it is the capital of iceland, reykjavik,, capital of iceland, reykjavik, , the capital of iceland, reykjavik,, the aurora borealis, just in time for halloween. the aurora borealis, “ust in time for halloween._ the aurora borealis, “ust in time for halloween. green is the colour— time for halloween. green is the colour of _ time for halloween. green is the colour of the _ time for halloween. green is the colour of the moment. . time for halloween. green is - the colour of the moment. don't forget the cop26 taking place in glasgow. there it is, that is glasgow for you. and we will be seeing a lot of that over the course of the next 12 days as leaders seek further solutions to the climate crisis facing us all. goodbye for now. morning. a change of month brings with it a change of the weather. we'll start the week with sunny spells and scattered showers. by the middle part of the week, it gets noticeably quieter, cooler for all of us, and some frost and fog overnight, so plenty to pack in there. so on monday morning, then, it looks somewhat like this — with low pressure easing away, and

. >> reporter: iceland, not only a wondrous nation with so much to offer, 20 miles from reykjavik you'll find this power plant. >> we are standing here in the mossy lava fields which is actually a volcano. so we are harnessing the heat from the underground to produce electricity. >> reporter: part of that emissions-free electricity now powers another nearby climate change fighting machine. meet orca, icelandic for "energy." it's the largest direct air carbon capture facility in the world. and it just opened in september. its giant fans and filters can remove 4,000 tons of co2 every year. it's all part of a joint project with carbfix. the two companies working to clean the atmosphere by taking co2 from the air and turning it into stone. >> there's no magic, it's a natural process and turns the co2 into stone, like 95% turns into stone in less than two years. >> reporter: so it mineralizes on the stone and the water is left for the regular reserve. >> yeah. >> and really, iceland is the ideal place to do this because all of this is being run. if we were running it with coal-fired plants it

historically i can remember well when president reagan went to reykjavik. he frequently and recently before he went called the soviet union the evil empire. but he and president gorbachev met in reykjavik and decided that having 50,000 nuclear warheads pointed at each other on a hair trigger it was not that smart. and that we could move in a different direction. and so we did. i was in the united states senate when we started that process of reducing those weapons, destroying them. we actually were in the former soviet union. helping to destroy some of those weapons. i went down to about 1500 or so weapons under the treaty and the world is much safer for that. the treaty and the world is much saferfor that. so the treaty and the world is much safer for that. so you the treaty and the world is much saferfor that. so you have the treaty and the world is much safer for that. so you have to look beyond differences sometimes to find a way to go forward. we don't ignore them, we have never changed in a position on any of them yet. if we ever would. position on an

it came to life -- reykjavÍk, iceland. >> it is shown lava coming from underneath. reporter: a volcanologist has visited it many times, studying its progress. he shows me the lava as it spews out of a new crater. >> these cracks opened up and baba started coming out. it started bubbling. ♪ reporter: he says as far as volcanoes go, this one is small. nevertheless, to stand up that lava field in person is a marvel. people flock to it, taking in the beauty and incredible danger. >> you can see the end of it right here. there are a lot of tourists getting a look at the lava flow, but you get a sense of how giant this is when you go with me in this direction. you can see it because the full expanse of this valley over there in that direction. if you keep going in that direction, you get to the volcano. reporter: i quickly learned how strong and putrid the smell is. there are a number of gases a volcano puts out that are toxic. >> like sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, and fluorine. reporter: that is why volcanoes are in the climate change conversatio

ronald reagan that is why he knew from his countless hours after the reykjavÍk summit he had intuitive sense that i can push him further and demanded him to tear down the wall it wasn't going to cause the mushroom cloud were world war iii had that sense spending more time and all the criminologist and cia to also stretch the handout so a lot of that was facilitated with that balance of pressure and that helps to create the circumstances of november 89 for people to claim their own freedom. >> excuse me at a how to do this in a zoom call that would like to for being forward and kiss you on the forehead of course you are right he knew that he could take it. so let me talk about meeting mikhail gorbachev this was 16 years ago now that one of the things he did a former leader of the great communist power becomes a capitalist he comes to the united states and gives a talk and mike reagan and tell hearings for me to go backstage to meet gorbachev and i could see the translator talking and telling him i had written that speech and gorbachev laughed and then he explained through his translator

that's why regan knew that from his countless hours with gorbachev at the geneva summit, the reykjavik summit, letters, phone calls, he had a sense of this guy gorbachev. that i can push him further. i can put that demand into tear down that wall. and it wasn't going to cause a complete rupture in the entire relationship. it was going to cause the cold war to turn violent. so he had a sense from spending so much time gorbachev, more than all of the people at the state department rcep, of that balance of pushing this guy but also stretching a hand out. so, i think when you look at gorbachev's role in the peaceful ending of the cold war, a lot of it was facilitated by regan knowing him while. and that helped create the circumstances of november of 1989 for the german people to raise. up >> will, i don't know how to do this in a zoom call, but i'd like to lean forward and kiss right on the forehead. i'm worried about this for 34 years. >> i'll give you a hug back. >> of course, you're right. reagan knew that gorbachev could take it. all right, so let me tell you about meeting mikhail gorb

i was on the plane back from reykjavik. he said no, time, newsweek, the whole world was about to make him the great peacemaker. he said no, i'm going home to nancy. and he was -- the only 2 people on the plane that were happy i, don't know about reagan, but it was me and pat buchanan. because we know what had happened. we knew he had -- i think for different reasons you are happy. i said mister president, everybody wanted a treaty. but let me tell you something, you've done what the american people have always wanted. you stood up to the russians. >> i think the reason i talk about path -- >> by the week, this will be it's notice that. >> that's where i'm going. >> it happened early. it's like one of those moments they wrote about. you think i'm not going to lower tax rates than way i said? you think i'm not going to slam down the soviet union like i said? you think we're not going to go ahead with our defense bill. well, watch me. and then this path co-thing comes in. it was a wonderful opportunity. it was like a god given

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