2023 was the hottest year on record

The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event. We speak to our climate editor and hear from people who experienced extreme heat in 2023.

We talk about the diplomatic mission by the US Secretary of State in the Middle East and hear from displaced people in Gaza.

We have a follow-up to the BBC investigation into TB Joshua, the charismatic pastor of a Nigerian megachurch accused of sexual crimes and abuse on a mass scale across three continents. Now, the BBC has found new evidence that TB Joshua hid dead bodies and intimidated families to cover up his role in a building collapse where 116 people died. Our reporter from the BBC investigations team explains.

After a story about a US woman whose sepsis infection led to a quadruple amputation attracted a lot of attention in the US, we talk to two people who also developed sepsis and had to have amputations.

Presenter: James Reynolds

(Photo: Extreme heat warnings issued for Southern and Western US, Atlanta, USA - 18 Jul 2023. Credit: ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)