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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In the last few hours, there's been a serious upsurge in violence into | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
and out of the Gaza Strip, as the UN Secretary-General urges both sides | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Gaza's main hospital is hit and at least eight children killed | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
In the past half hour, Israel's Prime Minister has defended | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
Out of control - a spreading fire at a huge oil depot in Libya prompts | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
the Government there to plead for international help. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
stops international investigators from reaching the crash site of | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Most experts agree they were wiped out by a giant asteroid, | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
but was their extinction a colossal case of but was their extinction | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
We'll look at the latest theory about the demise of the dinosaurs. | :01:03. | :01:21. | |
In the past 30 minutes, the Israeli Prime Minister, | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that Israel must be prepared | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
He said that it would not finish until the goal of destroying | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
the tunnels from Gaza had been achieved. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
The hope was for a truce to allow the besieged civilians of the | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Gaza Strip to mark the Eid festival that ends the month of Ramadan. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
But it has been another day of bloodshed, with | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
a serious upsurge in violence on both sides in the last few hours. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
The compound housing Gaza's main Al-Shifa Hospital has been hit. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
And Palestinian officials in Gaza say that at least eight children who | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
were in a nearby playground in a refugee camp have also been killed. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
The Palestinians blame Israeli missile fire, but the Israelis say | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
that rockets misfired by Hamas militants were to blame. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
In another development, a mortar attack from Gaza on Southern Israel | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Martin Patience reports from Gaza City. | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
In the main hospital in Gaza, the casualties are arriving. Among them, | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
children playing outdoors. No street in Gaza is safe. There is great and | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
desperation in this hospital. Many of the families of those children | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
hurt in this attack are rushing here and many of them fear the worst. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Caught up in a conflict he cannot possibly understand. This boy and | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
girl were injured, in what Palestinians say was an Israeli air | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
strike. Israel denies this, saying they were injured by a misfired | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Palestinian rocket. I was at home when I had a huge glass, says this | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
man, I rushed out of the street and it was full of bodies. Earlier in | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
the day, amid the ruins, they marked the end of Ramadan. This festival is | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
supposed to be a moment of joy and celebration, but there was only | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
bitterness and sorrow here. At eight Gaza Cemetery, families paid their | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
traditional respects. But even the dead are not spared. The blast of an | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Israeli air strike on earth one body, which had to be buried again. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
-- and asked. More than 150,000 Palestinians have been forced out of | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
their homes by the fighting. Most are staying at UN schools, but there | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
were no gifts for the children, only desperation from their parents. We | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
have fled from our homes and there is no Eid here. The situation is | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
miserable. I do not even have anything to give to my son or | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
daughter, we have nothing. The Israeli military continues to | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
destroy tunnels used by Hamas to stage cross-border attacks. Israel | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
says until the safety of its citizens is guaranteed, it has the | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
right to continue this offensive. Bethany Bell joins us now | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
from Jerusalem. We have been hearing from Benjamin | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
Netanyahu while -- why he feels it is necessary to continue the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
offensive. Yes, he said that Israelis should be prepared for a | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
long campaign, we do not know exactly what that means in this | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
context, but what he did not do was to announce an expansion of this | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
operation in Gaza. He said that the target remained taking out these | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
cross-border tunnels that goal from Gaza into Israel, and in fact, this | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
evening, the Israeli army has said that initial reports of an incident | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
in which militants came up through those tunnels and exchanged fire | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
with Israeli soldiers, they say a search is now underway, so, sketchy | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
details at the moment about that incident north of the Gaza Strip, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
all of which will increase the support likely in the Israeli | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
population for what the Army is doing in Gaza. As we were saying, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
each side blames the other for this hit on the hospital compound and the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
beach nearby. It'd create whose ordnance was involved? -- is it | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
clear yet. We have had Hamas saying it was result of Israeli air strike, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
on a playground in which it says each children died, and on a | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
building in the main Al-Shifa Hospital conflict in Gaza. Israel | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
says the Israeli army says that these strikes were the result of | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
rockets misfired by a listing in militants inside Gaza. So, both | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
sides blaming the other. -- misfired by Palestinian militant -- | :06:27. | :06:27. | |
militants. With me is Rosemary Hollis, | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Olive Tree Scholarship Programme Thank you for coming in. We have | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
just heard that determination from the Israeli Prime Minister to | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
continue for as long as it takes to get rid of these tunnels. Why this | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
should eject -- what is the strategic importance? I do not think | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
they thought the word as extensive as they are. Only when they went in | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
on the ground, looking the stockpiles of rockets, the original | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
intention of the Israeli opening of another round of warfare with Hamas | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
was to get rid of those rockets, but then discovering they had another | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
plan, which was to infiltrate Israel under the security fence that | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
surrounds the Gaza Strip, they have got a stronger agenda the damage | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
Hamas in military terms. I do not think Benjamin Netanyahu can expect | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
any tolerance if he agrees to a cease-fire on human attaining downs, | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
and will have been seen to have not finished the job he claimed he was | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
starting. Is there a sense in which Israel has been wrong-footed by | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Hamas? In terms of keeping the rockets firing and there is a more | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
extensive underground network than they thought. Mustard -- it was | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
certainly politically weak at the start of this campaign because of | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
the change of Government in Egypt. Which is increase the support behind | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Benjamin Netanyahu to crack down on Hamas. However, by Hamas showing | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
that they can put up a serious resistance, they can do serious | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
harm, they can disrupt the Israeli economy and that they have plans to | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
try another tactic in the future, that will have rattled the Israelis. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
That is interesting about the attitude of Egypt. Because we have | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Ban Ki-Moon, John Kerry, saying we have to have a cease-fire, and on | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
the other hand, they seem to be saying there might be some tacit | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
support for hammering Hamas from other Arab states. There is a | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
scenario for the future of Gaza, not necessarily one that the Israeli | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
leadership has wholeheartedly embraced, but one seriously under | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
discussion, which would involve the Egyptians and the Saudis, who are so | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Italy anti-Muslim brotherhood -- bitterly, but almost like to -- | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
definition they are against Hamas as an offshoot of the Muslim | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Brotherhood, they want to use this opportunity, much as they wanted to | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
use the previous opportunity when Israel was at war with Hezbollah in | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Lebanon, to smash what they regard as a serious problem in terrorist | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
terms, in terms of being against what the Egyptian Government and the | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Saudi Government stand for in the region. So, there are mentions of a | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
wider power struggle, the Israelis find themselves with some backing | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
from what they would call moderate Arabs in the region. The Americans | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
are not the only players who can talk to the Israelis now. Does that | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
mean that if there is to be any cessation, even if it is not close, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
it could be to do with the regional solution? The conspiracy would be to | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
wipe out Hamas as the political authority in the Gaza Strip and | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
replace them not necessarily Mahmoud Abbas, but Fatah elements, including | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
those that Hamas posted in a firefight in 2007 over control of | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Gaza. Up against this scenario is the fact that Hamas is not just a | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
leadership, it is part of the population of Gaza, it is embedded | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
in the population. It is literally underground, which is what the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
tunnels are about. The population in Gaza once the Israelis to suffer for | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
what they are suffering. Thus far, Hamas is doing more to hurt Israel | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
than any of the people in Cairo or read, or indeed the West Bank. -- or | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
in Saudi Arabia. The Libyan Government says a fire | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
at a huge oil depot near Tripoli Airport has spread to a | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
second tank and is out of control. The Government says | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
the fire could cause a "humanitarian and environmental | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
disaster", and is calling for The facility, which stores 6.6 | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
million litres of fuel, was hit The fire is still raging in Tripoli | :11:08. | :11:29. | |
amidst the country's West cycle of violence in three years. These are | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the latest flames engulfing the skyline. A fuel storage tank struck | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
by a stray rocket on Sunday saw firefighters battling the blaze for | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
hours as ongoing clashes between rival militias continued. This dual | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
storage compound as more than 20 million litres of petrol, gas and | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
diesel. Libyan officials are warning of a potential humanitarian and | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
environmental disaster. In the face of indiscriminate shelling, no one | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
knows what will happen. Residents within a five kilometre radius have | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
been told to evacuate. For two weeks, rival militias have been | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
battling for this, Tripoli's International airport, insignificant | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
cash cow for any group running it. There is not much of it left now. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
But the battle here is beyond controlling the key facility, it is | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
a power struggle that mirrors Libya's divisive politics in the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
last three years. It is not just the capital, Lydia's second city, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Benghazi, has been fighting its own war, entrenched in an ideologically | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
divided. There are forces there now locked in a continuous battle with | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Islamist militants in the city. Militant groups calling for Shari al | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
all are blamed for the daily assassinations and bombings | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
targeting the military, police and activists. Most foreign nationals | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
have now been told by their governments to leave the country | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
immediately. Many worry that the cycle of violence across Libya may | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
now be beyond anyone's control. Brigitte Scheffer is from | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
BBC Arabic. We were just saying that this could | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
also be an environmental disaster. It is not under control in any way. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Indeed. This afternoon, a second storage tank was hit by a rocket and | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
is now in flames as well. The Government have asked the local | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
population within five kilometres to evacuate the area, because of the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
toxicity of the fumes. This second tanker exploding is certainly not | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
going to help stop I think there is about almost ten tankers in that | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
storage area, so if they all blow up, it will pose a real problem for | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Tripoli on many levels. And very hard to go in and deal with it when | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
triply itself and the country is so unstable. And I do not think they | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
have the resources to deal with a petrochemical fire like this, it | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
will be very hard to put out. So, they are very under resourced, so | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
this could go on for a while. They have over 6 million litres, it is a | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
serious problem. It is tragic on many levels, because we associated, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
have associated Olivia with oil and massive oil reserves. -- Libya. It | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
was spotted -- it was thought that the new Libya could at least rely on | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
oil revenue. Yes, it is a shame that the oil industry has virtually | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
collapsed. For a long time it was a provider and if holds Africa's | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
largest reserves. Bay have gone from that to being one of the smallest | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
producers of OPEC countries. Because of the ongoing militia trouble that | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
they have had, other militia groups have controlled the terminals and | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
there is still a negotiating process taking place to liberate some of the | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
terminals from rebel hands. They have asked for international | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
help to deal with the fire, they are looking for experts. In general, who | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
do they look to? To Americans or European backers? | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
In the past they have looked to the west, particularly France, England | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
and the US, who initially backed this revolution and help them. I | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
think the situation on the ground has deteriorated so badly on the | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
ground that a lot of the embassies are closing or have closed. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Everybody is urging their citizens to leave the country, unless they | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
have a reason to be there. They have asked for international assistance | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
without specifying who. More of a plea for help, I think. What they | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
might need is technical assistance in dealing with this fire. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
They queue for joining us. We will keep an eye on that story. | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Ukrainian officials are claiming that data | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
from the black box flight recorders on the Malaysian Airlines flight | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
MH17 confirms it was destroyed by shrapnel from a missile blast. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
In their words, there was "massive explosive | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Fresh fighting - close to where the plane went down - | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
has prevented international monitors from accessing | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
the crash site for the second day in a row - despite assurances they | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Meanwhile, the United Nations human rights chief says | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
the crash over eastern Ukraine could constitute a war crime. | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
From the region, our correspondent Tom Burridge reports. | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
On the roads through eastern Ukraine we saw families fleeing the | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
fighting. Victoria and her grandson are crammed in their car. | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
TRANSLATION: They are bombing houses, we want to stay alive. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Off-white cloth is their plea for no harm. Where the smoke is rising, the | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
city which they left. We saw Ukraine's army fire heavy | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
artillery. For months, pro-Russian rebels have held much of the land, a | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
conflict in which much of the civilians have died. Now the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
Ukrainian army is on the offensive. Misses as far as we have been able | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
to go. There is fierce fighting in this part of eastern Ukraine, | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
particularly around the strategically important city of | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Donetsk. It is Ukrainian government forces that have been making | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
advances. Generally speaking in that direction, towards the crash site of | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
flight MH17. The fighting prevented investigators and security observers | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
from reaching the site, even with armed guards. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
We are sick and tired of being interrupted by gunfights despite the | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
fact that we have agreed there should be ace is fire. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
But it appears the crash site is not the main objective for these | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Ukrainian forces. We want to take round and main roads to the east of | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
the near risk, which link that important city to Russia. -- done | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
yet. Meanwhile, life of those still here is anything but easy. The wait | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
for essentials. The fighting goes on. | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
And international court in the Hague has told the Russian government to | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
pay compensation of $50 billion to shareholders in the defunct oil | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
company Yukos. company, Yukos. The court said | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Russian officials under President Putin had manipulated the legal | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
system to bankrupt Yukos. It said the company's former head, Mikhail | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Khodorkovsky, had shown signs of becoming a political competitor. The | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
Russian government says the ruling The Liberian government has | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
closed most border crossings to The disease has killed at least 660 | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
people in West Africa this year. Testing centres will be set up | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
at the international airport and the few other entry points to | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
the country which will remain open. The French government has said it's | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
ready to give asylum to Christians in Iraq who have been threatened | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
by the jihadist group, Thousands of Christians have fled | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
from the northern city of Mosul after the Islamic State - | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
previously known as ISIS - told them they had to convert, | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
pay a religious tax or face death. Students who survived the sinking | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
of a South Korean ferry in April have said they were repeatedly told | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
to stay in their cabins They're giving evidence | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
during the trial of the captain and crew members who face charges | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
ranging from negligence to murder The Australian government has | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
approved the development of what could potentially be | :20:05. | :20:05. | |
the country's biggest coal mine. The government says strict | :20:06. | :20:17. | |
environmental conditions Freak storms have struck the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
west coast of the United States. One man has died and | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
at least fourteen others were taken to hospital, | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
after being struck by lightning They were caught | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
as rare summer thunderstorms swept This was the scene minutes after a | :20:36. | :20:51. | |
violent electrical storm caused panic in one of America's most | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
famous beaches. Emergency services responded to reports that several | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
people had been injured by lightning. People on the beach said | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
the only warning was when the sky suddenly darkened. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
I said, we should go inside, because I don't feel like getting killed | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
today. And then moments later, all hell broke loose. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
It was the loudest under I have ever heard. All the mothers were grabbing | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
kids. There was a flash of light and noise | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
and it felt like someone punch me in the back of the head. It went all | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
down the right side of my body, my leg locks and I fell over. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
At least a dozen people were treated at the scene. Most of those had been | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
in the water when the lightning struck. | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
They have been sent away, for the most part they are doing very well. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
There was the initial person who received some serious injuries may | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
have been transported to a local facility. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Of those taken to hospital, one has been critically injured and one has | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
died. Helicopters patrolled the shoreline searching for more | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
casualties. Lifeguards fanned out across the surf to make sure no one | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
had been missed. The storm was a brief interruption on a sunny | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
afternoon, but for at least one family, it meant that a date the | :22:16. | :22:16. | |
beach ended tragically. Dinosaurs were wiped out | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
by an asteroid impact when they were at their most vulnerable, according | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
to a new international study which says the creatures were already | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
suffering from food shortages, as The 11 leading dinosaur experts | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
conclude the dinosaurs might have survived | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
if the asteroid had hit the Earth a So their extinction | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
65 million years ago was a case One of those experts is | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
in our Birmingham studio now. Dr Richard Butler is from the School | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
at the University of Birmingham. Thanks for joining us. Tell us more | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
about the fact they were vulnerable at this particular time. Why? | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
65 million years ago dinosaurs went extinct, and prior to that was a lot | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
of intense environmental change going on. There were a lot of | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
volcanic eruptions in India, leading to changes in climate, and also a | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
lot of sea-level changes. A long-term fall in sea-level. All | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
these things would have placed stresses on dinosaur communities. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
What we see in some of the large groups of dinosaurs are long-term | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
declines in diversity or current over the last few million years or | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
so prior to extension. These declines in diversity would probably | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
have had the impact of weakening dinosaur amenities as a whole and | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
making them more vulnerable to the effect of this asteroid impact. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
So if the asteroid had not hit then but hit a few million years later, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
dinosaurs might have been resilient enough to survive? For how long? | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
It is possible. We cannot rerun the table history and look at what would | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
have happened if it has hit at a different time, but it was certainly | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
a very bad time for it to hit, and dinosaurs might have survived if it | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
had been a few million years later or earlier, and I think if they have | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
survived they would have been with us today. They were very successful | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
for around 180 million years, and if you look at the last six to 5 | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
million years of Earth history, nothing has happened that would have | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
been enough to wipe out dinosaurs. -- 65 million years. | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
What would that have meant for us? Would we be here talking about | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
this? It is a good question. If we look at | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
what happened after dinosaurs went extinct, mammals were actually | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
around for a long time alongside dinosaurs but they were never able | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
to diversify. When dinosaurs disappeared, mammals undergo this | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
explosion that ultimately leads to the evolution of humans. Dinosaurs | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
had not disappeared, this may not have occurred and we may not have | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
evolved. So we may all our very existence to this asteroid impact. | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
While it was colossal bad luck for the dinosaurs, it was probably | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
colossal good luck for us. Many species were weakening anyway | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
because of environmental factors. Some people would say, they would | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
not survive anyway. There was a decline that was well underway. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
That decline is only limited to a few groups of dinosaurs. If you look | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
at dinosaurs as a whole, they seem to have been doing pretty good up | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
until the asteroid impact. Some groups, large bodied herbivorous | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
groups, they were in decline, and we don't know whether this would have | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
continued. Are probably would not have been enough to drive all | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
dinosaurs to extension. Thank you for joining us and giving | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
us those ideas about dinosaurs who could have still been here today. | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
A video of the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
Erdogan, scoring a hat-trick in a football match has gone viral. | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
The Prime Minister, who was once a promising junior with a Turkish club | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
side, showed off his skills during an exhibition match to inaugurate | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Mr Erdogan is standing as a candidate in next month's | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
I think you can tell the goalkeeper wasn't trying too hard. IQ for | :26:27. | :26:49. | |
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Plenty of showers around, and we will see some winds pushing into the | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
north-west | :27:09. | :27:09. |