Will Chalk

I spoke to Hezbollah about it and I think progress is made. So it does seem that Donald Trump is telling reporters there that he has put himself between the Israelis and Hezbollah in an attempt to get this ceasefire to work. And just to remind you, the ceasefire involves Hezbollah pulling out of parts of southern Lebanon, currently Israeli occupied, the Lebanese army moving in to replace the group.

Ja Hezbollahin johtaja, Naim Qasem, on sanonut, että se ei ole jotain, jota se ottaa yhdessä ryhmään. Että ne kohteet, joissa se on ollut, olivat huonot, huomioitavat ja järjestävät Lebanon. Ja että tehtävästi ei ole käännöstä.

and there have been further airstrikes from the Israelis. So if Donald Trump is saying he's seeing all this going on, and he's trying to get involved personally talking to Hezbollah, that is certainly a new development. He of course is saying progress is being made, but he's also said that the Iran deal will be signed this weekend, and I think we'll have to wait and see of course, but he's said something like that many times in the past.

A sign all of this maybe then that he is just trying more and more things, isn't he, to try and get out of this situation? Because it's all linked. I mean, Iran wants to see progress in Lebanon. It wants to see Israel to stop military action in Lebanon. Israel wants to see Hezbollah stop military action in Lebanon so that Israel can feel safer.

Ja Hezbollah sanoo, että se ei ole saanut sopimusta. Se ei näe, että on mitään parantumista. Ja se ei tarvitse yrittää, ja se ei tarvitse yrittää Israelin objekteja. Joten se tulee enemmän ja enemmän vaikeaa Donald Trumpin kanssa. Ja tietenkin, joka kerta...

We get to another weekend where he says there's going to be progress and there isn't progress. We're getting a little bit closer to the midterm elections. There are primaries going on and have been for some weeks now, reminding everyone that Americans will get a vote on effectively on Congress, but of course with his activities and actions and successes or failures in mind. So it all ramps up to a lot of political pressure on him.

I'll take you back to last June, when just seconds after it had taken off, Air India flight 171 from Ahmedabad to London crashed, killing all but one of the 242 people on board and another 19 on the ground. An investigation into the crash is still going on, but as grieving families wait for those answers, many have already been given final settlement offers from Air India.

Yksi ihminen, jonka elämä on niin erinomainen, että hänen perheensä, joka uskoi, että hän on muuttunut, alkoi organisaatioon hänen sydäntänsä. Napooli-kysymyksessä Hilary Dawa-Scherpa spendsi viisi päivää yksin Mount Everestissa, maailman suurimmasta rannasta, ennen kuin hän oli nähnyt, että hän on kruulunut basecampin kautta ruudun hallituksen ryhmässä tekemässä heidän viimeiset taitojaan.

He is now, understandably, undergoing medical treatment, so the world's waiting to hear his account of what happened and how he survived. In the meantime, my colleague Sean Lay has been speaking to Chris Thrall, a mountaineer and former British soldier, and perhaps the last person to see Hilary Dawa Sherpa on the mountain, because they'd been climbing down together. We were descending from the death zone after myself and another Sherpa had summited.

Hilary Dower sat down on his backpack as he had done hundreds of times before to take a short rest. And as I descended the next 50-100 meters alone, I came across the Polish climber with no oxygen battling fairly severe frostbite.

My attention turned to the weakest member of the trio. And that was that. As I looked back up the mountain, as I helped this guy descend, which should have taken two hours, the conditions were so bad, and with no oxygen, it took about 11 hours. And in this time, Hilary Dower didn't appear to have moved, and certainly wasn't descending, because we would have seen his head torched.

So by the time you reached base camp, I guess you'd assumed that he'd just died in the conditions.

Kyllä, ajattelisit, että se tuli 19 tuntia, kun päästiin kampuun. Se oli niin huono asia. Sitten se tuli vielä yhden päivän, noin 19 tuntia, kun päästiin Kumbu Icefallin ja päästiin basekampuun. Oli täysin vahva. Kaikki rautat olivat ylöspäin. Olimme vain ymmärtäneet, millä tavalla mennä. Emme kaikki päässeet krippuun. Se on todella huono asia.

Voitko kertoa, kun kuulit uutista, että Dawa Sherpa on todennäköisesti elänyt, ja mitä teidän reaktio oli siitä? Aloin nähdä sosiaalisessa mediassa, Instagramissa ja YouTube-kanavassani muutaman kommentin, että hän on elävä. Tietysti ajattelin, että he olisivat spannuja alun perin, koska se todella rauhoittaa odotuksia. Tein lyhyen tutkimuksen, jotenkin, kun tapasin perheäni eilen.

to offer my utmost condolences and to offer my financial assistance if I'm able to raise any. So it's kind of crazy one minute to be fighting back tears with his daughter and the next minute to see him doing a Crocodile Dundee and crawling into town. It's absolutely amazing. Beyond words, I'm a bit, how can you say...

My emotions aren't fluctuating, because if they were fluctuating, I'd be all over the place. You know, I've just taken this amazing bit of news kind of in my stride. Very happy for Hilary, looking forward to speaking to him. But moreover, I'm absolutely fascinated to know what happened. How he would have crossed the Khumbu Icefall with no ladders. Beggar's belief. That takes it from a sort of utterly brutal ninja...

Huomattavaa kertaa, eikö? Se on Chris Thrall puhuvan Sean Layen kanssa.

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