Orla Guerin

Worse to come... According to analysis by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather shared with Washington Post, there’s around a 95 percent chance that 2027 will become Earth’s hottest year on record Record El Niño to give Earth a preview of its warmer future https://t.co/X63CuBOYW2 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Heatwave #Thetweetdoesnotspecificallymentionanycountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

"It seems to me the situation with Ukraine now is this: you can destroy it, but you cannot conquer it. What do I mean by destroy? Continued escalation all the way to the use of a nuclear weapon." - Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov. https://t.co/wMWLUG0oFW #Ukraine #NobelPeacePrize #DmitryMuratov #UA #RU

https://t.co/zFmUJZFMFy "A missile flies from Crimea within a minute," he says. "If you are sitting in a crane, you need three and a half minutes to get down ..." #Ukraine Rare access to a port in Odesa where workers still turn up despite life + death risk, by @BBCPaulAdams #Ukraine #Odesa #MissileThreat #UA

Our report for BBC One 10TV news on Ecuador's war on drugs + gangs. 70% of cocaine reaching US + Europe is now smuggled from Ecuador. With thanks to the team @Wburema @Leedurant @redmedgibson @caleidoscopica + Mauricio Torres. Thanks to all who have watched/ read our coverage https://t.co/dJU0mYm1uA #Ecuador #WarOnDrugs #CocaineSmuggling #EC

https://t.co/QM7gGx4odD Our text story from Ecuador - 'the cocaine superhighway' - on the drug gangs and the police trying to stop them. Around 70% of the cocaine reaching Europe + US is funnelled out of Ecuador. Huge thanks to the team @wburema @Leedurant @redmedgibson #Ecuador #Cocaine #DrugGangs #EC #US

Lessons from the Erdogan era : "It takes a long time to kill a democracy" - Soner Cagaptay. Late in posting this piece from last month, for BBC InDepth, on the erosion of freedom, democracy and opposition in today's Turkey. https://t.co/87H8x2UJ5M -