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Largest El Niño in living memory?

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Weather experts describe the developing climate system as an unprecedented event. Temperatures in the Pacific Ocean could climb more than three degrees above normal.

Also in the programme: the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks to Newshour about the legal case against Facebook's parent company for improperly collecting and using children's personal data; and dramatising the colourful life of the British economist John Maynard Keynes.

(Photo: Displaced by El Nino, South American seabirds flock to Panama. Credit: Reuters/Enea Lebrun)
21 Aug 10AM English United Kingdom News

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