welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: the qatar world cup kicks off with a star—studded lavish opening ceremony in doha — after months of criticisms and controversies surrounding the tournament. qatar is walking a fine line between presenting itself on one of the world's biggest stages as an outward—looking, welcoming country and maintaining its cultural, religious and conservative identity. but it was disappointment on the pitch, with qatar becoming the first host nation ever to lose its opening game — being beaten by ecuador 2—0. rich nations agree to pay poorer countries for the losses caused by climate change, but there's little progress

at the cop27 summit on cutting emissions. vigils are held for five people killed in a shooting outside a gay nightclub in the us state of colorado. survivors speak of how they hid from the gunman. we heard everything, and all i could think about is...everything. my life... just everything. friends, family, loved ones. the actor michaelj fox is awarded an honorary oscar for his campaign to fund parkinson's research, since being diagnosed with the disease at the peak of his acting career. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday.

hello and welcome to the programme. after months of criticism and controversies surrounding the tournament, the 2022 football world cup in qatar has finally kicked off. fans were treated to a visually striking opening ceremony at the al bayt stadium, with hollywood actor morgan freeman appearing before the crowds to say football could unite communities and countries. in the first match, qatar became the first host nation ever to lose its opening game at the tournament. ecuador beat them 2—0, with many people leaving the stadium before the game had even finished. our correspondent shaimaa khalil watched the game and the opening ceremony with a group of qatari locals in doha's main market. you can feel the buzz and the excitement here in the heart of doha, at souq waqif — different languages being spoken, different flags, very animated fans. so far, the controversy has

overshadowed the football in this world cup. but for so many here, especially the qatari crowd, this is the day they've been waiting for. naji alnaimi works here in the market. he tells me this is a proud day. translation: i don't know how to describe how i feel. | we've been waiting for this moment for 12 years. my small country is now the centre of the world. people of all religions and nationalities have gathered here. this is their country. they are all welcome here. it hasn't been smooth sailing for the gulf state. qatar has come under a great deal of criticism, especially around its human rights record. but you wouldn't know it sitting among this group of locals. for them, this is a big day, notjust for their home country but the whole region. this world cup does not belong to qatar only. this belongs to all arabic and all muslim. our dream now, you can see it now.

before, we have some difficult days and months, you know, but in our mind, we leave all this problem to one side and just we want to look for one world for the world cup. and now this is the moment. but the excitement soon turned into disappointment, with qatar easily beaten by ecuador 2—0 — the proud host country humbled on the football pitch. one of the most contentious world cups in history is now under way, with the organisers hoping that the focus will shift to football. this small and hugely affluent gulf state still has a lot to prove, with thousands of fans arriving. qatar is walking a fine line

between presenting itself on one of the world's biggest stages as an outward—looking, welcoming country and maintaining its cultural, religious and conservative identity. that was shaimaa khalil reporting on that story for us. and the captain of iran's world cup football team has controversially voiced concern about the political crisis in his country and called for change. speaking on the opening day of the tournament in qatar, ehsan hajsafi said conditions in his country are not right and the "people are not happy". the defender also expressed condolences to "all the grieving families" in iran as anti—government protests there continue. he added thatjust because the team are playing in the tournament, that doesn't mean they should not be a voice for the iranian people. the united nations climate summit cop27 has ended with a landmark deal for developing countries. but there's been disappointment

that there was no commitment to further cuts in greenhouse gases. negotiators in egypt agreed to set up a fund to help poorer nations deal with damage caused by climate change, like flooding. un chief antonio guterres said it was "an important step towards justice". but there's been criticism that there were no new pledges to cut emissions. here's our climate editorjustin rowlatt. these talks were supposed to end on friday. they went through friday night and then through saturday night. it was 4:15 on sunday morning when the gavel finally came down on the loss and damage deal. i hear no objections, it's so decided. applause the exhausted delegates only managed a ripple of applause. but this is a landmark deal on an issue that has dogged these talks for decades. clearly, this will not be enough, but it is

a much—needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. the voices of those on the front lines of the climate crisis must be heard. hurricane ian tears through cuba earlier this year. today's deal creates a fund to help vulnerable nations cope with the loss and damage climate—related storms, droughts and floods are already wreaking in their communities. 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 dials back on what was agreed last year in glasgow. we need to switch to renewable power, it says, but also

low emission energy. what is low emission energy? it is understood the phrase was included after pressure from the saudi delegation and other fossil fuel rich countries, and it is feared it 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, it was sort of trench warfare on that. many nations wanted the targets for emission reductions 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 i working together. the problem is, for many here, 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. i want to bring you some breaking news that is just coming in now. we're getting reports of an earthquake striking the greek island of crete. initial reports say it

had a magnitude of 5.4 and was at a depth of 80 kilometres. we'll bring you more details on that story here on bbc news. and on our website as well, and across the world service, of course, but for now, i want to take you through some other stories in our headlines today. north korea's government has criticised the head of the un, antonio guterres, after he condemned pyongyang's latest missile test. its foreign minister accused mr guterres of having to discuss the issue, at washington's request. cryptocurrency exchange ftx owes its 50 biggest creditors a total of more than $3 billion. according to a bankruptcy filing in the united states, the biggest single loss is more than $220 million. the names of the creditors have not been revealed.

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as one local comic put it, "it's not hot air- we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. union in the 1960s. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines: the qatar world cup has kicked off with a star—studded lavish opening ceremony in doha — after months of criticisms and controversies surrounding the tournament. at the cop27 summit on cutting emissions. to malaysia now, where the two

main contenders to lead malaysia's next government have begun consultations, after saturday's election failed to produce an outright winner. the veteran opposition leader anwar ibrahim — whose coalition alliance has won the largest number of seats, according to the election commission of malaysia — and the former prime minister muhyiddin yassin both said they could form a government with the help of other parties. malaysia's king has asked them to submit lists of their coalition partners by monday afternoon. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head has more. as expected, the results of this election were inconclusive, with none of the three big coalitions contesting it winning enough seats to form a government on their own and so we've seen furious negotiations, as they have tried to cobble together a coalition in time for the 2pm deadline set by malaysia's king. the former ruling party, umno, appears to have miscalculated badly in pushing for the election to be held now rather than next year,

which is when the other parties wanted, believing it had built up enough support to be able to regain the power that it lost at the last election. in the end, it got its worst election result ever, just 30 seats for its coalition, as the conservative rural ethnic malays that are the bedrock of its support switched their allegiance to the perikatan nasional coalition, made up of umno defectors and the hard—line conservative islamist party. and that coalition now says it's in the best position to form a government, that it has got other parties onside and will be able to do that. the veteran opposition politician anwar ibrahim was after probably his last chance to become prime minister. he led the pakatan harapan reformist coalition actually to win the most number of seats, so in theory, you'd think he could form a government. but none of the other parties appear to want to work with him. if he can't form a government, then we will see, probably given the age he's at, one of the giants of malaysian politics exiting the stage.

that was jonathan head reporting on that story for us. a little earlier, i spoke to tharma pillai, co—founder of undi18, a malaysian youth movement that successfully advocated constitutional amendment to reduce the minimum voting age. here is what he had to say about the significance of the youth vote. i think it's been incredibly important because with the implementation of the lowered voter age together with automatic voter registration, you saw a massive increase in voters, 5.8 million, which increased the total percentage of electorate by 40%. in any measure, 40% increase in your voter numbers is a huge change in democracy, but even more important was that it increased the percentage of youth voters, and of course electorally in malaysia, we consider youth category from 18—40. and this bloc of voters now represent 51% of the total number of voters in malaysia, so essentially the youth vote

was incredibly pivotal and incredibly important. but of course the big question that was there in this election was, would the youth turn out? would they come out to vote in the first place, now that you've given them the right to vote? and i'm very happy to say that they did turn out. the youth came out en masse. we had the highest turnout numbers in our elections in malaysian history. 15.5 million voters turned out, compared to the previous election, which is only 12.3 million, so a massive increase in voters... indeed. i can hear your enthusiasm, tharma, that this movement really did come to bear, but what was the important issue for young people who were voting in this election, do you think? based on the exit polls and the results, it is clear this was a referendum on corruption, a referendum on zahid hamidi in particular, the head of the umno party, because he was trying his best

to form a government on his own and tried to secure power, and many speculate it is because he wanted to escape corruption charges for himself. so essentially many young voters voted against him. however, this is the challenge, right? malaysian youth voters, many of them are not only progressive. there's also huge a bloc of conservative voters, so you can say this empowered both sides, the reformists and also the even more conservative. there is both sides that benefited greatly from this anti—corru ption wave. yeah, tharma, we've got a hung parliament, though, at the moment. in terms of the instability and uncertainty ahead, particularly for the economy, where young people to try to getjobs, frankly, and make a living for themselves, what do you think the future holds for them? i think for me, it's incredibly concerning. essentially, a hung parliament means it is going to be very difficult to make difficult decisions, especially

when you go into a tough economic situation next year, and we are facing a tough economic situation globally already, so i think that makes it a challenge. but the silver lining is we have had an example of a confidence and supply agreement that was done before between the government and opposition to provide some level of stability. i do believe that might be a model that might be explored to ensure that there is better government stability and to make sure there are some tough decisions, especially in regards to subsidies, in regards to certain types of funding. that was tharma pillai, a malaysian youth movement co—founder, speaking to us a little earlier. scientists have discovered the true ferocity of a huge volcanic eruption off the coast of tonga injanuary. research ships from britain and new zealand have finished mapping the area around the volcano. they found flows of debris stretching at least 80 kilometres across the sea bed.

the eruption blew ash and water—vapour halfway to space, generating tsunami waves around the world. scientists say its sheer force displaced an amount of material equivalent to 4,000 egyptian pyramids. goodness! us vice president kamala harris is visiting the phillipines, as part of her diplomatic tour around the region. she's expected to meet with president ferdinand marcoer in manila, then head to palawan island — on the edge of the disputed south china sea — to hold meetings with civil groups. her trip could raise tensions with beijing, given palawan island's proximity to the disputed spratly islands. earlier, i spoke to philippines political analyst and author richard heydarian, who explained the signfiicance of this visit. definitely, we got a fragile detente in bali between the two superpowers, butjust days later, i think we are going to have a test of that.

both president biden and president xi promised that they will try to do their best to responsibly manage their individual competitions. we will see an exhibit of that as kamala harris, vice president kamala harris, does not only visit manila but goes to palawan, which is very close to disputed land features in the south china sea, the spratlys, but more importantly, this is happening in the midst of a massive revitalisation of the us and philippines military alliance. in fact, the americans want to get more access, rotational access, very important access, to key bases, including to an air base in palawan, so this is notjust symbolic. it has many, many important operational implications for america's ability to project power in the south china sea, exactly where china is expanding its footprint. richard, do you think that the visit will be successful, then, given what you've described as possibly some of the aims of kamala harris�*s visit? right. definitely, this marks the culmination of a charm offensive by the biden

administration towards the new filipino president. of course, the marcos have their baggage. but the reality is, as far as president marcoer is concerned, he is not continuing the china—friendly, western—bashing style of his predecessor, rodrigo duterte, but what he's doing is more closely what his father used to do at the height of the cold war, which was to keep a strong alliance with the united states just as he tried to reach out to china and other alternative powers. marcos jr is also friendly to china, just like duterte and unlike more reformist liberal filipino presidents, but he seems to be green lighting a massive expansion in the bilateral security alliance. so kamala harris is coming on the back of a meeting between the philippine defence chief and the american defence chief earlier this year, after the visit of antony blinken, the us secretary of state, to manila a few months ago. and i think there will be a formalisation of a white house visit by marcoer sometime next year, after kamala harris�*s

visit to manila today. the stars were out in force in hollywood on saturday for the annual governors ball, which is when the honorary oscars for lifetime achievement are handed out. this year, back to the future star michaelj fox was amongst the honourees. wendy urquhart reports. michaelj fox. michaelj fox was diagnosed _ michaelj fox. michaelj fox was diagnosed with - michaelj fox. michaelj fox- was diagnosed with parkinson's disease at the peak of his acting career and he has campaigned tirelessly since then to fund research. i campaigned tirelessly since then to fund research.- campaigned tirelessly since then to fund research. i am so crateful then to fund research. i am so grateful to _ then to fund research. i am so grateful to all _ then to fund research. i am so grateful to all these _ then to fund research. i am so grateful to all these people, l grateful to all these people, thousands of more who will make a world without parkinson's a reality. i am not sure i can indicate that well, but it is something to stay here and accept your admiration. truly the effort is being read by others. so deserving this attention. i am grateful to them and to you, because

optimism is fuelled by my gratitude, and with gratitude, optimism is sustainable. several stars pay tribute to the actor at the event, including tom hanks. not only is it courageous, _ including tom hanks. not only is it courageous, but _ including tom hanks. not only is it courageous, but i'm - including tom hanks. not only is it courageous, but i'm not . is it courageous, but i'm not surprised, _ is it courageous, but i'm not surprised, because from what i know _ surprised, because from what i know from _ surprised, because from what i know from their work lives general— know from their work lives general the guy, know from their work lives generalthe guy, he has know from their work lives general the guy, he has an awful— general the guy, he has an awful lot _ general the guy, he has an awful lot ofjoy and so i am glad he _ awful lot ofjoy and so i am glad he is here. singer—songwriter diane moran of the australian director peter weir and a film maker also honoured, and actress viola davis at the latter was an inspiration to her. i viola davis at the latter was an inspiration to her.- an inspiration to her. i was like. there _ an inspiration to her. i was like, there is _ an inspiration to her. i was like, there is someone - an inspiration to her. i was like, there is someone outj like, there is someone out there making films on a higher scale who is black. and that is how i see it. excellence. in howl see it. excellence. in the how i see it. excellence. in the black—tie gala was keeping with hollywood heavyweights, your to attend the event which was spun off from the regular oscars in 2009 to de—clutter

the main show. wendy urquhart, bbc news. that's it from us. thanks for watching newsday. hello there. over the next few hours, we're going to see some frost and fog forming. it is going to be a chilly start to our monday morning. some of that will be slow to lift away. and then as we go through the day, some wet and windy weather will start to dominate from the southwest, but temperatures could be as low as minus four or minus five degrees in a few spots first thing this morning. the wet weather, though, starting to show its hand and that will gradually drift its way north and east as we go through the day. not really getting into northern england and scotland, however. gusts of winds in excess of 70 to 80 miles an hourfirst thing. so a very stormy start to the day in the southwest. some of that rain really torrential as it pushes its way steadily northeast, moving

into northern ireland, across parts of wales, the midlands, eventually into southeast england and east anglia as we go through the afternoon. that means northern england and the bulk of scotland after that cold, frosty and foggy start will see some sunshine coming through. a few isolated showers and where it's cool to higher ground, some of these could be wintry in flavour. six or seven degrees the high here, top temperatures of ii celsius perhaps. but it looks likely that we see the cooler air clinging onto the far north of scotland. further south, we'll see a few weak weather fronts and producing some milder showery weatherfirst thing on tuesday morning. the showers in the north of scotland still have the tendency perhaps to be of rain, sleet and snow. elsewhere on tuesday not a bad day. dry with some sunshine coming through. a few scattered showers. temperatures around 6 to ii celsius. so on the cool side, really. now, as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, the next batch of wet and windy weather starts to push in from the atlantic,

the isobars once again squeezing together and the rain could be quite heavy at times. this time it is going to push its way into the north of england and across to scotland. so there will be some more rain potentially for the northeast of scotland, maybe some snow to higher ground here. behind it, we'll see sunny spells and a few scattered showers being driven on along those west coasts. again, those temperatures around 9 to 12 celsius. it looks likely that we will see slightly drier weather thursday into friday before more wet and windy weather returns into the weekend.

welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. my guest is president salome zourabichvili of georgia, who's on a visit here in london. her country, which was part of the soviet union, shares a long border with russia, and its capital tbilisi is just a few kilometres away from thousands of russian troops and tanks stationed in two pro—moscow backed separatist enclaves in georgia.

so how should georgia manage its relations