Monday briefing: What to expect from Cop30 as the crucial climate conference kicks off in Brazil

In today's newsletter: As the world's leaders gather in Brazil, the urgency of the climate crisis collides with political inertia. The Guardian's journalists will be following all the stories from Belem

Good morning. I was warned when I agreed to sit in on First Edition that sometimes your early Monday morning could get derailed by a big breaking news story. So imagine my face yesterday when it happened on my very first weekend, as the BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, both resigned.

The decisions come in the wake of Donald Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, describing the BBC as 100% fake news" over the way a speech by the US president was edited. A week of hostile rightwing media headlines - very clearly set out by Jamie Grierson in this piece - seems to have taken its toll at the top of the corporation. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy's judgement will also no doubt be in the spotlight, having said, prior to his resignation, that she retained confidence" in how Davie was handling the situation. Davie himself clearly didn't agree.

UK news | Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, and Deborah Turness, head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of serious and systemic" bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.

Remembrance day | Veterans of the second world war were applauded as they arrived at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to honour those who have died in conflict.

US news | More than 2,500 flights were cancelled as US transportation secretary Sean Duffy said flight reductions could reach 20% if the federal government shutdown persisted.

The Philippines | More than a million people were evacuated from their homes in the Philippines and at least two people were killed as Typhoon Fung-wong - the second big storm to hit in the space of a few days - made landfall on the east coast.

Business news | The Barclay family is set to lose control of another part of their former business empire with a US private equity firm taking control of online retailer the Very Group.