balance as this weather redress that balance as this weather france comes in and brings cooler conditions behind it. it will be accompanied by low pressure. it will be a stormy evening. gales for the western isles in the northern isles towards dawn. temperatures will go down across scotland and northern ireland but not particularly chilly as we go into monday. frost free but very mild across southern england to the south of our weather front. two wales —— some rain if you are in wales —— some rain if you are in wales and temperatures will be around 12 or 13 degrees. further north, the best of the sunshine, but temperatures will be 7 degrees in aberdeen and 8 degrees in belfast. someone hello this is bbc news with jane hill. the headlines: days before a likely backbench rebellion, uk prime minister borisjohnson faces fresh questions

about christmas gatherings at downing street a year ago after a photo emerges of him taking part in a quiz. he can't deliver the leadership that this country needs and we have got a very important vote coming up next week and he can't even discharge the basic functions of government. he is the worst possible leader at the worst possible time. they can now make their mind up when they see this picture on a virtual screen, on a zoom call, thanking his team that were in the building because they have to respond to a national emergency. the nhs in england is extending its vaccination programme as it tries to get on top of the omicron variant. 30 to 39—year—olds can now book a virus boosterjab from tomorrow. g7 foreign ministers warn iran that "time is running out" to rescue the nuclear deal. emergency teams search for survivors in six us states,

after more than 70 people die in the largest outbreak of tornadoes in us history. more coming up more coming up on more coming up on all of those stories at a 3pm, including formula i. stories at a 3pm, including formula 1, of course. now on bbc news — the eco prime minister. the bbc�*s megha mohan meets samoa's first female leader fiame naomi mata'afa. leaders of the g20, we are drowning, and our only hope is the life ring you are holding. the western world is responsible for 76% of carbon emissions. you don't need my pain or my tears to know that we're in a crisis. - no city, no community and no

ecosystem will be spared from the reckoning that lies beyond 1.5 degrees of warming. not everyone gets to make choices about life and death.

to the only current serving female prime minister. there's very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation. fiame naomi mata'afa became samoa's first female prime minister in 2021, the pacific islands region has the lowest female representation in politics in the world. this year, she'll be attending the cop 26 remotely. climate change is an existential threat to countries like samoa.

i don't think it changes, you know, whether i'm the minister of the environment or the prime minister because it's essentially threatening, you know, the life of the planet. if we recall that cop in paris, that's where there was a special call for leaders to come to, to the cop, you know, it was quite an effort to make sure that the leadership was there. and that has also been the continued call to all the following cops and that has also been the continued call to all the following cops, up to the latest. in glasgow. because we are on the frontline in the pacific region, it appears more distant perhaps than in other places. but i think it's been said

of the pacific that this is really the measure of, you know, where climate change is at. we have to adapt, we have to go down that path, the alternative is unthinkable. as one of the largest islands in the pacific, fiji has played a leading role for its smaller neighbors in many for its smaller neighbours in many climate—related projects, including home relocation. lity comes from the village of tukuraki that was hit by back—to—back cyclones. it led to her entire village being relocated and rebuilt further up in the highlands. whilst the new village is finished, she told me that many of the villagers still return to the caves that offered them shelter from previous storms. this is the cave.

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dollars to move 100 people from all tukuraki just a few miles down the road. and it was an emotional move for people as well. people tie their identity to their land in the pacific islands, but relocation is only going to become more common with more climate—induced disasters. can we go back to our home islands with nothing? and for my country, the answer to that is no. it's hard to understate the urgency of the crisis in places like the marshall islands. the current projected rise in sea levels threatens 40% of building structures in its capital. kathy kitchener is a poet and the daughter of the former president, hilda heine. she'll be attending the cop 26 as part of the island's delegation this year. in 2014, she captured a global audience at the un when she read her poem written for her baby daughter. because we won't let you down.

now seven years old, her daughter payneham is still facing the same threats that her mum and grandmother are fighting. i am transitioning from this poetry creative side to exactly what you focus on now, which is the kind of more practical solution. even a poet is now moving into public policy. so if somebody is like what is this poet doing here? hello, senator heine, how are you? in terms of the marshall islands right now and climate change, do you think adaptation is possible? the government is working on our adaptation plan and looking at building up islands as a possibility. i mean, it's going to take a lot of money that we don't have, but that might be the only option we have at this point. are you in the marshall islands having conversations

about migration, about climate refugees, about actually moving people right now? as 2a islands with communities, and so if we were to build up islands, which island can we build up? because we cannot afford to build up all the islands. and if we were to relocate people, which islands do you relocate people to? especially we have a culture where certain lands belong to certain families, so these are really hard questions. i personally would like to see my granddaughter continue to live in the marshall islands and have the same opportunities i had to learn our cultural protocols, that she can

learn her unique language and culture on the same of sand her brothers and sisters learned on. and i don't think that's an unreasonable expectation to have for our people. a large part of the negotiations of cop 26 will be on how to mitigate global warming to 1.5 degrees. but in samoa and the pacific, there's an equal urgency in securing money to adapt to living with the already devastating effects of climate change. i don't think, you know, there was a consciousness and people weren't talking about climate change when i was a young child. but you did begin to see it in terms of the impact that it had. you know, because this is beachfront and we saw that encroachment and we saw the people moving. perhaps we didn't give it the name climate change, but we saw the impact.

you know, it's very sad that for us in the pacific, there's very low emissions from the pacific and yet we are most impacted. and of course, because we are island states and samoa's in a more fortunate situation that we are volcanic, so we have high ground, but the the echo islands, you know, there is significant impact of the sea rise, even to the extent where the sovereignty of nations, because their land is literally going under the water. fiame is launching her country's own climate policy as part of samoa's efforts to meet the paris agreement. a key part of it will be on accessing climate funds. this is the amount of money worked out at cop26 that the big carbon emitters contribute to help pay for the climate damage suffered

by smaller emitters such as samoa. as we are meeting here, the world community is meeting in glasgow, scotland, for the cop 26, and one of the things that they hope to achieve in glasgow is the rule book, which is essentially how we will go about addressing the climate change challenge and the commitments that countries will make. this is the indication of our commitment to climate change, and i hope that they will not only be words written on a page, but that we will carry out the intent of the words therein. applause

we do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we've come here today to say try harder, try harder. in glasgow, cathy has been navigating the negotiations as part of the fight to secure the billions needed for the marshall islands to adapt for its future survival. so we need funding right now for adaptation. we need that funding to be accessible. we need to be...and we need it to be scaled up. so we need a large amount of money. we have studies thatjust came out that gave us preliminary costs for adaptation for basically ensuring that our islands are safe in the present and those costs are in the several billions, and so the financing that we need is a scale in which we can't meet, you know, and we didn't cause any of it, so we shouldn't have to pay a single cent for it.

it's now my pleasure . to introduce tina stege, the climate envoy of the marshall islands _ we would love to hear your thoughts on what you would like to see - from the outcomes of cop26. we have advocated for a balance between mitigation and adaptation finance. our belief is that finance is critical to rights and to success. here in glasgow. we're really on the front of the very front lines with no higher ground to retreat to and so we understand, as do all of our brothers and sisters in the pacific and in islands around the world, the stakes of this fight. so, the uk prepared this session so that the pacific could talk directly with the president of cop26. i know this is particularly important for the pacific. i hope we will see progress on all

of these issues, prime minister. and finally i want to say to you that my team and i are straining every fibre to ensure that we are able to say with credibility that we have kept 1.5 within reach. can i also thank you and the uk delegation for providing the opportunity for the pacific, including many of us who were not able to travel to glasgow. we are still experiencing disadvantages of size and a much reduced voice and cannot help but feel continually being marginalised. a five—year common time frame is the only outcome aligned with the ambition mechanism of the paris agreement. remember, we are negotiating for the survival of our islands. as negotiations continue, many activists in the pacific are taking actions into their own hands.

in fiji, anne—marie is known locally as the pacific's greta. when i think of the climate crisis, i'm panicking. my family and i are really panicking on... you know, when i look at my three—year—old sister, eunice, i question what will be her future look like if faith and i don't do something now, raising awareness, sounding the emergency alarm, and i question, like, are our actions really worth it today? are there enough women voices that you look around in the pacific islands that are speaking up about climate change? the prime minister of samoa gives young girls my age and older women, you know, that chance to be leaders. and it gives us that, you know, platform, that space for us to be in decision—making platforms

to raise our concerns and to, you know, inspire the upcoming generations. as a teen climate activist and as a girl, a young lady, i also get criticised and, you know, discriminated by men because they want to listen from boys and men. the climate crisis hits anyone. it doesn't hit a specific gender. it hits everyone. you know, women, we are underrepresented in every decision—making policies or platforms so, yes, it really affects women and girls. one of the projects anne—marie has started with friends is a mangrove planting group. they've been responsible for planting over 10,000 mangroves. a mangrove is a shrub that grows in salty water terrain and it's special because it has these meshed—up roots, which mean that it acts as a buffer to the sea.

they also help suck up over six billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere annually. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco champs. this is all the mangroves that we planted back in 2018. and it starts from this seedling and then it will eventually end up as a mangrove forest. are mangrove planting like a real solution to climate change or are they more of a plaster? there's a lot of solutions towards the climate crisis. and because here in fiji, you know, we can't leave our classrooms to go for a march or strike for some reasons, so this is our way of striking for the government to, you know, relook at their plans and to move on from abstract solutions to tangible oriented solutions, which we need is concrete action.

you know, it gives me hope that, you know, we continue to plant, we continue to walk the talk and, you know, that's really important. and if one thing that i've learned in my three years of activism is that you cannot allow anyone to walk your talk. climate change disproportionately affects women, especially those from indigenous communities. i wanted to ask fiame how much this affects her approach as the only female leader in the pacific region. when you look at politics, it's representative government. and, you know, i do encourage women who may not necessarily be thinking about a political career, but that, you know, they continue and especially demonstrate leadership, in whichever area or sector that they are active in. and perhaps somewhere down the line, you know, they might see that the political option is something that they could step into.

when you live in a country where the women's minister is a man and you don't see the representation, it becomes a disconnect of what you can see, and that's the case in samoa as well — the women's minister is a man. yeah, well, i don't necessarily have a problem with men being ministers, you know, for women, because we've had a few. in fact, i think i've been the only woman ministerfor women. you know, as long as they are able to recognise the policy needs of gender issues, then i think that's the important thing. and, you know, given that there's so many more men in our parliaments and governments, it's so important to get the message through to the male leadership as well so that they can

become champions of gender equality. if you could look on balance and think what are the positive outcomes and the sort of negative outcomes of events like cop26? i don't know whether it's just the nature of how things are with human beings that when you're pushed, you take your extreme position, then how you navigate to bring those extremes, you know, to come to a middle ground. you know, with covid, we've seen such a strong collaboration. that's a very clear example and demonstration of what we can do when people feel... when they're pushed to act, so we can do it.

you know, the world can move, it can collaborate, it can respond very quickly. thank you very much, prime minister. the success of cop26 won't be known for the next few years, but if the world continues to warm, failure will be obvious. hearing no objections, it is so decided. applause

good afternoon, we have had some very mild air pushing across the uk today, the sun peeking out behind the cloud for some of us. some have been stuck with the rather more solid layer of cloud, but is looking pretty festive appearing warning. but it does not feel very festive at all. this band of rain pushing north across the uk, the warm air coming up across the uk, the warm air coming up underneath it from far south in the atlantic and that has pushed our temperatures up into the mid teens. some spots, 15 degrees in the next hour or so, some spots, 15 degrees in the next hour orso, does some spots, 15 degrees in the next hour or so, does not feel like the run—up to christmas at all. chillier across the far north of scotland,

will get very lively here through the evening and overnight. strong winds for not ireland this evening and the western isles, by the end of the night for the northern isles. a low pressure centre run through. it trails weather front south and that will bring some cooler air into northern ireland, scotland and northern england through the night. to the south, very mild, there of ten or 11, lots of cloud around tomorrow. some rain for the midlands, parts of northern england, perhaps the north midlands and a link and share. but melt again to the south of that front. 13 or 1a degrees —— lincolnshire. lots of sunshine to the north of the front to for western scotland, but average temperatures of seven or 8 degrees. at the event will leave the south—east first thing on tuesday it will be drier to the south of the uk, to the north, and other weather front starting division. to the south, thanks to high pressure, we could have some stubborn fog and quite a grey day on tuesday. my winds, a lot of fine weather, but a little cooler than it will be on monday. with us as we pull that wind into northern scotland, we tap into

some out there with a south—westerly breeze up to 11 degrees first anime. this plant still messing about the uk tuesday into wednesday, but this high pressure is the one to watch for the rest of the week. it will be building all the time and coming to dominate our weather study. squeezing the life out of that weather front through wednesday, rain rain for scotland, northern ireland very time, but nothing much as it sinks its way into northern england. pretty mild for many of us on wednesday, temperatures in double figures. but here goes that high for the end of the week, it kills off any weather fronts working their way in. end of the week, it looks as if it will keep us in a fairly mild southerly airstream with temperatures possibly slightly above average. through the weekend, things will start to become cooler and don't be too surprised if we do not get lumbered with some quite grey skies at the thursday and friday and some stoppered mist and fog. dash mixed up in a mist and fog.

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