Mark Rylance returns in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Plus: an essential documentary about what happened after the 7/7 bombings. Here’s what to watch this evening

Sunday, 9pm, BBC One

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Why are so many voters wide open to his set outlandish beliefs?

Simon Tisdall has hit the nail on the head in writing that if Donald Trump were merely a private individual, his current behaviour and manner of speech would be acknowledged as simply a result of ageing, and a loss of inhibitions (“ Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split the United States in two ”, Comment).

However, as Tisdall says, such behaviour is not acceptable in an individual who is asking the American people to elect them as a leader on the world stage.

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This week’s summit will focus on paying for the costs of global heating – and much more money is needed

About 50,000 government officials, policymakers, investors and campaigners will gather in Azerbaijan this week in the hope of answering a trillion-dollar question: how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs?

The aim of the UN’s Cop29 climate talks in Baku, which is being called the “climate finance Cop”, is to establish a new annual climate financing target to replace the current $100bn pledge, set in 2009, which expires at the end of this year. There is one clear consensus already: the existing climate finance available to developing countries is nowhere near enough to withstand worsening climate impacts. The ambition is too low, and in 15 years the annual target has been met in full only once, in 2022.

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As the nights draw in and temperatures drop, it’s tempting to abandon outdoor exercise. But as experts reveal, there are ways to beat the freeze and get into even better shape

“When it’s cold outside I find a quick ice bath sorts me out. It’s so cold that the outside conditions feel ‘warm’. It resets my resilience bar.” The words of extreme endurance athlete Sean Conway , who has run in temperatures as low as -10C. But what about more palatable ways to cope with the cold? And are there actually benefits of exercising in the cold?

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A proposal to protect part of rural Wales has sparked a furious debate over who the countryside is for

Plans to create a new Welsh national park stretching from the dunes of north-east Wales to the wild Berwyn mountains and the peaceful, wooded slopes of Lake Vyrnwy further south have captured the imagination of many ramblers, cyclists and other outdoor lovers.

But the Welsh government’s proposals to improve access to nature have been dismissed by an opposition group as creating “a play area for townies”, sparking a furious debate about who the countryside is for.

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A resident of the Lebanese city of Tyre told Associated Press three disabled sisters and their two brothers were killed in Israeli strike

Five Lebanese siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute, and two Palestinian journalists who were brother and sister were among the scores of people killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza in the previous 24 hours, local authorities and media reported on Saturday.

At least 40 people were killed in strikes on Lebanon including seven in the port city of Tyre late on Friday, the health ministry said.

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The region’s president responds to criticisms that he was slow to act by attacking the prime minister

The sun still hadn’t risen on Tuesday 29 October when the mayor of Utiel, Ricardo Gabaldón, took another look at the warnings from Spain’s state meteorological office and ordered all the schools in the small Valencian town to close.

“The warning early that morning – at 5am or 6am – was orange,” he said. “That’s when I was weighing up whether to close the schools here. In the end, I ordered them to close at six or seven that morning. Soon after, the alert went red.”

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Businessman, who has mostly lived in US and only entered politics last year, left after party congress refused to consider his leadership candidacy

Stefanos Kasselakis, the Greek American shipping investor and former banker who burst into Greek politics over a year ago, has said he is leaving leftwing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party he had led, and forming his own.

Kasselakis announced he was leaving Syriza on Friday after a two-day party congress refused to consider his leadership candidacy in a contest that will take place later this month.

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• Updates from the final match of the series at Optus Stadium
• Play starts at 11:30am in Perth/2:30pm AEDT
• Any thoughts? Email or tweet @martinpegan

2nd over: Australia 18-0 (Short 5, Fraser-McGurk 7) Naseem Shah almost gets a breakthrough from just his second delivery as Fraser-McGurk edges between second and third slip. That one reared up at the Australian opener and he was fortunate the nick was as thick as it was, but will gladly pocket the four runs as well. JFM works a couple off his pads then survives a half-hearted appeal for run out to round out the over.

1st over: Australia 12-0 (Short 5, Fraser-McGurk 1) A loose first over from Shaheen Shah Afridi allows the Australian pair to get on the front foot as Matt Short and Jake Fraser-McGurk each get off the mark with a quick single. A wild delivery sails between first and second slip all the way to the boundary for five wides, Shah sends another wide heading to first slip, and Short finishes the over with four all-run off a sublime drive. Just the start Australia needed.

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