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>> hello. this is the context. >> pierre is unbelievable, the heat is unbearable. the level of profits and climate inaction is unacceptable. >> there used to be a time when i got here, a lot of people say it is not about -- i don't know anybody who on -- who honestly believes climate change is not a serious problem. >> there is a direct correlation between the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global temperatures. the warmer the goldberg -- the global temperatures are, the more likely we are going to have extremevents. ♪ >> welcome to the program, july

was probably the hottest month since humans inhabited the earth. they u.s. secretary general not missing this world -- not mincing his words. 17 years for a crime he did not commit, andrew brockington -- malkinson will get compensation. we will hear from another wrongly convicted prisoner. the boss of a bank is out and another scout for nigel faraj. we will take another inside report that led to his resignation. four days from the end of the month, it is virtually certain that july is the hottest month on record. july 6 was the hottest day with the fifth and the seventh not far behind. samantha burgess from the

copernicus climate change service as the data confirms the record strategy -- centering temperatures would have been almost impossible without the warming gases that we are putting into the atmosphere. here is the chart copernicus has produced. this shows the warmest months on record globally. the month outside the chart -- than the previous record set in july 2019. some other important news, came from the international energy agency and it to our use of coal. global coal consumption has time to a height in 2022 and will stay near that record low this year, a strong growth in asia from power generation and -- when europe. coal and oil, the energy analysts at human -- bloomberg

tweeted this morning," global oil demand has surpassed in the past few weeks the peak set in 2019 before the covid pandemic." we are shocked by what we are seeing but we are not changing our habits and the u.s. -- you and secretary general --and the un secretary-general says we are falling behind. >> until we turn off the tap of emissions of greenhouse gases, we can continue our expect to -- our climate to increase. we know from our data, reports that the warmer our global temperature is, the more likely we are to have extreme events such as the heat waves we are seeing in recent weeks so we are more likely to get extreme events and more likely to be more intense as well. this makes these global international meetings even more

important for the ambitious climate action to turn off the tap to the climate emissions because every single fraction of a degree matters. >> according to the data, released today, july is -- has already seen the hottest three week period ever recorded. the hottest days on record and the highest ever ocean temperatures for this type -- ti of year. the consequences are clear and tragic. children swept away by drains. families running from the flames. workers collapsing in scorching heat. for bass parts of north america, asia, africa and europe, it is a cool summer. for the entire planet, it is a disaster and for scientists, it is unequivocal. humans are to blame. all this is consistent with addictions and warnings. -- predictions and warnings.

the only surprise is the speed of the change, climate change is here, it is terrifying and it is just the beginning. >> terrifying. he is head of the world meteorologist organization and joins us tonight from new york. when you look at those statements particular on coal and oil, we are not close to meeting paris targets or even restricting warming to 1.5 or even two degrees are we? >> no, i think delays estimates -- the latest estimations is that we are on track for 2.8 degrees warming and that is if all the plans in place are implemented. we are not on the right track and this data today reminds us and starkly, that temperatures are increasing and increasing an they will continue whether we act or not. >> the secretary-general calls it terrifying.

that is the basis on what we are seeing in terms of wildfires in europe, the heat dome in the united states, the record temperatures in china. what we don't know, we can predict graphs like this but we don't know how the world will react to this, do we? >> no. the physical world will continue to react in a way we have seen, the types of extreme events we are seeing, we can expect to see more of those and more extreme versions of those as the years go on. how the political world and the human world reacts is up to governments. we have a few key moments this year. one is a sectary-general climate summit. another one is in the uae and where governments can step up and take action to really rein in the greenhouse gas emissions

and try to make sure we can deliver on the paris agreement. >> when you look at the report that is being produced today, what is particularly worrying is that a year like this,hich we would all consider right now, unbearably hot in many parts of the world, this will be considered a cool year 50 years from now. >> this will become increasingly the new normal. we will see even more extreme years than this. i think particularly the fact we are seeing it so markedly this year and quite suddenly in comparison to the last couple years has been that we are seeing el nino that triggers higher global temperatures and that is on top of the human caused global warming we have seen which is tipping us over the edge. >> are you worried that people in the sign -- and people in the scientific community worried,

week after week, we report that people are becoming -- and switch off? >> there is an element of worried with the scientific community -- of worry with this scientific unity. i have done many of these interviews before which this is the story of 28 minutes past the hour. it seems to be going up the agenda and be recognized as a significant challenge we need to address. i find that personally reassuring that people are starting to really listen to the scientists and hopefully the action will follow. >> you must be aware and i have seen it from senior commentators this week in the u.k, people questioning whether it is human induced. yes, the climate may be warming but is actually the result of

what we are putting into the atmosphere? but which you say about the basis of science that -- what would you say about the basis of science that is put in front of policymakers? >> it is completely unequivocal. the science committees are completely agreed and a reported ironed out the fact that it is human caused. that takes some time for it to trickle it -- into society for anyone to generally understand. it will continue to take some time to reach all corners of society to get that message across. from the scientist perspective, it could not be clearer as a secretary-general echoed. >> we will focus on the program on what joe biden said it -- about it. thank you so much. the chief executive of the private bank which is owned by

network has resigned with immediate effect over the mishandling of nigel for just -- nigel faraj's account. this exit comes less than two days after someone stepped down as west chief executive in connection with the same conveyed -- complaint. he later -- it later became clear that part of that decision was related to nigel faraj's political views. let's speak again to chris roebuck, a british economist. he is a good -- has a good idea on how these conversations tend to work. can we start with the resignation, inevitable, given the resignation of someone else? >> it was inevitable on the

basis that the decision was taken within the bank and he had set up and he would have signed off on that decision but maybe it is worth mentioning that what they did was that they were not going to remove any possibility of nigel faraj having a bank account as the bank suggests. they were saying, you don't have enough money in the account to keep that and we have to downgrade you to a normal person 's account which he was not happy wh. >> i want you to talk about where the committee put -- got it right and where they got it wrong. we know two things from the report and the first they discussed his bank account in eight purely commercial -- in a

purely commercial senses. does that break the rules? >> that is a commercial decision on the amount of money he either has in the bank or the amount of money he owes the bank and that is commercial. >> he went on into what ny people consider dangerous danger -- territory. they said the committee did not think continually to bank nigel -- the bank -- nigel farage was compatible with coutts -- inclusivity and purpose. they were talking about his views around lgbt and

inclusivity. is that relevant to holding a bank account? >> the statement they made suggested that the inclusivity bids was white it was made -- why they made the decision that -- because it was contrary to the bank's values. that in my view does not count because you taking the perspective -- albeit you are trying to do it from protecting the bank for what you might perceive is a mutational motorist -- a reputational risk. >> what mystifies me given the cost of the bank reputation and financially, is how they did not see which way this would go given mr. faraj's reputation and his self-importance. >> you are absolutely right.

given the fact that he is or has an account with coutts, a private bank and given that was a banquet -- for wealthy banking -- people. you would expect him to be unhappy as indeed with anybody who had that sort of account was getting downgraded. with nigel farage, the likelihood was, and the dead certainty was he was not going to take it lighting -- lying down. >> we talked about the social positions that corporate take an increasingly they are being asked to take such positions that we all have political views and when it comes to inclusivity, that is inherently political. was ever relevant to the bank's -- w it ever relevant to the bank's reputation?

>> they are trying to do a balancing act in terms of they have their values on these things which they are expected to take as an organization in society and if they don't take positive values on those, they will get hit on social media but the question about reputational risk is interesting because the judgment, i would have assumed to be, you have nigel farage as a customer and he does not agree with their values in terms of how you express them and he takes a different perspective but that is not relevant in terms of reputational risk, merely that he has an account. if he was going out and making speeches saying i disagree with these things coming out about lgbt and black lives matter and i have an account with coutts, i don't agree with it.

that would be a different ballgame because you are making a link with the bank and his views about the bank. >> we should separate t two reasons why the two officials have resigned. he has gone because he is the fall guy for how the banking committee within his bank put this -- took this decision. correct? >> absolute. >> we are all clear to -- on this. you're watching bbc news. we will take a look at the other stories in the u.k. i'm in who shot and killed a custody sergeant is having a crest -- a whole life sentence in his murder. he is unlikely ever to be considered for release. a judge said he acted in cold blood. strike action by an thousand

grand -- employing baggage handlers had originally threatened to strike for friday, the 20th of july to tuesday, the first of august but workers had -- at three of the firms have accepted offers and union members of the fourth are voting on a historic royal senses has revealed a 40% drop in the number of segments on the river thames. the decline is being blamed on avian flu but also violence including shootings and catapult attacks and dogs killings once --swans. a british man jailed for 17 years for a crime he did not commit says he feels like he was kidnapped by the state. andi malcontent --malkinson would have been out but he refused to confess. he said that chance to gain

early releaseor the admission of guilt was a hollow choice. >> even if you fight to end nail and fight compensation, you fight -- it is sick and you have to pay the prison service a large chunk of that if you win compensation for board and lodging which is so abhorrent to me. i am sickened by it. >> there are so many aspects in what you have told us that is staggering. i think that pete -- the people who are listening, they would be struck by the, and the disability in which you are -- the dignity in which you are explaining. when you sta every day in prison, but was in your mind about how you get to the end of that day knowing you might never get out? >> language is insufficient to

transport what it was like. >> was there a way in which days, we talk about people being taken. you refer to yourself as being taken office -- hostage. talk to people who have been taken by hostage groups and they fought a routine with themselves. >> it helps and you live in the moment. it was a very kindly -- there was a very kindly buddhist minister and he helped me, once a week we spent an hour there practicing meditation. with his doctrines and practices. it really helped. >> what do you want to do now? [laughter] what the rest of your life -- with the rest of your life? >> i am not sinking -- short and it is still sinking in with the

gravity of the result. i want to kill myself and i am scarred by it all. i wanted to go back to holland and then brexit happened. and now i am in three months maximum staying with my dear friend in holland. i would like to go back there. i was visiting england at the time. i don't want to live in the u.k. anymore. it feels like an oppressive state. >> what shocked a lot of people is the fact that he will likely lose a large chunk of the compensation he is owed to the state and michael o'bryant spent more than 11 years in a prison he did not commit, the murde of a news agent and when he was cleared of that crime, he was awarded more than 600,000 pounds and a quarter of that was taken

from him to pay for his decade in prison and he has gone on to offer books on his experience. michael, you're are welcome to the program. -- you are welcome to your program -- the program. i hadeveral friends talking about how sickened there are -- they are -- is expected to pay food and board for having been in prison out of that compensation. i am wondering how you felt when that was made clear to you. >> i was quite shocked. when my sister told me about all this, i still cannot believe they have done it. we took it to the house of lords and we tried to overturn that ruling. unfortunately, they ruled in the government's favor and i don't understand how. >> the rationale of the lords in

2007 ishat you are getting in the compensation money for missed earnings and the fact you are in prison meant that you are in some way profiting from that because you were not having to pay for lodgings and food. you worked in the laundry. how much did you earn? >> iron 14 pounds a week and when you -- i earned 14 pounds a week and if i had the same job on the outside, i would have 400 pounds a week. in that regard, it is late labor -- slave labor. >> it is an enormous financial cost to you and andrew for having been inside for so long but there is the psychological toll, which you could hear in the interview. was it the same for you? >> i am still suffering 26 years

later. i am seeing a psychiatrist, i am still on medication. i have learned to live on what is happening but that is all you can do. you can learn to live with it. that is the most impornt thing, and what you can do but andrew is going to need professional help. >> was there any elation when you came out? there must be immense relief, or is there only bitterness? >> i got rid of my bitterness along time ago and i realized how poison it -- how poisonous it was for me. i was destructive when i came out but the anger did not come until all the media went away and i was left on my own to think again, think about what had happened. i was thrown out with four counts in my pocket and thrown out on the streets. >> in that sense, the you ever

think about the perpetrators -- do you ever think about the perpetrators of the crime you are wrongly convicted for -- you were wrongly convicted for? is it important to you to find the people? >> i know it was wrong person. the police have apologized to me but they should apologize to the victim's family for deceiving them for so long. they haven't caught the real killer and i urged the police to -- i urge the police to find the real color -- killer. >> do people still believe it is you even though you are out? >> i get attacked regularly on twitter and social media. i have been called all sorts, i am a murderer, maybe i didn't do the murder but i did the robbery

and they change it around and i have been constantly in touch with the police to try and stop these people from the family -- defaming me and saying bad things about me. >> have you have -- any attention to see andrew martinson -- anti--- andy malkinson? >> i have offered my phone number. i am willing to help him. there is one aspect of the case i am concerned about, it was missed, twice they had the opportunity to rectify this case and they failed. there should be some sort of investigation into what with wrong. it is the same as a case in scotland. the dna has not been tested. >> thank you for this time this narrator: funding for this presentation of this program

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♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... woman: architect. bee keeper. mentor. a raymond james financial advisor tailors advice to help you live your life. life well planned. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. announcer: and now, "bbc news".