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This is BBC World News Today with me Kasia Madera. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The Headlines: A damning verdict on the intervention in Libya. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Huge instability and the rise of so-called Islamic State | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
in North Africa are blamed on the British and | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
French joint military intervention in the country. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
No fighting in Syria, but still no aid being delivered. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
We report from the besieged city of Aleppo. | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
Half the pre-war population of Syria is either refugees outside the | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
country or displaced within it. Also | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
coming up: Relief supplies reach five Russian scientists surrounded | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
by polar bears for nearly two weeks at a remote weather | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
station in the Arctic. And one billion stars are mapped | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
in a galactic mission to draw space, giving a huge boost to our knowledge | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
of what the Milky Way looks like. As reports go, it | :00:52. | :01:10. | |
couldn't be more damning. It says the British and French joint | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
military intervention in Libya five It became an 'opportunist policy | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
of regime change' - and it led to the rise of so-called | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Islamic State in North Africa. A committee of British MP's savaged | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Former Prime Minister David Cameron over the joint UK-French mission, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
which toppled Colonel Libya quickly descended into chaos | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
and is now a haven for people Today, the country is a chaotic | :01:31. | :01:45. | |
haven for people traffickers and militants. | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
A place where militias compete for power. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Where the Islamic State group has a foothold. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Where migrants pour across unprotected borders en route | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
It is a chaotic picture which, British MPs say, is the result of | :01:57. | :02:10. | |
David Cameron's decision five years ago to send in warplanes to | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
support rebels fighting against Colonel Gaddafi. | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
We were not prepared for the consequences of a | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
And all the analysis being done here was based | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
on a frankly limited understanding of what the situation in Libya was. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
The aim of the intervention in March 2011 was to | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
protect people living here in | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Benghazi, who were threatened by Gaddafi's forces. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
The Foreign Affairs Committee says the case was overstated | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
As fighting continued over the summer, | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the aim of the operation changed from protecting civilians to | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
The committee said this was an opportunist | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
That was not under-pinned by a strategy to support | :02:53. | :03:04. | |
In particular, MPs say more should have | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
been done to use Tony Blair's contacts to see if a political deal | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
was possible which could have left Gaddafi in power. | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Is it better to allow a dictator who may be | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
appropriate to the country and to the times in which we are living to | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
remain in power to ensure stability rather than risk the chaos of an | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
In September 2011, after the Gaddafi regime | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
the then-French president visited Libya and told the people they had | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
Your friends in Britain and in France | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
will stand with you as you build your democracy and build your | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
And yet the Foreign Affairs Committee says that | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
this did not happen and David Cameron was ultimately responsible | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Diplomats and ministers involved in the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
decision to intervene said it was backed by MPs and the United | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
Nations and was responding to a real threat. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
It wasn't clear that leaving Gaddafi in place would have | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
In Iraq we went in with major forces, it did | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
In Syria we chose not to get involved, that was also | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
In Libya, we went in in a targeted way in support. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
The situation is bad but I wouldn't rule | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
out that in five years the various parties | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
will have got together and | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
The situation on the ground makes such | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
In Libya, politics still comes second to violence. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
Juma El-Gamaty is a member of the Libyan Political Dialogue, | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
a group that oversaw the UN-backed peace deal which was signed | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
He previously worked as the official coordinator between the UK | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Government and the Libyan National Transitional Council in 2011. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
He joins me from our studio in Northampton. | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
Thank you very much. And absolutely scathing report. Do you agree with | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
that? I think I agree with one aspect of its, but I disagree with | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
others. Can I start by saying that as a Libyan I take offence to what | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
one of your guests said which was maybe it would be better to keep a | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
dictator for the sake of stability. I think Libyans and Alterman beings | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
are entitled to dignity, freedom, and the prospect of building a | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
democratic system where they can enjoy prosperity and development. To | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
say that dictatorship is better for some people just so that we have | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
stability for other countries I think is very, very insulting. Are | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
you saying that Colonel Gaddafi had to go, regardless of whether there | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
was a post, and exit plan, a pose development plan, Colonel Gaddafi | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
had to go? I think it is intrinsic and inherent in all human nature | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
that we will oppose tyranny, we oppose oppression, we will pose | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
dictatorship, we love freedom and equality and human rights. And | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Colonel Gaddafi was against all of these human values which many | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
countries including Britain enjoy or have enjoyed for hundreds of years | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and I think Libyans and other nations in the middle East are | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
entitled to enjoy these values as well. But going back to the report, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
I totally disagree with the assumption that diplomacy with | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Colonel Gaddafi would have saved human lives and saved civilians. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Colonel Gaddafi never recognised any form of diplomacy except the | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
diplomacy of violence and the gun. From the first moment when civilians | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
started demonstrating peacefully on the streets of Benghazi and Tripoli, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
he ordered his security forces to shoot at them at head and chest | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
level and kill as many as possible. If the international community did | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
not intervene to protect civilians, we could have had tens and thousands | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
of people killed. We did have had another massacre are just like what | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
happened in Bosnia and what happened in Rwanda and then the rest of the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
world would have had to live with that for many decades or probably | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
centuries afterwards. So think it was worth taking the risk to allow | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
diplomacy with Colonel Gaddafi. This man never understood dormancy. We | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
all know what happened with the Lockerbie and so many other crimes, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
let alone the crimes he committed against his own people in Libya. And | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
now we have a situation of lawlessness, a chaotic situation. We | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
have people traffickers and militants. If the situation better? | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
No, it isn't better. But after any major revelation, which is like an | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
earthquake, there will always be a transitional period of chaos and | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
instability and vacuum and this is what I agree with one aspect of the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
report and that is the international committee did not have a plan for | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
the day after and I think they should have stayed with the Libyan | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
people and engaged with them and helped them to fill the vacuum | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
straightaway and rebuild the country quickly, especially rebuild the | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
institutions and especially the institutions to do with security. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Libya under Colonel Gaddafi was totally wiped out of any form of | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
institutional nation building and that is why we need a lot of help. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Unfortunately, the international community after the revolution just | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
walked away and left us to our own devices. This is why we are | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
struggling, but Libya is not a given case. Who can say that in a few | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
years we will not have stability, peace, and we will start on the road | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
of nation-building, in Station building and also a democratic | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
system where we can enjoy high levels of prosperity and | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
development, just like the decent rest of the world is enjoying at the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
moment. We are out of time, but thank you very much for sharing your | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
thoughts from the Libyan political dialogue with. Thank you. | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
The United Nations has still not been able to deliver much-needed | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
humanitarian aid to besieged areas of Syria, in particular | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
rebel-held eastern Aleppo, despite the continuing truce. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
The lull in fighting has revealed the extent of damage | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
in previously rebel-held areas, such as the Bani Zayid | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen has just been there. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Now this place is called Bedi Zaid, to the west of Aleppo. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
And it has been absolutely pulverised. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
I suspect a lot of this must have been | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Now rebels, the Army is telling me, held this place until July of this | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
And then, in what was a huge display of firepower, they were | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
From the government's point of view, this was an important moment, | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
because from this area, rebels were able to fire down into | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
You can only guess what happened to people | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
who originally lived in these houses. | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
The remains of the school over there. | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
I suppose they've swelled the numbers who have lost their | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
Half the pre-war population of Syria is either refugees | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
outside the country, or displaced within it. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Now the Middle East is in the process of | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
It is the result of a century of misrule, disastrous foreign | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
interventions, stagnation and repression, and this war is part of | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
all of that. No wonder it is so hard to stop. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
The EU is in crisis, but not at risk, as a result of Brexit, | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
according to the President of the European Commission. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
In his State of the Union speech, Jean Claude Juncker, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
warned of the dangers of what he called "galloping | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
populism" in Europe, and condemned attacks | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
on migrants in the UK, in the wake of the vote | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Here's our Europe Editor, Katya Adler. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
His annual State of the Union speech is designed to be visionary, full of | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
But this year the main EU aim is survival. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
TRANSLATION: All too often we see splits and | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
disagreement instead of European union, | :11:16. | :11:16. | |
leaving the door open for | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Mr Juncker said the EU was, to a degree, in a stench of | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
Think migration, Eurozone wobbles and cross-border terror. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
The UK's vote to leave is probably the | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
But Brexit was given little mention today by Mr | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
His intended message, we'll be fine without you. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
The European Parliament's Brexit negotiator put | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
Stop the politics of division and choose this opportunity not | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
to kill Europe as some of you want, but to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
When the EU and UK do thrash out their new | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
relationship, Mr Juncker insisted European principles were not up for | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The UK would not get good access to the European single | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
market, he said, if it imposed entry limits on EU workers. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
The two men are famous here for their testy relationship. | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
If you stick to the dogma of saying that | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
for tariff-free access, reciprocal tariff-free access | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
to the single market, we must retain the free | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
movement of people, then you will inevitably | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Jean-Claude Juncker's state of the union speech today | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
was supposed to mark new, invigorated EU beginnings | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
Instead it highlighted the EU's biggest headaches. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
No start date and a lack of clarity surrounding Brexit | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
on the one hand, and on the other a real fear inside the EU Parliament | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
that voters out there across Europe no longer | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
But perhaps that's also part of a bigger process. | :13:10. | :13:21. | |
The problem is the loss of trust of ordinary citizens. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Ordinary citizens working hard and playing by the | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Look to the election campaign in the United | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Brussels bureaucrats, bankers, politicians from | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
traditional parties, growing numbers distrust what they see as a | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
EU needs reform to appear more relevant, but there is | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
little agreement in these corridors as to how. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
After last June's vote here in the UK to leave the EU a lot | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
of attention has been focused on the people that have | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
migrated to Britain for other parts of Europe. | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
Poles In The UK is the first book to document the various ways | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
in which Polish people, and those with Polish heritage, | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
have contributed to the UK over the last 1,000 years. | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
The co-author Brin Best joins us now from our studio in Leeds. | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
Thank you very much for joining us. We've seen how the Polish community | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
has rallied together, following the death recently. It was an organised | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
vigil for the death of this man. Of course, your book, you started your | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
book a long time before this spate of attacks on the Polish community. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
What was your thinking about writing about Polish people in the UK? Well, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
it is lovely to be with you this evening. Thank you so much ground | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
fighting me on the programme. It is incredibly devastating, really, and | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
heartbreaking for so many Polish friends who have witnessed what's | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
been happening in this country over the last few weeks and months, and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
particularly for myself, who really my own friendships and partnerships | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
with Polish people, they date way back to childhood, when in fact my | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
first ice cream man in Manchester, when I was eight, was a wonderful, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
kind man who actually was a soldier but I did not realise at the time | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
but he had actually fought alongside people like my grandpa in the Second | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
World War in order to help as all enjoy the freedoms that we have | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
today. This is just one of the many reasons why myself and I co-authored | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Maria decided to actually try to tell this untold story of the | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
thousand years of friendship and cooperation in terms of what Polish | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
people have done for the UK in all sorts of ways. And as a community, | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
they very much rallied together. Now, we have two Polish police | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
officers who are helping British police officers within the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
community, a community that has been greatly affected. In terms of the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
book, of course, this is something that you reflect on, the strength of | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
the Polish community in this country. Very much so. The book, | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
which is available at all good book shops, is very much a celebration of | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
what Polish people have done and are continuing to do in the UK, but also | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
it is about partnerships. It is about the way in which Polish people | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
work alongside British people to improve the economy, to promote | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
different aspects of culture, to share experiences and to share and | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
celebrate the shared history between the two nations and through the | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
book, we have a whole range of chapters that deal with different | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
aspects of this. We talk about the NHS and about teachers. We actually | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
interview over 50 people who are making all sorts of contributions, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
and this idea of a strong Polish community working alongside British | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
people to create a difference in order to move things forward and | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
create partnerships, and achieved success in all sorts of areas is | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
absolutely a key theme in the book. Just expend to us, what is the aim | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
with this book? I know you hope that a copy will reach every school in | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
the United Kingdom. Absolutely. We have just launched the book and we | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
have had an enormous amount of interest all around the world. Our | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
primary goal is to tell a story that has not really been ever told | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
before. No one has ever actually written a book about this 4000 | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
period of Polish contributors to the UK, and we'll be working through our | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
charity, the British colonial foundation, which has published the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
book alongside Maria and also Anna Collins, a very important person in | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
the project, and we are moving forward in order to promote among | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
schools in this area. -- the British Polonial foundation. And also the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Polish Saturday schools, in order to promote education in this area and | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
also help children to be their links, perhaps children who have | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
more tenuous links to Poland, even though they may be | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
second-generation, and also to inform children of the importance of | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the shared history. Sorry to cut you off, that we wish you the best of | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
luck. We are out of time, but good luck. The book is out now. Thank you | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
very much for joining us. Now a look at some of | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
the day's other news. Three of the world's leading human | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
rights organisations are calling on President Obama to pardon | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
the American whistle-blower, A former US intelligence analyst, | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
Mr Snowden lives in exile in Moscow and is wanted in America for leaking | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
vast amounts of classified President Obama looks set to lift | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
all economic sanctions with Myanmar following the transfer of power | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
to a civilian government. The announcement came | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
as Aung San Suu Kyi - whose party took power | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
in Myanmar earlier this year - met the president at the White | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
House. How would you feel if you were stuck | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
in a remote, frozen Russian weather station, and unable to leave, | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
because you were surrounded by That's what five Russian | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
scientists have had to deal with for more than two weeks | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
in the Russian Arctic. The scientists are all reported | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
to be well, and have just received relief supplies, | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
including flares to Well, a BBC team filming | :19:22. | :19:22. | |
a wildlife documentary called experience in Svalbard in Norway - | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
here's what happened to them: A bear breaking in is worse | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
than teenagers at a house party. The difference between a polar bear | :19:42. | :19:54. | |
and a house party is Polar bears being described as | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
teenagers in that clip. Well, in that clip was producer | :19:58. | :20:09. | |
Sophie Lansfear and she joins Sophie, that wasn't the first time | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
you saw that particular bear - The first time, I was on a night | :20:13. | :20:27. | |
watch and I thought I'd let the cameraman get some sleep, so I was | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
staying up all night, looking out for bears because this pair had been | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
hanging around the cabin. You would think, being the world's largest | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
carnivore that you would spot it. And constantly looking out the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
window all the time and the reindeer started running and I was looking | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
around and then suddenly all of a sudden when I was off guard I looked | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
up to the window and there was this big white face and the polar bear | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
was looking at me through the window. That must have been | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
absolutely extraordinary. We know that they are dangerous. They have | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
killed before. What is your advice to those Russian scientists? What do | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
you do when they come towards you after your supplies? I would say | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
that every bear is very different. They all have different | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
personalities. First of all, got to watch without bear and work out what | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
their behaviour is because a lot of bears are scared and then the ones | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
that aren't, usually aren't for a reason and so to work out why that | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
is, are the injured, are the hungry, what sort of state the Bury Saint. | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
If it is very thin, then it is a lot more dangerous than desperate and | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
that is when you tend to get attacked. So if they were happy | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
bears and well fed then I would say that maybe it was not too much of a | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
risk to them, but it is not a position I would like to be in with | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
that many bears surrounding me. Indeed. In terms of these attacks, | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
are they on the increase? Is there a reason behind that? I think it's | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
hard to say that they are on the increase, but what is inevitable is | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
that we are seeing year-on-year a trend of decreasing sea ice which | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
means they are losing their habitat, so where the Bears would prefer to | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
be out hunting seals all year round, they now can't, so more hours | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
stranded on the shore. And that brings them into the communities | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
that are on short and in direct conflict with them. So I think with | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
climate change and with the loss of sea ice, it is going to be a problem | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
in the future. Well, Sophie, thank you very much for sharing your | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
experiences. She was part of the team filming the hunt. Thank you | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
very much. Now, it will be one of the most | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
extraordinary maps ever made. The most accurate guide of the night | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
sky, charting the whereabouts and brightness of more | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
than a billion stars in our galaxy. It's being compiled | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
by the European Space Agency, as our Science Correspondent | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
Pallab Ghosh explains. Our galaxy, the Milky Way. If you | :22:53. | :23:10. | |
were flying through it in a spacecraft, this is what you would | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
actually see. This is a 3-D map of stars created from real data just | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
released by the European Space Agency. This is the first step | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
towards a complete revolution in our knowledge of the structure, the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
origin, the abolition and what the universe is made of. I am in the | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
library of the Royal astronomical Society and it is full of books | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
about where the stars and the galaxy are. Yet, new results from the diet | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
space telescope will mean that many of them will have to be rewritten. | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
The me show you why. This is our world, the earth. It is one of eight | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
planets that make up the solar system. With our star, the sun, at | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
its centre. But the sun is just one of billions of stars in our galaxy, | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
called the Milky Way, which looks like this and astronomers think that | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
we are here on one of the spiral arms. But all of this is based on | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
guesswork. The observation of just a few hundred stars. Over the past two | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
years, Diana has been scanning the skies and mapped the position of | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
more than a billion stars. So very soon, we will have more accurate | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
pictures of what the Milky Way is really like and where we are. This | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
may well be completely different to what astronomers currently think. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
The telescope has collected so much data that the European Space Agency | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
has invited schools all across the world to help them. By sifting | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
through the information and letting them know if they discover anything | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
interesting. Looks like we have done it. They have discovered a star that | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
has exploded at the end of its life. We discovered a supernova, using the | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
data we have been looking at from stars and what we got was a | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
supernova and what we got was a cloud. You will discover a supernova | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
everyday. Yes, that is true. It is given because you do not see those | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
kind of things every day and it feels really proud to say that I | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
discovered a supernova at the age of 14. Astronomers also hope to | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
discover completely new objects in our galaxy that are currently book | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
beyond our imagination. There has been a damning verdict on | :25:29. | :25:45. | |
the intervention in Libya, huge instability and the rise of the | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
so-called Islamic State are blamed on the British and French joint | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
military intervention in the country. We have lots more on our | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
website so you can get in touch on social media, but that is all. | :25:57. | :26:08. | |
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