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The Government is expected to suffer its first setback over | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Brexit with a defeat in the House of Lords. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Peers from all parties are expected to vote to allow EU citizens | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
That vote is taking place this evening. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
We'll bring you the result | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Plans for children as young as four to be taught | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
about healthy relationships in all schools in England. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
It's actually quite nice to know that kids are being taught about sex | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
and relationships stuff at school by a qualified teacher. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
They are too young for this right now. | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
I mean, at this age they can't really process | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Donald Trump promises a new chapter of American greatness in his first | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Disruption for thousands of train passengers. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
I'll be reporting from Liverpool which is now isolated | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
from the main rail network because of a major landslide. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And the Syrian baby whose parents both died and who had nearly every | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
limb broken in a bombing - and the British surgeon who first | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
treated her and has now tracked her down in in Turkey. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
British Cycling has more questions to answer, | :01:25. | :01:25. | |
the organsiation's medical record-keeping. | :01:26. | :01:50. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
The government is lightly to be this evening over the Brexit Bill. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Peers from all parties have voted in the House of Lords to amend | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
the legislation to enable EU citizens living in | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
It's a setback for the Government's bill to trigger Article 50 | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
which starts the formal process of the UK leaving the EU. | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
MPs may vote to remove the Lords' proposed changes when the bill moves | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
back to the House of Commons later this month. | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
But today would be the first defeat for the Government over Brexit and | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
there could be more to come. Our political editor | :02:23. | :02:23. | |
Laura Kuenssberg has more. Turning up for work the minister | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
smiling despite the prospect of defeat. From the start their | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Lordships were determined to let fears be felt. This is the sort of | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
issue where the House of Lords is right to say to the Commons please | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
think again about this. You can't be contemptuous about the Lords and the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
functioning of the Lords in seeking to improve, refine, modify | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
legislation. Rarely the scene of minute by minute political | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
thrillers, but today peers were eager to create a drama. Is the | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
government heading for a defeat on the Brexit Bill today? I sincerely | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
hope so. This is the Lord's doing their job, which is scrutiny. Should | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
the government brace itself for defeat on the Brexit Bill? No, of | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
course not. We should do what the people said. The goal is to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
guarantee the rights of EU citizens and nearly 3 million others who have | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
made their home here, she is worried she might have to leave after we | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
leave the EU. As a European citizen living here I never thought about | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
this happening so you don't take that into account and all of a | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
sudden you are confronted with that and that is not your fault so you | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
should be protected from the uncertainty around that so it would | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
be good if the UK Government can make sure that permanent residences | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
are easier to obtain. Back in Parliament ministers have tried to | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
reassure. They say EU citizens ought to be able to stay without a | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
problem. But they won't give a guarantee unless and until other | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
countries give that same promise to Brits abroad. Crossbench! | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
Crossbench! The Lords, packed, peers vying to speak. Spot the Home | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Secretary looking on. We are bleeding the best academics leaving | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
this country one by one or thinking about leaving because they do not | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
see themselves having a future in this country. That is urgent and | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
needs to be dealt with now. This is about the honour of this house. This | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
is about as speaking to what people need to put their fears and their | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
anguish at bay. We really have a responsibility to those people. Why | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
is everybody here today so excited about an amendment which looks after | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
the foreigners and not the British? It's true! Pass the legislation as | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
quickly as possible to activate Article 50 and then to negotiate to | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
give these people the rights they deserve to stay in our country. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Are you ready for defeat today, Prime Minister? | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
The Prime Minister is not known, though, for changing her mind | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
altering her direction, but seven months in she's poised for defeat. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Members in the House of Lords are reaching the finishing stages of a | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
debate on this and will be voting any time soon. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Opponents on the government have got their wins in their sales on this | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
issue, there is no question about that, all of the expectation is the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Government will be beaten tonight. It is then for ministers to decide | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
whether or not they will budge on this issue, or whether they will | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
play hardball and send it back to the Lords and dare them to turn it | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
into a much bigger rout. Remember this is not about the House of Lords | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
trying to stop us leaving the European Union, this is about them | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
trying to have a say over how the Government takes us out. This, I | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
think, would be the first occasion of many when they are determined to | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
make their views heard. We shall find out later on, Laura | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Kuenssberg at Westminster, thank you. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Children as young as four will learn about healthy | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
relationships under new plans for all schools in England. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
Pupils in secondary schools will be taught about the dangers of sexting | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
and online pornography as part of sex education. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Ministers say current teaching is "increasingly outdated". | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
Sometimes I might not feel like a case at all so I will not give her a | :06:18. | :06:29. | |
kiss, is that OK? How long is too young to learn about relationships | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
and sex? These six and seven-year-olds are learning about | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
their bodies, and soon it will be compulsory for all school children | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
to have lessons like this. Today the government announced that | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
age-appropriate classes will be taught to children as young as four. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
If we only have sex education at secondary school and the children | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
are already going through puberty and they are already thinking about | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
having boyfriends and girlfriends which is happening, they won't know | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
what to do, who to turn to, they won't know how they feel about | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
things. The strongest argument for change and more up-to-date teaching | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
is times have changed. Children are more exposed to sexual images than | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
they ever have been through the Internet and mobile phones. Guidance | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
that schools are looking to in terms of how they teach relationships and | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
sex education was developed in the year 2000 and Britain is a very | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
different place, so it is really important that we have an updated | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
approach that means our children are safe and protected. Charities, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
teaching unions and MPs have been campaigning for the Government to | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
introduce compulsory sex education and whilst there has been support | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
from faith groups there has also been criticism. We want to families | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
and support and encourage them to engage with their children about | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
these issues. To check how they are using their mobile phones. To check | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
where they are online up in their bedrooms. That's what parents can | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
do. Controlling what children see and hear in a digital world means | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
parents have to be one step ahead of the technology. My daughter is five. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
She copies everything that she sees. The dance moves, certain clothes she | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
sees. I say you are too young, you are not ready for that, I need you | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
to enjoy your childhood. It is nice to know children are being taught | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
about sex and relationships stuff at school by a qualified teacher. They | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
are too young for this right now, at this stage the cup and actually, you | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
know... It will be hard for them to understand what is going on at this | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
age. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland sex education isn't | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
compulsory but all UK governments face the challenge of how best to | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
prepare young people for life in modern Britain. Elaine Dunkley, BBC | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
News. President Trump has used his first | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
speech to Congress to declare what he called a new chapter | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
of American greatness. Adopting a measured tone, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
very different from his more volatile tweets, he promised | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
"massive tax relief for the middle class", and asked Congress to pass | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
a $1 trillion package to build new infrastructure.He said the US | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
"strongly supports Nato", but that members of the alliance | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
"must meet their Our North America editor | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
Jon Sopel was watching. They say that practice makes | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
perfect. And when you're singing a new tune probably best to give it | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the full rehearsal. The President of the United States! | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Donald Trump's tone couldn't have been more different. Warm, | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
inclusive, unified and optimistic. What we are witnessing today is the | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
renewal of the American spirit. Our allies will find that America's once | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
again ready to lead. APPLAUSE | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
And for anxious European nations supportive words on Nato. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
We strongly support Nato, an alliance forged through the bonds of | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
two world wars that dethroned fascism. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
APPLAUSE And the Cold War. And defeated | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
communism. Not everything was from the new | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
album. There were the greatest hits too. | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
Tonight I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
ObamaCare. APPLAUSE | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
We will soon begin the construction of a great, great Wall along our | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
southern border. But on immigration there was also a suggestion they | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
could be a reform and there were other measures that should have | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
pleased Democrats like paid maternity leave and a massive | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
infrastructure programme. But mostly they sat stony faced. The most | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
moving part of the night was when he spoke to the widow of Navy SEAL Ryan | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Owens killed in Yemen in the first combat operation ordered by the new | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
commander-in-chief. Ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. Thank you. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
APPLAUSE And then an appeal for America to | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
seize the moment. Believe in your future and believe | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
once more in America. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
States. APPLAUSE | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Having taken a lot of flak for the way they've done business since | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Donald Trump took office, the White House today is basking in the warm | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
glow of the support for last night's joint address. It was well | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
structured and delivered with discipline. You might almost say it | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
was a conventional political speech from this most unconventional | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
politician. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
Two British medical students who travelled to join so-called | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Islamic State almost two years ago have been killed | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Hisham Fadlallah and Ahmed Sami Khider were part of a group | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of British medics who joined IS in 2015. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Our Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford joins me now - | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
These men were part of a group of a dozen British medical students that | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
went to join so-called Islamic State in 2015, although they were at | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
school here and their parents were working as doctors here in the NHS | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
they were of Sudanese origin so their families had sent them to a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
private medical school in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to study | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
medicine but then they became radicalised before joining IS and | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
one of the two meant became infamous for taking part in an Islamic state | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
recruitment video. You can see him apparently teaching medical students | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
about anatomy and at one point he addresses the camera directly and | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
calls on other doctors to go and join them in Islamic State trying to | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
form the fledgling medical service for the group. We have now heard at | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
the weekend he was travelling in a convoy of vehicles trying to flee | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Mosul as the Iraqi government forces closed in on the last remaining bit | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
under control of IS and that convoy was involved in a firefight and he | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
was killed and his friend, also a British medical student, died about | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the same time. It is not clear that was in the same incident but | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
certainly about the same time and the two men's families have | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
travelled to Britain for the formal mourning process in cartoon work | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
many of their family, one of their sisters who has also travelled with | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
him, who is also a medical student, is still in Raqqa, the other IS | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
stronghold, so for that family the heartache still isn't over and the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
truth is as Mosul Falls and Raqqa comes under much more direct attack | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
we are going to get many, many more supporters Dummett stories of | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
British IS supporters being killed. The time is just coming up to | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
6:15pm. Our top story this evening. The | :13:41. | :13:59. | |
government is set to lose the debate on Brexit in the Lords. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
Still to come, how life on Earth began in cracks in the sea bed | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News in the next 15 minutes. | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
It was goaless in the first match, but Manchester City and Huddersield | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
will play to a finish tonight with an FA Cup | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
In the new year, we told you about five-month-old Maram. | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
Both her parents died and nearly every limb in her body was broken | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
when her house was bombed in Aleppo - her suffering particularly | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
harrowing even by the standards of the Syrian war. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
The British surgeon Dr David Nott, who operated on her and then | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
watched her leave for asylum in Turkey, didn't know | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
Now, several months on, he's returned to find out | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports. | :14:43. | :14:56. | |
So much of Aleppo's pain is anonymous but Maram's | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
An air strike killed her parents and left her gravely ill. | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
Inside Syria Dr David Nott worked to save her leg. | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
From here and only five months old she was evacuated | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
But after months of searching the BBC tracked her down | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
TRANSLATION: The final surgery was nearly too much. | :15:27. | :16:20. | |
Her wounds are healing but then they will be work | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
to reconstruct her bones and repair damaged nerves. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
It's said children can't remember pain. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Few, though, have as much to forget as Maram. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
When I saw Maram today, it was very emotional. | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
And as a doctor you try and stay fairly unemotional | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
when you're dealing with lots of people with injuries. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
I suppose having got children as well now and how much | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
you love that child and, you know, a tiny piece of my heart | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
And that's what I've been thinking about every day since leaving. | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
And this morning was a beautiful moment to meet her again. | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
Dr David Nott and the story of Maram. | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
Let's take a brief look at some of the day's | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
More than a thousand jobs are thought to be at risk | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
at Ford's Bridgend plant over the next four years. | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
The company revealed concerns about a slowdown in work in a leaked | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Ford won't comment on the document but said it "fully understands" | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Police investigating the disappearance of RAF gunner | :17:47. | :18:08. | |
Corrie Mckeague have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
The 23-year-old airman went missing on a night out | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
A landfill site will be searched in the coming week. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
A violent paedophile has been jailed for 27 years for raping and abusing | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
57-year-old Michael Dunn knocked through the wall behind his fridge | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
to create a cavity in which he hid one of his victims. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
No trains will run in or out of Liverpool Lime Street station | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
for several days, after a wall collapsed onto the railway blocking | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
for several days, after a wall collapsed onto the railway, blocking | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
all four lines of track and damaging overhead cables. | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
It means major disruption for tens of thousands of passengers. | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Our Correspondent Danny Savage is there. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
This is going to make life difficult for an awful lot of people. | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Body here. It is now isolated because of a landslide about a mile | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
away. It happened during rush-hour yesterday evening, fortunately at a | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
moment when there were no trains passing on any of the tracks there, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
otherwise the consequences could have been much more serious. | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Liverpool should have been. Liverpool should have been bustling | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
in the early spring sunshine today but in terms of trains | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
it was cut off. 15 million people a year use | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Liverpool Lime Street but it's now silent, | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
virtually deserted, About a mile down the track | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
is the reason why. A wall has given way and tonnes | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
of debris has fallen It's proving difficult to get | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
to and there are concerns We've got a failed retaining wall | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
across all four tracks. The location is really difficult | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
to access and the ground is really unstable with some tunnels, | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Victorian tunnels, Pictures taken last night | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
showed the scenes shortly Thankfully all services were stopped | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
when the falling masonry triggered sensors on overhead wires | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
alerting signal operators. So, every mainline rail journey | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
through Liverpool today started off I'm not sure how much | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
longer it's going to take. A bit frustrated but it sounds | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
like it was a wall accident. It sounds like there wasn't anything | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
the train company could do about it. So where you caught | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
up in it last night? That was basically it, | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
and not very much information. A number of heavy containers on top | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
of the wall will now have to be removed before clear-up | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
work can begin. It could be several days | :20:34. | :20:34. | |
before the line reopens. Tomorrow, voters go to the polls | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
in Northern Ireland for the second It follows the collapse | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
of Stormont's power-sharing government and the last month has | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
seen a bitter election campaign. Our Ireland Correspondent Chris | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Buckler has been looking at the issues and the state | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
of the parties. Stormont's power-sharing government | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
collapsed in January The Democratic Unionist Party | :20:59. | :20:59. | |
and Sinn Fein fell out over a range of issues including the financial | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
scandal surrounding what's known as the RHI, | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
the renewable heat incentive, a botched green energy scheme | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
which was at one stage projected to cost the taxpayer | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
around ?500 million. It has, at times, been | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
a bitter campaign and it's certainly felt more divisive | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
than the last election, We can see the results from them | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
in our virtual Assembly Chamber. The DUP were returned | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
as the biggest party with 38 While Sinn Fein were in second | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
place with 28 seats. The opposition parties, the SDLP, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
the Ulster Unionists and the Alliance will all be hoping | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
to increase their share of the vote after the way that | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
coalition fell apart, and that is true for | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
the smaller parties too. But some politicians | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
will definitely lose their seats. That's because the number | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
of Assembly Members is being reduced And there's one other | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
number to watch. The size of the DUP in the last | :21:56. | :22:10. | |
Assembly gave the party what's known In effect, that's a veto to prevent | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
any legislation they don't like. For example, they used it to block | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
a vote in favour of the introduction of same-sex marriage, | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
which is still illegal They need to hold onto 30 | :22:22. | :22:22. | |
seats to keep that veto. And even when all of the votes | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
are finally counted, there will need to be a deal between the parties | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
to get this assembly up and running again and most people are predicting | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
that those negotiations Our Ireland Correspondent, | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
Chris Buckler, there, looking ahead to tomorrow's Assembly Elections | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
in Northern Ireland. Life on Earth began hundreds | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
of millions of years earlier than previously thought - | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
that's according to researchers who have discovered fossils of one | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
of the earliest living organisms. The creature - half | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the width of a human hair - lived more than four billion years | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
ago, not long after Our science correspondent | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Pallab Ghosh has more. It's one of humanity's | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
biggest questions. The discovery of some of the first | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
life forms to have ever existed on Earth may begin | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
to provide some answers. They were discovered in these rocks | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
which were found in Canada. And here it is, one of the planet's | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
very first inhabitants. It was less than the width | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
of a human hair and very simple. But it ate and consumed | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
oxygen, like we do. And to the shock of this scientist | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
who discovered it, the life forms existed hundreds of millions | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
of years earlier than I mean, this is one of the reasons | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
for intelligent life to evolve. So, where does the life form fit in, | :23:45. | :24:04. | |
in the story of life on Earth? The Earth formed just over | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
4.5 billion years ago, a molten mass of rock that | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
began to cool. Not long after that came | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
the first oceans which spread It was right at the bottom of those | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
primordial lotions that some of the very first life forms emerged | :24:16. | :24:30. | |
4.28 billion years ago next to cracks on the sea floor spraying | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
out warm water and minerals. A billion years ago, | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
life really got started. All sorts of new types of organisms | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
exploded on the scene over The first humans evolved around | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
2.5 million years ago and modern humans arrived very | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
recently by comparison. The claim that living organisms | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
emerged on Earth so early is controversial, but if confirmed, | :24:50. | :25:01. | |
indicates that life is an unstoppable force | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
and suggests that the universe We are teeming with life here in the | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
studio, John Hammond is here with me! Let's take a look at the | :25:15. | :25:15. | |
weather. Steady on! Meteorology is a | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
beautiful thing, let me show you what I mean. It was a beautiful day | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
in the high lands until this happened, the heavens opened, a | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
curtain of rain and sleet and snow fell on this particular lake. We | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
will keep this turbulent weather going in the next few days. Strong | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
winds, rain and hill snow is all going on across certain parts of | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
England and Wales tonight. The English Channel is prone as well. | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Some very strong gusts could cause some issues. Some of that snow is | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
falling to quite low levels, which could cause some issues locally. We | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
will keep an eye on that. Wintry showers across the north-west | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
Highlands. It will be julienned cold -- it will be chilly and cold, it | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
will not feel warm anywhere tomorrow morning. A blustery day, the rain | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
and snow will ease away from central areas and in actual fact many of us | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
will settle into a half decent day. If you can get out of the breeze and | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
sunshine it should not feel too bad. Still some showers across the West | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
of Scotland and the rain looming large across Northern Ireland by the | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
end of the day. But enjoy those temperatures because here is | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
Friday's picture, more rain particular for England and Wales. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland enjoying the best of the weather. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
For the weekend, brace yourselves, there will be some rain around for | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
most of us and it will be quite blustery at times, so inevitably it | :26:57. | :26:57. | |
will feel quite chilly, sorry! A reminder of our main stories this | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
evening. The government is expected to suffer | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
its first setback over Brexit with defeats in the House of Lords | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
tonight. Their arch -- there are plans for children as young as four | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
to be taught about healthy relationships in schools all over | :27:23. | :27:23. | |
England. | :27:24. | :27:24. |