southampton are promoted after beating leeds in the championship play off final at wembley. good morning. today is going to be a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest showers will be in the north and north east scotland, later rain coming to south west england. all of the details throughout the programme. it s monday 27th may. our main story. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says 35 people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a refugee camp near rafah. the israel defense forces said it had carried out an air strike targeting a compound where senior hamas officials had gathered. it says it s reviewing the incident after reports that civilians had also been harmed. our correspondent dan johnson is injerusalem. good morning to you, dan. what more do we know about the impact to civilians on the ground? we know there was this civilians on the ground? we know there was this explosion - civilians on the ground? we know there was this explosion last - civ
on planet earth. but the challenge, and there is a problem, and i think the pandemic has brought this home really starkly to us, which is that that life is under threat. you know, we can look back through the fossil record. we know that life has been on earth for about 3.5 billion years, 3,500 million years. but over that time, there ve been five mass extinction events. that s moments when almost all the life on earth has disappeared, and all the data is telling us we re heading for a sixth. but this one is different because all the data is telling us that this sixth potential mass extinction event, the first mass extinction event since we lost the dinosaurs over 60 million years ago this one is caused by the actions of a single species, and that s us, humanity. some of it s climate change. some of it is actually land use nearly a third of the world s land serves other things. and some of it s pollution. so, that s the challenge. and that is what the museum is out to try and fix. t
mass extinction events. that s moments when almost all the life on earth has disappeared, and all the data is telling us we re heading for a sixth. but this one is different because all the data is telling us that this sixth potential mass extinction event, the first mass extinction event since we lost the dinosaurs over 60 million years ago this one is caused by the actions of a single species, and that s us, humanity. some of it s climate change. some of it is actually land use nearly a third of the world s land serves other things. and some of it s pollution. so, that s the challenge. and that is what the museum is out to try and fix. this is a big part- of our colonial legacy. think about it - wildlife and conservation stemmed from the i hunting background, and during colonial days, the only people who were allowed to hunt legally. were the colonial overlords. when things changed - and hunting was banned, those same people - became the conservationists and them and their futu
has disappeared, and all the data is telling us we re heading for a sixth. but this one is different because all the data is telling us that this sixth potential mass extinction event, the first mass extinction event since we lost the dinosaurs over 60 million years ago this one is caused by the actions of a single species, and that s us, humanity. some of it s climate change. some of it is actually land use nearly a third of the world s land serves other things. and some of it s pollution. so, that s the challenge. and that is what the museum is out to try and fix. this is a big part- of our colonial legacy. think about it - wildlife and conservation stemmed from the i hunting background, and during colonial days, the only people who were allowed to hunt legally. were the colonial overlords. when things changed - and hunting was banned, those same people - became the conservationists and them and their future generations| are all some of the most fierce conservationists. on the
by something you said to the new yorker magazine not to long ago. you said, conservation is not seen as something black kenyans do. in this country it is a white thing. do you think you have changed that? yes, notjust me there are plenty of amazing young african scientists and conservationists who are singing the same hymn. i think that this is a big part of our colonial legacy. think about it wildlife and conservation stem from the hunting background and during colonial days, the only people who were allowed to hunt legally were the colonial overlords. when things changed and hunting was banned, those same people became the conservationists and them and their future generations are all some of the most fierce conservationists on the continent. but africans, back in colonial days, were considered poachers and until today, it seems like that is still the picture or the image that people feel about it and so, you know, telling people that it is ok for africans to be conservationi