tv [untitled] November 14, 2021 2:30am-3:01am GMT
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the un climate summit has ended in glasgow with an agreement to strenghthen emissions—cutting targets for 2030. summit president, alok sharma, said the agreement would keep within reach the goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees celsius. but said the deal would only survive if countries kept their promises. a last minute intervention from india watered down the deal. the final text changed the expression �*phasing out�* of coal to �*phasing down', leaving many nations deeply disappointed. the un secretary general said the world was still knocking on the door of a climate catastrophe. belarus has said it's stepping up humanitarian support to migrants trapped on the border with poland. it's been accused by the european union of cynically using them as political pawns, by engineering a surge in retaliation for eu sanctions against minsk. a famous motorcycle brand,
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which supplied motorcycles to the british army in wold war two, is making a comeback after twenty years. norton was bought by the indian firm, tvs motor, after going into administration last year. the company is now opening a new factory in birmingham just a few miles from where they first started over a century ago. rob mayor has more. a new home, just a stone's throw from where it all began 123 years ago. norton supplied a quarter of all motorcycles to the british army during the second world war and enjoyed success on the racetrack. in recent years it fell on hard times, entering administration last year. after a break of almost 20 years, this famous motorcycle brand is speeding back into the west midlands under indian ownership. at full capacity, this factory will be building 8000 bikes every year. tvs motors bought the company
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for £16 million and say they have already had more than 5000 customer inquiries. norton is, for me, one of the most exciting motor brands in the world. it is about dna of racing, it is about innovation, it is about passion, it is about a very special product, and there is a huge commodity outside and customer landscape who are very excited about norton. this factory has created 100 newjobs and staff on the production line want to win back customers who may have been put off by problems with bikes made under the old company. it's changed massively. all the improvements, you can just see the brand getting bigger and bigger and hopefully we will put bikes into production and find some happy customers. the motorcycle industry association say sales of power two wheelers are up
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more than 10% on last year, but in a competitive market, can norton make up for some of its image problems of the past? norton have always been an iconic brand, they have always been one of the finest british brands, and despite all those problems over the years, they still have come up with some of the best looking, the best handling, the best working motorcycles that you can ever have. the firm hopes to scale up to 1000 bikes in production by the end of next year. that was our reporter rob mayor. now on bbc news we take a look at how lives have been dramatically altered in mexico and australia by global warming. surface temperatures at the moment, somewhere between 87 and 95 degrees.
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temperatures will climb well into the 40s, making conditions even worse on our fire grounds. the footage that i took of the fire was shot on the go pro that i had actually got for christmas five days before the event. it was on a very hot day to begin with so that made the fire, i think, a lot more aggressive. in the afternoon, i got the first glimpse of the fire coming over one of the mountains in front of us. it is so much smokier over there. it then started behind our house and i was just standing up there, thinking, this is happening, i need to get off the roof now. and start fighting.
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it's coming this way! shall i get the other pump going? what? what should i do? the fire was too intense and out of my control. dad! and if india had been in earshot at the time, i was wanting her to get into the fire shelter and just give up, it's over, we've done the best we can. oh, no! no, no, no! it did get really intense, and i thought we were going to lose the house. but itjust calmed down for a second and the fire kept going up the mountain. i imagine it is going to be like this for a long way down the road, ithink.
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oh, yeah. it has completely and utterly changed the landscape for the rest of my life, if not for ever. as far as any of the tall trees, mostly all of them have been wiped out. we are right still in the middle of the heatwave so as we head into the christmas period... that is what happens when you wake at 5:30am! so, there is very strong evidence, irrefutable evidence, in fact, that the climate of australia has changed, especially in the last
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50 or 70 years. i specialise in heat waves so i study how heatwaves have changed over time and what is causing those changes. i have a two—year—old and a four—year—old daughter. it really bothers me that the world that they are experiencing now is a lot different to my childhood. i've experienced days of 45 and 47 celsius and that was appalling, it was atrocious, you couldn't do anything, the only way we could stay cool in western sydney was to have the air con running all day and that was a really hard thing for me to do. during my first pregnancy, it was so hot that i actually struggled to go and put the washing on the line. while i was literally about to bring this child in that world, i was thinking what would summers be like for her in the future?
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it was the hottest day ever recorded in the sydney basin. the mercury rose to almost 49 degrees. because of population increase in sydney is continuing, it is spreading out west, the australian dream, where you had your half acre or acre block and your own house, this australian dream could become, basically, australian's nightmare. you need a car to get from your house to work. because we are also not providing work where you live, you have to commute. also, there are no shops. people living indoors and you don't see anyone outside, you don't see any kids playing outside.
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they even put black roofs on top of these houses may put them so close together that you have no more space left to put trees in, which is crazy when you think of the next 20 or 30 years when we know it is getting hotter out there. in australia, we are producing our energy to a large proportion by burning fossil fuels, meaning we are producing more c02 by having all these air—conditioning units running high — flat out, but they could be simple changes are made, and these changes relate to materials. one of the projects where we are demonstrating change is the rhodes trail. we are taking the heat stressed trekkers and will collect some measurements on this stinking hot day. this yellow concrete is only at about 60 degrees so nearly 10 degrees cooler than
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the asphalt out on the road which is 70 to 72 degrees. they removed all the bitumen and you can see the different surface materials bringing in the verges, planting more trees, so i think it is a great idea. beyond 42 degrees, mortality increases substantially. this is what climate change looks — this is what climate change looks like. _ this is what climate change looks like, ladies— this is what climate change looks like, ladies and - looks like, ladies and gentlemen. - in november 2018, up to one third of the entire australian spectre of flying fox population just died in a matter of two days. in two hot afternoons. just like that. so, for the last few years, we've begun installing sprinklers in flying fox camps. in the hope that they can prevent some of the worst of the mortality.
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the international report has australia at last when it comes to policies that protect the climate, trailing countries like russia, iran, and china. if he said we were doing better than anyone else, he must have looked at the table upside down. our goal is to reach net zero emissions as soon as possible and preferably by 2050. we are not going to reduce our emissions to make two degrees warming by the end of the century. i know that we are probably going to reach three or four degrees, and i know what that means for how many more heatwaves we are going to see and how much hotter those
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heatwaves are going to be. sweetheart, you are meant to be unpacking, not packing! as a scientist, i know how bad the future looks, i understand that, that is what i do for a living. but as a mum, as a person, as a human being, i really struggle with just how bad those impacts will be. i'm worried for my future, i'm worried that this house won't be here in another five years, and i'm worried that no one really cares enough to do anything. so, what plants do you think we will plant in our backyard in our new house? strawberries.
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you want trawberries? the house is going to be awesome, will make it energy efficient and we will have solar panels and lots of insulation and it will be facing the right way and we will have an electric car, when we can buy it. i know we are causing problems, and i know we also hold the key to the solutions. what else do you like to eat that you think we can grow in ouryard? how about some apples? 0h, mummy likes apples.
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hello there. part one of the weekend was a little bit dull for many of us. we held onto cloudy skies, sunshine was limited. it's going to be pretty similar, i think, for sunday with limited sunshine, a lot of cloud around and there will be some rain as well — particularly across the north—west of the uk, closer to this area of low pressure and its weather front. but further south, it's higher pressure, barely any isobars, so the winds will be light. but it's still going to be relatively mild for the time of year, particularly towards the western side of the country, as we draw up this south—westerly breeze. now, we start sunday morning off on a rather cloudy note. there could be a little bit of sunshine, too, but also some mist and fog patches to watch out for. i think into the afternoon, much of england and wales should tend to see more holes breaking in the cloud with some sunny spells. a few showers across the south—east there, but the wettest and breeziest of the weather will be across the north and west of scotland, perhaps north—western parts of northern ireland. 11—14 degrees — pretty mild — but we could see 15 degrees for belfast. now, as we head through sunday
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night, that weather front in the north—west begins to sink southwards and eastwards but as it's running into an area of high pressure, it will begin to fizzle out, so the rain will get lighter. there will be some heavier bursts on it, i think, during sunday night. those temperatures range from around 6—1! degrees. so this weather front will be sinking slowly south—eastwards, almost grinding to a halt. as it pushes into that area of high pressure, it will fizzle out through the day. so we start off with some patchy rain for southern scotland, just pushing into parts of north west england, north west wales, but you can see it fades away and just leaves no more than a band of cloud. behind it, skies brighten for scotland and northern ireland — just a few blustery showers but a much better day. and further south and east, it's another rather cloudy one for much of england and wales — limited sunshine once again. temperatures ii—i2, maybe 13 degrees. as we move through the rest of the week, it stays mild or even turns very mild at times, particularly across southern areas, and most of the wind and the rain will be confined to the north of the uk, as you can see here. as we run through tuesday into wednesday, it's low pressure to the north of the uk which will bring these spells of wet and windy weather.
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further south, closer to this area of high pressure, this is where we will see the lighter winds and the more settled conditions. but you'll see how mild it is — temperatures reaching the mid—teens at times, particularly across southern areas. quite a bit of cloud around, limited sunshine with most of the rain confined to northern areas. see you later.
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welcome to bbc news, i'm rich preston. our top stories: hearing no objections it is so decided. after two weeks of intense negotiations at the global climate summit — world leaders have agreed a deal — but does it go far enough? the agreement means countries must strengthen their targets to cut emissions for 2030. but a last minute intervention from india waters down the commitment to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel — leaving many deeply disappointed. un secretary general, antonio guterres, calls the final agreement an important step, but questions if it's enough to avoid what he calls �*climate catastrophe'. in other news belarus says it's stepping up humanitarian aid for migrants trapped on its border, but the european union says belarus is playing politics.
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