Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world, on the internet, by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Thank you for getting touched recently. I'm going to be doing some shoutouts mentioning some of your emails in a moment.

Sadly, because of time constraints, I haven't had a chance to make notes on all of your emails, but do believe me that I've seen each and every one of them,

and I will be doing a longer segment of shoutouts in a future show. The weather, I know some of you don't like me talking about the weather, so zone out for a minute just while I mention what's been happening here.

We had a thing called Storm Barney, that hit the UK very badly, and the back end of it hit us yesterday Saturday.

So when I drove home from Barkshire to my home in southwest London yesterday on the motorway, my car was pushed all over the road by the wind.

It was quite extraordinary, and we had a day of rain and storms and grey, gunmetal grey skies, horrible day.

This morning I wake up to two things. It's ice cold. I think it was something like minus four minus five Celsius overnight. Well, well, a freezing point.

And I also woke up to find that my right ear, regular listeners to the unexplained, will know that I've had some hearing problems after a virus and some other difficulties a few years ago left me with tinnitus.

The smalling my right ear is very, very dull, and so I've lost a lot of high frequencies in the right ear. I think it might be something to do with the change in atmospheric pressure.

So if I don't sound quite like myself today, that's the reason for that. I'm doing this on one ear. And we'll get through.

But any thoughts and suggestions about that, great for me, receipt. If you want to connect with me, contact the show. You can do that through the website, the unexplained.tv, triple-w.the unexplained.tv, and the website design created, maintained and honed by Adam Cornwell from Creative Hotspot in Liverpool.

The world is a very worrying place in the seven days after the terror attack in Paris, claimed the lives of close on 130 people left scores of others still in hospital as I say these words.

Nobody can quite compute the enormity of this. And of course, it's put capitals around the world and here in Europe, particularly on pretty high alert. In Brussels, Belgium yesterday,

which has been the crucible of some of this. It appears some of the people involved in the Paris thing had links with Brussels.

Brussels was in lockdown yesterday. People would advise not to go to shopping malls and do their normal things, avoid stations if they could.

And that country was very quiet yesterday. A lot of people asking what have we come to when we are forced to do things like this.

But every capital city now, every city, I would say, is concerned. London, certainly very much a high security area at the moment. But life has to go on.

Which brings me to the subject of the last show that I did. And that is mentioned by quite a few e-mailers. I'm just going to pick a couple.

Somebody had a few e-mails that were under pseudonyms. This is from somebody calling themselves Anna Graham, who says, as somebody interested in the alternative viewpoint, I was surprised to hear you taking the Paris events at face value.

The attack is part of a pattern of manipulation and war on terror. Well, okay, Anna. But I think at the moment we just have to try and take in the events as they stand.

I think the conspiracy theories and all the rest of it when they are properly formulated can come later. But for right now, I think certainly at a distance of 24 hours from the events in Paris, the best thing I could have done was to find somebody that you hadn't heard talking about this, somebody who has an expert on Islamic politics around the world to discuss it.

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