kyle is that teeny tiny speck of a guy on top of this 115-foot cliff in western australia. this is known as python pool. >> tell me there are no pythons in the pool. >> let's hope not. >> and then you see kyle go for the leap. >> oh, boy. >> that did not sound good. >> there's a reason that did not sound good. he rotated a little too far and went in kind of butt end, back first. he immediately lost his memory, fractured his sternum and broke hisback. too high. like hitting a brick wall. >> right. now watch this. you see him right there trying to tread water. he's yelling, according to the poster, the video, help me, help me, help me. his buddy jumps in. swims to him. brings him to shore. >> wow. can you imagine the excruciating pain? that may be why he doesn't remember. his body was in so much shock. >> i'm going to stop recording because this is pretty bad. >> this is a national park area and officials in this area said this guy is really lucky that he didn't die. that that cliff is, in fact, just too high to jump from. even officials don't know what exactly is underneath

but we can go to a number of places today, places like the bahamas, western australia, where stromatolitic structures are forming that connect this very ancient rock with the present day, where we can actually observe the processes that lead to this kind of pattern. narrator: it's believed that many ancient stromatolites were created by cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms that produce oxygen, implying that the cellular machinery for photosynthesis arose early in the planet's history. knoll: this tells us that life was present early in our planet's history, but let me show you another rock -- also 3 1/2 billion years old -- from southern africa. and this rock looks very different. you can see here, it's bright red, and it turns out the bright red is iron oxides. and in general, this kind of banded, iron-rich rock is called iron formation. narrator: these banded iron formations, found all over the world, are further clues to the early history of oxygen. dating as far back as 3.5 billion years, they stopped forming approximately 1.8 billion years ago. continually entering the ocean t

but we can go to a number of places today, places like the bahamas, western australia, where stromatolitic structures are forming that connect this very ancient rock with the present day, where we can actually observe the processes that lead to this kind of pattern. narrator: it's believed that many ancient stromatolites were created by cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms that produce oxygen, implying that the cellular machinery for photosynthesis arose early in the planet's history. knoll: this tells us that life was present early in our planet's history, but let me show you another rock -- also 3 1/2 billion years old -- from southern africa. and this rock looks very different. you can see here it's bright red, and it turns out the bright red is iron oxides. and in general, this kind of banded, iron-rich rock is called iron formation. narrator: these banded iron formations found all over the world are further clues to the early history of oxygen. dating as far back as 3.5 billion years they stopped forming approximately 1.8 billion years ago. continually entering the ocean throu

10,000 gallons of gasoline catches fire while making a delivery to a gas station in maddington, western australiath. firefighters do their best to control the fire, but both the truck and the service station are fully engulfed in flames. >> the flames got really big. the flames were about 50 feet in the air. >> simon simpson works in the area and records the incredible sight with his camera. >> firefighters were just trying to basically stop it from spreading. >> soon, a crowd gathers and several other people also start to record the growing fire. the flames get higher. the smoke, thicker. >> the police and everyone started to get a little worried about the amount of people that were standing, just watching and filming. >> the chaotic scene spirals out of control. >> it's going. it's going! >> then the flames reach a massive amount of fuel and the gas station erupts. >> i've never seen anything that big. it was a bit of a shock and sort of stunned me for a second to see such a big fireball go straight up. >> before the blast, simpson is about 40 feet from the huge cloud of fire. it seemed like a

they have driverless trucks running around in western australia, for example, much cheaper that way. have to pay the exorbitant costs of australian chu truck drive chers which earn mo than you and me these days. there is a lot of stuff happening and rio is an expert at what is called block caving, which is large scale underground mining. >> fascinating. is there a particular geographical area where you think, like, this is going to be the place to be over the next five to ten years? >> really difficult to tell. ecuador, i hope, will open up. that's looking quite exciting. the government is still a little bit difficult to deal with. chile is still a fantastic place to be, but very hard to discover new projects there. latin america is interesting, brazil. most of what we look at is in africa. i think the cameroon is really going to take off. iron ore in the cameroon will be very big and we have been looking at west africa minerals and sun dance resources, an australian stock there. we think sun dance will organize the new rail network quite quickly. >> what is the most overrated luxury

the first world war had included many soldiers had come to fight on the western front from australia, canada, etc. many of them had died. where men did want why this was in the jungle or the bush. and actually, you know, that was not necessarily where you wanted to be. not that cozy. >> host: this is book tv on c-span2, and we are talking with author virginia nicholson about some of her books. we have been discussing her first book on women and war, "singled out: how two million british women survived without men after the first world war." it's about world war one. her most recent book is about world war ii, and it is entitled "millions like us: women's lives in war and peace." what happened to british women once world war ii began? >> guest: well, that was something i said to the task of finding out. the first thing -- call me naive, i have not realized until i started looking at the second world war, the women in this country were conscripted. no other country conscripted women. but the situation was so bad in the sense that there were men doing desk jobs who were actually needed a

of course you know the americas but western europe and australia, places i might not think -- >> parts of asia as well. >> absolutely. >> sure see a lot of spots on instagram. >> fresh off her controversial appearance, miley cyrus, part of a big collaboration. >> this is going to be huge. if she and britney spears will twerk, i don't know what to expect. they both are working on an album together and the producer says they went with the attitude they want it to be the biggest thing ever. all we need is a little twerking, that's the talk of the week. i can't imagine those two together. >> it will be a hot mess probably. >> thank you, georgia. we'll tune in tomorrow morning. >>> migraines and brain damage. new details this afternoon on how migraine headaches change your brain. >>> she says she remembers go to toga and [ telephone ringing ] [ male announcer ] answering your phone between 5 and 7 on a weeknight? not so smart. [ drumming ] buying your own kid a drum set. not so smart. getting a complete meal on the table under 10 bucks? now that's smart. the new kfc $9.99 6-piece deal. 6 pi

he criticized western countries still questioning his legitimacy. >> today it is written, and dominions of australiaada who dare tell us our election was not fair and credible. >> reporter: the us won't remove sanctions, and the european union says it is concerned about vote rigging. most african governments have congratulated magabe. he is africa's oldest leader, and there are concerns about his health and whether he can serve another five-year term. he says his policies will one day help the economy recover. analysts say his party must move towards issues more relevant to people today. >> they have to be more serious about their governing, and one of the big issues is performance. fix the economy, create employment, and generally to fix our international standing as a country. >> reporter: he served as the first interim prime minister, and has held the office of president ever since. all people can do now is wait and see if zimbabwe moves backward or forward. >>> the police and security services in germany have been severely criticized for failing to attack neo-nazi violence. the national socialis

australia's battleground districts. >> reporter: we're here in the outer western suburbs of sydney where these key marginal seats are verytant to the outcome of the federal election on the 7th of september. it is in these seats where the future government could be decided because they are so marginal. this current seat that we're in sits on a margin of 1.1%. so important, in fact, that the latest paid number of visits to these suburbs and seats today, the prime minister kevin rud, he paid a visit to the suburb of penworth where we are now, meeting and greeting with locals in the shopping center. didn't always go to plan. he was heckled on a few occasions. a lot of people out here concerned about jobs, the economy, and also health. take a look at the key issues that the electorate around the outer suburbs of sydney are really focused on. >> this is where the australian election will be won and lost, in the outer suburbs of our big cities. this is the city of lindsey, 60 clomers from the center of sydney, flanked on one side by the historic blue mountains and on the other side is the traditionally blue collar suburb of pen

for inflation seared lowest minimum wage in the western world and it is then in a quarter and using that as an organizing principle just as exactly australia's six almost sixteen dollars their minimum wage did and they have a lower unemployment rate than we do plus full health insurance i mean we're going backwards in the future we are in advanced third world country advanced militarily science technology but in the livelihood of the people we've got to turn it around agreed ralph nader thanks so much frank you're with us the. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. more news today violence flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are today. if you've spent any time at all on the internet you've probably noticed that your information is for sale and with the search engine market dominated by google it's only gotten easier for big web companies to make money off your data but it doesn't have to be that way for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by gabriel weinberg the c.e.o. and founder of go a search engine that keeps its user data

westerners are self radicalized and join the terrorist ranks of al qaeda and the al nusra front in total more than six hundred europeans are now estimated to be fighting in syria so lottie's testor australia now reports on the e.u. could be very wary of the syrian rebels. while the u.k. on the syrian rebels would not that's a question that's been answered in a number of different places a clump that began to mostly in varying degrees of light but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be moved political progress in less the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad says he isn't a military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition we propose to a man. who will fit was served. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition into no one else to one half years on syria continues to pay the delicate complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may the needers agreed to disagree on syria with the u.k. and france successfully getting their way even though they were at odds with the twe

western journalists there. they broken to the radio station and they dragged him out and they shot him with thousands. we believe because years later australia and indonesia would sign the treaty dividing timor's oil between australia and indonesia. oil is the source of so much pain in the world and so is the life there with allen covered in blood and they are shouting at us australia with guns to our heads we shouted back no america, america. i had thrown my passport at them i was born in washington d.c.. they would kick me in the stomach when i would get my breath back and as others join the firing squad i would say america, america. at some point they take the guns from our heads we believe because we were from the same country. they would have to pay a price for killing us that they would never have to pay for killing them. a red cross jeep pulled up and the driver of the red cross jeep picked up this old man who was in a sewer ditch next to us. every time the soldiers beat him he would put up his hands and a prayer sign and they would smash the buts of their rifles into his face. we drove off to a hospital and they stopped us to get awa