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Welcome to BBC World News Today, I'm Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The British Prime Minister says no to an Australian-style | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
As British politicians return to parliament 10 weeks | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
after the vote that caused a summer of disarray, | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
there's still no clear detail about what the Brexit deal | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
No attempt to frustrate, delay or thwart the will of the British | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
people. No attempt to engineer a second referendum because some | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
people didn't like the first answer. It's a wrap at the G20, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
fighting protectionism and pumping fresh life into the world economy | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
the main agreements to come out Also coming up: Returning | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
from the G20 to election defeat. Angela Merkel takes responsibility | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
as her CDU party is beaten And preserving the history frozen | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
inside Alpine glaciers - the scientists who are taking | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
samples to store for future study. The desire to reduce immigration | :00:59. | :01:16. | |
was a key driving force behind Britain voting to leave | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
the European Union. But two and half months | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
on from the vote, it's still unclear how that objective | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
is going to be achieved. We do know what the Government | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
won't be doing, however. At the G20 summit, | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
the Prime Minister, Theresa May, ruled out adopting | :01:30. | :01:30. | |
an Australian-style points-based She said it would be difficult | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
to manage and wouldn't be That's caused some disquiet among | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Leave campaigners who championed this method under the slogan | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
"Take back control". There's also been disagreement | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
within the Cabinet over the fine details of Britain's | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Brexit strategy. But David Davis, the minister | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
in charge of the process, insisted in parliament | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
that there was no attempt They arrived back from their summer | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
break by car, with bags, on foot. The recently sacked | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
and the freshly promoted. Are we going to get more details | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
today about what Brexit will really I'm sure you'll hear | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
a great deal of interest. That's Liam Fox, the new Secretary | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
of State for International Trade, heading to the Commons | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
to hear a statement MPs were not expecting it | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
to be a very long one. Secretary of State for Exiting | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
the European Union. David Davis set out | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
what would not happen. There will be no attempt to stay | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
in the EU by the back door, frustrate or thwart the will | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
of the British people, no attempt to engineer a second | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
referendum because some people | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
didn't like the first answer. Mr Davis said the Government | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
would build a consensus We will decide on our borders, | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
our laws and the taxpayers' money. It means getting the best deal | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
for Britain, and not | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
an off-the-shelf solution. But MPs on the opposite side | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
of the Commons asked... You've had all summer, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
Secretary of State. It has to be said, it is a mark | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
of an irresponsible government, just as it was a mark | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
of an irresponsible Leave campaign, that we know nothing | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
more about the phrase from a government that just | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
continues to make it up And a leading Tory campaigner | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
for Brexit wanted some guarantees. ..That this United Kingdom | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
will take control of its borders and the laws that | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
are relevant to that and that is not | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
negotiable for any other deal. But at the moment, all the | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Government has is vague rhetoric. The details about exactly | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
when divorce talks and what a new relationship | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
will look like - that could take months, even years, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
to become clear. As MPs argued, a demand outside | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Parliament for the start For the millions who voted | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
for Brexit, impatience with the pace | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
of leaving might grow. Ben Wright, BBC News, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Westminster. With me is Richard Cockett, who is | :04:22. | :04:34. | |
British business editor for the Economist magazine. Isn't this | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Australian immigration system what the British voted for when they | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
wanted to leave the European Union? Well, some of the Brexiteer | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
politicians argued for an Australian style points system, and you could | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
argue that since the vote went their way, we should get it. But it is | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
plain to many who have looked at this that this is only one option. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Strangely enough, they have met more people into Australia per head of | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
population than with any other system. So as a device to stop | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
immigration, a points-based system doesn't serve their purpose. Is | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
there another system that could keep everybody happy? It is interesting | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
that you ask that. That is what we are all asking. Having rejected the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
points based system today, the government is not offering another | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
option at the moment. Of course, there are other options. One of them | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
might be to go back to a much more visa based system, where we have | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
categories of entrance of immigrants to apply for four people from the | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
EU. That was the system we had before Romania and Bulgaria etc | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
joined the EU. We might go back to that, but so far, we don't know what | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the government alternative is. You don't think the government is | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
softening and may end up trying to push forward some remainder of free | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
movement? They may because even some of the Brexiteers are trying to have | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
their cake and eat it. They are saying, we want to stay in the EU | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
single market, but we don't want to be bound by the free movement of | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
labour. This has been an issue all the way along. So if they can get | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
some fudge whereby they get most of the continued access to the single | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
market, and also maybe have to let in some uses dozens a bit more than | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
they would like, they may take that. That will be unpalatable for many. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
It will be unpalatable for some who voted to leave the EU. 17 million | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
people voted to leave. But not all of those people wanted complete | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
restrictions on immigration. Some people accept that in the real | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
world, these fudges are important. Let's touch on where we are, ten | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
weeks on. I surprised that the lack of detail, or did you expect | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
something like this after the frenetic June and July that we saw, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
and now we have pause for thought, with detail at some point in the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
future? I think everyone is surprised that we have had no detail | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
at all. The Government still seems to have no idea about how move | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
forward even in the broadest sense. All that is happening now is that | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
Theresa May is gradually ruling out lots of things, but we still have | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
little idea about how to move forward. The minister for leaving | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
today called for a national consensus on this, which is all very | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
well, but the implication of that is that we just want more debate and | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
more ideas until they come up with some concrete proposals. We will | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
have to leave that for another time. Thank you. | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
And you can get much more analysis on Britain's vote | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
to leave the European Union by visiting our website. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
You can find out how the vote is affecting other countries | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
and what impacts it's having on everything from jobs | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
and the economy to fishing and the property market. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
You can also download the BBC News app. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
As we've heard, one of the main concerns of British voters which led | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
And many people try to reach the UK via the French port of Calais, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
often staying in the makeshift refugee camp known as The Jungle | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
as they try to cross the English Channel. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Today, there have been protests and blockades by people who live | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
in Calais and want the French government to close the camp. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Our correspondent Lucy Williamson spent the day there. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Drive too slowly after midnight here, and you're an open target. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Today, it was tractor pace | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
on Calais's most notorious stretch of road, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
a go-slow protest by lorry drivers | :08:49. | :08:49. | |
waging a nightly battle with migrant gangs. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Joining them, several hundred residents living and working | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
This is a coalition of grievances against the migrants. | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
There are lorry drivers here, local farmers, | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
And despite the recent security measures and government assurances, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
they say the migrants are waging a guerrilla war, | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
They protest because it's getting worse and worse. | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Every night, or nearly every night on the motorway, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
there are some traffic jams etc because of some smugglers who have | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
got their business in Calais, and they want to make business | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
One attack filmed by the BBC last month shows the road blocked by logs | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
and people smugglers threatening drivers as they direct | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Local wine merchant Jerome says British customers have shrunk | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
to a trickle, because many are now too scared to stop in Calais. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
and the first step is to solve the problem in Calais, | :10:02. | :10:22. | |
to distribute all the migrants maybe all over France or all over | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
and being more strict in the fact that they can't stay in Calais. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
France's interior minister has said the Jungle camp will be clear, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
but Calais's migrants have been dispersed before, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
And however the obstacles change, the lure of crossing | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
A state prosecutor in France is recommending that former | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
president Nicolas Sarkozy stand trial over allegations | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
that he illegally funded his unsuccessful 2012 campaign. | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
An investigating magistrate will now decide whether to order a trial. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
The development comes just two weeks after Sarkozy launched | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
At least a thousand people have been evacuated as a forest fire fuelled | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
by strong winds and high temperatures threatened | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
popular resort areas on the Spanish coast. | :11:11. | :11:11. | |
Firefighters, supported by water-dropping aircraft, | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
are struggling to control the blaze near Benidorm. | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
The authorities believe the fire was deliberately started. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Remember Europe's missing robot lander that disappeared | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Now the robot called Philae has been spotted wedged into a crack | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
on the surface of a comet known as 67P. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
The photographs were taken by the Rosetta probe, | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
The G20 forum of the world's major economies has agreed to fight | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
protectionism and try to pump fresh life into the world economy. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Speaking at the close of the summit in Hangzhou, | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
its host, China's president, Xi Jinping, said member | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
countries had agreed to encourage global trade. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
The one notable success was the agreement between China | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
and US to curb carbon emissions, as John Sudworth reports. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Not a talking shop, but a triumph of international diplomacy. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
At least, that's how it's always spun. | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
even more so at the end of this particular G20 summit, | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
perhaps, with the host, China, keen to use it | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
to show it's both a rising and a responsible power. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
In his closing press statement, President Xi Jinping spoke | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
on financial governance and international trade. | :12:29. | :12:46. | |
TRANSLATION: Amid great global challenges and uncertainty, | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
this summit attracted much international attention. | :12:49. | :12:49. | |
With joint efforts, we have achieved fruitful outcomes. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
As always, though, behind the carefully choreographed picture | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
of cooperation, there are plenty of challenges lurking offset. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
President Xi met the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
with the deep uncertainty over the effects of the UK's decision | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
to leave the European Union casting a shadow over proceedings. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Mr Xi also held a rare meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
expected to touch on the thorny issue | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
And the US and Russia had sideline meetings | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
about the war in Syria, without, apparently, | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
much progress on a way forward to stem the violence. | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
If you want a symbol of the tension and mistrust lurking below | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
the surface of this summit, you need look no further | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
than the bizarre protocol spat that's become a major talking point, | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
at least among the international journalists gathered here | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
It's not gone unnoticed that China rolled out the red carpet | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
for leader after leader, except for one notable exception. | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
It's being interpreted by some as a deliberate snub | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
to the Americans, although Chinese sources are briefing, plausibly, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
perhaps, that it was down to miscommunication, not mischief. | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
for which this summit will be best remembered is the announcement | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
that they are ratifying the Paris climate agreement, bringing | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
the moment it comes into force that much closer, proof, | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
most would agree, that China's extravagant and tightly managed | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
summit has been about more than just hot air. | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
A new generation of pro-democracy activists has won seats | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
on Hong Kong's Legislative Council in an election with | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
The loose coalition of pro-democracy candidates have taken enough seats | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
to block any legislation which might affect Hong Kong's autonomy | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Several of the young candidates were leaders during in the 2014 | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
"umbrella" protests for self-determination. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
It shows how Hong Kong people wanted a change. | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
Actually, we were stuck in a democratic movement and people | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
are voting for a new future of our democratic movement. | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Well, I believe that every single person who voted | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
for me made that history, and I am willing to share | :15:31. | :15:46. | |
in the following four years and in the future. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Ohio is a state that has picked the winner in every US presidential | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
So it can be little surprise that both Hillary Clinton | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
and Donald Trump are there on the Labour Day public holiday - | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
We can show you live pictures from the Hillary Clinton campaign. | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
It is a day which is regarded as crucial to picking up | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
stretch of their campaigns for the White House. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is following it all from Washington. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
How are things looking for each of the candidates? As you said, they | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
are spending the first blows of the autumn final push for the general | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
election in Ohio, a key state. It has the best record of predicting | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
the presidential outcome of any state. Something like 93% of the | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
time, it has got it right since 1900, so it has a good record. It is | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
a swing state, one of the key states that each side will want to grasp. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
As we go into this final push before the election, Hillary Clinton will | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
feel that she is now the frontrunner. She is up in the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
national polls, to the extent to which they are useful. She is up in | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
the polls in the swing states as well. She raised a lot of money. She | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
has also got a new plane, so she will be feeling good. Donald Trump, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
however, will feel he has lament on some the issues. Clearly, things | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
like immigration have played well -- he will feel he has the momentum. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
And he is the change candidate. He is the thing that is different, and | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
that goes a long way when it comes to elections like this. So there is | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
still a lot to play for 64 days out from polling day. After the | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
conventions, when the candidates were confirmed, we were told that | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
the Trump campaign would be changing course and he would be raining | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
himself in and sticking to script. Has anything happened to the way he | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
put himself forward? Well, we have seen a few more Teleprompter | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
speeches, scripted, policy driven speeches, but not really. We have | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
been promised a few resets. They have happen for a few days and then | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Don has gone back to the Donald Trump that he believes is what got | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
him to where he is in this race. So there is clearly a tension, and that | :18:23. | :18:36. | |
continues within the Trump campaign. Thank you very much. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
And there's plenty of background on the US presidential election | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
at bbc.com/us2016 or you can add it as a topic on the BBC News app, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
which you can download from your app store now. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has accepted | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
responsibility for her party's defeat in the regional | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
Mrs Merkel's party finished third in the poll, with the anti-immigrant | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
AfD party overtaking it to second place. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
Chancellor Merkel acknowledged that the outcome was linked | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
to her liberal immigration policies, as Germany accepted a record number | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
TRANSLATION: The result of the elections is connected | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
I am the head of the party and the Chancellor. | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
You cannot divide, so I am responsible. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
But I think that our decisions were correct, | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
and we have to keep on working. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Thomas Kielinger is the long-time London correspondent | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
for the German newspaper Die Welt, and he joins me in the studio now. | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
How would you read this defeat in her home state into third place? How | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
significant is it? It is only a small state, but it is her home | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
state and to have been outperformed by the protest party, alternative | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
for Germany, is quite a shock. To be pushed into third place takes some | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
living down. It is a warning, a shot across the bow. We have national | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
elections in a year from now, and it adds to the uncertainty about the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
fate of the current government and about Angela Merkel personally. We | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
heard Angela Merkel saying this was to do with her attitude June | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
refugees. Well, it is not rocket science to link this event to the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
refugee policy. What is amazing is that this was the first time she | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
recognised that it may have something to do with her decision | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
last year to open the door to 1 million immigrants overnight. But | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
whether she will change course, I don't know. It is difficult to say | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
she should change course, because the people have already arrived. And | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
they are still arriving. Some are still arriving, and you are pushing | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
the problem to local level for the local councils to take care of it. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
That is where the problem is brewing. I hope this will not turn | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
Germany into a xenophobic populace. But it takes some absorbing, such a | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
number of refugees suddenly arriving, when we are not | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
traditionally an immigrant country like written. So the challenges are | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
there, and she should be careful not to repeat her mantra, we can cope | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
with it. Has she said that recently? She said it in the run-up to the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
election, amazingly, as a sign of defiance that she will not be moved | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
from her belief. But she may think twice before she uses it again. Do | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
we know about who is voting for the Alternative for Germany? Is it | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
former CDU supporters or new voters who have not voted before, or even | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
from other parties from the left? There are two strands in the protest | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
that you find. One is the immigration protest, coming from all | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
quarters, not just the right. It is a general concern and a genuine one. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
But there is also an aversion towards the euro and policies from | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
the European Central Bank and Frankfurt, which is still in a phase | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
of easy money, making it easier for the southern countries. So there is | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
Euroscepticism. A huge amount of Euroscepticism. The AfD runs on two | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
platforms, Euroscepticism and anti-immigration. Angela Merkel has | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
got through her troubles before. For 11 years, but no one has got beyond | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
the ominous 12th year yet. So there is a question mark over her fate. | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
And there is a general perception of unease in Europe, which may help the | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
British position in negotiating with its European partners. We must leave | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
it there. Scientists working in | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
the French Alps have just completed the first phase of a mission | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
to extract ice from some of the world's most rapidly | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
shrinking glaciers. Temperatures in some parts | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
of the Alps have risen by 1.5 So scientists are drilling deep | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
into the ice near Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
to preserve samples so they can be studied for clues about the history | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
of the earth's climate, Approaching a very high | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
altitude laboratory. This team of scientists | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
is living and working on the glacier here in the Alps, | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
because climate change is heating and changing the ice | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
that they are camped on. So the team wants to rescue | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
the information locked deep Snowfalls will collect | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
all the impurities in the atmosphere and this will be deposited | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
on the glacier. So all this information | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
is stored in the glacier, So when you look through this book, | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
you can read all this information. Tiny air bubbles locked | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
inside the layers of this glacial ice are a record of our past | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
atmosphere and climate. That is an icicle now coming up | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
from about 30 metres depth. The team will cut it | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
and they will move it into this tent and then they will store it | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
in their ice cave, So precious are these samples | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
that the team have dug into the solid ice to build a store | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
room that will keep them cold. Six per box and then | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
they are ready to go? This is the beginning of a very long | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
journey for these ice cores. They will be stored here | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
in France for two years, but their ultimate destination | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
is the world's most reliable The idea of getting ice | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
from the Alps transported to Antarctica could sound very silly | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
to people, but it makes Our main will is to be able to store | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
these icicles for We put the icicles there, | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
they are in the safest position Many glaciers here in the Alps | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
and all over the world are changing, This ambitious archive aims | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
to preserve particles, bubbles, even bacteria | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
trapped in the deepest, oldest ice, allowing future | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
scientists to track our planet's past atmosphere and climate, | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
and help predict its future. Victoria Gill, BBC | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
News, the French Alps. But for now, from me and the rest | :25:48. | :25:59. | |
of the team, goodbye. | :26:00. | :26:05. |