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For CNN, 10 repatriation is a word you don't hear too often.

It's when someone has returned or brought back to his or her home country after being abroad.

And the government of the United Kingdom has launched the largest peacetime repatriation in British history.

A British travel company suddenly went out of business Sunday night, and at that time it had about 600,000 customers on vacation, including AH, 150,000 people from Britain who were stranded in other nations.

It was named for an English businessman credited with inventing modern tourism in the mid 18 hundreds.

Until this weekend, the company that bore his name was one of the largest travel businesses on the planet.

It said it had tens of millions of customers, but it was in financial trouble, and analysts said there were a list of reasons why Thomas Cook had run out of cash.

It had more online competitors whose costs were cheaper than a company with more than 500 retail stores.

Some say it had been slow to change with the changing market, and some believe that uncertainty over Brexit, the British exit from the European Union, had made some Britons less willing to spend as much on travel.

Thomas Cook was trying to make a rescue deal with banks and its largest investor.

But when that deal fell through over the weekend, the 178 year old company was finished.

Its CEO apologized to customers, employees and partners, calling this a deeply sad day.

And the British government launched Operation Matterhorn, the repatriation effort to bring home travelers who booked their vacations through Thomas Cook and became stuck when the company collapsed.

12th Trivia Anthro site is a relatively rare type of what Cole limestone talk or marble andr site is a type of hard, shiny cold that accounts for 1% of the world's coal.

Resource is the United Nations General Assembly is now in session.

It's an annual meeting of representatives from all of the UN's 193 member countries, though not all of their leaders are there.

Two of the issues discussed its opening included religious freedom and the global climate.

S President Donald Trump hosted an event calling for countries worldwide to stop committing crimes against people of faith and to get rid of laws that restrict the freedom of religion.

While that meeting was being held, the UN's Climate action summit was going on.

It was focused on the issues of global temperatures and carbon emissions.

It's the main source of electricity for the world.

It's significantly cheaper than most other forms of energy, and there's a lot of it.

But environmentalists say it's dirty and that burning coal to produce electricity is doing long term damage to the global environment.

The secretary general, the leader of the United Nations, wants countries to stop building coal plants and to reduce their dependence on the fossil fuel.

And some nations, like Germany, have committed billions of dollars to doing this.

N Climate summit whose nations continue to support coal, including China, the world's biggest producer and consumer of it a massive operation to mind the fossil fuel and then truck it off to be burned for energy.

All of this happening in a place where building coal power plants was supposed to stop two years ago as a part of China's commitment to battle climate change.

Destruction is well underway and moving at a rapid pace.

This is what the small town turned city of shell and hot China is now known for.

Get to Sheila and Hot from the capital city of Beijing.

Learn just how committed China is to achieving.

We needed to get closer standing here just about every angle.

You're surrounded by a power plant, some of them fully operational, others like this one behind me.

Nearing the end of construction, this one even has a fresh coat of paint on it.

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, and in recent years the country's made efforts to reduce its heavy reliance on fossil fuels.

In 2017 China's National Energy Administration began suspending construction of plants in many provinces, among them Inner Mongolia.

Projects dating from 2016 onward were to be halted.

But look at these satellite images from 2016 then 2017 and finally this year you can see several plants outside chill and hot sprung up during that time.

Environmental groups fear China's recent economic slowdown coincided with the U.

S trade war has the central government sliding on its environmental promises, putting more focus on GDP and, in turn quietly allowing the construction of coal plants to continue.

China is pushing forward with other sources of energy, greener once, in fact, across the inner Mongolian plains.

You've got forms like these popping up efforts to harness both solar and wind power.

We took these mounting environmental fears to China's energy officials.

Will China be building Maur coal fueled power plants?

Maybe the officials stress that the new plants are more efficient and environmentally cleaner, but they stopped short of saying they would halt ongoing or future plant construction.

With increasing financial uncertainty in China, this might prove that environmental protection has been sidelined in exchange for economic survival.

How you react to our next great big story depends on how you view solitude if it sounds like unbearable loneliness than you probably wouldn't want to work for the U.

Forest Service as a fire look out in the wilderness of Montana.

Leave Haugen, Who's the king of the mountain.

There's really no difference between here and home.

It's just everything's compacted down to a 14 by 14 room.

Once you start staffing your look out, you're gonna be working 10 days on four days off late June until usually mid September.

This my 24th season, is a fire lookout really itches you in the wind, and the time just melts away.

My name is leave Halligan on were a toma look out before.

Look out is a structures that sits on top of a mountain or rich top that has a good view of the surrounding country, and the staffer then is tasked with living there for extended periods to watch for fire.

It's funny, cause I get a lot of questions about the standard day you wake up with son.

I mean, it's hard to sleep in a room of glass much beyond sunrise.

First thing we'll do is make a cup of coffee, and usually I have that first cup of coffee on the front porch.

Sit out there, watch the sun come up, certainly every morning and go out for a walk.

I take the weather every day at two and check out at 4 15 Getting clear.

I think the solitary nature when there's really no fires going, the only thing I might do is check in on the radio twice a day.

That might be the only time I really talk unless I'm talking to myself.

I think what's so tricky sometimes talking about the lookout experience is you're not talking to anybody about it.

So you more intuitive yume or experience it.

I think that's why I was used the term residence because you just can feel it in sense.

It maybe that's fanciful, but it certainly is the way I feel about it.

You know, You just find yourself sitting on my porch watching the world go by for hours on end.

When you look at your lifestyle of fire, look out.

Over the course of summer, you might miss a lot of stuff in your life, but certainly every summer I keep coming back because living on top of a mountain for days on end.

It's just such a beautiful chance at making life of it.

Holy History Batman, The third Saturday in September, which was last weekend, is known as Batman Day.

And since it was the 80th such Batman Day, marking 80 years since Batman first appeared in a DC comic book, fans who take their fiction seriously got up, dressed up and turned out to see the bat signal flashed in more than 12 cities worldwide.

Not sure what else they did, but for bat fans, costumes old and new, we're all part of the fun.

The Caped Crusader Capers are a graphic novel idea, even if they seem kind of comical.

 What kind of joker would wanna play spoiler to bat fans by robbing them of Di seeing and being seen in the dark of night. 