it makes me a happy man. >> jimmy: is that story about the halifax explosion. >> it is true.n the script my name was the explosion. i want to play what the halifax explosion. they didn't know. the largest man made explosion. a real thing ever before hiroshima, it blew the water out of halifax harbor, second largest water in the world. fish were reported flopping on the bottom. created a tsunami, 200 feet high. it wiped out, sadly, not, good for the comedy, but it's true. like 2,000 people died. >> jimmy: wow. 100 years ago. >> they're forgotten, so -- >> jimmy: 100 people. 2,000 people died. >> it could only have happened in canada. canadians are the nicest, the nicest people. >> jimmy: undoubtedly. >> how do you get. it was in the papers. dynamite ship on its way. everybody prepare for the dynamite ship. they managed to head on collision in the largest body of water only in canada. >> jimmy: a dynamite ship. >> and you just know it was two guys on deck, going, hey, i see a light over there, do you think that is a dynamite ship, eh. like, i don't know. looks like it's coming

judith moritz, bbc news, halifax.e, australia, with the home nations today picking up 13 medals. these are the current standings, with australia top, england second, and scotland and wales in fourth and ninth place. the other home teams, northern ireland, jersey, guernsey and the isle of man, have yet to get a medal. natalie pirks reports. land of my fathers sounds even better when it's sung with gusto. gareth evans was certainly giving it some. he carried the weight of a nation, as well as a total of 299 kilograms, to get wales off the mark with their first gold of the games. now we got the prize, so i'm just a bit overwhelmed, to be honest. i came here with one thing in mind, and that was a medal. not just any medal, but it was this big shiny gold one. in the 50 metre butterfly final was a man swimming in seven events at these games. announcer: chad le clos! the south african burst onto the scene in 2012, when he beat michael phelps to olympic gold. he was aiming for a record equalling 18 commonwealth medals, and ma

the visitors favor with something header in the sixty seventh minute the defeat means that heiko halifax men into face one point behind hoffenheim who now occupy the last champions league spot still got meanwhile already guaranteed another season in the bundesliga. and just a reminder now of the top story we're following for you us secretary of state mike pence mayor has met with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu just got the iran nuclear deal it's the second stop on a tool the u.s. middle east. and if you get you can always get the w. news on the go with our app get access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications on your phone to any breaking news you can also use to send us your photos and videos just download the app from google play all the access. this is the news from berlin plenty more coming up at the top of the outermost head to our website e.w. dot com on how to not free abandon against. women in fighting to hold the page to be taken seriously in the world of what has come out. come unstuck on t w they used to be bill superheroes on a m

particularly with the idea ofti peace talks he presented somebody like halifax but he had had enough of that actually but it seems each was necessary we didn't fight in 1938 because winning the battlear of britain but that was built in 193950% of government expenditure was armaments. so youin needed him not only for the rearmament but also for the moral sense that there was no alternative chamberlin had done what he wanted to do to show people spiritually there was no alternative too fighting and i think he could draw on his strength from chamberlin and we mentioned the wonderful eulogy churchill said upon his death and we zero a lot to both men but chamberlin did play his par part. >> on that note we will turn to the audience for questions. we have a microphone if you have a question and we will have just a few questions so there is time for you to buy books. [laughter] >> thank you very much mr. harris. you may have just answer the question that was in my h mind what is your ultimate verdict on chamberlin at munich? could he have done something more or better or different? and ther

. >> my name is elizabeth halifax visiting o ombudsman at st. luks i have witnesses first hand the anxiety this has generated for families and residents and i have been truly disappointed by the lack of -- shown by cpmc and their failure to develop trust and give reassurance to those affected in many many, many yeas working as a nurse, i have never witnessed this degree of lack of compassion. >> i had stated in the beginning that i have to leave at 12:30. i have another something that i have to leave and prepare for. i appreciate department of public health and director gar sey for preparing the report. we talked about the possibilities whether or not cpmc sutter healther were going to continue their subacute care and we came to the agreement along with h2j2 that it is a priority for the city of san francisco. we will continue to work with you. i have personally met with chinese hospital. i know that you have been working really har hard. e need to bring in kaiser and ucsf and continue to work with dr. browner and see if there is a way to find a

judith moritz, bbc news, halifax.he age of 60. his huge success in the 1980s helped the game to win a mass audience. eric bristow had a heart attack in liverpool last night. the crowd at a tournament there chanted his name when his death was announced. 0ur sports correspondent 0lly foster looks back at his life. # there's only one eric bristow!#. many of the thousands of darts fans who chanted his name last night had met eric bristowjust a few hours earlier in liverpool at a hospitality event, before he was suddenly taken ill. the crafty cockney was king of the oche, a poster boy who helped drag the sport out of the pubs and gave it public recognition. i think eric took it to a different level. i mean, i knew eric when he was 17 years old, we used to go round different pubs and clubs playing for money, in tournaments. he was a good darts player. cocky, really cocky. but that was eric, that was the way he came over. but he was quite good—eyed. the first of bristow‘s five world titles came in 1980. as rivalries with bob

judith moritz, bbc news, halifax.t was actually the warmest day of the year so far. temperatures got up to 17 degrees in london, but that isjust london. for most of us it was a bit fresher than that. here's the forecast for tonight. you can see a little rain reaching southwestern parts of england and southern wales by earlier saturday morning. rain in northwestern scotland, otherwise for most of us it is dry at least for a time, early saturday morning, then we are expecting some rain to go through bristol, cardiff, up to birmingham into manchester and across into newcastle as well. there will be a spell of rain moving across some of these western areas of the uk during the day. still managing to get up to around 16 or 17 in the south around the teams in the north and a quick look at the weather on sunday. similaragain. another spell of rain for a time across southwestern areas but i think for most of us there'll be a fair bit of dry weather around during the course of the weekend. we are here with all of the stories b

basically he was from halifax and he was visiting victoria and he has friends in the navy and they wereni. they sliced it up and put it in paper packages and lo and behold the suitcase was lost for a day, so by the time it arrived at the hotel, an iconic hotel in victoria. it is on postcards and is overlooking the harbour and it is quite posh and expensive. by the time it arrived at the hotel he was worried about whether or not it would be food safe, so he wanted to cool the pepperoni and lacking afraid he decided to, and again i am thinking that maybe in his 20s this would be something that he would first think about, he laid at the pepperoni on the windowsill and the adjacent table and the april cool air was supposed to act as a fridge. so he said he went out for a leisurely five—hour walk and he said that when he returned he opened the door and found about 40 seagulls in the room feasting on pepperoni. he said they had been there for hours, which was evidenced by the seagull poo all over the room. the room was com pletely over the room. the room was completely trashed one would imagi

saskatoon twenty below where it should be toronto fourteen below where it should be halifax nova scotia seven below where it should be so that cold air is really making its presence felt and with feeding cloud into in a way the place is not of course means rain wrapped returns to stow in canada and across the border in the u.s. in fact we've got yet more coming in here this it'll from here this system which caused a lot of rain in san francisco seventy national park closed as the weekend is going to bring more snow across the plains states and probably across illinois and eventually heading towards washington in the next two days something. so much for a while still had allowed to zero keeping kenya safe we'll look at why some believe a border war with somalia is the answer plus. i'm scott hi there in shanghai where one organization is teaching about the damage of plastics because the nearby yangtze river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans than any other river. and install stop drop and roll the wheels fall off for one driver at the latest in the car race. china's big brother i

and also news of house prices up 2. news of house prices up 2. last 12 months in wales, says the halifaxed to reach $70 billion by 2022. but it‘s an extremely niche industry. there are fewer perfumers in the world than there are astronauts. make a living from their noses. a veteran perfumer or "nose". and joins us now. we want ask him what it smells like in here! good to have you on the programme. programme. fragrances with you, how did you become a perfume? become a perfume? 15 year training so you have to learn the raw materials. learn the raw materials. you worked in france. in france. and london, and the rest as they say is history. is history. study if you end up no good at it so you take a risk. you take a risk. you have to know your nose! your nose! there are some things that you cannot teach people. cannot teach people. you write may not be what people want to read. want to read. in 2001 he launched your own company, quite a scary prospect. company, quite a scary prospect. —— you launched your own. you launched your own. that process and why you decided to do that. do that. now i

the men took me to see clients all over halifax, sheffield, manchester and liverpool, in hotels, or people'srnet has changed the off—street sex trade and made it much easierfor people to contact sex workers. for police, it means a growing challenge. we're now seeing a huge prevalence, across the whole of the uk come of pop—up brothels. there are over 50 adult services websites operating across the uk, offering more than 8500 unique adverts for sex workers and prostitutes every month. it's all across the uk, it's in large towns, large cities, but also market towns and rural settings as well. the all—party parliamentary group on prostitution has been investigating the growth of pop—up brothels. this is very much a trade that goes on in the shadows, and in the darkness. so, for that reason, i think it's important that we have really sensitive policing of brothel keeping. but also, actually, that the law changes as well. at the moment, it sends no clear signals about what we believe prostitution to be, where it is such an obvious area of risk. it needs politicians, as well as the police, to say