of the federated states _ country. thank you, president of the federated states of _ country. thank you, president of the federated states of micronesia we have time for on the programme today i'm afraid. ahe a he was special from the natural history museum is working at a quarry at a secret location in the cotswolds. they have unearthed evidence of tens of thousands of rare marine fossils such as feather stars from hundred 67 million years ago when a shallow tropical sea covered much of southern england. that's it for newsday. thank you so much forjoining us, stay with bbc world news. good evening. it's been another hot day across most parts of the uk, and in northern ireland, it looks like records have been broken once again. 31.3 degrees recorded at castlederg in county tyrone this afternoon. that is a new provisional all—time record for northern ireland. the previous record, well, that was only set last saturday. things are set to change over the coming days because to this swirl of cloud here, an area of low pressure out in the atlantic. that'll be moving in our direction in time for the weekend, but in the shorter—term, it's jus

earlier, i spoke to the president of the federated states of micronesia, states of david president ofium, and other european countries severely affected by, you know, storms and heavy rains, flooding. we saw what happened in china. our sympathies to the citizens of these countries. climate change is already here. we have been saying that. it is just not in the future, it is already happening today. even our dead are not safe from these rising sea waters. they are washing away graveyards because of the rising ocean. the storms, they pull down our banana trees. a real challenge. ijust want tojump in here and ask, the united states has been saying countries aren't doing enough, pointing a finger at china saying it could do more. do you agree? we have said it many times over that we are calling on the bigger countries, the united states, china, india, the european union, just the bigger countries which are the major emissions contributing to the carbon footprint, and that we need to take action now, and they need to champion the movement of reversing climate change, because it is affectin

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