Wave of support from top performers. All of those stories here in just a moment. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres lizzy. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Were starting with the the news today that the future of the Commonwealth Games and its viability is being questioned, after alberta announced theyre cancelling their bid to host the 2030 event. It follows victoria, in australia, who also pulled out of staging the next games in 2026. Our correspondent, alex capstick, tells us where this leaves the games. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. It has been suggested india or malaysia might lodge a bid. But one committed and prepared to meet all of the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisports event has increasingly difficult. Fifa is investigating an official complaint that the zambia head coach, bruce mwape, sexually assaulted a player at the
Pattern globally. Rising Sea Temperatures and increasing numbers of Marine Heatwaves. And it has just reached a new peak, 20. 96 degrees celsius, the highest Global Average sea temperature ever recorded. The worlds warming waters are a dangerous trend, say experts. Peoples perspective is that the ocean is so big, so vast, that it can buffer anything that humanity can throw at it. And the reality is thats not the case. Everything has its niche within the ocean, and its incredibly easy to to break that niche and influence it and upset it. Take plankton. These tiny plants and animals are crucial to life on the planet. Theyre the basis of the entire Marine Food Chain and produce half the oxygen in our atmosphere. So, every other breath you take. And they are sensitive to heat. Many species have been migrating north as the worlds oceans warm. Personally, im really concerned. The heatwaves that were experiencing on land and the Marine Heatwaves that were seeing are happening in unusual locat
Global systems that we have in the oceans. It is important to say that these are sea Surface Temperatures. It is also about the time of year. So normally the oceans are at their hottest in march, but we are obviously now in august. And so scientists are worried about all of that time left until next march. There is also el nino which is less naturally occurring Climate Fluctuation which we have talked about it before. It happens every few years but it does drive up Ocean Temperatures. But we are only at the beginning of that now, it is quite weak and so as not to get stronger in the coming months, Scientists Say they fear these average temperatures will just carry they fear these average temperatures willjust carry on going up. What do scientists think is the cause . Scientists know that in the long term, Climate Change is driving up average temperatures in the oceans. They also think that a lot of the heat, or they know that a lot of the heat, or they know that a lot of the heat that
Lets stop the length of that sentence, the prosecutors had been pushing for 20 years, we think it is 19 but there has been a little bit of doubt about that. Lets start with the length of that sentence. Yes, the trial was held at a makeshift courtroom at a prison about 850 mild east of moscow in a Village Cold Melekhovo where Alexei Navalny is serving a previous nine year sentence. The trial on Extremism Charges was held Behind Closed Doors and journalists who arrived at that Detention Facility were able to follow proceedings when the judge were able to follow proceedings when thejudge read out the were able to follow proceedings when the judge read out the verdict from a different room via a video link, but the sound quality was so poor that they had difficulty understanding what the actual sentence was. But now the consensus among those journalists seems to be at is 19 years. This is the latest sentence and it may not be Alexei Navalny s last. His defence team says that they have hear
Lets stay with israels Military Campaign in gaza and look at the protests against it that are sweeping across College Campuses in the United States. Students are calling for their universities to Boycott Companies and individuals with ties to israel. Major Protest Camps and demonstrations were seen first at Columbia University in new york. Since then, theyve spread across the us. This map shows the universities with the biggest protests. The university of Southern California has cancelled its graduation ceremony, on what it says are safety grounds. In austin, texas, the governor ordered State Troopers to arrest demonstrators. And more than 200 people have been arrested at universities in los angeles, texas and atlanta, georgia. These images show the dramatic arrest of a protester in atlanta. Lets hear from a student there. This is insane. Ijust saw police use unnecessary violence for a peaceful processor. I saw police non students underground, clearly you see a bunch of arrests going o