Thank you. Very excited. Were gonna go talk to people about happiness. Oh, oh, beautiful. You guys are going to like it. Are we gonna find some happiness here . Of course. Yeah . I can feel it. Ok. Trust me. [chuckles] [horns honking] if the point of this journey is to find happiness, i need to force myself out of my comfort zone. So im visiting one of the statistically most optimistic countries on earth. This place is an avalanche of smiles and cheeriness. Iwell, i cant get past the feeling that all this positivity is gonna be the end of me. [nicky blitz blast off] getting too close, better pull on back what if i travel the world, what if i travel the world, explain what makes some places happier than others . Im looking at the ways that where we are effect who we are. It has been said that [inaudible] is the chief force of unhappiness. Well, that is okay. Im already unhappy, so i have nothing left to lose. Holman le pen heres something you dont see every day. Beans, everywhere. I fou
Place on ajuly. Today, Party Leaders have hit the Campaign Trail, delivering their message to voters across the uk as the countdown to polling day begins. The Prime Minister rishi sunak said only the conservatives can offer security and economic stability, while The Labour Leader sir keir starmer promised an end to what he called 14 years of decline and chaos under the tories. And he promised to rebuild the country. Well be live on the Campaign Trail in a moment or two, will talk to the people political 30s as well. Meanwhile, nigel farage said he wont be standing for reform uk lets get more from our Political Correspondent damian grammaticas. Back to speak to where we are with the polling in the past two weeks. The most recent poll during the month of may, we are looking at labour on 44 , 21 points ahead of the conservatives on 23 , so very substantial lead. This is the biggest lead that weve had at the beginning of our election sincejohn major went to the country back in 1997. The re
it gets you a lot. the gold standard for measuring optimism is known as the life orientation test. it asks people how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of statements like, if something can go wrong for me, it will, or, in uncertain times, i usually expect the best. researchers from harvard tracked female nurses over the span of four decades and found that those who reported an optimistic outlook had a 30% reduced risk of mortality versus the pessimists. the optimists were less likely to die from everything from cancer to heart failure. fortunately, optimism is proven to be contagious. and nowhere is that more apparent than in ghana. hello! - hello. - you must be deijha. - i am. - meet deijha gordon. deijha s family is from jamaica, where countless ghanaians were sent during the slave trade.
enemy. what we see is a more sordid russia, reduced military force against neighbor, ukraine. we see a more unpredictable security landscape with the prize of terrorism of isis. we see cyber threats. we see global bans and power shifts with the rise of china. in uncertain times, we need strong national institutions like nato. but is russia a foe or a friend? we don t divide the world into either foes or friends. it used to be said that purpose of nato is to keep the russians out, the americans in, and the germans down. what s left? just to keep the americans in, then? to be honest, that doesn t apply today. first of all, nato is to keep all of us in. it s good for u.s. it s good for canada. it s good for europe that we
wow. in uncertain times, i always look for the comforting ask the familiar. the things that always for me made england great. this restaurant helped make a per situative argument that there is some kind of merit to yiddish cooking. it s absolutely true. henderson, the most influence shl chef of the last two decades, even though you have likely never heard of him. he changed everything. it seems an instinctive thing to cook old school, english country cooking but it started a quiet revolution. st. john, i love you.ut is a on the plate speaking for itself. and so you can get lost. my dinner companion is jay reigner a man never with a shortage of opinions. roast bone marrow with caper salad, a dish that would become