sita's husband was called dhan bahadur magar. in 2015, he went to work in the gulf — first in saudi arabia, then qatar. the gulf is home to well over 1a million migrant workers, mostly from asia and africa. they come here to support their families back home. in late september 2019, while dhan was in qatar, the country hosted the world athletics championships. the races revealed that no amount of fitness can protect the body from extreme heat. hello and welcome. it's time for the women's marathon here on the glorious corniche of doha, the capital of qatar. one of the most impressive skylines in the world. i can remember coming here 15 years ago, and most of those blocks weren't even there. ethiopia's female long—distance runners have won 26 olympic medals, they're among the world's finest. a $60,000 prize awaited the winner of the marathon. one of the favorites was ruti aga. the marathon started at the supposedly cooler time of midnight. but in these hot, humid conditions, it felt like it was over a0 degrees. there are the athletes — ruti aga in the top ten all—time. the heat and humidity has been a big topic in the build—up to these championships and they've laid on extra medical staff. will be fascinating to see this race unfold. so they are under way, then. but isn't that amazing? athletes already getting sponges with cold water to douse themselves. after just a0 minutes, athletes began collapsing from heat exhaustion. well, we're hearing that one athlete has already succumbed to the conditions. they're actually quite a bad way. and there's a sad sight — they're being loaded onto one of the many ambulances. ruti realised she, too, was in trouble. it's a bad day for the ethiopians. goodness me. well, ruti aga and roza derege have dropped out. so has demise — all three ethiopians out. that is a huge shock. altogether, nearly half the athletes dropped out of the marathon. sita, whose husband, dhan, left nepalfor qatar, is visiting her in—laws in their remote village. after they got married, sita and dhan lived here. dhan was working on the family farm, but it was hard to make a living. in the last 15 years, more than 2,000 nepali workers have died in qatar alone. a recent study found that, of 571 deaths over eight years caused by cardiovascular disease, over a third were probably due to heat stress, which is preventable. mohamed el 0beidi works for the qatari department of labour, which is responsible for migrant workers. we told him about dhan�*s death, and that his family and doctor believed it was caused by heat. across the gulf, extreme heat is affecting ever more people. besides causing heart failure, it can also leave workers with life—altering illnesses. hem worked in the uae forjust two years before his kidneys failed. dr rishi says that, in any week, he sees two or three patients whose kidney problems began in the gulf. treatment is expensive and has to be paid for by the state, yet nepal is one of the world's poorest countries. few nepalis have received compensation, either from the companies they worked for or from the countries of the gulf, which are among the world's richest. for migrant workers, even raising safety concerns can be dangerous, as a kenyan called malcolm bidali found out. i used to be a security guard in qatar. i myself have been posted outside. in just the shortest amount of time, you can be covered from head to toe in sweat. like, you are drenched, completely drenched — it's that hot. it was around mid—2020. this was around the peak of summer. during this time, the ministry of labour prohibits people from working under the sun from around 10am to 3pm. malcolm was guarding buildings owned by the qatar foundation, a charitable trust with links to the qatari royal family. on one occasion, we had one vvip, a member of the ruling family, visit the property. she arrived at around 10am or 11am, i think. and by this time, you know, the temperatures are crazy high. i was working in the cctv control room, so i could see people were posted like on differentjunctions, and these guys were outside from 7am in the morning till around close to 1pm, probably when she left. and during this time, mind you, people are prohibited from working outside, you know? so this was a violation, actually. this is the chairperson for qatar foundation. i mean, any person who's supposed to to be mindful of other people's welfare, it's this person. i saw people sweating. i saw people just struggling to, like, keep still and all that and all that. and this person came and saw people standing outside and did nothing about it. and this went on for the remainder of summer, and nothing was done. fast forward to 2021, the guards still standing outside for extended periods of time. and i'm thinking, "summer is just around the corner — i have to do something about it." i wrote an article describing what happened. you know, just the reality of what we go through, like, on a day—to—day. my company gave me up. they handed me over to the authorities. they thought that i was working with foreign agents to spread disinformation and spoil the name of qatar and all that. for the first two weeks, i had no contact with anyone. i was blindfolded, all those things — handcuffs. so i didn't really know where i was. i didn't have any hope. the kenyan embassy and the ilo came to to visit me. they mentioned that a lot of people were working to have me freed and all that. so that's when i...i gained some level of courage. after a month in solitary confinement and a $6,800 fine, malcolm is now back in kenya. we cannot change the climate crisis without freedom of speech. you have to speak up about certain things. if qatar gets any hotter, i think the people who feel it are the migrant workers. back in nepal, kidney patient hem and other former migrant workers are trying to devise ways to improve conditions. labour unions are illegal in some gulf states like the uae, but workers still find ways to help each other. hello, good afternoon. the week ahead promises contrasting prospects, depending on where you spend your time. the further south and east you are across the uk, temperatures are set to climb for some. it is the low 30s celsius by the end of the week. compare that with the forecast for the western side of scotland. this is glasgow, temperatures lower and may be getting close to 20 degrees, some outbreaks of rain at time, but not all the time will stop you will be closer to the weather systems, which is the case at the moment. weather systems to the north—west bringing quite a few showers this afternoon through scotland, northern ireland, the far north of england. further south, not as many showers. up to 22 degrees. 0vernight, many showers will fade, some across the north—west of scotland. later in the night, clive will thicken and some outbreaks of patchy rain gets into the western isles. elsewhere, is clear spells allowing it to get down to eight or 9 degrees in some spots. more cloud for northern ireland, possibly a little bit of rain here, certainly more cloud for scotland, where we will see outbreaks of rain, especially towards the far north. temperatures through monday again may be 1a celsius in north—west scotland, a height of 21 or 22 in the south—east of england. as we look towards tuesday, we see high pressure building across the south of the uk, allowing for plenty of fine, dry and increasingly warm weather. frontal systems to the north will bring cloud and rain at times, but not all the time. this is the story for the next few days. where we have the high pressure to the south and we see the sunshine, temperatures quite widely getting into the low to mid—20s, 25 celsius into the low to mid—20s, 25 celsius in london, for example. but hotter than that across much of western continental europe through the middle of the week. middle 40s celsius in parts of southern spain. this area of high pressure moves eastwards, allowing us to bring up a southerly wind and we will start to tap into some of that heat, especially towards the south—east of the uk. temperatures will get up into the low 30s celsius, but it will stay cooler further north and west, quite breezy with rain at times. this is bbc news. the headlines at apm: the family of former british soldier jordan gatley say he's been killed fighting for the ukrainian armed forces in the eastern city of severodonetsk. a leading business group tells the bbc they believe households in the uk will go in to recession this year. the consumption, spending that we all make in the high streets and on discretionary goods, that is going to go negative already this year. unions warn government plans to allow agency workers to fill in for striking rail staff will create safety risks — the government say the proposals will minimise disruption. disability campaigners are taking legal action against the government for not backing a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry to give vulnerable residents of high—rise buildings personal fire evacuation plans.