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she can keep a nice and high. and with a view you have, travelling around it works out very well. this is bbc news. cani the headlines: emmanuel macron has around it works out very well. can i dry it? called for a de—escalation of trade tensions — at an informal dinner ahead of sunday's g7 talks. leaders will also try to resolve differences over climate change and brexit. the european council president donald tusk says it may be the last chance to restore harmony among leading industrial nations. hundreds of new fires are raging across the amazon — according to official figures. more than 78,000 forest fires have been recorded in brazil so far this year — most in the amazon region. president jair bolsonaro has ordered the army in — after mounting international pressure. police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to try and disperse anti—government protesters in hong kong. copy that. perfect. officers are also said to have 0ver. charged at demonstrators with batons we are right in line with the jetty. outside a police station. we have made our whole round trip so we will pop up to the surface and head back to the dock. and it‘s all over. chief constables in england, wales and scotland will hold
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an emergency meeting next month after an alarming rise in violence against the police. in an unprecedented move, some say we know more the national police chiefs‘ council about the surface of the moon has called the crisis summit after pc andrew harper was killed during a spate of attacks on officers. than we do the bottom of the ocean. richard lister reports. what an opportunity this is to glimpse a world that so few blows whistle. people get a chance to see. a policeman‘s whistle marked the start of a minute's silence well, we‘re off to dubai now. for pc andrew harper, murdered in the line of duty. around the country, police not a place that always forces paused to reflect gets good press when it on a colleague lost. comes to sustainability. but they‘re making serious attempts pc harper was the first to redress that impression. policeman attacked and killed back injune, ade paid a visit in the uk since 2017, but assaults on officers are on the rise. to the most ginormous garden the latest figures show that you are ever likely to see in the year to march, that claims it takes there were almost 31,000 attacks sustainability very seriously. on police officers — heading through the entrance that's up almost a fifth on the year here at the miracle garden, before with at least 28 attacks three things immediately strike you. first, the smell, on officers every day. then it‘s the colour, and then, there‘s the scale. martin hewitt, the chair of the national police chiefs‘ council, says he'll convene
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a meeting of chief constables next month to see if there this place is enormous! is anything more they can do to improve police safety. since it opened on valentine‘s day back in 2013, almost 8 million people writing in the daily express, he said: have come to take a look around the miracle garden. and i‘m off to meet the man whose idea it all was. in pc harper's home town of wallingford, these ribbons acknowledge the thin where did you get your inspiration from? actually, my inspiration, first blue line working to keep us safe, but his death underlined the urgency of all, i am a landscaping engineer. to ensure police officers and since i was a child, are kept safe, too. always reading about richard lister, bbc news. heaven, paradise, now on bbc news — the travel show. and it is filled with flowers, so always this idea in my brain, and always when i see my kids playing, you know, games on screens, on tv, i always... it comes to my mind, really, i need something for people to go out. so this has inspired me to create something to take people outside, to take people to nature. and it‘s on such a grand scale!
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so many flowers here! how many flowers do you have in this park? we are always sustaining above 50 million flowers. 50 million flowers?! hello, and welcome to yes. the travel show with me, lucy hedges. this place must take a lot of water. this week, we're looking back at some of the amazing trips and awesome adventures we've had so far on the show this year. here is just a taste of what's coming up. where do you get it from and how do you keep it sustainable? actually, we are using the recycled water from dubai municipality, so all the grey water over the city, the municipality recycle it and pump you're actually no good to me it to us, and from our side here if you can't function we refilter this water and convert and you can't fight. ok, i'll do my best. it to very high—quality water. are you ready to go now? i am ready to go down. and what about your challenges? alright. what is the biggest this place is like the chelsea flower show challenge for you? on steroids. actually, the biggest there you go, run out, run out! challenge is just the wind. if we have strong wind, well, if if you enjoyed that then it is really our best challenge. stick around and relive some of our favourite we can‘t control it. we can control pests, moments with us. we can control irrigation, temperature, everything can be controlled
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but not the wind. we're kicking off with one of world's favourite tv shows, well, apart from this one, of course. game of thrones ended back in may, much to the disappointment of millions of fans all over this place is like the the world but its legacy lives on in northern ireland, as crystal found out last month. chelsea flower show on steroids. ok, so i have a confession — i am a giant game of thrones geek. and i'm super excited, because this place has to be top of the list for any true superfan. to finish off, i like to consider myself pretty sporty, but when it came to a ballgame welcome to castle ward, that‘s legendary in new york — and i‘m not talking about baseball — or to what many tv viewers i clearly had some things to learn. this is a bit embarrassing. will know as winterfell. and well, when in winterfell... music. arrrgh! if you come to the bronx evening my lady, in spring or summer, where do you hail from? there‘s a street called stickball boulevard where, from london. most sundays, emperors stickball london. league keep this tradition alive. and which house do you represent? ok, so far as i can tell, oh, i'm not sure i have a house. house of larwood. each player has three attempts house of larwood, never heard
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of them, sounds like something the night's watch would have dragged in. i believe you are here to serve the ball, one attempt to learn how to do archery. i need people to hunt or to fight. to hit it, if they miss 0k. the ball they‘re out. if they hit it it‘s about getting are you up to the task? i hope so. i hope so too, otherwise to first base, second there is a penalty. 0h. 0h, a beheading... base, et cetera. to keep the game going, that seems measured. the street is closed off to traffic. shouting. absolutely, because you are no good to me here at winterfell if you can't hunt and you can't fight. i will do my best. thank you. there is a lot of smack talk as well. in this series, no character is safe from a grisly end, a lot of smack talk. in fact, i‘ve been told smack talk so it never hurts to know accounts for 90% of the game. what you're doing with a bow and arrow. but there‘s also, you know, a lot of camaraderie. everyone‘s just having fun. select your arrows by the tip, it‘s just about a bunch of friends getting never by the feathers and never together, hanging out. further down the shaft. how did you get into it? 0k? think of it coming out of a quiver, three fingers on the drawing string we‘re all washed up and then draw back baseball players. that's a part of it. so that it brings to your right eye. the other thing is it's a tradition. stickball is a tradition that has loose! always happened in new york city. and lot of our parents kind all right. of like brought us into the game. i hit the actual thing! my family‘s been playing, your first arrow ever
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and you hit the target. 0k. archer ready. wow, over 50 yea rs. draw! hold... loose! i remember a young kid going to see look at that. my uncles play downtown. yes! that're really cool. well done you. what brought you into it? yeah! no. laughter. new york emperors stickball league was established in the mid—80s. so this place used to be we‘ve got approximately 100 a farm and yet now it's a huge tourist attraction. members playing stickball. how did that happen? we are where game of thrones started, so it's the perfect place one of the league‘s founders to start your journey, to go on and do some of was called steve mercado, the other sites that are around. yes, they have gone off to croatia, he was a fireman in engine company yes, they have gone off to iceland, yes, they have gone off 40, who died in the 9/11 attacks. to morocco and so on, and that's fine, but most it was his vision to just of it is shot here. try to push this event, and it has turned into what we now this league to — he always wanted it know as screen tourism, to be an 0lympian event. something we have never had before. yes we have the giant's causeway, so memorial day weekend we have a unesco world heritage site teams from california coming, we have teams from florida, and it is beautiful, and all that, 0rlando, miami, tampa, but people used to go we constantly try to uphold the vision for him. there and there alone, his two sons, as a matter of fact, and then they would take off. now they come to see many other play in a league now. parts of our province. crystal having an epic time in northern ireland but it‘s just a legacy exploring game of thrones country. up next, last month also marks we want to continue for him. the 50th anniversary of the apollo
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moon landings and we could not let the anniversary of this truly the power of some of these swings — momentous moment pass without marking it so we sent rajan you just, you can hear it. to the kennedy space center i don‘t know if i am going to hit it in florida to find out how it felt to be there back in 1969. that hard but i am going to give it my best shot. all right, let‘s go. come on. let‘s do it. just grab a stick. the exhibits here are authentic alrighty. there is one right there. 0k, all right. bit of encouragement there. all right. let it bounce once. space—ready vehicles that in the end step into the ball. 0k! laughter. i feel like the ball didn't make the journey into orbit, clipped the bat. including this command service module. and this is the centrepiece. i‘m going for a clean hit this time. a magnificent saturn v rocketjust all right, so this time you‘ve got like the one that went to the moon. now upright, it's taller to run to first base. all right. now they‘re going to talk trash though. than the statue of liberty, keep an eye on the ball. laughter. with 7.5 million lbs of thrust. now it's comprised of three stages, argh, don‘t say it! two of which were jettisoned before don‘t say it! the astronauts returned to the earth's atmosphere. 0k. just toss it out. it's incredible. that‘s good. there you go. run out! between 1967 and 1974, let go of your bat. 13 missions launched using a saturn v rocket, laughter. including the ten apollo trips. this is one of only three of these
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i think i‘m going to leave it rockets left in the world today. to the professionals. i need a bit more practice. i've got to say, all that wiring well, that‘s it for this week. and cabling, it looks really exposed and raw. catch us if you can next week but i guess it worked. when christa‘s off to scotland to take in some ancient buildings that are older than the pyramids. what do you think top speed is for the really this is a replica of a lunar accomplished curricle paddler? module for apollo 11. in charge of the engineering not much quicker than of the module was the aptly named charlie mars, and he says i'm going right now. the atmosphere was electric. don‘t forget, you can follow us on social media, we were in the operations where you can share your travel and control building at kennedy, stories with the rest of the world. it's where we made all until next time though, from me, lucy hedges, the vehicles and did our tests. and the rest of the travel show i can still remember to this day hearing the count from buzz aldrin, team, it‘s goodbye. hearing what was going on, so much fuel, move so far, and the complete silence. when "the eagle has landed" you could hear the sigh in the complete room, you could hear people take a breath. tranquillity base here. hello, there. the weather we had on saturday sets the tone for the rest of the weekend.
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"the eagle has landed" are words good news if you like sunshine and you like heat. that every schoolboy of the coming it was a beautiful day for the beach generation are going to have to learn and pass in cornwall on saturday. on to succeeding generations. i think there will be more the whole moon programme itself beach weather in places. was all a part of politics. temperatures on saturday you know? afternoon got close to 31 just west of london, what are we going to do to get away 29 in aberystwyth, making it from this disaster in cuba and what are we going to do the warmest august bank holiday weekend on record in about all this integration activity wales but in northern about the furore over there? scotland it was cooler we need something different for people to latch onto. well, let's go to the moon. because of some extra cloud. you can see that on mission control: oh, it's beautiful mike. the satellite picture. it really is. some rain for the far north—west. we came from all over the world, that will clear northwards. literally, you know, some of this cloud then filtering into this environment and we worked our tails off in over recent hours for as many years. into wales in the south—west. these western areas will generally to get to the moon in the decade, see some patches of cloud as we go you know, through the day on sunday. it required a lot further east, one or two of personal sacrifice. mist patches early on. john tribes says the astronauts knew they should tend to clear. they were going to be in the public more sunshine than we had during saturday across eye, but didn't quite realise how the north of scotland. much scrutiny there would be. shetland could see some extra clouds neil armstrong was a quiet guy but he always was a gentleman. rolling in through the afternoon. temperatures, 28 in glasgow, 32, he was always polite. possibly 33 across parts that's you and neil armstrong? of the south—east, and it will feel increasingly humid as well.
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yep. when you've spent 50 years of your life in the public eye, as we go through sunday night neil backed away. into the early hours of monday that he didn't want to sign anything, humidity could cause some areas he didn't want photos taken, of low cloud, mist and fog he just wanted to be private to form in western areas. person neil armstrong. at this museum in nearby titusville, some quite low visibility in parts consoles and various of the west as we go space mission memorabilia donated by astronauts and space workers into the first part of monday. are lovingly showcased. to the east, some clear spells with just the odd mist patch and temperatures of around 15 this week is very much degrees as we start the day. about honouring the achievements on monday, plenty of dry weather with some spells of sunshine. of the past, but at that early mist in the west, the kennedy space centre, one eye is firmly fixed some of which could take some time on producing astronauts and technicians for the future with hands—on training experiences to clear, and we can see this for younger visitors. frontal system getting they'll be needed. close to northern ireland and western scotland, we are in a real renaissance now. with some rain for the western isles, and turning cooler the nation is building three in the west by this stage capsules to return to the moon, but still in the high two of them are being built here. 20s up to the low 30s across parts of eastern england. we're building big rockets, things are changing as we head state—of—the—art satellite facilities, it's a good time. into the coming week. because the birthplace of american spaceflight is now reinventing itself as america's spaceport. through monday night into tuesday we could see some showers pushing eastwards. then a more meaningfulfront makes 0ur long—term vision is to make progress into the west.
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that will thicken the cloud central florida the gateway and parts of northern ireland to all of the economic activity and western scotland that's going to be occurring to see some rain. in the solar system over the chance of a shower elsewhere on tuesday, the next 50—100 years. which could be heavy and thundery. well, stay with us because still still the potential for some really to come, mike is on a mission to explore the great barrier reef. warm weather across eastern areas. wow! adi goes behind the scenes wherever you are across the uk, things will cool off as we head at a gigantic garden in dubai. deeper into the week. and i try my hand at an iconic some outbreaks of rain around at times, particularly street game in new york. across the north and west. there you go, run out, run out! funny how they never asked me back. let go of the bat! now, australia‘s great barrier reef must be on many travellers‘ bucket lists but is there a sustainable way to get to explore its fragile ecosystem? well, the designers behind an innovative new sub think they‘ve found the answer so a while back, we sent mike tojump on board and go for a dive. scuba—diving is an amazing way to see what‘s hiding underneath these waves,
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but if you can‘t scuba—dive, there are other ways you can do that too. you can snorkel, you can take a glass—bottomed boat, but there‘s a new kid in town. something quite exciting. this sub belongs to harvey. he‘s teamed up with a rideshare app and has been hiring it out for short trips. they‘re just getting it ready for us now. it‘s still not cheap though, at a$3,000 for two passengers. what an incredible thing. that‘s just over us$2,000 or about £1600. this is it, the submersible. but harvey thinks this is the future. now so many more people can get underwater. you‘ve got a ton of people that can‘t for various reasons. you have a ton of people who can‘t scu ba—dive. this gives people that ability to get underwater and explore and see what there is under the water. the submarine industry is still in its infancy. currently there are no other operators on this reef. many deep sea adventures in other parts of the world require you have very deep pockets. it‘s a small industry but it is growing and expanding. submarines are inherently expensive,
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the rides are fairly expensive, but it is changing and costs are coming down, price points, things like that. aquatica is working very hard to come to market with lower cost submersibles to be able to get more of them in operation. getting into the sub. this is usually the tricky... fun and games it might be, but in the safety briefing, you are under no illusions that this is a serious piece of kit. do listen closely to the staff. do inform us of any pre—existing health conditions. do bring your camera. you‘ve got your camera? check. i‘ve got my camera. don‘t wear excessive perfume. want to smell? welcome to bbc news. you smell great, we‘re good to go. i‘m reged ahmad. don‘t bring any matches or lighters. our top stories: hundreds of new fires rage in the amazon no. as international pressure mounts don‘t drink lots of on brazil‘s president fluids before you dive. over his environmental policies. no bathrooms! there is no toilet! ok, i think we‘re good then. if you wouldn‘t mind hopping on the scale for me. all smiles as borisjohnson arrives in biarritz for the g7 summit guess my weight. i‘m going to say 86. but tensions simmer over 85! dude! not bad. you win the prize. britain‘s exit from the eu. there you go, so if you wouldn‘t mind hopping on here. this is for trimming the submarine, we weigh all passengers,
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kind of like a helicopter ride. 86! i knew it. it‘s a tight squeeze in the three—man sub. hello and welcome to bbc news. it‘s actually a repurposed research vehicle and after these tourist trips it‘s off hundreds of new fires are raging to the british virgin islands in brazil‘s amazon region, to survey some of the damage according to official figures. left by hurricane irma. all right, are you ready to go down? i am ready to go down! brazilian troops have begun a major operation to put the fires here we go. we have just started the descent under the water to the great barrier reef. look at this. the water is slowly coming up and about to engulf us. ifeel a little bit nervous. the sub can dive to a maximum depth of 125 metres.
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we‘re just a few metres under the surface but there‘s still great marine life at these depths. in the coral. yeah, i believe those are chromis. and we have scissor tailed sergeants or something like that, the striped ones? golden damsel, those are the yellow guys. you're good at this game. i‘m getting really good. i got a chi chi. this is incredible. i can see how if you were a bit scared to scu ba—dive, or maybe you have claustrophobia... i was thinking it was going to be much more claustrophobic, but it‘s not. the acrylicjust opens it right up.
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