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we start tonight with some developing news from the united states. former us president donald trump has received further charges in the mar a lago documents case. mr donald trump received an additional charge of willful retention of defence information and to new charges of obstruction. and an additional person a staff member has been indicted in the case. mr donald trump has all charges. let s bring in our work north america corresponded who was in washington for us. firstly, sean, what is the date and what is the latest, give us more detail. more detail. let s quickly stamp clearly more detail. let s quickly stamp clearly that - more detail. let s quickly stamp clearly that this i more detail. let s quickly - stamp clearly that this relates to the florida case which involved the retention or alleged retention of classified documents that prosecutor saint mr donald trump was not entitled to keep after left office. to be absolute. this is unrelated to the other feder ....
agnes callamard, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i m sure you would agree that amnesty s international reputation depends upon impartiality, independence, the rigour of your research. how do you think amnesty s reputation stands across the world right now? look, based on the various travels i am doing in africa, latin america, asia, our reputation stands very high and firm. people from very remote areas, all the way to political leaders know that they can count on us if it s needed. i was very recently in peru meeting with indigenous people who had confronted state violence, mothers and fathers who had lost their sons. who was there with them for months after the event, for weeks at a time? amnesty international. we went there and we kept being there for them. i was in taiwan two weeks ago. amnesty international has been in taiwan since the 1980s. we fought the white terror government. we are now in taiwan as an established ngo, but also an ally for the ci ....
Stored underground. we can produce units anywhere because we have off the shelf units that we re using and we can deploy them anywhere. and so from our perspective, that means you have the highest opportunity to actually remove the most amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. other companies like this one in iceland have alternative technologies that do the same. but by far the most important thing we need to do is reduce our use of fossil fuels, and quickly. the carbon dioxide they create is the main driver of climate change. justin rowlatt, bbc news. well, the impact of global warming is seen in extreme weather across the world. in a moment, we ll hear from our correspondents in the us and in pakistan but first to jenny hill in rhodes which has seen scorching temperatures and raging wildfires. it s the height of the summer season here on rhodes, and ordinarily holiday makers would be enjoying its beaches, ....
Are all part of a single interrelated phenomena. for the pacific islands, low lying pacific islands that have been living this catastrophe for not years, some in many cases for decades. and they ve been saying that we are perhaps the canary in the coal mine. and so we come into a new era. we have moved from an era, as un secretary general said last night, from global warming to a global boiling. and the world needs to step up and get ready to operate in this new era. and also we keep talking about the impact on us humans, but the rising temperature of the ocean in this new era of global boiling that has a huge impact on ecosystem in the water where we don t always have a camera. absolutely. the fires are dramatic, but across the oceans and across the pacific ocean, the catastrophe is less visible, less dramatic from coral bleaching to collapse of whole marine aquatic food systems ....
Here in the us capital today it s been around about 36, 37 degrees c, but that is positively mild compared to other parts of the united states. in phoenix, arizona, they ve been enduring their 28th consecutive day with the mercury up above 43 degrees c. and it s a similar picture across much of the country. some 150 million americans this week are living under an official heat alert. now, president biden has introduced a number of measures at the white house this afternoon. they include better protection for workers, farm workers, those working in construction so they don t have to go out and work in the heat. also, more money for weather forecasting. but the truth is, these are measures that deal with the symptoms of climate change, not the causes. and, of course, america historically has been the world s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. it now comes just behind china. and president biden s critics will say that faced with a congress that has ....