We start in sydney where we could be seeing the dawn of a new era of ultra long haul commercial flights. In the last few hours a boeing 787 belonging to Australian Airline qantas has landed after flying non stop from london to sydney. It left heathrow around 6am yesterday flying almost 18,000 kilometres over 19 hours and 19 minutes. Its part of a bigger project looking at ultra long haul flying, made possible by the boeing 787 and rival airbus a350 long rangejets. 0ur correspondent lukejones was one of just a0 passengers and crew on board. They were all subject to rigorous testing to assess the impact of the flight on their health, wellbeing and body clock. Lets get more on this story lets speak to luke hearing you go through those statistics again, i am feeling tired all over it. Did you think you would be safe and did your friends and family feel worried 7 be safe and did your friends and family feel worried . Nobody was worried about me but it was absolutely fine because of it was q
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as the uk s next prime minister and leader of the conservative party. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in france they re calling it a heat apocalypse . across much of europe excessively high temperatures, wildfires, and now water shortages, are having a devastating impact. northern spain has reached 43 degrees, and it s predicted the uk could see record temperatures on tuesday. we ll have more on that and the role of climate change in a moment. but nowhere has been more affected than southwest france where 30,000 people have been moved out of their homes for their own safety, as large areas of forest have been burned out. jessica parker has our first report. into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, and one that, today, we were given special access to. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thic
borisjoohnson as the uk s next prime minister and leader of the conservative party. in france they re calling it a heat apocalypse . across much of europe excessively high temperatures, wildfires and now water shortages are having a devastating impact. northern spain has reached 43 degrees, and it s predicted the uk could see record temperatures on tuesday. we ll have more on that and the role of climate change in a moment. but nowhere has been more affected than south west france where 30,000 people have been moved out of their homes for their own safety, as large areas of forest have been burned out. jessica parker has our first report. into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, one that, today, we were able to witness. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further in we go the flames suddenly all too appare
prime minister, and leader of the conservative party. welcome to our viewers, on pbs in america, and around the globe. in france, they re calling it a heat apocalypse . across much of europe, excessively high temperatures, wildfires, and, now, water shortages, are having a devastating impact. northern spain has reached 43 degrees, and it s predicted the uk could see record temperatures on tuesday. we ll have more on that, and the role of climate change in a moment. but nowhere has been more affected than southwest france, where 30,000 people have been moved out of their homes, for their own safety, as large areas of forest have been burned out. jessica parker has our first report. into the forest, and the front line of an exhausting battle, one that, today, we were able to witness. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further i