Hello everyone! It is a time for the "7 Days news". My name is Gleb Vinogradov. Congratulations. It is our show's anniversary. It is 60 years old today, so let's remember main news of last 60 years.
Firstly I want to say "Thank you" to Martin Rietze. He gave us a present - a photo of the volcanic eruption. Right now I want to tell you some facts about his job.
When a volcano erupts, most peоple want to get as far away as possible, as quickly as they can! German engineer Martin Rietze grabs his camera and tries to get as close as he can and stay alive. The lava flow is about a metre away and it's getting closer every second. The ground beneath his feet is shaking and there is a deafening гoar. He can't stay this close for too long because the gases and acids will destroy his camerа, but Martin Rietze waits just long enough to see flaming hot lava and ash explode out of the nearby crater and gets the perfect shot. Martin is a freelance photographer whose stunning photographs of volcanic eruptions are in high demand with newspapers and magazines all over the world. He is one of a small but dedicated group of volcano chasers. When a dormant volcano becomes active, they book the first flight to be as near as possible to it. The final results though definitely worth it! Sometimes fountains jets of lava that shoot up as high as a thirty-storey building! Also Martin always takes precautions: goggles and a gas mask provide protection from poisonous gases, but gloves are just as important because fresh lava can be as sharp as а knife. Martin is unique photographer, I like his photos.
Next I want to tell you about Aron Raltson's story. When 27-year-old Aron Ralston set out to climb in the remote Blue John Canyon in Utah one Sunday in May 2003, he had no idea that he would have to make an incredible sacrifice to stay alive. Aron had gone climbing alone many times before. He didn't even take his mobile phone. Apart from his climbing gear, Aron carried only a backpack containing a small first aid kit, a knife, a video camera, one litre of water, and few snacks. Aron had been climbing all day and was about to stop, but as he was crossing a 1-metre wide crack in the canyon, disaster struck; a 365-kilo boulder moved and trapped his arm against the canyon wall. was no way he could move. At first Aron hoped that help would arrive, but nobody came. He struggled to get free, and using his penknife, tried to chip away at the boulder without success. There Aron used his video camera to keep a video diary and then to record a good bye message to his parents. Fighting exhaustion and dehydration, Aron became more and more delirious. On the fifth day, Aron reached a decision to do the one thing-the only thing -that could save his life: to cut off his own arm. He used his body weight to bend his arm until he felt it break. Then using his blunt penknife, he slowly cut through his arm The whole procedure took an hour. He administered first aid to himself, then he fixed a rope to the rock and climbed down nearly 21 metres to the canyon floor After hiking 8 km, he came across a Dutch family who gave him water and helped him to walk on. Meanwhile, Aron's friends and family had realised he was missing and notified authorities who found out Aron had used his credit card to buy groceries in Moab, Utah. When a rescue helicopter crew finally spotted him, the rescuers were amazed to see Aron walking back to his truck. He hardly needed them to rescue him! With his prosthetic arm, he has become a better climber than before his accident. He also works as motivational speaker, helping disabled athletes and troubled teenagers. In 2010, a blockbuster film came out about his experience called 127 hours, the exact amount of time he spent trapped. Aron still revisits Blue John Canyon to remember his desperate struggle to survive and return to his loved ones. His story is a good reason to protect yourself and be careful.
Secondly I want to tell you about Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, 23rd August, 2005, а tropіcal storm formed over the Bahamas, about 560 km east of Miami, Florida. By August 25, the storm had strengthened and becamе Hurricane Katrina. Residents of the city of New Orleans had no idea that within days 80% of their city would be underwater in one of the worst disasters in US history. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most powerful storms that ever hit the Atlantic coast with winds over 270 km per hour. As beсаmе Stronger over the Gulf of Mexico, the mayor of New Orleans declared a state of emergency and started evacuating the city. When eye of the storm missed the city by about 72 km, everyone thought the worst was over, but they were very wrong New Orleans has always been under threat from flooding. With the Mississippi River on two sides, Lake to the north and most of the city 150-300 m below sea level, a series of high walls, called levees, protect it. As the hurricane came ashore, it brought an 800- metre-high storm surge that rode the rivers up to New Orleans, and smashed through the levees. Over a million residents had already left the city, but tens of thousands, mainly the elderly and the poor, were in temрогагу shelters. As the waters rose, pеople were begging for help on roofs, and neighbourhoods were suffering from looting and violence. Emergency services struggled to cope. Eventually, the military and the National Guard moved into the city and began to get food and water to the desperate few that remained. After 43 days, army engineers pumped the last of the flood water out of the Almost 1500 реople had lost their lives because of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans alone. These days, New Orleans is making a slow recovery. The city has improved the levees, the community is rebuilding itself, and everyone is working hard to make sure that nothing like this will ever happen again.
Next ones are weather phenomenas. Most of us are interested in the weather forecast; do we need to wrap up warm today or take an umbrella or our sunglasses when we go out? But imagine if you heard that a never-ending lightning storm was on its way, or a shower of animals! This might sound crazy but, believe it or not, these kinds of weird weather phenomena actually happen Heavy weather Some people are used to extreme weather conditions. This is the case for those who live in the area where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo and has dark clouds covering it most of the year. For centuries, these clouds constantly crash into each other and cause violent lightning storms that can last up to ten hours and occur between 140 and 160 nights a year. They call it 'the never- ending lightning storm. However, every cloud has a silver lining; this lightning activity produces nitrogen oxide which probably helps to restore the ozone layer. Another kind of rare lightning is ball lightning.This is a ball of brightly coloured light which usually occurs during thunderstorms but lasts longer than a lightning bolt. Sometimes the ball even explodes and leaves behind a smell, but the true cause of this phenomenon is a mystery. One sighting hit the news in 1984 when ball lightning entered a Russian aircraft, flew above the shocked passengers, travelled through the aircraft and passed silently out again leaving two holes in the plane. Also we're all used to hearing about tornados, but imagine if a tornado was a whirling fire storm instead of a wind storm. A fire tornado or a 'fire devil' can happen when high temperatures from a wildfire mix with strong winds. They are usually about 300-450 metres high, but they can sometimes reach 1.6 km in height! A fire tornado made world news in 2010 in Brazil when astonished motorists watched one spin and burn its way through fields by a highway. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan ignited the largest fire tornado in history, killing 38,000 people in 15 minutes. Luckily, fire tornadoes are very rare. Finally, Have you ever heard the saying, 'it's raining cats and dogs'? Well, what about frogs, fish, jellyfish or even snakes? Believe it or not, there have been many stories throughout history of it raining animals. One explanation is that strong winds or a tornado could pick them up and drop them far away. The rain of fish has been happening every summer in the region of Yoro, Honduras, for over a century. Witnesses say that there is usually a violent storm, then afterwards there are hundreds of living fish on the ground which people take home, cook and eat! Many local people believe that this is a miracle, but some scientists disagree; they believe that the fish are from underground rivers and that the storms somehow bring them up above ground.
Before the final story I want to tell about the day, when the Earth moved. On 11th March, 2011, at 14:46 local time, an undersea earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. The force of the earthquake, the most powerful in Japan's history, triggered a devastating tsunami. The world faced a partial nuclear meltdown and the planet moved on its axis, shortening the length of every day by 1.8 milliseconds. It was a terrible national tragedy that the country will need a great deal of time to recover from In the days before the main earthquake, Japan had experienced quite a few foreshocks, some of which exceeded magnitude 7 but nothing could prepare the nation for the main shock. a magnitude 9 quake. It was strong enough to be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Tokyo where buildings shook violently and many office workers ran out onto the streets terrified. Much worse was yet to come as the authorities issued a tsunami warning Frantic residents headed for high ground, rooftops or upper floors of buildings. Soon after, a wall of water, 10 m high in some places rolled across the Pacific Ocean and crashed into the coast One giant wave even crashed through an airport in Sendai, leaving 1,300 people stranded on the upper floors. The waters reached up to 10 km inland before heading back out to sea, now loaded with debris and leaving a swamp-like landscape of landslides and mud. TV viewers couldn't believe their eyes as these scenes were broadcast around the world By this time, many areas were without electricity as pylons had crumbled which caused a major disaster at Japan's nuclear power stations. evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents. Explosions rocked the plant as courageous technicians struggled to control the damage and prevent a nuclear meltdown. Over the next few days, a large number of aftershocks continued to shake Japan, causing plenty of problems for rescue teams as they raced to find survivors. Several countries sent relief workers and the world held its breath while it waited to see how the tragedy would end. thousands more were missing. Several amazing tales of survival came to the attention of the world's press, though. A 4-month-old baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble four days after the earthquake. A man was found clinging to his rooftop as it was floating 14 km out at sea 2 days after the tsunami. And there was the Japanese student in California, desperate for news of her lost family, who found them on a YouTube news clip. It showed her sister holding up a sign and sending a desperately-needed message of hope across the world: "We all survived." The government immediately ordered an Over 15,000 people died that day and thousands more were missing. Several amazing tales of survival came to the attention of the world's press, though. A 4-month-old baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble four days after the earthquake. A man was found clinging to his rooftop as it was floating 14 km out at sea 2 days after the tsunami. And there was the Japanese student in California, desperate for news of her lost family, who found them on a YouTube news clip. It showed her sister holding up a sign and sending a desperately-needed message of hope across the world: "We all survived."
Finally I want to tell you about the hero of the mankind - Yuri Gagarin. It was at 10 am on 12th April, 1961 when Radio Moscow interrupted scheduled broadcasting to announce something truly historic and magnificent. "Here is our special news," it stated. "The first cosmic spaceship named Vostok 1 with a man on board has orbited around the Earth from the Soviet Union. He is an airman, Major Yuri Gargarin. An hour earlier the spacecraft Vostok 1, with Yuri Gargarin as its only crew, was fired from a launch pad in Baikinor in Kazakhstan. It orbited the Earth once at a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour for a total duration of 108 minutes. The ships flight path took it up to space and over the Pacific Ocean, South America, across the equator, and the South Atlantic before re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and landing at Engels. His safe return put to rest worries that space flight could be fatal to humans and opened the doors to space travel. The news quickly spread and the world was astonished. The Soviet Union had beaten the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gargarin had become that man. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushschev congratulated Gargarin on his achievement and sent him a message from his Black Sea holiday home in which he said that the flight opened up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space. Major Yuri Gargarin, a previously unknown army officer, instantly became a national hero and an international icon Today, the landing site at Engels has become a monument park at the centre of which is a 25-meter tall sculpture of a silver metallic rocket ship and a three-meter tall statue of Yuri Gargarin. The space hero has not been forgotten and on the 50th anniversary of his voyage into space world cosmonauts honoured the hero when the Russian, American, and Italian crew of the International Space Station sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a 'Happy Yuri's Night‘.
That is all for today. Thank you for watching. Know the history. Gleb Vinogradov was with you. Bye.
Firstly I want to say "Thank you" to Martin Rietze. He gave us a present - a photo of the volcanic eruption. Right now I want to tell you some facts about his job.
When a volcano erupts, most peоple want to get as far away as possible, as quickly as they can! German engineer Martin Rietze grabs his camera and tries to get as close as he can and stay alive. The lava flow is about a metre away and it's getting closer every second. The ground beneath his feet is shaking and there is a deafening гoar. He can't stay this close for too long because the gases and acids will destroy his camerа, but Martin Rietze waits just long enough to see flaming hot lava and ash explode out of the nearby crater and gets the perfect shot. Martin is a freelance photographer whose stunning photographs of volcanic eruptions are in high demand with newspapers and magazines all over the world. He is one of a small but dedicated group of volcano chasers. When a dormant volcano becomes active, they book the first flight to be as near as possible to it. The final results though definitely worth it! Sometimes fountains jets of lava that shoot up as high as a thirty-storey building! Also Martin always takes precautions: goggles and a gas mask provide protection from poisonous gases, but gloves are just as important because fresh lava can be as sharp as а knife. Martin is unique photographer, I like his photos.
Next I want to tell you about Aron Raltson's story. When 27-year-old Aron Ralston set out to climb in the remote Blue John Canyon in Utah one Sunday in May 2003, he had no idea that he would have to make an incredible sacrifice to stay alive. Aron had gone climbing alone many times before. He didn't even take his mobile phone. Apart from his climbing gear, Aron carried only a backpack containing a small first aid kit, a knife, a video camera, one litre of water, and few snacks. Aron had been climbing all day and was about to stop, but as he was crossing a 1-metre wide crack in the canyon, disaster struck; a 365-kilo boulder moved and trapped his arm against the canyon wall. was no way he could move. At first Aron hoped that help would arrive, but nobody came. He struggled to get free, and using his penknife, tried to chip away at the boulder without success. There Aron used his video camera to keep a video diary and then to record a good bye message to his parents. Fighting exhaustion and dehydration, Aron became more and more delirious. On the fifth day, Aron reached a decision to do the one thing-the only thing -that could save his life: to cut off his own arm. He used his body weight to bend his arm until he felt it break. Then using his blunt penknife, he slowly cut through his arm The whole procedure took an hour. He administered first aid to himself, then he fixed a rope to the rock and climbed down nearly 21 metres to the canyon floor After hiking 8 km, he came across a Dutch family who gave him water and helped him to walk on. Meanwhile, Aron's friends and family had realised he was missing and notified authorities who found out Aron had used his credit card to buy groceries in Moab, Utah. When a rescue helicopter crew finally spotted him, the rescuers were amazed to see Aron walking back to his truck. He hardly needed them to rescue him! With his prosthetic arm, he has become a better climber than before his accident. He also works as motivational speaker, helping disabled athletes and troubled teenagers. In 2010, a blockbuster film came out about his experience called 127 hours, the exact amount of time he spent trapped. Aron still revisits Blue John Canyon to remember his desperate struggle to survive and return to his loved ones. His story is a good reason to protect yourself and be careful.
Secondly I want to tell you about Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, 23rd August, 2005, а tropіcal storm formed over the Bahamas, about 560 km east of Miami, Florida. By August 25, the storm had strengthened and becamе Hurricane Katrina. Residents of the city of New Orleans had no idea that within days 80% of their city would be underwater in one of the worst disasters in US history. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most powerful storms that ever hit the Atlantic coast with winds over 270 km per hour. As beсаmе Stronger over the Gulf of Mexico, the mayor of New Orleans declared a state of emergency and started evacuating the city. When eye of the storm missed the city by about 72 km, everyone thought the worst was over, but they were very wrong New Orleans has always been under threat from flooding. With the Mississippi River on two sides, Lake to the north and most of the city 150-300 m below sea level, a series of high walls, called levees, protect it. As the hurricane came ashore, it brought an 800- metre-high storm surge that rode the rivers up to New Orleans, and smashed through the levees. Over a million residents had already left the city, but tens of thousands, mainly the elderly and the poor, were in temрогагу shelters. As the waters rose, pеople were begging for help on roofs, and neighbourhoods were suffering from looting and violence. Emergency services struggled to cope. Eventually, the military and the National Guard moved into the city and began to get food and water to the desperate few that remained. After 43 days, army engineers pumped the last of the flood water out of the Almost 1500 реople had lost their lives because of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans alone. These days, New Orleans is making a slow recovery. The city has improved the levees, the community is rebuilding itself, and everyone is working hard to make sure that nothing like this will ever happen again.
Next ones are weather phenomenas. Most of us are interested in the weather forecast; do we need to wrap up warm today or take an umbrella or our sunglasses when we go out? But imagine if you heard that a never-ending lightning storm was on its way, or a shower of animals! This might sound crazy but, believe it or not, these kinds of weird weather phenomena actually happen Heavy weather Some people are used to extreme weather conditions. This is the case for those who live in the area where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo and has dark clouds covering it most of the year. For centuries, these clouds constantly crash into each other and cause violent lightning storms that can last up to ten hours and occur between 140 and 160 nights a year. They call it 'the never- ending lightning storm. However, every cloud has a silver lining; this lightning activity produces nitrogen oxide which probably helps to restore the ozone layer. Another kind of rare lightning is ball lightning.This is a ball of brightly coloured light which usually occurs during thunderstorms but lasts longer than a lightning bolt. Sometimes the ball even explodes and leaves behind a smell, but the true cause of this phenomenon is a mystery. One sighting hit the news in 1984 when ball lightning entered a Russian aircraft, flew above the shocked passengers, travelled through the aircraft and passed silently out again leaving two holes in the plane. Also we're all used to hearing about tornados, but imagine if a tornado was a whirling fire storm instead of a wind storm. A fire tornado or a 'fire devil' can happen when high temperatures from a wildfire mix with strong winds. They are usually about 300-450 metres high, but they can sometimes reach 1.6 km in height! A fire tornado made world news in 2010 in Brazil when astonished motorists watched one spin and burn its way through fields by a highway. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan ignited the largest fire tornado in history, killing 38,000 people in 15 minutes. Luckily, fire tornadoes are very rare. Finally, Have you ever heard the saying, 'it's raining cats and dogs'? Well, what about frogs, fish, jellyfish or even snakes? Believe it or not, there have been many stories throughout history of it raining animals. One explanation is that strong winds or a tornado could pick them up and drop them far away. The rain of fish has been happening every summer in the region of Yoro, Honduras, for over a century. Witnesses say that there is usually a violent storm, then afterwards there are hundreds of living fish on the ground which people take home, cook and eat! Many local people believe that this is a miracle, but some scientists disagree; they believe that the fish are from underground rivers and that the storms somehow bring them up above ground.
Before the final story I want to tell about the day, when the Earth moved. On 11th March, 2011, at 14:46 local time, an undersea earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. The force of the earthquake, the most powerful in Japan's history, triggered a devastating tsunami. The world faced a partial nuclear meltdown and the planet moved on its axis, shortening the length of every day by 1.8 milliseconds. It was a terrible national tragedy that the country will need a great deal of time to recover from In the days before the main earthquake, Japan had experienced quite a few foreshocks, some of which exceeded magnitude 7 but nothing could prepare the nation for the main shock. a magnitude 9 quake. It was strong enough to be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Tokyo where buildings shook violently and many office workers ran out onto the streets terrified. Much worse was yet to come as the authorities issued a tsunami warning Frantic residents headed for high ground, rooftops or upper floors of buildings. Soon after, a wall of water, 10 m high in some places rolled across the Pacific Ocean and crashed into the coast One giant wave even crashed through an airport in Sendai, leaving 1,300 people stranded on the upper floors. The waters reached up to 10 km inland before heading back out to sea, now loaded with debris and leaving a swamp-like landscape of landslides and mud. TV viewers couldn't believe their eyes as these scenes were broadcast around the world By this time, many areas were without electricity as pylons had crumbled which caused a major disaster at Japan's nuclear power stations. evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents. Explosions rocked the plant as courageous technicians struggled to control the damage and prevent a nuclear meltdown. Over the next few days, a large number of aftershocks continued to shake Japan, causing plenty of problems for rescue teams as they raced to find survivors. Several countries sent relief workers and the world held its breath while it waited to see how the tragedy would end. thousands more were missing. Several amazing tales of survival came to the attention of the world's press, though. A 4-month-old baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble four days after the earthquake. A man was found clinging to his rooftop as it was floating 14 km out at sea 2 days after the tsunami. And there was the Japanese student in California, desperate for news of her lost family, who found them on a YouTube news clip. It showed her sister holding up a sign and sending a desperately-needed message of hope across the world: "We all survived." The government immediately ordered an Over 15,000 people died that day and thousands more were missing. Several amazing tales of survival came to the attention of the world's press, though. A 4-month-old baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble four days after the earthquake. A man was found clinging to his rooftop as it was floating 14 km out at sea 2 days after the tsunami. And there was the Japanese student in California, desperate for news of her lost family, who found them on a YouTube news clip. It showed her sister holding up a sign and sending a desperately-needed message of hope across the world: "We all survived."
Finally I want to tell you about the hero of the mankind - Yuri Gagarin. It was at 10 am on 12th April, 1961 when Radio Moscow interrupted scheduled broadcasting to announce something truly historic and magnificent. "Here is our special news," it stated. "The first cosmic spaceship named Vostok 1 with a man on board has orbited around the Earth from the Soviet Union. He is an airman, Major Yuri Gargarin. An hour earlier the spacecraft Vostok 1, with Yuri Gargarin as its only crew, was fired from a launch pad in Baikinor in Kazakhstan. It orbited the Earth once at a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour for a total duration of 108 minutes. The ships flight path took it up to space and over the Pacific Ocean, South America, across the equator, and the South Atlantic before re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and landing at Engels. His safe return put to rest worries that space flight could be fatal to humans and opened the doors to space travel. The news quickly spread and the world was astonished. The Soviet Union had beaten the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gargarin had become that man. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushschev congratulated Gargarin on his achievement and sent him a message from his Black Sea holiday home in which he said that the flight opened up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space. Major Yuri Gargarin, a previously unknown army officer, instantly became a national hero and an international icon Today, the landing site at Engels has become a monument park at the centre of which is a 25-meter tall sculpture of a silver metallic rocket ship and a three-meter tall statue of Yuri Gargarin. The space hero has not been forgotten and on the 50th anniversary of his voyage into space world cosmonauts honoured the hero when the Russian, American, and Italian crew of the International Space Station sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a 'Happy Yuri's Night‘.
That is all for today. Thank you for watching. Know the history. Gleb Vinogradov was with you. Bye.
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