The most infamous locations on earth. Until 2011, few people had heard of the fukushima eui kyung shin Nuclear Plant in north east japan. Then, the largest earthquake in japanese history japan. Then, the largest earthquake injapanese history changed everything. The resulting tsunami killed more than 20,000 people. And the 14 killed more than 20,000 people. And the 1a metre wave overwhelmed fukushimas flood defences. Ironically, it was the power stations cooling system that was flooded and when it shut down, the radioactive fuel rods began to overheat and not down. They reacted with the steam around them, filling units one, two, three and four with hydrogen gas which then exploded. 6. 5 years on, the melted radio fuel remains somewhere inside these buildings. Humans cant go anywhere near that fuel and so robots are being used first to try and find it and eventually to remove it. And today we have been given rare access today we have been given rare access to the site to help us understa
Words and phrases used by bbc news presenters, which really seem to annoy some of you, and one example was identified by dr ian barnish in an email to us on monday. Lets hope ian wasnt watching the news at ten the following evening, which began like this. Tonight at ten, a special report on the Record Number of people dying from heroin and morphine addiction. Good evening. We start tonight with a special report on the surge in deaths from heroin addiction across the uk. This extended report by our special correspondent ed thomas does contain images and details of drug abuse from the start. The special report that followed traced the increase in deaths from heroin and morphine in hard hitting detail, and heard the case for the decriminalisation of the personal use of those drugs. County durham, searching for the next hit. I havent got time to look for a job. Being a drug addict is a full time job. Every day, the same. By the time i do get sorted, its time to start all over again. Im not
The california wildfires. At least 36 people have now been killed and hundreds more are missing as whole neighbourhoods are reduced to ash. It looks like a bomb was dropped an entire neighbourhoods have gone. Thriving neighbourhoods that were active parts of our community. A brexit warning from Hillary Clinton. She questions britains ability to do a trade deal with president trump. In sport, two old foes reunited on the pitch this lunchtime. Liverpool host Manchester United at anfield as the premier League Returns after the international break. And darren has the weather. Good morning. Theres a lot of unusual weather over the coming few days. This weekend and into monday some warm conditions for many of us and by the beginning of the week weve got the arrival of ophelia and some damaging winds. Join me laterfor all of the details. Thank you. First, our main story. Tougher prison sentences for people repeatedly caught carrying acid or other corrosive substances. The government wants to
Should expect the rain to arrive, how it will end up with the evening commute, how much rain to expect and when the sun will return, coming up later. But first send it over to roqui theus. Rain is not good for the commute. Take a look at the Altamont Pass coming off of the 205 at 38 Miles Per Hour and you keep driving into northland road and it gets actually slower. Youre driving at just about 30 Miles Per Hour once you hit the road and then it frees up through livermore. North tracy boulevard to Altamont Pass, westbound will take you up to 28 minutes right now if youre headed out. The dublin interchange here, slow traffic in the commute direction, Altamont Pass at 680 will take you about 15 minutes. And moving over to the bay bridge, headed into downtown San Francisco right now, carquinez bridge to the maze will take you 19 minutes. The metering lights will turn on in about 30 minutes or so. If you want to avoid the roads at all costs right now, heres a look at mass transit throughout
Overnight shift. Reporter reenforcements keep arriving as the fire grows, here are a number to strike it that they were sliding that sand fire in Southern California and they got that call to come straight there. After driving on sunday night, working monday and tuesday there and then wednesday morning we would get relief from that fire and dispatch down to this fire. Reporter immediately they are tired that crews are happen mapping out on trailers before heading out. You try to pick up. Reporter there are personalsacrifices about about it too. And some of those arriving are defense specialists. These crews will try to protect the 2,000 homes still threatened. Weve been able to bring in more resources so that we could defend those communities, as much as we possibly can. Reporter while they have been working with the bulldozers, retardant to make that perimeter around the fire that it will continue to grow with what they thought would take a week to contain that will now take more than