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western norway is experiencing a rare heatwave at a time when temperatures normally stay well below freezing broken, with the highest temperature of 19 degrees, more than 25 above january's average. it makes this norway's warmest day injanuary since records began. dozens of people have died in floods in jakarta, with tens of thousands forced from their homes. the indonesian capital is the one of the fastest—sinking cities in the world, and faces frequent flooding during the rainy season. resty woro yuniar reports. flooding. the city recorded its most intense rainfall in 2a years on new year's eve. dozens of people have lost their lives. translation: this is the worst flooding i have ever experienced in my 22 years living here. it has never been like this before. public transport is disrupted as some parts of the city are submerged. the electricity has also been switched off in many districts as a precaution. jakarta has 13 rivers running through it. trains are blocked, rivers full of plastic, and residents are pumping out groundwater, causing flooding as sea out groundwater, causing flooding

western norway is experiencing a rare heatwave at a time when temperatures normally stay well below freezing. record after record has fallen, with the highest temperature of 19 degrees, more than 25 above january's average. more on our website, bbc.co.uk/news, and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. climate change and the economy. australia's prime minister is heckled for his response to the bushfire crisis. and interpol issues a red alert for the former nissen boss, carlos cohn. —— nissan. —— carlos ghon. iam sharanjit i am sharanjit leyl. we begin in australia because what is happening there is unprecedented. the bushfires have killed at least 18 people so far, they have killed close to half a billion animals and they are over twice as big as the amazon forest fires. they are exerting extreme political pressure on prime minister scott morrison. he has acknowledged the link of reducing emissions and reducing the risk of bushfire season such as this one but he argues australia is keeping at side of the bargain on climate change. here is more of what he

so it‘s rain rather than snow in western parts of norway.utheast, where it will be dry and sunny. and temperatures above levels they should be for the time of year, widely in double figures. mid—teens across parts of france, down in towards iberia, where we could be pushing 20 degrees by this stage. and that warmer air will be pushing its way eastwards as we go through friday night and into saturday. more rain piling into western norway, as you can see, but the temperatures by the time we hit the weekend, even with some rain around, will still be into the teens. and there will be parts of southern france, into spain and portugal, where we could see temperatures in the mid, maybe high 20s. nowhere near that for ourselves. an exceptionally mild day on the way here tomorrow. but it does stay windy. more showers around. and there‘s more details coming up in half an hour. now, from a chilly evening here in brussels, where we have been talking brexit come into the warmth of the bbc‘s radio theatre and a special edition of brexitcast. brexitcast. .

and this video is trending on bbc.com — western norway is experiencing a rare heatwave at a time whenperatures normally stay well below freezing. record after record has fallen, with the highest temperature of nineteen degrees, more than 25 above january's average. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news it's hardtalk. stephen sackur interviews former olympic swimmer casey legler. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. imagine having an extraordinary sporting talent but finding yourself traumatised by the realities of elite—level competition. imagine being defined by your gender and physicality in ways that crushed your own sense of yourself. add to that a prolonged battle with alcohol and drugs and you have the pain—filled early life of my guest today, olympic swimmer—turned—artist, model and now writer, casey legler. what did it take to emerge from the darkness? casey legler, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. you come here having just written a rather extraordinary memoir of your early life, the first 21 years or so of your life. it is raw, it is full of pai

other stories from around the bbc newsroom: a freak winter heatwave in western norway has pushed temperaturesonal average. a record 19 degrees celsius was measured in the west of the country, norway's warmest january day since records began. a mother and her two grown—up daughters have handed themselves in to police in germany over a fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo on new year's eve. the blaze was caused by sky lanterns which they bought online without knowing they were illegal. and marvel studios has confirmed a movie currently being shot will feature its first tra nsgender superhero. this year, the first gay character will be introduced in the eternals. more on that on bbc.com. france's strike against pension reforms has become a record—breaker. it's into its 29th day, and so has outlasted the rail strike of 1986. on 6th january, it will surpass the length of the general strikes in may 1968. here are the latest pictures. hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in the opera district in paris. all christmas operas and ballet performances were cancelled this year, althou

will bring outbreaks of rain, gusty winds and from the west come and across the mountains of norway into the westernill some mist and fog problem for the ease and the mediterranean looking quieter, but that weather system works is what use words as we go through this weekend and emotional to come on the alps. in the uk, no snow but a bit ofa alps. in the uk, no snow but a bit of a respray from the wind in the rain this weekend. more details in half an hour. now it's time for brexitcast. website brexitcast. .. brexitcast... from the bbc. danny dyer: no-one's got a (bleep) clue what brexit is! donald trump: brexit is, errr... dominic raab: i hadn't quite understood the full extent of this. we are particularly reliant on the dover—calais crossing. keir starmer: this election blew away the argument for a second referendum. boris johnson: i urge everyone to find closure. let the healing begin. ursula von der leyen: i am sorry. we will miss you. yanis varoufakis: a process which i can only describe as a dog's brexit. this is katia adler and adam and brussels and chris in westminster. picking up on last we

really whipping across towards norway some snow and some rain in the mix there else was a says a fairly quiet picture one as you shall just a drifting about in the western med and temperatures are not too bad as well now by sunday the system has actually worked its way across the u.k. it leave in its wake wanted to showers and also more rain pushing through northern sections of mainland europe and still wanted to show for the east pushing towards the black sea so still want to showers across those northern areas of africa really coming from the system just sitting in the western med so throughout syria on into china sea a touch is a little bit lower that's the south today and then my sunday not a great deal of change we've got 13 celsius in algeria's and as i said that does come with a chance of showers as indeed it will across into tunis. richard program is something which is a geopolitical that's for governments international institutions. to manage on the 1000 refugees don't have the right to move freely on the other hand goods can move freely as far and as much as they want. you multinational colonialism this is a v another mint over the democratic

western europe they should be charged where they committed a crime even if they deserve the death penalty following the local laws like in iraq why on a minute legally if they are norwegian citizens norway cannot prevent them from actually coming back to norway the only way they can do that is by removing the norwegian citizenship and as a signatory to the state that is what it should do invention it would it would mean well no i'm sorry they can't do that because they are signatories of the statelessness convention which means you cannot take away citizenship of somebody if that leaves him without any citizenship or talk now if this lady is also this is it if he does but. not that his she is or not but if she is a sovereign of another state then the norwegian government could take away that citizenship and she would not then be rendered state this don't forget the images of these 4 year olds 4 years old kid to kill in front of us parents for the camera one of the prisoners suffices so these kids from 1012 or under 10 are extremely anxious the mothers are awfully dangerous people who go off and commit offenses abroad whether that's by joining a an organization that is inherently against

really whipping across towards norway some snow and some rain in the mix there else was a says a fairly quiet picture one as you shall just a drifting about in the western med and temperatures are not too bad as well now by sunday the system has actually worked its way across the u.k. it leave in its wake wanted to showers and also more rain pushing through northern sections of mainland europe and still want to shop for the east pushing towards the black sea so still want to showers across those northern areas of africa really coming from the system just sitting in the western med so throughout syria on into tunisia temperatures are a little bit lower that's the south today and then my sunday not a great deal of change we've got 13 celsius in algeria's and as i said that does come with a chance of showers as indeed it will across into 2. all dizzy right explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how why bill rees influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the amount of nonviolent resistance it was over the variable who oppressed people have a look at me and continue to give the negroes to be defen