Of the english channel. Now, all of these feats of superhuman endurance have been undertaken by my guest today, lewis pugh. Why does he do it . To focus attention on the Climate Crisis and its impact on our blue planet. His death defying exploits have won him political access from Downing Street to the kremlin. But is the response too little, too late . Lewis pugh, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much. Its great to have you on the show. Here you are before me in your very smart suit but soon, youll be back in your trunks on another Marathon Swim youve Just Announced youre going to swim the entire length of the hudson river through new york state, ending up in New York City at the time of the un General Assembly. Its a massive undertaking. Do these things get easier with experience and with time . Mentally easier. Physically, perhaps not so but mentally, yes. Because, without being impolite, you began these endurance tests, this extreme swimming, in your30s. Youre now into your 50s. J
on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the
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right at us. and in fact, at times it will be south of us, which means that cooler air will be streaming in from the north. back to the here and now, though, through the course of the afternoon, we will see this weather front extending across ireland into wales, many parts of england, too, so progressively it s just going to get wetter and wetter. but the best of the weather will remain across parts of scotland and especially northeastern areas. so some sunshine there for aberdeen. but look at the second half of the afternoon and into the evening hours. it s murky, it s cloudy, it turns blustery, drizzly, lots of fog. outbreaks of rain at times will be quite heavy, fresher there in the north east of scotland where the skies will be clearer. and then monday is going to be overall an overcast day, some sunny spells, too, but it will be very blustery, rain at times. if you re popping out during the day, take a brolly. it really could rain almost at any time during the course of the aftern