good morning. iam good morning. i am out of the very front and to get this prized position you had to be here two days ago, at a 7am on saturday morning. it won t be long before this lot are inside. that is wherejohn and carol r. yes, good morning. the big news on day one of these wimbledon championships is the withdrawal of nick kyrgios. the beaten finalist last year and the amount s singles is out because of a wrist injury after what has been an injury ravaged season. and will it stay dry? well, actually, we are expecting some showers this afternoon at wimbledon. for most, rain in the north of scotland, rain in northern ireland putting eastwards. behind all of that, sunshine and showers. a day for taking the brolly. more later. good morning. it s monday, the 3rd ofjuly. it appears to have been a calmer night across france, after the family of a teenager shot dead by police said they did not want his death to spark riots. police made around 80 arrests overnight, down from mo
we begin in the occupied west bank where the israeli military has launched a major operation against, what it claims are militants, based in the sprawling and long established refugee camp injenin. the palestinian authorities say, it s simply an invasion and that it should be seen as a war crime. at least eight people have been killed, and dozens injured. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. the day ended as it had begun injenin with battles raging. the israeli military had used a surprise drone strike in the early hours to target what it said was the headquarters of local militants. armed palestinians began fighting back from inside the city s crowded, decades old refugee camp. hundreds of israeli soldiers are on the ground. the israeli military says they re seizing weapons and explosives. the israeli prime minister said action was overdue. translation: the israeli defence force began - an extensive operation last night against terrorism injenin. in rec
we start with a troubling landmark for the climate as 2023 smashes the record, for the world s hottest year ever recorded. european scientists say, that 2023 left the records tumbling like dominoes . the average global temperature in the past 12 months was 14.98 degrees. that beats the previous hottest year set in 2016 by 0.17 degrees. the announcement was made by the eu s climate change service. and the met office in the uk believes this record could be short lived, as their forecasts suggest 2024 could be even hotter. earlier, i spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt, who told me that record was broken by some margin. yeah, it is interesting, isn t it? the margin, as you say, was 0.17 celsius. you might say, well, that doesn t sound very much to me, but remember, this is a global average, an average across the entire globe day and night across the entire year, and normally scientists say they expect it to be broken by a tiny fraction of a degree, 0.01, 0.02, not
year on record here, but the heatwave injune brought some severe impacts. high temperatures and low rainfall meant oxygen levels plunged in some rivers, leading to an unprecedented number of fish death incidents, according to angling groups. the oxygen reader is telling me it s1.7% oxygen when it should be 60% to 100%. it left fish gasping, making them easy pickings for the flocks of seagulls just one example of the effects of the high temperatures the world is experiencing. let s look at how the warming planet is affecting people around the world. we d been in nairobi to look at extreme droughts. last world. we d been in nairobi to look at extreme droughts. world. we d been in nairobi to look at extreme droughts. last year, east africa was experiencing at extreme droughts. last year, east africa was experiencing famine. - at extreme droughts. last year, east