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I'm Karin Giannone, this is BBC World News. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Europe tries to persuade Turkey to take back some migrants, | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
while Turkey presents the EU with a new proposal on how to stem | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Will prevent illegal migration and we will encourage legal migration | :00:15. | :00:30. | |
through resettlement of the European Union. | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
These people have made it as far as Greece - | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
but could a new plan mean they will soon be returning | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Tunisian security forces have killed 28 militants after they launched | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
We hear what it takes to be Australia's | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Turkey has asked for an extra 3 billion euros from the European | :00:50. | :01:16. | |
Union to tackle the migrant crisis. Cathy Auster and 2 million migrants, | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
and many want to leave for Europe, creating the worst monetary crisis | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
since World War II. Our Europe editor Katya Adler has | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
the latest from Brussels. Today is about stopping this, and | :01:28. | :01:41. | |
this, and this. Or at least trying to, add yet another emergency summit | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
here in Brussels. The aim of the meeting neatly summed up this | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
morning by the arriving Belgian Prime Minister. TRANSLATION: We must | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
stop irregular migration, pure and simple. The's migrant crisis is | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
destroying the EU's reputation, ripping apart member countries | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
politically and geographically as borders are slammed shut. With the | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
EU overwhelmed, Nato is now wading into help, with a new mission aimed | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
at stopping people smugglers. The British Royal Navy is taking part. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
It is important that we help continent of Europe to secure its | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
external border, but in our interests, and that's why we are | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
sending British ships to do just that. But this does underline the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
special status we have in this organisation, because of course we | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
are not in the no Borders zone, we keep a run strong borders, so | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
migrants come to Europe are not able to come to the UK. If any one | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
country holds the key to alleviating this crisis, it is tacky. Not an EU | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
nation, although it wants to be, the Turkish Prime Minister is argued | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
with the most watched leader at the summit. The EU wants Turkey to stop | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
people smugglers on speeches and take back all migrants the EU judges | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
to be not in need of its protection. But the EU warns that might break | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
international humanitarian law, so even if the Turkey agrees, how high | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
will the price be? The Turkish by Mr Kim did today's meeting sounding | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
amenable. Challenges will be solved through cooperation, and Turkey is | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
ready to work with the EU. Even when agreements are made on migration at | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
the summit, the track record of keeping to them is not great. In | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
May, EU countries agreed to spread out the number of arriving so silent | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
sea is more evenly. 160,000 people were supposed to be relocated, but | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
only 900 have actually been moved. In June, the EU told Greece to set | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
up registration centres to properly identified migrants. But Greece has | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
only now started that process properly. In the meantime, tens of | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
thousands of undocumented migrants walked out of Greece and into the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
rest of Europe. Agreed in November, the EU hoped the Turkish government | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
to stop boatloads of migrants leaving Turkey in the first place, | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
but there has been little evidence of that so far. The EU is trying | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
hard to woo Turkey, including offers of more money. If it fails, Greece | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
believes it has the most to lose. Fields and city squares like this in | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Athens are now filling with migrants. Greece is appealing to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
anyone who will listen at the summit not to abandon it, letting it become | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
the refugee camp for the continent. Well, as EU leaders are mulling over | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Turkey's new proposals, the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
went for a meeting with Speaking a short while ago, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
he says Turkey's proposals to the EU are aimed at rescuing refugees | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
and discouraging human traffickers. We will try to discourage those who | :04:46. | :04:58. | |
want to come to cross Turkish borders. And we will be having a | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
very effective coordination with all of the concerned parties to rescue | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
these refugees before they cross Turkish border and also to | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
coordinate with Greek authorities when they reach so that we will | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
prevent illegal migration and we will encourage legal migration | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
through resettlement of the European Union. | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in Brussels. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
What is the word on how long talks by:? We know the Turks have | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
presented their ideas, these plans were announced earlier in the day, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
leaders met to discuss them, and they are now engaged in a dinner | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
with the Europeans on one side, the Turks on the other, but this could | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
go on for a long time. This is an entirely new set of bands that | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
leaders are discussing, and Turkey is asking a pretty high price from | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the EU for its cooperation here to stop those boats coming over with | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
people. It is not clear whether all EU countries will agree. Many of | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
them have concerns about the deal they are being asked to pay, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
particularly the 3 billion euros cost. Also Turkey's demands for | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
quicker speeding up of talks to join the EU, speeding up of visa | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
liberalisation to allow Turks to visit the EU, all difficult things | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
to achieve. In the last few seconds there are reports that EU leaders | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
are concerned. Why would they be so concerned? There is a draft document | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
circling that talks about this possible plan that could be one of | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
the things they will try to agree which will be where refugees | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
crossing over from Turkey in boats to Greece, there is talk of | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
returning them directly to Turkey, and in return Turkey taking us back, | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
the EU would resettle one Syrian refugee for each person returned to | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Turkey and take them into Europe. The problem with that potentially is | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
a legal one. Humanitarian law, which obliges countries like Greece and | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
all EU countries are obliged either this to take in refugees who come | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
and hear their cases properly, decide whether they are worthy of | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
international protection, and a Ford that to them if they are. Taking | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
people on board is straight back across the sea to Turkey could be in | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
breach of international law. There has been concern about that already | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
since the idea was floated earlier. My colleague Christian Fraser has | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
been broadcasting live from Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonia | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
border all day. Thousands of people are trapped | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
here as Macedonia is only letting Even the weather tonight is showing | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
how miserable the situation is. It is just desperate. It was | :08:10. | :08:24. | |
miserable this morning in the sunshine. It was built for 2000 | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
people, there are 14,000 migrants here at the last count. We had | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
everything thrown at us. It is windy, torrential rain, thunder and | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
lightning, and these people are just under a light canvas behind me | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
trying to keep dry. It is an impossible task because the water is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
coming from underneath. The rivers of water pouring through the camp. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Three for people to each tent, young families, this one over here, they | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
have a light inside and the message is written large. Help us, it's | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
cold. No fires to light because it is impossible to light a fire in | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
these conditions and impossible to stay dry. People have been walking | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
down this road but only to go to the food station at the bottom. They | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
have been standing for an hour in just normal clothes without reindeer | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
just for a cup of soup and a bread roll. It is truly dismal. Let me | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
introduce you to a man I met earlier. You are from Syria, | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
herewith your young family full stop three children. What will it be like | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
tonight in the tent? I don't know. As you see, the weather is so bad, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
and heavy rain, it is very difficult situation for all families, I'm not | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
just picking about my family. I hope it will be a good decision for the | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
situation after the meeting. The meeting in Brussels. Tell us about | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
conditions in the camp. I've seen people trying to get into the tent | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
by taking off their shoes, there are three or four people in there, they | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
are clambering over each other. It is impossible, isn't it? It is a | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
very difficult situation for our family. With four kids to live in a | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
small tent, the water goes inside, because it is not so good protected, | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
and the blankets will get wet in the morning. Even if there is no rain, | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
the tent gets wet every morning, and that makes all the kids get sick. I | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
can say 90% of kids have a cold and fever, and a lot of diseases. And | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
here there is not enough medical care to serve more than 10,000 | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
people here. I know you wet as I'm. When you wake up wet in the morning, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
is there somewhere to go and get washed, is their warm water? No, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
that is not possible. There is no warm water here. Maybe before ten | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
days there is many places that they have hot water, but right now all of | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
them are not working, and people are washing their hands and taking a | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
bath using cold water. Just quickly, I know you're watching the summit in | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Brussels. If the route through the Western Balkans is closed, what will | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
you do? Generally we don't have a lot of options. For all Syrians, | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
they still have hope to go through this road to reach their | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
destination. Netherlands or Sweden or Germany, so I hope the border | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
will open and if there is no option, please try to find a good solution | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
for this situation. Syria is a really bad situation and miserable | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
life here. Ahmed, thank you very much, we wish you luck. Ahmed from | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
Syria. Many people gathered in Turkey at the moment think they're | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
coming to the promised land. I wonder what they would say if they | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
could see conditions here Greece tonight. Let's cross to Turkey, our | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
correspondent says there. Ever been made in Europe at the moment to try | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
to slow the flow of migrants. Is it making any difference? It is not | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
making any difference at the moment, Kristian. When you speak to refugees | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
here today just five miles from the Greek island, they say they are | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
getting news from the use that they're going to close borders, | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
they're going to try to reduce the number going to the European Union, | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
but when you speak to them they say that will not make any difference, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
they are going to try to make that journey because they are still | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
fleeing the Taliban or so-called Islamic State, so what it comes down | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
to, how do you crush the dreams of those who still believe that Europe | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
will afford them a better life? Turkey is blowing hard all in | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Brussels, it wants double the amount of money originally promised, it was | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
an earlier date for visas for trucks travelling to the youth, and once | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
more refugees and migrants already settled here to be resettled in | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Europe in order for some of the illegal migrants to come back to | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
Turkey. It is still a difficult bargaining process, all aimed at | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
trying to reduce the numbers of migrants like those I have been | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
speaking to. You can see fragments of clothes and | :13:42. | :14:12. | |
rubbish everywhere, remnants of abandoned lives. The drawing | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
Turkey's border is the key to stemming the flow, but the coastline | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
is 4500 miles long, smugglers using new routes and preying the | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
desperate. And there are still plenty of them. Every day like this | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
family from Syria. Try do is keep happening, and yet | :14:30. | :15:05. | |
the migrants keep coming. That is why Turkey holds the cards. It is | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
your's gatekeeper. Ankara knows the EU will turn a blind eye to other | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
problems here with human rights and an increasingly authoritarian | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
government. Freedom of expression is being crushed. Protests over the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
government's takeover of Turkey's largest newspaper ended in this. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
Russell is criticised for being too migrant focused to speak out. The | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
dream of sanction realise just five miles across the Aegean. Many could | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
be sent back, Turkey becoming Europe's refugee camp. But for those | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
fleeing war, hope still outweighs the risk. | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
There is not much hope in this camp in Idomeni. The rules are pretty | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
spurious for crossing the border. Pakistanis and Afghans have been | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
turned around, Iraqis and Syrians, some, are allowed to cross. We are | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
hearing anecdotal stories that Syrians from Damascus are rejected, | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Syrians from Aluko might be allowed through they have the right papers. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
It is difficult to tell what the policy is from the Macedonian side, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
and that makes it more difficult for Greece cos it is becoming a holding | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
pen for the refugees trying to get to Europe. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
The Tunisian president says authorities are now in control | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
of a situation in southern Tunisia, where army and police bases | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
At least 45 people were killed in the operation in the town | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
of Ben Gardane most of them were militants. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Our correspondent, Rana Jawad, reports now from Tunis. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
The dusty, sleepy border town of Ben Gardane is tense. Residents woke up | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
to scenes of some of the deadliest clashes witnessed in the country to | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
date. Street battles between security forces and militants | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
erupted after two simultaneous attacks on army and police bases. | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
Remnants on these streets sure the aftermath of bloody clashes that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
lasted several hours. It is believed that up to 30 militants were killed. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
The Canadian army and police also took heavy losses, and some | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
civilians are thought to have been killed in the crossfire. Tunisia's | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
president believes this was the work of militants of the so-called | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Islamic State and that they are trying to expand their territorial | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
holding the region. TRANSLATION: Today's attacks on security forces | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
in Ben Gardane started at 5am was unprecedented. It was organised, and | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
the aim was probably too control the area and a new state. Reinforcements | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
were in place. We expected such an operation. Jay-Z is also the largest | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
exporter of jihadist in the region, fighting in Iraq, Syria and Libya. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
At least 3000 have left this country in recent years. The chaos in Libya | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
has allowed members of IS to set up training camps in the country. June | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
is the's border crossings with Libya, one of them just a few | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
minutes drive from Ben Gardane have been shut down. Tunisian forces are | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
on high alert. They have set up checkpoints around Ben Gardane | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
entrances. They know they are facing a long-term threat and the battle | :18:36. | :18:36. | |
has only just begun perhaps. In the past hour the Pentagon has | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
said the US military carried out a drone strike over the weekend | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
targeting a training camp run A spokesman said the strike | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
was carried out north of capital The Swedish car maker Volvo | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
is about to start recruiting 100 ordinary people to commute to work | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
next year in a driverless car. The company eventually wants them | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
to do other things while sitting behind the wheel on a busy road - | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
such as read a book or send In the first of a series of reports | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
on the impact and future of the car, our Transport Correspondent, | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Richard Westcott, was given special Gothenburg in Sweden, home of Volvo, | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
a place where drivers need to beware of the Elks. On a test track, the | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
company issuing me its unique experiment, and they will need | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
members of the public to help. They are going to ask 100 ordinary people | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
to commute in a car, but it is not an ordinary car. It is an autonomous | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
car. And then they will tell those people they are free to do anything | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
else instead. Perhaps send an e-mail. From the track to the | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
evening commute. Next year Gothenburg's volunteers will be | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
driverless on special roads with no cyclist or pedestrians. And daring | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
in mind it is Sweden, no snow. The computer needs to see the white | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
lines. About as hands-free as you can get. The man in charge of a | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
technology called me what would happen in an emergency. Something | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
unexpected happens, the card needs to be will to deal with that. We | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
cannot count on the driver to take over. The car will detect it. It | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
will not suddenly shot control back to the driver? No, the driver will | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
be sitting back and relax, reading. We cannot count on him to intervene | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
immediately, so the car has to do it. Things are different in the UK. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
There are four projects. Imogen 's public transport pods will | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
eventually use the pavements to shuttle people between the shops and | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
the pavement. Would you share a pavement with one of those governed | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
by a computer? No, I wouldn't. It has to decide in an instant whether | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
it's got to stop her carry on, is the safety of who is in it or the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
outside? You're not worried about bumping into you? No, because we can | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
move out the way. In the US, Google is leading the way in driverless | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
tests, 1 million miles and counting. They have just had a first crash | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
with a computer was at least partly to blame. Experts describe the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
future out of a science fiction novel. We'll see this technology and | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
product trucks, imports, down mines. And that from me as interesting, but | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
this technology is not just about transport, but all things that move. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
On the test track, time to dry a drama on the telly. It could still | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
take a decade or even two, but eventually children will marvel at | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
the idea that people actually use to drive their own cars. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Daniel Mcintyre is Australia's top shearer. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
He won the National Shearing Championships for two consecutive | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
years - by shearing 12 sheep in 20 minutes and 47 seconds, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
beating his next rival by a full three minutes. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
So what does it take to be a shearing champion? | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
My name is Daniel McIntyre, and the current Australian national | :22:18. | :22:31. | |
champion. I started shearing sheep when I was 17. I grew up on a farm | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
and fell in love with that. The key to shearing, position, the way you | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
hold the sheep, technique, and also the gear. I need a wide selection, | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
so having a bag full of different combs is important. Before they can | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
you to start I take a deep breath and fill my lungs about their, and | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
try and relax. If you go in there tends the sheep will tense up. You | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
need this sheep in a relaxed state and you can start shearing | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
straightaway. We have a pattern on the sheep. We are trained to see the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
flat surfaces of the sheep. Position the sheep in a way that the sheep | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
flattens out. You start with the belly, we want to the leg, up the | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
neck, and then down the other side. You have to find the right balance | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
between speed and quality. You cannot go all for speed. You have to | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
have quality as well. It perfectly shorn sheep would look like a | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
hard-boiled egg, no ridges, no cuts. Just although will completely | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
offered. When you get to the top, the feeling for yourself, it's more | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
about bettering yourself than beating the block beside you. It is | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
a sense of a compass and. It is something a I've worked hard for | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
since basically I left school. It fills you up inside, I guess. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Beautiful images caught last night here in the UK of the Northern | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Their proper name is Aurora Borealis - | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
they happen when electrically-charged particles | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
from the Sun enter the Earth's atmosphere. | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
Here's some photos people have been sharing. | :24:40. | :25:22. | |
A reminder of our main news: Turkey has submitted a new proposal on how | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
to deal with the migrant crisis, at a summit with European Union | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
says the Turkish government has asked for an extra 3 billion | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
In return, Turkey has offered to take back all non-Syrian migrants | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
who are denied asylum, and do more to patrol its own waters. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Talks are still going on and Brussels already working supper. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
You can get in touch with me and some of the team via Twitter - | :25:56. | :26:00. |