from the shores of the indian ocean to the foothills of the himalayas. the night on a bit old begins in may when the dry season comes to any. place. india's meteorological department in poona monitors the monsoons progress across the country hour by hour. in the lagoons of corona the water level is started to rise the danger mark for the inhabitants has not yet been reached. like all children in india is going back to school. in the western plains of maharashtra the monsoons life giving rain as income for three years man and beast are at the end of their tether. yet elsewhere the monsoon is particularly intense in mumbai and the situation is becoming critical the city is on high alert . in calcutta the monsoon started and then stopped. we are now waiting for the rain to return the snow shastri is a bookie his family comes from not just on indian say that ra just on his will bet on anything he's from the driest place in india but today he's calculating the odds of rain. you see i will be at the sky i live setting for that then i'll see her deal with it bu

yogas reach extended across the country these policemen practicing the sun salutations in the indian himalayasjust one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it are practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit. the word yoga means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together and. it's ago new zealand's prime minister. has given birth to her first child at a flurry of excitement in the country and a photo posted to her official facebook account she found well we just said she and her new daughter are doing well as into our dad is only the second elected world leader to give birth while in office a deputy will run the country for the next six weeks while she takes but times you leave. day eight of the football world cup in russia kicked off with an exciting group c. battle between denmark and australia it took the danes just seven minutes to take the lead it like. flew past the australian caper ten minutes before the break australia claimed to have the referee

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yogas reach extended across the country these policemen practicing the sun salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it are practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit. the word game means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together and. now it's a girl new zealand's prime minister just into arjun has given birth to her first child amid a flurry of excitement in the country in a photo posted to our official facebook account ardern thanked her well wishers and said she and her new daughter were doing well she is just the second elected world leader to give birth while in office her deputy will run the country for the next six weeks while arthur takes maternity leave. you're watching d.w. still to come the maker of mercedes benz cars issues a profit warning and blames that trade tensions with the u.s. . and that greece has a big debts but its economy is growing again can it stand on its own to two feet europe pass it

. >> a remote kingdom in the himalayas. >> it is sort of the story book enchanted kingdom in the himalayas have been to and, you know, few people know much about it. statistically claim to be very, very happy. >> what makes them so happy? >> maybe that they've been protected from the outside world. >> and as a father, you know, i know this takes a lot of the time away from you could be spending with your family. why do you do it? why do you do these shows? >> you know, i came back from a long trip about a year ago and went to my daughter and said, honey, you know, i'm tired. it really bothers me that i'm not spending more time with you. i'm really thinking maybe after this year, really thinking about giving it up. she burst into tears. she said, no, daddy, your job is so interesting. what do i tell my friends? >> every season with you is an adventure. it never gets old. thank you so much, tony. >> my pleasure. it was fun. >> tony was just 61 years old when he took his own life. if you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of self-harm, please call this number on your screen. it i

film follows its journey across india from the shores of the indian ocean to the foothills of the himalayas not on the night of an on a. saturday night and it all begins in may when the dry season comes to an end. the monsoon is coming you can feel the hot humid air blowing off the arabian sea. the monsoon makes its appearance every year in several regions between the two tropics the phenomenon is at its most extreme around the indian ocean where it has a huge impact on people's lives. our journey begins in the lagoons of karada at the southwest tip of india where we meet a twelve year old girl called aquino. i did to. my. gym minus equivocal or that they did to. to hang you back to put. down my. i act on saying it is. beautiful thank you. my name is second after such a name and we've never felt like there was a thought fanfan you. know you went when the rain comes what happens with this water cooler than it might have might have been one of our we would have that if we're going to remember. reading i'd be going to no matter what and yeah the body is going to end up i really am living that

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these policemen practicing their salutations in the indian himalayas from just one of 5000 yoga day events in india. across the globe, people honored a practice credited with balancing the body, mind, and spirit. the word "yoga" means to attach, to join, to yoke. today in india and elsewhere, this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together. brent: the famed guerrilla coco -- gorilla koko who mastered sign language has died at the age of 46 in california. the gorilla became the subject of press reports and books and tv shows ever learning more than 1000 words in american sign language. a scientist began teaching koko the start of a stanford university contest in 1974. the gorilla appeared in document is an featured on the cover of "national geographic" magazine twice. you are watching "dw news." after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. stick around. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] up another sideline young young he said that. as as usual and i might

here, officers from the indo—tibetan border police saluting in the frozen heights of the himalayas.s notjust india. this is disneyland in paris. a free yoga class for hundreds of people. even goofy had a go. in new york, the very epitome of intense and high—speed 2a hour a day living, a moment of calm transcendence. i love coming here, because i come to work and it's very chaotic. but today, when i come, i'm able to, like many people, find the quiet. it was a challenge, the juxtaposition of yoga and pollution and noise, but it made me feel even more centred. in rio dejaneiro, under the statue ofjesus christ, they meditated for peace. namaste, on a global scale. tim allman, bbc news. that main story again. america's first lady has met children separated from their parents at the mexican border, as her husband begins thejob of mexican border, as her husband begins the job of trying to reunite more than 2000 of them. it is far from clear how that will be done if it is even possible. efforts to pass a new immigration law have been postponed, it seems, until next week. much more on all t

here, officers saluting the sun in the frozen heights of the himalayas.litary mantras. and it was notjust india. this is disneyland in paris. a free yoga class for hundreds of people. even goofy had a go. in new york, the very epitome of intense and high—speed 2a hour a day living, a moment of calm transcendence. i love coming here. i come to work and it is very chaotic. but today, i am able to find the quiet like many people. it was a challenge, the juxtaposition of yoga and pollution and noise, but it made me feel even more centred. in rio dejaneiro, under the statue ofjesus christ, they meditated for peace. namaste on a global scale. tim allman, bbc news. that menus again, america's first lady has their children separated from their parents at the mexico border —— that menus again. more on the bbc news website. thank you for watching. hello. 0ur weather's warming up. i know that's not music to everyone's ears, but it is on its way. 21.3 celsius was thursday's top temperature, in hampshire, but for a time next week the hot spots will be getting closer t

yogas reach extended across the country these policemen practicing the sun salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it a practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit the word yoga means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together. or the famed gorilla coco to master sign language has died at the age of forty six in california the western lowland gorilla became the subject of press reports books and t.v. shows after learning more than a thousand words in american sign language animal psychologist penny patterson began teaching koko as part of a stanford university project in one thousand nine hundred seventy four the gorilla was featured in many documentaries and appeared on the cover of national geographic magazine twice. you're watching e.w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that. the much. more intriguing international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic

pregnant at the time and decides to leave the unit and he might go fly a private airline over the himalayas and a transition of the army, the japanese know about this, expecting them to attack after 4 july, i need volunteers to stay an additional two weeks. john volunteers for that. the last mission the flying tigers, emma gets that news and devastated by it, she has to return home throughout the long route of flights back, she finally comes back and there are huge parades on the flying tigers was i right about the flying tiger, no one offered her, she talks about how she was seen as a prostitute because she came back from the war pregnant and never got any acknowledgment. one of the things i was proud of was a chance to get her the appropriate acknowledgment. >> is the child still with us? >> the child is still with us and one of the fascinating things about this book is different families, semi professional basis, flying tiger -- i went to a house in california and he had every book you can find on the china burma india theater and spoke to her, and didn't engage with the story very much

reach extended across the country these policemen practicing their son salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it are practiced credited with balancing the body mind and spirit. the word gay means to attach to join to joke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together. ok we have some breaking news coming into us now of the turkish government has denied entry to a german election observer just days before the country's election. a politician from germany's left party was told today he would not be allowed to enter the country and we'll of course bring you more details on that story as they come in to us now moving on it is a girl new zealand's prime minister just cinda ardor and has given birth to her first child amid a flurry of excitement in the country in a photo posted to our official facebook account ardern thanked her well wishers and said she and her new daughter were doing well she's just a second elected world leader to give birth while in o

it is a journey many long to make to a holy cave high in the himalayas this is just the start of theyatra pilgrimage to worship the hindu god shiva. the track from base camp will take pilgrims more than three and a half thousand metres above sea level in indian administers kashmir the heavy rains and sludgy conditions had prevented people from making their ascent at several stop points but the poor weather hasn't dampened the spirits of those about to set out. security this year is tighter than ever with forty thousand troops deployed to protect the route of yours that i've been giving to the pilgrimage for the last twenty one years and it's the first time i've seen such measures taken by the government seventy forces of the road after every one hundred meters we see several daughter goes the extra security measures are being taken because pilgrims have been targeted because last year eight people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a police bunker and a checkpoint nearly all the victims were women the indian or thor she is blamed fighters from the group lashkar e tayyi

inspired by the mountain people of the himalayas the porters of the high tatars call themselves sherpas each year the high tatars sherpas competing to races the main event the one hundred kilogram race is held in spring in memory of a colleague who was killed in an avalanche an eighty kilogram race takes place in october to round off the summer season the defending champion in the one hundred kilogram supremely event is edward lip tack. yes and it was my have taken part ever since two thousand and nine and come first no less than five times. but this year just joe got a check hopes to win he's been runner up three times already and also came third once he has trained hard to make this his year i felt over the hour right now i feel good about it but it's about lasting the entire distance and after the winter you have to get used to the exertion again but that applies to everyone so the situation is the same for all of us you can watch it in the races over a distance of two point eight kilometers the runners climb a difference in altitude of three hundred metres it's an incredibly tough g

towards the himalayas but this pretty much wall to wall sunshine not too much going on that says around thirty six celsius in tehran forty three for baghdad a forty one there for kuwait city pleasant sunshine around that is the side of the med by rate of around thirty celsius similar values for jerusalem. as we go on to the latter half of the week there you go is pretty much dry or the waiting for that dry weather down across the robin peninsula. sunshine then forty two celsius not quite as hot as it has been recently i still plenty hot enough more clout there across southern parts of the peninsula of course we got the southwest mostly feeding a little more moisture to southern areas of yemen southern parts of i just catch your spot of rain but for most it's going to be try and set it down hard around forty one forty two that over the next couple of days hot and dry to across much of southern africa to see want to see showers around the southern cape may be pushing over to ward southern parts of mozambique but essentially it looks fine and sunny for central parts of africa the showers t

a remote, relatively rarely visited kingdom of myth and legend, high in the himalayas, known as "lande reasons it's not on the tourist trail is it's hard to get to. flying in, you hang onto your seat as the plane negotiates some alarming maneuvers through narrow mountain passes, before dropping into the country's only international airport, said by some to be the most dangerous in the world. located between india and tibet, bhutan, about the size of switzerland, is caught between the old world and the new. thimphu is bhutan's capitol and largest city. it has a rapidly growing population of 100,000 as bhutanese have begun the inevitable move away from a rural agrarian lifestyle. tourism was only allowed starting in the 1970s. the amount of foreign visitors each year is strictly limited to protect bhutan's culture and environment. there are no starbucks, no kfcs, no king or clown. basically, they don't want you to come here, at least en masse. >> darren: watch your head. >> anthony: yeah, right. wow. >> darren: what do you think of the altitude? how you feeling? >> anthony: i'm here bec

flying over the himalayas is not these his flight the world.cult for modern aircraft. it was really difficult for 1940's vintage aircraft. there is a big downdraft as you press the mountain. there was also a road. keeping the road open was one of the principal points of the war in the theater. you see a bit of our photograph here. these are called switchbacks. it is such a tall gray, you cannot just drive up the mountain. you go back and forth and back and forth. in mile could be seven miles driving, depending on how many tianjin had to return. -- how many times you had to turn. we have done a very good job at evoking it. what we have is the cbi escape map. a flyer would carry this. in any of these areas, he confined himself on the map. it is attaed as something of a blood chip. it is a ticket that the flyer would carry and hand it to the local villagers. flyer. allied chinese were our allies in world war ii. we have two when the subtly to young people, but to everyone. our relations with china seems so tenuous today. they are fighting alongsid

cost the kind of on a government brought to a new going to mean that the title of democracy in the himalayas meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo have been installed by the international community is to going. to. the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also house some oil after the pipeline was shelved john i believe who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. look at afghanistan at political risk is amazingly high there's a logic risk in the most arias moderate but the reward part is also moderate when you put all that together if that's why it's not an interesting investment opportunity for a large company. there are a geologist to argue that the country's petroleum resources are knowledge of them previously known. afghanistan has the best geology in that part of the world for both mineral resources and hydrocarbons that's pretty spectacular why are they so poor they've not been able for the valid those resources first they didn't know about them and then

they cost the kind of on government brought to a new government and the title of democracy in the himalayas met dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo have been installed by the international community is still going on. in the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also how some oil after the pipeline was shelved john i vote who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. look at afghanistan a political risk is amazingly high. but the reward is also moderate. together as. opportunity for. the two argued that the country's petroleum. previously known. as the geology in that part of the world for both mineral resources and hydrocarbons that's pretty spectacular. who are. those resources first. and then the past thirty years of war nobody's been able to do much. one afghan who tried to develop the country's oil resources and an early stage was king mohammed zahir shah. after thirty years in exile he returned a lot of afghanistan's history has been. came came when he was only

it is a journey many long to make to a holy cave in the himalayas this is just the start of the ominous yatra pilgrimage to worship the hindu god shiva. the track from base camp will take pilgrims more than three and a half thousand metres above sea level in indian administers kashmir the heavy rains and sludgy conditions had prevented people from making their ascent at several stop points but the poor weather hasn't dampened the spirits of those about to set out. security this year is tighter than ever with forty thousand troops deployed to protect the route your started giving to the pilgrimage for the last twenty one years and it's the first time i've seen such measures taken by the government seventy forces of the road after every one hundred meters we see sagarika ghose the extra security measures are being taken because pilgrims have been targeted because last year eight people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a police bunker and a checkpoint nearly all the victims were women the indian authorities blamed fighters from the group lashkar e tayyiba for the attack ka

they got the himalayas here, that get the soviet union there. mean expand beyond territory. let and on a point i note you end onok -- let's the character question, which i know you argue about quite a bit. we see over the course of donald trump's entry into the the trumphen administration, is a dferent ew from a loofonservatives on this question of character. conservatives made the argument when bill clinton was president, he was a man of poor character and his private behavior would affect the way he carries out his public duties. i do have a lot of conservatives making precisely the opposite case today. is it just at this point, anachronistic to worry about the character of our national leaders? i wouldn't say that at all. i don't know that anyone ever made the argument that we shouldn't worry about that character of our national leaders. >> do you worry about donald trump's character? >> no, i don't rebut a. >> is he a man of good character? >> i think he is a man of many virtues and his virtues are very apt to the situation we found ourselves in 2016 and find ourselves i

a remote kingdom in the himalayas. >> bhutan is sort of the storybook enchanted kingdom in the him alayaseople have been to and few people know much about it. they're statistically claimed to be very, very happy. >> what makes them so happy? >> maybe that they've been protected from the outside world. >> and as a father, i know, you know, this takes away a lot of the time that you could be spending a spending with your family. why do you do these shows? >> i came back from a long trip about a year ago, and i went to my daughter and i said, honey, i'm tired and it really bothers me that i'm not spending more time with you and aisle really thinki -- i'm really thinking about giving it up. she burst into tears. she said, no, daddy, your job is so interesting. what do i tell my friends? >> every season with you is an adventure. >> it's a mix. >> it never gets old. thank you so much, tony. >> my pleasure. it was fun. >> tony was just 61 years old when he took his own life. if you know someone who is struggling with thoughts of self-harm, please call the number on your screen. encourage them to

decide that they are going to leave the unit and he might fly for an airline flying supplies over the himalayas and it was a transition in the army were the japanese was attacking very heavily right after the 4th of july. they needed volunteers to stay for an additional two weeks and they recruit people and john volunteers for that. it's july 10, 1942 the last mission of the flying tigers. he is shot down and killed and they never find his body but emma gets that news and she is obviously devastated by it but she has to return home so through this long flight back she finally comes back and they are huge parades for the flying tigers. i write about in the book a one parade in iowa but no one ever honored her. she talks about how she was seen as a prostitute because she came back from the war pregnant. she never really got innate knowledge meant but one of the things that was part of this book was a chance to finally give her the up or predict knowledge meant. >> did she have a child and as the child still living? >> the child is still living in one of the fascinating things about the book you d

continues for the worse it gets the dees a little bit across the northern states but the far north and himalayacross china. another storm posted taiwan moving through. giving warm and wet weather here and a lot of heavy showers. following into the philippines. and i weigh southwards into oshawa get high—pressure debriefings dry. but there is a nasty area of low pressure bathroom parts of tasmania. —— battery parts. come the weekend the temperatures dip away and we will see snow even at lower levels. now it europe in the uk we have had the storm hector heading his way into scandinavia. some rain here but still warnings and wildfires as it's been so hot and wildfires as it's been so hot and so drive. we could see disruption from that storm here and also these thunderstorms across central and eastern areas. which could be triggered late in the day on friday for portico's match against spain in the world cup. there is a lesotho weather on the east. —— portugal match. after hector, quieter day here on friday but saturday looks quite unsettled and drierand but saturday looks quite unsettled and drier

i do a lot of things in the himalayas.pine climber with crampens and ice axes and typically carry the in adventure. >> no walk in the park. >> yes. >> how about you you are a rock climber specifically sport climber tell us about that. >> i mean, rock climbing is exactly what it sounds like. i scale vertical cliffs all different sizes, all over the world. and. >> you're a five-time u.s. champion zpla yes. >> what do you love about being up there just you and the rocks. >> i'm a goal oriented person. and i love the feeling of a challenge, and particularly something that makes me nervous or uncomfortable. something that makes me face fear and all of the emotions kind of make me feel more alive appear give me a purpose. >> the exile ration right. >> yes. >> what is the most harrowing challenge you've experienced. >> there have been many i would say. probably together we were onnmat was a 7-week trek true the jungle trying to climb an obscure pique peak in southeast asia. and had adventures up and down and basically surviving i

reach extended across the country these policemen practicing their sun salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it are practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit the word yoga means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together. all right maybe back in the downward dog in just a minute this estate a fix. a school exercise book filled with stories of war atrocities written by brave people who want justice a flea come in the financial was taken in donkey enough it's in an exercise for i don't find many other photos of being a little more abuse to rape women and girls who even goes to one wanted children. in forty five minutes on t.w. . puff the big booty you think is going to be bullshit if it. matches the scores. of two thousand eight hundred soccer world cup on t.w. news. time for an upgrade. hour about furniture that grows all by. a house with no roof. poor design highlights you can make yourself. tips and tri

states of india andindeed through the northern states of india and indeed into the eastern end of the himalayas of rain falling at several hundred millimetres of rainfalling in at several hundred millimetres of rain falling in the next four or five days. we have had another torrential downpour of rain as this great mass of cloud came to sit over average and on the southern shores of western africa. the rain just kept coming to the extent that the residents woke up on tuesday morning again to this sort of scene of devastation. cars, homes, businesses all flooded. no match for the force of that rain as it swept through the capital. we could see more torrential downpour is through some of the west african states through the next 26 hours or so. it may well be that he could beat nigeria and ghana's turn. be that he could beat nigeria and gha na's turn. temperatures be that he could beat nigeria and ghana's turn. temperatures across the northwestern quarter are really disappointing for the time of year. ten or 15 degrees or so below what we would expect in some locations. this weather front has work

elsewhere, central india is seeing the monsoon easing at the moment, still across the himalayas but wemassive cloud here is a hurricane button. it's giving flooding rains west of mexico, but it's heading towards the baja peninsula. towards the weekend, is likely to bring some rain with the likes of colorado and arizona, currently being struck by wildfires. so that will be welcome rain, but at the same time, that storm will be surrounded by strong and gusty winds as well. cool and breezy weather with some hills no still across british columbia and far northwest of the united states. some intense heat, storms further east. still very unsettled across the far north of south america, really quite cold even though we are in winter for the south across chile and argentina, and the return of more rain for southern parts of chile and argentina, some snow over the andes mountains here. stormy weather across the south and ease of australia. western queensland, after what has been a very wet few days for northern ireland, things are quieting a little bit, but we have more rain to come into the we

yogas reach extended across the country these policemen practicing the sun salutations in the indian himalayas just one of five thousand yoga day events in india. in myanmar to and across the globe people on it a practice credited with balancing the body mind and spirit. the word yoga means to attach to join to yoke and today in india and elsewhere this ancient discipline has certainly brought people together. you're watching g.w. is still to come sir simon rattle is passing on the baton that had conductor of the world famous berlin philharmonic look at prattles career and its future. world cup highlights all of that coming up in the next thirty minutes. but. it's close to toppling of the president. and triggered a civil war if you don't know the banana the united fruit company. this history of a u.s. corporation that determines the face of central america. unbeknown to us and republics. in forty five minutes. who do you think is going to be no joke. to measure the scores. of a team soccer world cup on t w news movement of the fighting for decades to be taken seriously in the world of war here

is into the top end of the bay of bangor, the northeastern states of india, bangladesh into the himalayasly smaller scale the total soon mount up with this from being so soon mount up with this from being so slow moving all the —— always an essential part japan to the tip of the korean peninsula into the heart of china through shanghai and back toward the southwestern quarter, an awful lot of rain at the start of the week, still pretty wet there and tha nkfully the week, still pretty wet there and thankfully things have dried out in the northern parts of vietnam where there were fatalities from flooding. for australia, not overly warm at the moment. if you always think of heat and sunshine, think again. there is sunshine to be had but 14, 15, 16 degrees there is sunshine to be had but 14, 15,16 degrees or so, 17 in sydney after a wet spell of whether their things drying out. the islands of new zealand, they will bathe and sunshine but as —— it is winter sun shines all as temperatures will he stop many of sunshine was to the british isles, again this moves toward the end of the week and al

much as catch one or two showers just around the caucuses maybe they are shouting over towards the himalayas but there's pretty much wall to wall sunshine not too much going on then says around thirty six celsius in tehran forty three for baghdad forty one there for kuwait city pleasant sunshine around that eastern side of the med by a rate of around thirty celsius similar values for jerusalem as we go on to the latter half of the week there you go it's pretty much dry or the waiting for that dry weather down across the robin peninsula. hot sunshine then forty two celsius not quite as hot as it has been recently still plenty hot enough more clout there across southern parts of the peninsula of course we've got the southwest monsoon feeding a little more moisture to sell in areas of yemen southern parts of i just can't feel spots of rain but for most it's going to be dry and sunny doha around forty one forty two that over the next couple of days out and try to across much of southern africa to see want to see showers around the southern cape may be pushing over towards southern parts of mozam

if you were to look at a graph, it looks like the himalayas, going up and down all the time and thatting something, a pretty flat line and that is a good thing. if you look historically, by 2009 if you look historically, by 2009 if you went from 2009 all the way back to 1948, you went from 2009 all the way back to 19118, you would see that on average across that period, it was 3.7%. we are now looking at 3.4% over this next period. it is a little under what the health service had over that period. that earlier period was distorted from the years between 2002— 2009 where there was a massive boost. before then, it probably is about what the health service used to get on an average basis. going forward, this isn't a bonanza by any means and the challenges ahead are very considerable. but it is a lot better than what we have been used to have the last few years. they differ talking to us, we appreciate it. —— thank you for talking to us. paul alexander was less than two years old when his mum put him in a stranger's arms and sent him from germany to britain. it was a decision which proba

on a group last year i'm ok with now it is a journey many long to make to a holy cave high in the himalayas this is just the start of the common and yet your pilgrimage to worship the hindu god shiva. the trek from base camp will take pilgrims more than three and a half thousand metres above sea level in indian administers kashmir the heavy rains and sludgy conditions had prevented people from making their ascent at several start points but the poor weather hasn't dampened the spirits of those about to set out. security this year is tighter than ever with forty thousand troops deployed to protect the route i've been giving to the pilgrimage for the last twenty one years and it's the first time i've seen such measures taken by the government so many forces of the road after every one hundred meters we see someone guarding us. the extra security measures are being taken because pilgrims happing targeted because last year eight people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a police bunker and a checkpoint nearly all the victims were women the indian authorities blamed fighters from

place across many of these northern and western states so to into the northwest of india into the himalayasywhere really around the top and seeing extraordinary amounts of rain over the next few days so we keep a close eye on those developments and many hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes around myanmar and bangladesh. an awful lot of rain coming from this particularly can get stuck in one position and that can do across japan and looked as though through the weekend it will be thereabouts across china as well. something drier to report as a come down to australia. certainly trying things out quite nicely in the syd ney area things out quite nicely in the sydney area and has been quite wet. coming in across australia and down towards tasmania. thinking about down in new zealand you can empathize how cold is that the moment and i contrast to the warm weather here they will turn west on sunday. very wet indeed why this area of low pressure has churned its way across much of eastern europe into the bog lands and down into greece. this is the scene in the little town just

middle a so much as catch want to shout just around the caucasus i would say i would suppose the himalayas but there's pretty much wall to wall sunshine not too much going on that says around thirty six celsius in tehran forty three for baghdad a forty one the full kuwait city pleasant sun side of the side of the med by rate at around thirty celsius similar value full jerusalem is fickle on to last a half off the wake the guy was pretty much drive all the way. follow that dry weather down across the writing peninsula. hot sunshine then forty two celsius not quite as hot as it has been recently still plenty hot enough more cloud there across southern parts of the peninsula of course we've got the southwest mostly feeding a little more moisture to sell in areas of yemen southern parts of just casual spots of rain but for most it's going to be dry and sunny doha around forty one forty two that over the next couple of days hot and dry to across much of southern africa to see want to see showers around the southern cape may be pushing over to ward southern parts of mozambique but essentially it

himalayas here. territory.immediate let's end on a point that i know we'll agree. and that's the character question. we've argued about quite a bit. >> yeah. one thingve seen over the donald trump's entry into the race and then the trump administration is a very a lot of view from conservatives on this question of character. argument ves made the when bill clinton was president, if he was a man of poor would affect the way that carries out his public duties. conservatives of making the opposite case today. not to make the case of the character orders? >> i don't know if anybody made the argument of worrying about character of our national leaders. >> do you rry about his character? >> i don't worry about it. a man with many virtueand many of the virtues were absolute apt and necessary the situation we found ourselves in 2016 and continue to find ourselves in now. on free trade.on he's essentially aligned himself on trade.ld west against party consensus. been vilified. takes the abuse of essentially domestically. >> he did it. courage.played he has displayed. >> do

the flowers are native to the himalayas and are considered to have great medicinal value as religiouss well but they're under pressure, rampant harvesting, apparently, they only grow at 14,000 feet really remarkable. >> very cool stuff, thank you. >>> let's get you a check on the markets right now. dow jones industrial average lower by about 147 points. it's a decline of 0.66%. the s&p 500 is also off by about 22 i said 12. i need new contacts. 12 points. melissa, over to you >>> the oil market closing for the day. let's get to jackie at the cnbc commodities desk >> crude prices sticking near $65 and $75 for wti and brepres brent respectively the members of peck can't agree so right now it's all speculation. if it's a half a million barrels a day, that's baked in if it's nothing because they can't agree or don't think they need to add anything back right now, you'll see prices recoup some of their losses remember, wti is down almost 9% in the last month alone on anticipation of this meeting >>> trade war fears very much on investors' finds, so where are the best opportunities for your