live from london, this is bbc news and that's a wrap. us screenwriters reach a tentative deal with studio bosses which could end a nearly five—month—long strike. the military offers to support armed police former british pm gordon brown calls for a levy on oil and gas exports to help poorer nations tackle climate change. and hopes new asteroid samples will provide an extraordinary glimpse into the beginnings of the solar system. hello.

i'm lucy, welcome. hollywood studio bosses and the union representing writers have reached a tentative deal. writers have been on strike since early may. the 15,000—plus members still have to vote to ratify the deal. in a statement, the writer's guild of america said "we can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional— with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership." actors, though, are still holding industrial action. they have been on strike sincejuly. both strikes have hit the entertainment industry hard. cbs correspondent wendy gilette told me what this deal means. this tentative deal between the writers guild union and hollywood studios is a three—year contract. not many other details have been released just yet. if it's approved by the union's 11,000 members, talk shows could get back to work within days. the writers guild is calling the agreement exceptional with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership. it follows five straight days

of talks between the union and studio representatives. they do you sound quite happy with it, don't they, calling it exceptional? just talk us through what their concerns had been. well, the main sticking points in negotiations have included the regulation of artificial intelligence, staffing minimums for writers�* rooms and residuals. right now, picketing is suspended as members wait to vote on the deal. but the actors are still out on strike, aren't they? is there any sign of any imminent dealfor them? yeah. any projects that include actors will remain sidelined for now. there are predictions in the industry talks with their union, sag—aftra will proceed more quickly since many of the union's demands overla p. the studios refused to negotiate with the actors union until a deal was reached with the writers guild. so if it's passed, the studios will then move on to the actors union. the writers guild is encouraging members tojoin actors on their picket lines. the actors�* strike started a little bit later injuly. it is the first time the two unions have been on strike at the same

time since 1960. the army is on standby to support london's police after as many as 100 officers stood down from firearms duties. that followed a murder charge against one of their colleagues. the metropolitan police has demanded increased legal protection for staff carrying weapons. vincent mcaviney reports. you would normally only see the army on the streets of london after a terror attack. but following the decision of over 100 officers to hand in their permit to carry a firearm, military personnel are on standby in case of an emergency. on sunday, suella braverman called for a review into armed policing. her intervention was welcomed by the metropolitan police commissioner, sir mark rowley. in an open letter, he called for an urgent reset, writing that improvements to the met police were being undermined by a system not set up to help officers succeed, identifying police pursuits and the use of force as areas

of the most glaring unfairness. he said officers need sufficient legal protection to do theirjob and keep the public safe, because they're now more afraid of years of uncertainty for them and theirfamilies in the legal system than they are of confronting dangerous or armed criminals and terrorists. it all comes after a met police officer was charged on thursday with the murder of unarmed chris kaba last year. the 24—year—old was fatally shot in a borrowed car in south london, a car the police say was linked to an incident involving a gun. the met police are keen to stress that military personnel will not be involved in armed patrols across the capital's streets. that work will be done by police officers, the majority of which, the bbc has been told, will be from the met. but their numbers will be bulked out with officers from other forces from across the country. it's understood, though, that some officers from those forces have refused to work in london in solidarity with their met colleagues. the home secretary said she ordered the review to ensure armed officers

have the confidence to do theirjob. the big question, though, is whether that installs confidence in the communities they serve. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. earlier the bbc heard from a former officer who didn't want to be identified.— officer who didn't want to be identified. ~ ., , ., , ., officer who didn't want to be identified. ., ., , identified. what is obvious to be as the are identified. what is obvious to be as they are not _ identified. what is obvious to be as they are not acting _ identified. what is obvious to be as they are not acting out _ identified. what is obvious to be as they are not acting out of— identified. what is obvious to be as they are not acting out of anger - identified. what is obvious to be as they are not acting out of anger or| they are not acting out of anger or petulance, this is not the kind of coordinated protest, this is individuals who have partners and families and who are incredibly committed to the profession, the train very hard to do the job and they generally need to fill, to be honest it's not really worth it any

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cabinet ministers and all the protection as well as having to respond to firearm incidents and terrorist incidents, it is a major crisis that no has to be resolved by the, what could be the solution? these are the ones representing rank and file officers and we heard how long representations can take and we heard about the toll on mental health of any officers caught up in any mastication. == health of any officers caught up in any mastication.— any mastication. -- investigation. there have _ any mastication. -- investigation. there have been _ any mastication. -- investigation. there have been some _ any mastication. -- investigation. there have been some like - any mastication. -- investigation. | there have been some like firearm officers who have faced criminal trial and in one case around ten years after the incident took place and that is completely unacceptable. then the chris kaba case it has been a year since criminal charges were

laid which is relatively quick but there will be another year until it is criminal trial and it could go on for several years and optionally thatis for several years and optionally that is a major problem but i think in the short term what sir mark rowley has to do is show firearms officers refusing to carry the weapons issue supports them and back is officers and is pressing particularly for greater legal protection for them and that is what he has done by writing that letter yesterday by writing to the home secretary suella braverman at lining he wants greater legal protection and raising the threshold the iopc needs to meet. these will not happen

overnight by demonstrating he is on the side demanding change he will hope that those firearms officers who have withdrawn will return to duty. let's get some of the day's other news now. the philippines says it�*ll take �*all appropriate actions�* to remove a floating barrier installed by china to stop fishing boats from entering a disputed area in the south china sea. coast guards say it�*s preventing fishermen from working. china claims more than 90% of the area as its own territory. the public prosecutor in libya has ordered the arrest of several officials over the flood that killed thousands of people in the city of derna. those detained are involved in water resources and the management of two dams that broke, sweeping away a quarter of the city two weeks ago. a statement said they were suspected of bad management and negligence.

the notorious italian mafia boss matteo messina denaro has died in custody at the age of 61. he was being treated for cancer. messina denaro was arrested injanuary at a clinic in palermo in sicily after 30 years on the run. he was serving a life sentence after being convicted in absentia of numerous murders. how richer countries that have contributed more emissions can help poorer nations tackle climate change is the major challenge facing the next cop conference, which will be held in dubai in november. former uk prime minister gordon brown, is setting out plans for a global windfall levy on oil—producing countries to help the poorer ones. earlier we spoke to gordon brown and asked him to explain his idea in more detail. we have got an explosive situation in the world today. we have got droughts, floods and fire storms hitting the poorest countries in the world,

and yet at the same time we have got these unprecedented profits, windfall profits that have been made by the petro states and oil companies, and the extent of it is that it is 4 trillion, 4,000 billion in revenues in the last year, 2.5 trillion of that a windfall, money that is unearned but money that should go to helping those people that are suffering from the high energy prices, and suffering from climate change as a result of historic emissions. that�*s why i am proposing that the chair of the cop28, which is the united arab emirates, come forward with a proposal to kick—start a new financing mechanism to deal with the mitigation and adaptation in the south and they then ask, after they pay a windfall levy, i suggest 25 billion, they then ask the rest of the rich countries to guarantee finance so we can eventually get to $1 trillion a year, which is what is necessary to deal with the developmental and climate change needs of the global south. that is a huge amount of money you�*re looking for. would this be on a voluntary basis? it could be a voluntary basis,

but it depends on the pressure that is put on by the rest of the world. the chairman of cop28, who is after all the chairman of one of the biggest oil companies in the world, has told people to put up the money. but as yet, the petro states have not done enough when they have been making the windfall profits. if you get 2.5 trillion, which is $2,500 billion, which is almost as big as the economy of the uk, in windfall revenues, then instead of spending it on buying up sports teams, which is what saudi arabia is doing, they might spend it on helping those people who have been the victims of rising poverty and rising disconnections from electricity in the poorest countries of the world. i am proposing a burden—sharing agreement. let the current emitters pay up some of the money with this windfall levy.

let the historic emitters, mainly western countries, add to that. let�*s accept that the world bank needs to be properly refinanced and then we can raise the amount of money available to $1 trillion. when i chaired the g20 in 2009, we needed $1 trillion to underpin the world economy, 1 trillion in total. now we need 1 trillion a year. and of course, the oil and gas revenues can contribute a great deal to it. these are massive additional, unprecedented, almost unimagined profits, bigger than at any time in the history of oil, that have been made in one year. and they may be made this year as well. therefore, there should be a contribution to a climate solution that has eluded us for years. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let�*s look at some other stories making the headlines. a man�*s been charged with murder after a woman was fatally shot in leicestershire. police were called to

a property in long clawson near melton mowbray on thursday night where they found carrie slater with life—threatening injuries. richard basson has been charged with murder and is due before magistrates in leicester. health service managers estimate that more than one million nhs appointments in england have been cancelled because of strikes. nhs providers have warned that resources are likely to be severely stretched as winter approaches. industrial action began in december. the official number of inpatient and outpatient appointments and operations cancelled is more than 885,000. the cost—of—living crisis has changed according to the boss of aldi in the uk and ireland. giles hurley says shoppers are buying more own—label products than ever before and he expects this to carry on. you�*re live with bbc news. authorities in kosovo say they�*ve taken control of a serbian 0rthodox

monastery in the territory�*s north, ending a stand—off with a group of heavily armed men. the gunmen are suspected of carrying out a night—time attack, in which a policeman died. here�*s our balkans correspondent guy delauney. the shooting appears to be over and the monastery in north kosovo is again a quiet place of contemplation, worship and pilgrimage, but the mutual recriminations between serbia and kosovo have onlyjust begun. the serbian president has made a televised address to the nation, describing the killing of a kosovo police force officer as absolutely reprehensible, an event that could not be justified. however, he also made it clear that he thought the kosovo prime minister bore responsibility ultimately for the shooting and the events which followed, after a campaign of provocations against the ethnic serb minority who live in north kosovo. the authorities in pristina are

unsurprisingly having none of that. the kosovo prime minister has described the armed group who carried out the attacks as being supported logistically and financially by official belgrade. partners of kosovo and serbia have expressed their outrage at the events. the european union said the shooting of the kosovo police officer was a hideous attack, and the foreign policy chief has called on serbia and kosovo to return to the negotiating table to de—escalate tensions. france will end its military presence in niger. french president emmanuel macron says the 1,500 troops stationed there will be removed by the end of the year. in a televised interview, macron announced plans to withdraw the french ambassador and several other diplomats

from niger within hours, followed by its military contingent in the coming months. it follows a military coup injuly that saw the ousting of niger�*s elected president. mr macron has refused to recognise the junta as a legitimate authority but said france would co—ordinate the troop withdrawal with the coup�*s leaders. translation: france has decided to bring back its ambassador. - and so in the coming hours, our ambassador, with several diplomats will return to france. and we are ending our military cooperation with the de facto authorities of niger because they no longer want to fight against terrorism. the highly anticipated trial of the former crypto billionaire, sam bankman—fried, will begin next week in the us. his company, ftx, collapsed in november owing billions of dollars to investors. the so—called crypto king has pleaded not guilty to multiple criminalfraud charges, but could face up to 115 years injail if convicted. bbc panorama has a new film

out today on iplayer about his dramatic downfall. sunil kavuri, from the east midlands, is thought to be the largest british victim of the company�*s collapse. when officially they said the withdrawals are being stopped then i completely went sick. ijust thought, oh, my god. that�*s it. i�*ve lost everything. and how much money? $2.1 million. joe tidy is here to tell us more about what went wrong. what happened to sunil? he was one of many people using ftx two trade pounds and dollars into crypto currency. it was the second biggest in the world and when the company started unravelling last november it went from a position of strength with sam bankman—fried, very high profile and well trusted

as the head and find out, bit of a hero in crypto communities all came come down within about eight days and sunil was one of many investors around the world who was left without his money or his crypto coils and there are lots of people like him around the world. he calls himself ftx a creditor champion on social media and to set up lots of groups around the world with people telling their story and launching civil cases not only against ftx and also the celebrities and influencers who have helped market this. there was a time after the collapse of ftx when sam bankman—fried was holed up in his luxury complex in the bahamas waiting and wondering if he would be arrested and he accepted invitations

from generalist. i interviewed him about two days before he was arrested and he said it was completely innocent and there was no criminality and he did not do it deliberately but he admitted making severe mistakes with the company and mismanaged finances and the entire company and said sorry to the customers and hoped to be able in some way to pay them and at one stage said start a new company and start paying the customers back. he was arrested, extradited to the united states and faces a highly anticipated trial next week with charges of fraud and money laundering and physical donations. the most high profile accusation is to use customer money from ftx to p"°p up to use customer money from ftx to prop up a hedge fund that made really make and risky bets on crypto currency that sometimes paid off sometimes did not. when this was discovered and the finance of the companies was funded to be fragile,

it all came crashing down and people pool their money out the company as quickly as the good but it was not quickly as the good but it was not quick enough for some. in the next few hours, precious samples collected from the most dangerous rock in our solar system are expected to be moved to a specialist laboratory in texas for analysis. it�*s hoped the debris taken from the bennu asteroid will provide some answers into how life began. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle has this report. the src has entered the earth�*s atmosphere. a first glimpse of the capsule after its epicjourney through space. we have confirmed parachute deployment. high up in the atmosphere, a parachute opens, slowing its descent. touchdown. i repeat, src has touched down. a textbook landing in the middle of the utah desert. for dante lauretta, the lead scientist who spent decades working on the 0siris—rex mission,

it was an emotional moment. so how did it go? it went absolutely perfectly, absolutely perfect landing. we stuck it. we didn�*t move. we landed in nice, soft soil. the capsule looked flawless. i cried like a baby in that helicopter when i heard that the parachute had opened and we were coming in for a soft landing. it was just an overwhelming moment for me. inside this capsule is the most precious sample — fragments of an asteroid called bennu. the team quickly secure it to prevent any contamination, and attach it to a 30 metre line slung beneath the helicopter. this is the moment that nasa has been waiting for. after seven long years, travelling billions of miles to bennu and back, the capsule is finally here. the priority now is getting it out of the dusty desert environment and into this safe and sterile, clean room as quickly as possible. a quick knock to say they�*ve arrived and the capsule is in,

and the painstaking and meticulous process to prepare it for opening begins. the whole procedure will take weeks. when that capsule opens, to see for the first time this material that no other human has seen before, it's something you think about. we've thought about it for the past seven years, and it'sjust going to be very exciting. but also, there's going to be a lot of work to do. so we're going to kick into business mode very quickly. so why go to all of this effort? bennu tops the list of nasa�*s most hazardous space rocks. so studying its make—up could help us to stop it, if we ever need to. but it could also reveal more about our origins. it�*s a perfectly preserved relic from the dawn of the solar system. it�*s going to keep scientists busy for a long time. one of the most important parts of a sample return mission is we take 75% of that sample, and we�*re going to lock it away

for future generations, people who haven�*t even been born yet, to work in laboratories that don�*t exist yet, and instrumentation that you haven�*t thought of yet. so, i mean, it�*s an incredibly valuable, valuable sample that we�*re bringing back. the next stage of this mission will involve this military cargo plane. the canister containing the sample will be packaged up and loaded onto it and flown to thejohnson space centre in houston, where scientists are waiting to start the most exciting bit — opening it up to see exactly what�*s inside. the capsule is like a russian doll. different layers have to be removed to get to the dust and rocks inside. the hope is they could reveal the story of our solar system. rebecca morelle, bbc news, utah.

stay with us here on bbc news for world business report. hello again. today is essentially going to be a breezy day with sunshine and showers. but as we head to the middle part of the week, wednesday looks like it could bring us some stormy conditions. but what we have at the moment are a few showers getting in across parts of wales, northern england, northern ireland, but the bulk of them will be across scotland where they could be heavy and thundery. still gusty winds across the north and also the west, gusting in excess of 40mph. but a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine, with highs up to 23 degrees. now, through this evening and overnight we hang on to a lot of clear skies at first, but then a system coming up from the south will introduce some humid conditions and some showers across wales, south—west england, the midlands and southern counties. and at the same time, we also have a weather front bringing rain in across northern ireland and the outer hebrides.

now, both of these fronts through the course of tomorrow are going to push north—eastwards and you can see from the isobars it�*s going to be another breezy day in the south, but windy in the north. so the showers continue to push up into the north sea, the rain moves out of northern ireland, across northern england and into scotland, and behind it for most it will still be dry, but there still will be a few residual showers with highs up to about 22 or 23. now, as we head on from tuesday into wednesday, we�*ve got this developing area of low pressure which is going to bring us the stormy conditions, some heavy rain, but also some strong winds. we start off with a lot of dry weather. the cloud builds ahead of the low pressure arriving. and then in it comes, widespread gales developing.

widely inland we are looking at 60—70mph gusts. and these are the temperatures, 1a to 20 degrees, but also some heavy rain. so this could well lead to some disruption. the strongest winds will be around the irish sea coast, 60 to 75 mile an hour gusts. but potentially there could be a little bit stronger than that. now, as we head overnight wednesday into thursday, that low pressure eventually tracks northwards and moves away. then we�*ve got this little bump in the ice of us as a transient ridge of high pressure comes in. so thursday morning we see the back edge of that stormy weather moving away. behind it, a mixture of bright spells, sunshine and showers, more showers coming into the west and also the south through the day with highs of 19.

a sell off for china property stocks amid concerns about evergrande�*s ability to restructure its debt. and a hollywood ending? marathon negotiations lead to a deal with writers that could end the five—month strike. welcome to world business report, i�*m ben thompson. we begin in china, where property stocks have been slammed with construction giant evergrande falling by more than 20%. in a statement to the hong kong stock exchange, the property giant said it can�*t issue new debt. meanwhile, over the weekend the former deputy head

of the country�*s statistics bureau made a stark warning