tartan look, they became one the biggest pop sensations

the uk has ever seen. they were hugely successful, selling more than 120 million records worldwide. well earlier i spoke to music promoter sean mclusky, a very close friend of les mckeown and his family. definitely a difficult time. i knew les, i first met les in his wilderness years, after his global success, after his solo career injapan when he was back in the uk after taking the world by storm, and just sort of making a new life for himself. i always knew about his cultural significance and i was really aware of his history because growing up as a kid, you know, isaw, i saw him on top of the pops and i saw his weekly tv show shang—a—lang on the tv, that was like, you know, loads of screaming girls and it was incredible.

but i knew him just as a friend and i knew his family and it's been a really tough couple of days, yeah. you referenced there the screaming girls, it's kind of difficult for some people who weren't there at the time just to appreciate the level of hysteria and that kind of cultural significance. it hadn't happened since the beatles and that's why when the rollers had that reaction, it was called is rollermania, much the same as the beatles were called beatlemania, the fan adulation. it was the first time it had happened since the beatles so it really did make a big impact on england. and the good looks, the fashion, the catchy tunes, you can really see why it was so successful. yeah, it caught the zeitgeist. it was a part of glam rock

which was a strange moment in british music history that came out of the grey england of the early �*70s, and when les joined the rollers, he sparked up what was a band that had been around for a little while. he took over from another a singer who'd left the band, and in �*73, took it to dizzy heights, huge, huge global hit singles. but it was a part of the glam rock movement, definitely, and it gave a lot of colour to a dismal country at the time. 0ur our thanks to shawna mclusky there. prince william and his wife kate have published a child of his —— published a photo of their like youngest child louis. the photo of him

riding a red bike was taken by kate at kensington palace, the family's home in london. that is it from me. i'm lewis vaughanjones, this is bbc news. bye— bye. hello. we're seeing big temperature differences from night to day at the moment. we started yesterday morning at around —6 in a few spots. thursday afternoon, under clear skies, sunny skies, you can see from the satellite imagery, we got to 17—18 degrees. problem is, as soon as you lose that sunshine, the temperatures plummet again. and this morning, another widespread frost across the country, maybe as low as —3 or “4 in some spots of england and south—east scotland. frost—free towards the north but that's because we've got more cloud, even though we're under this same area of high pressure. that's what's keeping things dry at the moment. but around it, we are seeing some blustery conditions, particularly towards the far south and the west. most, though, light winds through friday, early morning mist and fog patches quickly clearing. that cloud stubbornly persistent across the far north—east of scotland, maybe

a few showers for shetland. high cloud may turn the sunshine hazy in one or two spots, but overall, it's a sunny day for many. a windy one, though, through the english channel and the south—west. the winds could gust in excess of a0 mph, whipping up some rather choppy seas, and that will limit the temperature rise here to between around 12—14 degrees for many. it may get up to 18 on the north coast of devon and around these western areas — 18 celsius quite possible. northwest england, north wales could get to around 20 degrees during the afternoon. but for all, just about, away from where we've got the cloud in the north—east of scotland, it's going to be a day of high tree pollen. now, as we go into friday evening and overnight, we could see the odd mist or fog patch form. the cloud still there in the far north—east of scotland, but for most, it's clear skies into the weekend. and high pressure is still there as we start it. now, with that high pressure strengthening a little bit to the north—east of us, it does mean the winds across the south and the west will start to strengthen

a little bit more, so it will be another blustery day across southern and south—western areas of the uk. breeze picks up a little bit for the rest of us. still some cloud in the north—east of scotland. a bit of patchy cloud forming elsewhere but for most it's another sunny day. cool down some of those eastern coasts, but in the west, we could still get up to around 17—18 degrees. the frost becoming less abundant as we go through this weekend as the breeze picks up. and it will pick up further into sunday, bringing more cloud across the country. cloudiest of all, central and eastern parts of england, best of the sunshine in the west, with the highest of the temperatures. but a cool day down those eastern areas, especially where the cloud lingers. and there'll be more cloud and cooler conditions next week, too.

this is bbc news. the headlines: dozens of people have been hurt in clashes in eastjerusalem amid rival demonstrations by palestinians and far right jewish group. there were confrontations between the two sides and palestinian demonstrators and the israeli police who are trying to keep the groups apart. joe biden has pledged to more than halve the united states�* carbon emissions by the end of the decade. the president set the ambitious target during a global video summit, with many other world leaders also promising to make big reductions. hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a young black man who was shot dead by police in the us city of minneapolis. daunte wright was killed during a routine traffic stop. the service in minneapolis heard impassioned appeals

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