university nottingham has been working on a few different things, haven't they?eating started about years ago, quite a long time before it such extreme weather. the reason for that is because we have been building energy—efficient homes, focusing on reducing the need for heating in the winter, and that's fair enough as most carbon emissions come from heating the home. however, the climate is getting warmer and if we are going to get to the pleasures of cop26 we need to reduce warming and the warming is only going to make us hotter and worse, so what we are looking at a nottingham university is ways to design homes that are much more clever, so not adding because, just thinking about geometry, thinking about positioning. it's a little bit like thinking about yourself. previously were thinking about people keeping cool were thinking about people keeping cool, so if you put a hat on to keep cool cool, so if you put a hat on to keep cool, so if you put a hat on to keep cool, so your house needs shade. if you need a breeze, so does your house. when we have heavyjacket

professor face chan, associate professor of environmental studies at the university of nottingham ——g us. president bruton make his second foreign trip —— 210. coming down the ladder now. it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. a catastrophic engine fire has been blamed tonight for the first crash in the 30—year history of concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner. it was one of the most vivid symbols of the violence - and hatred that tore apart the state of yugoslavia, l but now, a decade, later it's been painstakingly rebuilt. and opens again today. there's been a 50% decrease in sperm quantity and an increase in malfunctioning sperm unable to swim properly. thousands of households across the country are suspiciously quietly this lunchtime as children bury their noses in the final instalment of harry potter. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines... the uk records as highest ever temperatures with the heat waves working dozens of fires around london. china has been facing extreme heat wave with more hot weather forecast. l

that was faith chan, associate professor at the l associate professor at the university of nottinghamore on our website for you on this what's more on our website for you on that story. and i want to just point you to this story — where you can take a look at what life is like at a0 degrees celsius for folks in other cities — including abuja, delhi, madrid and sydney. there's information there on how to stay cool and safe when dealing with these soaring temperatures — and also how countries that have dealt with super high temperatures and extreme weather have prepared that's on bbc.com/news or simply download the bbc news app — that is of course if you haven't already. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. steve bannon, the anti—establishment outsider who helped bring donald trump to the white house, is now on trial for refusing to testify about the january 6th assault on the us capitol. bannon has pleaded not guilty to the contempt charges. a judge in the us state of delaware has ruled that the dispute between the tech billionaire, elon musk, and the social media

director of the national peace council of sri lanka in nottingham is tamil ananta vinayagan lecture in the international human rights law at the universityttingham in colombo chayo dam singer economist at the frontier research. welcome to the program. jihan, when the prime minister says that the country's economy has completely collapsed what mean for -- what does that mean for sri lanka? has the economy become dysfunctional? >> we are already concerned that the prime minister's same the economy has collapsed but not what is going to be done about it. what is the plan forward? we expected this of him. when he was first appointed, a person with only one seat in parliament but has been prime minister five times in the past, we expected and the people expected that he would take us out of this morass that we are in with his experience of governance and his international connections, his knowledge about parliamentary procedure and governance in general. but we have been very disappointed since then, because what we have seen since he took over is a progressive deterioration in the situation . the lines for gas are longer than ever. there is

let's speak now to steven fielding, professor of political history at the university of nottingham.d a winter of discontent. we know what that is like, bins not being emptied, no buses and no teachers at schools. it is being emptied, no buses and no teachers at schools.— teachers at schools. it is a slow motion winter _ teachers at schools. it is a slow motion winter of _ teachers at schools. it is a slow motion winter of discontent. i teachers at schools. it is a slow. motion winter of discontent. the winter of discontent of 1978, 1979 was about two, three months where up to about 5 million workers went on strike, a lot in the public sector. as you say, the famous iconic images of bins not being emptied, piles and piles of rubbish. in britain already, but in local parts of britain, there are already bins not being collected and haven't been for quite some time. in coventry, for example and in other parts of urban britain. the buses haven't been running in certain parts of the country, too. in liverpool. not on a national scale, like the rail strike which has taken a lot of attentio