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The moral stain on the allies. there are many who would say that bombing of dresden was a war crime. i would hesitate about that myself, it complicates things, and there are strong reasons for not saying that, but nonetheless this extraordinary story, if you go into the dresden city archives now, there are hundreds of eyewitness accounts they have collected over the years, which make for the most extraordinary, harrowing, terrifying reading. this is also the story of how the city we generated an...

With symptoms suggesting of the coronavirus, a fever, cough and shortness of breath, and if they have been with someone who has travelled to one of the nine high risk countries, they need to be isolated, tested and if the result comes back positive, all contacts need to be contacted after 24 hours. what are the implications in those gp surgeries stop presumably we never have had to shut down for a while. what will they have to do to stop spreading the virus? you are right. when a virus is identi...

Finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i cant wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you cant fly straight to thwaites, theres no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the projects staging post in the middle of the west antarctic ice sheet. this is where passengers fuel and cargo are dropped off before being ferried on to the field sites on the glacier itself. the plan is only to stay he...

What has been happening? good morning, the flight from wuhan landed behind me at 7:35am. you can see the plane over my shoulder in the distance. all of the passengers have disembarked. around 150 british citizens taken from wuhan last night, they have now been moved from here on coaches to milton keynes, a facility in milton keynes. they will be kept there for about 1k days under quarantine, where they will be monitored. now, should any of them show symptoms of coronavirus, they will then immedi...

Its all hands on deck to get the kit boxed up and transported to the airfield, ready to go. and the team are there, itching to get cracking. so we are super excited. were out at lilyfield and were finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i cant wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you cant fly straight to thwaites, theres no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the projects staging post...

Antarctica is a place of extremes. it is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent of the earth. capped by an ice sheet of up to five kilometres thick, this continent contains 90% of the worlds ice. i begin my journey contains 90% of the worlds ice. i begin myjourney in new zealand. passport? they say travelling to antarctica is like travelling to another planet. so, here it goes. the us air force provides the planes. the safety briefing may be familiar, but nothing else about this lig...

Getting very, very tight. people are getting a little edgy and a bit concerned. 0ne getting a little edgy and a bit concerned. one only does anything in antarctica with the cooperation of the weather. suddenly the weather clears and miraculously it seems like the project is back on track. its all hands on deck to get the get boxed up and transported to the airfield, ready to go. and the team are there, edging to get cracking. so we are at lilyfield and we are finally about to get to the plane. i...

Suddenly the weather clears and miraculously it seems the project is back on track. its all hands on deck to get the kit boxed up and transported to the airfield, ready to go. and the team are there, itching to get cracking. so we are super excited. were out at lilyfield and were finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i cant wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you cant fly straight to thwaites, theres no ice runway that can take these big planes. so t...

Are being treated in hospital. they have now been transferred to a high consequence infection unit, a very secure infectious disease specialist unit in newcastle. touching down, an evacuation flight — carrying more than 80 britons from wuhan — the source of the outbreak — lands at raf brize norton. passengers are being driven to wirral where theyll be quarantined for two weeks. in a few hours — britain leaves the european union after almost half a century — the government says its ‘t...

Today at 5: the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk. two members of the same family, whod been staying at a hotel in york, are being treated at a specialist unit in newcastle. more than 80 british nationals arrive at raf brize norton from wuhan and are now being driven to a quarantine facility on the wirral, where preparations are made for their arrival. its about the safety of those who are coming overfrom wuhan, but its actually much broader than that. its about the safety of the st...