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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 leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, has been found guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them …
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The US president said ‘annihilating’ Iran would create peace in the world and if Tehran were to agree a deal, oil prices would drop immediately.
In a wide-ranging magazine interview, Donald Trump, suggested military action could resume after the midterm elections in November.
Also, we have details of the Iranian national who’s been arrested in London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with the incident at RAF Fairford on Sunday in Gloucestershire.
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Today, around 3000 people are being treated in hospital corridors, as nurses and charities call on the government to take action as the annual NHS winter rush approaches.
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As the BBC highlights the case of two-year-old Finlay Roberts who died in a hospital corridor in 2024 – a death the coroner said could have been prevented – we speak to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper about the immediate challenges facing the NHS.
Plus, Zack Polanski speaks to Laura about the Green Party’s controversy over the definition of Zionism.
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Lives “will be lost” unless the UK does more to prepare for wildfires, experts warn, after a record-breaking summer saw 1,350 wildfires in England and Wales alone.
“Tinderbox” conditions created by a long, hot, dry summer brought the worst wildfire season on record in 2026.
Dozens of homes were destroyed or damaged, huge areas of land burned, and one man died.
The UK government banned disposable barbecues, sent a wildfire alert to people’s mobile phones and made £97m available, and a wildfire summit is planned – but are we still behind the curve?
In this episode of Behind the Investigation, Melanie Stewart-Smith speaks to Adrian Goldberg from File on 4 Investigates about what he found on the ground.
0:00 Is the UK prepared for wildfires?
0:42 A record summer of wildfires
1:34 Stourbridge: A couple lose their home
3:45 The man who died fighting a Cotswolds fire
5:21 Reporting on grief and trauma
6:26 From local fires to a national story
7:26 Firefighters at “breaking point”
8:49 Crews sent hundreds of miles
10:25 The wrong kit and training?
11:37 Climate change warning: “Lives will be lost”
13:09 Government response and £97m funding
15:05 On the ground: Wildfire training exercise
17:40 Verdict: How prepared is the UK?
19:24 1.8 million homes at risk
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When a man entered the enclosure of a Siberian tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near Doncaster, visitors and staff found themselves at the centre of a tragic and extraordinary incident.
This programme examines what happened and asks experts if it poses wider questions about zoo safety in the UK.
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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.