welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm marika oi. the headlines.. a new climate report — warns the world is likely to break a key temperature threshold — in the next five years. prince harry's spokesperson says he and meghan markle were involved in a �*near catastrophic car chase', but new york police say there were no reported collisions, injuries or arrests. president biden heads for the g7 summit injapan, where tensions between indo—paciific nations are high on the agenda. this is a pacifist nation now facing the potential of a conflict on its doorstep. be it from a belligerent north korea, or because of china's increased aggression toward taiwan. and the world's most famous shipwreck — the titanic — we'll show you the first

full—sized sd scan that's been created. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. there've been dramatic scenes in northern italy — after 1a rivers burst their banks, flooding 23 towns. at least eight people died, after parts of the emilia romagna region saw half a metre of rain injust 36 hours. the extreme weather comes as scientists warned that the world will almost certainly experience its hottest year on record within the next five years. and a key temperature threshold is likely to be breached for the first time —— which is a rise in global temperature by 1.5 degrees

celsius, above pre—industrial levels. here's our climate editor, justin rowlatt. remember last summer? temperatures in england breached a0 degrees celsius for the first time, driving wildfires and helping make 2022 the hottest year ever recorded in the uk. and we can expect even hotter weather worldwide in the coming years, according to the world meteorological organisation, the un's weather and climate body. rising temperatures thanks to global warming are one reason, but also seeing a change in a crucial weather system in the pacific ocean called el nino. for the last few years, winds blowing along the equator have been stronger than normal, pushing warmer water towards the coast of asia and helping deep, cold water well up on the coast of the americas. this phase is known as la nina, and is associated with below

average global temperatures. we are now moving into the el nino phase, where winds are weaker which means warm water spreads across the pacific. now, that tends to increase global temperatures by about 0.2 celsius on average. that does not sound much, but it makes it almost certain, a 98% chance according to the un's weather experts, that one year in the next five will be the hottest ever recorded, and it gives us a two in three chance, 66%, that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5 celsius global warming threshold between now and 2027. that's never happened before in terms of a yearly average global temperature, so we are heading into unprecedented territory, to temperatures we simply haven't experienced before, and the impact will be equally unprecedented.

"i'm frightened, i'm frightened," says this woman as she drives through floodwaters on an italian motorway. today's report comes as a number of people have been reported killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused extensive flooding in northern italy. the grand prix circuit at imola has flooded, and this weekend's race has been cancelled. our changing climate will make this kind of intense rainfall more common in future, say climate scientists. justin rowlatt, bbc news. earlier i spoke to heatwave researcher chloe brimicomb about whether government's are doing enough to face up to this. i don't think governments have done enough. we know that the 1.5 level of warming, currently with contributions to reduce emissions by governmen,t could be overshot and we could see two to three degrees of above pre—industrial temperatures warming.

and this means that we're more likely to see these extreme weather events. but also this puts at risk our health, ourfood security, our energy security, right across the world. so, we really do need this action now. but do you think these events are enough of a wake up call for governments to make changes, or what would it take for them to make those changes? especially because covid has somewhat pushed climate change to a back seat, hasn't it? well, i think covid is an opportunity and it shows that when the world comes together, we can have these sort of behavior change that makes a massive difference to lives across the world. and there's lots of local community schemes that governments can look to to put in place actions at a national level. so, i don't think that all hope is lost. but these extreme events are getting worse and they're becoming more likely with the increase in baseline temperatures. and we've been saying this as climate scientists

for over 30 years now, and i think it's about time that we stopped having to say it, if i'm honest. and it would be really nice to have this mitigation in emissions, but what governments and industry and all of us need to understand is that we also need adaptation now to protect people. whether that's from flooding in italy or the heat waves we're currently seeing in asia, because we can'tjust mitigate against climate change now. these events have already become too likely. briefly before we let you go for developing economies, many of them here in asia, they argue that it's not fair that they have to prioritize climate change over economic development. how would you bridge that gap? climate change is a socialjustice issue. so it's the job of the west to put in place sustainable transition for those in asia and also parts of africa.

but it's also really important that as we have sustainable transition in the west and in europe, we're not exploiting those people in asia and africa. so we need to look at how we can work together collaboratively across countries to put in place a green transition, and change the way that we work together so that we don't have issues with security and we don't have all of these injustices that are exacerbated by a change in climate. prince harry says he and his wife were involved in a �*near catastrophic�* car chase with paparazzi on tuesday evening. a spokesperson for the duke and duchess of sussex says the couple — and meghan's mother were " relentlessly pursued" for over two hours by photographers, after leaving an event.

tuesday night in manhattan, the duke and duchess of sussex are filmed leaving an awards ceremony in midtown with meghan markle's mother doria ragland before the incident in question. earlier, meghan had been recognised for her advocacy on behalf of women and girls. it was the first time the couple appeared in public together since the duchess's absence at the king's coronation. not long after leaving in a black suv, they claimed they were involved in a near catastrophic car chase

at the hands of highly aggressive paparazzi. in a statement on wednesday the spokesperson said, "this relentless pursuit lasted over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two nypd officers." more details are emerging about what happened. driver sunny singh said they briefly rode in his cab for part of the journey while trying to evade photographers and appeared nervous. but he said he wouldn't characterise the pursuit by paparazzi as a car chase. they were behind us, they stayed on top of us, that was pretty much it. it was nothing more, you know. they kept their distance. it was just like journalists, like everybody else, trying to get pictures. make a quick buck. new york's mayor eric adams had this to say. i don't think there's many of us who don't recall how his mum died, and it would be horrific to lose innocent bystander during a chase like this. harry has frequently voiced his fear that history could repeat itself, blaming the paparazzi for his mother princess diana's death in 1997. do we have that pap on the scooter again? yes, ma'am. 0h, we do, really? the couple's statement is the latest action prince harry has taken to fight intrusion by the press. he cited harassment

by the british tabloids as one of the reasons he moved to the united states in 2020. live now to washington where our north america correspondentjessica parker joins us now. i lets of speculation and opinions, what is the latest about what we know what happened. about what we know what happened-— about what we know what ha - ened. ., , , happened. your rights, there is a lot of speculation _ happened. your rights, there is a lot of speculation and - happened. your rights, there is a lot of speculation and lots - a lot of speculation and lots of different versions of events out there and as you can imagine it's out there and as you can imagine its meaning is usually covered here in the us but so far all we really have are the statements from harry spokesperson also we saw in the report the statement from the new york meager and the taxi driver that was driving the couple and the duchesses mother for part of the journey. also, to let you know, different

police sources have spoken to different networks in this country so abc news reporting that what happens, according court in the discourses they spoken to, is very different to what prince harry has alleged. they are reporting that to new york police department detectives that were present with harry and megan had a very different view, and they said that it wasn't a big pursuit like it's been alleged. i should point out the mayor did say that he found it hard to believe there was a two hour high school pursuit but in prince harry's spokesperson never said that in a statement. they said the person was relentless but what we can see is the new york police department did confirm an incident took place with harry and megan and numerous photographers made their transport challenging. figs

photographers made their transport challenging. as he said, a transport challenging. as he said. a lots _ transport challenging. as he said, a lots of— transport challenging. as he said, a lots of reaction - transport challenging. as he said, a lots of reaction in - transport challenging. as he | said, a lots of reaction in the us but it will inevitably be receiving a loss coverage in the uk where the couple does divide opinion. as the report mentions, it brings back memories of prince and stan is death. ., . ., , , , death. for prince harry this is a personal— death. for prince harry this is a personal crusade _ death. for prince harry this is a personal crusade against. death. for prince harry this is| a personal crusade against the paparazzi and media over harassment which she does blame for the death of his mother backin for the death of his mother back in 1997. he gave an intermittent view in which a documentary did in which he called the paparazzi a pack of dogs. in a documentary he did recently, also interviews you have given, he said every paparazzi click is something that gives them a sense of ptsd. so, ithink that gives them a sense of ptsd. so, i think that is why we have this very strong statement from the princes spokesperson in which they said that all the photos and videos

you are seeing came at a very dangerous cost. should also add that forces and videos people might see on social media, the bbc hasn't been able to independently verify them yet. that was nomia iqbal with that update. let's take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk.... one of the top scorers in the english premier league has been banned from football for 8 months — after he admitted breaching betting rules. ivan toney, a striker for brentford, broke gambling regulations more than 200 times. he's also been fined about $60,0000 by the sport's governing body. he is not expected to return to the pitch untiljanuary 202a. those who rent properties in england will soon be protected from "cruel and heartless" evictions according to mps in the uk who are bringing in long—promised changes to the private rental market. under the new legislation, landlords will be banned from ending tenancies for no

reason and won't be allowed to refuse families with children or those receiving benefits. a bbc investigation has found a lack of significant progress towards boris johnson's high—profile election pledge that the government would build a0 new hospitals in england by 2030. more than three—quarters of the projects said they didn't have clarity over funding and had yet to start building work. the department of health and social care said it remained committed to delivering the hospitals by 2030. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. tucker has been david daly�*s eyes and companion for eight years. now, though at the age of ten, he's nearing retirement.

tucker means my independence and safety when i go out and about. without him, i would certainly struggle. david will be getting a new dog, but at the moment he's no idea when that will be. breeding and training by the guide dogs charity was paused during the pandemic and the impact of that means that waiting times are longer than they would like. in the meantime, david, who is severely sight impaired, will have to go back to using a white cane. there's also the matter of what happens to tucker when the new dog arrives. yeah, i'm getting a bit tearful talking about it even now. no, it's going to be. yeah, as long as i know he's going to a good home and i can see him on a regular basis. hopefully, that's all i want for him. really. you're live with bbc news

reuters is reporting that the uk's prime minister rishi sunak and japan's prime minister fumio kishida will agree a landmark new global strategic partnership, called the �*hiroshima accord at the g7 summit. it will include the doubling of uk troop numbers in upcoming joint exercises, committing to deploy carrier strike group to indo—pacific in 2025. president biden will arrives for the summit on thursday. japan is hosting this year's meeting in hiroshima amid an increasingly unstable and tense indo—pacific. shaimaa khalil reports. at 0kinawa's naha air base, these routine military exercises have become more urgent. japan's southwestern islands are on the front line of any potential conflict between taiwan and china, a threat that's becoming more real by the day for the self—defense forces or the sdf. captain ura and his colleagues know that any response would have to involve their american counterparts. 0kinawa is home to the biggest concentration of us military presence in japan.

but the young pilot tells me, as china's capabilities increase, so too should his squadron's readiness to retaliate. translate: when i scramble. to intercept the planes and see chinese aircraft in front of me, i naturally feel a sense of tension. but it also makes me realise that i'm on a mission at the front line of national defence. china's activities are getting more complex, so we need to reflect that in our training. when the government announced the biggest military build—up since the second world war, it illustrated japan's urgent need to show that it can defend itself. this is a pacifist nation now facing the potential of a conflict at its doorstep. be it from a belligerent north korea or because of china's increased aggression against taiwan. both scenarios will inevitably play out here. both would be catastrophic for the region and the whole world. an hour's flight from 0kinawa main is ishigaki island,

a picturesque haven known for fishing and agriculture. and who's beautiful beaches have long attracted holiday—makers. but beyond this facade of calm stands japan's newest military base. nearly 600 troops have moved here earlier this year, including squads capable of launching land to ship and land to air missiles into the east china sea and beyond. but the base has split a once close knit community. many fear their island might now be a target. every week, veteran activist tetsuya masato stands in the fields outside the base to protest. translate: as a person who has experienced - the second world war. i don't want the tragic situation to be repeated. i don't want this island to become a battlefield. we've been nurtured by nature and culture of this island. i don't want that to be

destroyed or stolen by war. ishigaki is close to two volatile frontiers taiwan and its growing tension with china and the senkaku diaoyu islands, which tokyo controls and beijing claims. translate: geographically speaking, we are very close to taiwan and southeast asia. we are in a situation where chinese ships are patrolling very closely. the equipment we have in terms of missile launches is for defending ourselves. it's not for attacking other countries. we're not looking for war. japan has not fired a single shot in battle since the end of world war two, but this country that has spent decades avoiding war might find itself being pulled into one. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, 0kinawa. earlier i spoke tojeffrey hornung — a senior political scientist at the rand corporation, a us based think tank and research institute. he says that landmark new global strategic

partnership between the uk and japan is significant. to date outside of the usjapan alliance, the most thatjapan has had with defense relations, the robustness has been with australia. japan, foryears, has been looking to increase its defence ties with europe, uk among them. and so this is really a landmark agreement, the fact that they're taking their defence relationship to the next level. and as we've heard in china's report, japan is boosting its defense spending. and president biden is, of course, arriving injapan today and will be meeting with mr kishida against the war in ukraine, the growing threat of china that will likely be the top of the agenda of the conversation and the g7 summit. sure. in the g7 summit, they're going to be talking about a wide array of issues, whether it be global health, economic or security. but with the bilateral summit, i think we can expect to see a lot more security focused interest, be that the

chinese provocations in and around japan. continued aggression or continued build up by north korea as well as the war in ukraine, and how japan and the us can respond to that together. but at the same time, president biden is cutting his trip short because of the domestic debt limit issue back home, skipping the quad summit, of course, in sydney. how is this going to be viewed by its allies? so there was a fear initially that president biden was going to skip the g7 summit altogether and miss his entire presence in the region. i think the japanese, the hosts, are relieved that president biden will at least make it to the g7 summit. but you're right, by skipping out on the quad meeting and not being able to be the first president to visit papua new guinea, this does send sort of a mixed message to the region about us commitment. but at the same time, democracies have domestic

politics that they have to deal with. and i do think talking to friends injapan, they do understand the domestic problems that president biden is facing and the fact that he does have to go home to tend to those. a lot more on our website but that's all we have time it's probably the most famous shipwreck of all time, the focus of countless documentaries and hollywood movies — but there's a version of the titanic you haven't seen. experts have used special technology to map the whole ship and create its "digital twin". 0ur science editor, rebecca morelle, has been given exclusive access to the project. nearly 4,000 metres down, in the murky depths of the atlantic — the titanic. but cameras can only ever show us tantalising snapshots, never the whole ship. now, a new scan has revealed the wreck as it's never been seen before.

an exact full—sized replica. to appreciate its scale, we've superimposed it in the london stadium, where the olympics was held. the titanic was simply colossal, and this 3d scan reveals the wreck in its entirety. for the first time, we have an exact digital copy of the real thing. and what you see here is what's lying on the floor of the north atlantic ocean. not only can we get an idea of the ship's enormous size, this scan also gives us a close—up view of its smallest details. this is the boat deck. a gaping hole provides a glimpse inside, where the grand staircase once stood. and here's what's left of the captain's bridge, covered in fragile stalactites of rust. remarkable details are emerging too, like this serial number on a propeller. the resolution is phenomenal. this will allow scientists,

historians to reunderstand how the titanic came to be where it is. and it's also a snapshot in time. the titanic was scanned using submersibles. they took 700,000 images from every angle to build up an exact 3d reconstruction. the wreck is in two parts. the bow is still instantly recognisable, more than 100 years after it sank. 800 metres away, the stern, though, is a chaotic mess of metal. it collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor. the titanic�*s been extensively explored, but there are still fundamental questions. we really don't understand the character of the collision with the iceberg. we don't even know if she hit it along the starboard side, as shown in all the movies. she might have grounded on the iceberg. and this photogrammetry model is one of the first major steps to driving the titanic story toward evidence—based research and not speculation.

the sea is eating away at the wreck and time is running out to find out what happened on that night in 1912 when more than 1,000 lives were lost. but the scan now freezes the wreck in time. the hope is titanic may yet give up its secrets. rebecca morelle, bbc news. a lot more on our website but that's all we have time the stars were back out on the red carpet for day two of the cannes film festival. ethan hawke's new film strange way of life had its premiere. he an pedro pascal plays lovers in the short 31 minute film inspired by ang lee's brokeback mountain. pascal wasn't in france as he's said to filming the follow up to gladiator. japanese director hirokazu koreeda premiered his new movie monster. it breaks down the misunderstanfins between a single monther and a teacher started by two schoolboys.

hello there. there's going to be some more warm sunshine at times on thursday. could be one of two showers breaking out, mind you. and later in the day, we're going to find this cloud coming in from the atlantic to bring a little rain into the northwest. right now, though, we've got this stream of cloud moving down from the north. a lot of it, though. this quite thin, high, cloud, but with more cloud around, temperatures will start at nearer nine or ten degrees early on thursday. and from that cloud, there could still be a little light rain or drizzle in scotland. now eastern parts of scotland should become drier and brighter. and in northern ireland there'll be some sunshine in the morning before that band of cloud brings that line of rain. for england and wales, there'll be some sunny spells developing, but as it warms up a bit we could trigger a few showers through the midlands, some eastern parts of england. further west it's likely to stay dry, and we may well find the highest temperature

around worcestershire and herefordshire, but it's still only 20 degrees. nothing to get too excited. we normally see temperatures a bit higher than that at this time of the year. and generally those numbers are going to be 17 or 18 celsius, once again, like wednesday. there is that weather front though, bringing that line of rain into scotland and northern ireland that's going to then push its way down into england and wales on friday. and that cloud may start to thicken up and bring with it a few more showers. and those could be a little heavy as they push into the midlands towards the south east of england. following on from that, we've got more sunshine to come for scotland and northern ireland, though the cloud will build up a bit and spread out. but temperatures are likely to reach 18 degrees in glasgow, the same as the temperature there in plymouth, and it'll be warm in the sunshine. for scotland and northern ireland as we head into the weekend though, there's likely to be more cloud coming in from the atlantic, a little bit more breezy in northern scotland. high pressure will keep it dry, though, for england and wales and there'll be a lot of sunshine around as well. but more cloud for scotland

and northern ireland, just about thick enough to give a little light rain or drizzle here and there. no great amounts by any means. and we've still got temperatures of 18 degrees in the central belt. in the sunshine for england and wales, temperatures could hit 20 or 21 celsius. and there's more sunshine to come for england and wales on sunday. more of a breeze in the southeast. should actually brighten up with some sunshine in south east scotland. other parts of scotland and northern ireland again seeing more cloud, not much rain coming from that cloud. and where you have the sunshine, it'll be warm again.

debt ceiling debacle. the battle continues to strike a deal before the worlds largest economy runs out of cash. do you still have room for nature? we take a look at the wildlife being squeezed out of singapore. welcome to asia business report. we begin in washington where the battle is continuing its democrats and republicans continue to negotiate a deal to raise the debt limit. congress must approve raising the debt

ceiling or the country could default on