Next week, the world's leading climate scientists are due to publish their latest findings on how quickly our planet is warning. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

Tonight, there's ample evidence of the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Wildfires, often started by human hand, but fuelled by baking heat, are tearing through forests around the globe.

The wildfires afflicting Turkey are the worst in the country's history.

Eight people have died and thousands have been evacuated from their homes, with fires burning in an area more than three times bigger than in an average year.

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