Jon Snow , Presenter

For the low-lying islands of the world this crisis is truly existential, literally lapping at their feet. 

As hosts of COP, the UK’s role is to lead by example. 

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on world leaders to be “bolder” in tackling the climate crisis when they meet for the UN’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, saying the era of fossil fuels must come to an end. But before he became ordained and heard, as he puts it, “God calling”, the Archbishop spent more…

We were joined by Professor Devi Sridhar, a global public health professor at the University of Edinburgh.

We spoke to Sir David King, formerly the UK special representative for climate change, and first asked if the government’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is sufficient.

We spoke to Conservative MP Karen Bradley and Labour MP Chris Bryant, and started by asking Karen Bradley if, at this moment, it didn’t matter which party they were from.

London GP Dr Clare Gerada is due to become the new president of the Royal College of GPs next month.

We spoke to Makram Rabah, who is a political analyst, an author and a lecturer at the American University of Beirut. 

It has been nearly a month since the Taliban effectively banned girls from secondary education by ordering schools to re-open only for boys. Millions of teenage girls across the country are now denied the opportunity to continue their education. 

We spoke to Professor Christina Pagel, director of University College London’s Clinical Operational Research Unit and a member of Independent SAGE, the group of scientists who throughout the pandemic have sought to broaden out the discussion around government policy and strategy. 

The United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, has used the opening day of the COP15 summit to declare that the world is losing what he called “our suicidal war against nature” and warning that the ecosystem is on the verge of collapse, with more than a million species at risk.

Tonight, we show what that planet looks like through the lens of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year’s Nobel prize in Literature, for what the awards committee called his ‘uncompromising and passionate’ works on the effects of colonialism. Gurnah has been based in the UK since the 1960s, when he arrived as a student after fleeing persecution in his native Zanzibar. He has published 10…

Memorial services have been taking place today to mark 20 years since UK operations began in Afghanistan. Wreaths were laid at the Bastion Memorial in the National Arboretum in Staffordshire and in central London to the 457 service personnel who lost their lives. We spoke to General Stanley McChrystal – who commanded US and British…

Their music was the soundtrack to the post-punk movement that began in the late 70s – the fight against racism, against war and apartheid, and the bleak reality of unemployment and social inequality.