70 years after independence, india is still a diverse, ever evolving assortment of cultures, creeds, religions and languages. Heading off the well worn tourist path, were on a journey which spans this vast subcontinent from east to west. Travelling from one of the driest places on earth. It is quite incredible, the sand. Its just crystal, hard cystals. White salt. You can probably taste it. To one of the wettest. These are areas really for the adventurous traveller. This isnt india on tap. Im on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. And also meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country home. Its going to be an amazing journey. For thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. At the heart of this enterprise was the sea. And the state of gujarat, with 1,000 miles of coastline, served as a Shipping Gateway to africa, arabia and beyond. This is as far west as you can get in india. It
And 70 years after independence, india is still a diverse, ever evolving assortment of cultures, creeds, religions and languages. Heading off the well worn tourist path, were on a journey which spans this vast subcontinent from east to west. Travelling from one of the driest places on earth. It is quite incredible, the sand. Its just crystal, hard cystals. White salt. You can probably taste it. To one of the wettest. These are areas really for the adventurous traveller. This isnt india on tap. Im on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. And also, meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country home. Its going to be an amazing journey. For thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. At the heart of this enterprise was the sea. And the state of gujarat, with a thousand miles of coastline, served as a Shipping Gateway to africa, arabia and beyond. This is as far west as you can get in
This is how they flare. We are demanding that they stop the flaring. It must stop. These are my children. This is my family. Hello. Thanks for tuning in to our Weather Forecast for the next ten days. And i can tell you straight away that theres absolutely no let up to the kind of weather weve been having for weeks now. So once again, early august is going to be changeable, on the cool side, with rain at times. And if we look at the recent satellite picture, you can see weather systems, a daisy chain of them, lining up in the atlantic and heading our way. And through the course of this week, crucially, quite a strong jet stream across the atlantic. Also pointing in our direction, you can see even some dips in the jet stream, or troughs, as we call it in meteorology. And that means that cooler air at times will be streaming in from the north. I think thursday will be a particularly cool day across the north of the country whereas the warm weather is reserved for the southern climes. Onto
And returned to the stage last year in london, not in the flesh, but as digital avatars 2d recreations of themselves from 1979. In a worldwide exclusive interview to mark 12 months of the Abba Voyage Show, i went to the studio of the band in stockholm to talk to Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson two of the globe s most successful songwriters. Its the one Year Anniversary of the Abba Voyage Show. It took years to create. You described it as a risk because you didnt know if people were going to come and see digital to come and see Digital Recreations of you. Is it a gamble that has paid off . Most certainly, yes. Artistically, definitely. Why do you say artistically definitely . Because we achieved more than we could ever hope for. Seeing this happening after four or five years of work in different areas, coming there, seeing the first preview and realising that the audience actually connected to what was on there, not like they were watching a movie, but is if we were actually there, wh
The famous sta keknife. He was obviously someone who had access to the higher levels of the ira. An ira spy catcher skilled at interrogating Suspected Informers. An ira enforcer and executioner. Theres not one killing that Freddie Scappaticci was involved in that the ira did not sanction. Freddie scappaticci denied his double life when exposed. I am not guilty of any of these allegations. His death was announced while a multiMillion Pound Police Investigation into his activities is ongoing. Much is unknown about Freddie Scappaticcis life in the shadows. Butjust one single episode exposed how he operated inside the ira while on the states books. This is a story of a spy who got away with murder. West belfast in the 1980s. An irish republican enclave where many were subject to the iras rules. Such warnings to so called touts were frequently borne out. Archive charlie mcllmurrays body was found in this van on sunday. I charlie mcilmurray, a west belfast taxi driver, suspected of being a t