anthony arendt. he's from the university of alaska in fairbanks, and he's one of the guys who designed the latest satellite imagery systems for nasa to understand the mass balance of this icefield. >> glaciers respond immediately to any changes in climate. their variations and their mass are determined directly by how much snows falls on them in the wintertime and how much ice and snow melts away due to warmer temperatures in the summertime. so by monitoring glacier variations, we can understand a lot about climate systems, and so they're one of the first sort of early hallmarks of climate change on the planet. >> dr. arendt helps create high-resolution computer models of glaciers like this one using data from satellites, airplanes, and deep snow pits like these to develop a clear picture of our future global climate. 95% of alaskan glaciers are melting at an unnatural and unprecedented pace. >> glaciers are really large contributors to changing sea levels. you want to be able to quantify how much wa

henry arendt also gets his place in the 33. a real mix of youth and experience. to the world cup in 2019 are back four years on. while there is depth in certain positions, in other there is pressure on a few individuals, namelyjamie george and billy vunipola at number eight. they have three more warm up games before their opening game on the 9th of september in marseille. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app or from our website — that's bbc.co.uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. welcome back. you're watching bbc news with me, frankie mccamley. lets head back to dorset now where the bbc understands that the first migrants have arrived on a barge off the south coast, with further arrivals expected today. i want to show you live pictures coming in to us. this is the barge — called the bibby stockholm — it'll be used to house up to 500 men while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. campaigners have expressed concern about conditions on board, but the government insists the vessel is

no, i don't think aristotle was any cleverer than arendt or bertrand russell or richard feynman.people that we recognize being very, very brainy, very clever, possibly very wise as well. but the difference is that those people had so much less know. i mean they only spoke greek possibly because he went to egypt might have spoken arabic there, had very little history to know was there was so little history before they existed very little in terms of written languages they knew very little only aristotle of those six traveled anywhere they certainly had no idea of the capital of south dakota. they didn't know the atomic weight of sodium. they didn't know, obviously, the originate is of the enlightenment, whereas our people, their minds are stuffed, all sorts of information. which one might, even though it's heretical perhaps to say so, might not be actually necessary to know how nice if you consider that there thinking about ethics, about knowledge, about happiness were conceived because each one of them was quite literally a tabula an empty slate on which they think deep and profo

the vital center daniel bell's the end of ideology and judith scars after utopia, as well as hannah arendt and adorno and some others as well, basically argued that utopian thinking had led to the urge to construct grand designs for the political future of mankind. no disclosure is gone the last vestiges. if faith required for such an enterprise have vanished. and these thinkers often mischaracterized mid-century radical pacifism, which is really the milieu i'm discussing here, in which cooperation, not domination was was the emphasis. indeed, most radical pacifists were deeply critical of the soviet union and among the first to speak out about the dangers of fascism. in addition, utopian have been part of a longer commentary tradition rather than a dominion in a state. and there is a very strong strand of anarchism among, these groups as well, which i'm happy to address. so new left in pre figurative political movements helped ameliorate these critiques. but of course comes with its own baggage as well so now i want to shift to these three categories i mentioned at the outset just to kind

so adam sowards begins by invoking henry david thoreau and the political philosopher hannah arendt. if it were possible to eavesdrop on a conversation between these two human beings i would give up a lot. adam invokes thoreau because he had a prescient idea that forests could be held for the common good and he invokes hannah's idea, or metaphor of a table as a place, a metaphor for the public sphere, a table being a place where citizens can gather and find something approaching common ground. adam will start with a short reading from the introduction that elaborates on the second metaphor. >> thank you. this will be a very short reading. this table metaphor guides us through the history of american public lands and helps us think about the public land as part of the democratic experiment that is the united states. it takes no great leap of insight to find faults and failures in meeting the promises of democracy when the nation is rooted in the disposition of indigenous land and enslavement of africans. the history of public lands include democratic shortcomings and exclusions just l

henry arendt also gets his place in the 33. a real mix of youth and experience.ayers who went to the world cup in 2019 are back four years on. while there is depth in certain positions, in other there is pressure on a few individuals, namelyjamie george and billy vunipola at number eight. they have three more warm up games before their opening game on the 9th of september in marseille. very much looking forward to that rugby world cup getting under way. everything else on the bbc sport website. everything else on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. more now on our main news this hour — the uk government's decision to house asylum seekers on a barge off the south coast of england. the first men to be housed on the vessel called the bibby stockholm began arriving on board today. ministers hope that up to 500 will follow to await decisions on their asylum applications. but campaigners have raised concerns about the conditions on the barge — and it's believed that some asylum seekers have had their transfers cancelled after legal interventions. w

think of henry kissinger madeleine albright the german political theorist hannah arendt they have played a key role but there are others they've played a cube role in shaping our political life. they've shaped our cultural life think of the actress, marlena dietrich. the hungarian composer bella bartok the austrian composer arnold stormberg and the russian french painter mark sagal but there are many many other refugees that we could highlight refugees have always played an important role in the political economic and cultural life of our nation. but public opinion polls tell us that americans were very concerned about accommodating refugees. no matter how noble the cause no matter how noble the individual. in 1980 congress passed the refugee act and response to what they perceive to be the continuing misuse of the parole authority on the part of the executive branch in service of cold war foreign policy. and the 1980 refugee act tried to free the definition of refugee from its anti-communist connotations and instead they adopted the un definition of refugee. can anyone tell me the five

henry arendt also gets his place in the 33. a real mix of youth and experience.fore their opening game on the 9th of september in marseille. that all gets under way in about a month's time. you can download the bbc sport app to your mobile or tablet. but that is all your sport for now. hello there. temperatures are set to rise over the next few days. there's a drier and warmer spell of weather on the way, although it may not last all that long, as i'll show you injust a moment. this is what's going on right now. we've got quite a potent area of low pressure swirling across northern europe. that is bringing some very heavy rain and some gales, but that is going to get close enough to shetland to strengthen the winds here. the winds starting to pick up here actually as we go through the night. elsewhere, the winds will be lighter. we'll see some clear spells, the odd shower and this zone of cloud rolling in from the west affecting parts of wales and south—west england. some bits and pieces of rain, some mist and murk by morning, turning a little more muggy and humi

prissy idea that forest could i be held in common for the public good and then he invokes hannah arendt idea, her metaphor of the table as a place, as a metaphor for the public sphere, a table being a place where citizens can gather and find something approaching common ground. and i think adam will start with a short written for the introduction of an elaborate on that second metaphor. >> thank you, michelle. this will be a fairly short reading. this table metaphor works to guide us through the history of american public lands, and it helps us think about the public lands as part of the democratic experiment that is the united states. it takes no great leap of insight to find faults and failures in meeting the promises of democracy for the nation is rooted in the dispossession of indigenous land and the enslavement of africans. the history of public lands include democratic shortcomings and exclusions, just like every other part of euros political history. that is partly why think about public lands as an element of the democratic experiment is helpful. because we can see who defined t

you you might not expect he invokes both henry david thoreau and the political philosopher hannah arendt and i know if i it were possible to eavesdrop on a conversation between those two human beings, i would give up a lot in order to do so adam and folks thoreau because the row had a very precient idea that that forest could be held in in common for the public good and then he invokes hannah or rents idea her metaphor of a table as a place as as a metaphor for the the public sphere a table being a place where citizens can gather and and find thing approaching common ground and i think adam will start with a short reading from the introduction that on that second metaphor. thank you, michelle. this will be a fairly short reading. this table metaphor works to guide us through the history of american public lands. and it helps us think about the public lands as part of the democratic experiment. that is the united states. it takes no great leap of insight to find faults and failures in meeting the promises of democracy for the nation is rooted in the dispossession of indigenous land and th