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ποΈ 23 November 2024
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Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan-administered Gilgit Balistan, Brazil, the United States, the Faroe Islands and Austria
The remote mountain villages of Pakistan-administered Gilgit Baltistan are on the frontline of climate change. Some have already been wiped out by landslides caused by melting glaciers. Caroline Davies met locals in the picturesque Hunza Valley preparing for the next disaster.
World leaders gathered in Brazil this week for the G20 summit. James Landale observed how world leaders took the opportunity to recalibrate their relationships in advance of Donald Trump returning to the White House - including China's President Xi.
Donald Trump has been masterminding nominations for his new cabinet from his Mar a Lago resort in Florida's Palm Beach. It was the nerve-centre of operations during his campaign, and has become the place to be seen for West Wing hopefuls. Jessica Parker found out what locals make of the political circus.
In the Faroe Islands, the annual round up of 70,000 sheep is underway. On one tiny island, on a farm only accessible by helicopter β one couple manage a herd of some five hundred sheep. Tim Ecott tried his best to lend a hand on the steep, slippery slopes.
The Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl is where the Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef signed the declaration of war on Serbia that triggered the First World War. Over recent decades, Bad Ischl has increasingly traded on its history β with an annual festival to mark the birthday of the emperor. But as Gareth Jones discovered, the question of what people choose to remember is acquiring a new urgency.
Series Producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
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0:00.0 | Hello. Today, world leaders gathered for the G20 summit in Rio this week, and amid tensions between Russia and the US, China's President Xi became the star attraction. |
0:17.9 | We visit Palm Beach in Florida, home to Donald Trump's Winter White House, |
0:23.0 | Mara Lago, where people are jostling for jobs in the incoming administration. In the |
0:29.6 | Faroe Islands, rounding up sheep on steep, slippery slopes, can prove challenging at the |
0:35.3 | best of times, especially when they make an escape. |
0:39.0 | And in Austria, we visit the town of Bard Eshel, where we reflect on the collapse of an empire, |
0:45.6 | the effects of which are still being felt today. |
0:48.7 | But first to the mountains on the front line of climate change. |
0:52.8 | Pakistan administered Gilgit Baltistan sits among some of the world's highest mountains |
0:58.3 | and longest glaciers. |
1:00.5 | But if emissions continue on their current trajectory, experts say some glaciers in this region |
1:06.0 | could lose up to two-thirds of their volume by the end of the century. |
1:10.2 | This would have devastating consequences |
1:12.4 | for locals living in their shadow, some of whom are already seeing their homes destroyed by |
1:18.3 | landslides and floods. Caroline Davis travelled to the Hunza Valley in the Caracora Mountains. |
1:25.8 | Cavernous, vast, precarious, beautiful. |
1:30.7 | The roads of Gilgit Baltistan wind closely to the jagged sand-grey peaks, |
1:35.8 | sometimes sprayed with dust from a recent slow-moving landslide, |
1:39.8 | and others with their cement sides broken by a golden-grey boulder. |
1:46.3 | The scale of the landscape can feel humbling. There is little any man-made structure can do to hold back the crumbling face of these |
1:52.1 | vast mountains and the weather's force. But this landscape, which feels as old as time, is changing. |
1:59.7 | This is just one corner of an area known as the third pole, |
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