you know about america, because up here, life is wild. oh, yeah, wow! wow, wow, wow! it s exhilarating. you re enjoying this, aren t you? yes, iam. i can tell on your face! and it s changing. the ice is probably thinning four orfive metres per year. here, nature has had a huge impact. twice a day the whole neighbourhood flooded. every single day. so i m travelling across to the north western extremity of the united states, meeting people enriched by and adapting to the natural world around them. to discover how this remarkable corner of the world is shaped by nature. the emerald city. rain city. jet city. seattle is a place of many things. it s grungy, techy, and a bit sticky. this eccentric outlier of the united states demands your attention. up here where fewer choose to venture, this city has been adapting and reinventing. today, technology is its lifeblood. but when the indigenous tribes first settled here, it was the abundance of nature which provided. it s quite surpris
and months of negotiation. and in fact, the deal was meant to expire today. they ve now got an entirely new deal which will carry them through for another nine months. and as you say, it s going to be about three billion usd, which is more than they were expecting if they d managed to negotiate the end of the last deal. so that is a relief. but at the same time, lots of analysts that i ve been speaking to have also emphasised the fact that this is reallyjust patching up just for now, it s a sticking plaster to be able to get pakistan through to the end of the year and the beginning of the next year. really crucially, at the moment, pakistan is expecting to have a general election here. now, this deal will mean that the current government can finish its term. a caretaker government can can take over. then there s an election. and then the new government, which in that election is expected to happen in october, can then start the whole process of negotiating the next deal. and
you with 10 seconds of skateboarding history. this is aussie skateboarder arisa trew becoming the first female to land a 720 in a competition. that s two full rotations in the air. and she sjust 13. you re all caught up now. see you. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. this week on the show. pulling down the past. i believe that the monuments would not give a tribute to the regime, but they should preserve the history and the memory. feeling the heat. we re getting major fires every year now, and multiple ones. oh, my god. and up to our knees in an estonian bog. there s a lot, yeah, there s a lot. - for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ..ruled first by the tsarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep. in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine, the government has
now on bbc news, the travel show: city kids on the high seas. ready to tack in three, two, one. it makes you just feel so powerful and strong. but it also makes you feel free. it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. it was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. let s keep behind, let s keep behind. the weather was crazy. right? and is the ambulance on the way, is it? the coastguard apparently lost contact with it. so when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, what s sailing? you re just on a boat. but once i qualified and now i m a sailing instructor, they realise that i m actually getting somewhere. it s not what they expected. the main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. i ll probably use the helm one. sometimes it s hard for me to articulate myself. and when you re a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. if not, it can g