00:01In the next five years, Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set
00:09as safe
00:10and shatter its hottest year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
00:16The World Meteorological Organization, WMO, and the UK's Meteorological Office say there's a 70% chance
00:25that the average global temperature between 2026 and 2030 will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times.
00:34There's a 91% chance that at least one of the next five years will shoot past the 1.5
00:41degrees Celsius threshold
00:42and an 86% chance that one of those years will smash the record for Earth's hottest year set in
00:492024, the WMO report warns.
00:53Nearly all the shorter-term forecasts call for a strong Ernino, a natural warming of parts of the Central Pacific
01:00that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures, to form soon.
01:05The WMO report says it could stretch all the way to 2028.
01:14Four Italian cities are expected to be on red alert warnings, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees on Thursday.
01:21Even Pope Leo XIV came to the aid of a man who fainted while curing to shake hands with the
01:28pontiff in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday.
01:30The cities affected include Rome, Florence, Bologna and Turin, according to local media citing the Italian Health Ministry.
01:38Meanwhile, tourists in Rome are feeling the heat.
01:42In the daytime, we went up to the Colosseum and it was very, very hot.
01:48So, yeah, if you dress for the weather, have your parasol, have your sunglasses, have Factor 50.
01:55As long as you stick to the shadows, it's doable.
01:58But I don't want to go into the basilisk now.
02:03It's way too hot to go into the waiting room.
02:07Yeah, I can't tolerate this weather.
02:09But I'm only a visitor.
02:10I wish good luck to everyone living here.
02:15According to Italy's health ministry, a red warning alert means the heat poses a risk to the health of the
02:21general population, not just vulnerable groups.
02:25People have been advised to limit their movements.
02:57I'll give you a second, but I'll juice your tactics.
04:02Researchers on a Greenpeace expedition are exploring the Arctic deep sea, one of the
04:06least known wildernesses on Earth.
04:08More specifically, they are exploring the so-called banana hole to search for undiscovered
04:12species and ancient ecosystems.
04:15The banana hole is a remote and mysterious area of the Arctic high seas that lies in
04:20international waters located between Norway and Greenland.
04:25Greenpeace says it is home to seamounts or underwater mountains, as well as volcanic hot springs,
04:30which it says acts as a living library of our planet's history.
04:36However, despite of its importance, the environmental organization says the banana hole is under threat of deep sea mining.
04:43The Greenpeace vessel departed earlier this month for a month-long expedition to raise awareness on the danger of deep
04:50sea mining.
04:51They are now live streaming from depths down to 3,000 meters until the 30th of May.
04:56And the expedition is expected to last until early June.
05:04Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, as
05:12suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola surge to near 1,000.
05:17The decision by the Ugandan Ebola task force comes as other variants of the virus emerge and follows a rise
05:25in local health workers exposed to the virus by Congolese patients who crossed before the outbreak was declared on the
05:3315th of May.
05:34According to the Ugandan Ministry of Health, travel across the Congo border will be authorized only in emergency cases, including
05:42for the outbreak response, cargo or security reasons.
05:47Uganda has reported seven cases of Ebola, including the first case of a 59-year-old man who died in
05:54Kampala, the capital, on the 14th of May.
05:58In Congo, there have been some 228 deaths.
06:02While the caseload in Uganda is not spiking, the number of locals exposed to infection via health workers has been
06:09rising.
06:15At least 16 children have been killed and dozens injured after a fire ripped through a girl's dormitory at a
06:21school in Kenya.
06:23Distraught parents were being held outside the school buildings by authorities as investigators raced to identify the victims.
06:33We realized that the message was all over the country and we thought it was only fair to confirm that
06:3916 persons have seized the past one.
06:42But then this creates also another problem for us, which is the anxiety among the parents trying to know who
06:51of them has lost their loved ones.
06:52The school is linked to the National Police Service and therefore most pupils of the school are the children of
06:59officers.
06:59The cause of the fire is not yet known.
07:08The European Commission hit Chinese online retailer Temu with a €200 million fine on Thursday.
07:14The EU investigation found the e-commerce giant didn't do enough to protect consumers from illegal products.
07:22Temu reaches 130 million consumers in the European Union, but the company has not properly assessed the risks of illegal
07:32products being sold on its marketplace.
07:35What products are we talking about?
07:37Dangerous toys for kids, small electronics without proper label, clothes and jewelry containing harmful chemicals, to name just a few.
07:46Preliminary findings last year revealed Temu was exposing consumers to dangerous products such as harmful baby toys and faulty chargers.
07:56The block issued the penalty under the Digital Services Act or DSA, a rule book that requires online platforms to
08:03protect Internet users from harmful content or dodgy goods.
08:07Temu did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
08:18Work is in the way in Poland to restrict access to social media for children under the age of 15.
08:24The bill could take effect as early as next year.
08:51The Polish proposal stipulates that social media platforms will have to verify users' ages more effectively.
09:21The debate surrounding the new regulations also concerns the limits of social media.
09:27In terms of state interference in the Internet and freedom of speech, the senator argues, however, that the state must
09:33have the tools to enforce the new regulations.
09:36The country has the possibility of using the regulations with the sanctions, the restrictions, and the restrictions, and the restrictions.
09:48Over 77% of polls support a ban on social media use for people under the age of 15.
10:01A four-day football festival kicked off on Thursday at Hero Square in Budapest as a side event to the
10:07Champions League final.
10:09The free event features skill competitions and other activities for football fans from all over the world.
10:16We have come back from Norway to come back home to the decision.
10:19We can see it and see it.
10:21I think we will win.
10:22This is the fact that we will win.
10:24On Thursday at the festival, there were more Arsenal fans than PSG supporters.
10:29I think we have got a better defence than them.
10:33I think we will win it.
10:34Just 2-1 Arsenal, corners.
10:37We are going to win by corners.
10:39One of the most popular activities at the event was taking photos with a Champions League trophy.
10:48Some 10 kilometers away, a community football field made from recycled packaging materials was unveiled in time for the Champions
10:55League final.
10:56Hungarian football player Dominik Szoboszlai also attended the ceremony.
11:00Dominik Szoboszlai!
11:02As a Liverpool midfielder, he has faced both finalists this season.
11:06I know from my own experience and played all of them.
11:11I would say PSG is more useful.
11:17But at this point, who is useful or who is not?
11:22Whatever happens, Arsenal has a good team.
11:26Anyone can use the artificial turf field for free without prior registration.
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