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is due to set sail for the un climate conference in new york today toward traveling by air the 16 year old is making the trip in a carbon neutral racing yacht she'll be leaving from the english port city of southampton we as we report it could be a rough journey. this is a boat climate activist gratitude. for at least 2 weeks on tuesday she went to familiarize yourself with the vessel. had been how to get to new york without increasing her carbon footprint this yacht she hopes is the answer last week she admitted the journey would not be easy. i have not sailed this form. so i thought i am going to go there now and to try to sort of get basic lessons and how how to what to do and what not to do. before setting sail skipper. and our father who will accompany her on possible problems including the weather. this trip will be massively challenging. for all of us. i hope we were able to find a route that it's not too rough so we can go out a bit longer to sail around strong winds. that's not always possible so we have discussed we have. she tries to mentally prepare for that. the weather wi

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she is going to un climate. conference in new york and she says this is the perfect statement for somebody who is attending that conference to make before she gets there i'm sure that not many other delegates will be doing the same. so you know what and of course one of the cries of criticism or questions that have surrounded this. this very challenging journey is like well it's all very well for the greater to make this one journey but still going to be millions of people taking planes it's not going to try to win that but when posed this question she said the point is is that it is to raise awareness that she is going to stick by her weight and make a 0 carbon emission journey and the whole point is that she says she wants to get that message filtered down to friends to friends of friends etc etc when i asked her what was the one name that she hoped to achieve on this journey she simply said it was about awareness she says she wants to relay that message to people because she said it is up to the people to vent pressure

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stunt to raise awareness of climate change and to drum up support for the upcoming un the un conference which it's done so it does look going to climate change agenda face something of a challenge and you know well that's for sure i mean here in the european side of the atlantic ocean gratitude burger and fries future movement are household names there's been huge amounts of media coverage following weeks and months of friends for future protests among students in the u.s. it's a little bit it's a little bit less popular gretta is not so well known for his future not so well known we actually have a map from the fridays for future pro protests website you can see europe on the right us on the left and as we zoom in we can see just how cluster how many fridays for a future of events of any kind there are on the european side and how spread out out they are and fewer they are in the u.s. there's of course some reasons for that european countries are smaller easier to organize and smaller countries but it is important to point out that on the u.s. side we see them clustered around the coas

stunt to raise awareness of climate change and to drum up support for the upcoming un the un conference which it's done so it does look good on her climate change agenda faced something of a challenge and you know well that's for sure i mean here in the european side of the atlantic ocean gratitude burger and fries future movement are household names there's been huge amounts of media coverage following weeks and months of friends for future protests among students in the u.s. it's a little bit it's a little bit less popular greg is not so well known for his future not so well known we actually have a map from the fries for future pro protests website you can see europe on the right us on the left and as we zoom in we can see just how clustered how many fridays for future of vents of any kind there are on the europe. and how spread out they are and fewer they are in the u.s. there's of course some reasons for that european countries are smaller easier to organize in smaller countries but it is important to point out that on the u.s. side we see them clustered around the coasts around ci

up — teenage activist greta thunberg sets sail for the united states, in order to attend a un climate conference their lines ready. a prime minister adamant we are leaving the eu at the end of october, deal or no deal. a former chancellor who says no—deal would be a disaster and it is not what people voted for. leaving the eu without a deal would bejust as much a betrayal of the referendum result as not leaving at all. the british people were offered a proposition that we could leave the european union while having a close relationship, they were told it would be the easiest deal ever done, and all the evidence points to people wanting to maintain a close trading relationship. some tory mps are worried that the strategy in here is making no—deal more likely. they blame people like dominic cummings, boris johnson‘s key adviser, for demanding too much from europe. pivoting to say that the backstop has to go, in its entirety, a huge chunk of the withdrawal agreement just scrapped, is effectively a wrecking tactic. the people behind this know that that means there will be no deal. some in government

stunt to raise awareness of climate change and to drum up support for the upcoming un the un conference which it's done so it does look as though going to climate change agenda face something of a challenge in new york well that's for sure i mean here in the european side of the atlantic ocean gratitude burger and fries future movement are household names there's been huge amounts of media coverage following weeks and months of freds for future protests among students in the u.s. it's a little bit it's a little bit less popular greg is not so well known for his future not so well known we actually have a map from the fries for future pro protests website you can see europe on the right us on the left and as we zoom in we can see just how clustered how many fridays for future of vents of any kind there are on the european side and how spread out they are and fewer they are in the u.s. there's of course some reasons for that european countries are smaller easier to organize in smaller countries but it is important to point out that on the u.s. side we see them clustered around the coasts

un climate action summit here in new york. she also plans to travel to chile for another conference at the end of the year and how she gets there and makes it back to europe in an environmentally friendly way is an answer her team is still trying to answer. chris buckler, bbc news, new york. italy's populist five star movement and the centre—left let's get some of the day's other news. the damage was discovered after officials investigated reports of trucks going into get illegal hardwood. a co—ordinated response will start next month. taliban leaders say they're close to finalising a peace deal that will see the withdrawal of us troops from afghanistan. in exchange, they're promising the country will not become a haven for international militants. the two sides have been holding a ninth round of talks in qatar, to end the 18—year war.

but we have a climate change conference coming up at the end of this month and the i.p.c.c. the i.p.c.c. the un's panel of scientists came out also today with their bullet points of what that's going to be about and just to use take one of their major points we're looking at a possibility of 280000000 climate refugees by the end of this century if we can't keep below 2 degrees warming and we're already at one degree. people who complain about hurricanes now just to be of the century they say well you know thank you. well scientists have just released images of what one of the ancestors could have looked like the reconstruction is based on a 3800000 year old skull found in ethiopia often seen as the birth place of man caught announcing the scientific finding in addis ababa researchers said the discovery changes our understanding of how ancient humans evolved and we were going to try to show you that figure but we're having some technical problems with trying to do that if we can later. it's he in the far reaching of ethiopia more than 500 kilometers north of the capital at his ababa that this late

un climate action summit here in new york. she also plans to travel to chile for another conference at the end of the year and how she gets there an answer her team is still trying to answer. chris buckler, bbc news, new york. an urgent battle is under way in the forests of eastern germany. on one side is the army, on the other millions of beetles. after two hot, dry summers, the insects have infested the bark of the trees, causing huge damage. it's been described as an environmental catastrophe, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. in the states of brandenburg and saxony, the forests are dying. you can see it with your own eyes. each brown tree is a dead tree. and these little insects are partly to blame. bark beetles — a tiny terror threatening to kill and destroy. translation: it's a real plague. the saxony government estimates this is the most serious plague since even before the first records of forest health. millions of cubic metres of wood is in danger. so they called in the army, who are chopping down trees and stripping back bark. that dries the word and kills off the beetles' lavae. that dries the wood and kills off the

un climate action summit here in new york. she also plans to travel to chile for another conference at the end of the year and how she gets there an environmentally friendly way is an answer her team is still trying to answer. chris buckler, bbc news, new york. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: plenty more on borisjohnson's decision to suspend parliament for five weeks. also ahead: why students from top universities in russia are risking it all tojoin from top universities in russia are risking it all to join anti— from top universities in russia are risking it all tojoin anti— kremlin rallies. he's the first african—american to win the presidential nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly a5 years ago to the day that martin luther king declared, "i have a dream." as darkness falls, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south—eastern sky. an orange glowing disc that's brighter than anything save the moon — our neighbouring planet mars. horn toots there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the world's newest nation. it will take months and billions of dollars t

un climate action summit here in new york. she also plans to travel to chile for another conference at the end of the year and how she gets thereis an answer her team is still trying to answer. chris buckler, bbc news, new york. researchers have discovered a skull 3.8 million years old and nearly complete in ethiopia. their study, published in thejournal nature, challenges ideas about how humans evolved. pallab ghosh reports. in africa, in the distant past, advanced apelike creatures evolved into the first humans. for decades, scientists believed this specimen, nicknamed lucy, was the apelike ancestor to the first true humans but a dig in the afar region of ethiopian found this object. it turned out to be the near complete skull of an ancestor of lucy called anamensis. using computerised scans, researchers built up this face of what anamensis actually looked like. analysis suggests lucy's kind is a branch of anamensis rather than a direct descendant, and so there are many more contenders to lay claim to being the ancestors of the very first humans to walk the earth. pallab ghosh, bbc news. an urgent battle is taking place in th

un climate action summit here in new york. she also plans to travel to chile for another conference at the end of the year and how she gets theren answer her team is still trying to answer. chris buckler, bbc news, new york. you have been watching newsday. i'm rico hizon in london. and i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. stay with us. coming up — putting the brakes on india's car industry. we will see how the slowdown in india's economy has affected the country's car market and why thousands ofjobs are at risk. and before we go, we'd like to leave you with these pictures. a volcano on italy's stromboli island has erupted again. these pictures have been shared across social media, showing the ash cloud rising up. a river of lava flowed into the sea and set vegetation on fire. no injuries have been reported but planes have been deployed to drop water on fires caused by the lava. this eruption appears to be stronger than one in july which killed a hiker and forced tourists to dive into the sea as rocks rained down. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. hi there. temperatures still made the mid 20 celsius across the south—eas

climate change was welcomed by un secretary general antonio tara's lack of sufficient investment in education science technology engineering and mathematics can hold back africa's gross and the private use of opportunity the conference started over 25 years ago to provide aid to africa is development and japan's government has pulled out all the stops but firms have sometimes been reluctant to invest in africa and there been mixed results on meeting earlier pledges. things have taken on a fresh urgency because tokyo is competing with the growing closure of its regional rival china china is the largest asian and global presence in africa japan aims to offer high impact loans without the sometimes controversial strings attached to money lent by beijing rising demand for customized fashion in uganda is giving local designers a boost it's also breathing new life into the country's resurgent textiles industry that means more jobs. fashion designer. has a deadline to meet a client has ordered over 200 t. shirts with a customized print saying i am so u.-g. . at least one fashion house was his main business is printing t. shirts with creative statements chosen by customers. you know going to find them anywhere else it's us

climate meeting so that's not really true. at the news conference the president also claimed that the first lady melania had met with kim jong-un in the past. i don't appear to have met the first lady never met the north korean dictator, it turns out in the white house was forced to put out a statement essentially admitting that the president was wrong on that contention now as for next year's summit. the president can and catherine is considering hosting one of his resort see has trump the rally, it's it's right near miami. a i think it's called that the trump nationally at near dorough so the critics claim that he would be profiting financially off hosting all of these world leaders and all of the people that come with them, but it still remains to be seen at this point. when i watch and see we always do thank you very much just when you thought you were done painting... ...you discover paint bleed under your tape... not with frogtape! frogtape is the only painter's tape treated with patented paintblock technology. paintblock reacts with the water in latex paint to form a micro-barrier against paint bleed, giving you the shar

what about climate change -- >> reporter: and the president told another falsehood at the news conference claiming at one point that the first lady met with north korean dictator kim jong-un and that is also not true. the first lady has never met with kim jong-un and the white house was forced to issue a statement clarifying the record, wolf. >> jim acosta on the scene for us. thank you very much. >>> let's get some more on this. let's bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. what, if anything, do you think the president accomplished at this g7 summit? >> well, it is not clear anything really. g7 summit should be something of a diplomatic lay-up. you're meeting with your closest allies in the g7. should it at least be achievable to come to agreement on one or a handful of issues but what we see is on the primary national security and foreign policy challenges facing the u.s. and europe today, there is very public disagreement. the iran nuclear deal front and center but also russia's readmission to g-7, open disagreement on that. the china trade war, trump being pressed by his allies and also have become his own allies have become the target of the t