tv Life at 50 Degrees BBC News August 12, 2023 10:30pm-11:01pm BST
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hawaii's attorney—general orders an investigation into wildfires on maui. at least 80 people are known to have died. the authorities are facing growing questions about whether they could have done more to warn residents on the island of maui. two games away from glory, the lionesses are through to the semifinals of the women's world cup. coming from behind to beat colombia 2—1 in the quarterfinals. they face australia on wednesday. and those are the latest headlines here on bbc news. now, it's time life at 50 degrees: iraq and kuwait.
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we need to make it super early so that my little fur baby can walk on the ground without burning himself. are your paws 0k? i think it was around 56 this year. that's, supposedly, hot as it got. but if feels like 60! yeah, it's hot. did you get dehydrated? it sucks the life out of you. it goes like this... and then that's it, you're just like this. let's go home, it's hot. come on. i'm done, bro. today i have a really special guest. this is... hi, guys. it's hindash. i think in my line of work when i'm doing a lot of content creation, i can really see when the heat does affect me. when you do have the best light in a day to be able to film, it's absolutely too hot for you to do it outside. so, since this is a compilation episode, i'm going to make sure that
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we need to look both ways. the heat impacts your life in ways that you don't necessarily anticipate. on a day—to—day, it makes things that are supposed to be a minute long an hour long. all right. yeah. let's sit down, my love. do you want the ac? yeah. one of the things that 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. all right, let's get going. and because i had rearfacing car seats, the ac unit actually never touched his car seat. so we would turn the car around 30 minutes prior to an outing, put the ice packs into his car seat to cool it down before i could place him in it,
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and then we would have a tube that would extend from the front ac into the backjust to make sure that we could get him enough air conditioning in a rear facing car seat. that is the reality for all parents here. push the door. push, push, push. do you want to try that? it's like mango with strawberry. is there a chocolate froyo? i have spent my entire adult life living in kuwait but i did have a little bit of time where i got to grow up in the states and got to really be on my bike and be outside, and make treehouses and climb trees. i guess i really did want that for my own children. how is it? is it cold? i think there's a common misconception that there is the ability to split your time between multiple countries if you're kuwaiti. that has never been my reality, so the assumption that we are able just to leave when it's too hot is really not possible
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for everybody. this is the hottest i've ever seen kuwait. it is getting to the point where it's really unbearable, and i feel everything about living here is hostile sometimes. would you say you like swimming inside or outside more? inside. inside? why do you like inside? do your feet hurt when you walk on the grass outside? yes. yes? it concerns me that the only life that my children have known has been in scorching heat. they want to be kids and go to the playground and they'll beg to go all day, and then we'll finally break and take them and it'll be so unbearable that they're begging to go back home. really humid.
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there is absolutely no way to survive here without ac. and i think that what's really disturbing about that is that you're cooling your little section but your heating up outside. and so we are in this awful, awful cycle of trying to cool ourselves down but also heating up the country even more as we go on. i think we've got a little fatigued with the idea of climate change. you've got to stop using straws
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to save the turtles, and you've got to turn off the lights in your bathroom as you leave the house to be able to save a little bit of energy. but the big picture is what it actually means to live here, what it means to raise children here and i sometimes worry, and it's one of my largest fears, is that my children are so young right now and these are probably the best days of their life in terms of weather. if you don't live here and you're not affected by it every day, you forget that it's happening. but it is, and it's terrifying. if we're looking into the future, i don't see how much longer we can consider kuwait habitable.
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hello there, good evening. with low pressure close by for yet another weekend, with low pressure nearby, it has been unsettled. blustery throughout the day. a good scattering of showers such as here in cambridgeshire. as we had through sunday, a quieter looking day, still windy for the time of day but not as blustery, still sunny spells but fewer showers around. this is the satellite picture from early round on saturday. on sunday, largely try note, also mild, temperatures between and 16
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degrees, a keen south—westerly wind but not as blustery saturday and there will be a good scattering of showers as well but they will not be as heavy or as thundery as saturday, possibly a rumble or two of thunder across the moray firth and further spells of rain in northern ireland and parts of western scotland by the end of the day. top temperatures in east anglia, 23 celsius. this is the position of the rain on sunday night into monday morning, that will be moving northwards and eastwards across wales, south—west england, and northern england as well. scotland could see a largely dry day, scattering of showers out towards the east, possibly mostly driver northern ireland, and dry weather across east anglia and the south—east of england, although still the risk of showers here. on tuesday, the deep area of low pressure pushes off towards scandinavia and high pressure starts to build in but still there is a france waiting out in the atlantic,
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they will be stalled. on tuesday, a mostly dry stout but murky, low cloud around, some areas of sea mist and fog as well, possibly some sharp showers across central and western areas of scotland but plenty of dry weather as well and has the cloud tends to break up, some sunshine will emerge, 22 to 23 celsius across east anglia and south—east england. on wednesday, high pressure in the north, that will push eastwards, low pressure at an again, and it is being stalled by the high pressure. another murky start of the day, plenty of mist and fog around, low cloud, the sunshine will break through and temperatures across central southern england, perhaps western areas of east anglia, could get up to 26 celsius on wednesday, and it is looking similar again on thursday. a few showers around, low cloud to start the day, temperatures pegged back with perhaps a bit of
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sea mist around so just the high teens. we start to see some rain approach northern ireland by the end of the day, this is the position of the jet stream as we head through next week. some debate about how far north it will be but it is drawing in this airfrom north it will be but it is drawing in this air from southern europe so it will start to feel warmer across south—east england and wales as well, staying unsettled and cooler further north towards the north of the jet stream but across cardiff, we could see temperatures up in the mid 20s, possibly the high 20s in london and the south—east and cooling down somewhat over the weekend, bye—bye for now.
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wildfires. former president donald trump stoke support of the iowa state fair, meeting fans in the crucial primary voting states. and the french coastguard because of its search for the night of the six migrants drowned in the english channel. —— calls off its search. hello, welcome to the programme. more resources are being sent to the hawaiian island of maui is the search for victims intensifies in the wake of devastating wildfires. the historic town of lahaina, the worst part of the island has been bent almost entirely to the ground. the death toll stands at 80, making it the deadliest natural disaster in a way�*s history. but the number of missing is far higher. the search for bodies has onlyjust begun in earnest. meanwhile, buyers do continue to burn there, helicopters are being sent to douse the flames one bucket at a time. many people
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