time for our top stories. president biden lands in scotland any minute now for a key climate summit. overnight the biden administration released a strategy for net zero emissions. it includes switching over to electric vehicles, buildings and bringing you a live report from glasgow. the new york city fire department is preparing for a 20% cut in services. starting today 2,000 firefighters are taking medical leave ahead of the city s vaccine mandate. jury selection begins in the
brought the crowds out in southern brazil injuly, many of them seeing snow for the first time. now to some of your weather watcher pictures from northern ireland s hottest day on record. when the temperature reached 31.3 celsius onjuly 21. this heatwave saw northern ireland and parts of wales and england covered by a new met office extreme heat warning, designed to highlight the danger prolonged heat can have on people s health. still to come on weather world. no time for delay and no room for excuses, the urgent warning ahead of a key climate summit later this year. there is no denial any more that we are beginning to see these impacts and they re devastating for us as a country, as an economy.
reported to have caused minimal crop damage, but was certainly an incredible sight from a distance. let s not forget the southern hemisphere winter. a rare widespread snowfall brought crowds in southern brazil injuly. many of them seeing snow for the first time. now for some of your weather watch pictures from northern ireland s hottest weather on record. with the temperature reached 43.3 celsius onjuly the 21st. this heatwave saw northern ireland and of wales and england covered by a new met office extreme heat warning, designed to highlight the danger prolonged heat can have on people s health. still to come on weather world. no time for delay and no room for excuses. the urgent morning ahead of a key climate summit later this year. there is no denial any more.
and a rare widespread snowfall brought the crowds out in southern brazil injuly, many of them seeing snow for the first time. now to some of your weather watcher pictures from northern ireland s hottest day on record. when the temperature reached 31.3 celsius onjuly 21. this heatwave saw northern ireland and parts of wales and england covered by a new met office extreme heat warning, designed to highlight the danger prolonged heat can have on people s health. still to come on weather world. no time for delay and no room for excuses, the urgent warning ahead of a key climate summit later this year. there is no denial any more that we are beginning to see these impacts and they are devastating for us as a country, as an economy.
for excuses, the urgent warning ahead of a key climate summit later this year. there is no denial any more that we are beginning to see these impacts and they re devastating for us as a country, as an economy. most of us check the weather forecast every day, perhaps to know what to wear or, for us, what the weather is going to be like when we are filming weather world. not many of us check the forecast to prevent our chances of catching a deadly disease. but that is the aim of a ground breaking project now under way in africa. meningitis is an infection of the brain and spinal column and this part of africa, the so called meningitis belt, sees thousands of cases every year. with one in ten infections leading to death. a link between weather and the spread of the disease has led to a new early warning system, led in africa by this doctor.