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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and we're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Monday 28th October.
Bad news for planet Earth as the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hits a record high.
A people smuggler tells us about the fraud used to enable migrants from Vietnam to reach Europe and the NATO chiefs, as the arrival of North Korean troops in Russia is a sign of Vladimir Putin's desperation in Ukraine.
Also in the podcast, Pakistan begins a polio vaccination drive after a surge.
In cases we hear from young voters in the U.S.
swing state of Georgia.
We're definitely going to make the right decision for the climate, for where we're at economically, for where we're at socially.
And can fairy tales get children to eat more fruit and veg?
But we begin with a stark new warning about climate change, which comes just over a week before a US presidential election, which could have a big impact on carbon emissions in the years to come.
UN experts say levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at the moment surged to a record level in 2023, locking in decades of temperature rises.
Cobarat is deputy head of the World Meteorological Organization.
Every fraction of a degree of temperature increase matters in terms of the speed of glacier and ice retreat, the acceleration of sea level rise, ocean heat and acidification.