Relationship between britain and the eu, and we are not on to that stage yet. All of the talks have been on the divorce matter, so the separation issues. The main being the irish border, the other being the irish border, the other being the divorce bill, the money that must be settled and the rights of citizens living in the eu, those abroad and those living in britain. But in the initial phase of talks all that must be agreed is a form of words acceptable to all sides. Then the main substance of the negotiations on trade on the future relationship, on how things will look down the line, only then can they begin. Thank you very much for taking us through that. Of course, expect much more on that into the evening and tomorrow. Thats this edition of outside source, next on the bbc news channel, it is meet the author. This week on meet the authorjim naughtie talks with the writer and historian Norman Davies about his new book beneath another sky a globaljourney into history. He circumnavigates the globe to explore in some remotest places, stories of settlement and migration, driven by the primeval urge to get up driven by the primeval urge to get up and go. Welcome. Thing to think that we all have an urge to get up and go, its quite another thing to do it. You are no young man. You set off and you sunshining up navigated the globe to all kinds of places that you must never have imagined that you would get to. What drove you on . After a certain age, i received an invitation to australia but i dont like long flights so i decided to go by easy stages and take my time. And then i realised why go back the same way, just keep going, it took several months but it was a tremendous idea at my age and the story you have followed, really, is the story of human movement, of migration, which of course is a very contemporary problem, obsession but it is one that you see as fundamental and to explaining, how the world has come to be the way that it is . Absolutely. Human beings have been migrating, theyve been on the move ever since they emerged whatever it was, 2 million years ago. Moving from place toe place, eventually from continent to continent and their various movements, collisions, interactions, conquests, co abtearingses have created the world as we know it, without that, Human History would be com pletely without that, Human History would be completely different. Your focus has tended to be european in the past. You have written a lot about the slavic portion of europe and also written on the islands, and these islands which we sit. How did your perspective change when you began to visit some of these, what europeans would called, remote outposts . Well my choices are to go to places i had never been before and didnt know much about. The idea was more about learning and extending what i already knew. It was a voyage of discovery . Exactly. Sometimes i went to places which, their history coincided, you go to baku, it used to be a part of the russian empire but many of the places were completely foreign to me, so all the more interesting for that. Its a fascinating catalogue. All of little known places of the world, what was the first point at which you felt on this journey, you were really on to something here, you didnt know the story of this place and its telling you something you had never thought of before . and its telling you something you had never thought of before . I had that feeling very often indeed. Of course i could communicate better in some places than others. I went to mauritius, an outpost if ever there was one but found a speak, a french creole but found a speaker, which was interesting, that i could speak to people, learn and read books and so on to people, learn and read books and so on but less son when you go to malaysia. You were inevitably the outsider . Every i was but i did, still get under the skin, often. Every i was but i did, still get underthe skin, often. I every i was but i did, still get under the skin, often. I went to texas and wrote an essay about the very First American settlers in texas and lo and behold, i was able to spend a day with the descendent of one of the 300, the first group of one of the 300, the first group of american settlers in texas. So i was an outer but still i tried to communicate with people at much as possible. I spent a0 years writing about a tiny corner of the world. Now youve got to see, to get a taste of the rest of it, and the rest, it is, of course, enormous. So you cant become an expert on these places but you get a feel of how things developed, where peoples came from, what are the relations between the different continents that i went to. You have split your life for a long time between this country and poland, coming back to europe, having undertaken this journey and having undertaken this journey and having processed the thoughts that make up this book, has your view of europe changed . Make up this book, has your view of europe changed . Inevitably, europe now for me is a much smaller place. I used to think it was almost all the world. Now i see that europe is a small particular, of a very much bigger continent. Of course, no one will ever get to understand all of the complications but at least while you can still think reasonably clearliy, you need to get a sense of the size of the globe and the complexities of Human History and so on. When you are talking about migration as such an important component of Human History, it puts into perspective the panic and the political difficulty that we go to cioss political difficulty that we go to cross europe at the moment, because of migration, theres a consequence of migration, theres a consequence of water shortages in africa and war in the middle east. It does tend to say look, there is more under the sun . Absolutely. You begin to see yourself looking like you are watching the romans coming over the rise in the ath, 5th century. Most of historical change is not smooth. It happens with leaps and bounds and intervals between. But we are living through a phase where humanity is on the march. Our little hard continent is the target destination for many of them at the moment. Youve been writing history for half a century now, more oi youve been writing history for half a century now, more or less, this is an extraordinary work to have come up an extraordinary work to have come up with in the sense that the sheer volume of work that is involved putting this together in unknown places, you know, dealing with cultures of which you yourself say you knew very little, wanting to get it right, bringing an academic focus to, what a thing to take on . Well ive done that before. I dont know where i will do it again. Its just what you do . Of course, and it is a learning exercise, preventing ourselves going stale by write being the same things all the time, which is what some historians do. You end the introduction by quoting tenson from. Lysses, seeking a new world. That is what you are doing here . I realise i was in the category of ageing ulysses who wa nted category of ageing ulysses who wanted to set sail one more time. Yes, that was, whether i will ever have another voyage, i will never know. But youre glad you did . 0h, absolutely. Im still amazed that i was able to do it and got to the last page. Norman davies, author of beneath another sky, thank you very much. Thank you very much. As forecast, a stormy day across northern britain. Gales in excess of 90 miles an hour. Not like it everywhere. In the lowland closer to 50 or 60. We have had interesting pictures of strong gusts of wind. In the afternoon in many parts of the country it was beautiful. A weather front sweeping across the uk with the rain in the morning and the skies then cleared. So fine weather around. It has not been all bad. This is storm caroline. Still making its presence felt in the far north of scotland. Impacting parts of scanned knava. Lots of isobars. Still strong winds. But we are focussing on the snow showers through the course of friday. Northern scotland, Northern Ireland, and the north west of england, wales, possibly into the midlands, maybe into the south west of england too. In some areas, seeing five or ten centimetres but hit and miss, not all towns and cities, and even up not all towns and cities, and even up to 20 centimetres there. Through the course of the night, the snow showers are falling in the same place. Maybe some of them reaching london. In london a few flakes. Notice how many parts of the country, not getting snow at all so. This period that we are going through will be very hit and miss as far as the snow showers are concerned. But it will be cold everywhere. On saturday, two to three celsius. On the thermometer, there and five celsius in aberdeen. A colder front there, that means that there is a potential for snow. Look at the snow is falling. Here into the Northern Ireland and the midlands and parts of northern england. A lot of uncertainty. It could be in the north or the south. Where the snow falls we are not entirely sure but there is a risk that there will be some through sunday. Here at the start of the week, the low pressure system is digging to the south of us. Here, the streams of colder air are coming in from the north. Here is a lock at monday. The winds are coming from. Still pretty chilly. Temperatures about two for one or three celsius in the north. A little milder in the south. Seven celsius. Here is tuesday. A gap in the weather. It looks like tuesday may bea weather. It looks like tuesday may be a brighter day with sunshine. We are in between weather systems, and maybe briefly things are going warm up maybe briefly things are going warm upjusta maybe briefly things are going warm up just a little maybe briefly things are going warm upjust a little bit maybe briefly things are going warm up just a little bit with temperatures approaching front line celsius. But the idea is that overall for most of next week and into the latter part of next week, the jet stream is about here. We are on the cold side of the jet stream. That means that it will not be warming up. The mild air with the low pressure and the rain is moving to the south of us to france, we are in the cold air. A risk of snow showers over the north of the uk. Overall, yes, the temperatures may go overall, yes, the temperatures may 9 up overall, yes, the temperatures may goupa overall, yes, the temperatures may go up a little bit but on balance we are going to stay in the colder air. Thats it from me. Thank you for watching. Tonight at 10. 00pm a rise in cases of Domestic Violence prompts calls for more to be done to protect the children caught up in it. Her ex partner threatened to beat her and her 12 year old child up. The childrens commissioner calls on the Prime Minister to introduce introduce greater protection to deal with the growing problem. 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