this. morning's about climate change. turns a vast. into a dust bowl it's all still use worst in half a century and across the globe raging wildfires and extreme heat have scientists raising the alarm they warn that rising temperatures could reverse of lead disrupt the earth's climate turning our green house into a hot house also coming up lawmakers in argentina are voting on whether abortion should become legal the issue has been highly controversial and divisive in the

homeland of france. and. it's good to have you with us australia's most populous state new south wales is gripped by its worst drought in decades wildfires are raging in portugal spain and the united states heat wave is scorching parts of asia and right here in your the impact of the blistering temperatures is visible from outer space these images that we're about to show you from the european space agency show the united kingdom turning from a familiar green to a part. of this was denmark that you're about to see in twenty seventeen and this is the country just last month desperately in need of water.

of the searing temperatures come as a new study warns the earth could be entering a period in which its ecosystems are irreversibly disrupt. it's been more than fifty years since the state of new south wales in australia has seen a drought like this farmers pray for rain as their crops and livestock die some are forced to shoot starving cattle well others face the prospect of having to simply abandon their land. on the other side of the world a similar story the french are simply too dry about half of this farmer's corn crop has already died in the us record temperatures are fueling the worst wildfire in california history the twin blazes dubbed the mendo seen a complex have exploded to cover an area the size of los angeles in less than two weeks. scenes like this are likely to become the new normal according to an

international research team's latest study they call the trend hothouse earth i said. it's when the climate is much today three to four degrees. four to five degrees warmer than. international climate targets aim to limit the earth's warming to two degrees celsius but scientists now think even that is too high setting in motion processes which could create a domino effect such as glacial melting researchers argue that without putting in place specific human made climate protections the seas could rise by up to sixty metres so how to curb greenhouse gas emissions scientists say we need to cut industrial carbon travel less by plane and car and eat less meat they say already the earth is on the brink of irreversible warming with severe effects like those in

australia the government there has announced a multi-million dollar relief package for farmers but with dry conditions forecast to continue that may not be enough. well at this hour in argentina lawmakers are discussing a controversial bill to make abortion illegal the debate comes ahead of a key vote on the draft legislation that's expected to stretch into the early hours of the morning it's a controversial decision with fiercely polarized campaigns for and against thousands of demonstrators from both camps gathered outside the senate building today pro abortion campaigners have strong support among younger people opponents have the backing of the powerful catholic church in june congress's lower house passed a draft legislation by the narrowest of margins but this time it is widely expected to fall short of the votes necessary to pass in so wall. all right our ethics and

religion correspondent martin is following the abortion debate in decision force in argentina it's good to have your to be table martin so what are we going to see when the debate is over how do you think this is going to pan out it's hard to say i mean the lower house debate started said the same way it was everything indicated that no vote would actually when the end it actually imposed itself i mean that yes impose itself so it could happen here too in argentina women are are struggling for well they've been struggling for decades for their rights of illegal abortion what does this tell us that about women's rights in the country right now well i mean argentina says the record of ferdie progressive sexual a sexual morality or sexual politics. track record i mean including gay marriage including things like selective gender assignment and so on and so forth

this particular case it's won the death and quite cleanly across the lines or through the lines that usually we have debates about abortions which is a woman we discern set of rights and then a disposable former but serial some sort of which the. she says she have the right to suppose of it's very much across the board not only on the right but also on the left idea that abortion is really about the competition between two different sets of rights the fetus for the baby and the woman the issue here is that abortions are happening and what they're just trying to do is to side whether how we said that they're going to deal with the reality that he's already taking place. in poll numbers mean do we know what the people think is there a majority backing legalization we have a fairly uniquely country i mean also because the country itself is actually divided geographically into some very conservative areas and very progressive arias so when a site is with actually voted or moving a very different direction and. nonetheless i mean the problem is solved so that it is in those states which are further away from the center where most of the cases

and the like of state infrastructure makes this case more and more severe. time and of course there's the factor of you know the pope being from argentina as well our ethics and religion correspondent martin jack as always mark thank you very much. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world authorities have arrested several journalists including george chevelle a correspondent you can recall ski to his apartment in minsk was also searched the reason for his arrest has not been officially confirmed but critics say the move is part of a crackdown on independent media has lodged a protest with the village ambassador in berlin and demanded his immediate release hundreds of migrant workers in southern italy have staged a march to bring attention to their poor working in the conditions the protests sparked by the death of sixteen farm workers in two recent road accidents activists

say the drugs used to transport tomato pickers to the fields are often overcrowded and rickety. the democratic republic of congo is a long standing president joseph kabila will not run in the upcoming election that's according to a government spokesman the announcement ends months of speculation to be the second of term officially ended in two thousand and sixteen but he has refused to step down now he has chosen over interior minister in mind will ramadani shot to represent the ruling a.m.p. coalition in the vote. was tension worries in zimbabwe after last week's disputed presidential election police briefly arrested a senior opposition leader earlier today is he trying to cross into neighboring zambia a former finance minister in diabetes a leading member of the opposition m.d.c. has been released you see him right there and he's reported you leave people

reported to be urgently seeking asylum in zambia and the m.d.c. has announced that it will formally challenge the result of the election this time last week which there will be a loss to the ruling zandu p.f. party the results for the protests that were met with deadly military force concerns are now growing of a government crackdown. or more of this now we want to. respond privilege miss vaughan he joins us from harare privileges good to see you what is the opposition would be to achieve by challenging the election result in court. they are seeking the nullification of the. election results that we announced last week. one in the day did leave go team address the news conference saying that the ad ready to file papers and they have good overwhelming evidence

that they're saying that it's enough to not if i say. it results that we announced last week what they are praying for the courts is that the courts would entertain them and nullify the results that we announced last week and these could have. you know gratian which is planned for sunday and. more what do we know about this former finance minister tendai. a leading member of the m.d.c. it was briefly arrested today do we know why and why is he trying to leave the country. he is the police are interested in. bt because they allege that he broke with the law by announcing that. the

leading presidential candidate for the opposition had won the elections before they will feel results we are non's by the zimbabwe electoral commission so today earlier on it was said that he was. arrested in the process will file crossing the border from the book brought up between zimbabwe and zambia where he was trying to seek asylum but where did that we hear is that he has been denied asylum and that. he's being kept in zambia in preparation probably for the zimbabwe or thirty years to deport him back into the country and i am privileged very briefly are you expecting a peaceful inauguration to take place. you know gratian could come on sunday if only there the challenge that is being mounted by the opposition is not successful but i think plans are already there

because the foreign ministry we saw the day before yesterday they already issued out a letter to the embassies in that zimbabwe inviting them to be part of the inauguration all right correspondent privilege move on here you're reporting tonight from iraq privilege thank you very much. well germany has wrapped up a deal that will soon migrants who had been registered initially by spanish authorities back to spain spain has become the main entry point for refugees crossing the mediterranean the u.n. says more than twenty three thousand migrants have entered spain so far this year many more than italy agrees the deal with spain german authorities beginning on saturday to reject those refugees who have already been registered as asylum seekers in spain german chancellor angela merkel wants to reach similar agreements with austria italy and greece. thank.

you deported to kabul from germany last month is on his way back the german government admitted that it was a mistake to deport the twenty year old because he was still appealing his rejected asylum application we called up with the man in kabul as he was preparing for his return. now i can hardly believe this is really happening after five weeks of fear in afghanistan now he finally has airplane tickets. i'm so happy i can finally fly back to germany. it was stressful for nasi bullet to spend time in afghanistan his family lives in a dangerous province he couldn't meet them at home and instead had to make arrangements to meet elsewhere before leaving kabul he spent a few days in the hotel waiting for necessary documents so he whenever i walk along the streets of kabul i'm afraid the streets aren't safe there are constantly

explosions and suicide bombings and those of us on national archives he will return here to no brandenburg where he last lived on july third he was wrongly deported as his asylum procedures had not yet been completed his lawyer expects the hearing to continue in september as planned she demands that the authorities be made to answer . this what he wanted and lives are turned upside down by a deportation and that is why i demand that before every single deportation that we double check whether the decision has been made on lawful grounds. up the ops he will christmas accused. can finally return to germany. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you. you have declared a total drought in his most populous state new south wales as fast trucks have turned to dust after the region's worst drought in fifty years farmers have had to

ship in grain and ration of water to keep their livestock aloft. with more news followed by the day hope to see the. well we were wrong when we were. the first americans at some point in our lives while experience hardship.