this is bbc news. i'm arunoday mukharji. our top stories: fifa's president hits back at western critics of qatar's human rights record, accusing them of hypocrisy. negotiators at the un climate talks in egypt are reportedly close to signing an agreement to help the poorest countries worst affected by climate change. hello and welcome to bbc news. the president of football's world governing body, fifa, has called western countries hypocrites for criticising qatar's

record on human rights. gianni infantino was speaking ahead of the men's world cup which kicks off on sunday, and it comes after intense scrutiny over issues such as gay rights. here's our sports editor dan roan. despite everything, qatar's determined to put on a show — a celebration to mark the opening of the fan park in doha tonight on the eve of the world cup. but fifa's come under fire for bringing the event here amid human rights concerns and today, the game's most powerful figure turned on his critics in an extraordinary speech. today, i feel gay. today, i feel disabled. today, ifeel a migrant worker because i know what it means to be discriminated. but that was just the start, infantino then appearing

to liken his own experience as a red—headed child of immigrants in switzerland to the plight of gay people in the middle east. as a foreigner in a foreign country, as a child at school, i was bullied because i had red hair. qatar's been under mounting scrutiny, especially in europe, over its treatment of migrant workers and the lgbt community. and infantino then turned on the critics. i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons. it's just hypocrisy. isn't it hypocritical to, on the one hand, say that fifa stands for equality and non—discrimination while, at the same time, supporting an event in a country which has discriminatory laws? the only weapon that we have is this — is the ball. and we have to try,

with this, to engage. infantino praised qatar for recent labour reforms and said europe was in no position to criticize on migrant rights. but his comments have been condemned. ifound itjaw—dropping to listen to. it really felt like it was a way to try and dismiss very legitimate human rights criticisms, to try and treat them as culture war issues rather than universal values that fifa has committed to uphold. as for fifa's late u—turn with beer banned at world cup stadia, infantino was no less defiant. i think, personally, if for three hours a day you cannot drink a beer, you will survive. well, gianni infantino intended just then to hit back against this tournament's critics amid a barrage of negative headlines in the build—up. but after that remarkable 1.5—hour—long press conference on the eve of this tournament,

once again, the focus is away from the football. 0rganisers hope tonight's festivities will kick—start the excitement. but right now, this world cup seems more divisive than ever. dan roan, bbc news, doha. after two weeks of talks, delegates at the un climate summit in egypt are negotiating late into the night to try to reach a major agreement. it appears as if a deal could be settled on giving money to developing countries for loss and damage already caused by global warming. 0ur climate editor justin rowlatt is in sharm el—shiekh and sent this report. it has been a day of bargaining and brinkmanship here in egypt. the european union said it would walk away from the talks if the final deal doesn't have ambitious targets for cutting emissions. we want a good decision. but it's better to have no decision than a bad decision. we still believe a good decision is within reach, but all partners will have

to work very hard to make that possible. developing countries have been demanding a fund to help pay for the loss and damage climate change is already wreaking in vulnerable countries, like the terrible floods in pakistan this summer. as workmen began to dismantle the now empty pavilions, talks on this remained deadlocked, too. then, late afternoon, there was news of a breakthrough — developed nations had agreed to the demands. i am pleased and relieved because this is, for the first time, after 30 years, that will bring into an institution what we've been calling for, and i think this is a milestone and particularly symbolic because it's happening in africa. the hope was agreement on loss and damage would break the logjam. but as the sun set over the conference centre tonight, a final agreement remained elusive.

developed countries and developing nations need to come to some kind of agreement on how we're going to up ambition to make sure we cut our greenhouse gas emissions to be in line with the 1.5 temperature degree goal. all eyes are now on room two — that is where the final negotiations are taking place. a giant panda given to taiwan by china 14 years ago has died after suffering a series of seizures. taipei zoo said it decided not to resuscitate tuan tuan from anaesthesia because the damage caused by a brain lesion was found to be irreversible. tuan tuan and his mate, yuan yuan, had been given to taiwan in 2008, when relations with beijing were more cordial. here in the uk, the boss of a housing association has been sacked, four days after a coroner found that a toddler died from exposure to

mould in one of its properties. two—year—old awaab ishak, who lived in rochdale, died in december 2020 from a respiratory condition which was caused by the mould. gareth swarbrick apologised on thursday but had rejected calls to step down. 0ur correspondent sharon barbour reports. you don't feel safe. today, many from the rochdale community came together to remember two—year—old awaab ishak and to put pressure on rochdale boroughwide housing. since the coroner's damning verdict that the mould in awaab�*s family home had contributed to his death, there had been calls for gareth swarbrick to go. but he refused, saying he had the full backing of the board at rochdale boroughwide housing. but no longer. today the board took the decision to remove him from his post with immediate effect. in a statement, rochdale boroughwide housing said, "0ur original instincts were for gareth to stay

on to see the organisation through this difficult period and to make the necessary changes. but we all recognise that this is no longer tenable." the coroner noted that rbh had made changes as a result of the tragic death of awaab. for a family in grief this offered some sense ofjustice. the fact that rbh's chief executive had to be sacked as opposed to resign, for the family speaks volumes. however, they find it wholly unacceptable that the board expressed confidence in him in the first place. the family still feel that much more needs to be done. a government source told the bbc that it welcomed gareth swarbrick�*s removal from office, but said rochdale boroughwide housing still have very serious questions to answer. sharon barbour, bbc news.

a man staying at the manston migrant processing centre in kent, has died after becoming ill at the site. the home office said there was no evidence at this stage that he died of an infectious disease. the site has been criticised for overcrowding and there have been reports of diphtheria spreading there. to the war in ukraine, where rishi sunak has made a surprise trip, his first since becoming the uk prime minister. during his visit to kyiv he held talks with president zelensky and promised the uk would continue to support ukraine as they face further attacks from russia. he also announced $60 millon in defence aid. 0ur political correspondent ione wells reports. a warm reception on a snowy day in kyiv. very good to see you. chatter. i've got my coat for later. in footage released by the ukrainian government and number10, rishi sunak can be seen laying flowers at a memorialfor

victims of the war. he met with emergency responders and announced a new package of air defence to help protect ukrainian civilians and infrastructure from russian air strikes. ukraine has faced months of intense russian aerial attacks. forces there say there have been 148 missile strikes on critical services, leaving 10 million people without power. support for the country would continue. as prime minister of the united kingdom, i'm proud of how we stood with you from the very beginning.

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laughs am i optimistic? um, you know, iwould say i feel desperate, i feel extreme emergency. for 27 years, so i think we should expect a lot more out of this united nations process and i hope — i really hope, that they get some significant loss and damage a phase—out of all fossil fuels, notjust coal.

it's a planet—scale injustice. i mean, it's just. the poor nations — you could not come up with a crazier plot than climate change. they will phase—out fossil fuels. one day or one year in the future, if not this time, absolutely, because that is what is causing global heating, that is what is causing all of these catastrophes, it's burning fossil fuels. it's also animal agriculture

too — which i don't think it's nearly enough attention — but 80% of these catastrophes, these floods and heatwaves and, you know, massive hurricanes the fossil fuel industry, about 15% from animal agriculture. so we have no choice. it's inconvenient to a lot of people, especially to the rich people who control these industries, but we will eventually all realise we have no choice but to phase them out. you've also expressed concern in the past that there is a growing disconnect between climate activists and the decision—makers at these summits. a little more on that? it is hard for me to see how this process can really start bringing meaningful action that we need for our collective future until they put up a firewall to keep up the fossil fuel industry. there have been reports in the guardian that fossil fuel advocates outnumber delegates from any nation. you see saudi arabia being a bad actor, over and over, year after year, a fossil fuel nation and now they are trying to push carbon capture which is a form of distraction, so that they can keep raking in profits from fossil fuels.

i think because the grassroots movement is getting much stronger, it is harder for the fossil fuel nations and the fossil fuel industry to pull these kinds of, you know, sleight of hand and distraction, and i think hopefully, that activism, you know, against the fossil fuel industry, the power of activists is going to continue to increase. all right, talks are still on, let's see where that heads. donald trump is now back on twitter. people got used to his often fiery tweets when he was in the oval office but he was banned by the social media network following the january 6th riots. now the new owner of twitter — elon musk — confirmed he will be able to rejoin and it's all down to people power after mr musk held

a poll on the subject — where else but twitter? i'm joined by our reporter tom brada. good to have you back, this story is literally changing by the minute. what is the latest? that is right, it is developing extremely fast, as you know, elon musk is a prolific tweeter and he is not being shy this evening. this is yet another headline grabbing move from the new ceo of twitter. it has been at the mulch was first three weeks since he has been in charge, and this is possibly the most controversial thing that has happened under his reign. 0n that has happened under his reign. on friday he posted a twitter poll which would last for 2h hours, asking whether the full president, donald trump, should be allowed to rejoin twitter, but his account should be reinstated. —— former president. the result came through, 51.8% of people voted yes, 48.2% voted no, which means the majority of people voted in favour to reinstate his account. we should also, we

have reaction from elon musk in just the past hour or so, he has already tweeted, and he specifically tweeted, i will get it up on my phone for you, the people have spoken, trump will be reinstated, "vox populi, vox dei", i am will be reinstated, "vox populi, vox dei", iam not will be reinstated, "vox populi, vox dei", i am not a latin expert but that means the voice of the people, the voice of the people is god. so he will act on a popular decision. he seems to be true to his word. if you search for donald trump's account, you can see it has been activated again. the most recent week you can see is from back in 2021, january eight, i believe, was that last tweet. you will recall the original reason he was kicked off the platform was for inciting the capital attack. trump does not want to come back to twitter, does he? that is the interesting _ back to twitter, does he? that is the interesting thing. - back to twitter, does he? twat is the interesting thing. we do not yet have an official statement from president trump, but he has been hesitant to rejoin the platform in the past. but in the past couple of

hours he has been asked about the situation on twitter, and he did give this response. i hear we're getting a big vote to go back on twitter. i don't see it because i don't see any reason for it. so when he says he doesn't see any reason for it, he has actually been quite specific about why he will not be rejoining twitter, in the past, and i would like to direct you to a statement he made to fox news back in april, he specifically said he would not be rejoining. when he spoke to fox back then, and this was before elon musk at or twitter, he said that i hope he buys twitter, because he will make improvements to it, so clearly he is a fount of elon musk himself, then he went on to say he would be staying on truth. what he is talking about there is truth social, the social media up he owns and which he runs, and which he is also on, apparently with about 5 million followers on that social media arts. the point is, if he tweets, which is what lots of his fans want him to be doing, he will not actually see any

money coming directly his way, as if he stays on through to social —— truth social, the app he runs, he will hopefully draw more people onto that platform and he will make the calculation, potentially, he could earn more money by exclusively staying there. don't forget, he recently announced he will be running for the presidency again, when he was originally kicked off twitter, he had about 80 million followers. this is a man that we know enjoys the limelight. it might be difficult for him to revisit —— resist the temptation to rejoin. resist the temptation to re'oin. . , resist the temptation to re'oin. ., , , rejoin. certainly it is significant _ rejoin. certainly it is significant timing. i rejoin. certainly it is - significant timing. some, rejoin. certainly it is _ significant timing. some, thank you for taking us through those details. we will touch base with you through the next few hours for more on that. results from the general election in malaysia indicate that for the first time the country has no outright winner. the former ruling party umno suffered its worst ever performance, but a breakaway coalition, which includes a conservative islamist party, did better than expected. 0ur south—east asia correspondent jonathan head joins us now.

jonathan, what can we expect next? 3 jonathan, what can we expect next? �* ., ., ., next? a great deal of bargaining, _ next? a great deal of bargaining, and - next? a great deal of bargaining, and for. next? a great deal of. bargaining, and for the next? a great deal of- bargaining, and for the two leading collisions, both claim they have enough seats to form a government. well, the reformist coalition led by veteran opposition politician and why ebrahim has the most seats, but is 30 short of a majority. —— anwar ibrahim. the next is a breakaway from unmo, and ethnic malay coalition, they have about nine or ten seats fewer than mr anwar ibrahim's coalition, but if they get enough parties on their side they could also from government. so they will be a huge amount of bargaining, today could be very intense. what we need to look at in this election is what it indicates. it has been quite striking, what we have seen from it. the last election in 2018 and years of unbroken unmo rule, but that happens because a breakaway

factionjoined happens because a breakaway faction joined the reformists and got enough seats to throw them out. but coalition broke up. what we saw this time was ethnic malays, 60% of the population, moving from unmo, not towards the reformists and anwar ibrahim, but towards this breakaway coalition of muhyiddin yassin and in particular to a conservative islamic party. the basic preferences have not changed that much, the reformist wing in malaysia which includes the ethnic chinese minority, they can't really break into majority territory. they seem to be stuck at a sort of ceiling. we don't know which of those two top to coalitions is going to be able to form a government. i think it will be challenging for anwar ibrahim even though he has more seats, simply because it is harderfor him to pull other parties around malaysia into collision with him. , ., ., ., ., around malaysia into collision with him. ., ., ., ., , with him. jonathan, what does this mean. _ with him. jonathan, what does this mean, what _ with him. jonathan, what does this mean, what is _ with him. jonathan, what does this mean, what is this - this mean, what is this political uncertainty mean for malaysia in the days ahead? well, a couple of things. we have seen some striking exits

from politics, most notably of all, 97—year—old mahatir mohamad, the dominant figure in relation history, he came back at the age of 92 five years ago. he stood for parliament and has lost his seat, he is finally at that incredible age, it looks like his political career is over. some other big names went as well. mr moore, malaysia politics is going to be very fluid from now on. people are not satisfied with any of the coalitions and we are going to see constance jostling, they will have to get used to coalitions that might not last long, but remake themselves as different partners. also, clearly, the conservative ethnic malay vote stays conservative, it is not going over to the reformist wing. that has split malaysia between urban, ethnic chinese reformist malays and rural malays who are conservative and very muslim, but split remains right down the middle. in essenceit right down the middle. in essence it is quite a polarised country. essence it is quite a polarised count ., ., essence it is quite a polarised count .�* ., ., ., ., essence it is quite a polarised count ., ., ., country. jonathan head, we you there. thank _ country. jonathan head, we you there. thank you _ country. jonathan head, we you there. thank you for _ country. jonathan head, we you there. thank you forjoining - there. thank you forjoining us.

more now on the world cup in qatar, and those comments from the president of fifa who called western countries hypocrites for criticising guitar's record on human rights. earlier i spoke to the former australian footballer craig foster, who's now a human rights and refugee ambassador. i began by asking his thoughts on infantino's remarks. his comments are very dangerous in trying to reference history. issues which have nothing to do with the human rights transgressions that we've seen related to this world cup and, in fact, becoming a figure who wants to be seen to pit west against east. absolutely horrendous comments, bizarre, from the fifa president, but the question that dan put to him to say, well, isn't it hypocritical for fifa to stand with their own statutes on human rights and also non—discrimination statutes and principles which they speak so endlessly about but as soon as economics are involved — or politics, in infantino's case — they dispense with so very, very quickly, was the right question and there is no response. in fact, infantino said well, the real power is through the ball. that's exactly the point — the ball should represent human

rights, notwithstanding you actually have your own human rights policy and therefore, you're obligated to bring that to life, but let's put that aside for the moment. you know, these comments, to say that let's just get on with football and don't worry about humans are so ridiculous that they're bordering on being dangerous but it does show, i think, perhaps the political nature of the game. i can only imagine that he's trying to shore up some of the votes in certain parts of the world. he's trying to gain support — of course, he's about to be elected unopposed again — and no doubt he's looking further forward in the future. a reminder of our top story, and some breaking news to bring you in a bit. negotiators at the climate conference in egypt have signed a deal to provide aid to developing countries which have suffered loss and damage due to global warming.

remember, this has been a sticking point that is what really stretched the conversations of air. it remains a big story that we will continue to track. that is all for the moment. thanks for watching. hello there. weather headlines in recent days have been dominated by the relentless heavy rainfall that we had seen across eastern scotland. in aboyne in aberdeenshire, we had a month and a half of rain since last wednesday, and there is more wet weather to come, but it looks likely over the next five days that the heaviest of the rain will be further south and west. the darker the blues, the heavier the rain. and you can see across the far north—east, hopefully not quite as much. there is still some wet weather to come, though, on sunday, from this frontal system. around an inch of rain before it clears through. it will clear quite quickly on a sunday morning, easing away from eastern scotland and south east england, allowing for some sunshine to come through. a brisk westerly wind

will quickly driving some sharp, squally showers, some of these heavy with hail and some thunder. but most of the showers will be out to the west, so with the sunshine, we are likely to see temperatures about where they should be for this time of year, seven to 12 degrees. now, the showers will start to fade away through the evening, and we keep some clear skies, potentially, in the far north—east of scotland, but at the same time the next system moves in, yet more wet and windy weather on its way, accompanied by gale force gusts of winds in the strongest and heaviest of the rain. but ahead of it, under the clear skies, perhaps temperatures here low enough for a touch of light frost. some of that wet weather will gradually push its way steadily north—east on monday. a level of uncertainty as to just where that rain is likely to gather but keep abreast of the forecast, rain is likely through northern ireland, parts of wales, south west england, and eventually into north west england, scattered showers following on behind, drier but cooler conditions on the far north of scotland. and that colder air potentially sitting in scotland for a couple of days, tapping into the cold air

sitting across scandinavia. that means that these weather fronts potentially could enhance the risk of some wintry showers to higher ground as they drift out of aberdeenshire into the northern isles, but on the whole on tuesday, there will be some sunny spells coming through, and again a similar kind of feel to the weather, seven to 11 degrees. the remainder of the week stays unsettled, a real autumnal flavour. there will be showers, longer spells of rain, it will be windy with it, the best of the drier weather, however, into the far north—east.

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this is bbc news. the headlines: fifa's president gianni infantino has accused critics of qatar's human rights record of hypocrisy, saying europe should apologise for its historic actions. concerns were raised about qatar's policies on homosexuality and how it treats migrant workers from asia and africa. negotiators at the un climate conference in egypt have signed a deal to provide aid for developing countries that have suffered loss and damage due to global warming. but there's been disagreement on whether to include stronger pledges on cutting the use of fossil fuels. donald trump's twitter account has been reinstated after elon musk held a poll asking whether the former us president should be allowed back on the platform.

mr trump was banned fromtwitter after the january 6th riots