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  • welcome everyone.

  • I'm Coral Jesus for seeing that tent.

  • There are nine countries in the world that are believed to have nuclear weapons, and two of them which happen to be neighbors, have just had a flare up.

  • We're talking about the South Asian countries of India and Pakistan.

  • Other governments are asking them to show restraint to try to calm down there Tensions earlier this month, there was a suicide car bomb attack on Indian soldiers in a territory controlled by India.

  • 40 troops were killed.

  • India says a terrorist group based in Pakistan is responsible, and it accuses Pakistan of supporting the attack.

  • Pakistan says it had nothing to do with the bombing.

  • But on Tuesday, India launched airstrikes in Pakistani territory for the first time in almost 50 years.

  • India says it was targeting a camp run by the terrorist group.

  • Then on Wednesday, Pakistan says it's Air Force shot down two Indian fighter jets that had flown over territory Pakistan says it controls.

  • India confirmed it had lost one plane, but said it had shot down a Pakistani jet, too.

  • We don't know exactly what happened with the planes, but we can tell you about a problem that's existed between these two countries for years.

  • It's a dispute over a territory named Cashmere.

  • It's located on the northern borders of Pakistan and India.

  • Both nations control parts of Kashmir, but both nations claim that the entire territory should be theirs.

  • It's by no means a new dispute.

  • Its cost fighting in wars between them for decades, including the violence that we've seen this week.

  • The're neighbors with a shared history but a fractured present.

  • 70 years ago, British ruler sliced a giant Indian empire into two countries.

  • A new Hindu majority, India and Pakistan, home to mostly Muslims from the 18th century.

  • Through independence, the British empire in India stretched from Afghanistan in the west to Burma in the east.

  • But by the 19 forties, anti colonial sentiments swelled in many British colonies around the world, including India.

  • Demands for India's independence group, led by freedom fighters Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who favored a separate state for India's Muslim minorities.

  • India was burning.

  • Communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims spiraled out of control call, so end British rule were reaching boiling point on the back off a costly Second World War Britain lacked the will and the means to defeat the independence movement.

  • Britain decided to quit India in March 1947.

  • Naval officer Lord Mountbatten was appointed the vice Roy off India to oversee the handover off power.

  • He assigned British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe to draw the partition line.

  • In just six weeks, he finalized a plan to divide India along religious lines.

  • There would be a new India, a secular India, though it's where the Hindu majority would live on a separate country called Pakistan for Muslims.

  • On midnight of August 14th 1947 the British Empire officially transferred power to India and Pakistan after nearly two centuries of colonial rule.

  • India became a sovereign nation and Pakistan was born.

  • Gina became head of the newly formed Pakistan.

  • Nehru became the first prime minister of India at the stroke of the midnight.

  • When the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

  • Partition saw one of the largest human migrations the world has ever seen.

  • Millions of Hindus and Sikhs living in Pakistan headed to India.

  • Millions of Muslims migrated to Pakistan in trains, bullets on foot in a matter of months.

  • At least 10 million people moved across the borders.

  • At least a 1,000,000 Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs died and communal attacks as they crossed the border.

  • Tens of thousands of women and girls were abducted.

  • Families were divided 24 years later.

  • In 1971 the East Wing off Pakistan split away to become a separate country called Bangladesh.

  • The Westside remained as present day.

  • Pakistan, India and Pakistan have fought four wars since 1947 mostly fueled by disputes over the northern Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir.

  • Both countries claim it in its entirety, but only controlled part of it.

  • The both sides have attempted to restore peace many times they remain hostile.

  • Nuclear armed neighbors even today.

  • Mallika Kapur, CNN, Amritsar, India 12th Trivia.

  • Which of these landmarks would you find in Yosemite National Park?

  • Chimney Rock, Landscape Art, Crater, leg or help?

  • Capitan L.

  • Kept, as it's also known, is a famous feature of California's Yosemite National Park.

  • It's 3200 feet tall.

  • Its walls air just about vertical.

  • It was once believed to be impossible to climb, but that changed in the late 19 fifties, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, when an expedition to install P thons and drilling holes for ropes helped a climber named Warren Harding make his way up El Capitan.

  • Two years ago, history on the mountain was made again when a 33 year old climber free soloed meaning climbed it without any ropes, As CNN dot com puts it.

  • If he slips, he falls.

  • If he falls, he dies.

  • The film that one, this year's Academy Award for best documentary was based on this climb.

  • When I know What I'm doing and I'm climbing well, then it feels meditative, very relaxing and beautiful.

  • But if I don't know what I'm doing and I start to hesitate, started, get scared, then it could be a nightmare.

  • Good, right?

  • Typically, watching free soloing is scarier than doing it, because when you're when you're doing the climb, you know how comfortable you feel.

  • You know how in control you feel.

  • You know where's when you're watching.

  • You have no idea how the person feels, and so you kind of fear the worst.

  • You drive up off the left foot in with some press.

  • That's the worst hold on entire room.

  • So you get maybe hacker thumb on the hole.

  • As it turned out, when I had the experience, it was probably good that it was so high off the ground because I have done so much.

  • I was so deeply in the zone, I guess you know, I was basically performing so well that by the time I got there, I felt incredible on and I just executed it perfectly there.

  • No, Basically, the last five or six interview last 200 meters are get easier and easier is Ugo and really feels like you're sort of sprinting to the finish line.

  • And it's like, beautiful on your site causes so nice.

  • You know, you could sort of, like, relax more as you get closer and enjoy it more as you get closer to the top.

  • And so when I came over the summit, I mean, I was just like, this is awesome.

  • Yeah, it was It was incredible.

  • It is definitely a physical challenge Toe climb a cab.

  • But compared to the standards of the day, I mean, challenge isn't really physic or the main challenge isn't physical for free soloing.

  • Okay?

  • It's definitely bigger mental challenge.

  • Physical, I think, regardless of the film, regardless of any media coming in, I mean At some point, I could just have a picnic with my family.

  • Look at the long like that is the wall that I was like That's you know, I mean, it's just it's deeply satisfying in Japan, there's a restaurant that challenges you to eat more noodles than you thought possible that small bowls of soba noodles are refilled as soon as you eat what's inside, and this lady managed to take down 300 bowls of them.

  • That's the equivalent of 20 regular sized bowls of noodles.

  • So anyway, you do the math.

  • It's a lot y'all, the restaurant says, its record with set when some 18 570 small bowls, or about 38 regular bowls of soba in one sitting, that record would be like finding a noodle in a haystack.

  • Critics might call that glutinous supporters might say it's worth waiting for, but if you're up for a challenging bowl game and you're bringing a souped up appetite, it's tough to beat a lunch.

welcome everyone.

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