olympic torch, the saga continues

[gatso]

the flame today visited North Korea and for the first time on its world tour there were no protests.

next stop is Everest, it's going to be taken up the Tibetan side of the mountain where there'll be a hand picked selection of journos, meanwhile on the Nepalese side the
BBC have been thrown out of the base camp and the whole mountain has been closed to climbers, no-one knows when people will be allowed back up.