and we'll speak to scott donaldson, the first person ever to kayak, solo, from australia to new zealand. we start with breaking news from the us, scott pruitt has resigned from his position leading the environmental protection agency on thursday, following months of high—profile controversies regarding his spending, ethics, and management at the agency. reaction has been coming through. donald trump tweeted, "i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job, and i will always be thankful to him for this. the senate confirmed deputy at epa, andrew wheeler, will on monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the epa. i have no doubt that andy will continue on with our great and lasting epa agenda. we have made tremendous progress and the future of the epa is very bright!" now the trump administration is no stranger to a political scandal or two, but when it comes scott pruitt it's hard to keep up. this is a list of scott pruits indescretions. $105,000 on first—class fli

it took scott donaldson two months to make the 3,000 kilometre journey across the tasman sea, paddlingg a seatbelt in case it capsized. 0n the way he had to deal with both sharks and six metre waves. here he is speaking to the bbc after returning to dry land. there was one particular shark that was very interested in my rudder and we had a discussion for about half an hour, 40 minutes, he came in, went away very agitated, probably a bit lonely like me. nothing fragile out there lasts very long at all. the solo attachments got pounded. there is tons of water that smashed over that boat in the rough weather. you've got the whole range out there. you saw some amazing stuff and it was anywhere from a millpond, that didn't happen very often, to over six metres, i didn't measure it and some of the solar panels gave way. about four solar panels that got hammered off, basically. just wanted to take those down from affecting the rest of the solar but the integrity of the boat, it's carbon fibre, it's top grade, top—quality and really, and a coffin, it's about that size so it's just a case of pr

and we'll speak to scott donaldson, the first person ever to kayak,

it took scott donaldson two months to make the 3,000 kilometre journey across the tasman sea, paddling case it capsized. 0n the way he had to deal both sharks and six metre waves, here he is speaking to the bbc after returning to land. there was one particular shark that was very interested in my rudder and we had a discussion for about half an hour, a0 minutes, he came in, went away very agitated, probably a bit lonely like me. nothing fragile out there lasts very long at all. the solo attachments got pounded. there is tons of water that smashed over that boat in the rough weather. you've got the whole range out there. you saw some amazing stuff and it was anywhere from a millpond, that didn't happen very often, to over six metres, i didn't measure it and some of the solar panels gave way. about four solar panels that got hammered off, basically. just wanted to take those down from affecting the rest of the solar but the integrity of the boat, it's carbon fibre, its top grade, top—quality and really, and a coffin, it's about that size so it's just a case of practice, you get to spend

it took scott donaldson two months to make the 3,000km kilometre journey across the tasman sea, paddlingd. 0n the way he had to deal both sharks and six metre waves. here he is speaking to the bbc after returning to land. there was one particular shark that was very interested in my rudder and we had a discussion for about half an hour, 40 minutes, he came in, went away very agitated, probably a bit lonely like me. nothing fragile out there lasts very long at all. the solo attachments got pounded. there is tons of water that smashed over that boat in the rough weather. you've got the whole range out there. you saw some amazing stuff and it was anywhere from a millpond, that didn't happen very often, to over six metres, i didn't measure it and some of the solar panels gave way. about four solar panels that got hammered off, basically. just wanted to take those down from affecting the rest of the solar but the integrity of the boat, it's carbon fibre, it's top grade, top—quality and really, and a coffin, it's about that size so it's just a case of practice, you get to spend one night in th