Prepare for a more intense El Niño, UN warns
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, says the world must treat the new phase of the weather pattern, El Niño, as an urgent climate warning. He said it would pour fuel on the fire of a warming globe. The World Meteorological Organisation says preparations are needed for a potentially strong El Niño event with an eighty percent chance of conditions developing in the next few months. Also: Israeli forces have continued hitting targets in southern Lebanon after an agreement backed by President Trump stopped them from striking the capital, Beirut. Two people have died in Kenya during protests against plans to establish a US-backed Ebola isolation centre. A British man could become the first astronaut with a disability to live and work in space; and Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are back as Woody and Buzz in Toy Story 5, as they try to make sense of a world dominated by technology.
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| 0:38.1 | The UN Secretary General says the predicted super El Nino weather system will pour fuel on a warming globe. |
| 0:45.5 | Israeli strikes in the south of Lebanon have continued, |
| 0:48.2 | despite a US-brokered partial ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. |
| 0:53.4 | Two people have died in central Kenya during protests |
| 0:56.3 | against plans to establish a US-backed Ebola isolation center. Also in this podcast, |
| 1:05.1 | I would be frank with you, we feel abandoned. We will continue to fight. For us, it's existential. |
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| 1:14.3 | and stop this suffering and stop these killings. |
| 1:19.1 | Ukraine remains defiant after one of the deadliest Russian attacks of recent months. And |
| 1:24.7 | our arts correspondent speaks to actors Tom Hanks and Tim Allen ahead of their |
| 1:30.2 | fifth outing as Woody and Buzz. A new phase of the natural Ennio weather pattern could |
| 1:40.8 | begin in the next few months the UN has warned boosting temperatures on the planet |
| 1:45.2 | already under strain from climate change. The World Meteorological Organization says this |
| 1:50.6 | El Nino is likely to strengthen over the rest of 26, driving more extreme weather events around |
| 1:57.4 | much of the globe. Several forecasts from national weather agencies suggest it could end up |
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