Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight here in london and 1am across Central Europe which is in the grip of a record breaking heatwave. The hottest temperatures ever were experienced in germany and the netherlands this week. While in paris on thursday it was more than 42 degrees celsius thats 108 in farenheight, the highest ever temperature in the french capital. Lucy williamson reports from paris. The city of light has become the city of heat. 42 degrees, just bearable if you are mostly underwater. The government has repeatedly warned people not to stay out in the sun, but with offices and schools closing early, and most homes without air conditioning, not everyone is listening. Its difficult to enjoy it. Here we are in this most amazing city in the world and its tough to want to go and do much. Its very hot. The summer in brazil is not like this. Its hot too but here its too much. This is a short, sharp spike
Is 202 hat line 7488001. We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook. We are talking about the federal Death Penalty being reinstated by the department of justice effective as of thursday. The executions set to begin in december of this year. The Justice Department plans to restart Capital Punishment after long hiatus. The attorney general william barr ordered the euro of presence to schedule executions for five inmates on death row. Each was convicted of murdering children among others. Owe it to the victims and their families to carry out the sentence imposed by our Justice System. They write that by diving into the Death Penalty debate, the Trump Administration is pushing back against the countrys recent trend of declining executions. More on the washington post. One of the authors of that piece, mark berman, is on the phone with us this morning. What was behind the administrations decision to reinstate the federal Death Penalty . Guest
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Points today so we can win. Now, theyre saying, hey, listen, to defense, just dont turn it over. Just we will play great and you just dont make a mistake, and its got to be very humbling for a guy whos got every record in the record book, but that is the reality of this situation. Rose we continue this evening with mark strong who stars in Arthur Millers a view from the bridge. And the purpose of art, all creativity, really, isnt it, to take us out of our everyday lives, to stop us worrying about emails, bills, the rat race, just survival. Isnt art, oil, painting, music, everything, to take us somewhere else and make us think about stuff . Rose we conclude talking another play on broadway, King Charles Iii about Prince Charles and what happens when he becomes king. We talk to tim pigottsmith, margot leicester, oliver chris and lydia wilson. He writes a lot of letters lobbying for his position and this caused some stress because as the Prime Minister said to nee the play, youre not elec