this is bbc news. the headlines... the british socialite ghislaine maxwell is found guilty on five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse by a jury in new york. maxwell procured the girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein. she faces the rest of her life behind bars. the body of the south african archbishop desmond tutu is lying in state in his old cathedral in cape town ahead of a state funeral on new year's day. the world health organization warns coronavirus variants omicron and delta are driving a dangerous tsunami of cases as the us and europe report a record number of infections. nhs england is to set up new nightingale hubs to combat a potential wave of covid admissions due to omicron. an extra 4,000 emergency hospital beds are to be deployed. and afghanistan's former president defends his decision to flee the country as the taliban closed in earlier this year, saying he did it to prevent the destruction of kabul. now, on bbc news, it's time foryourworld: life at fifty degrees centigrade. in episode four, we see how lives have been dramatically altered in mexico and australia by global warming. surface temperatures at the moment, somewhere between 87 and 95 degrees. so many people don't think that climate change is real. itjust was extremely hot, and everyone was starting to get worried, day by day, until it happened. temperatures will climb well into the 40s, making conditions even worse on our fire grounds. the footage that i took of the fire was shot on the gopro that i had actually got for christmas five days before the event. it was on a very hot day to begin with, so that made the fire, i think, a lot more aggressive. in the afternoon, i got the first glimpse of the fire coming over one of the mountains in front of us. it's so much smokier over there. it then started behind our house and i wasjust standing up there, thinking, "bleep, this is happening. "need to get off the roof now and start fighting." whoa, kangaroo! ok, it's coming this way! should i get the other pump going? what? what should i do? the fire was just too intense and out of my control. dad! and if india had been in earshot at the time, i was wanting her to get into that fire shelter and just give up. it's over. we've done the best we can. oh, no! no, no, no! it did get really intense and i thought we were going to lose the house. um...but itjust calmed down for a second and the fire kept going up the mountain. oh, yeah. it has completely and utterly changed the landscape here for the rest of my life, if not forever. as far as any of the tall trees, mostly all of them have been wiped out. we're right still in the middle of this heatwave, so as we head into the christmas period... that is what happens when you wake at 5:30am! so, there's very strong evidence — irrefutable evidence, in fact — that the climate of australia has changed, especially over the last 50 to 70 years. i specialise in heatwaves, so, i study how heatwaves have changed over time and what's causing those changes. i have a two—year—old and a four—year—old daughter. it really bothers me that the world that they're experiencing now is a lot different to my childhood. i've experienced days of 45 and 47 degrees celsius, and that was appalling. it was atrocious. you couldn't do anything. the only way we could stay cool in western sydney was to have the air con running all day, and that was a really hard thing for me to do. during my first pregnancy, it was so hot that i actually struggled to go and put the washing on the line. while i was literally about to bring this child into the world, i was thinking, what will the summers be like for her in the future? it was the hottest day ever recorded in the sydney basin. incredibly, the mercury rising to almost 49 degrees. because population increase in sydney is continuing, it's spreading out west. the australian dream, where you had your half acre or acre block and your own house — this australian dream could become, basically, australia's nightmare. you need a car to actually get from your house to work, because we are also not providing work where you live, you have to commute. also, there are no shops. people living indoors and you don't see anyone outside, i don't see any kids playing outside. they even put black roofs on top of these houses and then they build of these houses and then they built them so close together that you have no more space left to actually put trees in, which is crazy when you think of the next 20 or 30 years when we know it is getting hotter out there. in australia, we're producing our energy to a large proportion by burning fossilfuels, meaning we're producing more co2 by having all these air—conditioning units running high, flat—out. but there could be simple changes made, and these changes relate to materials. one of the projects where we are demonstrating change is the cool roads trail. let's take the heat—stress trekkers and put them out in this cool street, and we'll collect some measurements on this stinking hot day. this yellow concrete is only at about 60 degrees, so nearly 10 degrees cooler than the asphaltjust out on the road, which is 70—72 degrees. it's quite interesting. they removed all the bitumen and you can see the different surface materials bringing in the verges, planting more trees, so i think it's a great idea. beyond 42 degrees, mortality increases substantially. this is what climate change looks like, ladies and gentlemen. in november 2018, up to one—third of the entire australian spectre flying fox population just died in a matter of two days. in two hot afternoons. just like that. so, over the last few years, we've begun installing sprinklers in flying fox camps in the hope that they can prevent some of the worst of the mortality. the international report has australia last when it comes to policies that protect the climate, trailing countries like russia, iran and china. if he said we were doing better than anyone else, he must have looked at the table upside down. our goal is to reach net zero emissions as soon as possible, and preferably by 2050. we're not going to reduce our emissions to 2 degrees warming by the end of this century. i know that we're probably going to reach 3 or 4 degrees, and i know what that means for how many more heatwaves we're going to see and how much hotter those heatwaves will be. sweetheart, you're meant to be unpacking, not packing! as a scientist, i know how bad the future looks. i understand that, i comprehend all that, that's what i do for a living. but as a mum, as a person, i guess, as a human being, i really struggle with just how bad those impacts will be. i'm worried for my future. i'm worried that this house won't be here in another five years, and i'm worried that no—one really cares enough to do anything. so, what plants do you think we should plant in our back yard in our new house? strawberries. - you want strawberries? the brand—new house is going to be awesome. we're going to make it energy efficient and we're going to have lots of solar panels and a white roof and lots of insulation and it's going to be oriented the right way and we'll have an electric car, when we can buy it. i know we've caused some problems, and i know we also hold the key to the solutions. what else do you like to eat that you think we can grow in our yard? how about some apples? ooh, mummy likes apples! hello. if you've already been out this morning, you will already be aware it is a very another very mild morning out there, exceptionally mild across the country, as it will be for a few days yet. tempered a little bit at times by quite a blustery wind. that is at its strongest today to the south and the west of the country, but it's coming in from a south—westerly direction, all the way from the mid—atlantic, did madeira, the azores, towards our shores. when you've got that very mild run of air, it does pick up a lot of moisture, and that's why we've seen summer rae or drizzle around so far today, and into the afternoon, the heaviest will be in this zone across parts of north and west wales, extending towards that m62 corridor. to the south of it, staying cloudy, patchy rain or drizzle. to the north of it, some sunny spells, but weather you're north or south of that dividing line, it is going to be exceptionally mild for this stage in december. we could hit 16 or 17 degrees across parts of east anglia and the south—east. that area of cloud and more persistent rain edges a bit further north tonight. patch of heavy, maybe thundery showers, working eastwards through england and wales. another very mild night for the most part, although the far north of scotland will be a bit full of. here, we've got some sunshine to start new year's eve. southern scotland, northern ireland, far north of england, fairly cloudy, outbreaks of rain, heaviest in the morning. lighter in the afternoon. better chance of some sunshine across the rest of england and wales, and that bit of sunshine will lift temperatures again close to 16-17, lift temperatures again close to 16—17, potentially making it the warmest new year's eve on record. hello. if you've already been out this morning, you will already be aware that it's another very mild morning out there, exceptionally mild across the country, as it will be for a few days yet. tempered a little bit at times by quite a blustery wind. that is at its strongest today to the south and the west of the country, but it's coming in from a south—westerly direction, all the way from the mid—atlantic, madeira, the azores, towards our shores. when you've got that very mild run of air, it does pick up a lot of moisture, and that's why we've seen summer rae or drizzle around so far today, and into the afternoon, the heaviest will be in this zone across parts of north and west wales, extending towards that m62 corridor. to the south of it, staying cloudy, patchy rain or drizzle. to the north of it, some sunnier spells, but north or south of that dividing line, it is going to be exceptionally mild for this stage in december. we could hit 16 or 17 degrees across parts of east anglia and the south—east. that area of cloud and more persistent rain edges a bit further north tonight. patch of heavy, maybe thundery showers, working eastwards through england and wales. another very mild night for the most part, although the far north of scotland will be a bit cooler. here, we've got some sunshine to start new year's eve. southern scotland, northern ireland, far north of england, fairly cloudy, outbreaks of rain, heaviest in the morning, lighter in the afternoon. better chance of some sunshine across the rest of england and wales, and that bit of sunshine will lift temperatures again close to 16—17, potentially making it the warmest new year's eve on record. and that sets us up for a very mild run—up to the midnight hour. some rain pushing into the west, some clearer skies in the east. these are the temperatures as we go through that midnight hour at the start of 2022. it stays exceptionally mild. we should only be about 7—8 by day. we should only be about 7—8 by day. we will be well above that at midnight. but there will be some light rain around across northern and western areas. new year's day, a better chance of some sunshine, at least for some of you, but the showers will be more frequent across the far north and west. but we stick with there was was eye, coming in from a south or south—westerly direction and the mild theme continues. this is bbc news — the headlines: the british socialite ghislaine maxwell is found guilty on five counts of grooming and trafficking teenage girls for abuse by a jury in new york. maxwell procured the girls for the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein — she faces the rest of her life behind bars. no matter who you are, no matter what kinds of circles you've travelled in, no matter how much money you have, no matter how many years have passed since the sexual abuse, justice is still possible. in other news, nhs england is to set up new nightingale hubs to combat a potential wave of covid admissions due to 0micron. an extra 4,000 emergency hospital beds are to be deployed. around eight million covid test kits will be made available to pharmacies by tomorrow, after shortages following the self—isolation rule change.

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