A model for future cities. Welcome to the show. How long will the pota regions be covered with ice the earth is warming right temperatures are making glaciers and sea ice melt. Like in greenland most of the island still has ice cover hundreds of meters thick but thats set to change one geologist thinks thats not necessarily bad for greenland future. Travelling through southern greenland its easy to understand why the vikings called the island green it has hills meadows lakes and rivers the endless ice starts further north. Mina grows in calls this landscape home he was born in greenland is great grandparents used to hunt here here comes loose. The prize winning geologist from the Natural History museum in copenhagen often travels to the north he says greenland is an open book that just has to be read. Its all these rocks in the landscape tell a story but of course you have to be able to understand their language but then they no longer keep their secrets. On the contrary theyre full of
Technique that created dolly the sheep 20 years ago. Sir elton john announces he will stop touring to spend more time with his family. But he will say goodbye to fans with one final tour a series of 300 dates spanning three yea rs. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The president s club has held men only Charity Dinners in london for more than 30 years and raised tens of millions of pounds for good causes. But tonight all future dinners have been cancelled after an undercover reporter employed as a hostess says she and some of the other women working there were groped and sexually harassed. A government adviser who helped organise the event last week at the dorchester has resigned. And some of the charities for which money was raised are handing back the donations. Heres our special correspondent lucy manning. All the president s club men appear to be enjoying themselves at the charity dinner, the women working there much less so, with claims that they were groped at the men only ev
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Im tom donkin. President trump has accepted the resignation of his Health Secretary, tom price, who had come under pressure after it emerged he had been using expensive private jets while travelling on government business. Mr trump had said he was disappointed in mr price. Hes the latest, on a growing list of Administration Officials to resign or be sacked. The bbcs laura bicker has the latest from washington. Donald trump pledged to his supporters that he would come to washington to drain the swamp, to end politics as usual. And here we are, his own Health Secretary is seen swanning around on private planes when the official government business should always be done on commercial planes. So when it comes to how hes going to persuade his supporters that hes the man in charge, that he is going to continue to rail against the elite and he can sort out his own cabinet, he needs to have shown that his own Health Secretary is following the rules. He is said to have been absolutely furious w
Business should always be done on commercial planes. So when it comes to how hes going to persuade his supporters that hes the man in charge, that he is going to continue to rail against the elite and he can sort out his own cabinet, he needs to have shown that his own Health Secretary is following the rules. He is said to have been absolutely furious with mr price. And here we are, friday evening in washington, and yet another resignation. I think the other problem with this scandal is that it has been a huge distraction for the white house. Youve had several attempts at healthcare reform. Youve got a hurricane crisis in puerto rico and also donald trump is trying to reform taxes here in the United States. All the while hes doing it, the republicans and democrats are still not coming on board. So here he has now a Health Secretary and other members of his cabinet using private planes during government business and simply mr price had to go. The treasury secretary steve mnuchin, the in