this is tomorrow, north in its mild. this is tomorrow, the south—westerly winds pushing in a lot of cloud. it will be rainy at times in the western isles but for most of us, a dry day. often cloudy with the best of the central eastern scotland and the east of the pennines and east anglia and the south—east. about 10 degrees. this is a saturday and a large high—pressure established across western part of europe and that means a settled weather. if you are in the centre of it with light winds pulled but around the edges there are stronger winds and that pushes in the clouds into northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures whether sunshine comes out towards the east of the pennines and grampians about 13 degrees. difficult to say which of the two days will be better because it depends on the wind direction, if it's from the south, the breaks in the cloud tend to be to the north of any mountain and hill ranges. the

settled weather continues until about tuesday or wednesday and after that, it goes down hill with a bit of rain but until then it is dry. thanks, tomasz. and that's the bbc news at ten on thursday the 9th of february. for more analysis of the day's main stories, newsnight is beginning on bbc two with kirsty wark. while on bbc one, wejoin colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. from the ten team here, goodnight. hello i'm paul scott with all your bbc sports centre update. let's start with football — and plans for a european super league have resurfaced. there were protests from fans last year when a number of english and european clubs proposed a break—away league. but the move collapsed within 48 hours after an outcry, notjust from fans, but governments and players also. the company that backed the idea originally has now

proposed a revamped format, with up to 80 teams competing. joe lynkey reports. april 2021, english football's greatest rivals united. six premier clubs had planned tojoin a european super league with six more from the continent hoping to break free from the pyramid but instead they hit a wall. i want to apologise to all of the fans and supporters of the european football club for the disruption i caused over the past 48 hours. amid contrition and derision all six pulled out, but two years on the managing company has put forward new plants. a22 say the foundations of football are in danger of collapsing and it is time for change.

they wanted to have up to 80 teams with entry based on merit, it would still be run by the clubs. what we see today is a pretty desperate rehashing of the original concept by the three clubs, effectively, who remained in what was the european super league who seemed to be in denial that the project is dead. to be allowed to have its future determined on the basis of the prophet sheets of billionaires or individual clubs. spain's top—flight tweeted this... new plans have addressed some points of concern and say funds will trickle down, but the esl faced a backlash football has really seen

before to win this sport round it would be some come back. chelsea will face arsenal in the women's league cup final after thrashing west ham 7—0 in tonight's semi—final. sam kerr was the star of the show — scoring four, including a first half hat trick. there were further goals from fran kirby, laurenjames and guro reiten. the two—time winners are through to their fourth consecutive final having lost last season to manchester city. in scotland, rangers moved to within four points of league leaders glasgow city in the scottish women's premier league, thanks to a 4—0 victory overs hibs. kirsty elizabeth howart—thomson scored the pick of the bunch as she netted rangers second and third goals, with two hannah davison headers starting and finishing the scoring. cristiano ronaldo has scored the 500th league goal of his career at his new club in saudi arabia. he had scored just once in his first three games for al nassr, but got four in one match

as his club beat al wehda 4—0. ronaldo turned 38 on sunday, and he's now scored 61 career hat—tricks. with this one, his first in the saudi league, he got the referee to sign the match ball. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky will address a gathering of more than 30 nations tomorrow. they'll be discussing how to respond to the prospect of russian and belarusian athletes competing at next summer's paris olympics. ukraine is threatning to boycott the games if those athletes are allowed to compete. britain's culture secretary lucy frazer say russian athletes �*shouldn't line up on the world stage'. following russia's invasion of ukraine, the international olympic committee has been trying to develop a pathway, enabling russian and belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals. wales head coach warren gatland is making some big changes for this weekend's six nations clash with scotland. he's taken the decision to drop

veterans alun wynjones, justin tipurick and taulupe faletau. it follows last week's heavy defeat to ireland. there are also first starts for exeter pair dafydd jenkins and christ tshiunza, while tommy reffell completes a new—look back—row. we've lost that first game we can't win the grand slam or triple crown, we still want to do well in this tournament and saturday�*s game is important for us. but we need to think long term as well. we need to think of the next seven or eight months. we have a huge disparity between those experienced players of the number of caps and a lot of the youngsters who are incredibly talented with limited numbers

of caps so obviously developing their talents. and of course you can get more details on all the latest from the six nations on the bbc sport website. worcester warriors are no more — the new owners of the rugby union club have announced they're changing the name. they've also withdrawn from the rfus process to enter into the championship due to the instability of the league. the club will now be rebranded as sixways rugby. the rfu says it provided worcester with "the best possible chance" to provide all information required to prove its sustainability. while the department for digital, culture, media and sport has described it as "devasting news for rugby fans across the west midlands." in basketball, great britain's women comfortably secured victory against estonia in the first of two must—win fixtures, as they look to seal qualification for the eurobasket finals. there was no repeat of the loss suffered to the same opponents in november 2021, as team gb hammered estonia by 55 points. temi fagbenle led the way with 23. great britain must now beat portugal

on sunday to have any chance of qualification. that's all the sport for now.

this is bbc news, we'll have the headlines and all the news, straight after this programme. we face a massive dilemma. last year was officially the uk's warmest year on record. london was burning. california's fuel—choked, highly flammable forests combined with drier conditions linked to climate change. swathes of land across - southern pakistan have been turned into islands. national records have been broken in eight countries and regional records in three others.

climate change is making extreme weather more likely, so tackling it is more urgent than ever, but... prices are rising at their fastest rates for 40 years. food and fuel and energy. all of us have seen the cost of living going up. cost of living. we buy less and we buy cheaper products. if they're not going to give us the wage rises, we can't compete with inflation. the uk has been trying to lead the global effort to tackle climate change. it's time for humanity to grow up. but climate change is far from the prime minister's only concern. our country is facing a profound economic crisis. but warnings about the effects of climate change are getting louder. we are on a fast track to climate disaster. climate activists say there is no time to waste. if we don't end our contribution to climate change, we will see more frequent and extreme weather events.

so here's the question, can britain afford to tackle climate change? let's start this journey with a phrase you need to understand. net zero. when we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide. some of it is taken up by plants as they grow, the oceans absorb a fair bit, but the rest goes up into the atmosphere. and carbon dioxide is a bit special. it traps the sun's heat. it's why we don't freeze during the night. but the more we put into the atmosphere, the warmer the world gets, which is where net zero comes in. the idea is we need to reduce emissions as much as we can, but at the moment there are lots of things which we just can't make carbon—free,

things like concrete or aircraft. so scientists and engineers are trying to find ways to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and store them away forever. the aim is the net result will be zero emissions, hence the name net zero. and back in 2019, the then—prime minister theresa may made this promise. we will be ending our contribution to climate change by 2050 and legislating for a net zero emissions target. borisjohnson continued the effort and made climate policies a cornerstone of his premiership. the uk government has decided to become the world leader in low—cost, clean power generation. cheaper than coal, cheaper than gas. and all the major parties have put the net zero principle at the heart of their strategies. it's a rare consensus in british politics. aberdeen is the oil and gas capital of europe. let us resolve today to now make it

the net zero capital of the world. i move trillions of dollars, yen, i euros and pounds out of fossil fuels and into renewables. 100% clean power by 2030. so what's the problem? well, a group of vocal tory mps say we are moving too fast. nobody knows what this costs. we are moving too fast. everyone says, "i love it. it's a great idea, here's the bill of it." and then the public starts saying, "ah, why are we doing this "when the uk is a 1% outputter of c02 and china is 30% and growing?" the net zero scrutiny group was set up by two prominent eurosceptics, craig mckinlay and steve baker, who's a junior minister in the new government. young people in my constituency are at once learning to drive - and also demanding green measures. i i think they're going to be veryl disappointed when they discover they can't own a car, can't go on holiday. i

|we'll have expensive heating that| comes up to a lower temperature. they've been saying the net zero plans are too big, too hasty, and most important, too expensive for voters to stomach. they claim to have up to 50 supporters in parliament, but wouldn't give us their names. the net zero scrutiny group says it isn't questioning whether climate change is real, but its leaders are closely associated with a think tank operating out of that building over there, the global warming policy foundation. now, it has been questioning the scientific consensus on climate change for years. the group says climate policy is a ticking time bomb in uk politics. we've been down this road before with brexit and that's why i'm - warning that we'll have a terrible political crisis if _ we don't sort it out. sound familiar? and guess who's taken up the issue?

we want a referendum. on whether the net zero agenda makes sense. what are our demands? a petition calling for such a referendum was submitted to parliament, but it got fewer than 25,000 signatures. no major political party supports the idea either. nigel farage has made his career questioning established consensus, so small as his campaign may be, is he onto something? how's things? things are all right, if you can afford it. | why a referendum on net zero? one of the reasons i've got involved in this debate is this. _ we've been busy for the last 15 years. . i we are exporting manufacturing jobsi by having some of the most expensive electricity against america, - against europe, against obviously the far east and our competitors. so we export jobs - and we import energy. we could produce our own energy, i which interestingly would be a lower c02 output for the world. all i'm arguing is this. am i saying that we should not move towards sensible forms _ of renewable energy?

no, i'm not saying that. what i am saying is that i if we think by closing down british manufacturing, if we think by not - producing our own gas, - coal that we still need for steel, etc, that we're somehow saving the world, it's a delusion- and a very expensive one. we led the world into the industrial revolution that created this kind of huge production of carbon dioxide. why don't we lead the world out of it with new clean technology? because... become world beaters in a new industry. because, number one, - you can't do it at the moment without the backup of substantial amounts of fossil fuel. _ and therefore the logic is, rather than importing it, l we may as well produce it ourselves. the point i'm making in this- discussion with you is not that i'm saying global warming is a load of nonsense, is not that - i'm saying we should - ignore our responsibilities to future generations. i'm not saying any of that. what i'm saying is what we're doing in the name of combating _

it is making us uncompetitive - and is not actually, in many cases, lowering global c02. well, there are two things... we can boast... well, there are two things there... we can boast that c02 levels in this country are down 44%. _ the reason is we'vel exported much of it. actually, that's because we switched from coal to gas, which is a much lower carbon content, and we've started using lots of offshore wind. there are a couple of things, though. let's, on the broader point, you say we're beggaring ourselves. arguably, we're creating new industries, new renewable, clean industries... greenjobs! i know! isn't it marvellous! ..and exporting and beginning to export the skills we've got here in the uk abroad. who's building the offshore wind turbines in america? british engineers. i tell you what we're not exporting. electricity, we're importing it. can you believe it? we import electricity. but that makes a lot of sense. i mean, why wouldn't you buy it if there's a surplus in france and you need it? what the ukraine war has showed us, actually, - is when it comes to energy, - food, the things without which life,

normal life of any kind can't - continue, there is an argument, even if it's a titsy bit more - expensive, there is an argument for self sufficiency. there is an argument on not - being dependent on foreign regimes. that was so interesting. mr farage clearly thinks he's onto something. he clearly thinks that he can mobilise millions of people against net zero. so, you know, is a movement forming? is the momentum beginning to gather? i mean, to be honest, i'm not so sure. but let's be honest, the political elites here in britain massively underestimated the popularity of brexit. so could the call for a net zero referendum become the springboard for a political movement? hi, esther. how are you doing? hi, justin. i'm good. esther webberfrom politico has been following the story closely. it does seem at the moment that there's been no kind of real breakthrough or kind of moment that

has seen the campaign explode or really hit home. say, if you can contrast what's happened here with, say, the gilets jaunes movement in france, which was driven a lot by petrol prices. so, esther, you've written about the parallels between brexit and net zero. what do you think they are? first of all, you have the personnel. so there's a kind of subset of the conservative party who are questioning how these policies are made and who has consented to them, just as there was with brexit. so the campaigners are really looking at lower income voters and trying to sort of position them against what they call the kind of cosy elite consensus. and they're trying to use that same kind of wedge argument on net zero.

has net zero got the traction that brexit had? you see in polls, there's sort of general and rising support for the idea of tackling climate change by the government. but it's more of a split when you drill down into people's views on how those things should be paid for. and that's the kind of area that the sceptics are looking to get into. do you think the energy crisis that was brought about by the ukraine war, do you think that will dilute the commitment of politicians in westminster to net zero? what's really interesting, i think, about the dynamic of this current conservative party is we've had a lot of new mps elected in seats that have never been tory before, the so—called red wall. and people are seeing that perhaps

those mps are going to be sceptical of net zero. in fact, it's more mixed than that. and a lot of those mps see the net zero agenda as key to creating newjobs in places like the northeast. well, the net zero sceptics have certainly plugged into some serious concerns — the energy crisis, inflation, the cost of living. what about the costs of not zero? the costs of not decarbonising our economy? that is certainly what lots of climate activists argue. hey, sepi, how are you doing? great to see you. good to see you. thanks very much. got this nice electric car. fantastic. sepi golzari—munro is an energy and climate analyst.

so, sepi, we are in the middle of a massive cost of living crisis. is this really the time to be pouring money into going net zero? fossilfuels, gas, oil, coal, they're inherently volatile markets. they cost an absolute fortune and they've driven up household bills. that's simply unacceptable. fossil fuels are actually driving the cost of living crisis, and they're working against our national interest. so, sepi, what would we see if we didn't go net zero? if we don't go net zero, we don't end our contribution to climate change. and if we don't end our contribution to climate change, we will see more frequent and extreme weather events. we will see more extreme heat, flooding, which is going to cause untold damage to human lives, livelihoods, agriculture, biodiversity, our

infrastructure, our economies. the reality is, is that every fraction of a degree matters. the sooner that we can end our contribution to climate change, the fewer of these devastating events that we'll have to tolerate. how much would it cost us not to tackle climate change? there are economic costs and there are human costs. we know that 200,000 homes and businesses on the coastline of england alone are at risk of rising sea levels by 2050. and this is already happening. but that's, that's the human cost, but we will also see a cost to our economy, it's been estimates of around 7% of our gdp by the end of the century through climate impacts. you say it's worth the cost, worth investing in net zero but the truth is, what is the point if other countries around the world, much bigger emitters than britain, britain's just 1% of global emissions, other countries

aren't making the effort? what is the point of britain making the investment? last year alone, china built more offshore wind capacity in one year in 2021 than the uk as a whole over a decade. we are in a position where we can actually get ahead, develop the technologies, develop the net zero dividend, not only for our citizens, but that we can then export across the world. it's a win—win. but what people like nigel farage say is, look, there's no democratic mandate. the public haven't been asked if they want to make these investments in tackling climate change, have they? there absolutely is a public mandate on this. we've seen it time and time again. climate change and environment is consistently in the top three concerns of the british public. going, legislating for net zero, going for net zero policies was on the front page of the conservative party manifesto in 2019, which the public voted for. and we have, we've polled the public... but hold on, labour and the lib dems

all support net zero as well. there isn't a choice for the public. there was no—one that they could vote for if they didn't support net zero. we've polled the public and we've seen that actually rather than wasting time on a referendum, by a factor of two to one, they just want to see the government to get on with delivering their manifesto commitment to implement net zero. i mean, look around you now. i mean, the truth is, these wind turbines aren't turning. renewable energy isn't a reliable source of power 24—7, is it? the point of a future electricity system is that it's diversified. you have a huge range of sources. you've got onshore wind, you've got offshore wind, you've got solar, you'll have hydrogen. you, depending on the policy choices that are made, you may even have some nuclear, you may have some abated gas. but the reality is, is that our electrical engineers, these are serious people who have been working on this issue for a very long time, and they know what they're talking about, they're notjust some hippies

protesting about climate change, they are saying that they can run on 100% renewables by 2035, which is the government target. so who are we to argue? even if we do transition to net zero, along the way, we're going to need to use some fossilfuels, yeah? so why not use domestic fossil fuels? why not exploit the resources in the north sea, the shale gas that we've got under our feet here, maybe? the north sea is a very mature basin. frankly, there's not really much more we can squeeze out of it. this isn't the 1980s any more, where we had prolific supplies of gas. there are not 50 years' worth of shale gas beneath our feet. actually, the best estimates say around six months�* worth at best. and to get at that is going to be hugely expensive, hugely disruptive, and the public simply don't want it.

as the bbc�*s climate editor, i'm often responsible for bringing some pretty terrifying warnings, warnings about the future of the places where we've built our lives, built our communities, which is why i've come to east yorkshire. this place already experiences some of the worst coastal erosion in europe. up to ten metres of coastline vanishes into the sea in a bad year. this is happening for a number of different reasons, but the rising sea levels and more extreme weather climate change will bring are likely to make the problem worse. now, how we get to net zero is an open question. depending on who you ask, you might get a different answer. but what most politicians from all the main political parties agree is the need to get there. and the science is clear

on this, reaching net zero and fast is our best hope of tackling climate change. hello. the weather is fairly quiet out there right now. let's see how it's looking on friday. and it's going to be a mostly cloudy day, particularly across northern and western areas — quite breezy, too. and a touch of frost first thing expected across southern and central england as well as wales, where we have the clearer skies and the light winds here. in towns and cities, about minus two or three

degrees in rural spots, it could be as low as minus five and much milderfurther north. so these milder south—westerly winds will push in a lot of cloud across the country at times. we're expecting rain in western maybe central scotland, too, and the temperatures will be typically around 11 to 12 degrees, perhaps a little bit higher in eastern scotland and maybe a shade lower there in the south after that chilly start. here's the outlook into the weekend. generally speaking, a lot of dry weather, but at times it will be cloudy. a few sunny spells thrown in too.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria are now known to have killed more than twenty thousand people still relatives hope their loved ones might emerge alive. i tried to do it yesterday to dig it myself. but you can't. you see the concrete like this? all close to each other. i've got no power to lift this. amid the misery — there are miraculous rescues — a woman is freed after eight seven hours under the rubble — but hope is fading for many others. we'll have the latest news and analysis from our correspondents in the region. also coming up on newsday... the united states says the chinese balloon it shot down

at the weekend was definitely being used for spying.