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From here in the world's newsroom, we send out correspondence

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To bring you the best stories from across the globe.

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In this week's programme, Mayday fun at the fair in

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And a visit to a state-of-the-art hospital.

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But Rupert Wingfield Hayes finds out that

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not everything inside the secretive state is what it seems.

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Jonathan Beale meet the pilots on the US

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aircraft carrier in the Gulf waging a high-tech war against the

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so-called Islamic State in a cancer area.

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The fighters drop bombs, they make the explosions.

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We do the stuff in the background that most

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Can a different approach help to save the elephants?

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Alastair Leithead reports from the media

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where hunters may hold the key to halting their extension.

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The fact is, the tourism in this area does

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The ice chasm cutting and Antarctic base adrift.

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Peter Gibbs visit the research station

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If and when that joined up with the sea, then this becomes

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a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a

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Steve Rosenberg meets the Russian politician turned

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crooning crusader who dreams of revolutionising Eurovision.

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North Korea held the first party congress

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of its ruling elite for nearly 40 years this week.

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The once in a generation meeting consolidated the

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power and authority of Kim Jong-un as supreme

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Now journalists rarely get access to North Korea,

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but in the site -- in a sign of the state

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inching open its door to the

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outside world, a team of Nobel Laureates,

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led by a European prince, were allowed to visit.

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Rupert Wingfield Hayes joined them and was

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given a rare view of a different side of life in North Korea.

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Mayday fun in the workers' paradise.

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These are not the sort of scenes I expected to find in North Korea.

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There was nothing like this last time I came here.

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A lot of these kids can speak English.

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I have taken this several times but at this time I have...

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Pampered and privileged but even they live an

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Do you have an opportunity? Foreigners?

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Your first chance to meet a foreigner?

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While the elite plays, the masses are preparing for

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the biggest political show in decade.

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From atop a high monument, we glimpsed thousands of dancers,

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rehearsing for the opening of the workers' party conference.

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Its job, to glorify the rule of Kim Jong-un.

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There is no escaping the Kim dynasty.

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Even at Pyonghang Children's Hospital.

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Our Nobel laureates are regaled with tales of how Marshal

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Kim personally ordered the CT scanner.

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But the children we are shown look remarkably well.

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And there isn't a real doctor in sight.

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Even our VIP, Prince Alfred of Liechtstein is starting

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So this is the challenge of trying to

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understand anything about this country.

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We're brought to a place like

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this, it looks for a modern, it is very clean, modern equipment.

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But we are not allowed to talk to ordinary people.

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If I turn and to ask these people anything, they run away.

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Everything we see looks like a setup.

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It's easier to understand the national sport, tae kwon do.

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This is how North Korea sees itself, tough,

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How do you feel about us, the outside world?

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Who can blame her for losing her tongue

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For all its tough behaviour, this is a

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country terrified of the outside world.

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Rupert Wingfield Hayes, in Pyongyang.

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Over the past four months, the aircraft carrier USS

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Harry S Truman, has been sailing somewhere in the North Arabian Gulf,

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launching wave after wave of attacks on so-called Islamic State.

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Dozens of jets have been bombing targets in

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But bombs are not the only weapon they are dropping.

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Some planes have also been using new forms of electronic

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and cyber warfare to attack the group and

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Jonathan Beale has been given access to the

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USS Harry S Truman and to America's hi-tech war against IS.

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Fighting an unconventional war, using unconventional means.

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The fighters drop the bombs, they make the

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We do the stuff in the background that most people don't

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And this is what is happening round the clock.

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A constant stream of jets taking off looking for targets over

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In less than five months, the jets on this carrier

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have already said it record, dropping more than 1200 bombs on

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But these bombs are not the only weapon they

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Drew, the pilot, and Chris, an electronic warfare

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officer, fly a jet, but it is loaded with jammers that can block anything

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Our cameras followed them at the start of emission.

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Much of what they do is still classified

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Before and after an attack like this, and what

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they say was an IS headquarters in Mosul, they are able to jam all

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You are sitting in your house and all of a sudden, bombs

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You're scared, your frantic, it's chaotic and now all of a sudden,

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and things start happening in the electronic spectrum

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that you don't fully understand.

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That adds a whole none aspect of fear.

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It degrades their ability to talk about what is going

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on and to coordinate any counterattacks.

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And hopefully, by infusing that fear and confusion,

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It's all part of a new emphasis on electronic warfare.

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As well as from the air, US cyber teams on the

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ground are also disrupting IS's ability to communicate.

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By computer, phone, or on their radios.

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We do get the feedback from folks that we are

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supporting and they say, we knew you were there

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because either we stopped getting shot at or we weren't

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So it is tough to measure, but it's absolutely essential.

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All signs are pointing to it making a huge difference.

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There is still a tonne of work left to do, everybody can

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And the proof that this fight is far from over is the

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Even with all this technology, and military might, two years on,

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Jonathan Beale, BBC News, on board the USS

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Africa's elephants are being killed at an

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30,000 to 40,000 slaughtered for their ivory each year.

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And it is thought there are now less than half a million left.

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Saving the elephants has focused on targeting poaching and Asia's

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But some nations have come up with different approaches.

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Last week, Kenya publicly burned more than 100

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tonnes of ivory to help tackle the illegal trade.

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And Namibia has allowed controlled hunting of

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elephants which has actually led to an increase in their numbers.

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Alastair Leithead has travelled to north-east in the media to

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Tourist travel the world to see them.

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But at the rate they are currently being killed,

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this kind of spectacle could be gone in our lifetimes.

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And here in the, there is a different approach to

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Few tourists come to this part of the country so trophy

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hunting is the main source of income.

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And poachers have actually turned gamekeepers.

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This group has a licence to kill a buffalo in this

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A parcel of land managed by the community where

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animals can roam in and out of the uncensored

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Only a certain number of each animal can be

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shot a year with the meat going to the community.

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And hunters often pay tens of thousands of pounds.

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Trophy hunting is supposedly to take out

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It is going to die in two or three years anyway,

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why let it die of old age when it can raise money

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Wild animals, buffalo, elephant, anything.

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You can't run a farm and keep on breeding cattle.

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Because you're going to have to much and nothing will survive because

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People can get very emotional about hunting,

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whether it be for buffalo or for elephants or lions.

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The fact is, the tourism in this area doesn't bring in enough money.

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The hunters have to pay, whether they find a buffalo to kill or not.

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And these are inside the park. They can look, but they can't shoot.

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So when we come here, when we saw it, we have

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The local community manages their conservancy,

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recording which animals passed through to help work out

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The money paid to the rangers, all to bring electricity to

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If hunting is not allowed, or stopped, then all the

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money we are getting from hunting will stop also.

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So people will be suffering, they'll not be able to take their

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The rangers, they are employed also, some of the May

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It's about giving these animals a real

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value to the people whose crops they destroy, whose children they

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And not just for Westerners to come and look at.

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In some places, tourism might be enough

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And there are less than half a million left in the whole of

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Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Namibia.

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Here's a story which brings a whole new meaning to moving house.

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A British research station in Antarctica is being relocated in its

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entirety on skis to save it from floating out to sea.

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The station sits on an ice shelf that is constantly moving

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and now, a rapidly expanding crack in the ice could

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see the base marooned on an iceberg and cast

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Peter Gibbs has been to Antarctica to see what is being done

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Is the coldest, windiest, driest, one of the most

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And it's home to the British Antarctic Survey's

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Here, cutting-edge science is making vital discoveries about how our

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lives are vulnerable to the sun's activities and the threat of

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But Halley Station is itself is under threat.

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So our journey to resupply the research station is also part

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Just three years ago, you could drive straight across

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Now, there is a massive chasm hundreds of

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metres across, expanding at 15 centimetres a day and extending 1.5

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If and when that joins up with the sea, then this becomes

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a giant iceberg and Halley Station is just a

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For this glaciologist, it's like watching

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So it's constantly monitored and there

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really is only one way to get a closer look.

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I'm going to resist the temptation to

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I've been looking at this, these images, for ages and

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now to be here, physically, it's just great.

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And look down, Peter, it's a good view!

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I'm looking down, it's just phenomenal.

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Ice shelves grow with time as more and more ice

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is being added and typically, they then lose mass

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through an event which is basically the breaking off of a

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chunk of ice shelf which floats away as an iceberg.

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This is a natural process which we always expect.

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So, if this chasm continues to expand, with Halley

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Station where it is right now, the research station

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Work has now started to save the base.

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Temporary accommodation is part of the resupply mission

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These will act as home for the station staff as Halley's

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unique design is put into use to ensure that it survives.

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Sitting on a massive hydraulic jacks means Halley Station

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keeps itself happily above the snow's surface.

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But there is another unusual feature in Halley's design.

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At the bottom of its hydraulic legs are huge skis.

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Each module will be detached from its neighbour

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In the same way it was brought here four

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After extensive surveys, a new location has been found and 20

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kilometres away, safely on the right side of the chasm.

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And there, Halley Station can continue its work.

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Its manifesto says Islam is not part of

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And it includes a ban on the call to prayer and the wearing

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But Germany's right-wing Alternative For Germany is gaining support. They

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made gains in a recent election as a result of the migrant crisis and it

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has now openly rebranded itself as anti-Muslim.

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This isn't the Germany AFD wants. Four resilient Muslims live in the

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country and there religion, tarmac to say is, simply -- 4 million

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Muslims live in the country and AFD says it does not want its religion.

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TRANSLATION: For decades we have had to deal with right wingers but they

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came from fringe parties. The AFD has taken right-wing popular risen

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to the centre of society. That should be cause concern for

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everyone. Europe's Populist parties are gaining ground. It is just a few

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weeks since AFD made significant gains in regional elections. The

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party is anti-euro, champions the traditional nuclear family, does not

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believe in climate change and does not like immigrants. In fact, its

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leader recently suggested German border guards shoot refugees. Our

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beliefs are within European values. We need to talk about all these

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problems being connected with this understanding of religion. This is

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what has been missing in Germany, in European politics, for a long time.

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AFD is still dismissed by many as a protest party but it has filled a

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vacuum to the political right. Germany is a pretty stable place,

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socioeconomically we are OK. We haven't had a terrorist activity on

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German territory. AFD would be in a position to really build on the fear

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that German society may experience. There is no doubt that AFD has

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shaken up Germany's political landscape, not least because it has

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intensified the pressure on the establishment here to tackle

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difficult questions and talk about how to integrate the hundreds of

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thousands of migrants now living in this country. New directions. For

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AFD, perhaps even for Germany. It is your revision time again. As

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hundreds of millions of viewers around the world tune in. -- it is

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Eurovision. In pressure one politician is planning an

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alternative to the song contest, and with a very different sound. Our

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reporter has been to Saint Petersburg to meet him.

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Russia feels threatened by the west, by Nato troops in the Baltic. By

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Western spies in Moscow. By resolutions on Russia's doorstep.

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And by the Eurovision Song contest? Hang

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on, it feels threatened by that? He does. This man is a Russian MP on a

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crooning crusade to promote music with a Russian soul. He loves folk

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and loathes the Euro pop invading Russia. TRANSLATION: To conquer any

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country now you don't need weapons. Culture is the key. The minds of our

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young people are coming under the influence of TV, which is trying to

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impose a fashion, a certain kind of music. Two years ago, when

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Eurovision was won by the bearded lady, this man was so shocked he did

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this in Parliament. Black Crow, he sings, why are you circling above

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us? What the MP wants to hear is more music like this... And this...

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He is planning a rival to Eurovision, called Good Vision where

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all the songs will be... Well, good. TRANSLATION: It will be focal music

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with National instruments and costumes. -- it will be folk music.

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But not everyone here is out of tune with the Eurovision Song contest.

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This year's Russian entrant believes that it can promote international

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harmony. I like the main message that this Eurovision has. Come

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together. Because music does not have any religion, nationalities,

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sexual orientation... Soap music is for everyone. But this MP is

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sticking with what he knows best. This song is about a cuckoo.

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With a chorus like this, perhaps he should enter Eurovision.

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And on that note, we will end Reporters. Goodbye.

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