chloe brimicombe, thank ou ve the region. chloe brimicombe, thank you very much _ the region.ery much for — the region. chloe brimicombe, thank you very much for coming _ the region. chloe brimicombe, thank you very much for coming on - the region. chloe brimicombe, thank you very much for coming on the - you very much for coming on the programme. the head of russia's belgorod declared a state of emergency in the border region, blaming attacks by ukrainian forces. kyiv now claims to control more than 70 communities in the kursk region of western russia, an area of around a thousand square kilometres. this map shows just how rapid the advance has been in the last seven days, with ukraine claiming to have taken more territory in a week, than russia has all year. james waterhouse has more from front line province of sumy, bordering kursk. ukrainian soldiers in western made vehicles, driving into russia, a potentially seminal sight which few saw coming. the russian guards were quickly overwhelmed. it has been a while since this border crossing was used in peacetime, and the ukrain

chloe brimicombe, who is heatwave scientist at the wegener centre at university of graz in austria.ions like high wind speeds, dry soil conditions and high temperatures are becoming more likely in the region with our changing climate. so this is really a concern, as it is for the world in general, but something that has been encouraging is that we have seen year—on—year a growing understanding of what the greek government needs to do, and i think we definitely have seen that in this case. and what about trends here? how is it looking over the past few years? we have seen wildfires in the region year—on—year for probably the last ten years now. this year was not really as remarkable as in some of those other years. if we think about the late teens, so if we are thinking about 2017, �*18 and �*19, those were record—breaking fires in greece and also parts of spain and portugal, where we saw historic farmland that had been in families for generations being completely destroyed. this year in greece was remarkable because it was the earliest heat wave that they had had on record. so the c