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benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict's condition has worsened in recent hours. you are watching bbc news. here's weather world. this time on weather world, we are at raf coningsby which set the uk's highest temperature record this summer during our hottest heatwave. and i will be finding out what it was like that day and how heat and other severe weather affects operations here. i am here at the uk's national meteorological archive and i will be finding out how that new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk a...

spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it's monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a "complete state of crisis" because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it's impossible to provide the best standard of care, and ther...

Was the hang seng, driven by tech stocks. let's take a breath. live now to michael hewson, chief market analyst, cmc markets. it's been an interesting month orso it's been an interesting month or so across may. lots of bank holidays, notjust in the uk but abroad as well. in the us, asia too. how is the trading picture shaping up at the moment? i picture shaping up at the moment?— moment? i think the big discussion _ moment? i think the big discussion at _ moment? i think the big discussion at the - moment? i think the big i discussion at the moment, victoria, is about the next move for centr...

Across parts of asia too, including here in china after its worst heatwave on record. and for the first time, japan hit 40 degrees in the month ofjune during its second hottest summer which was then followed by its warmest autumn. but the most haunting image from that hot summer is of spanish farmer angel martin arjona, hailed as a hero as he used his bulldozer to dig a trench to stop a fire from spreading. although he escaped the flames alive, he suffered severe burns and tragically died from his injuries in october. figures show the number of excess deaths reported during the heatwaves in sp...

A small blaze soon became an inferno that destroyed 19 homes. the met office says more than half of the uk's oldest weather stations recorded their hottest day during the heatwave, so extreme it was virtually impossible without human—induced climate change. it was europe's hottest summer, with spain enduring multiple heatwaves, including its most intense on record. in france, rivers dried up in the country's worst drought on record and the scale of the drought that spread across europe was said to be the worst in 500 years. a crippling water shortage across parts of asia too, including here ...