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a conference and everybody embraces each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all death and the hopefully in the best way for the very people they are to constance in this conflict over a different lot for years one there's never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shift of what they're being the military events and the facts on the ground and the political bullshit just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant. there with always being the syrian people suffering us president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border war is trying to end the standoff over a federal spending and avoid a partial government shutdown by the end of the week mike hanna has more from washington. well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shutdown the government should

he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position in the creation saw that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say religion and every avenue available to us possible the president's asked every one of his chemists or terisa look for funding that can be used to protect our borders and for that give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people by having a secure border but a shutdown still not averted democrats of turned down a compromise republican offer of a one point five billion dollar amount for border security not the wall but democrat leader nancy pelosi says this would amount to giving president trump a one billion dollars slush fund as she put it but neither side of the aisle once a shutdown just before christmas and most observers believe that there will be some

kind of short term extension agreed on a a many mother unable to travel to the u.s. to see her dying son because of president trump's travel ban has received a waiver shamas wally is technically banned from entering the u.s. because of travel restrictions on mostly muslim countries has been appealing to the state department to sign a waiver so she could see her son a two year old is on life support at a california hospital u.s. officials and representatives of the afghan taliban on meeting in the united arab emirates for three days of talks as believe the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire and withdrawal of foreign troops in the future and the past year washington has stepped up its to fanatic efforts to end america's longest war . britain's government is making preparations in case it crashes out of the e.u. without a deal they're just over one hundred days to go before the u.k. is due to leave the block with parliament in deadlock menaces have agreed to step

up planning for a no deal breaks it thousands of military personnel are in standby for any civil disruption belgium's prime minister has resigned after losing a confidence vote had been leading a minority government for a week after his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalists party quit over michelle's decision to sign a u.n. migration that critics say will increase migration into europe. and chinese foreign manufacturers who are way has demanded the u.s. australia and other governments justify claims that the company is a security risk the firm's chief financial officer was arrested earlier this month in canada for allegedly evading u.s. sanctions on iran since then other governments have added further accusations those are the headlines coming up next it's al-jazeera correspondent.

this is one of the world's most beautiful yet unpredictable environments. and it was where i was about to try and run my first ever marathon. she just told my wife and mother they were absolutely right this was a really stupid idea. the question of why we run had months previously been my starting point in the weeks that followed i saw inspiration from some of the

world's best distance runners your don't want to feel like we are flying that he said dreamily fifty then asked whether running is something we were born pseudo our ancestors are all riders we're we're not good at running we're left essentially on the evolutionary and enjoyed a less than convincing start to my own road running career as a sixty five year old man a fifty year old woman and a taller old boy that will run faster than me now i was in the antarctic starting one of the world's most enlightened marathons was easy enough trying to finish it well that would prove to be rather more complicated bubble found the president calls you a go or you go goes up your arse starts pretty sharp. i'm

live in the middle east in cats or where i work as a sports journalist i run like many people do to stay fit and stay clear of my inbox for an hour it seems every week. my job has taken me to sporting events all over the world but few can match a trip i made in two thousand and eight when i went to the north pole to fill my mouth and. start to leave the cult but. it's about as well but. it was an experience that inspired me to think i might one day want to do something similar and not just stand around with a microphone. and sit you know i did just no other cold cases. that's me in the noise swarm can't just get rid of my feelings of worthlessness i'm now

getting ready to run a marathon my first run of the art sinking of the north pole but in the antarctic in the south pole. my older brother brian is the one member of my family who's actually run a marathon his ultimately successful trip to the finish line started with a health check up the doctor said yeah you're ok but your quest role is quite high . better watch your blood pressure and he thought about losing some weight so came out of the doctor's real reason to be depressed and thought i need to do something about it when you having a midlife crisis what you mean ok i've got sports car of the earth. i've got. more field size twelve years younger than me and a top stock by running america so there that's one way of looking at it a spade. i think it's quite lazy journalism and your. time then to my journalistic

running game i'm embarking on the biggest physical challenge of my life along the way i'm going to ask why running in all its forms is the sport so many of us choose to do. kenya has produced four of the five fastest ever mouth and run as the perfect place to step up training for a month first. in so many cities and cultures running is something that squeezed in around the rest of people's lives and that's an elite level really struggles for attention well there's no danger of that here in the kenyan town of running here taken very seriously and those that choose to run they saw with utter dedication.

in this country of running champions it's him has become an unofficial compass on. some bonehead others drawn ahead other promise of training with the best. and i want to know why when i watch a marathon on t.v. more often than not it's a kenyan out in front. i kind of moves in and deal with all of that and i hear people addicted to coffee or something but for me you know it's just. not i mean the start of the day. a new leaf i had trained how i would. so that was my motivation like train hard and it. is just having fun.

with what keeps you power the cotton feet but you could really do something you know race he's how you have to train. were never i mean there is no good my trainer most fit it would. you find that hard. i would do is keep pushing. knowing that i can bring. it certain is a town where that can do attitude has taken root and the local school a tree is planted every time one of their former students wins a major running title. over the years the school grounds have been turned into something of a forest. well thing where this tree based tribute to success tells you is that unlike what i was taught at school really isn't that psyching pov accounts in kenya it's all about the winning i don't need as any kenyan who runs on this arash man is

uniquely price to start selling an englishman one of the sort of leisure running i do as little place here in kenya column or connell arrived in eton in the one nine hundred seventy s. to work as a teacher and sets up the town's first organized training program. he's since guided a handful of athletes to the very top including olympic eight hundred metre champion david rudisha the idea of running to school running to the market running to town running to a neighbor's house you know aids in the rural areas it's part of your lifestyle it is something that you've internalized from the time you can walk in school i was very active and there whenever i go for lands which is about two metres i used to home when i'm coming back to school that i didn't have an idea what i was doing but i was training with no. running for me it was

a way of transport coming from one side to another one. if you make sure each day africa it's you have to go to school every morning sometimes you're late must go and because you need to catch up with your closest. and olympic legend from my own country house put into context just what sort of a head start this might give a kenyan runner in the west life is has become very much easier physically for most people. cept kerry certainly doesn't take things easy he was chairman of the london twenty twelve olympic organizing committee as a runner he wants to olympic golds and set twelve world records was thirty six it was just that he held the eight hundred meter world record for eighteen years. i came from a different set up and iran as quickly as my contemporaries from africa were

running at the time in my country u.k. young people when they get to the age of fifty on balance are about fifty percent less fit than they were or less active than they were when they were nine children that once walked to school rode bikes to school or sometimes even ran to school like i did don't infer all sorts of reasons and that's a pattern but certainly in advanced countries is is not unusual. being active from a young age and doubtingly contributes to kenya's running culture. of us of all good kenyans might have the perfect d.n.a. to run for that the thin air of high altitude i was there is here any ten helps condition the body for distance running. but simple economics rather than complex science could also explain a lot. so

as you say it with life without money is tough and that's what i am for those who are like me now i ask nothing. and my opinion is that i know when saw about maybe the. i've got money. to support my side of you know life without money even now maybe i'm coming from trade and i don't know what michael into it in the house because nothing to me i don't know maybe even to come on the club and some of you. think that the motivation for a casual run it can always be quite an interesting one when you find yourself out in the middle of nowhere i was just a camera man and some disinterested lost all to keep you company on the run is

hurting washing not just stop what you very quickly learn heyer's said to the local writers just don't have that luxury of choice to stop if i stop talking so darn hard watch t.v. and get on with the rest of my life if they choose to stop running i mean to have it cease and hard to go back to. the kids around here see more elite athletes you know owning property building a big house driving a car and you know it doing better for their families and that's a fantastic motivation because they see lives. is a career in or as a way of out of poverty as you said we did and. to make a career we don't burn for fun when you know that i have nor the option in life or that i don't have any other we'll. even realize then you did the all you would to love the most of their motivation from the few for been there before

them they had their living bored lives and their driving board cars. i know you are an eight hundred meter runner can you beat david rudisha that is something i can do i'm training these sorts of training i'm armani's also. i'm training with champions that this my hash a lot of stuff i will be a champ and. my time talking to edwin has really helped to put my own challenge in the context of i'll be running a marathon because i want to not because i have to. training can be arduous and it's certainly time consuming but witnessing the levels of sacrifice and commitment here has convinced me that in order to be ready for the antarctic taking shortcuts just isn't an option. well it's disheartening as it might be i have to accept that i'm not going to win any marathons or make any money from running but i still want

to run and that's the question i still have to answer why do i and millions of other plautus still want to get on the road and run as best we can. one place to find more than a few clothes doing the best they can is at the new york marathon my own rice on ice is now a month away two more contrasting events it would be hard to imagine but in common with the fast majority of the fifty thousand runners here i'll be running to win just to finish.

the scale of this event on the level of efforts on show i was definitely sharpening my own focus. and it looks frightening just right. on the inspiring in equal measure. it will experience i had the privilege to do boston three years ago but i mounted proudly support just entire day with unbelievable one year ago even when i went to the shops i went to my car sit on the god did not the united states show new york yankees know me i'm a bona we made it. there be it outdoors in my time it's just wonderful on your with people when you do these races just not going like it. glengarry is a psychologist and an experienced runner who might just be able to explain why so

many far from elite athletes like myself are driven to run a marathon. when you look at marathon running it's kind of like it takes recreational running and then it takes it a step beyond so i think that the psychological needs that marathon running fills for people in westernized societies now are completely beyond health that's very much about showing someone i can do this i can achieve something that everyone thinks is extraordinary and once you realise that you can do that and you see that in yourself you start to believe other things about yourself i can definitely glenn is saying i want to see how all responds of putting myself in homes why and i really won't know how i'm going to react to the distance the race all the cold and so i'm actually there the idea of a marathon in the south pole area on believable you know i mean it's like it's like you've got two major adverse things right up against each other you know a marathon your first marathon experience to such an extreme climbing

interconnecting those together in that kind of experience you know that you have few few options but if you run into that i think you're just going to have to muscle through it time i think to ask a medical professional if i can be assured my body won't crack up on the antarctic ice while that's. that's a tough question. i've never seen anybody i've never met anybody who's preparing for a raise like that when he's not laughing it mate is a doctor who specializes in trying to keep runners on their feet i guess really listening to your body from the beginning to and then seeing if anything is out of the ordinary when it comes to your joints your bottom of your feeds your skin you know i think will be an important thing and before anything gets worse as you're running to stop and monitor and make sure everything is ok you know anybody who signs up for

a marathon should be fully aware of the amount of training that. it should be involved and the kind of payment aches and all kinds of negative things that are associated with running marathons people do need to understand that when they're taking up running as a sport there is an inherent risk of injury that comes with it and when they have a set target and they're so determined to get there that they try to either ignore or mask the pain or any signal that the body is giving them that could be a cause for disaster. running barefoot probably won't be advisable in the antarctic but a sizable minority of runners believe taking your shoes off is the key to staying injury free while you're trying and at this point i'm nothing if not open minded when you're barefoot running you take short strides walk him is

a running coach shuns traditional trying is going to stand here without looking at the mets you know. one leg so ready don't look down look up stay close the line and as you can see you're all over the place here he says the shoes we think are protecting our joints could be doing quite the opposite so noble pushing this big on the book on your heel you can hit the ground harder more over. because you have a cushion you're wearing heels as a guy i tell guys this all the time you're wearing a one inch to two inch heels just like high heels so that shortens your killie's tent and over time it definitely shortens and it does not get longer and which causes all sorts of other issues once you mess with your foot and your ankle the mechanics there it's going to mess with you mean mechanics and you're good at finding that simply if you're for that reason ok that's when i think people come up to me all the time and say you know is it dangerous to run in central park or

anywhere for that matter barefoot and i'd say the opposite it's safer you know allows me to feel the ground allows me to be more in touch with my surroundings and i'm more aware and i feel more comfortable when i'm running that way as well now i run pain free and i enjoy my runs a lot more than i used to. don't himself would agree that barefoot style isn't for everyone on stayed injury free. and i have to say i'm not too happy to be feeling the ground beneath my feet quite so directly. a few days later my train is all safely back home and i'm getting ready to spend an evening with new york's orchard street runs it's the sort of group that can now be found in many major cities i'm hoping they can give me a final push in my premarital preparations i. lugar's

originally started because i was trying to get a girl to run with and two years later still going on the girls is no longer in the picture but the group has. the advantages right off the bat we're just social interaction and like minded individuals coming together for for a run created a dynamic that i think was more specific than going to a bar or going to a party most people are not working nine to five jobs they're in creative fields they're living downtown they're young they might. come out and it's a great. place to eat. i said a different route every week to keep things interesting and to challenge people in different ways and that sign amec is what makes it appeal to what i think is a different type of runner than the cliché. running by myself i'm more likely to swallow slow down or not really push myself like riding with other people.

person. stay with them stay with them stay with them when you're running side by side with somebody it's like feel not easy that you're running the same route i think there's something more social about it in a lot of people recognize even if you're not speaking out like used to be a competitive runner now live the new york life most nights and want to stay fit you wanted something that was you know convenient but people that were just about on it and it was just it fits my lifestyle perfectly. the group's approach to parched rice refueling is definitely a paling that. i face like that. but too much time spent in a bar in new york's lower east side probably won't how come the start of the world's most marathon that's now just three weeks away it's time to try and get

rice ready. to. haul from our food. so we're going to make what was. a i. was. we have a rather here today i believe for the english he is running here to day and the very short time he will be running in get this and aren't. well. that's ok because i can tell. anyway we still wish him all the luck in the world

i'm about to start finding out if weeks of training have. to. leave. the. house. medieval western society was a feudal society so it took jail just to keep the lot above the law and assume most of pulp ended his speech some people stood up and said god will sit down and the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in their houses

and in. the crusades an arab perspective the sold one shot at this time on a. and hundred forty twelve on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's every western told was supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society they

impact is you typing on the net there's only so much we can take before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians an al-jazeera. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey russia and iran have failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that will drive syria's new constitution and pave the way for elections their foreign ministers were meeting in geneva they say they'll try to ensure the committee convenes in the next year the outgoing un special envoy for syria says isto much further to go before a credible and inclusive committee is established these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace or death visual treaty and a conference and everybody embraces each other it is actually

a process that may go on and on until all death and the hopefully in the best way for the very people the two constants in this conflict over differ a lot for years one there's never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shifts of what they're being the military events and the facts on the ground and a political position just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant there's always been the syrian people suffering. in other news u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border wall is trying to end a standoff over a federal spending and avoid a partial government shutdown by the end of the week. many mother unable to travel to the u.s. to see her dying son because of president trump's travel ban has received

a waiver shaima swirly is technically banned from entering the u.s. because of travel restrictions on mostly muslim countries her husband appealed to the state department to sign a waiver so she could see her son the two year old is on life support at a california hospital u.s. officials and representatives of the afghan taliban are meeting in the united arab emirates for three days of talks is for leave the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire and with a jar of foreign troops in the future and chinese phone manufacturer way has demanded the u.s. australia and other governments justify claims that the company is a security risk the firm's chief financial officer was arrested earlier this month in canada for allegedly evading u.s. sanctions on iran since then other governments have added further accusations you have to say with the headlines al-jazeera correspondents continues next stay with this.

this florida run is a small scale community event where the emphasis for those running either a short distance all the twenty one kilometer hof marathon like me is on farm but i'm also building up to the rather more serious business of my first full marathon which will be. a huge undertaking as far as i'm concerned but some would argue it's the sort of thing humans were born to do to distance running was key to our ancestors survival when our feats were only moves of transport. as a runner humans who were not good at running were left essentially in the evolutionary dust hunting was a very basic aspect of what our ancestors did you have to run to get the game and long distance running abilities are particularly effective that go on for a long time slowly and yet the game eventually where the animals down you'll need

a wide angle very. good and we have the luxury of not exercising working very little for food of eating things that are high fat and high sugar in abundance and i think that's very evolutionarily on natural. the way that i feel after an intense run is proof positive that something that we're engineered mentally and physically to do there is no other way to get that feeling that i've experienced but something about running taps into something so deep it's that the under a gathering days when you're in a pack hunting a wild animal i feel like this is a similar experience. mine less than i join form does might be wonder just how useful out of being to my tribe. but i do at least make it to the finish line hand . if. you're really. you know walpole from the from

the hot run seems to be pale it was actually quite enjoyable i guess was about to do now is twice the distance in a howling wind and in a freezing cold sock should be easy oh. my parents who were on holiday named boeing boeing do a great job of for the boosting my confidence levels in the hope that it is completely in my good for. the sponsor facilities there for you so you can collapse on itself. bill it is only a matter then you can stop thinking about this any time it's not. for your life i tried. a mother's melodrama aside my parents' concerns do look to have some statistical backing. so. got to be happy with that so you realize there's a sixty five year old man a fifty year old woman and a twelve year old boy that will run fast that i me so i still have it work sitting

next to. really all about enjoying yourself a little. bit. but not all races are as i'm about to find out. this is chilly atacama desert my final stop before the antarctic. a tough place to run would be hard to find it's the driest hot desert on earth it's also altitude so there's limited oxygen in the. moment think the obvious location for a mouth and. the guiding hand behind this expedition and the upcoming antarctic ice marathon is run richard donovan.

twelve he managed to get to and run a marathon on each of the world's seven continents in less than five days now he's organizing a marathon on a volcano and it's kind of counter-intuitive really in some ways you know bring people up to the truth where they're going to be gasping for oxygen as you know almost fifteen thousand feet trolling you know volcanoes one of them is active volcano and i just think that makes it attractive to people. it's such apparent lapses in human logic that night running fertile ground for philosophy and run a malk rowland's is a guy called bernard suits canadian flaws of a. who writes this question you know if suppose you could live in a utopia where everything that you could get through work you could now acquire through the push of a button what would you do how would you spend your time in tokyo and his answer that i think is right is that we would find ways of making things difficult for us

else you have this goal and there are various ways of achieving it and we choose a less than maximally efficient way we choose a difficult way of achieving it just so we can play the game. this volcano marathon is a case in point and altitude of four founds and five hundred meters looms over the start line that's not far off the heights of everest base camp. this event is less than a week before my antarctic rice so i'm aiming to complete three quarters of the cold . i'm hoping this race will provide a tough final test in extreme conditions to rapidly apparence the most brutal few

hours of my running life so far ahead of me. a shortage of oxygen and oversupply of sun sand hill climbs these are conditions that force everyone taking part to dig very deep i'm struggling to breathe struggling with the terrain the urge to stop increases with every stride you decide you decide whether to go on whether you can do this whether you can do it jonathan katz is a man who knows how i'm feeling he's a psychologist who also enjoys running not just marathons but eighty kilometer ultra marathons i think challenging yourself it has a very role ward quality i think there's

a feeling of being alive of of pushing yourself of of consolation seeing what you know what you can do that really gets you aware of your own kind of mental and physical being when you push yourself to extreme way. i think it's very hard to get that in other parts of your life. the internal discussions taking place in my head my mind for whatever reason ignoring the screaming appeals of my body. i carry on and do eventually hits the thirty kilometer targets i'm aiming for. and you look at a marathon runners mentality it's kind of like why are you doing this you know this is painful you know you might even get and you're you know running a little bit is healthy and running too much may or may not be so really points to this question of you know what what exactly is the mechanism by which people are going to continue doing something in spite of the pain i think what it largely is

that when and when you do that when you're in pain when you're experiencing adversity and you carry on through it it's such a great signal to yourself of success. all motivation must come from yourself and where you find it is another question sometimes you don't know what to do in the middle of the event you can be different from one of them to another. choose. any location such as these you actually enjoy doing while you're suffering and i think i'm also the most envious career in the world at the moment until i watch people suffering a year in advance and the end of everyone that thank you very. this is the hardest mark in our effort on it's part of the past because of that people talk about that's the toughest race i ever did that in the toughest thing i've ever done to upset or see others were doing what i did i was just it was headed. this wrong was

painful enough i'm now about to take on a full marathon and possibly even harsher conditions. on the southern city of chile is my jump off point for the heart sick. a final briefing before we fly provides a worrying warning of the freezing temperatures that awaits is what really shuts down first is the fingers and toes and you turn to go to a bit around the growing of spot so a model worth put out for a bit of murder or some sort of. there's a good amount of ation as any to doublecheck i have packed the right kids. so a lot of people ask me exactly what it is i'm going to be waiting to run this city rice in the antarctic on your feet pretty regular pair of running shoes extra grip on the bottom a fairly waterproof couple of layers of thick socks hopefully that will be enough

on the body it's just lots of thin layers and then a win proof out a shelf pretty cool piece of kit over here this is a face mask hopefully that will protect you from the cold wind but also allowed to breathe through these events here and then the most important thing. road testing some of that equipment is a practical step in my final preparations but just as important is the need to get mentally ready and possibly the greatest appeal running has for me is its ability to relax and focus my mind it's amazing how many times you can have you know it's beautiful things that you think the problems rolling around the end of the run everything actually becomes much clearer it was a very all my life while we was preparing to deliver in the olympic games we

call it auto pilot when you're intensity in the long jeopardy of the run as at a certain point there's something about the act of running that it's all stigmatizing and it allows me to. change my perspective on thoughts and ideas that i have and it gives me an ability to meditate on these things. in a much calmer clearer away. i've had plenty of time to meditate and was heading my way. of coming and run into the unknown has both concerned and captivated me. but after six months of training i feel i'm as ready as i'll ever be to take you know. it's a four and a half hour flight from arenas to the camp. and more than fifty other runners from twenty one different countries are about to find out exactly what it is we've let a selves in for you what normally recommend that somebody get in an environment

where they have to really train for it properly right it's not a set up for failure but it presents a problematic level. you have to really be made to not allowing yourself to go to the dark side you have to come to peace with the fact that they're going to be so many unknowns so you have to really open yourself up to the fact that you're going to experience many things that you can't even anticipate you don't want that piece to overwhelm you blind side so that you have to prepare yourself for that feeling of starting to get over well. not much can prepare you for the feeling of stepping into nature's deep freeze the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth minus ninety three degrees celsius was on this continent winds can hit three hundred kilometers per hour but for now conditions around the tents were staying in a relatively calm. so this is

a union which will be hung for the next few days and it's around here that i'll be running this marathon the south pole that is about one thousand kilometers in that direction we are in a place so remote even the penguins are both coming to visit surrounding news on all sides of the ellsworth mountains that's the highest mountain range in the antarctic should hopefully provide us with some protection from the high winds that can blow through here but i have to say at the moment the weather is being really kind so as i with all these layers on a much fitting quite warm. third everyone is making the weather window knowing it's unlikely to last long this is going to be something. and i can already. just be happy to finish my first marathon i didn't train for so that was a whole different type of tough but i don't think any comparison to the terrain the cold the wind i think it will be draining but it will be awesome when we finish and

know what we just did. the next morning brings rice and some proper weather the temperature is dropping and confidence levels. last night was absolutely sick my tent my his sleeping bags not quite big enough to cover his head and his head actually froze to the camp but it's about minus twenty now and the clouds are coming in. you know you're going to mark them in an unusual location so it's not just a conventional than you're attempting a marathon were other factors are going to come into play and that's the terrain and the environment you're running so you're actually doubling the effort involved in many respects. i guess the advice i would give is to approach it like an ultra marathon which is a distance longer than americans and very often the way people approach that is to

go off very slow managing your resources and if you think you're going just go slower still the best advice i would give you is. focus on the step in front of you and i said this really could tell you that you have a tough task ahead of you in those conditions especially. after months of training and imagining what this race would be like reality's now well and truly. the draining effect of the underfoot snow and ice is a maybe it's the strength is being pulled out of my body with every pace. one step is quite firm and the next step you feel like pulling on

a crevasse that's quite difficult and i could catch twenty two there i see. the frozen because you're going googles up your i start to free shop here one of the difficulties i'm starting to wonder whether or not i try to run in the desert was absolutely ideal preparation. in between a kilometer spent squinting through frozen goggles i have to remember to thank whatever chances i can to briefly defrost that's really hard. you know that in a lot of winter sports hockey and other things people sweat a lot but because they don't feel hot or they don't feel as tired as they do in hot weather they might now theel the need to drink water but i think that's when you need to be conscious about drinking water on a regular schedule be it a lack of fluids in my system or too much ice in my ollie's it's not so long before

i start to get somewhat confused. halfway off why i kind of pokes my growing after about eight miles which isn't great so that's the schools in the old wife knows you to sweep through the body which is delightful but it's kind of ok you expect the. but in the brief my was with my always on sold together it's so beautiful the landscape is so stunning it's just an inspiration you just got to keep going. as my physical state declines i have to fight to stay mentally positive running i try to remind myself normally makes me feel good and i have after all chosen to be here. with after five hours and thirty five kilometers though any sense of enjoyment has well and truly past. it's minus twenty five degrees celsius and there's ice growing out of my chin. i'm immersed in the sort of mental and physical conflict that consumes most mouth and

runners at some points every step is hurting and giving me plenty of reasons to stop but that same step is also taking me closer to the finish if you push yourself in a marathon under any conditions are going to a point where there's nothing more that you want to do than to stop when those thoughts happen it doesn't mean there's a problem it just means that this is taxing and it's easier to think about ways of freeing yourself from that which ultimately is just stopping sitting on the ground but if the goal is to continue then you really need to give those very little fought back to what's going to propel you to complete the race. can be a little pregnant here it's either you know you finish your. friend of mine said this to me during marathon training last year. i was going to give up at mile seventeen during a training run and the way he put it just for some reason me logical sense and that

was all i needed he said to me the decision to finish was made when you started running and. that's it there's no other acceptable outcome but to finish this road . it may not have been stylish quick but after six hours and twenty one minutes of forward motion the finish line doesn't last agree to corporates with my. it's. thank you. that's a very the end. of my word are accurate. i. and this race has been like a dot on the horizon for so long and so it should just be in the antarctic is

course syrians who actually finished the marathon i can't quite believe it. huge sense of elation a fair amount of pain. for just an overwhelming feeling of satisfaction. the race to hit the finish line in first i've done i don't know maybe a hundred fifty marathons in my life but nothing so beautiful with a race against yourself just to finish i would never do it. running has revealed itself to be that rarest of sports. whether rows are yours to write. for me and i made that and. if you had to leave what is your educational i don't know i think human being in general these are physical because be you finish these

five you want to go to engage and have more than you want to go. we only want to feel like we are flying that is a dream of if. you can't play a certain level of tennis if you don't have a certain skill set but you can run a marathon maybe very slow but willing to put a time and energy you can complete a good in a good. thank you there's very few things in the. world that you kind of old in that kind of way it's very difficult to find this all the time in your life things you do for their own sake and not for the sake of something else i think running has become that for many people a little corner of the allies we say right now i'm going to do this this just because i want to do it and for no other leads listen anything else you'd rather be doing those sort of moments reveal the kind of value that's. running gives you an opportunity to be zen like it's

a form of meditation very often because you can become so physically tired that you don't even have energy for thoughts at some point and everything empties out of your head except what matters and that's where you have your opinion. i don't think i ever got runner's high so to speak until i broke eight miles after that it was it was done i was never going to stop. before that running was a task now the task is waiting for the next rung i. constantly searching for that high that that feeling of euphoria is real and it has amazing effect on the quality of life. and it's something that everybody should try they should try to where they get to that point where they experience that because anybody that doesn't is really missing out on something that is right there for the taking. what i hadn't expected was this marathon becoming about so much more than getting fit that

running would get on the my skin so in completely. the training forwards and finishing it would push my body but more importantly my mind so places it had never been before now initially when i finished this run i was talking just have come through it in one pace but very quickly a sense of restlessness sets in almost depression as i started to question what i've just done. should i have trained harder would i be faster in the future. i realized then as many others have before me. finishing a race is and more often it's just a detour on the way to the next one.

hello again a welcome back well on the western coast united states as well as western coast of canada we've been seeing some very windy stormy conditions all so she with these systems coming and off the pacific now over the next few days we're going to see back to back storms so a storm a break another storm for much of that area and that means it is going to be very stormy along the coast winds are going to be a problem as well as snow in the higher elevations well as can be seen some rain coming into play as we go towards thursday down towards the south los angeles going to be twenty four but there across the southeast we're going to see another storm that is going to start to develop so by the end of the week

a lot of heavy winds and rain making their way up towards the eastern seaboard across much of the caribbean we are looking quite fine right now down towards the south a few showers but we do have this one follow boundary that's passing through parts of cuba that has brought some showers of the last couple of days we do think the rain is going to continue across much of the yucatan peninsula as we go through wednesday and into thursday windy conditions do develop down here towards central america we are looking quite nice for managua and with them to their about thirty one degrees and then very quickly across parts of what is it is things have been improving for you as a system makes its way towards the north but scattered showers and rain across your does you know we do expect to see a temperature there of about thirty degrees. day one of a new era in television news. this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder

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didn't come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the nightly part of took pics of the furniture. we can remember show the goodwill out of sarajevo holiday and hotels on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. fully back this is a news hour life from my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes three outside power brokers me to discuss syria's future but that talks ended with no agreement with a government shutdown looming u.s. president donald trump backs away from demands that congress fund his border wall home sold.