also tonight, after the hottest days on record, has climate change already reached a tipping point? the meteorologist who left local news after his climate coverage led to a death threat joins me tonight. and america s economy is red hot. jobs and wages are growing. inflation is easing. so why isn t joe biden more popular? but we begin tonight with a crisis that is impossible to ignore. i often start this show with the most recent to solve on american democracy at the hands of the modern republican party or the supreme court, but tonight i want to talk to you about a different type of existential threat. y all know it s hot. some of you in arizona spent the day trying to avoid 115 degree heat. next week, it might hit 120. earlier this week, i shared some really terrifying news. some scientists believed that july 4th of this year may have been one of the hottest days on earth in 125,000 years. guess what. we keep breaking those records. new york s temperature set a record
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. the police in texas are facing criticism for how they responded to the mass school shooting in uvalde on tuesday. some parents say officers appeared hesitant to confront the teenage gunman after he barricaded himself inside a classroom and that led to a delay in tackling the shooter. but at a news conference a texas police official said special equipment and negotiators were required and officers also had to evacuate the rest of the school. the attacker killed 19 children and two teachers in the space of up to an hour, before he was himself shot dead. our north america editor sarah smith sent us this report. all of the 19 children who were killed in the same school class. this boy s family had to wait 12 hours before they were told he was dead. this girl had been given a phone for her tenth birthday and she used it to try to call the police. jackie had just celebrated herfirst commun
we re not here to discuss i humanity, that is religion s sphere of operations. and what of morality? i think it s such a good performance. so the film looks at his life, in wartime, after the war in which he surrounded by others and later on his marriage. in later years he s played by peter capaldi. and by the time he s played by peter capoldi he s basically become very, very embittered and you know, feelings of failure and desolation. and what s interesting about the film is, i think that terrence davies has found in the life of siegfried sassoon a number of elements that chime with his own preconceptions. there is a story about a character who is conflicted about his sexuality, and that is something in which terrence davies has addressed indirectly in his films before. there s the issue of religion. siegfried converted to catholicism later in life and terrence davies kind of famously turned his back on the church after feeling abandoned by it. and so what you have is an art
who is conflicted about his sexuality and that is something in which terrence davis has addressed indirectly in his films before. there s the issue of religion. siegfried converted to catholicism later in life and terrence davies kind of famously. turned his back on the church after feeling abandoned by it. and so what you have is an artist, a poet of the cinema making a film about a poet whose life encompasses and social changes but at the centre of it it is a really kind of heartbreaking story about somebody who can t be who they are, isn t sure who they are, isn t certain that the art they are making is actually as good as it ought to be and seems to be trapped in a situation when they want to change the world, they want to change themselves and they are constantly thwarted. it s like a collage, it flips backwards and forwards in time and we get different actors playing the same characters. as always with terrence davies movies, is beautiful to look at, he is a real poet o