i m annita mcveigh, live in glasgow at the cop26 summit. i will be getting reaction to the announcement on deforestation and asking one of the key architects behind the paris climate agreement what it will take to get a deal here. the uk environment secretary has welcomed what he calls a big de escalation of the post brexit fishing row with france. paris says it will delay introducing punitive trade measures while further talks are held. two metropolitan police officers have pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office after they shared photos of the bodies of murdered sisters bibaa henry and nicole smallman on whatsapp. uk mps are calling for the introduction of smart motorways to be paused until the government can prove they re safe. the system uses the hard shoulder to increase capacity, but critics say that s contributed to road deaths hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. around 100 world leaders at the un climate summit in glasgow hav
words. it s beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and god forbid, experience. a baby, an infant riddled with bullets. soldiers beheaded. young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. i could go on. but it s simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. it almost defies comprehension. when you see this, you try to imagine, maybe not try, you ca help but imagine yourself, your family, your loved ones, your friends, in that situation. in that predicament. and maybe the best word for it for me is overwhelming. it is also hard and bad for the innocent people in gaza. and it is getting worse there by the hour. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to kill every single member of hamas. and in the effort to root them out, the idf says they have dropped about 6,000 bombs weighing more than 4,000 tons on gaza. leveling entire neighborhoods. here is a flier one civilian sent to nbc news. the israeli army dropped them in north
we ll get the very latest on the escalating conflict with a live report from near the gaza border in just a moment. meanwhile, some republican presidential candidates are already spreading misinformation about the attack, blaming a deal between the biden administration and iran. plus, we ll bring you a look at how the chaos in the house with republicans scrambling to find a new speaker could impact military and security assistance for israel. good morning and welcome to morning joe. i m jonathan lemire. alongside u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. we re in for joe, mika and willie on this holiday monday. with us on this busy monday, we have president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, and columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. katty, an extraordinary weekend, a tragic weekend, now we deal with the unfolding story on this monday morning. yes. lucky we have richard and david with us this mor
on the road parameter. we had 156 fires around the country of which 11 are still active and two are preoccupying. several firefighters are among those seriously injured or missing. france and spain sent aircraft to back up portugal s own effo rts aircraft to back up portugal s own efforts but with temperatures expected to remain high, firefighters face another difficult day. a reminder of how serious the heatwave can be in some circumstances. we can go to the other side of the studio, and looking at those pictures, it must really strike you as a meteorologist. yes, it is the dry weather they have had across iberia, temperatures in the 405, and weather they have had acro55 iberia, temperatures in the 405, and the thunderstorms which don t help, because the lightning can 5park 5torm5. we have already got up to 31.9to 5torm5. we have already got up to 31.9 to the south of london. relief close to the coast, that was a lovely picture from cornwall. sea breezes developing near the
june day since 1976. but there s also a risk of very heavy rain or thunderstorms. extreme weather is also causing problems in other countries, including france, spain and portugal and our science editor david shukman has been considering the latest evidence on volatile weather conditions. the terrifying sight of one of the most aggressive forest fires that portugal has seen for years. as a heatwave took hold, whole families had been caught in their cars. more than 60 people in all have died, and the fires have advanced with devastating speed. there was a massive noise , says this survivor, and then we saw the flames. we d never seen anything like it , according to this man. it all happened in just a few seconds. anybody want a bottle of water? here in britain, the heatwave is far less dangerous, but it is disruptive, delaying trains as the rails have buckled and forcing speed restrictions to be imposed in many parts of the country. a road in cambridgeshire, damaged as