somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, i think somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, i they are wishful thinking. they are and in golf rory mcilroy and viktor hovland share a lead at st andrews after the third round. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell reports from malaga. fire crackles.
and your mission should you choose to accept it is to find out if the hollywood superstar, tom cruise is filming in the british lake district. hello, and welcome to bbc news. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives, possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell reports from malaga. fire crackles. wildfires are raging in spain after days of intense heat. firefighters battled the flames in extremadura in the west of the country. in the south near malaga,
at evacuation centres for days, unable to rescue their companions stuck at home. all because of an unusually dry, hot spring, combined with extreme temperatures due to climate change, causing summer wildfires and heatwaves. portugal set a july record at 47 celsius and meteorologists forecast a 50% chance of a new uk record, a high of a0 celsius in parts of england. this is the aftermath of a wildfire in croatia this week. but why in europe, and why now? in croatia this week. experts point to the presence of a double jet stream. one in the extreme north, in the shetlands and norway and one in the south just below portugal. and that really helps to trap the heat and what it causes is essentially an amplification of the already heated
climate that we are in, we re more than one celsius higher than we should be, and what this is causing is now, sort, of a furnace, i guess, if you will, over western europe. despite all this, efforts to tackle climate change took a back seat this week. while the leader of the world s biggest carbon emitter historically, president biden, was visiting their world s largest oil producer, back home, his climate ambitions appeared to collapse in congress on friday, placing his net zero ambitions in peril. there are still things that the biden administration can do, and which it says it is going to do, regulate power plants, regulate emissions from vehicles and other moves, but it is undeniably a difficult time for climate policy in the us and globally. so, in the push to avoid catastrophic warming of the earth s atmosphere, there is alarm that despite calls to decarbonise faster, things may actually be moving in the opposite direction.
chance of a new uk record, a high of a0 celsius in parts of england. this is the aftermath of a wildfire in croatia this week. but why in europe, and why now? experts point to the presence of a double jet stream. one in the extreme north in the shetlands in doorway, one in the south just near portugal. is essentially an amplification of the already heated climate that we are in, more than one celsius higher than we should be, and what this is causing is now sort of a furnace, i guess, if you will, over western europe. despite all this, efforts to tackle climate change took a back seat this week. while the leader of the world s biggest carbon emitter historically, president biden was visiting their world s largest oil producer,