benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict s condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here s weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk s highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand our climate of the future, the first step is we need to understand our climate now and we also need to understand our climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after one of the country s most devastating floods. i will report on 2022 s biggest storms and look at what happen
spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a complete state of crisis because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s impossible to provide the best standard of care, and there is no doubt that patients are being harmed. louisa pilbeam has the details. patients lying in a&e corridors. .ambulance delays, and staff who say they re at breaking point, and surging flu cases, all at a critical time for the nhs. the diagnosis from a leading emergency care doctor? unless there s more investment in services, patients are at risk. there is no doubt that when we are trying to tre
takening a pivotal step in restocking the low baby formula supply. the first palets of emergency formula arriving from europe via a u.s. military plane just a short time ago. and now going through inspection. the product is a specialty formula for infants who are intolerant of protein in cow s milk and will be distributed to pharmacies and hospitals and doctor s offices. we are live in indianapolis where the first shipment landed. p polo, this is just the first of what s expected to be many baby formula flights? reporter: and it is more than just a drop in the bucket. you re talking about 35 tons of the prescription baby formula that landed in indianapolis today. manufactured in germany. transferred to germany and air lifted yesterday. flew all night to get here. as you mentioned, this will not serve the general needs of parents who have been looking for a solution. in fact, asking the biden administration to act. we did see a representative of the biden administration, tom
on the obs equipment outside. as a forecaster, i did not think i would see 40 celsius this soon here in the uk. do you think we will see that again anytime soon? we know it is possible to reach that, so it definitely can happen again and it is something that is going to be increasingly likely with the effects of climate change. looking out the window today, a big contrast to what we saw back then injuly. it is misty and foggy at the moment. are they likely to be flying later? so, you can see on the satellite picture here, this is the area of fog, so it s very widespread today. we are not really expecting it to clear until we get an air mass change, so, for us, probably not until around midnight tonight. that may stop some flying but of course you have got the quick reaction alert squadrons here and they have to be up in any weather? yes, so they will go regardless of the weather. we just have to tell them what the weather is doing at the time and they will still have to go because that
it is misty and foggy at the moment. are they likely to be flying later? so, you see on the satellite picture here, this is the area of fog, so it s very widespread today. we are not really expecting it to clear until we get an air mass change, so for us, probably not until around midnight tonight. that may stop some flying but of course you have got the quick reaction alert squadrons here and they have to be up in any weather? yes, so they will go regardless of the weather. we just have to tell them what the weather is doing at the time and they will still have to go because that is obviously operationally important. so that contact between the forecaster and also the squadrons and pilots is crucial, isn t it? yes. so we add value to the forecast that they could get off the website or from anywhere else by briefing