This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jeanette Jaliel and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 10th of January, these are our main stories.

2024 is deemed to be the world's hottest year on record by scientists,

with temperatures rising above an internationally recognised climate target for the first time.

This comes as firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Los Angeles, where at least 10

deaths have been confirmed. Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro prepares to be sworn in for a third

term despite a global outcry over alleged vote rigging in last year's elections.

Also in this podcast is time running out for TikTok in the US. And?

They basically told me that anything that goes into the household, scrap bin, is compressed and buried.

I just wish I could go back in time.

A man who lost Bitcoin worth as much as a billion dollars

also loses his legal case to search the dump where it's thought to be buried.

For the past few days, the world has witnessed apocalyptic images of fires sweeping through Los Angeles.

Now, even as the fires continue to rage, it's been confirmed that last year was the hottest on record.

Not only that, the EU's Climate Monitoring Service, Copernicus, says 2024 was also the first

calendar year to exceed the key global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above

pre-industrial temperatures. The director of Copernicus, Carlo Buon Tempo, said the calls for the

increase was the greenhouse gases we continue to pump into the atmosphere.

The many record-breaking events we have seen over the course of the last 12 months

are not statistical oddities, but rather a direct consequence of the generalized warming

of our climate system, which is mostly fueled by the steady increase in atmospheric concentration

of greenhouse gases. Hena Handel is National Coordinator of Climate Live USA and a four-time

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