let's turn to tonga now, where the massive undersea volcano, hunga tonga—hunga ha'apai, which devastatedwaves swept across the globe with tsunami alerts as far away as california to chile and japan. its aftermath has been mapped by a research team which includes new zealand's national institute of water and atmospheric research or niwa, as part of a project to catalogue and understand what happened. let's talk now to marine geologist kevin mackay, who was voyage leader of the mapping project. it's great to get you on the programme. ijust want it's great to get you on the programme. i just want to start by asking you, what did you and your team find? we asking you, what did you and your team find?— asking you, what did you and your team find? ~ ., ., , ., team find? we have to understand that this volcano _ team find? we have to understand that this volcano stands _ team find? we have to understand that this volcano stands one - team find? we have to understand that this volcano stands one and i team find? we have to understand that this volcano stands one and a| that this volcano stands

tonga—hunga ha'apai, is surprisingly still intact. of theirfindings. this volcanoes 1.5 kilometres above the seabed so it's a very tall volcano and you have to understand that this is we think the largest recorded eruption in humanity and the largest plume of volcanic ash that rose, 38 kilometres so this is a truly massive volcano, almost on the scale of krakatoa and based on our other experience volcanoes that erupt, we would expect the volcano would blow its top, be obliterated and much to our surprise when we started mapping this, the sides are intact and it's very hard to see any evidence of the eruption whatsoever on the sea floor. and it was our first surprise. floor. and it was our first surprise-— floor. and it was our first surprise. floor. and it was our first surrise. �* , , , surprise. but the surprise then came... remarkable, - surprise. but the surprise then came... remarkable, kevin. . surprise. but the surprise then . came... remarkable, kevin. what is the signal to you in terms of what happened. as you point out, mass

salir del agua e irte a un lugar alto pero lo primero es estar calmado >>> la erupción del volcán en tongas en tiempos modernosuna erupción volcánica tan grande, que tener un tsunami que atraviesa el océano >>> más de media milla de la costa corre peligro si el fenómeno vuelve a ocurrir >>> otra señal es que se retire el mar, no es ir a buscar pececitos, es una alerta natural, hay que aprovecharla >>> es un impresionante imágenes mucha gente se pone temerosa pero en las playas de la zona, siempre hay rótulos donde te dicen si hay aviso de tsunami es la ruta de escape >>> vivimos sobre zonas, en Él cinturón de fuego que nos habla sobre todo cuando pasó en japón el terremoto intenso, llegó hasta california de forma ligera desde el otro lado >>> esto que nos quede claro no podemos ignorar es la razón por la que venimos a vivir por eso por el bien de todos y de la familia planificar porque en algún momento puede suceder estamos expuestos >>> entonces ¿cómo están? la preparación >>> nos preparamos con la temperatura >>> vamos a las montañas porque quÉ cree va a seguir !, nevando, por eso se ven

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he'll go on to carrabas, sam, what tonga, van water, papa, new guinea, and east timor. wayne hay has more from silver. the main purpose, really, or the main objective of one, e, e e. e. e. coming to suv a was to meet with the foreign ministers from 10 pacific island nations. he did that on monday afternoon. it was a virtual meeting in that meeting. he was hoping to get agreement out from all of the foreign ministers on a china proposed regional are packed, covering a broad range of issues really from cooperating on security. fisheries. climate change, things like that, that was proposed by china at that meeting, but it did not get signs in that media conference again, which was held the see thing in the hotel behind me. there was no mention of the regional agreement by wine ye, no questions were allowed from reporters who were in there. but afterwards the chinese ambassador to fiji did speak. and he confirmed that for now the proposal from beijing has been shelved. i because there was not consensus from the foreign ministers who attended that virtual meeting with the chinese out fore

he'll go on to care of us, samar tonga, van wire to papua new guinea and east timor. a moment's katrina, you in beijing will tell us what china's president has been saying about their pacific engagement. first. it's go away and hey, in fiji capital service or how's it being seen there? is it being bill the success? well certainly in that media conference that we just saw between one ye and frank binding, madame, or there was nothing but positivity in there. but the main purpose really, or the main objective of one ye coming to serve a was to meet with the foreign ministers from 10 pacific island nations. he did that on monday afternoon. it was a virtual meeting in that meeting. he was hoping to get agreement out from all of the foreign ministers on a china proposed regional are packed, covering a broad range of issues, railey from cooperating on security. fisheries. climate change, things like that, that was proposed by china, that meeting, but it did not get signed in that media conference again, which was held this evening in the hotel behind b. there was no mention

one years also distinct carrie barty tonga than you are to papa new guinea and to molest when he has more from teaching. well, the timing's interesting, probably not a coincidence this to or of the pacific by when you started last week. we also saw last week and meeting of the quad country, the united states, japan, india, and australia that grouping pretty much designed to counter the rise and influence of china in the region. we also saw the u. s. president joe biden introducing his indo pacific economic framework agreement, which by the way, fiji has now decided to join. so there's a lot going on diplomatically from the chinese point of view. they would say, well, this is just a coincidence. we have long held the view that there are big opportunities for them to forge better relations with the pacific island countries. and that's exactly what they are trying to do. and perhaps that opportunity is highlighted even further at the moment because of what these countries are going through. that very much on the front lines of climate change. rising sea level, their economy to being dec

sam y tonga, vanadoor pap, one new guinea and east t. more surely our correspond, katrina, you in beijing will tell us what president she ging ping had say about the pacific diplomacy. at 1st when hey, in server looks at what china achieved in fiji. the main purpose really or the main objective of one e e. e e. coming to suv a was to meet with the foreign ministers from 10 pacific island nations. he did that on monday afternoon, it was a virtual meeting in that meeting. he was hoping to get a agreement out from all of the foreign ministers on a china proposed regional are packed, covering a broad range of issues, railey from cooperating on security. fisheries. climate change, things like that, that was proposed by china at that meeting, but it did not get signs in that media conference again, which was held this evening in the hotel behind me. there was no mention of the regional agreement by wine ye. no questions were allowed from reporters who were in there, but afterwards the chinese ambassador to fiji did speak. and he confirmed that

he will now go on to cure above the mo, tonga valley was to pop on giddy and east timor. wayne hey reports from suva, fuji's, capital. as pacific island nation slowly emerged from the cove at 19 pandemic, and new diplomatic battle is under way. and china is on the offensive. rebuilding the regions economies will take time and outside assistance. and beijing is extending a helping hand. leave it to war. don't be too anxious and don't be too nervous because the common development and prosperity of china and all the other developing countries would only mean greater harmony, greater justice, and greater progress of the whole world. the latest stop on chinese foreign minister, one year, 10 day tour of the pacific was fiji, where he met prime minister frame binding. madame a jill political point scoring means less than little to anyone who's our community is slipping beneath the rising seas. whose job has been lost upon demik or whose family is impacted by the ip address in the price of commodities. the main feature of his visit to su, though, was supposed to be the signing of an agreement with

tongas it is unprepared or that word salad is the white house position on inflation, blaming billionaires>> joey: the messaging people need to be fired, if that is the case. if jen psaki is no longer there to be your mentor, it is ron klain saying, say this when they ask that, that is why the president is polling in the 20s when it comes to his handling of inflation. >> carley: the only way you could tie inflation to increasing the corporate tax rate if biden administration is saying tax corporations so much they are forced to fire people and they fire people who don't have money and inflation goes down. i don't think that is the mess biden administration is going for. and hegseth interviewed melania trump and "the view" was watching and talk about how the first lady was never invited to be on the cover of "vogue" here is "the view's" take on it. >> i don't know if they would have sold as many magazines if they had the first lady melania trump on the magazine, first lady to the very unpopular president. >> i have more important things to do and i did in the white house than being on the c

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actually, it amazes me, here’s the table, here’s the tonga table, yes, and the jens stoltenbergen sectns against russia, it was like it was, just the moment when we just, that letters and confirmation requested. hmm confirmation of the warranty. the accusation was made in an interview that was given to the newspaper jester of the empire and here is the interesting one that later newspapers the newspaper shpil spiegel uzgel doubted his words about words, how and now we will compare, just as we will now sit down with you. let's listen. the british national archives archives pops up a decent look, noteworthy documents originally initially. he would have been classified classified, in what document are we talking about the take-off about the meeting of the secretaries of the secretaries of the us foreign ministry has the usa britain and britain france and germany. france and germany mania in bonnie march 6 march 6, 1900-1991-91, a document a document with evidence proves that it is that at that moment the british americans americans and french germans and french germans and french were a s