Britain's Conservative Party has won its biggest parliamentary majority in three decades. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has promised to fulfil his campaign slogan "Get Brexit Done" by the end of January.

Also in the programme: We have reaction from the European Union; and we take a look at the language being used around environmental activism

(Picture: Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement outside no.10 Downing Street after receiving permission to form the next government. Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate responded to widespread claims that Myanmar (formerly Burma) committed atrocities against Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine State.

Also in the programme: the island group of Bougainville, part of Papua New Guinea, has voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence; and on the day that she spoke at the UN climate change summit in Madrid, Greta Thunberg has been named as Time magazine's 2019 person of the year.

(Photo: Myanmar"s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi stands before UN"s International Court of Justice on 10 December 2019 in in the Peace Palace of The Hague, at the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case. - The case, brought by the west African state of Gambia, is the first attempt to bring Myanmar to justice over its bloody 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority. Credit: Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Vast crowds of black-clad demonstrators throng Hong Kong in an officially-sanctioned rally. It's the largest anti-government protests since local elections last month.

Also in the programme: deadly fire in Delhi factory and the increasing popularity of Evensong.

(Picture: Protesters march for human rights and democracy in Hong Kong. Credit: Reuters)

Workers are angry at being forced to retire later or face reduced pensions. School and transport workers have been joined by police, lawyers and hospital staff for a general walkout that could include millions of people.

Also in the programme: Chinese telecoms firm Huawei launches a legal challenge to the US government's decision to label it a 'national security threat'; we report from the election campaign trail just a week before UK voters go to the polls; and hear one mother's harrowing account of the effects on her daughter of contracting measles.

Photo: A striking French SNCF railway worker holds a flare as he walks at Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, ahead of a demonstration against the French government's pension reform plans, December 5, 2019. Credit: Reuters.

An eagerly awaited report by the panel leading the US impeachment inquiry into President Trump says it's uncovered overwhelming evidence that he'd abused his powers.

Also in the programme: The French president, Emmanuel Macron has defended his stance on NATO and said the alliance must make clearer its fundamental aims. And the International Rescue Committee has issued a report saying that without peace, there will be a further 24 years of child hunger in Yemen.

(Photo: Donald Trump dismisses the impeachment inquiry as a witch-hunt. Credit: Reuters)

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced on national TV that he will step down in the new year, amid a crisis over a murdered journalist.

Also in the programme: China now requires anybody buying a mobile phone to have their face scanned; and Spain hosts the UN's annual climate conference in Madrid.

(Picture: Malta's Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat addressing the media at his office in Castille, Valletta. Credit: Matthew Mirabelli / AFP via Getty Images)