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Scientists warn of rapid climate change - GN Headlines

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00:00Dubai Police's Search and Rescue Department responded to 69 cases of children locked inside

00:15vehicles in the first eight months this year.

00:19That is compared to 76 cases last year, a top police official said.

00:24Lieutenant-Colonel Abdullah Ali Peshwa, director of the Land Rescue Department in Dubai Police,

00:30said despite the drop in number of cases, the trend was still worrying.

00:35The world's leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global

00:40warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5 degree centigrade.

00:45Beyond this, even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme

00:51heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

00:55The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

01:01released today say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target.

01:07But they said the target is affordable and feasible, although it lies at the most ambitious

01:12end of the Paris Agreement.

01:15Day two of the first test between Pakistan and Australia got underway in Dubai with the

01:20host Pakistan looking to build on their overnight lead of 255-3.

01:26Following Mohammad Hafiz's century knock on the first day, night watchman Mohammad Abbas

01:32was taken out by the bowling of Peter Siddal in the opening session today, leaving Pakistan

01:37on 305-4.

01:40Music superstar Taylor Swift has announced she is voting for Tennessee's Democratic Senate

01:46candidate Phil Bredson, breaking her long-standing refusal to discuss anything politics.

01:53Swift has faced criticism for not speaking about political issues despite having a global

01:58platform.

01:59But due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very

02:04differently about that now," Swift wrote in an Instagram post.

02:09And finally, the weather.

02:10Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.

02:15That's all for now.

02:16Thanks for watching.

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