High temperatures engulfing massive tracts of land in 3 u. S. States. And arrested for criticizing the government crackdown lawyer and activist maxine snack is the latest opposition figure to be detained in belarus. No fires are again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by an overnight blaze its left south of Asylum Seekers without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the fire people are reportedly fleeing the area again as the new bases take hold around 12000. 00 people were housed at the maria camp on the island of lesbos Officials Say the fires were started by refugees forced to self isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus concerns of a Public Health crisis arising with the whereabouts of more than 30 migrants with coded 19 unknown. Correspondent on surpluses in the lesbos forest so what is the situation there now. Hello lauren as you can see over my Left Shoulder the fire is still burning well rather its burning again because the f
Example so a kind mirror technically is an animal that has d. N. A. From 2 different sources so in this case obviously a mouse and a human or mouse on a rat as was the case before and the ethical dilemma is that this sort of work creates mostly focuses around the fact that people feel quite uncomfortable about it i think but. None of the sort of most ethically challenging organ systems will be researched at present so for example the Central Nervous system the brain. And the germ cells which will contribute to the eggs in the sperm they are not systems that people we will be researching essentially so were hoping to avoid basically too many of the deeper ethical pitfalls but its interesting that it took a while this is all rules have been changed by the japanese government. To enable this research to take place so that this study could become operational and that took a long time yes. Are we likely to see. Well i suspect very strongly with the International Community who will be watchi
The scale of deforestation in the amazon. Ricardo galvao likened the president to a teenage boy, after the government rejected russian evidence over the increasing tree we have a special report. Militaryjets are providing backup loss in the amazon. Russian militaryjets are providing backup to firefighters battling the blazers which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Buyers are john mcmanus reports. Common at this time of year. And record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. At 525 million square kilometres, keeping track of the health of the amazon rainforest is huge our moscow correspondent undertaking. And best done from Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkutsk region of siberia and he sent this report. Space 5. 5. Scientists say. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size
In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, by pedro pierluisi. Military planes doing what they can to extinguish the blaze. The fires are sparked by hot weather and dry thunderstorms. Theyre mainly in remote areas, the governor of the bank of england, but could the effects mark carney, has warned be more widespread . Theres concern that Carbon Emissions from here may be melting ice in the arctic and speeding up global warming. So black carbon is black, small particles, which falls down on ice and turns them from the white to black, so the ice cannot reflect sun radiation and sun starts to heat the ice in the arctic and it melts faster. And as if fire wasnt bad enough, there have been floods too. In this town, injune, a dam burst, following torrential rain, 23 people died. Now, the town has flooded again. From forest fires, to flooding, so far this has been a summer of hell for people in siberia. And its because of wild fires and the floods tha
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Russias arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires, with up to four million hectares ablaze, and vast areas engulfed by smoke. The Prime Minister, dmitri medvedev, has ordered police to investigate whether the fires were started deliberately to hide evidence of illegal logging. Russian militaryjets are providing back up to firefighters battling the blazes, which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Fires are common at this time of year, but record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. Our moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkurtsk region of siberia, and he sent this report. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, military planes doing what they can to