00:00 mild at the moment and it will stay that way over the next few days. And I can imagine
00:04 there's some people saying, well, how on earth is this news? It's hot in Brazil. But as you
00:08 said in the introduction, Annette, we're still a month away from summer. And this has been
00:13 the fourth heatwave in the second half of this year alone. So we would seem to be looking
00:20 here at a new normal with the humidity, meaning that the feeling, certainly on Saturday in
00:28 Rio, was of temperatures close to 60 degrees. And the problem here isn't only the heat.
00:33 The problem is that some of the things that come along with it, ferocious tropical storms,
00:38 high winds. We had hailstones during a tropical storm last week in Rio. And over the last
00:45 couple of summers, torrential rain has led to natural disasters, landslides, things where
00:53 the poor are usually in a more precarious situation since their homes are often built
00:59 in more precarious places than those of the rich. So really, this story highlights the
01:05 vulnerability of the global south in a scenario of global warming.
01:10 And the story, of course, making headlines after the death of a young woman from dehydration
01:16 during a Taylor Swift concert last Friday.
01:19 Yeah, the exact cause of death has not yet been totally established. But it would seem
01:25 clear that 17-year-old Ana Clara Benavidez, certainly a contributory factor to her very,
01:33 very untimely death, was the extreme heat of so many people together in a show. Now,
01:38 the Brazilian government have brought in new regulations since. They're allowing people
01:42 to take in water to shows. And then they're making the organizers obliged to have water
01:48 available inside show venues. But Ana Clara Benavidez, first time on an airplane. She
01:55 came from another part of Brazil. Huge Taylor Swift fan. As her mum said, she was taken
02:02 from us at one of the happiest moments of her life.
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