24/10/2016 World News Today

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Thousands of people leave the notorious "Jungle"

They're being transferred to reception centres

across the country, amid preparations to bulldoze

what's become a symbol of Europe's struggle to cope with the crisis.

Belgium's Prime Minister says he still cannot sign off a massive

trade deal between the EU and Canada, because

As the leaders of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales come

to London to discuss Brexit, the Scottish leader says there is

It is a legend of 1960s rock culture.

Now, 50 years on, the Velvet Underground album

About 2000 people have left the migrant camp in Calais

known as the Jungle, on the first day of an operation

People began queueing before dawn, waiting to be transferred to one

of the 451 centres across France, where they face either

deportation, or the opportunity to claim asylum.

The site sprang up several years ago as migrants came to Calais,

hoping to cross the Channel into the UK.

The Jungle lies just to the east of the main road to the port.

High fences have been built to separate it

This is the scene currently in Calais.

All day long, authorities have been processing migrants

Let's cross live now to Sophie Long in Calais.

Good evening from Calais. The last bus of the day carrying migrants

away from the camp now known as the Jungle to new locations across

France has just left. We are told by the authorities here that 46 buses

have left throughout the day carrying just under 2000 migrants to

new locations. It has gone very well, the French authorities say,

for the first day of this operation. Suddenly, hundreds of migrants were

queueing here from the early hours, as early as five o'clock this

morning. By mid-morning, that you became a crowd and some migrants

were told to return to the Jungle because they would not be leaving

today. It has been a day of mixed and high emotions. For some migrants

who want to leave, this marked the end of a nightmare and an end to

months of living in cold and squalid conditions. For others, those who

maintain some hope of a better life in Britain, this marks the end of

their dreams, as they travelled further from Calais, they travel

further from those dreams coming true. This report comes from Lucy

Williamson. a better bet than one more

day in the Jungle camp. The reward -

a seat on one of 60 buses. But a ticket out of Calais

doesn't guarantee asylum, And even those, like Madi,

who are impatient to leave, and maybe I come back

and I will try again, yeah. I like France,

but it's not my dream. Next to him, Abdou says he's

finished with his dreams of England "I hate England now,"

he says, "I don't like people from the Jungle,

and they closed the border." People have been queueing

here since 4am to board one of the buses bound

for reception centres across France. Their motivation for coming

here to Calais was once all about the final destination,

their dreams of England. Now many are ready to go

anywhere just to get out. Inside the processing centre,

people are split into queues - the vulnerable, families, lone

children, and everyone else. Their names, ages and origins

noted but not checked. They are given a choice

of destination - French names in unfamiliar places,

a new temporary address. President Hollande said he wanted

to send a message that Calais was not a staging

post for migrants but a dead-end. Many here say that

much is already clear. and there was optimism today among

some of those who decided to leave. But the local MP told us that didn't

mean Britain's role here was over. TRANSLATION: It's an international

scandal that there are several hundred children,

some as young as ten, stuck here, Britain is not meeting

its obligations. Among those joining the queues

today were four siblings from Afghanistan, clinging

to an English-speaking friend. Their mother had asked him

to take her children and make their case

for asylum in England. Four small lives among the thousands

saying goodbye to Calais, unsure of what the future

has in store. One of the great concerns amongst

people here in Calais is that the children living in the Jungle, an

estimated 1000 1200 unaccompanied children. The Home Secretary told

MPs today that some 200 children have now been taken from Calais to

the UK, including some 60 girls who are thought to be at risk of sexual

exploitation. Some of them have been taken to a town in North Devon. From

there, Jon Kay reports. It is a world away

from the Calais Jungle. In the early hours of this morning,

20 young migrants arrived at a respite centre

here in North Devon. The exact location isn't

being revealed, but the youngsters, all of them boys,

are now having medical checks before decisions

are taken about where they go next. In the ancient market town

of Great Torrington, some feel proud that

their community is hosting children It's not their doing,

it's not their fault, and I mean, I've got a little chap of my own,

and ultimately you just want any child to be safe,

and if we've got the ability We're a local, small,

close-knit community, But this man told me

many locals are angry that the child migrants have been brought

here without public consultation. Send them back where they come from,

why is it our problem? Can't look after our own,

so why look after everybody else? Apparently they won't be

here for very long, Wednesday, I was told, but that

is two days too long, isn't it? 200 child migrants have come to

the UK from Calais in the last week. Initially, they are processed

at a complex in Croydon before being sent to residential centres

like the one in Devon. It's the Home Office

rather than local councils Tonight the Government said

the youngsters included 60 girls When children arrive in the UK,

the first question is to establish whether they have family members

that they could go and stay with Younger children will to go pretty

quickly into the care of a foster family, because we always

try to make sure they are Older children who may be school

leavers may have been living independently in the country before

they came to Britain, more likely to go into independent

accommodation, a bit like university It's up most of the children who've

arrived here in the south-west of England today may only be

here for a couple of days. Either they'll be reunited

with their families elsewhere in the UK or put into care

as part of a national scheme. It has been seven years

in the making, but it has taken just one region of one of the EU's 28

member states to slam the brakes on. Ceta, or the Comprehensive

Economic Trade Agreement, is a free trade deal

between the EU and Canada, and is the most ambitious to date,

but now might not be signed The Belgian Prime Minister said

the deal cannot go ahead after he held talks

with regional leaders today. Ceta aims to eliminate 98% of

tariffs between the EU and Canada. But for the deal to go ahead,

the agreement from all For Belgium, that means all three

regions have to agree, French-speaking Wallonia has

blocked the deal. The Socialist region wants more

guarantees to protect its farmers and stronger safeguards on things

like environmental standards. TRANSLATION: It is completely

undemocratic. There are no other words. It is a treaty that has been

negotiated secretly for years now, and now when a government requests

to speak about some points that seem impossible to agree on, they place

ultimatums and threats. It is just not democratic. We have the

impression, the feeling, that there is a neoliberal steam roller that

once nobody to get in his way. To me it is perfectly clear, it is a

reason to be proud. Wallonia shows another part from the one that is

usually taken, especially by the European Commission. Wallonia says

the powers need to be that wants to, not all powers should be in trade.

For me this is a reason to be proud. Donald Tusk is the president

of the European Council - that's the part of the EU

which represents the heads Our correspondent Damian dramatic as

is in Brussels. Hopes still to meet on Thursday, what are chances of

this deal getting signed? Well, very slim at this stage. The clock is

ticking, because we were expecting it to be this evening as the final

hour, we were told, that Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of

Canada, could make a decision to go ahead with the summit view here on

Thursday. It appears that it is a bit elastic, there is a bit more

time, but at some point he has to take the decision whether to get on

the plane, fly across the Atlantic and come here hoping to sign that

deal or not. I think that must be in the next 24 hours, possibly just 36

hours, and if he is not able to come, because of these objections

from Wallonia, from this one part of Belgium, it will be pretty

embarrassing for the EU particularly that it has not been able to finish

off this deal. This is a deal between the European Union and

Canada in this instance, but what does it tell us about what a future

Brexit deal between the EU and the UK might look like? I think what it

tells us is that it could be very difficult to agree. This deal has to

be passed by every country in Europe and in the case of some of them,

like Belgium, regional parliaments as well. This trade deal with Canada

is being billed as the most significant one that Europe has ever

done, but the Brexit deal, everyone is expecting, could be far more

complicated than this. So, you can well imagine that once the Brexit

deal has to pass a hurdle which is every country and regional

Parliament as well, if it is passed in the same way, there are options

to do things slightly differently, but it could well face the same sort

of process. You can imagine many, many difficulties to come. For the

UK to secure a deal with Europe. That could make for some difficult

times. The other crucial thing to say is that it could have an effect,

even before any deal comes here, because investors looking at the UK,

wondering whether to put money into the UK and thinking, will there be a

deal agreed in the coming years? They may look at the something, this

makes them nervous, because you get may not secure a deal for some time

with the EU on the basis of this. We will see how this pans out.

Let's bring you up to date on the ongoing battle for Mosul.

Iraqi special forces say they've gained ground in fighting

with Islamic State militants east of the city, after shelling

Peshmerga troops say they have cut off the town of Bashiqa

and they continue to push IS fighters back from around

But in an apparent attempt to divert attention and resources

IS fighters on Sunday launched an attack on Rutba in

Two days ago, IS fighters did something similar when they tried

to take the city of Kirkuk, just south of Mosul.

And if you want more on the fight for Mosul -

All the latest developments there, including why other regional powers

like Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are so interested in the conflict.

Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said

she doesn't think the British Government has a negotiating

position yet for exiting the European Union.

She was speaking after what she described as "very frank"

talks with the British Prime Minister Theresa May, which also

brought together the leaders of Northern Ireland and Wales.

Mrs May said she would strike a deal that works for the whole of the UK.

The United Kingdom voted as a whole to leave the EU,

but Brexit is seen very differently

in each of the four nations of the UK.

Northern Ireland also voted to stay in,

whilst Welsh, like English, voters chose to leave.

But the leaders of the devolved nations

all want the Prime Minister to listen to their concerns.

They're sceptical about a new committee which will include

them and the Brexit Secretary, David Davis.

when the real decisions are being taken.

Nicola Sturgeon wants full membership of the EU single market

for Scotland and new powers for the Scottish Parliament,

threatening to call a second referendum on independence

The Prime Minister thinks you're bluffing about

a second independence referendum, that you wouldn't dare do it,

and therefore she doesn't have to listen to you on this.

Well, there is nothing about what I'm doing just now

This is not a game, this is not a game of chicken,

that I will do whatever it takes to protect Scotland's interest.

Nicola Sturgeon says she found today's meeting deeply frustrating.

She came here with a clear set of demands

to keep Scotland in the European single market -

she's not convinced the Prime Minister was listening.

Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers

may not agree with each other over Brexit

but share the demand to be part of the negotiations.

is that we're involved very much at the heart of that process

so that when issues arise during the negotiation,

that we can be part of answering the issues that come to the fore.

with a clear idea of what Brexit might look like.

What we need more than anything else is greater certainty

from the UK Government as to what exactly the principles

of negotiation will be - we don't have that yet.

From Downing Street to Parliament, the PM insists

she will work for the best deal for the UK as a whole.

There will be difficult moments ahead, and as I've said before,

it will require patience and some give and take.

But I firmly believe that if we approach this

in a constructive spirit, we can ensure a smooth departure.

to keeping the UK together and the EU together.

But how she does that could strain what she calls our precious union.

Now a look at some of the day's other news.

Five French citizens have been killed

The French Defence Minister said the victims were

three ministry officials and two private contractors.

They'd been taking part in an operation directed

Spain's acting Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has welcomed

A Christian-owned bakery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has lost an appeal

The court ruled that the bakery had discriminated against a customer

by refusing to bake a cake with a message in support

The family-run Ashers Bakery had argued that the decoration

2016 is being seen as a landmark moment in the battle

against climate change, but for all the wrong reasons.

Scientists say this is likely to be the first full year in which levels

of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide remain above

That's bad because CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere,

and it's 44% higher than pre-industrial levels.

Not too hot, not too cold, just right, thanks to the invisible

blanket of natural carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, keeping us warm.

The normal level of carbon dioxide is 280 ppm,

powering our cities with fossil fuels that give out

We have bumped up CO2 levels to 400 ppm.

As emissions keep rising, scientists warn

400 ppm is a significant symbolic threshold, below which we don't

expect to go for the rest of our lifetimes.

It means we have increased the amount of carbon dioxide being

Most of that increase has happended since 1950.

If we want to stay below 2 degrees, we have already used

That has happened since 1950, so we have a lot of work to do if

Carbon dioxide is a plant food, so for a while, parts of the planet

are getting greener, thanks to the extra fertilising carbon.

But scientists warn that droughts are likely

to wipe out the benefits of CO2 as the planet heats.

Already, temperatures have reached record levels.

Politicians meeting in Paris last year promised to curb carbon dioxide

But even they admit their efforts are too slow and too small.

They're traditionally meetings of high-stakes intrigue

And this year it seems they'll be even more so.

It's the annual get-together of the leaders of

The meeting is expected to focus on revamping decades-old codes

Our China editor, Carrie Gracie, has been along to an event

called a "Dialogue with the Communist Party"

ahead of the main meeting, to see if anyone would

A kind of coming-out party to say, "We walk tall in the world."

They say they want a frank, deep and constructive exchange

Of course, China's Communist Party is not typically that open to ideas

from the outside world, especially not

Let's go inside and see what "dialogue" actually means.

I'll just see if I can catch a word with any of the...

Oh, I'm sorry, I think we have to go.

OK. I think we are being ejected from the delegates section.

So, we are now roaming the halls in the first break,

because we never get a chance to talk to a standing

committee member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo.

This is supposed to be a dialogue with the Communist Party.

The top man, one of the top seven, is in this place,

So, it's not even midday and they seem to be

We are less than two hours into the entire event.

Within the party, they use quiet deliberations,

which are a more effective form of policy-making, by the way.

Because policy-making is complicated, it is nuanced,

and you need to sit down to discuss what kind

of measures to achieve and what results.

You cannot resolve policies with a public shouting match,

which seems increasingly the case in a lot of countries.

Some sad news, the singer Pete Burns from a band Dead Or Alive, um has

died after a cardiac arrest. He was described as a true visionary and a

beautiful, talented soul. He was 57. His band found success in the 1980s

and had two singles in the US top 20, including You Spin Me Round Like

A Record. The Velvet Underground and Nico

album came under the spotlight Next year is the 50th anniversary

of its release, and to celebrate, founding member John Cale will,

for the first time ever in the UK, play the whole album live

in Liverpool. Our entertainment corresponent

Colin Paterson went to meet him. MUSIC: "Sunday Morning"

by the Velvet Underground one of the most influential albums

of all time. We were living in an apartment

in the Lower East Side, it was a Sunday morning,

and it was after a late-night. As a musician, John Cale

is known for looking forward, but thinks it's right

to acknowledge the album's 50th anniversary next year

and will play the whole thing live It still encapsulates

everything that we were trying to do, which was take

rock'n' roll in and talk about subject matter that

generally wasn't talked about. poem about how unhappy

somebody's life is. John Cale formed the Velvet

Underground with Lou Reed. The artist Andy Warhol

was their manager He called me over in

the corner and said, "What do you think of this

as an album cover?" And I went crazy, I said,

"I've got to say, this has got all your colours,

all the outlines you know, all the brand of Andy Warhol

is right there." It's three years this week

since Lou Reed died. Well, his work survives,

and all the stuff that we did together, it's

still there and it's still strong. And the reason John Cale has

opted for the one-off gig the influence the city's music scene

of the '60s had on him. and Lou had one eye on

Bob Dylan, what is the next move? So you're, like, trying

to figure out where we fit. And 50 years on,

it's a question he's still asking. Don't forget, you can get

in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter -

I'm @ KarinBBC. But for now, from me,

Karin Giannone and the rest