this is bbc news with the latest headlines. under two hours�* time. the hosts qatar will play ecuador. com the tournament has been showered by controversy. fifa's president has accused the west of "hypocrisy" in its criticism of qatar's human rights record — while officials in doha say, qatar is being singled out unfairly. delegates at the un climate conference in egypt agree a major deal on climate change. but the overall plan has been accused of lacking ambition. aa a shooting outside a gay nightclub in the us state of colorado has killed five people and injured

at least 18. local police say the suspected gunman has been arrested and victims are being treated in hopital. they went to multiple different hospitals, medicalfirst at they went to multiple different hospitals, medical first at every hospitals, medical first at every hospital to treat them, but we do have officers at every hospital with all of the victims. and labour has said it will replace the house of lords with an elected chamber, if it wins the next general election. sir keir starmer said the plan would help restore public trust in politics. good afternoon. the world cup gets under way in just a few hours�* time. organisers hope questions about the wisdom of staging the tournament in qatar will be replaced by a focus on the football.

fifa's president, gianni infantino, has accused the west of "hypocrisy" in its criticism of qatar's human rights record — while officials in doha say qatar's being singled out unfairly. john watson reports. after years of continued controversy, today the first world cup in the middle east finally begins in qatar. a largely desert state with little footballing history. all eight world cup venues sit in and around the capital, doha. the al bayt stadium to the north will stage today's opening match between the hosts and ecuador. 32 nations are competing for football's biggest prize, and it all leads here, the lusail stadium, the venue for the final in 29 days�* time. questions over qatar's human rights record have plagued the hosts ever since it won the bid to stage the tournament, and on the eve of kick—off, further criticism followed after comments made by the fifa president, gianni infantino. i know what it means to be discriminated,

to be bullied as a foreigner in a foreign country, as a child at school i was bullied because i had red hair. wales and england are in the same group and both play their first games tomorrow. over the next 2a hours, thousands of fans will flood into qatar. this for england supporter garth beck, this will be his seventh world cup. one that he hopes will bring success for manager gareth southgate and his side. he comes across as a very genuine person, and i'd love for gareth to win. i'm feeling all emotional now. because i think, you know, if we could do it, it would be the greatest thing for our country. our country needs something to cling

onto, the way things are now. need a bit ofjoy in the world? we do, absolutely. after 12 years, today the football finally starts. fifa hopes the sport will now take centre stage, but the questions show no signs of going away. john watson, bbc news. this world cup will be the first in which fans from all the competing nations find themselves staying in the same place from the start of the tournament. nesta macgregor has been looking at what they can expect. well over a million people are due in qatar for the world cup. this fan village just north of doha will host some of them. it has 1,800 tents, costs £175 a night. it's just opened, and those fans have started to arrive. when we saw pictures online of this, it seemed like a really fun idea. kind of having the vibe. like a festival. exactly.

but once we got here, our impressions were not precisely all positive. the tents are made of this really thick plastic, which with the nice and warm weather we're having right now makes it extremely hot. right now it's unbearable to be inside. have you had a wander to see the cubicles where you shower? yeah, i just showered. yeah, the water is, like, brown when you open it, so it's not really that exciting. i brushed my teeth with my water bottle because that was cleaner than the water over there. what do you think of the place? for me, it's not a good experience. from my reservation, - it's a hotel, not a village, ok? nesta gasps. so, 3,300 us dollars! very, very expensive. very~ _ it's not that good here. and you're going to walk away having spent that much money? yes. i feel excited, you open and i go in.

ok, i can do that. my heart's racing for some reason. welcome. 0h, 0k. it's nice. we have a fan. no air condition? no. no, no, just the fan. and locks for the door. so this is security? yes. right, anyone staying in the fan village can also use this fan park just across the road. there is a big screen behind me where you can watch the game. you can also take a dip in the sea or have a beer. and all around me you can see people frantically doing odd jobs, trying to get this place ready. the world cup is just hours away and the fans seem to be ready, but the venue doesn't appear to be. the staff at the village assured me that all of this would be ready in time for the big kick—off. and you can see the potential to deliver the month—long beach party that was promised. a first—ever winter world cup was always going to be

a unique experience, and for many reasons, qatar 2022 is living up to that. see you in the morning. developing countries have welcomed a landmark agreement aimed at compensating them for the damage done by climate change. nearly 200 countries at the cop 27 summit in egypt agreed to set up a fund. the summit also repeated a commitment to limit global warming to a 1.5 degrees celsius rise since pre—industrial times, but delegates couldn't agree on further commitments to cut emissions. here's our climate editorjustin rowlatt. this is what this climate conference will be remembered for. objections is so decided. an agreement to create a fund to help vulnerable nations with the loss and damage climate change is causing. the deal on loss and damage is undoubtedly a breakthrough, but there is huge disappointment in this room, disappointment that the rest of the text is not more ambitious. leaders of delegations met

to discuss how they could change the wording to increase the effort to cut emissions. the aim of these summits is to raise ambition every year, but today's deal goes no further than what was agreed last year in glasgow. what is low emission energy? there's even a clause which could allow natural gas to be classified as green. there was a very strong move by some of the petro states to try and unwind some of those decisions and in fact go back to pre paris kind of arrangements. and so, i mean, as you can tell, because how late we are, there was sort of trench warfare on that. many countries wanted the targets to be much stronger. emissions peaking before 2025, as the science tells us is necessary. not in this text. clear follow through on the phase down of coal. not in this text.

a clear commitment to phase out all fossil fuels. not in this text. and the energy text weakened in the final minutes. but the deal on loss and damage is genuinely a breakthrough, says the woman who led negotiations for developing countries. it's given me hope. it's restored faith. in multilateralism. |it's given us all hope in the cop| system and literally in the power of working together. the problem is, the rest of the deal is so disappointing. it means what could have been a triumph for egypt is likely to end up being judged a failure. justin rowlatt, bbc news, sharm el—sheikh, egypt. a shooting outside a gay nightclub in the us state of colorado has killed five people and injured at least 18.

a statement by the q club in colorado springs said it was devastated by what it called a hate attack. local police say the suspected gunman has been arrested they went to multiple different hospitals. medicals first at every hospital to treat them, but we do have officers at every hospital with all of the victims. where is the suspect right now? the suspect is being treated at a local hospital. so so the suspect was injured as well? correct _ so the suspect was injured as well? correct bae— so the suspect was in'ured as well? correct. �* , , ., so the suspect was in'ured as well? correct. j . , so the suspect was in'ured as well? correct. j . _ correct. by your officers or by locals who — correct. by your officers or by locals who took _ correct. by your officers or by locals who took him - correct. by your officers or by locals who took him down? i correct. by your officers or by i locals who took him down? that correct. by your officers or by - locals who took him down? that is still under the _ locals who took him down? that is still under the subject _ locals who took him down? that is still under the subject of _ still under the subject of investigation. the housing secretary, michael gove, has written to every council and social housing provider in england to warn that deaths like that of awaab ishak must "never be allowed to happen again". an inquest found that the two—year—old died from a respiratory condition caused by mould exposure

in the housing association flat in rochdale where he lived. labour has said it will replace the house of lords with an elected chamber if it wins the next general election. the party's leader, sir keir starmer, wants politicians stripped of the power to appoint people to the chamber, saying conservative leaders have handed peerages to "lackeys and donors". earlier i spoke to our political correspondent, charlotte rose, about labour's plans. he wants to get rid of the ability of prime ministers to appoint people to go to the house of lords. to understand what this means, we have to understand what the chamber does, and theirjob is basically to scrutinise and to make changes to legislation, so quite often bills will start at the house of commons, mps debate them and they go to the house of lords, and there can be some quite big changes made, with large sections put in or taken out of bills. the commons in the lords have been at loggerheads in recent years, over the brexit legislation but also in more recent times over the right of public protest. the chamber itself is made up

of different groups, so you have nonpolitical peers, people who have been put there because of their expertise in different fields, and then you also have political lords, so those from the conservatives, labour, the lib dems and greens. you then have some hereditary peers and also some religious members as well, so there is a whole mix, all serving in the same chamber, but their role is really to look at legislation. and what is the nature of the criticism around the current system as it is? there have been concerns about the size of the chamber. at the moment there are 784 peers, so there is concern about how much it costs the taxpayer, but also the idea that the government of the day is able to stuff the lords with their friends and allies in order to make it easier to get legislation through. there has been particular criticism of borisjohnson in that he appointed evgeny lebedev, a newspaper editor and the son of a the security of that appointment. also mrjohnson has been accused of making offers to mps in order to curry favour with them that they can go to the house of lords,

but then urging them not to resign from theirjob as an mp in order to not trigger a by—election, so there have been a few controversies, and that seems to be what has prompted keir starmer to say that these changes are needed. so how exactly would it work under labour's proposed changes? there are a lot of questions still to be asked, because we are being told, labour is saying, that they would have an elected chamber, but we don't know what form of elections they would use, and clearly this chamber is secondary to the house of commons where we already elect mps, and they would then be questions about, which chamber is the most important. there are questions to be asked, and i don't think we can underestimate how radical a constitutional change this would be. but we also have to remember that this is not the first time that this kind of thing has been suggested. back in 1997, labour had similar proposals for the reform of the house of lords, and they never made it into anything because it met with a lot of resistance, and the governmentjust put it in the too hard to do box, and this might be another issue where

if labour did come to parrot the next election, it might go the same way. our political correspondent, charlotte rose. the metropolitan police says a file of evidence about cash—for—honours allegations involving one of the king's charities, has been passed to the crown prosecution service. officers began an investigation following a series of newspaper articles which claimed that a saudi donor to the prince's foundation was offered help to secure a knighthood. earlier i spoke to our correspondent simonjones. that was following a series of newspaper allegations in which it was alleged that the then head of the prince's foundation charity, michael fawcett, had offered to help a prominent saudi businessman and donor, a man called mahfouz mubarak, get an honour, and also british citizenship. in september we know that the police spoke to a man in his 40s and a man in his 50s under caution, and now scotland yard have said they have given a file of evidence to the crown prosecution

service. it will now be up to the cps to consider that evidence, to consider whether there is enough evidence to bring any charges and whether it would be in the public interest to do that. in terms of buckingham palace, what they have said is they don't want to give a running commentary on an ongoing police investigation, but when these allegations first emerged, the spokesperson for the then prince of wales denied he had any knowledge of what is claimed, any knowledge of what is claimed, any knowledge of what potentially might have happened. now, in terms of michael fawcett, he has always said he will cooperate fully with the police investigation, and the saudi businessman has said he has done nothing wrong. aslur businessman has said he has done nothing wrong. our correspondence simon jones — nothing wrong. our correspondence simon jones speaking _ nothing wrong. our correspondence simon jones speaking to _ nothing wrong. our correspondence simon jones speaking to me - nothing wrong. our correspondence | simon jones speaking to me earlier. the headlines on bbc news... the first ever world cup to be held in the middle east kicks off in just under two hours time. the hosts qatar will play ecuador. delegates at the un climate conference in egypt agree a major deal on climate change. but the overall plan has been accused of lacking ambition. a shooting outside a gay nightclub in the us state of colorado has killed five people

and injured at least eighteen. local police say the suspected gunman has been arrested and victims are being treated in hopital. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's hugh ferris. good afternoon. 12 years in the making and surrounded by controversy, the qatar world cup finally begins this afternoon, and attention does turn to the football. the host nation kick things off, with qatar playing ecuador. the celebrations in the al bayt stadium mark an end to a build up full of criticism and conjecture ahead of the first world cup to be held in a muslim country in the middle east. fifa has asked all 32 teams to focus on the football which will start in just under 45 minutes' time.

wales are preparing for their opening match against the usa tomorrow. but they'll have to play without one of their most experienced players. joe allen hasn't been able to train with the whole wales squad and hasn't played for swansea since september. he was a key part of wales' euro 2016 semifinal side but is out with a hamstring injury. we could have pushed him, maybe, but then he would definitely be out of then he would definitely be out of the tournament, so risk and reward. yes, we would have liked him available for the first game, but we are not going to push him to the point of completely losing it. james maddison remains the only injury concern for england, who also get under way tomorrow against iran. the leicester forward missed training again today and won't play any part in the match tomorrow. kyle walker is also returning from injury. it's been the perfect return for chelsea manager emma hayes — she was on the touchline following an emergency hysterectomy

to watch her team go three points clear at the top of wsl. they beat spurs 3—0 at stamford bridge. erin cuthbert with the pick of the goals while sam kerr and guro reiten were also on the scoresheet. three other games today. two of which are into the second halves. aston villa leader reading by two goals to one, brighton and hove albion have an even better advantage over liverpool, 3—1. meanwhile at the west ham leicester game, that kicked offjust over 15 minutes ago, leicester, winless, pointless at the bottom of the league, and that is still goalless. max verstappen has claimed another victory in the final grand prix of the season in abu dhabi. the world champion started from pole and won comfortably to claim a record extending fifteenth win of the season. charles leclerc finished ahead of sergio perez to beat the mexican to second in the drivers�* championship and secure runners up spot in the constructors championship for ferrari. lewis hamilton failed to finish ending the year without a win for the first time in his formula one career.

on the european tour for a fourth time. securing the number one spot after his fourth place in the dp tour championship. the season—ending tournament in dubai was won by spain�*sjon rahm who claimed a two shot victory after leading into the final round. but although mcilroy was four shots back, it was enough to finish above us open champion matt fitzpatrick in the money list, winning the so—called race to dubai. mcilroy was the same overall winner in the pga tour version, while he�*s also the current world number one. the final of the uk snooker championship is under way in york. ding junhui is aiming for his fourth title and if he beats mark allen he will become the fourth most successful player in the tournament�*s history. these are live pictures from bbc2...

ding has started pretty well against the northern irishman, it is the first to 19. you can follow that via the bbc sport website as well as being on bbc two, and also via the iplayer. and of course qatar against ecuador via bbc one, commentary has begun of the opening game of the football world cup, and it is there for you across the bbc, and i will have more for you in the next hour. excellent plug—in, thank you! donald trump�*s twitter account has been reactivated, after its new owner, elon musk, let his followers decide in an online poll whether mr trump should be allowed back. the former president was banned from the site injanuary last year following the rioting on capitol hill. mr trump then set up his own platform — truth social — and claims to have no interest in returning to twitter. technology journalist chris stokel—walker explains more. just as with elon musk, donald trump

doesn�*t necessarily stick to his word all that often, so i would imagine that the temptation to be reconnected with hundreds of millions of people and the thing that got him into the white house backin that got him into the white house back in 2016 will be too great an opportunity for him to pass up. particularly as the presidential election campaigning gets going. but this is quite significant, isn�*t it, because he was originally removed from twitter because of the risk of incitement to violence, i think was what the people who owned twitter at the time were quoted as saying. it is significant indeed that he is back. , , . is significant indeed that he is back. , , , back. this is a significant step backwards _ back. this is a significant step backwards for _ back. this is a significant step backwards for twitter - back. this is a significant step backwards for twitter in - back. this is a significant step | backwards for twitter in terms back. this is a significant step i backwards for twitter in terms of how it deals with hate speech, so we know that twitter about a year ago, january 2021, decide that this was beyond the pale, what donald trump was doing, he had incited violence on the capitol onjanuary was doing, he had incited violence on the capitol on january the was doing, he had incited violence on the capitol onjanuary the 6th and had used twitter as a big megaphone to do that and they decided that was not acceptable speech. but then of course a new

boss comes in, and elon musk has decided that he is a free speech absolutist, that may mean different things to different people. certainly he has started to take baby steps towards this, so we saw earlier in the week him while coming back canadian psychologistjordan back canadian psychologist jordan peterson back canadian psychologistjordan peterson who was known for having relatively unpalatable views. then donald trump is back now. i guess the question is, who is going to be next? do you start the potentially slippery slope of hate speech rejoining twitter after years of going away? it is hugely problematic, and the engineers outsourced for content moderation were cut last week, and around a thousand who won�*t let go decided to resign. there aren�*t enough people running this, so there are two sides, the content moderation issue and how you police content deemed unsuitable, but then there is also i thinkjust the infrastructure issue. we are hours away from the world cup, as you have been reporting on

the channel. that will see a huge spike in numbers of users wanting to convert on the platform, coupled i think with the interest in donald trump and the speculation that will invariably happen on twitter about it, we are going to see huge numbers going to the platform, and i reported today for the observer newspaper here in the uk that are relatively central part of the twitter engineering team up until relatively recently said he thinks it is a 50—50 chance as to whether or not the site goes away and disappears, temporarily at least, today. there�*s been renewed shelling close to, and at the site of europe�*s largest nuclear power plant in ukraine. experts from the international atomic energy agency stationed at the zaporizhzhia plant reported that more than a dozen blasts were heard within a short period of time on sunday morning, and last night. russia and ukraine have blamed each other for the shelling. bethany bell sent this update. well, in a statement,

the head of the iaea, rafael grossi, said that whoever was doing this needed to stop it immediately because they were playing with fire. he said there appeared to have been renewed shelling in and around the plant and he said that the iaea team, which is based there, said that there had been some damage to buildings, systems and equipment at the site, but not to anything that was crucial to nuclear safety or security. and the statement said that there also had been no reports of casualties. but the head of the iaea, rafael grossi, said that this was unacceptable and extremely disturbing news. bethany bell reporting. people in kazakhstan are voting in a snap presidential election. the current leader is considered certain to win. he brought the vote forward in september, saying he needed a new mandate for a seven—year term. last january, the former soviet republic sank into chaos

during protests over high living costs, which left 238 dead. earlier i spoke to our europe regional editor, paul moss, who told me about the importance of the central asian nation. first of all, it is huge, the ninth biggest country in the world. it has huge reserves of oil and gas, but the main thing is, just look where it is. it is right between russia and china, to countries which are both trying to assert their power at the moment, both of them looking for allies, but a lot of people trying to see which way kazakhstan will swing, and you see this in very real, physical moments. at the recent summit, the president, who you mentioned, tokayev, met every other leader in the region but he didn�*t talk to putin, and that was seen as a terrible snob. meanwhile he invited xijinping, the president from china, to have a state visit with the full red carpet rolled out. this can sound like the politics of the playground, with the kids wondering who he is going to let

play with his football, but believe me this really does matter, and for that reason a lot of people want to know what is happening in kazakhstan about the election, and most crucially what president tokayev is going to do with the power he has. our going to do with the power he has. 0ur correspondence going to do with the power he has. our correspondence paul moss. humans could be living on the moon within this decade — that�*s according to a nasa official. howard hu leads the orion lunar spacecraft programme, which forms a major part of the agency�*s latest moon mission — artemis. he told the bbc that one of the project�*s aims was to establish if there�*s water on the moon�*s south pole, which could be used to create rocket fuel for deeper space exploration. it was a unbelievable feeling. goosebumps. but certainly, you know, i would say when i saw it lift off, it was a dream. you know, it�*s the first step we�*re taking to long term deep space exploration for not just the united states, but for the world. and i think that this is, you know, it�*s a historic day for nasa,

three, two, one... lift off! and i think that this is, you know, it�*s a historic day for nasa, but it�*s also a historic day for all the people that love human space flight and deep space exploration. i mean, we are going back to the moon. we�*re working towards a sustainable programme. and this is the vehicle that will carry the people that will land us back on the moon again. and i think this is one of the most important moments, i think, as we think about what the apollo generation has done and now the artemis generation. two metres of snow has smothered large parts of upstate new york, prompting officials to restrict road travel and cancel flights. the cancellations are expected to affect the plans of hundreds of thousands over the next week, ahead of the busy thanksgiving holiday. new york�*s governor called in the national guard to help with snow removal in the hardest—hit parts of erie county — where two metres of snow fell. brewing beer can be

energy intensive, and that can have an impact on the environment — but now one british brewery is looking at ways it can produce its pints more sustainably. the deya brewing company is trying to offset its carbon footprint by investing in a patch of welsh peat. steve knibbs went along to take a look. brewing has a bigger impact on the economy than you would think. here in deya, they make about a million pints per year, many of the hops coming from america new zealand, these lots water, energy, the caking, counting and running the brewery. after the company did an audit of the carbon emissions, they decided to do something about it. our carbon, labels, heat recovery, carbon credits, and we will look at bigger projects such as co2 recovery, we want to look at solo, there is a lot of stuff in—house, recycling streams, educating us as a company, like our employees, and then offsetting big capital projects. deya is speculating to accumulate.

the company has invested over £60,000 and the restoration and maintenance of 65 acres of peatland in snowdonia. the area has eroded over many decades, and what was once storing carbon is now releasing it into the atmosphere. carbon is now releasing it into the atmosphere-— carbon is now releasing it into the atmoshere. . , ., , ., atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storinu atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storing carbon, _ atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storing carbon, but _ atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storing carbon, but then - atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storing carbon, but then it - atmosphere. peat gets oxidised, and it is storing carbon, but then it is - it is storing carbon, but then it is losing _ it is storing carbon, but then it is losing it — it is storing carbon, but then it is losing it into the atmosphere. so we really— losing it into the atmosphere. so we really need — losing it into the atmosphere. so we really need to put a cap on it, on those _ really need to put a cap on it, on those greenhouse gas emissions. but this is the long game. it will take 35 years for the restored peatland to stop releasing the equivalent of just three years of deya�*s emissions coming showing the scale of the sustainability challenge. around 70—80% of the company�*s emissions come from offside, such as suppliers and transport. so others have a part to play.

a whole heap of commissions are used to create the malt and the hops and stuff, so it is quite tricky because we have not massive control over those factors, which is why we have to work to reduce in—house and the offset will come. the brewery also believes that its customers should understand the environmental impact of what they are drinking, so on every can, on every level, they have printed the carbon footprint per beer. i think we�*re doing a decentjob of where we are at now considering our size, the funds that we have, it�*s a hobby complicated picture that we are trying to understand as we go along, but trying to be transparent and honest and open about things the whole time. like many businesses, deya is now monitoring its emissions each month, tweaking where it can to numbers down. like many others, looking to the long—term, there is no quick fix when it comes to sustainability. hello, more rain to come through this week ahead. but for tonight, things turning a good deal quieter.

the showers you�*ve seen through the day gradually fading away into the nights, continuing for a time inland and will continue in the very far north east of scotland.