13th January - Today's News: Cyclone Ian Batters Tongan Islands

Contact made with Tonga's isolated islands as relief efforts get underway after Cyclone Ian - the most powerful storm to hit the Tongan archipelago

It's all go in Australia as temperatures expected to soar across country as heatwave shows no sign of cooling whilst four missing found as Perth hills bushfire toll mounts in the north Darwin under cyclone watch and to gap it all, earthquake hits Melbourne's east

And it's not all cold in the USA either as Wichita hits record high temperature for January

But is America's 'polar vortex' linked to record warm winter in Russia?   Yes.

Unrecorded tsunami from 1,300 year ago uncovered by high school students in Japan