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This is BBC World News Today. A new wave of discontent in Egypt, | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
as a group of young women are imprisoned for 11 years, for | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
protesting in support of Mohamed Morsi. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Muslim Brotherhood supporters take to the streets to denounce the | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
verdict. One demonstrator is killed in clashes with security forces. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Lots to chew over at dinner for EU leaders at a summit that should have | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
seen a new trade deal signed with Ukraine. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Also coming up. The case of the celebrity chef, her millionaire | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
former husband, and allegations their staff defrauded them of | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
hundreds of thousands. And are we in for a spectacle from | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
space? A Comet is due to come close to the sun, as we go on air. | :00:50. | :01:05. | |
Hello and welcome. Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
taking to the streets again, in Egypt, this time they are angry at | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
the heavy Spences imposed on 21 female supporters of the ousted | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
President Mohamed Morsi. They received prison sentences of 11 | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
year, among the group are seven teenagers under the age of 18. They | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
are being sent to a juvenile prisonful they were arrested for | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
taking part in an early morning demonstration last month. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
-- prison. Back on the streets of Cairo, | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
supporters of Egypt's ousted President more Morsi and security | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
forces armed with teargas and water cannon. The protest come in defiance | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
of a new law restricking demonstrations. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
And this was the cat list for the latest burst of anger. 21 women | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
found guilty of charge, including sabotage, inciting violence and | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
holding demonstration, among them 15 and 16-year-olds who will stay in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
detention until their 18th birthdays, the rest face jail terms | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
of 11 years, they Morsi supporters and took part in a demonstration | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
last month. One family said their daughter was passing by on her way | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
to school. -- they are. Outside the court room | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
other Morsi supporters vented their fury, chanting that the police were | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
thugs. Human rights are groups have criticised heavy prison sentences. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
The court's decision came days after a new law came into force, requiring | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
demonstrators to give three days notice of any protest of more than | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
ten people. Some here say the arrest of the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
women in Alexandria was meant as a deterrent. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
This woman says she was dragged, beaten up and detained overnight by | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
police. With the women who were arrested, it | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
is a reputation of repetition of use. The laws restricting | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
demonstrations have been criticised by the US and the UN Human Rights | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Commissioner. Egypt's been gripped by near daily protest since the coup | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
that ousted President Morsi in July. The interim Government says it is | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
not against peaceful action, the demonstrators say with permission or | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
not, they will continue making their voices heard. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Let us talk more about this, joining us live from Oxford is the Egyptian | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
journalist, who was herself beaten and sexually assaulted by riot | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
police two years ago in Egypt and briefly detained the the | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
pro-democracy protest. So regardless of where you stand in the political | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
argument, in Egypt, these sentences, particularly against the teenager, | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
some as young as 15, seem to be pretty harsh. Yes, these sentences | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
are outrageous, the Egyptian regime is making it very clear, that it | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
wants to terrorise us out of our right to protest. This is not what | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
the revolution is about. The head of the military intelligence when the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
revolution began is head of the country, and if a general is | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
frightened by the sight of teenage girls carrying balloons, exercising | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
their right fro test, then it must make you wonder what kind of hold he | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
has over the country. We also, I want to stress that the sentences | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
are outrageous not just because they are against girls and women, but | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
because they are unjust. Our judiciary is not independent and it | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
follows a long and shameful tradition of handing out sentences | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
that please the regime. These sentences, of course, occur inside, | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
with the passing of this law, restricting the right for people in | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Egypt to demonstrate, you have to get permission from the police to do | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
so. Absolutely. The day before these verdicts were handed out to these | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
young women, a group of activist, a group of revolutionary activists who | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
have nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood, so this isn't just | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
about the Muslim Brotherhood, and their rivalry, with the general, but | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
a group of activists were arrested and very violently beaten and | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
sexually assaulted and detail Tained this is the general's regime telling | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
all Egyptian, regardsless of what side you are on, you we are not | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
going to brook any kind of opposition s when our revolution | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
began, we made it very clear, that this was a revolution to end | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
military truth as well as dictatorship. I supported the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
overthrow of Morsi but I do not support turning the general into our | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
next dictator. Do you believe that now the authorities have | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
demonstrated their resolve in look locking people up, even as young as | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
15, that these girls could perhaps be released on appeal, or they are | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
not likely to serve out their full sentence, are they? Well, you know, | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
clear will I what the regime is trying to do is terrorise and put | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
people off going out on protest, because just two weeks' ago, another | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
group of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, university students, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
were given 17 years in jail. These are young men in their early 20, 17 | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
years in jail! So they are trying to use it as a very heavy-handed | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
deterrent against protest. I would like to see all of these sentences | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
overturned. These young people have a right to protest. Anyone in Egypt | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
should have a right to peacefully protest. As they are making clear, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
this is not Mubarak's Egypt. When it was the military Junta that took | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
over, or the general, they all seem to think they can walk into | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Mubarak's shoes and lead an unchanged Egypt. Egypt has changed | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
forever and we will not allow a dictatorship. To end on this point, | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
the fact of the matter is nevertheless a very powerful eimage | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
merging from Egypt, young women playing a important role in this | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
phase of transition. That is a positive message This is absolutely | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
positive. Especially considered the Muslim Brotherhood during the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
revolution when we were overthrowing Mubarak were telling women not to | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
protest. Now even Muslim Brotherhood girls and women are protesting shows | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
that Egyptian women have changed forever and we will not be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
terrorised out of public space. Thank you very much indeed. | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
Now, international tension has been growing over a small stretch of the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
east China sea. It includes territories claimed by Japan, China | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
and South Korea and was included by Beijing in a so-called air defence | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
zone. China insists all planes transiting | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the area must submit a flight plan in adds vans. In the latest | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
development Japan and South Korea have flown aeroplanesly the the area | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
unannounced. -- aeroplanes. Two days after the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
United States announced it had flown unarmed B 5 if bombers through the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
zone, more defiance of Beijing. Japan and South Korea now say they | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
have flown military aircraft through the zone, Tokyo insists it is just | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
TRANSLATION: TRANSLATION: . Since China created | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
this airspace defence zone, we have continued our surveillance | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
activities as before in the east China sea, including in the zone. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
The new Chinese zone covers these disputed islands in the east China | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
sea. And it dramatically overlaps an existing Japanese zone. That is part | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
of the reason why the Chinese move has raised the diplomatic | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
temperature over these tiny contested specks of land. But also | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
because there are multiple maritime disputes where China has appeared | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
assertive of late. Just now, sailing through the Taiwan | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
strait on the way to South China Sea perhaps the most tangible similar | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
billion of its ambition, its first aircraft carrier. This is a carrier | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
capability still in the making. This is a real carrier cape bill, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the US George Washington, seen on disaster leaf duty in the | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Philippines, now on nan noofrs off southern Japan. The timing the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Americans insist is cones dental. We planned it a year ago, we are ex | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
compute executing it almost exactly as planned. We didn't tailor | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
anything to any conditions that may have changed in the last 12 months. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Amid all the manoeuvres, diplomatic and military, there are concerns | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
that the risks of mill calculation are growing. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Now a Russian court has granted bail to the last Greenpeace activist | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
detained at sea for protesting against Arctic oil drilling. The | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
other members were bailed after several weeks in jail. One has | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
described her experience behind bars sawing she was so alone she | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
communicated with other activists by tapping out messages on pipes. | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
Just a face among the crowd, in St Petersburg, Alex Harris enjoying the | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
relative freedom of bail, after two months in a Russian prison. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
And this evening in an exclusive BBC interview she recalled her first | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
night in jail. One of the translators came and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
opened the hatch and explained the prison rules, and, I asked, "I need | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to speak to my mum, I really need to peek to her mum, I need to let her | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
know I will be OK. It will make me feel better." She was like "I am | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
sorry you, you have to put in an application: " I was like, "Hock, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
how long will it take. Maybe a few week, a few months." I just started | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
crying and she shut the door and I felt so alone. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
In her Arctic prison, she spent 23 hours a day alone in her cell. And | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
even during her one hour's exercise she didn't see daylight. They take | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
me up the stair, and, they take me to this concrete box, it is | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
disgusting. It is filthy, it is dark. It has a roof so I can't see | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
the sun. And I was like "Are they kidding? | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
This is my walk? " There was this radiator pipe that ran through the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
prison, and so we got out a pen or a spoon and we tapped on it. One tap | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
was A and two B, three was C. Sometimes it would take ten minutes | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
to say something, and someone would go sorry, please repeat. You would | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
be "Oh, no." It is what kept us going. The pictures of Alex Harris | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
in the dock were reminiscent of the pussy riot case two years ago. Do | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
you think that should have been warning sign that activism if Russia | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
was getting more risky and imprisonment was a real risk? I | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
certainly knew it was definitely more risky to protest in Russia than | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
it was Australia or the UK, but, I never compared myself to the Pussy | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Riot. They were protesting against the Russian regime. We were | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
protesting about oil. Alex Harris hopes the case against | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
her will be dropped. But for now, she still faces a charge of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
hooliganism, and a possible seven year prison sentence. | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
Now, it is a cold night in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, but | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
EU leaders are hoping still they can break the chin at dinner with the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. He is attending the | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
dinner at the eastern partnership summit, despite turning his back | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
under pressure from Russia on an associate deal with the EU. Five | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
other former Soviet Republics are keen to sign but EU leaders are | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
hoping to get Ukraine to change its mind. Our Europe correspondent is | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
there at the summit in Vilnius. He joins us live. So, EU leaders hoping | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
that the President will say da to the deal? Yes, it is looking a bit | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
more doubtful to be honest. There have been those over the past couple | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
of day, who said, well, the deal is still on the table, it is still a | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
possibility, I suspect what we will get in the end is a commitment from | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
both sides to continue the process, a statement saying Ukraine in the EU | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
are committed, actually, to signing this association agreement. Ukraine | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
and the EU. It may be there is no deal signed here and was the | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
intention. If that is the case, I think it will be a disappointment | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
for the EU and a disappointment clearly for those thousands of | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Ukrainians that we have seen demonstrating on the streets of eve | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
and other cities -- Kiev. There has been huge pressure on Ukraine from | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Russia, there has been a different kind of pressure on Ukraine from the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
EU. Warnings from EU leaders that Ukraine is in danger of passing up a | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
golden opportunity for economic improvement, and for democratic | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
progress, but that is the point we seem to be at, that perhaps European | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
appeals are going to fall short. And just outline for us, why Ukraine is | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
so important for EU leaders, like America who have said to them it is | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
not an either -- Angela Merkel, it is not an ideal situation, sign this | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
deal? One of the reasons Ukraine is important is it right on Europe's | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
borders and so particularly for EU member states in eastern Europe, | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
this is part of their shared neighbourhood. Here is a big, big | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
country, right in their neighbourhood, if it is seen to be | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
economically backward, unstable in any way, then that is clearly bad | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
news for them. If on the other hand it becomes a close trade partner, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
that is good news for their economies as well as the Ukrainian | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
economy. It is part of the EU strategy of bolstering its | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
neighbourhood, and Ukraine is probably the most important piece of | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
that jigsaw. There may well be deals, in fact we expect there will | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
be deals, at least initials rather than signed with Georgia and with | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Moldova but Ukraine was the big prize here, the one that the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
European Union was keen to get onboard. So I think, if that doesn't | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
happen, it will be a disappointment and there will have to be some | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
reassessment of the way European diplomacy has gone about trying to | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
react -- attract Ukraine. Di not react quickly | :16:03. | :16:14. | |
The fraud trial of two women employed by celebrity chef Nigella | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
Lawson and her former husband Charles Saatchi has heard that they | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
charged luxury holidays and designer clothes to a household credit card. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
The court heard that Mr Saatchi ended up funding credit card bills | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
of $150,000 in just one month. The two winning deny the charges. | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
-- women. Mr Saatchi arrived at court this | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
afternoon ready to give an evidence at a trial case about fraud but in | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
which details of his marriage to Nigella Lawson have emerged. They | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
seemed to have a charmed existence. She is a TV chef with a cookery | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
series. He is a co-founder of advertising agency Saatchi | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Saatchi, who has become a successful art collector and director. But it | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
is claimed there was a culture of secrecy in their marriage. In the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
sum of this year they divorced acrimoniously after these apparat | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
see photographs taken at a restaurant work published showing Mr | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Saatchi's hands around Miss Lawson's neck. Their personal | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
assistants, Elisabetta Grillo and Francesco Grillo, claimed they had a | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
tacit agreement with Nigella Lawson that they could spend on the credit | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
card if they did not reveal her alleged use of class a and class B | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
drugs to her husband. But the prosecution alleges they went on a | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
four-year personal spending spree. They have admitted spending some of | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
the money but deny fraud. Mr Saatchi's accountant told the court | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
he did not immediately tell his boss and ex-wife he is suspicions about | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
the personal assistants' expenditure because... | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
Cross-examination of the accountant took so long, Mr Saatchi left court | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
without having made it onto the stand. He is due to return tomorrow. | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Miss Lawson, whose TV cookery show starts a new series in America in | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
the New Year, is expected to give evidence at a later date. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Now let's bring you some of the day's of the news. The National | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Crime Agency here in Britain says that two men suspected of | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
involvement in football match fixing have been charged with conspiracy to | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
defraud. They are believed to be members of an international betting | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
syndicate based in Singapore and part of a group of six people | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
arrested this week. France is applying additional troops | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
to the Central African Republic on that where a humanitarian crisis is | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
unfolding. Men and equipment are in flown in and armoured vehicles are | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
arriving by road from Cameroon. Scotland's First Minister has | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
rejected suggestions by the Spanish Prime Minister that Scotland would | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
have to apply to join the European Union from outside the organisation | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
if it voted for independence in next year's referendum. The Scottish | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Government has said that EU membership would be | :19:44. | :19:44. | |
straightforward, but critics argue that Spain's position undermines | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
this claim. The authorities in Germany have unveiled more than 100 | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
additional works from an art haul believed to have been looted by the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Nazis, discovered in Munich last year. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
The latest batch includes drawings, watercolours and Prince by giants of | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
the art world, like Degas, Delacroix, Cezanne, Gauguin and | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Picasso. Syria has been in a state of | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
conflict for two and a half years. The UN estimates 2500 people have | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
been killed. Aid organisation says that parts of the country are so | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
dangerous that people are being left without help. Despite the dangers, a | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
small group of British Muslims are taking aid convoys overland to | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Syria. They are packing second-hand ambulances with aid and driving into | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
the fray. Our reporter travelled with one convoy for part of the | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
journey. Late night in Manchester. These | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
ambulances are packed with medical supplies and food collected by | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
volunteers. We have a laugh on the way because you know when you get | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
there your heart will be broken anyway. But they will know somebody | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
out there in the world is thinking about them. This is one of the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
number of smaller charity missions going to Syria. It is independent of | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
the big aid agencies. There are five ambulances travelling more than 3000 | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
miles through nine countries. It is day three of the journey and we are | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
in Switzerland. This is one of the pamphlets is on the convoy. It is | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
packed all down this site with medical supplies. You have needles, | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
doctors and boxes of painkillers. This is where four people are | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
sleeping so it is very cramped. The group are all British, of South | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Asian heritage. They see it as a duty to help other Muslims like | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
those in Syria. After eight days of travelling, driving in shifts, | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
finally they reach the Syrian border. This is where they enter the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
war zone. The convoy heads on without us. They are about to take | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
huge risks, and we could put them in further danger. First they had just | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
over the border. They are filming themselves on mobile phones. Four of | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
the group then pushed into Aleppo. The dangers are so severe here that | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
view aid agencies are operating. This final journey takes them to the | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
front line. Mustard rack we went out with one of the ambulance drivers | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
and he knows the whole area. Some parts were more than hairy. We ended | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
up very close to some of the front lines where there were snipers, and | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
that was a very surreal feeling. To actually be in the thick of it, it | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
was a little closer than I would have liked to have been. We are | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
going through sniper alley... The team go through sniper lined | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
streets. You are kind of going in in a slightly kamikaze fashion. Are you | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
really pushing it? If it is written that I will die then that is it. But | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
at the end of the day, if the world was giving what it is supposed to be | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
doing, I would not have to risk by life and do this. Everyone makes it | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
home safely. The convoy plans to return to Syria next month. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
You may have heard all day today astronomers and also just ordinary | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
observers hoping that this could turn out to be the comet of the | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
century. They have been closely watching, Dyson, which in the past | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
hour or so has made it closest approach to the sun. -- Comet Ison. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
The early signs are not looking very good. But this astronomer can tell | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
us much more. He is from University College London. What happened? Was | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
it as spectacular as it might have been washed up this afternoon was | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
very spectacular. The comet was coming in. At the last time when it | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
was really getting closer to the sun, we saw the comet fading and | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
then it went behind the courting disc of the camera, which masks the | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
sun. But then with a telescope with no disc, with special filters, you | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
could not see anything. Were you disappointed? Yes, actually. I do | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
not know whether something has survived or not will stop we will | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
have to wait a couple of hours to see the comet come out the other | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
side. But in this case, I think the comet was a very soft material and | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
vaporised. We heard it was something like throwing a snowball at the sun. | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
It did not have much of a chance. It depends how compact the snowball | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
is. It is a mixture of water and front substances like methane and | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
ammonia. And all this is frozen. It is covered in this dust. And then | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
the dust is not very rocky. It is fragmented. It will vaporise. You | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
have something in your hand to show me. This is a meteorite. It is not | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
exactly from a comet that it is similar. Some comets may have some | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
of this material. How old is this material? This is 4500 and 66 | :26:00. | :26:11. | |
million years. -- 4500 and 66 million years. It is older than | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
planet Earth. , keep it? -- can I keep it? What does this type of | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
study tell us? This is the age of the solar system and comet like the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
one we have just been talking about come from very far away. They come | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
really far away and the evaporation of this comet will us a lot about | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
the origin of the solar system. I am going to keep this! Thank you very | :26:47. | :26:47. | |
much. Goodbye. For many parts of the UK today, a | :26:48. | :27:08. | |
grey, misty end. Tomorrow a lot of the cloud will be blown away. There | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
will also be sharp shamus. The wind is picking up this evening and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
overnight. Especially across shop -- | :27:20. | :27:21. |