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Iraq’s extreme heat and water shortages – BBC News
Iraq is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth.
This summer, Sheikh Kezem Al-Kaabi fights to continue farming his ancestral land despite extreme heat and worsening water shortages.
In Baghdad, traffic cop Sa’ad Saddam Abdulhasan is responsible for one of the city’s busiest intersections. He keeps the city moving, but that means working in 50C heat.
BBC Life at 50C investigates how extreme heat is affecting lives across the world.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@brooksanderson2599
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
And yet, climate change is IRREVERSABLE in any time frame relevant to human lifetimes. You cannot "unextinct" the thousands (millions?) of species gone forever in the clearcut, slashed and burned, Brazilian Amazon rainforest. The sunlight-reflecting Arctic Ocean snow and ice cover will melt to a blue ocean event (fewer than one million square kilometers cover) this decade. Then, the ocean will heat and melt/sublimate the submariene methane clathrates and nearby tundra releasing the potent "greenhous gas" methane and also carbon dioxide. There are NO practical ways being implimented to stop, let alone slow or reverse the process. We are out of time and action to slow, let alone stop or reverse, these processes. The consequenss follow.
@gedenironald8635
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
How do people in the Middle East survive with temperatures reaching 50% Celsius and above?, in one of these years in my country South Africa in the region where I live it hit 45% Celsius and about 10 people died of heat stroke, that was the first and the last time temperatures reached 40% and above. Lastly, why you need a traffic police when you can install a traffic light.
@rubentapia2687
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Im a weather god enslaved in America. I can come prove it to you. Make your country rich with rain and energy.
@MKP2W
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
That dude directing traffic in Baghdad is amazing. I can barely direct traffic with better infrastructure helping me out and in 30 degree cooler weather
@O0o__.
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
is OK, war will save you
@Saucyakld
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
56, wow, I think 29c is unbearable. Mind you, humidity is high here! Unbearable! Not dry like there!
@samdanha3862
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
US to blame they destroyed my country. Karma will get US soon
@dragonsbreathe2164
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
This is beautiful
@scott1506
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
over 52c in death valley today
@justaman7745
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
I believe I can push Iraq 🇮🇶 and put it closer to Iceland and hopefully Iraq 🇮🇶 will never be that hot 🥵 again. Well humans can travel from Iraq to Iceland 🇮🇸 by planes ✈️, but I believe we should build a technology where we can move countries and put them elsewhere.
@dammedwater6058
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
uk lost already. if intervention was going to come it would have been months ago. now they will fight it alone at least ukraine is gone. uk lost already. dont let uk get involved in ukraine war
@adamlee1510
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Why don't the Americans help these poor people？
@ayzhah9369
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
It will not work under God will. It will work under people will.
@The_Professor123
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Poor people. I hope things will get better soon
@Nomurajellyfish
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
My heart is with Iraqi people, I really hope that the desalination systems will be fully; operational. In the UAE water is available everywhere thanks to that. They can also afford some cloud seeding techniques to create rain clouds through condensation. With the current events in Iraq we just wish for a better governance and unity to reorganise the country.
@alinahavlishyna2389
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Make kontrol woter!and…have propouse ….programm!
@alinahavlishyna2389
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Як там гарно
@alinahavlishyna2389
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Похилий вік і тютюн…дивно!і приклад дітям!так тупо!і зараз образиться:)!я ж знаю!:)
@jacobstahl4561
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Well let me think here , weren't they the ones that set fires to all those oil wells ? Did you not see all that black smoke? They shot themselves in the foot. No one to blame but themselves
@LukeAndromedaNebular
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
This video should also mention that Turkey cut the water to the rivers which pass iraq because of it's dams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM5-8ZhH2Vo
@NathanHarrison7
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Excellent documentary. Incredible heat levels. And all compounding, around the world, so very quickly. Hopefully we’ll see the words found at Rev. 11:18 fulfilled very soon. (“…and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”)
@simonecompagnucci6712
January 8, 2024 at 6:29 pm
And yet many decisions could be taken to enable all peoples on Earth to enjoy good health, education, food and water supplies and so on. If only the most powerful of the planet just decided to cut off many other expenses giving out profits only to those powerful people. In a way, seeing how many people still leave feels sad.