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Stay with us on bbc news. still to come: feeling the heat at tokyo 2020 — well look at how the extreme heat of the japanese summer is affecting the olympics. three of britains biggest conservation charities are calling on the government to do more to protect grasslands and meadows. the bumblebee conservation trust, plantlife international and butterfly conservation, say grasslands offer a natural solution to cutting carbon and should get similar protection to trees. the charities want the gove...

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Go to space joined by the youngest, 18-year-old oliver. among the memorabilia onboard amelia erhardts aviator goggles. looking down at the earths atmosphere says bezos makes climate change really real. >> it is incredibly thin, this tiny little fragile thing. as we move about the planet we are damaging it. >> reporter: criticized for spending billions on a space tourism business bezos is facing backlash for this comment >> i want to thank every amazon employee and every amazon customer because y...

System. that is 211—7. people should be able to ring in and say i am feeling unsafe and walking through the streets. a lot of this, in my view, is smoke and mirrors. we need to have action, we need to have extra patrols, we need extra police officers actually making women and everybody feel safer on the streets. in addition to that, we need to have those stronger penalties. you mention to the charities. charities are the supportive network that police officers rely on. the charities have been ...

Are quite serious. so, indecent exposure, flashing that some people think well, i wont bother reporting. the government wants to encourage people to do that. the other big issue is funding. womens charities dont think there is enough money to get the streets are safe to protect women.— safe to protect women. lucy, thank ou. lu safe to protect women. lucy, thank you. lucy manning. _ i can now speak to parm sandu, former chief superintendent at the metropolitan police and crime commentator. what...

Earths atmosphere makes climate change very real. >> what you see is that its actually incredibly thin, is this tiny little fragile thing. and as we we -- damage. it >> was his bezos is now facing backlash for saying this comment -- >> i want to thank every amazon employee and every amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this. >> he earlier use the spotlight to announce a new philanthropic initiative, giving $200 million to charities. he announced $100 million in ticket sales for futur...

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Administrator because you guys paid for all this. >> you used the spotlight earlier giving away $200 million for charities. meanwhile, bezos announced $100 million in ticket sales for future flights, each ticket reportedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> its pretty steep right now. how do you bring the cost down so this can be more accessible for everybody? >> you have to do it the same way we did with commercial air travel starting with biplanes and growing to modern day flights. s...

Andreas, going to their nonprofit of choice. no strings attached he says. d $100 million going to van jones and chef jose andreas. victor and alisyn. >> it was wonderful to watch. >> that was a wonderful surprise, even to van jones. >> i was watching and said, why is van jones there. i turned up the volume and $100 million. >> it is like, what! >> congratulations to van and all of the charities that will benefit. rachel crane, thanks so much. so cnns anderson cooper caught up with bezos and hi...

Vilifiers. people who argue hard and act hard for what they truly believe, but they do that always with civility and never at attacks and unfortunately, we live in a world where this is too often not the case, but we do have role models, and this award -- do you have another slide here? go ahead. i didnt tell you what the award was for that. you see who the first recipient is, but let me tell you what the award is. the courage and civility award is a $100 million award so that the awardee, the r...