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as they are at home. we know that the climate is changing and we can in part judge that climate change by the quality of the observations that are being used to assess it. welcome to weather world. first a question what do mexico, finland, hungary, estonia, oman, republic of congo have in common? they are all countries that have set new temperature records since we were last on air in april. but it is what happened in canada in a week of extreme heat then fire that took the eyes of the world to a small village in british columbia. the whole village is going. this is lytton, filmed by residents fleeing as it burns almost to extinction. for three straight days injune this place recorded canada s highest temperature on record, reaching 49.6 celsius, just before fire swept through it, burning nearly everything. it was an historic heatwave across western canada and the north west usa as a so called high pressure heat dome grew over the area both trapping and building the h ....
another metoo moment? with me to discuss that, maria margaronis is a journalist and maker of radio documentaries, especially about greece. stephanie baker writes for bloomberg, the us media group. with me in the studio, bbc presenter and foreign correspondent, clive myrie. good to have you with me clive and stephanie and maria. lovely to see you both again. now. now. the taliban are now in control in logar province, just 45 miles south of kabul, the capital. it is to the regional warlords and militia groups that president ashraf ghani has turned in afghanistan s hour of need. evidence that his army 300 soldiers, trained and equipped by the now departed americans and their allies is inadequate to the fight against the taliban. one by one provincial capitals have fallen. clive, when we look at the picture 234 afghanistan. james used to be the director of national intelligence and worked withjoe biden in the white house, said today it was inevitable. once the american ....
hello and welcome. a humanitarian disaster is fast unfolding in afghanistan. the un says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in fighting between the taliban and government forces. injuly, the areas controlled by the taliban were these, shown in red. with contested regions in yellow. but now a lot more territory has fallen to the taliban, including nine of the country s 3a provincial capitals, as it intensifies its offensive to seize power, following the withdrawal of western troops. 20 years after 9/11 and what has become america s longest war, president biden has set a symbolic date of 11 september 2021 for full withdrawal of american troops. peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban have been taking place for a year in doha but no agreement has been reached. the bbc s yalda hakim interviewed two high profile figures in the taliban chain of command, she asked them both what do they want from the afghan government and how they would rule the cou ....
48.8 centrigrade on the island of sicily. good morning. today for many of us it will be dry with sunshine. more clout in the south with the odd spot of drizzle. heavy showers coming in across scotland and northern ireland. all the details in 25 minutes. it s thursday, the 12th of august. our top story. more than half a million students in england, wales and northern ireland will receive their gcse results this morning with record results predicted. for the second year running, the grades have been based on teachers assessments, after the exams were cancelled. our education correspondent elaine dunkley has this report. i had one exam and the rest was coursework. molly is doing a btec in business. she s one of hundreds of thousands of students who will receive gcse and vocational qualifications today. the pandemic hasn tjust had an impact on her education, it s brought personal tragedy and loss. unfortunately, i lost my step grandad and my dad in may and june, so, yeah, it s j ....
the taliban putting kabul at risk of being next. and inside covid icus, what the youngest victims of the pandemic are saying about their battle with the virus. health officials in the u.s. are racing to expand vaccine protection as a surge in covid cases driven by the delta variant has patients overwhelming hospitals. a source says within 48 hours the food and drug administration is set to approve a third dose. and then they will discuss and vote on the need for additional vaccines. the push is being felt across the country. california s governor says all teachers and school staff must be vaccinated or face weekly testing. the u.s. surgeon general says it is possible a covid vaccine could be available for kids under 12 before the end of the year. listen to this. trials are still under way right now for kids under 12. and my hope is that they will come to a conclusion soon. and that we will get that mix fro applications from the companies to the fda because i can tel ....