this is bbc news. the headlines: a british member of parliament has been stabbed to death in a church hall during his regular consultation with constituents. sir david amess was attacked in leigh—on—sea, east of london. police have arrested a 25—year—old suspect. a series of suicide bomb blasts has killed more than a0 people at a mosque in the afghan city of kandahar.

dozens of others were injured. the mosque is used by the minority shia muslim community. the us has announced that it will reopen its borders on november 8 to all foreign travellers who've been fully vaccinated against coronavirus. british singer adele has released her latest single after a six—year wait. the grammy—winning pop star has been teasing the song for several weeks, but it's been heard in full for the first time today. at 10pm, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the day's news. first, though, it's newscast. hello, we've got a slightly different kind of newscast for you today. i'm at kensington palace to speak to the duke of cambridge. and we are going to talk about his earthshot prize, where he is going to give £1 million to the best ideas to fix climate change, boost nature,

clean our air and our oceans and to reduce the amount of waste that we all use. he has also made a big, prime—time documentary series with sir david attenborough, which in a totally non—cringing way i'm going to make him watch. newscast from the bbc. hello, it's adam in kensington palace, which i can't still believe i'm actually saying. and william in a small room that is very well ventilated at kp. welcome to newscast. this is a significant upgrade to normally what we do on this podcast, so it is very good of you. it is good to see you, adam, nice of you to be here. i've explained the basics of what the prize is to people already. but for you what was the eureka moment when you thought, "i've got to do something about this?" where were you? so, it's been in the back of my mind for quite a while, you know, the whole climate change debate, environmental issues, pollution,

so i've always felt very strongly about it and i've been watching very carefully what others have been doing, and for me over the last few years, the sort of urgency and the positivity, particularly the positivity around the debate, has been missing. it's been very negative. understandably, it's such a large issue that everyone feels completely overwhelmed by the facts, the scale of the problems and things like that. so we wanted to break it down and try and work out how could we add something that was going to create action and create positivity, create energy towards actually solving some of these problems? i think for me it sort of formulated and it cemented itself a bit in my mind in namibia about three years ago. i love community conservation and namibia had been some of the world leaders in community conservation. for people who don't know what that is, it is effectively the locals, wherever you are in the world, taking an interest in the management of the wildlife, nature,

the environmental assets around them. so they very much manage them, they protect them, they nurture them for their own prosperity. and for me i came away having met loads of good people there and i felt really inspired, really energised by what i had seen, but then coming back to the uk and seeing the headlines around the world, and the media also like to concentrate sometimes on the negativity and i felt, "you are losing people every single time you have those headlines." we all get that there is a really big, urgent message and i'm not saying we shouldn't talk about the urgency or the big issues, but ultimately if we want to tackle this, if we want to get on the front foot, we have got to bring people with us. that is what the prize is about, providing solutions to some of the world's biggest environmental problems. and so is the dream that the award show calendar

goes baftas, oscars, earthshot? i think it should go earthshot, baftas, oscars. but, hey... it depends when your year starts. exactly. the idea is to make the earthshot prize the biggest, global, environment prize in history. i think we've got time on our side, this is the right time to do this. we've got ten years of critical time where we have to make inroads in finding solutions and inspiring people that we can fix the solutions because, past 2030, things will get rapidly worse very quickly. of course it's called the earthshot, and as soon as you hear earthshot, you think, "0h, moonshot, jfk." absolutely. so the original genesis of this is to try and capture the ingenuity and the problem—solving and the ambition of the moonshot. and so based onjfk's idea to get a man on the moon all those years ago and all the technology and all the advancements to try and get a man on the moon, like solar panels, cat scanners, all that sort of stuff, we are trying to galvanise and push solutions forward. i think for me particularly, the idea that the space race is on at the moment, we have seen everyone trying to get space tourism going, it's the idea that we need some

of the world's greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live. i think that ultimately is what sold it for me, is that that really is quite crucial, we need to be focusing on this one rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future. having said that, though, would you like to be a space tourist one day? do you know what? i have absolutely no interest in going that high. i'm a pilot, but i'm a helicopter pilot, so i stay reasonably close to the ground. i've been up to 65,000 feet once in a plane and that was truly terrifying. and that's high enough. do you go weightless at that point? not quite, but the sky is black above you and you can see the curve of the earth. that's close enough to space for me. cos you can come back down again. it's in the orbit, so it's ok. i dread to think of the carbon footprint of a rocket going into space for ten minutes. that is also a fundamental question. and is the idea that basically you are a technological optimist and actually in an ideal world, technology, politics and business can look after all of this stuff for us and you and i as individuals

may be actually might not need to change our lives that much? absolutely, adam. so that is the key, it's about inspiring and finding solutions that can be around us right now and hopefully in the future, rather than just the debate concentrating on what we need to give up, what we can't do, which is very negative. all of us, as much as we will try, even if all of us did a little bit here and there to change our ways, it still isn't going to be enough. that's the thing i think we have to get across, that this is a big challenge, this is a big task we are about to take on. and i think we need heroes, we need those people who really have got vision, ambition, energy, to step up, come forward, and give us solutions. it is not just about technology, as you pointed out. the earthshot prize is not just about technology. there are plenty of technological solutions we can celebrate, but it is about thinking differently, it's about thinking outside the box, it's about doing stuff in a different way that makes us richer, healthier and happier in the future. that is what i have noticed.

you talked about future generations. we are always in this debate talking about what it means for our kids. i don't have kids, you have kids. what do you say to your children about this? i think they are living and growing up in a world where it is much more talked about than when we were growing up. so that has benefits and it has negatives as well because we are seeing a rise in climate anxiety. young people now are growing up where their futures are basically being threatened the whole time. it's very unnerving, it's very anxiety making. growing up, you've got to worry about a job, you've got to worry about family life, housing, all these things, and you are putting in the climate, the very thing that we live, breathe and walk around, on top of all of that? no wonder we are having a lot of mental health concerns and challenges coming along. now, i also believe that the younger generation are going to lead this and are going to dominate this. we can't not. and wherever we go and speak to young people, they are all very concerned about the environment. they love it. children love being outdoors, they love getting muddy, they love playing,

chasing and playing sport and all that stuff. i think they have the true appreciation of what we are going to miss and what we are letting go of than actually many of the adults. that is where a bit of the disconnect is happening. those adults in positions of responsibility are not channelling their inner child to remind themselves, to remember, how much it meant to be outdoors and what we are robbing those future generations of, that outdoor childhood. have your children got to the age where they are starting to nag you about this? quite often, that is the way round it works. george at school recently has been doing litter picking, and i didn't he was already showing realise, but talking to him the other day, he was already showing that he was getting a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter picking one day, and then the very next day, they did the same route the same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked up was back again. i think that for him, he was trying to understand how and where it came from. he couldn't understand it. he was like, "we cleaned this. why has it not gone away?"

and if we look at it like that, you start to realise that if you go back to childhood, "wow, yeah, this is where we should be at." we have got to be asking ourselves these questions. why is that ok for that litter to come straight back 2a hours later? but did he also then start to ask questions about how he lives his life and the resources he uses and what his impact on the planet is? like we are all having to do. i think a definite sense of realisation and understanding, so the education is really key. so, for instance, not overusing water, being careful with our resources, turning off lights, things like that, which was instilled in me growing up. these things, we are now having to extrapolate them bigger and bigger. so, yes, he is acutely aware, more so than the other two at the moment. charlotte is still a little bit young, she's still not quite sure, and louisjust enjoys playing outside the whole time, he lives outside, but i think it is slowly dawning on them

that these things matter. but when you are that young, you just want to have fun and enjoy it, and ifeel bad. i don't want to give them the burden of that worry. i suppose going in the other direction, your dad has been worried about this stuff for a very long time, and people used to take the mickey out of him a little bit for it. absolutely. i think it has been a hard road for him. my grandfather started off helping out the wwf a long time ago with nature work and biodiversity, and i think my father sort of progressed that on and talked about climate change a lot more very early on before anyone else thought it was a topic. yes, he's had a really rough ride on that, and i think he has been proven to have been well ahead of the curve, well beyond his time, in warning about some of these dangers. but it shouldn't be that there is a third generation coming along having to ramp it up even more. for me, it would be a disaster if george was sat here talking to you or your successor,

adam, in 30 years' time, still saying the same thing because, by then, we'll be too late. can we get very existential for a minute? yes. we always talk about net zero by 2050. in 2050, there is a very high chance you'll actually be the king then. is it the done thing in your family to think about that moment and about that being the case? i think 2050 is locked in my head for the net zero targets and things like that, that is what we are all working towards. i think by 2050, we should have had a very clear picture of what the world is going to look like, and if we haven't tackled some of these issues by 2050, then it's going to be not a fun year to be around. i found myself saying the phrase the other day there, "oh, yeah, we've had some really important pre—cop ndcs unga." pre—cop... pre-cop ndcs unga. and that is all about the whole cop26 process. what do you think when you look at that process and you hear all that stuff? well, for instance, there's a lot of acronyms. yes.

a lot ofjargon. a lot of people won't understand what is going on. ithink... again, people like to confuse one another with clever acronyms. it happens all the time. and i think for cop to communicate very clearly and very honestly what the problems are and what the solutions are going to be is critical. we can't have more clever speech and clever words but not enough action. that is why the earthshot prize is so important because we are trying to create action. are you going to go to cop? i will be at cop, and hopefully, the finalists for the awards will be at cop, too. and you have been on all our tv screens with the five—part documentary you have done with sir david attenborough which has been on bbc one. yeah. it was very good. and it is all on iplayer. and i thought we could now do the second half of the podcast, which i am calling it's a royal box set, which if you don't know the reference to it's a royal knockout, you would not believe it if i told you what it was.

i never watched it, but i gather it did not go down that well so, yes, thank you for bringing that up, adam. so yes, we are going to watch some of the highlights of the series. it's very meta. we are going to film ourselves watching you being filmed talking about ea rthshot. there is nothing uncomfortable about that at all. it doesn't get more newscast than that! yeah. sounds awesome. right, let's watch you on tv. so five episodes, this is some of the highlights. i'll do the remote control. also, i should say, this isn't your tv, this is our tv, so if i scroll down, i'm not going to get your recently watched. that's good. which would have been fascinating to see. at least you might know how to work it, adam. yes, we'll see. right, so this is the episode about climate change. each episode starts with you doing actually a little bit of action man stuff. yes. and this is you going to see an offshore wind turbine. it has taken a bit of time, but there's now no doubt that we're entering a new revolution, a sustainable revolution. the david attenborough music. this field of turbines of the east coast of england... no david, sadly. he could do this a lot better.

this is pretty good for a first—timer, actually. and today, britain's offshore wind farms that supply the electricity needs of more than a third of its homes. it's a small step in the right direction. but across the world, we need to do so much more. cool shots. bit of slow—mo. love it. the climate is changing faster than ever. which is why fix 0ur climate is one of the five goals of the earthshot prize. there's you standing on the top. yeah, takes about half an hour to get up there. we will award £1 million to a project that will help us to achieve this goal. so, yeah, is that a bit of an adventure, going up there? that was, yeah. i'd never been up a wind turbine, funnily enough. not your sort of average wednesday afternoon activity. but, yeah, it was really cool to talk to the guys who operate it, who work there, and just seeing the scale of there. i mean, how big is it? i've actually never

seen one up close. i mean, i don't know what the stats are on how high it is, but it took us half an hour to get up the ladder. there's a tiny, narrow ladder inside and you have to get roped up and harnessed up and everything and there are tiny doors you have to sort of navigate through. right. and at the top, these big, giant doors open up. they have to, you know, stow the actual cell and then you climb out on top and it was an amazing view. luckily, i don't get too bad vertigo because you are literally on the edge, clipped in. helicopter pilot. exactly, yeah, it does help. but, you know, it was cool, the drone, we had a big drone for the day, so it was quite fun watching them do that. they had to try to land the drone on a really rocking boat and i think it was like £20,000 worth of kit that the bbc quite, you know, didn't want to splash in the water or smash onto the deck. so there was a lot of sweaty moments. you know, i don't do a david attenborough impression, you know, he would have done a betterjob, but i really enjoyed kind of explaining a bit about what, you know, the awards and things are about.

yeah. this is a really dweeby question, but do you have a favourite renewable energy? because i think everyone has a favourite. that is quite a dweeby question. erm... you know, i don't really know, no. i don't know the stats well enough. i like all renewables. they all come together. if you go on that website and the national grid tells you what the energy mix is like every second of the day, that's really cool. right, shall we watch another episode? yeah. now, this is where we get introduced to the legend that is sir david attenborough. good. here in the british isles, over the centuries, we have long since turned our natural wildernesses into a tamed, orderly landscape. that reminderthat, like, nature isn't actually natural sometimes. yeah. well, we see all the farming. and this has consequences. a less wild world is a less stable world. and that is a world less able to support all species including ourselves. that's why i agreed to join the earthshot prize council.

we can protect and restore the natural world, and as we do so, we start to bring stability to our planet. and so is basically sir david the yoda to your luke skywalker? yes, i would say he is yoda, although i am not sure how many kickass moves he's got, but his voice is extremely kickass. you know, he was one of the first names on the list for the council and we have got this earthshot prize council, so we effectively, having gone through a number of filter processes, through expert advisory panels and everything else, it comes to us as the council members to sign off the winners, and david was the first person on the list along with christiana figueres. we needed their expertise, their sort of global interest, to kind of test it on them. i remember, the first meeting with david, discussing about the earthshot prize, and he would sit there and, you know, he would look at me very sincerely and nod along and then he sort of, he looked around and thought about it for a bit and then he said, "yeah, i think this is exactly

what we need" and that was my little moment where i was like, "do you know what? this is ok." kerching, yeah. has he given you just an amazing piece of advice that you can just link everything to? he has been a constant support through all of this. he has never once said no or, "i wouldn't do it like that." he has steered in his gentle david way. and we have navigated a few things together. and, you know, he was brilliant with the children, when he met them. he brought out his fossil collection and showed the children that. george at the time absolutely adored all of the dinosaur fossils. he has always been as you see him on tv, he is just a fantastically charismatic and experienced man and, you know, you can't but stop and listen to him. and you want to ask him another story — and that voice, you know, it isjust legendary, isn't it? i hear that he does not do e—mails? well, he has never e—mailed me, so i can't comment. right, now we are going out to sea, and i think this could be this

year's cute polar bear rolling down in the snow moment because it is a dog on a life jacket, basically wearing sunglasses. yes. diving into the sea, looking for whale poo. that is a new thing for newscast. the best way to understand - what is happening inside of a whale is to look at what comes out. that means studying - killer whale poop, or scat. take the evidence where you can find it, don't you? she says killer whale poop. well, she's american. right, here is the cute dog. he's in his life jacket. ..by using our scat detection dog ida on the front of the boat - to help us find those samples. such cool sunglasses, they will definitely catch on. it is a dog in... it looks more like a ski mask, doesn't it? it does, doesn't it? kitted out with protection from the salt spray and the sunshine, iba takes command. the amount of dogs you see now when people go out paddle boarding and everything on the coast, all the dogs are chilling on the front of the paddle boards. they love it.

she will whip around to the side of the boat in which that - scent is coming from. that can be up to a mile away that she can smell that. - and it is interesting because remember when sir david did blue planet and everyone was talking about plastic bags in the ocean and it was the most important thing that year, do you think oceans have become less important as we now focus on the climate change bit of the problem? it all adds into the bigger picture. you know, the oceans are huge carbon sinks themselves, so everything is intertwined. what i am so pleased is one of the finalists for the earthshot prize, in fact, two of them, one of them is about regrowing coral, which is an incredible achievement, and the other one is about protecting 30% of the world's oceans, which will have a massive effect. you know, it is getting across this idea that these protected areas will benefit future generations because of the sustainability of it. it is not robbing fishermen of their livelihoods. it is increasing their livelihoods and increasing the reliability of those future generations being able to fish in the same

places for years and years. it is reallyjust trying to get across that positivity of what these solutions can bring. right now, this is the episode about air pollution and for me, i think this is the a star is born moment. yes. this is venetia, who is 16 years old, lives in india and she has come up with a really cool invention. actually, before we watch it, because i didn't understand this until i saw this... yeah. ..what is an ironing cart? so, good question. i think, and this is the point is that many things happen around the world that we maybe don't understand. and in india, they have ironing carts. so effectively, it is like a street vendor. so you take your ironing out, your washing out, and it gets ironed while you wait. genius idea. and she's got mobile phone adapters there so people can do calls and work whilst they are having their clothes ironed. the thing i did not appreciate was, there are 10 million ironing carts in india. right. that's just india. i mean, there are others in other countries, but india have got 10 million, all charcoal—fired. so huge polluters, massive co2

emissions all day long, and she has come up with this genius idea to turn it solar—powered. the story started when i was 12 - years old and i wasjust coming back home from school and i noticed the ironing vendors in my- street using charcoal. i knew there was something wrong about it, so i did a bit of research. and i figured out that- charcoal causes air pollution, respiratory diseases, i and all of this is linked to climate change. in 2019, with a lot of homework, as well as the attention and support of india's national innovation foundation... she strikes me as somebody who does not have to be nagged to do her homework. no, i think she's quite diligent, definitely. the cart has solar panels forming its roof and these are connected to a battery. it takes around five hours of bright sunshine to fully charge. yeah, and i suppose that sums it up, doesn't it? it does. the whole mission. that's the next generation leading the way and showing solutions. and in that case, that is what is

so interesting because that is, for her, that is a massive achievement, but it is not a huge revolution in terms of how you think. she has come up with a really clever solution which is going to have a massive impact and can be scaled. you know, there are ironing carts all around the world, but there are a number of, you know, ironing carts in the east and asia, so that in itself is her doing her bit and making a big contribution. when somebody does win, then actually, what specifically happens? so on the awards ceremony itself, it is going to be projected, we are going to go, hopefully, if all the it works, we are going to go in—country where they have won and we will see and meet the winners themselves and have a chance to have a quick chat with them. the key point we hope to do is translate as clearly as we can the science and chemistry and physics in some of the things to a mass audience that isn't full of jargon and abbreviations. and then the winner, like, what actual stuff do they get alongside...? just explain to us the process once you have won.

so once you have won, effectively, you will get £1 million prize money. that sounds great, and to some of these people and organisations, it will make, you know, a big difference. but the key thing, the reason why you want to win the prize is because of these global alliance members, these massive companies around the world, who will basically come along and provide a tailor—made support package for you and effectively give you mentorship, maybe some more product design work, just a pure scalability factor which they could never access and never be linked up to before. so we are effectively pumping large venture capitalists towards the solutions and saying, "right, over to you guys. make these things as big as they can be and make them work and make them so that everyone can understand." you clearly love the prize—giving bit and are learning about the issues. did you enjoy the tv presenting bit? i am not a natural tv presenter, funnily enough. i think you are pretty good, actually. well, you are very kind, adam, but i think for now, david is the man for the job, but i really enjoyed

learning more about it and going and seeing some of these places and it sort of focuses the mind. we're all so busy that unless you stop and focus on this for a time and talk about it, it does not sort of sink in. so i am hoping people can find enough time to sit down and watch the series and hopefully it brings it to life. it is interesting because it is a different way of being a member of the royal family because, like, we see your grandma on christmas every year, but we don't see her going up a wind turbine or doing a tv show or hosting an award ceremony. i am not sure she's ever been up a wind turbine, but that is not to say she wouldn't. well, she did jump out of a helicopter. that's very true, yeah. yeah, i think it isjust, now i have got children as well, and speaking to other parents, you know, it is a bit of a cliche, but you do start to see the world differently. and i want the things that i have enjoyed, the outdoor life and the sort of nature and environment, i want that to still be there,

notjust for my children but everyone else�*s children, and we... if we are not careful, we are robbing from our children's future with what we do now and i think that is not fair. so i am trying to use my little bit of influence, my little bit of profile, to highlight some incredible people doing amazing things, and who will genuinely help fix some of these problems. well, this has been brilliant, so thank you very much. thanks. newscast. newscast, from the bbc. hello. it is been a sunnier day today. not as long as it has been in recent days. however milder air is set to return this weekend and that was he temperatures for many of us

rising through the course of this weekend. the milder air begins to push in overnight across parts of the southwest, along with that a lot of cloud, some mist and fog patches, the odds bit of rain as well. the clearest skies across northwest england. this is where we will see the lowest temperatures, cold enough for some patches of frost in the countryside as we start saturday morning. so saturday. generally quite a cloudy start for many of us. there could be an odd spit of light rain falling from this cloud as it works its way northwards. brighter weather for scotland for much of the day and we should see some sunshine working into southwest england, wales and the midlands through the course of the day as well. temperatures milder across england, wales and to a degree in northern ireland. 15, 16 degrees pretty widespread. but relatively cool in scotland, 10 to 12 here.

tonight at ten, sir david amess, the conservative mp, has been stabbed to death during a constituency surgery. he'd been a member of parliament in essex for almost a0 years and leaves behind a wife and five children. tonight, a 25—year—old man is in custody, held on suspicion of murder. this was a difficult incident but our officers and paramedics from the east of england ambulance service worked extremely hard to save sir david. tragically he died at the scene. a counter terrorism team will lead the investigation. the prime minister was one of many paying fulsome tribute to the backbencher. david was a man who believed passionately in this country and in its future, and we've lost today a fine public