in several sectors of the frontline near the city of kherson which has been occupied by moscow since the early days of the invasion. it comes as ukrainian forces launch a long awaited counter offensive in the south of the country. now on bbc news, weather world. this time on weather world record heat, drought and the fire that ripped through people s homes at the end of the uk s hottest day. as temperatures hit a0 celsius for the first time, i ll hear about london fire brigade s busiest day since world war two. and why wildfires are a growing problem. and i m talking to the scientist whose near real time analysis has shown how climate change has supercharged this summer s weather extremes. they ll show me a0 degrees in the uk is virtually impossible without climate change and why hotter heatwaves matter. we have 40 degrees. many more people die than if we just have 36 degrees. and that is that is a huge difference. also on weather world devastating drought for east af
this time on weather world record heat, drought and the fire that ripped through people s homes at the end of the uk s hottest day. as temperatures hit a0 celsius for the first time, i ll hear about london fire brigade s busiest day since world war two. and why wildfires are a growing problem. and i m talking to the scientist whose near real time analysis has shown how climate change has supercharged this summer s weather extremes. they ll show me a0 degrees in the uk is virtually impossible without climate change and why hotter heatwaves matter. we have 40 degrees. many more people die than if we just have 36 degrees. and that is that is a huge difference. also on weather world devastating drought for east africa, facing an unprecedented fifth consecutive failed rainy season. and how the same weather pattern could bring yet more flooding rain to eastern australia. this is weather world. this is wennington, a small village which, despite being in east london, is surroun
is surrounded by a lot of grassland and farmland. it was a place that few people outside the local area would ve heard of until disaster hit, when a devastating wildfire swept through the village at the end of the day when the uk hit a0 degrees celsius for the very first time. tonight at 10:00, the uk has today recorded its highest ever temperature 40.3 degrees celsius in lincolnshire. july the 19th the day the uk reached a temperature that once seemed impossible and with extreme heat, fire. in wennington, a small blaze soon became an inferno that destroyed 19 homes. i needed to leave and so, i left and went to my local church, cos we ve got a community church. but after spending a few minutes in the church, then we realised that the church ground was also on fire, so we were told to evacuate the church. i was sunbathing in my garden and then, a massive black cloud s come across. i looked up, that side of wennington was on fire and within an hour, it spread all the way t
to call for national lung cancer screening. england fight back to reach the semi finals of the euros. an extra time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. it s thought half of all kennels across the uk have closed during lockdown, but with many more of us now owning dogs, getting a space at a boarding house like this is now a very hard thing. good morning. today will be cooler than yesterday. for england, fairly cloudy with the odd shower. bright and sunnier in the west. i ll have all the details and more later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday zistjuly. our top story two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battleground is likely to be taxation, with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. he s the forme