i try a balloon festival like no other in the swiss alps.hing quite magical about being up here. switzerland isn't short of an impressive train ride or two. offering views of the snow—capped alps, the latest is the goldenpass express. and it's got a surprising secret. i'm travelling between interlaken and montreux, and it's fair to say the main drawcard of this journey is what's outside the window — these absolutely spectacular mountain views. but this train itself is actually really interesting and it's all to do with — this is technical, so bear with me — the rail gauges. that's the distance between the rails. in 1916, this awe—inspiring route was completed, connecting montreux on lake geneva to the vibrant city of lucerne. travellers could ride in style through the beautiful bernese alps and witness some of the most stunning scenery in the world. but for years, passengers had to get off and change trains mid—journey to accommodate for when the rail gauges change — notjust to a different width, but also a different height. but now, travell

i try a balloon festival like no other in the swiss alps.hing quite magical about being up here. switzerland isn't short of an impressive train ride or two. offering views of the snow—capped alps, the latest is the goldenpass express. and it's got a surprising secret. i'm travelling between interlaken and montreux, and it's fair to say the main drawcard of this journey is what's outside the window — these absolutely spectacular mountain views. but this train itself is actually really interesting and it's all to do with — this is technical, so bear with me — the rail gauges. that's the distance between the rails. in 1916, this awe—inspiring route was completed, connecting montreux on lake geneva to the vibrant city of lucerne. travellers could ride in style through the beautiful bernese alps and witness some of the most stunning scenery in the world. but for years, passengers had to get off and change trains mid—journey to accommodate for when the rail gauges change — notjust to a different width, but also a different height. but now, travell

then on the glacier express, will saver on board cuisine and the scenery of the swiss alps. so enjoy the ride, happy travel. ah, this steam locomotive has made hollywood history, appearing on millions of screens across the world. and today i get to write it. hi there. today i'm back in my home country travelling through the scottish highlands on the jacobite seemed right. the round trip is described as one of the greatest railway journeys in the world, but it's probably most well known for its rule as the whole courts express in the harry potter. maybe that's right. these very carriages took harry ron and her money from platform 9 and 3 quarters all the way to hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. in real life, the jacobite steam train travels a 135 kilometer along the west coast of the scottish highlands. before our round trip starts in fort william bennett, crosses the glenfield by a duct before ending up in the lake. a traditional fishing time, bend the train heads back to fort william lick. i am sitting in this exact train here, and here is a description of the hog

i've been promised our 8 hour long trip through the swiss alps begins and sent more. it's continues through core and matt and break and ends in their mat. the route connects to ski resort towns often viewed as the winter playgrounds of the rich and famous big glacier express calls itself the world's slowest, fast re averaging just 38 kilometers an hour. it passes through $91.00 tunnels and crosses at $291.00 bridges, including the land, faster viaduct, a unesco world heritage site. the train is making a somewhat longer stop to switch engine. so i'm going to see if i can have a quick chat with the train driver palo when that hello. can you tell me right about what it's like to actually drive a train like this on a snow? it's quite challenging. you need to have good concentration and an overview of the root all as well as know the mountains and where the dangerous parts are available . i hurry back on to the train just in time for lunch. the glacier express prepares all of its food on board in this tiny kitchen. it offers a 3 course meal of traditional swift cuisine tha

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.ing quite magical about being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello. wednesday brought big weather contrasts across the uk. southern parts were calm and tranquil with light winds, early fog clearing to sunny spells. further north, as you can see here, it was a different story, strong winds, rough seas, cloud and outbreaks of rain. this beautiful satellite picture from wednesday tells the story nicely, this strip of bright white cloud a weather front which has been weakening as it's been sinking southwards, so by thursday morning, there is very little left on this weather front. a band of cloud, maybe the odd spot of rain clearing southern parts. and then we see some spells of sunshine, but northern ireland will have some showers, scotland certainly seeing some showers, and these wil

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.ite magical about being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello. there are two parts of our weekend weather story. the first part, a rather cloudy and mild weather for saturday. the second part of the weekend bringing some chillier but brighter conditions with lots of sunshine on sunday. but saturday starting off with extensive cloud cover, the odd spot of drizzle, the cloud breaking a little to give sunny spells across england and wales. northern ireland and scotland will see this band of rain pushing southeastwards with brighter skies eventually following behind. but also some colder airfollowing behind. and as we go through saturday night, a band of cloud and increasingly patchy rain sinks southwards, more and more of us getting into that colder air so a touch of frost in places to

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.t being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello again. i'm sure you noticed the big change in weather pattern we had over the course of the weekend. saturday, the uk was underneath this area of cloud, not much sunshine around at all, whereas on sunday, we had much sunnier weather, particularly across england, wales, northern ireland and at times parts of scotland as well. now, with those sunnier conditions came quite a drop in temperatures. take kinloss in northern scotland — here on saturday, we had temperatures up to 12, but sunday, it's about four degrees cooler. now, high pressure is dominating the weather picture. that's what's actually brought the sunny weather during sunday. and that high pressure is still with us as we head into monday as well. now, with that comes a sharp fro

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps. about being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello. for the second part of the weekend, there will be a change in the feel of the weather. for most of us, we have said goodbye to the atlantic mild but cloudy weather that we've had for the past few days, and we have introduced through the night some much colder weather, and a strong ridge of high pressure. so it will be a frosty start on sunday, particularly across from southern england northwards, and there will still be a keen north wind blowing into yorkshire, lincolnshire, east anglia and the south—east. just making it feel chillier here. but i think, away from that breeze, with some sunshine and light winds, it will actually feel quite pleasant for early february. we did pick up a little bit more cloud, and the breeze starts to

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.cal about being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello there. this weekend's weather is certainly going to be a tale of two halves. part one of the weekend, rather cloudy and mild, limited brightness around, but by sunday, it's going to turn chillier and largely sunny as high pressure topples in right across the uk. so today we're in this wedge of milder air for one more day before the colder air starts to move in behind this weather front, introducing outbreaks of rain to the north and west of scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon period. some dry and bright weather towards the south and east of scotland for a while. but i think, for most of england and wales, we're staying dry. a lot of cloud around, limited brightness, some of the best of it towards eastern areas. on

as a group of research as in switzerland is observing. nighttime over lake geneva high up in the swiss alps on the coltish a mom mountain pass. leo, now marie is on his way to his nets. he catches migratory birds for research purposes. when he founded this bird watching center 30 years ago, when he was still a student to the, the next or 9 to 20 meters high, the tallest than switzerland. still we catch just the small fraction of the passing birds may be warned out of every 1000 or 10000, depending on the species with both. though the wind conditions aren't ideal, molly checks the nets and finds a surprise. up there a bag that's a bit unexpected. so late in the fall, most bats don't migrate, but rather seek shelter at higher altitudes in winter. about 20 bad species can be found here at the cold as a mom pass. mama, he has been observing them for a while and has seen their numbers fall over the years. intensive agriculture is threatening their food supply little so we thought that is the local, the bats are protected, but they've suffered a lot due to pesticides which have greatly reduce the

as a group of researchers in switzerland is observing. nighttime over lake geneva high up in the swiss alps on the coltish a mom mountain pass. leo, now marie is on his way to his nets. he catches migratory birds for research purposes. when he founded this bird watching center 30 years ago, when he was still a student to the, the next or 9 to 20 meters high, the tallest than switzerland. still we catch just the small fraction of the passing birds may be warned out of every 1000 or 10000. depending on the species hospice. though the wind conditions aren't ideal, molly checks the nets and finds a surprise. up there a bag that's a bit unexpected. so late in the fall, most baths don't migrate, but rather seek shelter at higher altitudes in winter. about 20 bat species can be found here at the cold as a mom pass. momo, he has been observing them for a while and has seen their numbers fall over the years. intensive agriculture is threatening their food supply little so we thought that is the local, the bats are protected, but they've suffered a lot due to pesticides which have greatly reduced the

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.ut being up here. but don't forget, until then, you can find a whole load of other amazing travel content from the bbc online by using the tags on your screen right now. until then, from me and the rest of the team here in cambridge, it's goodbye. hello. the second half of the weekend is set to be the brighter half of the weekend. after a saturday that brought mainly grey skies overhead, sunday promises more in the way of sunshine but a slightly chillier feel. high pressure building strongly across the uk, keeping the vast majority dry with those lengthy sunny spells. this cold front has been slipping southwards and that's been introducing colder air, so quite a few places starting sunday morning around freezing. a little bit milder down towards the south of england, where we're closest to this area of cloud first thing, but that will be clearing away quickly and then, as you can see, there will be lengthy spells of sunshine. one thing you can't really see clearly here is some high clo

the leftist akel party. 10 people have been killed in several avalanches across the austrian and swiss alps, china and germany were among the dead at several different ski resorts. austrian authorities put in place a level four avalanche alert — the second highest — following intense snowfall and wind in the area. in ukraine there are reports that the country's defence minister oleskii reznikov will be dismissed and replaced with the head of military intelligence. reznikov, a loyal ally of president zelensky, is expected to be moved to a different post, with ministry ofjustice named as a possible appointment. in recent weeks ukraine's defence ministry has been embroiled in a corruption scandal over an army food contract, with one of deputy ministers fired and named a suspect, and another resigning voluntarily. mr reznikov became defence minister several months before the invasion. during the war he fostered relationships with western defence officials and helped oversee the receipt of billions of dollars of military assistance. we've been speaking to the bbc�*s former defence and diplomatic

these slots that come via satellites from these sites, which are specially calculated there in the swiss alpsbusiness to live in geneva, preserving their health and life and good mood, and sometimes they have to do this for several months. the fact is that complex discrepancies always cause a person to talk about a certain feeling of fear. and not even that fear , as you said there, panic horror, because it is necessary to prepare for this, and when we come to the mountains, we first make a training climbing is so customary in order to gradually adapt, because here this fear and cowardice before, is it me a huge wall there or is it a huge mountain that causes unconditional awe among climbers who, let's say, have not been in cities for a long time. yes, that is, he is in the process of this preparation, he gradually begins to believe in his own strength, that i believe more strongly and strength, and already by the final stage, when it was being done, a false heavy divergence. you do them , let's say, without this spaniard without panic attacks without anything. i mean, pretty much everything

ten people have been killed in several avalanches across the austrian and swiss alps over the weekendng the dead at several different ski resorts. austrian authorities put in place a level four avalanche alert — the second highest — following intense snowfall and wind in the area. to iran now, where its supreme leader is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. ayatollah khamenei's move comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979 — a date on which an amnesty is often given to prisoners. though the country's state media says the pardons exclude people facing charges of spying forforeign agencies, murder or the destrusction of state property. with us now is our news reporter azadeh moshiri. talk reporter azadeh moshiri. us through what more do know talk us through what more do we know about these pardons? it is not unusual _ know about these pardons? it is not unusual for _ know about these pardons? it 3 not unusual for these pardons in a large number to be issued around the time of the annivers

ten people have been killed in several avalanches across the austrian and swiss alps over the weekendnt ski resorts. austrian authorities put in place a level 4 avalanche alert, the second highest, following intense snowfall and wind in the area. the body of former president of pakistan, pervez musharraf, will be flown back from the uae to pakistan, on a specially chartered flight, following his death on sunday. general musharraf took power in a coup in 1999, and ruled for nine years. following the events of 9/11, he supported the us in its war on terror. his loss of popularity and power saw him spend most of his remaining years in exile. our islamabad correspondent caroline davies looks back at his life. as his troops clambered over the fences of pakistani state tv, general pervez musharraf announced pakistan needed the army, not politicians to be in control. your armed forces have never and shall never let you down, inshallah. musharraf portrayed himself as a liberal, disliking the term "military dictator". when 9/11 happened and the war on terror began, he publicly declared he was

ten people have been killed in several avalanches across the austrian and swiss alps over the weekendresorts. austrian authorities put in place a level four avalanche alert — the second highest — following intense snowfall and wind in the area. they called it the black summer, when a series of huge bushfires swept across vast parts of australia. millions of hectares of land were destroyed and more than 30 people died. an unknown number of animals also lost their lives. now conservationists are trying to boost wildlife numbers, as the bbc�*s tim allman explains. they are one of australia's most iconic symbols. the koala is beloved, but it is also in serious danger. here, at a wildlife centre on the slightly inappropriately named kangaroo island, they are trying to do something about that, although finding and looking after these animals is easier said than done. it can be used, transfusion sets, a long net. we usually have two cages on here. we put that on the road. the bushfires of late 2019 and early 2020 were truly devastating. koalas were already listed as a vulnerable species befo

these slots that come via satellites to these sites that are specially calculated there in the swiss alpsning their health and life and good mood, and sometimes you have to do this for several months. the fact is that complex discrepancies always cause a person to talk about a certain feeling of fear. and not even that fear, as you said there panic horror, because it is necessary to prepare for this, and when we come to the mountains, we first make a training ascension in such a way that it is customary to gradually adapt, because this is our fear and cowardice before uh. well, am i a huge wall there or is it a huge mountain that causes unconditional awe among climbers who, let's say, have not been in cities for a long time. yes, that is, he is in the process of this preparation, he gradually begins to believe in his own strength, that i have stronger faith and strength, and already by the final stage when it is done, a false heavy discrepancy. you fulfill them, let's say, without this spaniards of helplessness. and so without anything, that is, everything happens pretty. naturally. this

reports that come through satellites on these sites, which are specially calculated there in the swiss alpsn geneva, they consider these models. they will heal, preserving their health and life and good mood, as it were, and it is necessary. this can sometimes take several months. the fact is that a difficult ascent always causes a certain feeling of fear in a person, so that they speak a certain feeling of fear. and not even that fear, as you said there, panic horror, because it is necessary to prepare for this, and we, when we come to the mountains, we first make a training climbing is so customary in order to gradually adapt, because here is this fear and cowardice before uh. well, am i a huge wall there or is it a huge mountain that causes unconditional awe among climbers who, let's say, have not been in cities for a long time. yes, that is, he is in the process of this preparation, he gradually begins to believe in his own strength, that i believe more strongly and strength, and by the final stage, when it is done, a false heavy divergence. you fulfill them let's just say without this,

..i try a balloon festival like no other in the swiss alps. absolutely spectacular mountain views. but this train itself is actually really interesting and it's all to do with... technical, so bear with me. ..the rail gauges. that's the distance between the rails. in 1916, this awe—inspiring route was completed connecting montreux on lake geneva to the vibrant city of lucerne. travellers could ride in style through the beautiful bernese alps and witness some of the most stunning scenery in the world. but for years, passengers had to get off and change trains mid—journey to accommodate for when the rail gauges change, notjust to a different width but also a different height. but now, travellers can make the entire journey on just one train, thanks to some clever engineering. what can i see here? that's the gauge changing installation. this is the point where... this is the point. ok! this is where the magic happens. so we go from a wider gauge. the weight of the carriages are taken on small wheels on the side of the carriages and that allows th

folks, i spend most of my time roaming the swiss news alps, herding the day's finest simmen-tall storytopical cuts which i pair with a reduction of shallot and barrel-aged portuguese wine to serve you the madeira-dijon tenderloin that is my monologue. but sometimes i am hosed awake behind a condemned retirement home, grab a fistful of discarded lunch meats, toss them into a busted blender with crushed-up pepto bismol then pour the slurry into an old baby sock to offer you the trick-inella-tainted drifter sausage of news that is my segment, "meanwhile." it's pure, clean energy is what it is. meanwhile, amid a student housing shortage, california state polytechnic university at humboldt is considering putting students on a barge. though it's possible that that classwork could be affected by housing students on a barge. "professor, sorry my paper was late. my dorm had to run a load of bauxite to singapore." meanwhile, in theaters this weekend, cocaine bear's box office came dangerously close to taking number one. while in my front yard this weekend, once again, meth raccoon came dangerous

and she heads to a hot—air balloon festival with a unique view of the swiss alps.morning. welcome to breakfast, with sarah campbell and rogerjohnson. our headlines today: energy companies have until tuesday to decide what action they will take for customers who have had prepayment meters wrongfully installed. a key witness has come forward in the search for missing nicola bulley, as police warn against speculation and abuse online. the head of the uk's biggest nursing union tells the prime minister to make a new pay offer and avert next week's strikes in england. what a start to rugby union's six nations championship, as a superb scotland get the better of england in a calcutta cup thriller at twickenham. and the wait is almost over. the finale of happy valley will air tonight. we set the scene with a visit to west yorkshire. hello there. good morning. after a cloudy saturday and sunday it is looking a lot drier and brighter. plenty of sunshine across the board. high pressure last since to this upcoming week, but there are some caveats to that. during the later for

swiss italian border. from here an international team of researchers embarked on an ice memory mission there on a mission to locate the oldest ice in the alps. that will mean drilling deep into the icy sheets of the grants, glacier, glacier. 10010000 year old ice environmental chemist, margaret macowski is happy with her findings. now these core samples where we analyzed, we meet the scientist at an international glacier research conference over the subject of the conferences, ice cor, drilling, and what they can learn about the history of the climate from extract had samples. second, i couldn't remember. here is internet to edi i gallagher on north touch, mid thought. perfectly situated hurts to make observations about environmental pollution caused by industrialization wasn't any measures that had proven successful and keeping the air clean off left in the after the young. we began measuring abil pollutants on the 1980s when they were at their modern let, are now with information we've gathered from the glacier. we can see how they've increased since 1870, which was when we began to use fossil fuels. now we can see that while some polluta

swiss italian border. from here an international team of researchers in box on an ice memory mission. there on a mission to locate the oldest ice in the alps. that will mean drilling deep into the icy sheets of the grants clutch or glacier. 10000 or 10000 year old ice environmental chemist mortgage macowski as happy with her findings. now these core samples will be analyzed. we meet the scientist as an international glacier research conference. the subject of the conference is ice cor, drilling and what they can learn about the history of the climate from extract had samples. second, i can remember here is internet in the aisle. gilligan on north cushman thought, perfectly situated, had to make observations about environmental pollution caused by industrialization wasn't any measures that had proven successful and keeping the air clean off left in the after the young. we began measuring abil pollutants from the 1980s when they were at their mountains and let's are now with information we've gathered from the glacier. we can see how they've increased since 1870 like which was when we began to use fossil fuels. now we can see that while some