emerging global power. and 70 years after independence, india is still a diverse, ever evolving assortment of cultures, creeds, religions and languages. heading off the well worn tourist path, we re on a journey that spans this vast subcontinent from east to west, travelling from one of the driest places on earth. it s quite incredible, the sand. i mean, it sjust hard crystals, white salt. you can probably taste it. ..to one of the wettest. these are areas really for the adventurous traveller. this isn t india on tap. i m on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. and i also meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country home. it s going to be an amazing journey. for thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. and at the heart of this enterprise was the sea. and the state of gujarat, with 1,000 miles of coastline, served as a shipping gateway to africa, arabia and beyond.
india. a vast country, home to over a billion people, birthplace of illustrious, ancient civilisations. .. and today, a fast emerging global power. and 70 years after independence, india is still a diverse, ever evolving assortment of cultures, creeds, religions and languages. heading off the well worn tourist path, we re on a journey that spans this vast subcontinent from east to west, travelling from one of the driest places on earth. it s quite incredible, the sand. i mean, it sjust hard crystals, white salt. you can probably taste it. ..to one of the wettest. these are areas really for the adventurous traveller. this isn t india on tap. i m on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. and i also meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country home. it s going to be an amazing journey. for thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. and at the heart of this enterprise was
stories and events to watch for this year. hello. let s see what is in for 2018. nasa is heading to mars and this time it will delve any of the planet s surface. the mission would study the red planet s interior, using a self hammering probe to borrow deep down than ever before. it hopes to understand how the rocky planet is formed. british scientists are leading an expedition to a colossal new iceberg in the antarctic. it wrote the wake over the summer and covers an area of almost 6000 square kilometres and weighs1 almost 6000 square kilometres and weighs 1 trillion tons. they want to investigate the hidden marine ecosystem left exposed by this shifting block of ice. a critical new climate report will be released in 2018. they will look at how it is feasible for the world to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 degrees celsius and it will access what will happen if we don t. assessed. and will have a final last of four this elon musk‘s co, the world ‘s most powerful
some surprises tonight, because sta rgazers some surprises tonight, because stargazers are hoping to get a good view of the perseid meteor shower. hundreds of meteors will streak gci’oss hundreds of meteors will streak across the sky in a display that may be visible around the world. it should peak at 11pm, clear skies permitting, and it can be seen in most parts the uk. if you see everybody lying down on the grass as you head home tonight, that will be the reason! let s look at the weather prospects. it won t be a bad weekend overall gci’oss it won t be a bad weekend overall across the british isles, that this not to say that there are not a couple of flies in the ointment. through the morning, we have had two weather fronts bringing cloud through the morning, we have had two weatherfronts bringing cloud and the chance of some rain to some parts of the british isles. through the afternoon, the front will drag out of scotland s and push into the eastern side of the pennin
around here. it s not completely dry. we have showers moving across scotla nd dry. we have showers moving across scotland an they ve settled in gci’oss scotland an they ve settled in across northern england and parts of wales as well. towards the south and east, largely dry with sunshine. a decent end to the day likely. towards the latter part of the afternoon, still a few showers around but not so for the south west of england, nor indeed for the south east. should be turning sunnier. a lot of the cloud we have at the moment is convicted cloud so it s developed as the heat‘s built up it s developed as the heat‘s built up through the day. the temperatures drop and the cloud will break up. fewer showers gci’oss drop and the cloud will break up. fewer showers across wales. still some heavier showers across parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire and into scotland. not many showers for northern ireland. northern and eastern scotland and eastern england will have most of the sho