night time in europe and the us is not expected to bring widespread relief either, as temperatures stay above 30 celsius or 86 fahrenheit in places including arizona and southern spain. georgina rannard from the bbc climate unit explains why scientists are worried about these temperatures. it has been days now of sweltering temperatures across the us, europe, and china, and one millions of people have struggled through this extreme heat, climate scientists have been poring over a run of broken climate records. they say the speed and the timing that these records have tumbled is unprecedented. now, while climate models are very good at forecasting long term trends, experts say that some of these abnormalities were not expected. let s take a look at some of the broken records. in july the world recorded its hottest day on record. for decades, globalaverage decades, global average temperatures have decades, globalaverage temperatures have been getting higher and higher. then on
davie. you ll take your life as that happens. it s full days and we re still not clear whether truth lies. it has developed into a complex case of the mixture of claims and counter claims. today the bbc s director general tim davie said he had not spoken to the presenter since the allegations emerged. in the last hour the corporation provided a timeline of how it managed the family s complaint. it said on the 18th of may a family member went into a bbc building and asked to make a complaint about the behaviour of the bbc presenter. the next day the family member contacted the bbc s audience ever since. the allegation was deemed important enough to be passed on to the bbc s corporate investigations team. at this point the bbc says an assessment was made that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality. the bbc says the bbc e mailed the family for more information, but there was no response. then there was a gap of 18 days until the bbc tried to call the family,
he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. what s
everyone agrees. this after a group of asian-american students filed a complaint against harvard and the university of north carolina chapel hill alleging that they failed to employ employee race neutral admissions practices. the majority opinion delivered by chief justice john roberts said that any student, quote, must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual, not on the basis of race. highlighting the importance of this case in a rare move. justices clarence thomas and sonya sotomayor also read their opinions from the bench. now with justice thomas declaring, quote, at all forms discrimination based on race including so-called affirmative action are prohibited under the constitution. now harvard did in fact released a statement following the decision acknowledging that the court ruled their admissions policies did not comply with the 14th amendment, the equal protection clause in the constitution and the civil rights act. harvard is not actually totally b
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