Excuse me, mate . Could you help me it will make a similar change. Now its time for a look put my sim card in my phone . I use a at the weather with louise lear. Website called couch surfing. I find local people on the website. They have profiles, i have a profile. I contact them. Hello, this is tony. Can you tell me how to get to your place, please . Ill take a taxi. Rain across the country today, where do i need to tell him to go. Accompanied by petty gusty winds. 0k. The strongest of the winds to the where do i need to tell him to go. Ok. Ill see you in about half an south of the rain, heaviest of the hour. Thanks but i. Rain moving its layout of the midlands into the north of england and across to the scottish borders. Taxi . Bright and breezy with a scattering where are you going . Hello. Of showers to the north west of i go to gotera. Scotla nd of showers to the north west of scotland and northern ireland. For gotera . The rest of england and wales, south yeah, gotera, yeah. 200
Much of india is struggling with an extreme heatwave. Millions are having to cope with drought and there are already reports of dozens of deaths from heatstroke. Temperatures have been exceeding a0 degrees celsius, thats well over a hundred degrees fahrenheit, for several weeks. Kathryn armstrong reports. This woman struggles every day to collect water for her family from this almost empty well. Her village in the indian district of beed in maharashtra, is facing extreme water scarcity. Since all the wells and ponds in her village have dried, the girl has to trek more than two kilometres to fetch water. Translation the road isnt good as it is under construction. I dont have time to study, i dont have time to play, i have to bring water three times a day. I am afraid i will fall into the well. In some parched villages, people are forced to drink untreated water, supplied by tankers. Farmers are struggling the most in these drought stricken regions. This man has seen three crop failures.
My my name is tony giles and i am totally blind and severely death in both ears. Now were moving. I can feel the wind in my hair. Ive spent the last 21 years travelling. I visited over 120 countries. Every continent in the world, including antarctica. My mission is to visit every country in the world. I started off in december planning this recent trip and i decided to start in egypt because it is at the top of africa and work my way through several countries to get to ethiopia. 0k, ive got some fish. Now im feeding the birds. It is my passion, it is what i do, it is what makes me happy. It is the biggest challenge i can get. Ijust want to be normal. Ive got to be strong all the time. It is the only way i can travel. The only way i can cope. I have explored quite a bit of addis andi i have explored quite a bit of addis and i think it is time to move on and i think it is time to move on and explore a bit more of this wonderful, fascinating country that is ethiopia. I really want to try
Its my passion, its what i do, its what makes me happy. Its the biggest challenge i can get. I just want to be normal. Ive got to be strong all the time. Its the only way i can travel. The only way i can cope. Ive explored quite a bit of addis and i think its time to move on and explore a bit more of this wonderful, fascinating country that is ethiopia. I really want to try to get to the rift valley and try to visit some of the lakes, get some of the nature and natural ambience. Really get off the beaten track. Were going to the village, its roughly two or three hours south of addis ababa. Its one of the fresh rift valley la kes. And apparently it has lots of birdlife and hippopotami. Hello. Whats your name . My name is arlo. My names tony, im from england. I can hear something. A tractor . A helicopter . A motorbike. Motorbike, yeah. The lakes in this direction . Yeah. The biggest problem for me is, ive got no direction, its just an open field. Theres nothing to follow. And the wind i
others have to sift through the pieces. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, nebil: addis ababa. anthony: admit it. you hear the name ethiopia and you think starving children with distended bellies. you think dust and famine and despair so awful, you frankly don t want to even think about it anymore. but take a look. addis ababa, capital city of ethiopia. a cool, high altitude, urban center that will both confirm and confound expectations. fueled largely by direct foreign investment and a returning ethiopian diaspora eager to be part of the new growth, things are changing in addis. it s one of the fastest growing economies in the world . it s not the first time the place has gone through a growth spurt. in the 1950s, emperor hai