July 1, 2025 • 4 mins
People throughout Europe have been grappling with the first heatwaves of the Northern Hemisphere summer as increasing temperatures push thermometers into the red.
Scientists have long warned that climate change comes with disastrous consequences for the environment, with Europe’s ever-hotter summer heatwaves being a direct result.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says Spain and Portugal had 'record-breaking' hot days yesterday - and people are concerned.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the brady Are UK correspondent is with us Inda,
are you alive? Are you coping with the weather?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Heather? I've got the air con on full pelt here
in the office in the studio. I feel very content
right now. I've just got off the tube. It is
going to be a scorcher today. London possibly going to
hit thirty four celsius. That is nothing compared to Spain
and Portugal. They both had record breaking days yesterday. Hottest
day in Spanish history ever forty six celsius in the
(00:30):
town of Huelva down by the border with Portugal, and
just over the border a village in Portugal recorded forty
six celsius as well. So this what they're calling a
heat dome is all over, mostly France, Spain and Portugal.
But wildfires in Turkey, France, Greece. A lot of problems.
But I think an awful lot of people will wake
(00:52):
up today and think I'm going to work from home.
I don't want to be on public transport. No too right?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How long have you got this?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
With a fall the week, I think there'll be a
dip tomorrow. Certainly in the UK we're dropping nine degrees tomorrow,
so that's bearable. But in all honesty, I just couldn't
sleep upstairs last night with all the windows open everything.
I just ended up taking a pillow and heading down
to the sofa in the living room. It was far
more bearable downstairs. But we're not used to this kind
(01:19):
of heat, We're not built for it, and nobody has
aircon at home, so it's kind of Yeah, it's a
strange one.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And are you going to go to the beach at
the weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's possibly the last thing I would do in England
because everyone wakes up in this kind of temperatures, Everyone
wakes up with the same idea and they all head
to the same beach as they go to Brighton, they
go to Bournemouth, they go to South End and the traffic.
I had a Turkish friend say to me last week, oh,
we're all off to the beach tomorrow and I so
well enjoy the queues and then I saw her Instagram
(01:52):
store in they spent two and a half hours trying
to find a parking space. No, I think, get the
umbrellas up in the garden and get some cold beers out.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah too, right, drink your troubles away, now, do you
reckon Kyostama speaking your troubles is going to be able
to get the welfare reforms through Parliament.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think it's going to be really tight for a
guy who's Prime Minister on a landslide victory year ago
and has a working majority of one hundred and sixty
five seats in the House of Commons. It comes to
something that he will be calling MPs today, begging, pleading, cajoling,
offering anything to get people to vote in line with
the government. He wants this reform welfare reform bill over
(02:30):
the line tonight. It's touch and go. He's got as
fifty rebels in his camp and if that number ticks up,
he's really going to struggle because obviously the Conservatives, the Opposition,
everyone else they'll vote against it. But it just goes
to show you where Stammer is that he can't get
his own newly installed MPs. It's one year of Starmer
(02:51):
this week, by the way, and that's where he's at.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So is it possible that part of the problem is
that many of these MP's have been their year and
never met them in.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, he doesn't do the tea rooms. That's the gossip
by here from inside Parliament that you know, Teresa May
would make a point of being down there. I'm just
picking her, you know, just a random name. She would
be in the tea rooms. She would be socializing and
chatting and look, to be fair to Starmer, there's a
lot going on in the world, as we've been covering
the last few months. So his people will say that
(03:23):
he has been stitching back relations with Europe, traveling to Ukraine,
being in France, going to the United States, making friends
with Trump, dealing with Israel and Iran. He can't be
having cups of tea with people who are perhaps a
bit needy. That's what his people would say. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now in the very quickly said diet to see the
back of the train.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The Royal Train is going to be no more after
next year. Look, it's a cost saving exercise. It made
one journey last year and that costs the taxpayer eighty
eight thousand dollars. So I think Charles is doing the
right thing.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, probably end look after yourself and stay cool in
the warm weather. That's into Brady, our UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
In the brady Are UK correspondent is with us Inda,
are you alive? Are you coping with the weather?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Heather? I've got the air con on full pelt here
in the office in the studio. I feel very content
right now. I've just got off the tube. It is
going to be a scorcher today. London possibly going to
hit thirty four celsius. That is nothing compared to Spain
and Portugal. They both had record breaking days yesterday. Hottest
day in Spanish history ever forty six celsius in the
(00:30):
town of Huelva down by the border with Portugal, and
just over the border a village in Portugal recorded forty
six celsius as well. So this what they're calling a
heat dome is all over, mostly France, Spain and Portugal.
But wildfires in Turkey, France, Greece. A lot of problems.
But I think an awful lot of people will wake
(00:52):
up today and think I'm going to work from home.
I don't want to be on public transport. No too right?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How long have you got this?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
With a fall the week, I think there'll be a
dip tomorrow. Certainly in the UK we're dropping nine degrees tomorrow,
so that's bearable. But in all honesty, I just couldn't
sleep upstairs last night with all the windows open everything.
I just ended up taking a pillow and heading down
to the sofa in the living room. It was far
more bearable downstairs. But we're not used to this kind
(01:19):
of heat, We're not built for it, and nobody has
aircon at home, so it's kind of Yeah, it's a
strange one.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And are you going to go to the beach at
the weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's possibly the last thing I would do in England
because everyone wakes up in this kind of temperatures, Everyone
wakes up with the same idea and they all head
to the same beach as they go to Brighton, they
go to Bournemouth, they go to South End and the traffic.
I had a Turkish friend say to me last week, oh,
we're all off to the beach tomorrow and I so
well enjoy the queues and then I saw her Instagram
(01:52):
store in they spent two and a half hours trying
to find a parking space. No, I think, get the
umbrellas up in the garden and get some cold beers out.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah too, right, drink your troubles away, now, do you
reckon Kyostama speaking your troubles is going to be able
to get the welfare reforms through Parliament.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think it's going to be really tight for a
guy who's Prime Minister on a landslide victory year ago
and has a working majority of one hundred and sixty
five seats in the House of Commons. It comes to
something that he will be calling MPs today, begging, pleading, cajoling,
offering anything to get people to vote in line with
the government. He wants this reform welfare reform bill over
(02:30):
the line tonight. It's touch and go. He's got as
fifty rebels in his camp and if that number ticks up,
he's really going to struggle because obviously the Conservatives, the Opposition,
everyone else they'll vote against it. But it just goes
to show you where Stammer is that he can't get
his own newly installed MPs. It's one year of Starmer
(02:51):
this week, by the way, and that's where he's at.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So is it possible that part of the problem is
that many of these MP's have been their year and
never met them in.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, he doesn't do the tea rooms. That's the gossip
by here from inside Parliament that you know, Teresa May
would make a point of being down there. I'm just
picking her, you know, just a random name. She would
be in the tea rooms. She would be socializing and
chatting and look, to be fair to Starmer, there's a
lot going on in the world, as we've been covering
the last few months. So his people will say that
(03:23):
he has been stitching back relations with Europe, traveling to Ukraine,
being in France, going to the United States, making friends
with Trump, dealing with Israel and Iran. He can't be
having cups of tea with people who are perhaps a
bit needy. That's what his people would say. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now in the very quickly said diet to see the
back of the train.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The Royal Train is going to be no more after
next year. Look, it's a cost saving exercise. It made
one journey last year and that costs the taxpayer eighty
eight thousand dollars. So I think Charles is doing the
right thing.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, probably end look after yourself and stay cool in
the warm weather. That's into Brady, our UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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