to adjust to the impact of his tourette s diagnosis. and another celeb is buying a football club. that s right. stormzy is set to buy his hometown club, afc croydon, as part of a trio that includes footballer wilfried zaha. time now for 10 seconds of a slice of history. this painting was found in the ancient city of pompeii. now, it might look like a pizza, but experts say pizza didn t exist when this was done. so who knows? you re all caught up now. see you later. this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. back in 2015, world leaders pledged to speed up cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in a bid to stop our planet warming by more than 1.5 degrees over pre industrial levels. most climate scientists now believe that threshold will be crossed, and soon. as a result, many millions of people around the world face potentially life threa
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gaza, especially civilians and children, is too high. he says gazans must be allowed to return to their homes wall street supporting us support for israel. he and benjamin and yahoo discussed efforts to release all remaining hostages and get you humanitarian aid into gaza. this all comes as the hamas run health ministry says 126 people have been killed in gaza in the last 24 have been killed in gaza in the last 2a hours. it says 57 deaths were reported in one central gaza hospital alone. the situation in israel s northern order with lebanon remains volatile, with locations on either side targeted by the idf and hezbollah. this is what antony blinken told the press conference afterward. figs blinken told the press conference afterward. a , ., , blinken told the press conference afterward. a , . , afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower afterward. as israel s campaign moves to a lower intensity - afterward. as israel s
to below the 1.5 degrees celsius? when we produced our landmark report five years ago, we said it was possible within the laws of physics and chemistry, and the biggest obstacle to keeping within the limit was actually on the social and institutional side. we, i think, now need to move to the position, we have to look very hard at whether we will be pushing against technical and economic barriers in terms of limiting warming to1.5. it is not absolutely impossible, but the chances are diminishing. and, really, it s hanging on a thread at the moment. right. isn t that a tactful way of saying, i m not in a position to be conclusive about this, but as far as i m concerned, as an experienced scientist, it is simply not going to happen ? the average temperature rise is going to go appreciably beyond 1.5. yeah, ipcc s job is to assess the literature that we have out there already, and we haven t got quite the literature yet to absolutely write off the 1.5 limit. and we need to be
possibility of limiting worldwide temperature rise to below the 1.5 degrees celsius? when we produced our landmark report five years ago, we said it was possible within the laws of physics and chemistry, and the biggest obstacle to keeping within the limit was actually on the social and institutional side. we, i think, now need to move to the position, we have to look very hard at whether we will be pushing against technical and economic barriers in terms of limiting warming to1.5. it is not absolutely impossible, but the chances are diminishing. and, really, it s hanging on a thread at the moment. right. isn t that a tactful way of saying, i m not in a position to be conclusive about this, but as far as i m concerned, as an experienced scientist, it is simply not going to happen ? the average temperature rise is going to go appreciably beyond 1.5. yeah, ipcc s job is to assess the literature that we have out there already, and we haven t got quite the literature yet to