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Joined them for a tour in the most remote campsite on the planet. we have the massive glacier. the work of these scientists are doing should help us have a clear understanding of how sea levels can rise worldwide and thatis sea levels can rise worldwide and that is why we are camping here. this is the residential area, where we sleep. come and see inside. check out his crib. you have everything you need to be in the tent for a long time. a light source which is also a heater. scott himself could...

Hello. it is pretty quiet out there at the moment, but there is rain in the forecast. it is heading our way, and, for some of us, sunday is going to be quite a soggy one, but not everywhere. there is some sunshine in the forecast. lets have a look at the big picture across the uk. as we head towards midnight, the rain reaches south—western part of the uk. notice that through the night for many of us across the north, and certainly scotland, it is a dry and clear night. there is a frost, there,...

Risk of visiting active volcanoes. the 10,000 a year heading to white islands in the many more visiting the 1500 active volcanoes around the world, how could they really understand the likelihood of disaster. 7 iwanted understand the likelihood of disaster. 7 i wanted to find out more about what it means to visit these mythical phenomena and also what they mean to the people living in their shadow. so im going to etna but im not the first bbc journalist to visit the volcano. just three years ago...

Up on this weeks travel show, simon platts heads to europes most active volcano on the italian island of sicily. this film takes some unsettling images. theres been an earthquake on the south side of etna. e la sirena, ecco. in one of the most volcanic regions in europe, an earthquake is detected. it could investigate devastating activity on the continents largest volcano. but still, on etna,

Hope that the republican party would also put country over party. we have seen now thats completely impossible. had she saw that republicans weree ostriches and stick their head in the sand and look the other way in the actions of a corrupt president. democrats understood they would be the ones to step up to the plate and take on their oath of office and be true to it and respect the constitution and what our founding fathers wanted to do. >> victor, pelosi in the beginning didnt just want to it...

And some of his ministers who outflank him from the right have vowed to begin advancing on territory on sunday morning. im not sure he will be prepared to deliver on such a bold promise given the instability may cause in the region, as well as to his own electoral prospects. certainly fortrump, electoral prospects. certainly for trump, this will become another manus the station of a wedge issue in the american presidential campaign in 2020. thank you very much for talking to us. a major scientif...

That a glacier in western antarctica — the size of great britain — is disappearing more quickly than previously thought — because of the way the oceans are warming. our chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt — and camera operatorjemma cox — travelled across west antarctica with a team of scientists, trying to understand how the thwaites glacier is changing. they call this the doomsday glacier. the chaos of broken ice at the front is almost 100 miles wide. hundreds of billions o...

Doomsday glacier but what is happening here is crucialfor us happening here is crucialfor us all. this icu is very accessible to change so if we are thinking about what is the level going to look like in ten yea rs, level going to look like in ten years, this iglesia is going to be the place to be and this is the location to be asking these questions. standing right on the —— glacier. questions. standing right on the -- glacier. the chaos of broken ice at the front of thwa ites broken ice at...

They call this the doomsday glacier, the chaos of broken ice at the front is almost 100 miles wide. hundreds of billions of tonnes of melt water is pouring into the sea. thwaites sits at the heart of the vast basin of ice that is west antarctica and it is the size of britain. scientists need to map the ground are needed. next interval. thwaites contains enough water to raise the world sea level by half a metre. the west antarctic ice sheet contains three metres more, enough to swamp many of the ...

The west antarctic ice sheet contains three metres more, enough to swamp many of the great cities of the world. this ice here is very accessible to change, so if we are thinking about what the sea levels will be like in ten years, this glacier is the place to be and this is the location to be asking the questions at. we are standing right on it. but it is one of the most remote places on earth, the stormiest part of the stormiest continent. only four people have ever been here before. hello! it ...