spell of dry and hot weather has made conditions extremely difficult. firefighters are dropping water from the air to try to extinguish the flames. new fires have broken out and thousands of residents and tourists have fled the flames. and fire fighters are trying to create fire breaks cutting down trees and other vegetation. this satellite image gives an idea of the scale of the task. the fires have spread along the island s eastern coast, and you can see them burning fiercely both to the east and west of the scorched area in the middle of rhodes. some holiday makers who have decided to remain on the island are now having to spend time keeping a watch on the wildfires to check they aren t coming too close. our reporter azadeh moshiri is on rhodes and sent this update. i am outside the village of masari and you can see behind me there s some charred trees. these were olive trees. there are embers to the right of me that are burning, as well. this was a firebreak
human induced climate change. the world weather attribution group warns that future heatwaves will be even more extreme if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut rapidly. 0ur climate and science reporter georgina rannard gave us more details of the study. so this is a study by leading climate scientists from around the world. what they wanted to do is, they looked at this extreme heat millions of people have been suffering from in recent weeks. these heat waves were in southern europe, in the us, and in china. and they wanted to say what was the link between climate change and this extreme weather. and what they have said is in southern europe and in the us, that heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the effects of climate change. in china, the heatwave was made 50 times more likely by climate change. the way they do this is they look at a world without the impacts of climate change. they can use models to do that. and they compare that to the real world temperatures that
that was created to protect the village nearby. that s because these fires are spreading now across the island of rhodes. i got a call from the fire service who told me that there is still this big wildfire across rhodes and that they thought perhaps they might have it under control, it seemed better this morning, but then afterwards there was a resurgence between the towns of gennady and vati in the south because two rivers dried up and they were extremely strong winds. essentially, he was saying we are still hunting fires every day and that rhodes is still the biggest problem they re facing right now. yeah, temperatures expected to soar again today across the country. warnings of more fires and more difficulty trying to tackle them as resources are now so stretched, aren t they, azadeh? absolutely, and resources have been stretched for some time because my team and i have been here for more than a week. we were on the mainland when fires