christopher nolan s oppenheimer in london last night as the strike was declared. the studios say they have made meaningful offers but that s been rejected by those on strike. the guild s president, fran drescher, said the decision by actors to walk out was a moment of truth . we are being victimised by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. i cannot believe it, quite frankly. how far apart we are on so many things. how they plead poverty, that they are losing money left and right while giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their ceos. it is disgusting. shame on them. they stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment. the issues in the strike go much deeper thanjust the film industry itself. the screen actors guild wants streaming giants to agree a fairer split of profits and better working conditions. but other demands like protecting actors from being replaced by digital replicas reflect
European heatwaves are more than a travel inconvenience the news that some Brits booked to travel in search of this heat, shows how far the dangers are misunderstood.
The United Nations has warned that the world needs to prepare for increasingly intense heatwaves as countries in the Northern Hemisphere face soaring temperatures. Experts have suggested that heatwaves will continue to grow more intense, causing significant health risks and economic damage. Urbanisation, high-temperature extremes, and demographic changes in ageing populations are significant contributors to the trend.
tourists have been barred from entering the famous attraction between noon and 5pm. beyond europe heatwaves have also affected parts of north africa and the middle east this week with southern parts of morocco under an extreme heat red alert. and it s notjust heat extreme weather events are becoming more common around the world, according to the un. leading to scenes like this in india where record monsoon rainfall this week has caused destructive flooding. extreme weather patterns and increased temperatures have a range of consequences not least food production. the new un human rights chief volker turk warned on monday that the impact of the climate crisis is threatening the right to food. he said 80 million more people will be at risk of hunger by the middle of this century. a new study in the journal nature has highlighted the possibility of major harvest failures caused by climate change in multiple global breadbaskets. scientists are working on the gene sequencing of fo