for many at nasa, the moon looks as close as it has in a half century. i do look at the moon differently. i m sure we looked at it that way back when we were flying apollo, but it s been a long time. reporter: nasa will tell you that wait is almost over, but its lunar landing timeline hinges on meeting a series of bi one, tncthe first one is to a space succe stor mark, thah st calls a climate catastrophe. today raging floodwaters trapped this boy until he was pulled to safety by a helicopter crew. unrelenting rain, as you see there, has killed more than 1,000 people since june and displaced millions. in china, it s extreme drought and scorching heat waves that are proving crippling. he s cbs s rhamian ascencio. reporter: summer is the rainy season for china s southwest, but dry cracking riverbeds like this across the 4,000-mile
lakes and riverbeds. all of the glimpse of the not so ancient past are coming up. i think given what we grew accustomed to people say we have to worry about saving the planet. the planet will be fine. it s been spinning through fire and ice 4.5 billion years. it s us, life as we know it, that we have built next to these bodies of water and based on predictable weather patterns. all of that is up in the air right now. i see these as real bright red warning lights on the dashboard. yeah. maybe weep s should look at the dinosaur tracks and take them to heart. they didn t stick around forever. the dinosaurs thought it was going to be that way forever. how quickly we can adopt. the greatest leaps in human evolution came at times of climate change in the past.
ready to prepare being ready to provide whatever assistance is needed to those in ukraine and in the neighbouring area. nicholas roth from the nuclear threat initiative speaking to me earlier. vladimir putin has signed a decree to increase russia s army by 10% to about two million people. just over half the total personnel will be soldiers, though it s not yet clear if the numbers will be boosted through volunteers, or broader conscription. while no official death tolls are available, russian forces have suffered heavy losses as a result of the war in ukraine. the increase is due to come into effect from january next year. as many parts of the world are facing soaring temperatures and serious droughts, china has been particularly hard hit by a record heatwave. severe droughts are threatening crops and drying up riverbeds. for 12 consecutive days, officials have issued a national red alert, which is when four or more provinces are experiencing temperatures of over a0 degrees for two d
safety concerns grow at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine, after the russian occupied site was temporarily disconnected from the national power grid. many parts of the world have been facing soaring soaring temperatures, but in china, a record heatwave has led to particularly severe drought, threatening crops and drying up riverbeds. for 12 consecutive days, officials have issued a national red alert, when four or more provinces experience temperatures over a0 degrees for two days or more. take a look at this map. it shows where the worst of the drought is, mostly across the south of the country. china s ministry of agriculture says it s affected crops, such as rice and corn in particular. it s the longest sustained period of high temperatures and sparse rain in southern china since records began more than 60 years ago, leaving water levels in the yangtze river at an all time low. our correspondent stephen mcdonell has sent this report from beijing
the fbi to search donald trump s mar a lago home. safety concerns at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine, after the russian occupied site is temporarily disconnected from the national power grid. many parts of the world have been facing soaring temperatures, but in china, a record heatwave has led to particularly severe drought, threatening crops and drying up riverbeds. for 12 consecutive days, officials have issued a national red alert, when four or more provinces experience temperatures over 40 degrees for two days or more. take a look at this map. it shows where the worst of the drought is, mostly across the south of the country. the ministry of agriculture says it s affected crops such as rice and corn in particular. it s the longest sustained period of high temperatures and sparse rain in southern china since records began more than 60 years ago, leaving water levels in the yangtze river at an all time low. our correspondent stephen mcdonell has sent this report from beijin