us presidentjoe biden us presidentjoe biden and chinese counterpart and chinese counterpart xi jinping will hold their last xi jinping will hold their last meeting in the next hours, meeting in the next hours, a day after both leaders warned a day after both leaders warned of turbulent times ahead of turbulent times ahead as donald trump returns as donald trump returns to the white house. to the white house. mr xi has told delegates mr xi has told delegates at the asia—pacific economic at the asia—pacific economic summit taking place in peru summit taking place in peru that china will be that china will be an increasingly open country, an increasingly open country, at a time where he said some at a time where he said some were closing in, and pulling were closing in, and pulling towards unilateralism. towards unilateralism. the comments seemed to mark how the comments seemed to mark how china will try to position of up to 60% on chinese goods china will try to position itself once donald trump takes itself once donald trump takes office as us office as us president in january. president in january. mr trump said he would set mr trump said he would set tariffs as high as 60% tariffs as high as 60% on chinese—made goods. on chinese—made goods. with the latest from washington, here's our with the latest from washington, here's our correspondent rowan bridge. correspondent rowan bridge. donald trump made a great play donald trump made a great play

during his election campaign of during his election campaign of this idea of imposing tariffs this idea of imposing tariffs of up to 60% on chinese goods as a way of defending american manufacturing.

cause the economy to shrink globally by up to 7%, which is the size of the german and french economies combined. president biden as we said, meeting the chinese president a little later. how much does this meeting mean now given that president biden is now on his way out? i think, if you have a meeting of the world's two biggest economic superpowers, both of which are military superpowers, as well, in some ways, i think that is significant. the united states has been briefing that they are going to raise their concerns with the chinese over issues such as human trafficking, chinese hacking, threats against taiwan, but i think what you have also seen as the chinese already metaphorically already looking overjoe biden�*s shoulder at the incoming trump administration and what that might mean, you know. president xi is not constrained by things like term limit so he is secure in his position where as forjoe biden this is really the start of his swansong and you can see from the comments there about sort

of protectionism and so on from president xi, that they seem telegraphed towards a donald trump and the incoming administration and what they may be planning to do. and one of the members of that incoming administration is likely to be marco rubio, if he is approved, america's top diplomat, the secretary of state. he is well known for his hawkish views on china. he wrote a piece for the washington—based china one of the most significant adversities that america could face so i think you're going to see a hard line taken by the trump administration towards the chinese. i mean, to be fairto the biden administration, they have taken quite a hard line on certain issues but they have tried to combine that with a level of diplomacy in areas that they can as well. i think the concern now is kind of how disruptive will it be, having that new administration come in where they have made it clear from a number of the appointments that they are

china hawks and i'm sure the chinese are sort of reading the tea leaves to try to see where they will stand with the new incoming trump administration. let's turn to azerbaijan and the un climate talks — cop29. hundreds of activists formed a chain in the space outside the venue in the azeri capital baku, on what is traditionally the biggest protest day of the two—week talks. joined by protests around the world — demonstrators hummed and snapped theirfingers — to demand rich nations allocate more money to fight climate change. rich countries would have to pay up. pay up for their climate debt. they owe us big time. they find money for wars, they find money for supporting the fossil fuel industry, but they say that they don't have money for climate action? protesters complained about not being allowed to chant or make speeches and instead having to resort to humming. it's really challenging and painful—

it's really challenging and painful that we can't really express— painful that we can't really express ourselves with our voices _ express ourselves with our voices. we do with our bodies, we do — voices. we do with our bodies, we do with_ voices. we do with our bodies, we do with our throat, we do it through— we do with our throat, we do it through the solidarity and the means— through the solidarity and the means we are given. the un's climate chief has urged 620 leaders to agree a deal to raise money for developing nations. ahead of ministers arriving next week, diplomats are struggling to find common ground on a deal that might be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to poorer nations — many in the global south. this comes after argentina snubbed the talks earlier this week, raising alarm that presidentjavier milei, an ally of us president—elect donald trump, could be looking at pulling out of the paris accord. further pressure on cop's future came from an open letter, with some leading climate experts saying the summit is "no longer fit for purpose" and in need of an urgent overhaul. signatories to the letter include former un secretary—general ban ki—moon and a former un climate chief.

sandrine dixson—decleve, who is global ambassador of the club of rome and executive chair of earth—li—all, a partnership of scientific and economic institutes — explains why she thinks the letter is important. the letter was extremely important, but it's also building on two years of talking about the type of reforms that we need with regard to the cop. we've seen that the cops have actually turned into trade shows, have enabled, actually, a series of fossil energy interest groups to participate, including this year, where it is said that about 1,700 of fossil energy companies have been allowed to come to the cop. and in addition, 132 executives from companies are given badges by the azerbaijan presidency. so what we wanted to do was to highlight to the parties of the convention, but also to the un, that it was time to think through. how can we actually reach the necessary ambition

that we need to deal with the climate change that we're seeing right now on our doorstep? i'm wondering how long this has been brewing, if you like. i mean, was baku the final straw with the azeri president ilham aliyev standing up before all the world leaders there and the un secretary general, who was just about to speak, saying that oil and gas were a gift from god? yes. i think that the contradictions between the need to facilitate through a presidency a cop process that enables us, this time, to have both a climate finance deal, but also to build on the pledge from last year of transitioning out of fossil energy, and then to have not only a presidency that has been doing deals on fossil energy the week before and on top of it, then opening up the cop, as you say, with this quite flabbergasting declaration. so we did feel as leaders who have been working in this area that we wanted to do

a few things. the first is to reiterate our conviction that cops are absolutely fundamental. that the un process and multilateral negotiations must be strengthened. this is not a call to scrap the cop. this is actually a call to ensure that it's stronger, more robust, and that we work together to put in place the right types of processes and criteria to enable future presidencies to take our commitments seriously. so it's a reform of an existing formula — because i wondered by attacking cop, didn't you risk putting yourselves in the same camp as the climate sceptics? well, that's why we really wanted to reiterate that this was not an attack on cop. this is an attack on the fact that the process has gone a bit out of whack, let's say, and no longer truly follows the need to come up with ambition. the paris agreement was very clear.

we've had a series of commitments, both from non—state actors and state actors, which have enabled us to come to a point where we need to ensure now that we move towards action and implementation. and this is all the more important when we see the climate shocks. we've just seen it in valencia recently. we can see growing hurricanes and temperature shifts, desertification in so many parts of the world. we've surpassed 1.5 degrees several times this year. and we also know increasingly that at 1.5 and also going up to three degrees, we can lose up to 3% to 10% of gdp. so the cost of inaction is becoming very clear to all of us. here in the uk, hundreds of angry farmers have protested outside the welsh labour party conference. they're furious with the uk government's decision to impose a 20% inheritance tax on farm estates worth more than a million pounds.

the prime minister says he will defend the government's budget announcements "all day long". here's damian grammaticas. 0n the north wales coast, the rumblings of rural protest. could this swell into a real political problem for the government? the morale, the mental health, you know, everything is at an all—time low. and what do they do? they kick us again. galvanised by the budget and the government's decision to levy inheritance tax on farms, they descended here from across wales and as far away as yorkshire today. this government has made the one decision which is destroying the morale, the mental wellbeing and the economic viability of farms. we don't work for ourselves, we work to produce food for others, for an asset which will be passed on. and in the end, the alternative is the fragmentation of the farms bought

by large companies. honking. farms have long been exempt from inheritance tax. the government says only the very biggest will now pay, only at a rate that's still lower than for other property, and only a maximum of a few hundred will be affected every year. applause. addressing the welsh labour conference, the prime minister did not mention inheritance tax, but did say he believes his tax raising budget is the right one for the country. i will defend our decisionsj in the budget all day long. the consequence, he said, is that the welsh government will get more funding than ever. i will defend facing i up to the harsh light of fiscal reality. i will defend the tough - decisions that were necessary to stabilise our economy, i and i will defend protecting the payslips of working people, fixing the foundations - of our economy and investing in the future of britain - and the future of wales.

out of 32 welsh parliamentary seats at the election, labour won 27. but critical voices are getting louder and seeds of protest being planted by farmers who say their ability to pass their businesses to future generations is under threat. damian grammaticas, bbc news. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky says he would like to end the war with russia next year through "diplomatic means". he's been speaking with ukrainian radio a day after saying russia's war on his country will end sooner than it otherwise would have done, with donald trump's return to the white house. 0ur correspondent, jessica parker is in florida with more on the potential impact of a trump administration on the war in ukraine, here's our correspondentjessica parker. i think donald trump has made, through the campaign, several comments that have led people to think that he could, or his administration could potentially put pressure

on ukraine to cede territory to russia that moscow has occupied. why do i say that? well, donald trump has very much questioned the amount of aid that the us has been sending to ukraine. the us has been kyiv�*s biggest backer in terms of military aid. and he has talked about ending the war very quickly. he's even claimed he could end it in a day without specifying how. and then you match all of that together with what's happening on the battlefield, it is ukraine of course that's on the back foot in the east. and so it's interesting to hear president zelensky�*s remarks on this matter, telling ukrainian media, as you were saying, it is certain the war will end sooner with the policies of the team that's going to enter the white house, and as well, ukraine must do everything so this war ends next year through diplomatic means. it wasn't that long ago, of course, that president zelensky came to the us, met withjoe biden and met with donald trump as well, to present what was being described as his victory plan.

he talked about trying to strengthen ukraine's hands in any future sort of diplomatic solution. at the time he did that there was a sense that the plan had fallen a little bit flat in washington, dc. but of course now we think his relationship with donald trump and the conversations they have will be key. there was of course a bit of mystery between donald trump and vladimir putin, the russian president. there were reports those two had had a phone call but that was outright denied by the kremlin. now it's time for a look at today's sport with chetan. hello and thank you. world champions south africa consigned england to their fifth straight defeat in a pulsating test match at twickenham. the springboks ran out 29—20 winners england took an early lead before springboks scored

three tries in first half. sam underhill powered over as england hit back to trail 19—17 at half—time, but south africa regained control of a thrilling match keslin kolbe sprinted clear to secure south africa's victory with the only try of intense second half. earlier scotland beat portugal 59—21 at murrayfield. confirmation there of south africa's win against england at the allianz stadium in twickenham. 29-20. france have just got under way against new zealand in paris. still goalless there. nine more games in footballs nations league on saturday the most eye catching are in group three in league a. the netherlands lead hungary by a goal to know. the result from group one, georgia— one, czech republic currently goalless and

you can see two results there, wins for iceland and wales cosmic hopes of securing top to promotion still intact after a goalless draw for wales in turkey. not 2—0 as you see there, it was goalless. world number one jannik sinner and norway's casper ruud are currently battling it out for the right to meet taylor fritz he atp finals title match on sunday. sinner took the first set 6—1. earlier fritz became the first american to reach the final in 18 years. he beat alexander zverev in a thrilling three sets in turin. not since 2006, whenjames blake lost to roger federer, has a us player reached the final of the season—ending tournament and it's the fourth time fritz has beaten the german this year. fritz eventually won 6-3 3-6 7-6.

more balls being put in place near the end and at the and to the balls were just huge and when i try to be aggressive i didn't feel like it was doing much so ijust didn't feel like it was doing much so i just told myself at the end ijust had to fight and be solid and try to take care of my serve the best they can but give him absolutely nothing from the back. meanwhile, the billiejean king cup is ongoing in malaga with italy booking their place in the last four with a 2—1 victory overjapan. they'll play either poland or the czech republicjasmine paolini played a key role in italy coming from one down. the world number four beat moyuka uchijima in straight sets to level the tie and then teamed up with sara errani to win the deciding doubles tie against shuko aoyama and eri hozumi in straight sets. rory mcilroy is on the verge of winning a sixth race to dubai title. he needs to finish in the top 11 at the season ending dp world tour championship and he'll head into the final round in dubai tied for the lead with denmark's rasmus hojgaard and france's antoine rozner.

they're all 12 under par overall. mcilroy had six birdies and just two bogeys. the world number three could have claimed the outright could have claimed the outright lead, but missed this birdie putt at the last hole. francesco bagnaia has won saturday's sprint at the barcelona motogp, ensuring the battle for the world championship title will go down to the final grand prix of the season on sunday. the defending champion started from pole and although he briefly slipped to third he regained the lead on the opening lap and went on to take the chequered flag. with championship leader horgay marteen finishing third, the italian cut the gap to 19 points. howeverfinishing ninth on sunday will be enough for marteen to claim the world title for the first time. he'll start from fourth, while bagnaia is on pole. we will have more for you later but that's all of the sports

for now. medics say at least ten palestinians have been killed in an israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in gaza city. at least 20 others have been injured at the un—run abu assi school in the shati refugee camp. many are thought to be still trapped under the rubble. israel has not yet commented on the incident. several of donald trump's nominees for key posts in his future government, are facing heavy scrutiny, including claims of misconduct. police have revealed that his choice for defence secretary, fox news host pete hegseth, had been investigated for an alleged sexual assault in 2017. he was never arrested and denies wrongdoing. cbs news reports that pete hegseth was once flagged as a potential "insider threat" by fellow military personnel.

a former member of the minnesota national guard, he has a tattoo on his bicep which is associated with white supremacy. mr hegseth has denied any connection to extremist groups. meanwhile, the man picked to be donald meanwhile, the man picked to be donald trump's attorney general — matt gaetz — was the subject of an ongoing ethics investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and misuse of campaign funds. and mr trump's nominee for health secretary robert f kenneder, is facing backlash for his vaccine scepticism. meanwhile donald trump's pick for us ambassador to israel mike huckabee — said in 2017 "there was no such thing as a settlement" describing them as "communities. trump has named his election campaign spokeswoman, 27—year—old karoline leavitt, as his white house press secretary.

north dakota governor doug bur—gum will lead the interior department, an agency whose portfolio includes both on—shore and off—shore drilling. liz goodwin is the congress reporter at washington post and told me more about trump's latest appointments. he was so focused on taking out the former house speaker kevin mccarthy so he has no good relationships essentially on the senate side among republicans and then on top of that, as mentioned earlier, there are all of these allegations around sex trafficking and other misconduct that were being investigated by the house ethics committee that i think senate republicans really want to get their hands on that report and he is the person that they have been the most willing this past week to publicly question as a nominee whereas they have been holding their fire a little whereas they have been holding theirfire a little bit more when it comes to someone like pete. . �* , , pete. that's interesting when ou sa pete. that's interesting when you say there _ pete. that's interesting when you say there is _ pete. that's interesting when you say there is this - pete. that's interesting when you say there is this it - you say there is this it resistance to matt gates being eternally general because it is thought the republican party is completely the party of donald

trump to think there could be problems ahead for their appointments? i problems ahead for their appointments?— problems ahead for their appointments? problems ahead for their a- ointments? ., ., , appointments? i do actually. it is true after— appointments? i do actually. it is true after the _ appointments? i do actually. it is true after the selection - is true after the selection senate republicans really want to give a lot of deference to trunk because they know that for example he won more votes than any senate republican to do was up for reelection this november in every single state where they were facing reelection so they know he is more popular than them and they say he has a mandate and they have given up on this idea that he is a temporary phase. he's the leader of the party and they know that, but someone like gaetz is testing their willingness to go along with every single appointment. i think there is a lot of controversial people they may not have, or may not have voted to confirm four years ago that they will this time but i do not think that gaetz will be one of them. let's turn to another choice you mentioned, fox news host a man who did not

rise particularly high in the national guard in the army but he has been put in charge of the entire pentagon as defence secretary, pete hegseth. it's a very unconventional choice. there are 3 million employees of the antic on civilian and military it's a huge organisation and this is a person does not run a big organisation civilian or military before. so there is a lot of questions about him, but senators, there have been far fewer republican senators who have openly questioned him as a choice. most are saying, i look forward to meeting him or i know him and i like him or, i don't know him so i will learn more. but no one has come out and said, that's not ok, he's not qualified in the way that few people have about gaetz. meanwhile in the philippines thousands of people have been urged to evacuate — as super typhoon man—yi makes landfall. man—yi hit with maximum wind speeds of almost 200

kilometres per hour. authorities have warned that man—yi has the potential to cause severe damage. it was billed as a fighting comeback for the former world heavyweight chamption mike tyson — but in the end his much hyped fight against the social media influencer turned—boxer jake paul — has ended in victory for the 27—year—old. the bout saw 58—year—old tyson come out of retirement for his first fight since 2005 — mike tyson has convictions for rape, assault and cocaine possession. and it became clear near the start that tyson was struggling to stay with the pace. when the scorecards were annouced, jake paul was a comfortable winner. i wanted to give the fans a show but i did not want to hurt someone who did not need to be hurt. did you feel mike's power at all? he hit you at one and you gave him the tongue. - 0nly because the crowd,

like, got turnt up, but it did not actually hurt. catch up with all of her stories on the website or at. thank you for watching. hello again. up to now it's been a very mild november, but all that is changing. it's going to be getting colder over the week ahead for all of us. and that means frosts more widely. and for northern parts of the uk in particular, the risk of some snow and some ice. and it's all because this deep area of low pressure is moving away into scandinavia. and following on from that, the winds are coming down from the north, from the arctic, pushing down into the uk. and those colder winds have arrived already in scotland. the winds are easing overnight, but we'll see more wintry showers over the hills in the north of the country. some clear spells elsewhere as that cloud and rain clears away from southern parts of england and wales — will still be a few showers too. where we have the lighter winds

and clearer skies in eastern scotland and north east england there'll be a frost. temperatures could be as low as —3 celsius, but it should start bright and sunny here. it won't be as windy in scotland as it's been today, but we'll see showers developing and, again, they'll be wintry over the hills in the north. cloud probably building across other parts of the uk. most of the rain affecting northern ireland, moving into wales and the northwest of england. temperature—wise, probably going to be a couple of degrees lower than today. quite a significant and noticeable change for the midlands in particular. we've still got double figure temperatures, though, in the far southwest in that milder air mass. but it's colder air elsewhere. and along the boundary between those two, you get a weather front. and this deepening area of low pressure — that's going to run into the colder air, and bring the risk of snow later on monday and monday night. but, during the day, more wintry showers continuing across northern scotland, cloud tending to build elsewhere, bringing with it some outbreaks of rain, wetter weather arriving

in northern ireland as that area of low pressure approaches, and it bumps into that colder air. so as we head into monday evening, we're going to find the rain turning to snow across some parts of northern ireland, but more especially overnight, into southern scotland and northern england. this is where we've got the greater risk of disruption. there is a yellow weather warning at the moment with the heavier snow over the hills, of course. we've also got that snow across the far north of scotland. snow in northern england, southern scotland could continue into tuesday morning before that. low pressure then moves away. but we're still left with this northerly wind well into next week, bringing colder air and some more wintry showers. now on bbc news, newscast. you're back! hello. i've been away. did anything happen the last few weeks? no.

nothing happened! i missed the budget and the us election by being away. and a new leader of the tory opposition. so everything has changed. it has. do you think i should go away more often? no, i don't, because i missed you. to help the news business? i'll tell you what. .. i've been listening and it's been very good to listen. when i think back to the us election... yes. i'm so glad, by not being here i didn't have to be one of the people saying it's too close to call. and also, newscast was the episode that had stephanie flanders of bloomberg say, wall street calls it for trump. she said that on newscast weeks ago. can i just say. because we do say when we are wrong about things. absolutely, and we do say therefore that stephanie flanders, formerly of this parish, now of bloomberg, was right about the us election. it allows me also to make one of my favourite most irritating points that i always make. it is, don't believe the polls. the polls aren't the real story, they are part of the picture, but when you believe the polls and get obsessed with the polls, sometimes you find

that you end up not in the right place because instead of listening to what voters are really saying you are very, very much driven by where the polls are moving, if indeed the polls are moving at all. so, since you have been away, a lot has happened, paddy. but what hasn't happened is howjoyous joyous it is to be with you at the weekends. particularly on this episode of saturday newscast. newscast from the bbc. and it's laura in the studio. and i'm genuinely very, very happy to be reunited with my weekend partner. thank you, it's very nice of you to say. and i love, almost a year we've been banging on at this. is it? yeah. lord. more than a year, no? yeah, it is, but it felt like more than a year. felt like a lot longer than that. every edition. so, look, it's very nice to be back.

this is another newstastic weekend. it is. before they invented newscast at the weekend, it was as if there was only news monday to friday. so, president putin has spoken by phone to 0laf scholz. yes. the russians say the germans initiated it. and now president zelensky has made an absolutely chapter changing intervention himself. he has. and since donald trump's victory, so much of the commentary has been dominated by, what does it mean for ukraine, because he has made all sorts of noises about not really being up for continuing the backing of it. he promised on the stump that he could end the war in a day. today, president zelensky has done an interview with a ukrainian outfit saying it is certain the war will end sooner with the policies of the team that will now lead to the white house. the white house. this is their approach, their promise to their citizens. now look, of course, all of this is part of sort of megaphone diplomacy, right? the people involved in these incredibly sensitive, important, diplomatic and public conversations know that they are haggling in public, right? they are not just saying, oh, this is the truth

and nothing but the truth.