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The Taliban deputy leader has appealed for international aid as Afghanistan struggles to cope with the thousands left injured and homeless by Wednesday’s earthquake.

England and Wales have been basking in the sunshine today, on what’s been the hottest day of the year so far. We spent the day in Broadstairs in Kent.

The third major storm in a week has brought more widespread flooding and travel chaos to large swathes of the country – with Matlock in Derbyshire inundated after the River Derwent burst its banks, forcing a local hospital to close. 

Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power in the wake of Storm Eunice as forecasters said more wet and windy weather could hamper efforts to restore supplies. 

A rare red weather warning has been issued by the Met Office for South Wales and South Western England  ahead of the arrival of Storm Eunice.

So how much has actually been achieved in the fortnight of COP26 negotiations and announcements? Our climate reporter Simon Roach has this analysis.

At least 28 people have died after heavy rains triggered flooding in the state of Kerala in southern India. 

Record-shattering rainfall brought unprecedented flash flooding to New York City overnight, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the east coast of the US.

When we talk about climate change, we often ask what kind of planet we want to leave our children. 

July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to American government scientists. Both global land and ocean temperatures were 0.9 degrees centigrade above the 20th century average. Countries from Asia to Europe have been scorched by heatwaves and wildfires, while extreme weather of another form, flooding, has also left a trail of devastation. Symeon Brown…

We were joined by the Green MP and former party leader, Caroline Lucas.

We spoke to Alok Sharma, the government minister who’s leading the COP26 summit, and began by asking him how big the risk is that the conference will fail to answer this “code red for humanity”.

The warnings could hardly be more stark. Changes to the world’s climate are inevitable and irreversible, and without immediate, radical action to reduce greenhouse gases the future is catastrophic.

On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…