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2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record
2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record. Will 2025 be of the same ilk?
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LA fires latest: wildfires become most destructive in city’s history
The LA fires still rage – catastrophic reality has rivalled fiction in the home of American disaster movies. As the fires spread the insurance losses mount. Estimates are that they’ve reached $13bn in just 24 hours.
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‘In hours 100 houses were gone’ – Hollywood director describes LA fires
We spoke to Malibu resident Jon Turteltaub. He’s also a film director and his credits include ‘Cool Runnings’, ‘National Treasure’ and ‘The Meg’.
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LA fires ‘like being in a blast furnace’, says journalist and author
We were joined by John Vaillant, journalist and author of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for his book Fire Weather, an account of the 2016 inferno that engulfed the oil town of Fort McMurray in Canada and an examination of our future in a more flammable world.
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How LA fires and climate change are fuelling US insurance crisis
With LA still under a red flag alert and new fires having to be dealt with, the impact on the ability of local people to insure their homes is under the spotlight.
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UK economy: slump in pound piles pressure on Labour
The cost of government borrowing rose again this morning and the pound fell – with financial markets still worried by the country’s faltering economy and weak public finances.
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‘Reeves has made UK more vulnerable’ says economist
We spoke to the economist Rupert Harrison who was chief of staff to former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
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Busiest year on record for NHS emergency services in England
NHS England figures today say it was the busiest year on record for emergency services.
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Farmers heckle Environment Secretary during speech
The Environment Secretary has been met by a barrage of tractor horns and heckling farmers as he gave a speech on reforming the agricultural sector.
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Bradford’s year as UK city of culture begins – what will it change?
First Londonderry, then there was Hull and Coventry. Now, it’s the turn of Bradford to take up the mantle of UK City of Culture.
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Jimmy Carter funeral: Presidents pay tribute in Washington DC
Five former and serving US presidents have come together for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter.
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Army veteran becomes first disabled person to ski solo to South Pole
An army veteran has become the first disabled person to ski solo to the South Pole.
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Debate: More housebuilding or protect the green belt?
We spoke to Lizzie Bundred Woodward, a planning policy manager at the Campaign to Protect Rural England; and Sam Stafford, who’s Planning Director of the Home Builders Federation.
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Labour to force councils to hit house building targets
More building will be allowed on the green belt under a major shake-up of the planning rules unveiled today by the Prime Minister.
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‘Mazen represented every era of revolution’, says activist’s friend
We spoke to Khaled Alkordi, a Syrian activist who was detained by the Assad regime and was a friend of Mazen al-Hamada.
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Syria: Mourners gather for activist Mazen al-Hamada funeral
He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.
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‘It couldn’t be more critical at this time’: WHO on Syria funding gap
The UN says humanitarian needs are growing in Syria – with thousands of people displaced across the country following the collapse of the regime.
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Captogan trade will ‘spill over’ outside Syria, says expert
We spoke to Caroline Rose, who’s Director of the New Lines Institute think tank.
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Syria: Inside Captagon drug factory which funded Assad’s brutal regime
It’s been called the poor man’s cocaine. Captagon: the drug that funded Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule in Syria.
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Syria: how to rebuild a ‘corrupted narco-state’
It’s a matter of days since Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria was toppled by a lightning-quick offensive led by the rebel group Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – and Syrians are still in a state of euphoria at their newfound freedoms, but also horror as evidence of Assad’s torture chambres are revealed.
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Poland accused of pushing migrants back to Belarus
Human Rights Watch claims that Polish authorities have been “unlawfully, and sometimes violently, forcing people trying to enter the country back to Belarus”.
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How a cover-up forced the Archbishop of Canterbury from office
For decades, the Church had participated in a devastating cover-up. With the bravery of the victims I was about to put all of this in the public domain.
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Can Shia and Sunni Muslims live in peace together in Syria?
The Zaynab shrine in Damascus is revered by Shia muslims around the world.
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Saudi Arabia wins World Cup bid despite human rights fears
Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host of the 2034 men’s football World Cup finals – despite its dismal human rights record.
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Social care system facing collapse in UK say providers
The social care system in England could be facing collapse, according to a group of six large providers.
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‘Focus on rebuilding Syria’ says White Helmets rescuer
We spoke to Ismail Alabdullah from the White Helmets, which is the volunteer emergency rescue service which has been operating in opposition-controlled areas of Syria.
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How young Syrians feel about the fall of Bashar Al-Assad
How young Syrians are reacting to the fall of Bashar Al-Assad.
