We are told, experts at predicting football results. Sarah and i have visited all of the host cities for next years tournament, and we have discovered a whole menagerie of soccer soothsayers. First stop, sochi. Heres the stadium. Meanwhile, down at the aquarium. This is harry the otter. Here in sochi he has a reputation for predicting sports results. In fact, at the sochi olympics, he had a 75 success rate. Will england win . Yes or no . And he is going for. Straight for the green a couple of seconds and he decided, no doubt about it, england will win. Now to ekaterinburg, where the excitement is building. Not on the pitch, but in the zoo. Maggots at the ready. Meet suri, the fortune telling meerkat at ekaterinburg zoo. I am told he has plenty of experience picking winners. Lets see where he has gone . England that is a good sign. In rostov, theyre proud of their new stadium, and elyce, the fortune telling raccoon. But she isnt playing ball today. She is harder to catch than harry kane
Coming up, premier League Action under way. Southampton at home to arsenal. Arsenal could move back up into the top four, but running at a time. Charlie austin scoring in the second minute of the game, that is how it is remaining with just over 15 minutes left to play. It is derby day in manchester. This time round, the stakes are high. City premier league leaders, they could open up an11 point league leaders, they could open up an 11 point lead on united in second. A record, winning today, they will win 1a league games in a 10w. They will win 1a league games in a row. Not that Pep Guardiola is getting ahead of himself. row. Not that Pep Guardiola is getting ahead of himself. If you have to play one game for a record, you forget what you have to do to win the games. It would be nice, meaning we won. Sooner or later the record will be broken. It is what we have to do to win the game, that is my concern. I dont want us to feel any kind of pressure. I want us to feel it is a match, like w
N ietes known to millions on this is a nietes is one of the worlds most famous presenters will stop he played a part in pioneering new programme formats. It had a varied career which spanned five decades. His energy, his sheer enthusiasm, made Keith Chegwin into a household name. Welcome to our very special christmas edition of cheggers plays pop. From everybody here. Merry christmas a career on tv seemed somewhat inevitable, even in his early teens. He was a natural in front of the camera, in productions like this road safety video. Do you want to swap this . Just a few years later, cheggers, as the public now called him, was sharing the screen with some of entertainments most famous faces. How long did it take you to actually record the album . Figures who worked with Keith Chegwin have been paying tribute. I knew he was very unwell. I spoke to him about four weeks ago, and he said he was recovering, so i didnt expect this. Very, very sad news. His one time presenting partner and for
Super storm sandy so long how it was that new york had failed to issued evacuation orders and how it was that 70 buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded. During that storm. In the meteorologist there who were incredibly talented cap time in the same thing over and over again. We are just not very good at forecasting in predicting it. For the kind of havoc that is erect by these storms. We saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria. In thinking about the infrastructure and predictions and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster it occurred to me that for all that is powerful about a hurricane they are no no where near nowhere near our most powerful phenomenon. Earthquakes are stronger and so i started to think how do we prepare for those sorts of Natural Disasters. As a nature and nation. When you think about that. We have the Air National Guard and is capable of flying these into the storm. It will drop the little technology pieces. With all of the technology we can tr
It was that so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded or ultimately destroyed during that storm. And in my research, i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented kept telling me the same thing over and and over again and that was, you know, were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Were still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by these storms. And we saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria, we saw that with hurricane hugo. And as i was leaving and thinking about the questions of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it to occurred to me that, you know, for all that is powerful about a hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful natural phenomenon, you know . When you think of the sheer sort of explosive power, earthquakes are exponentially s