Ahead of COP 27, climate finance remains a major challenge; Also in the programme air pollution in Delhi forces schools to close - and some people are leaving the city in search of cleaner air; and what effect will evangelical voters have on the outcome of midterm elections in the US?

(Photo: Egypt makes final preparations ahead of Cop27. Credit: Shutterstock)

There are suggestions that Russia might be about to give up part of the city as it prepares defensive lines for the winter. Around seventy thousand people have now left the city and its surrounding areas. Also on the programme: Imran Khan speaks out about the gun attack on him yesterday; and we hear a first-hand account of the impact that gangs and poverty are having in Haiti. (Image: Ukrainian soldiers move along a street in the northern Kherson region on 4 November 2022. Credit: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Kremlin of resorting to "energy terrorism" as Russian troops make few gains on the battlefield. He said 4.5 million people were without power following Russian attacks on its energy network.

The statement comes as Russia has carried out large-scale missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian power facilities in recent weeks.

Also in the programme: As the German Chancellor visits Beijing, how should you talk to China? Ahead of the UN summit in Egypt, we'll take a look at a frigid atmosphere for climate activism in Egypt.

(Photo: Apartment blocks without electricity due to scheduled power cuts that were introduced in Kyiv, following the destruction of Ukrainian power stations by Russian strikes. Credit: Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA)

The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is in a stable condition in hospital in Lahore, after being shot in the lower leg at an anti-government rally. His party and the country's president have called it an assassination attempt. One person died in the attack and several were wounded. Police have arrested the alleged gunman. In a video circulating online, he's heard to confess that he tried to kill Mr Khan. The former prime minister -- who was removed from power in April -- has been leading a week-long protest march on Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, to demand snap elections.

We hear from his spokesman.

Also today: Newshour's Razia Iqbal is in Atlanta, Georgia, exploring the prospects for US mid-term elections which could swing the balance of power against President Biden.

(Photo: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is helped after he was shot in the shin in Wazirabad, Pakistan November 3, 2022. Credit: Urdu Media via Reuters)

US President Joe Biden has criticised his predecessor, Donald Trump, and his supporters for undermining democracy as Americans prepare to vote in mid-term elections. We hear from our Newshour team in Atlanta, Georgia.

Also in the programme: a peace deal for Ethiopia – there’s uncertainty about what’s been signed and whether it will hold; and a UN report says climate change will put an end to one third of the glaciers located in World Heritage sites by 2050.

Photo: US President Joe Biden speaks about threats to democracy at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington. Credit: Reuters/ Leah Millis

After two years of civil war - and eight days of AU-mediated talks in South Africa - the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan authorities have signed a cessation of hostilities agreement. But what's in the deal, and will this be the end of the war, which also - notoriously - includes Eritrea?

Also in the programme: the world’s largest tropical peatlands in the Congo Basin may be approaching a tipping point where they flip from being a major carbon store to a major carbon emitter; and how could the new far right element in Benjamin Netanyahu's expected next coalition affect Israel's policies at home - and the country's standing abroad?

(Photo: Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussien and Tigraany delegate Getachew Reda pass documents during the signing of the AU-led negotiations to resolve the conflict in northern Ethiopia, in Pretoria , South Africa, November 2, 2022 / Credit: REUTERS / Siphiwe Sibeko)

Netanyahu set for comeback with far right's help, we ask how do Arab Israelis feel about that? Also in the programme, tension in the Korean peninsula after the North launched missiles into the South’s territorial waters; and we weigh the repercussions of the war on Russia and its future.

(Photo: Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses his supporters in Jerusalem, November 2, 2022. Credit: Reuters)

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Overcrowding in British asylum centre leads to violence and disease, as interior minister, Suella Braveman, defends her policies. Also in the programme, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Gujarat, where more than 140 people died after a footbridge collapsed. And, a famous football, with which Diego Maradona scored an infamous goal in 1986, goes up for auction.

(Photo: Migrant in the UK. Credit: Press Association)

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