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trading with the EU and the rest of the world after Brexit - | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Buying and selling across borders - the Brexit Secretary says keeping | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
trade as simple as possible will work for the EU as well. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
BMW do not want to have to have a customs border | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
that is going to slow down their sales and add | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
But a top EU official calls the plan a fantasy. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight: Millions face a more expensive commute next year. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
So many of us are not getting pay rises that can manage that. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
My pay rise is maximum 1%, so that makes us worse off when they | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
The death toll in Sierra Leone rises after yesterday's mudslide. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Now health experts fear a spread of cholera and typhoid. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Even by the reckoning of the head of this | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
mortuary, who has been doing this for decades, it's absolutely | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
India, the world's most populous democracy, marks 70 | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
And I'm in the city of Amritsar looking at the country's potential | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
and the problems that are holding it back. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: they're | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
without Philippe Coutiniho, Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana, | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
but Liverpool battle on against Hoffenheim | :01:32. | :01:32. | |
in their Champions' League qualifier tonight. | :01:33. | :01:54. | |
Good Evening and welcome to the BBC's News at Six. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
The Government has set out its plans for trading with the EU and the rest | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Ministers want to avoid a sudden and drastic change for business | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
so they're calling for a temporary relationship with the EU | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
while a more permanent arrangement is developed. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Their ultimate goal is to have a system of trade | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
with the EU that is as close as possible to what we have now. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
But the EU parliament's chief negotiator described | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
Our business editor Simon Jack reports. | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
Nearly 20% of all goods traded with the EU come through here. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Businesses fear any blockages to trading arteries like this | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
would have serious consequences for them and the rest of the UK. | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
For logistics firms, like this one in Kent, time is money. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Our business runs on just in time basis, moving goods | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
If we ended up having shipments having to do customs clearances | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
in bound and outbound that would be damaging in terms of the amount | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
of time we would spend at Dover going in and out of the country | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
and that would almost grind our business to a halt. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
There may be 21 miles of sea between here and France but in trade | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
terms there is no barrier thanks to our membership | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
It's a club of EU countries in which individual | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Goods move freely and with minimal check-up. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
But there is still an external border between the EU and the rest | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
of the world at which goods are checked and in some cases tariffs | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
So, what happens when we are outside the club? | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Today the Government said it wanted to leave, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
it wanted a new deal but in the period before that could happen, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
One is the ongoing, easy customs arrangement that allows sale of | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
goods into the European Union but also from them to us, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
The interim period, it'll take time to get | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
structures in place, will be a bit like the customs union now. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
This is an ambitious document, by technically | :04:18. | :04:18. | |
leaving the customs union, by leaving border arrangements | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
unchanged for a couple of years, you'll get | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
minimised disruption, while at the same time forging | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
new arrangements with people around the world before | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
we eventually end up with an almost frictionless | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
arrangement with our old friends in the EU. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
Which is why many think there's one long recipe | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
One EU official described parts of the proposal as "fantasy" while | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
Brussels top negotiator said there were more | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
important things to settle first like citizens rights | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
No-one wants friction at the borders, especially the ones | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
The Government will release more details | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
There are so many issues to unpick, some politicians wonder | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
whether the Government has its priorities right. | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
This seems to be all about the problems in the | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Conservative Party and really not about addressing the situation faced | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
by the British public and the needs of the economy and jobs. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Well, why don't we just stay in the customs union? | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
If they want to have something, that, you know, if it looks like a | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
We're leaving but nothing will change at | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
the border for now, that at least is what the Government is hoping for. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Let's get the reaction from Brussels - | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
We know exactly what the UK Government wants. But what do the | :05:39. | :05:51. | |
EU's priorities? George, the EU's first priority is protecting its | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
timetable, hence that tweet from the chief negotiator saying it's make | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
progress on the issues of Ireland, the UK's financial obligations and | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
citizens' rights first, before moving on to the next phase of talks | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
which is about the future relationship. Although it will be | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
intriguing to see if this British paper published today kick-starts a | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
discussion amongst the other EU countries about what that future | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
relationship might look like. I imagine that was one of the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
intentions of the British Government today in publishing that paper. The | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
EU's other priority is protecting the EU itself and in this case that | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
means stopping the UK becoming some kind of back door for imports of | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
cheaper or lower quality goods into the EU. So that will guide their | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
thinking on this issue of customs. The fact is officials here in this | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
city have been crying out for more details about the British | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Government's vision of Brexit and the details, so they're actually | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
very happy this paper published today is the first in a deluge of | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
documents heading this way from London. | :06:56. | :06:55. | |
Thank you. Millions of rail passengers | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
will see the biggest rise They're going up by 3.6% | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
in January, because of a rise The increases will affect season | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
tickets, so called "anytime" tickets Unions have called it a kick | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
in the teeth for passengers. Our transport correspondent, | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Richard Westcott, has the story. Rebecca's commute from Taunton | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
to Bristol costs ?3,500 a year and it's due to go up by ?130 next | :07:21. | :07:39. | |
year as most commuters There is this gradual erosion | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
of your actual real wealth that's happening to an awful lot of people | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
where you will find that your salary may have gone up but everything else | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
is going up so much faster and so much more that year | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
on year we're all actually, It's not the train companies that | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
set around half of our rail fares, it's actually the Government | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
and they've been putting the fares up for years | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
because they want to change who pays It's all part of a plan to shift | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
the financial burden away from taxpayers, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
most of whom don't commute Fares used to account for about half | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the cost of running our trains. Across Britain, people | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
are facing tough choices. If it goes up, I probably won't even | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
be able to afford to go to work. I will have to get the car to work | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
because it's cheaper I work in the public sector, | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
my pay rise is maximum 1% so that makes us worse off when they put | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
fares up like that. I wouldn't mind the rise if you got | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
a better quality carriage They're pretty tatty | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
these things now. Campaigners have criticised the use | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
of the RPI rate of inflation which is usually higher but the rail | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
firms say they face Railway companies costs are going up | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
in line with that inflation as well so they have to cover those costs | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
in order to be able to provide the services | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
that we want as passengers. Ministers argue that the money | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
is needed to pay for a ?40 billion A lot of it is still Victorian | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
and it's struggling to cope Critics claim fares have outstripped | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
wages for years and say it's The Government could still change | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
its mind in the Autumn Budget. The public inquiry into | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the Grenfell Tower fire - which left more than 80 people dead | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
- is officially under way today. It will examine how the blaze | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
started and the actions But broader social questions | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
will not be considered. This has led to criticism | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
from the local MP, residents and campaigners, as our special | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
correspondent, Hanging from near | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
the top of the tower. There are still remains to be found, | :10:00. | :10:11. | |
bodies to be identified. And still, so many | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
questions to be answered. Questions the public inquiry | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
says it will look at. The inquiry now says it will examine | :10:19. | :10:31. | |
the cause and spread of the fire, the design and construction | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
of the tower block, including safety regulations, | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
and the response of the Fire Brigade to the blaze and central and local | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
government's response after it. But it won't look at social housing | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
policy, or the relationship between residents and the council, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and the tenant Karim is still waiting | :10:46. | :10:46. | |
for the remains of his uncle to be We thought that it's | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
covering pretty much what we want it to cover, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
in terms of, you know, the cause and spread of the fire, | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
the response with the local authorities and the residents, | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
before and after. Do you think the inquiry | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
could be broader? I think it should be | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
more broader and be more detailed in terms | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
of that, yeah, definitely. You would like it to | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
look at social housing? But he still can't say he has | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
confidence in the inquiry. I mean I have more confidence | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
in a criminal investigation While Sir Martin Moore Bick, the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
head of the inquiry won't examine policy on social housing, | :11:35. | :11:46. | |
the Government says ministers will. There is a listening exercise | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
we have to do in Government about wider social housing policy | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
and that is precisely what I will be doing over | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
the coming weeks and months. As residents marched in silence last | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
night to remember the tragedy, many still feel the inquiry | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
doesn't go far enough. The Prime Minister said no stone | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
would be unturned and this We need to make sure social | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
housing is considered. This is what we felt was going | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
to happen at the beginning of this consultation process and this | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
is what has happened. The inquiry's had a difficult | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
start with the judge He needs the confidence | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
of the survivors, the bereaved, as a whitewash, and after today's | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
announcement, he still doesn't have The Grenfell inquiry | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
will hold its first hearing next month and hopes to have an initial | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
report on the cause and spread One survivor said, | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
"We just want the truth." The family of each person killed | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
in the Manchester Arena terror attack in May | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
is to receive a ?250,000. That includes ?70,000 which has | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
already been given to the next of kin of the 22 people who died | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
in the bombing. The money is from the We Love | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Manchester Emergency Fund which has so far raised ?18 million | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
from public donations. A cyclist, accused of killing | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
a woman by crashing into her in a London street, | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
began shouting at her as she lay Charlie Alliston, who was 18 | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
at the time, was allegedly going 18mph before knocking down | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Kim Briggs in an east London street. Mrs Briggs suffered brain injuries | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
and died in hospital days later. A desperate dig for survivors | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
is under way in Sierra Leone's capital, after mudslides and floods | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
claimed the lives Their homes on the outskirts | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
of Freetown were engulfed after part of a mountain | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
collapsed yesterday morning. As our correspondent | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Umaru Fofana reports, the authorities are planning mass | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
burials because the On the day after, emergency services | :13:56. | :13:56. | |
are still overstretched. Inside the central | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
mortuary of the main They are lying on the floor in the | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
open because there is no more space. Nearly 100 bodies were brought | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
in on Tuesday morning, bringing the total number to nearly | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
400, some of them limbless. The head of the mortuary | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
says they are completely overstretched and that is not all, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
as they were trying to sort corpses out, more corpses are being brought | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
in from different parts of the city. Even the rescue effort | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
here is challenged. People are believed to still be | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
alive underneath this spot. Even if they are, it'll be a miracle | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
to find them breathing. Government and development | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
partners have now set up a response centre, | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
registering those left behind by the But the testimonies from people | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
who have been badly hit by this disaster are in | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
no short supply. TRANSLATION: I first saw the body | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
of my sister and called on people to help me and | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
we laid on the floor. Then I started hearing other | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
people nearby crying. Monday's mudslide and flash flood | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
have shaken this country. Even for a country that has known | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
a bloody civil war and destabilising Ebola outbreak, | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
this is unbearable. That report from Umaru | :15:30. | :15:30. | |
Fofana our correspondent Ministers set out their plans | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
for trade after Brexit. A top EU official | :15:33. | :15:45. | |
calls it a fantasy. Sailing to the North Pole, | :15:46. | :15:46. | |
it's never been done, but explorer Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :15:47. | :16:02. | |
It's all about the pink balls as England prepare for the first ever | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
day-night Test Match. They play the West Indies at Edgbaston on Friday. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Play will go on until 9pm in the evening. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has led his nation | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
in marking the 70th anniversary of the country's | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
The division of colonial India into two states - | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
India and Pakistan - in 1947 was followed by sectarian | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
violence between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
The Partition led to the movement of around 12 million people in one | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
of the largest migrations ever seen. | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Many Muslims fled east and west out of Hindu-dominated India. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Similarly, millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed the other way. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti is live at the golden temple in Amritsar. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
This is the holiest site of the Sikh religion, | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
and it stands in the state of Punjab, which was terribly | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
affected in the horrors of Partition 70 years ago. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
While India celebrates the anniversary of its independence, | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
it has a lot to reflect on, in its past and in its present. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
It has a huge and young population and a growing economy. But there's | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
also been a rise in religious violence, directed especially at | :17:24. | :17:24. | |
Muslims. as our South Asia correspondent, | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Justin Rowlatt, This is a day of | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
celebration for India. The Indian Prime Minister, | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Narendra Modi, talked of the country's successes - | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
its growing economy, its efforts to tackle corruption | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
and his vision for a secure, developed nation with equal | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
opportunities for all. He made a point of speaking out | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
against hate crimes. TRANSLATION: In the name | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
of religions some people in this This is the land of Gandhi | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and violence in the name of faith He is talking about India's tiny | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
minority of Hindu extremists, Modi is a Hindu Nationalist | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
and tensions have been growing between the country's Hindu majority | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
and its large Muslim minority. At the centre of the controversy | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
is the slaughter of cows for meat. But the cow is a sacred animal | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
in Hinduism regarded TRANSLATION: If I find someone | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
killing my mother cow, I don't need the police | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
or the authorities. He's so passionate about protecting | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the cow he and his supporters They've been told they've got no | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
permission to stop vehicles, Stopping these lorries to see | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
if they're carrying any cows. TRANSLATION: I have information | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
that they are smuggling cows Cow vigilantes have been | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
increasingly active across the country since Modi took | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
power and there have been murders. Avoiding communal conflict | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
is crucial for India. This new bridge is just | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
one of scores of major The country's doing well - | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
the fastest growing large There is a lot for India | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
to celebrate today but the prime minister knows keeping this country | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
growing depends on keeping This city Amritsar is right | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
on the border with Pakistan, and as India celebrates its 70 years | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
of Independence, it is just starting to address publicly its brutal | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
and bloody beginning, when the country was effectively cut | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
in two by Partition. As I've been finding out, | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
it was a difficult start for India and for its first prime minister, | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Jawaharlal Nehru. One of a tiny number of transport | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
links between neighbours. This train operates just twice | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
a week, taking Indians over the border and bringing Pakistanis | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
here to the outskirts of Amritsar. But it's a journey very few make, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
because of decades of mistrust between the two countries, | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
which started with the Amritsar is becoming | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
a centre of remembrance. This week, India is launching | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the first ever Partition museum here, recording the acts of violence | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
and bravery of that time. People actually haven't spoken much | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
about Partition in the past, The reason being that | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
I think that generation when they came across, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
A, they were traumatised, and B, because they were so busy | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
setting up their own lives, As the newly independent | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
state of India was born, its first Prime Minister, | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Jawaharlal Nehru, was full At the stroke of the midnight hour, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
when the world sleeps, India His vision was of a democratic, | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
secular state in which poverty and She lived through the horrors | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
and only narrowly escaped with her life, hidden with a fruit | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
truck and disguised in a burkha. Now 87, she's been recording her | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
memories for her grandson Rishi and reflecting on modern India | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
and Nehru's India. TRANSLATION: All the dreams | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
that he showed us, they've We thought that after independence, | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
all sorts of things would happen. We are still better off | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
but there are many poor people. There is still so much | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
poverty in India. There has been major economic growth | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
in India by Nehru's vision of a more One thing endures, the political | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
mistrust between India and Pakistan, a hostility that some born many | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
years after Partition We might just worship different | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
gods but that doesn't But he's never been to Pakistan, | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
which is less than 20 miles away. The border between the two countries | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
is real and psychological. Partition is both history | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
and ever present. It is very difficult for Indians to | :22:48. | :23:00. | |
go to Pakistan and vice versa. There are very few transport links and | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
almost no-one makes the journey. We were broadcasting in Pakistan | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
yesterday and made the crossing from Lahore, just 30 miles from here to | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
Amritsar. Very few people made the acrossing with us, that's because of | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
a long standing hostility between the states of India and Pakistan. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Its peoples may feel friendship, but the states themselves, 70 years | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
after Partition, they feel as far apart as ever. George, back to you. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
The British explorer Pen Hadow and his team have set | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
off for the North Pole in two 50-foot yachts. | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
His team say the melting of sea ice in the region is making the voyage | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Hadow left Nome in Alaska earlier today. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
He'll sail along the Baring Strait into the Central Arctic Ocean. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
After that his team will use satellites to plot the best | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
They are attempting to reach the geographic North Pole | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
and the expedition should take about six weeks. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Our science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, reports. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Setting off into uncharted Arctic waters, a pair of yachts | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
attempting a first - sailing all the way | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
A crew of ten and the dog have just departed from Alaska, | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
led by British explorer, Pen Hadow, they have a 3,500 | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
For the first time in human history, possibly for the first | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
time in 130,000 years, it is now possible to sail | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
It's rapid warming that's made this expedition even possible. | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
This shows how sea ice has melted over time. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
The smaller the circle, the less ice that year. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
There's still data to come for 2017, but already it doesn't look good. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Since the 1970s, it's estimated that half of the volume | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
It means that once inaccessible waters are opening up | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
and researchers say this could lead to significant changes, especially | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
At Reading University, scientists say that instead | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
of having to sail around the frozen pole, ships will have | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
At the moment, we're seeing a few experimental | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
In the future, as the ice continues to melt, the possibility of having | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
more commercial ships travelling through the region | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
Ships may be able to go right over the pole | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
The team do not know how far north they'll get. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
But this expedition into the unknown may be the start | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Let's hear about climate change of a different kind. | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
We could do with changing our weather that's for sure! A day of | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
sunshine and showers across the north of the UK. We've had some of | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
these clouds in the sky, moving across the skyline in Aberdeenshire, | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
for example. Some of those have been pretty heavy as well. Not just | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
across the north-east of Scotland. We've seen a number of showers | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
working across into Northern Ireland as well, with thunder storms up over | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
the Antrim hills. That's the lion's share of the activity today. We've | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
all seen decent spells of sunshine, the best of this across England and | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
Wales. Overnight tonight, the showers that are still with us will | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
continue to fade away. We'll have clear skies and light winds. A | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
combination that will lead to some fairly low temperatures for an | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
August night, not in the towns and cities. Temperatures holding up into | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
double figures. In rural Scotland, we could get down to five degrees by | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
the end of the night. Looking at Wednesday's weather charts, it's an | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
east-west split. A ridge of high pressure to start in the east. An | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
area of low pressure that will bring wet and yndy weather -- windy | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
weather into the west. That gets into Northern Ireland quickly. | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Scotland, England and Wales having a decent morning with some sunshine. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
But you can see the rain will continue to make inroads by the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
afternoon. Turning wet and windy across western Scotland later in the | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
day. The winds picking up to give gale-force gusts around the coasts | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
and coasts here. The wet weather continues in Northern Ireland. | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Things brighten up towards the end of the day. The rain is slow to | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
reach the Eastern side of Wales. For the bulk of England, the rain | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
arriving very late on, a decent day with fine spells of sunshine. A bit | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
breezier than it was today. It's through the nighttime that rain band | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
crosses Wales and England. Turning heavy for a time as well. It could | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
be quite slow to clear Eastern areas of England through Thursday morning. | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Eventually it will. We get sunshine following in. In fact Thursday's | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
weather looks similar to today really. We'll have further showers, | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
particular across the north and west sm. Of those could be heavy with | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
thunder. Warm in the sunshine with highs of 24. By Friday, we start to | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
get a North Westerly wind. That brings plenty of showers across | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
north-western areas of the UK. Some of those heavy with hail and | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
thunder. Generally fewer showers towards the south and east through | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
Friday and indeed into the weekend as well. | :28:08. | :28:08. | |
That's how the weather's shaping up. Ministers set out their plans for | :28:09. | :28:21. | |
trade after Brexit. They want a system as close as possible to what | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
we have now. But a top EU official has called it a fantasy. | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
It's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join | :28:30. | :28:35. |