one thousand nine hundred ten the average temperature exceeded thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer of extremes the heavy wildfires in the drought stricken south and flooding in the tropical walls of the country. as strayer has recorded the warmest january on record for maximum minimum and mean temperatures and in fact it's been the warmest of any months of record on record for straight. is recognised as one of the most influential fashion designers of the twentieth century now his work is being celebrated in the major exhibition in london. this is the outfit that sparked a fashion revolution simple and yet in one nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new curvy look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull worn by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and roya

began in one thousand and ten the average temperature exceeding thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer of extremes very wildfires in the drought stricken south and flooding in the tropical north of the country. has recorded the warmest january on record for maximum minimum entertaining temperatures and in fact it's been the warmest of any month of record on record for australia a modern art museum in south korea is trying to decide how to restore one of the world's most famous video art installations the work comprises more than a thousand to television sets with flat screens and place the old models access to traditional t.v. sets is proving difficult as rob mcbride explains it's probably the best known work of south korea's best known modern artist the more the better is a tower of one thousand and three t.v. sets created in the one nine hundred eighty s. by back now in june who is a pioneer of video art until his death in two thousand and six. he saw in you mean it's become so essential and i believe it's an international cultural legacy t

began in one nine hundred ten the average temperature exceeded thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer of extremes of the wildfires in the drought stricken south and flooding in the tropical warmth of the country. the footballing world by winning the asian cup for the first time they featured pumphrey wall in the final. couple remarkable tall and. this was the moment the nation's dream became a reality. i tars national football team played their seventh and final match in the tournament beating the four time asian cup champions japan three to one. and they did it without a single qatari fan in the stadiums because all the matches were played in abu dhabi. since june of two thousand and seventeen saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the u.a.e. have imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar accusing of sponsoring terrorist groups a charge qatar has denied. since then travel to those countries has also been restricted. the spike the politics surrounding this asian cup games qatar fans are simply proud. it's a great feeling thank goodness we got her

our bureau of meteorology has been targeted, our australian national university, designed for an intelligentfrom china. given this is a sophisticated attack, given the target, china would have to be up there in the top few countries that might be looking and have interest in looking at that. in terms of what they are after, i think it would be a lot ofjuicy information there, whether it is trying to compromise staffers or officials, all of the back and forth e—mails between different parties and factions are about who has done what and what might be happening behind the scenes, so there would be lots of opportunities to compromise politicians ought to run information operations as we saw in the 2016 us presidential election. it also might be just to better understand which politicians are supporting particular positions so that they can know who their adversaries are and who are the people backing them. fergus hanson, very interesting. thank you very much. thank you for having me. a body pulled from the wreckage of a plane carrying emiliano sala has been formally identified as that of the mi

since records began in one thousand and ten and for some succeeded thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat has contributed to a summer of extremes and the wildfires in the drought stricken south and floods in the tropical north strayer has recorded the warmest january on record for maximum minimum and to mean temperatures and in fact it's been the warmest of any month of record on record for stray. can be found on our website address the al-jazeera dot com. now with these are our top stories the u.s. is expected to announce it will stop observing a decade's old nuclear missile but accusing russia of violating it the kremlin denies the allegation now white house correspondent kelly alcatraz before. what this would do would allow the united states to develop an inter continental missile essentially this treaty has been the real centerpiece for superpower arms control since the cold war so this is certainly significant donald trump has been hinting about this for many months as recently as back in october he was very strong in his comments when he said that russia has been viola

having a record of a summer january its hottest month since records began in nineteen ten the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer of extremes wildfires in the drought stricken south and flooding in the tropical north of the country. romania is celebrating taking the presidency of the european union for the first time struggling to shake off allegations of government corruption and mismanagement environmental activists say it's been complicit in the destruction of some of europe's oldest forests florence they reports now from the senate national forest. these high hills have proved rich pickings for people who show scant regard for the importance of ancient forests supposedly immune from exploitation they don't even try to hide their business it's all piled up on the roadside despite commercial logging in the national park being illegal nor did it take long to find the log has we'd been warned they might be armed so we kept our camera at a distance they insisted they had won a government auction which allowed them to do this fairly the environmental activists trying to

began in one nine hundred ten the average temperature exceeded thirty degrees celsius the bureau of meteorology says the heat waves contributed to a summer fixture eams and there been wildfires in the drought stricken south and floods in the tropical north. so stuff will tell us more about the weather segment coming up shortly then later in this news hour. for a long fight against wartime sexual slavery south koreans farewell a much loved campaigner and again demanded an apology from japan we also look at why farmers in india are protesting outside parliament. footballer. be set to remain in prison for at least sixty more days as he fights extradition to war coming up in sport a little later with paul. you know there a number of records have been set in australia recently actually in december we had what was the hottest december on record and the records go back to nineteen ten and that made will help to make two thousand and eighteen the second hottest year on record and then january was the hottest calendar month ever in australia so something's clearly going along now over the last month we'