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the last a0 years. and scientists in china are tracking a new animal—based virus that's infected at least several dozen people, but say there's no need to worry. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore and 8:00 in the evening in washington where the us attorney general, merrick garland, has defended thejustice department's decision to seek a search warrant for donald trump's residence at mar—a—lago earlier this week. mr garland said he had personally approved the move, noting that upholding the rule of law meant applying the law ...

First question to ask you is, were you surprised by the findings of this report? yes and no. it's— findings of this report? yes and no. it's an _ and no. it's an interesting report from the standpoint of it really highlights how much the arctic ocean has warmed, so from 75 degrees latitude north to the north pole, we've seen warming summer in the order of five times that of the lower latitudes. but as you consider more and more land area to the south, that warming rate subsides a bit and that's what we've been seeing in some of the observational analyses in recent years. the observational an...

This point to reverse the damage that we've seen so far? yeah, that is the thousand dollar question. so the greenhouse gases have various times from several years on up and they keep rising. i looked at the carbon dioxide numbers before coming on here and at mauna loa observatory in hawaii where there is an official record that's been kept since 1958, they've gone up substantially, something in the order of 420 ppm. i think there is hope but we need to take action sooner rather than later, to curb our emissions in order to dampen some of this warming and the impacts that are taking place.— a...

Are taking place. tom ballinger, researcher| are taking place. tom l ballinger, researcher at are taking place. tom - ballinger, researcher at the university of alaska fairbanks, thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. mr; us on the programme. my pleasure. _ us on the programme. iji pleasure, thanks. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we'll tell you about the restored mural in an english pub, painted as payment by a local artist and drinker. the big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the pol...

Happen. this summer has been very active in terms of wildfires across alaska and the news has projected some of that out and there have been studies that are starting to look at where that smoke actually goes in the arctic and how does it darken the ice to further promote melt but otherwise when there are fairly quiet periods in the arc, perhaps when sea ice melting as fast as some extreme summers, we don't see as much attention so to answer the question, we'd certainly like to see more attention given to this very sensitive region as it relates to the warming that is going on. tom, i 'ust war...