You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, we are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 5th of June.

Climate scientists warn that the rate of global warming is at an all-time high.

Four women register as candidates for Iran's presidential election, but do they stand a chance?

And mass graves and body bags, what happened during the Israeli raid on Al-Shiva Hospital in Gaza?

Also in the podcast, the high price being paid by the victims of sextortion.

These people are just going through the script and putting that pressure on,

and they're doing it quick because then they can move on to the next person because it's about volume.

And the contribution of women to the D-Day Landings 80 years ago.

Given the says human activity is heating up the world at a record rate. The climate

scientists behind the study are warning that the threshold of 1.5 degrees

Celsius above pre-industrial levels could be breached within five years. In a speech to mark World Environment

Day, the UN Secretary General will warn that the world is not doing enough to switch

away from coal, oil and gas.

One of the authors of the new report is Karina von Schuckman.

What we are aiming for is to provide annual tracks between the different IPCC reports which are published every seven years.

It is clear that there is a rapid need of taking action to reduce carbon emissions.

If we do not act today the window on missing 1.5

degree is closing. Our environment correspondent Matt McGraw told me more about the findings.

Yes, this is a report called The Indicators of Global Change.

It's being published, as you heard in the clip there, to kind of fill in the gaps when the UN's official body isn't meeting.

Their report about every six to seven years on the

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