Ankur Desai

President Trump has reiterated his intention to sue the BBC over a documentary about the events leading up to the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC in 2021, saying he had an obligation to do so. At the weekend, the BBC's director general and head of news resigned after it was revealed that a BBC documentary had edited two parts of a speech by the US president.

making it appear that he had explicitly encouraged the January 6th riots. The BBC chairman Sameh Shah has also apologised. But Mr Trump's lawyers are threatening to launch a $1 billion lawsuit against the corporation unless it makes a full and fair retraction of the documentary by this Friday and appropriately compensates him for the harm caused. In an interview with Fox News, Mr Trump was asked if he planned to carry out that threat, and this was his reply.

I asked our North America correspondent David Willis what he made of the president's latest interview.

David Willis puhuu minulle Los Angelesista.

Israeli Parliament has passed the first reading of a bill that would impose the death penalty on people convicted of terrorism against the state. The national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir, whose far-right Jewish Power Party proposed the bill, has said it's aimed at deterring Arab terrorism and that terrorists will be released only to hell. That last remark appears to be a reference to the recent deals with Hamas, which saw Israel release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages.

You might remember the story of two NASA astronauts who became stranded on the International Space Station after the capsule that was supposed to take them back to Earth experienced a series of technical problems. They came home in March after nine months on the ISS. Now three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their craft was hit by debris.

They had been due to return to Earth last week after a six-month mission on the Tiangong space station. The space journalist Leo Enright told us more about this delay.

In Mongolia, standing by, ready to launch if needed. Space journalist Leo Enright.

For Kevin Laidlaw of Scotland, it's also a day to think about family. His great-grandfather, Daniel Laidlaw, was a bagpiper in the First World War and won the Victoria Cross for rallying the troops at the Battle of Loose. He was one of only three pipers to win Britain's highest military honor. Now Kevin is campaigning to have a statue of him built in his hometown. He told us about Daniel's acts of bravery.

And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later. If you want to comment on this episode or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. And you can also find us on X at BBC World Service. Use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was produced by Peter Goffin and Steven Jensen. And it was mixed by Martin Williams and the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Ankur Desai. Until next time, goodbye.

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Amanco de Sion at 16 hours on Thursday the 6th of November. These are our main stories. World leaders gather in Brazil ahead of UN climate talks, but Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi will not attend. South Africa says it's received distress calls from 17 citizens lured into fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine. And could the Trump administration be charged with crimes against humanity for striking ships near Venezuela?

The Brazilian city of Belém is known as the gateway to the Amazon, a focal point of the global climate crisis. And on Wednesday and Thursday, President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is hosting dozens of world leaders there, in advance of the COP United Nations Climate Summit, which begins officially next week.

Notably absent are the leaders of the three greatest producers of carbon emissions, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and Donald Trump, who says he won't even send a senior representative from the US. The proceedings began on a dire note. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the world had already failed to keep global temperatures from increasing by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, a key climate goal.

Siinä on vain noin 50 maailmanliitokäyttöä tullut tähän keskusteluun, ja tärkeimmät omistajat, kuten mainitsit, tarkoittavat suurimman suurimman liikunnan emissiä. Mutta täällä on vielä monta maa. Euroopan unioni on täällä, YK on täällä, Sekir Stormer ja Prins Williams ovat täällä. Joten täällä on edelleen tärkeä lähtö, mielestäni, ihmisille, jotka ovat täällä. Ja mielestäni presidentti Dula toivoo, että hän saattaa saada tarpeeksi tukea niiden liitokäyttöjen kanssa, jotka ovat täällä, jotta voidaan tehdä jotain tärkeää huomioita asioiden liittyviä asioita metsässä.

As you mentioned with some of those leaders in attendance, what can be achieved then at this COP? I think for President Lula there's a number of things. He wants to set the tone for the COP meeting next week. This is the leaders summit and they're doing this right now to highlight the leadership, but also I suppose in terms of it's a response to the logistics, which essentially is this is a smallish town that has struggled to be able to accommodate the massive nature of the COP, and so I think they're bringing the leadership meeting forward so that they get around that particular problem.

Haluaisivat saada uuden metsäohjelman, Tropical Forest Forever-ohjelman, joka antaa ihmisille ympäri maailmaa, erityisesti Afrikassa ja Suomessa, jotta he pysyvät metsään. He haluavat, että tämä on pitkä- ja pitkä-ohjelmallinen ohjelma. Ja se on, luulen, presidentin blula, yksi näkökulma. Mutta hän haluaa varmistaa, että ihmiset, yleiset ihmiset koko maailman, jotka pysyvät metsään,

The cost of living and with energy bills really feel the connection to the climate crisis, that the prices of food have gone up because of the climate crisis, that we're seeing devastation in the Caribbean and in the Philippines because of the climate crisis. He wants to make that connection and make it clear to people that this isn't just some airy fairy talking shop, that it's actually about real things that will have a real impact on people's lives all over the world.

We always see a lot of chat about climate change in the build-up to every COP conference, but are there other initiatives or other ways of pushing climate policy forward outside of these events?

Yeah, there obviously have been, and I think one of the big questions here is what is this COP really for? Because, you know, it's ten years on since the Paris Agreement was put into place. All the arguments about that, how do we save the planet, if you like, have been put down in that particular set of rules and set of agreements. The problem is getting people to live up to what they've committed to doing, and we've seen, essentially, in the last couple of weeks, a bit of a fall-off from countries in what they're prepared to do, and I think addressing that shortfall will be the big