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countdown to britain's first ever space launch. we are going to be live in cornwall, where the mission is taking off. let's start in brazil. security forces there have detained over 1,000 people after supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro stormed government buildings. this was the scene in brasilia — the capital — on sunday. thousands of demonstrators were involved. in the last few hours, brazilian authorities have issued a statement branding the riots "terrorist acts of vandalism by criminals and coup plotters". and we've also heard from brazil's president lula. tran...

Region. 0ther disasters in the mediterranean region. other extreme events have of course hit europe in recent times, just a couple of years ago i was reporting in germany on flood's there which claimed the lives of nearly 200 people. what's the eu doing about it? it is asked member states to more than half their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and the bloc aims to become climate—neutral by 2050. it is monsoon season and pakistan already rural areas and cities are experiencing fighting but nothing on the scale of what we are seeing last year when an intense heat wave followed by heavy rains ...

When an intense heat wave followed by heavy rains led to devastating floods. 33 million people were affected, crops destroyed, homes, bridges, roads, and more than 1,700 people lost their lives. there are still people displaced today because of the damage that was done then. the un secretary—general referred to it as climate carnage. now pakistan has seen intense flooding during the course of its history and it's considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate change. in the north of the country is an area referred to as the third pole because it has more glacial ice than anywhere else o...

But we are the eighth—most devastated from climate change and climate—related catastrophes. this will be used for prevention and building climate resilience. our correspondent in islamabad, caroline davies, explains. this isn't the first time we have seen flooding in pakistan. this is, as antonio guterres said, this was climate carnage is his description, this is excessive flooding, this is not the sort of thing that pakistan normally sees. but of course we did see flooding back in 2010 on a dramatic scale, too, and the questions were, what lessons were learned from 2010? what measures wer...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday reiterated that the needs in flood-ravaged Pakistan are enormous and called for urgent financial support, as he wrapped up a two-day trip aimed at raising awareness of the climate-driven disaster with flights over some of the hardest hit areas, according to the organization