tv Life at 50 Degrees BBC News August 12, 2023 10:30am-11:01am BST
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a migrant boat has sunk in the english channel. the french authorities say one person has died. five others are in a serious condition. england captain harry kane has confirmed he's leaving tottenham. he's signed as a bayern munich player until 2027. in a message to fans he said it was time to leave spurs, but the club would always be in his heart. in football, the game between australia and france is in extra time in the quarterfinal of the women's world cup, still goalless, england taking on colombia later. now on bbc news: life at 50 degrees looking at kuwait and iraq.
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start my days with a dog walk. come on! we need to make it super early so that my furry baby can walk on the ground without burning himself. europol is ok? i think it was around 56 this year, supposedly as hot as it got but it feels like 60! yeah, it got but it feels like 60! yeah, it is hot! are you dehydrated? it sucks the life out of you, and then you are like this. it is hot, come on! i am done, you are like this. it is hot, come on! iam done, girl! todayi you are like this. it is hot, come on! iam done, girl! today i have a pretty special guest. hi. on! i am done, girl! today i have a pretty special guest.— i think it might line of work when i am doing content creation i see when the heat affects me, when you have the heat affects me, when you have the best light in a day to be able to film it is too hot for you to do
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wait! the heat impact your life in ways you do not anticipate. it makes things that are supposed to be a minute long an hour long! you want the air conditioning? one of the things i was not anticipating when i did finally have children was now i had this tiny little being that needed to be protected from the sun. let's get going. and because i had rearfacing car let's get going. and because i had rear facing car seats, let's get going. and because i had rearfacing car seats, the air unit never touched car seat so we won't turn the car on 30 minutes prior to
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an outing, put the ice packs into his car seat to cool him down before i placed him in itand we his car seat to cool him down before i placed him in it and we had a tube extending from the front air conditioner to the back to make sure we could get him enough air conditioning in a rearfacing car seat and that is the reality for all parents here. push the door! push, push, push! do you want to try that, it is mango with strawberry. is there chocolate? i would spend my entire adult life living in kuwait but i did have a little bit of time i grew up in the states and got to be outside and make tree houses and climb trees and i guess i really wanted that for my own children. how is that? is it called? does it give you brain freeze? that is good. i think there is a common misconception that there is the ability to split your time between multiple countries if you are from
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kuwait. that has never been my reality so the assumption we are able to leave when it is too hot is really not possible for everybody. this is the hottest i have ever seen kuwait. it is getting to the point where it is really unbearable and i feel like everything about living here is hostile sometimes! you said you like swimming inside or outside? in sight. why is that? do your feet hurt when you walk on the grass outside? yeah? it concerns me the only life my children have known has been scorching heat. they want to be able to go to the playground and they were begged to go all day and we will break and take them and it'll be so unbearable they are begging to go back home.
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change. you've got to stop using straws to say the turtles and turn off the lights in your bathroom as you leave the house to be able to save energy but the big picture is what it means to live here, what it means to raise children here and i sometimes worry and it is one of my largest fears, that my children are still young right now and these are probably the best days of their life in terms of weather. if you do not live here and you are not affected by it every day, you forget that it is happening. but it is. and it is terrifying. if we are looking into the future, i do not see how much longer we can consider kuwait habitable.
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hello. the weekend is upon us and low pressure once again is paying us a visit. we'll have a look at the forecast for the next seven days, but let's concentrate on the weekend first of all. so sunshine and showers, that's what the low pressure is going to bring us. in fact, if we look at the satellite picture, you can see it spinning around here just to the west, north—west of ireland. then, through the course of the weekend, it will be barrelling to the north of northern ireland and also across scotland and then south of it. we've got a noticeable breeze, which will be quite strong around some of these coasts and you can see the showers moving in during early morning on saturday. but, further east, the sun should greet us. the temperatures will be around 16 in london and about that for hull, newcastle and even edinburgh and aberdeen. but out from the west, from the get—go, the showers will be streaming in and spreading
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across the country. so a mixed bag to come on saturday. some of the showers could be heavy, could be thundery, but there will be gaps in between those spells of rain and certainly some sunshine in the forecast. i think the most lengthy sunny spells may be along the south coast, in the south—east, but even further north i think you'll be pleased to hear there will be some decent windows of sunny weather. a similar picture on sunday. the low pressure still close by. it's actually a very slow moving low, so it pretty much parks itself over the uk during the course of the weekend. notice that the showers are more frequent in the north—west compared to anywhere else in the uk on sunday. on monday the low pressure is still with us. a bit of a sting in its tail because this area, this weather front, isjust brushing the south—east, so i think some more maybe persistent showers and even a spell of maybe more persistent rain, at least for a time in the morning, we think. but out towards the west, the sun's out. fine weather for wales, the north—west of england not doing bad at all, northern ireland, but a scattering
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of showers in the forecast for parts of scotland. then, eventually, that low pressure, what's left of it because it is fizzling away, moves into scandinavia. in its wake, a high pressure forms, but it's a weak area of high pressure. enough to slow the low pressure coming in from the atlantic. and, yes, there is another one heading our way! so here's tuesday, a decent day, just the odd shower, plenty of sunny spells and very pleasant temperatures — typically in the range of 19 to 23 degrees celsius. that was tuesday. this is wednesday. the high is with us and the low pressure is slowly approaching. it's also being pushed by quite a weakjet stream in the atmosphere. the jet stream is way above at 30,000 feet, the jet stream is pushing the low pressure towards us, but only very, very gently. ahead of it on wednesday i think still plenty of bright, if not sunny weather. now, let's have a look at that jet stream. this is towards the end of the week. it's still more or less over us, so we are in that rain
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and wind superhighway. that low pressure slow moving to the west of us, but any heat coming in from the south in this position of the jet stream will be deflected towards more central and eastern parts of europe, but it might come close to the south. notice a little bump here. that heat mayjust about nudge into some southern parts of the uk. we're starting to see that hint in the forecast later next week. you can see more sunshine there for cardiff and those temperatures rising, as well. and even further north, belfast and edinburgh, it looks as though the weather might turn a bit better later in the week.
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a migrant boat has sunk in the english channel. the french authorities say one person has died. hello, i'm anjana gadgil. i'm apologising, i seem to have the wrong autocue so i will move onto my scripts and bring you up to date. we start in the us, where the number of people killed by wildfires on the hawaiian island of maui has now risen to 80. it's the us state's deadliest—ever natural disaster. this is drone footage from the all—but—destroyed town of lahaina. as you can see, structures are completely levelled, trees stripped, the devastation reaching all the way to the shoreline. hawaii's attorney general has begun a probe into how authorities responded to the fires after some residents said they received no warning. our north america correspondent sophie long reports from maui.
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