{"id":364959,"date":"2026-07-27T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/europes-wildfire-crisis-global-news-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:00:21","slug":"europes-wildfire-crisis-global-news-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/europes-wildfire-crisis-global-news-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s wildfire crisis | Global News Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/vEGRLfLMXzk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Europe's wildfire crisis | Global News Podcast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEGRLfLMXzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>We speak to the BBC&#8217;s climate editor Justin Rowlatt about the wildfires raging across Europe, and ask him how to prevent these blazes from becoming the new normal. <\/p>\n<p>More than 300,000 people in France and Spain have fled their homes as the fires continue. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has said the climate emergency is to blame for the fires, and warned that &quot;difficult hours lie ahead&quot; as his country braces for another heatwave. One official said Spain is facing a &quot;national wildfire crisis&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has held a crisis meeting in Paris to discuss the government&#8217;s response as wildfires burn near the city of Bordeaux. The flames there are so intense that they have created their own thunderstorms in the form of pyrocumulonimbus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of the Global News Podcast are published twice a day. You can listen here: https:\/\/link.mgln.ai\/GNP-YT<\/p>\n<p>And you can find more of our YouTube episodes here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/GlobalNewsPodcast<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#bbcnews <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:18 How big are the wildfires?<br \/>\n01:05 Climate emergency<br \/>\n03:48 How to stop wildfires becoming an annual event<br \/>\n06:42 Political will to fight climate change<br \/>\n07:53 What you can do to counter the climate crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak to the BBC&#8217;s climate editor Justin Rowlatt about the wildfires raging across Europe, and ask him how to prevent these blazes from becoming the new normal. More than 300,000 people in France and Spain have fled their homes as the fires continue. 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