now on bbc news, it s time foryourworld: life at 50 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 a
now, he s a rising young star of his party, but right now, he faces a troubling question are the democrats bungling their opportunity to put america on a new course? congressman richard torres, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to be here. it s great to see you, congressman. i m tempted to begin by saying a year is an awful long time in politics. if we cast our minds back to january of this year, the democrats were euphoric. you were taking control of both chambers of the us congress. joe biden was moving into the white house. that euphoria has well and truly disappeared. what s gone wrong? well, we were never euphoric. i was cautiously optimistic, and keep in mind that we were well aware of the congressional losses in the 2020 election cycle. we were cautiously optimistic that we could be to the 21st century what fdr was to the 20th century, that we could harness the power of this fdr moment to create a 21st century social safety net to modernise american infrastructure
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. today i m in the south bronx, the poorest part of new york city, and by many measures, the poorest district in the whole of the united states. it is in places like this that joe biden s promise to build america back better will bejudged. my guest today is the young democratic party congressman who represents this place, ritchie torres. now, he s a rising young star of his party, but right now, he faces a troubling question are the democrats bungling their opportunity to put america on a new course? congressman richard torres, welcome to hardtalk. it s a pleasure to be here. it s great to see you, congressman. i m tempted to begin by saying a year is an awful long time in politics. if we cast our minds back to january of this year, the democrats were euphoric. you were taking control of both chambers of the us congress. joe biden was moving into the white house. that euphoria has well and truly disappeared.
children s life s choices? absolutely. tonight. who s watching the kids? i love social media. i ve had a digital life since i was about 13. facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok. now, these days i almost feel my digital life is indistinguishable from my real one. i mean, if i didn t instagram it, did it even really happen? i know that advertising is a part of this, and recently i noticed the return of some old anxieties, alongside a high number of diet related ads. it made me ask, just how much do social media companies really know about me, and what impact is this having on children growing up today? i ve come to holyrood secondary, scotland s biggest high school, to ask these 11; and 15 year olds are they on their social media accounts as much as me? i could spend, like, five hours on tiktok and maybe on weekends, like, 10, 11 hours. a good few hours a day on instagram. because you just get so, like, distracted by it that everything else is like.doesn t exist for a moment.
is indistinguishable from my real one. i mean, if i didn t instagram it, did it even really happen? i know that advertising is a part of this, and recently i noticed the return of some old anxieties, alongside a high number of diet related ads. it made me ask, just how much do social media companies really know about me, and what impact is this having on children growing up today? i ve come to holyrood secondary, scotland s biggest high school, to ask these 14 and is year olds are they on their social media accounts as much as me? i could spend, like, five hours on tiktok and maybe on weekends, like, 10, 11 hours. a good few hours a day on instagram. because you just get so, like, distracted by it that everything else is like.doesn t exist for a moment. i showed them my instagram feed. did anything jump out at you? yeah. i think about 60% of what was there was either an ad or, like, a promotion for something. is it really sort of obvious to you? yeah. is itjust normal to yo