commitment to deliver letters six days a week. hello, i m maryam moshiri. a very warm welcome to bbc news this morning. the family of the missing british tourist jay slater are waiting to find out if a body found on tenerife is his. it s almost a month since the 19 year old disappeared after attending a music festival. spanish police say all the evidence suggests the remains are those of the teenager from lancashire. the body that s been discovered was found not far away from a house he d been visiting near the village of masca. it s thought he may have suffered an accident or fallen. joe inwood has more. it was in the deep ravines near the last known location of jay slater, that search and rescue teams found human remains, along with the missing 19 year old s clothes and possessions. the body has not yet been formally identified, but local authorities are confident they have found jay slater. in his hometown of oswaldtwistle, where blue ribbons have become a sign of support,
switzerland is home to 1,400 glaciers, of which aletsch is the biggest, and it s here that we find groups of scientists developing new techniques to watch the ice and snow and monitor their retreat. glaciers are water reservoirs that we have, which is important for groundwater replation. i think this is the important fact, but also if you lose this mass, you have instability in the mountains, so you have more landslides ongoing, more erosion. it is also a cause of natural hazards, avalanches, if there s a lot of snow and rock falls and similar things, if there s not enough snow and the ground destabilises. a very important one in terms of the energy transition is the hydropower generation. hydropower generation uses the water that runs down from the mountains and if there is not enough water, they cannot generate enough power. and if there is a lot of water, a lot of snow, they actually need to know this in advance to plan the generation. for all this, we of course need to
my panel here in milwaukee. thank you all very much. and thank you for watching newsnight. laura coates live starts right now. it s sunday in milwaukee on the eve of the republican national convention. former president donald trump is here in the city tonight and it s been 24 hours since this country witnessed a former american president placed in grave danger, 24 hours since the bullet was close enough to grace his ear while he campaigned for reelection the world, let alone the nation was holding its collective breath wondering if this would be the day that so many of our parents and our grandparents and even ourselves once asked where were you when? but he is here and ready to touch his party s nomination this very week. just as in the seconds after he emerged from under the weight of secret service, shielding not only him, but our nation from a terrible and tragic repeated history he pumped his fist. what exiting is playing just a few two hours ago. his team, they say he
3,500m above sea level, we ve come to the high altitude research station overlooking the aletsch glacier in the alps. switzerland is home to 1,400 glaciers, of which aletsch is the biggest, and it s here that we find groups of scientists developing new techniques to watch the ice and snow and monitor their retreat. glaciers are water reservoirs that we have, which is important for groundwater replation. i think this is the important fact, but also if you lose this mass, you have instability in the mountains, so you have more landslides ongoing, more erosion. it is also a cause of natural hazards, avalanches, if there s a lot of snow and rock falls and similar things, if there s not enough snow and the ground destabilises. a very important one in terms of the energy transition is the hydropower generation. hydropower generation uses the water that runs down from the mountains and if there is not enough water, they cannot generate enough power. and if there is a lot of water,