With a backlog of more than 100000 passengers whose flights were disrupted by the closure at the start of a busy holiday period she isn't due is it got to get bought police have not managed to apprehend off buying the person operating the drive over train itself but we have been made aware that they have put into place military style technology to China make sure that this train all drones and do not continue to cause any further disruption to any air passenger travel today at least 13 miners in the Czech Republic and are confirmed dead in a me say an explosion at a coal mine in the country's border with Poland 10 people were injured the explosion took place on says Day $800.00 metres below ground Rod Cameron reports from Prague television footage showed Polish mine rescue vehicles outside the c.s.m. Coal mine and both the track and Polish prime ministers are due to visit the site of what is a cross border tragedy the state run ok.d. Company which operates the mine says most of the victims were from a Polish mining agency in total 11 polish and to check miners were killed media reports say this is the worst mining accident in the country since 1990 when 30 died in a fire at a different mine near common a Afghan officials say they're not concerned about reports that President Trump is planning to withdraw thousands of soldiers from the country a presidential spokesman said the international forces had only been involved in training and supporting Afghan military missions against the Taliban and others for the last 4 years so their departure would have a minimal impact on security. Pro independence demonstrators in Catalonia have blocked a number of roads in protest of the Spanish cabinet meeting being held by the prime minister Pedre Sanchez in Barcelona the regional capital riot police have been engaged in a tense standoff with protesters today is the anniversary of elections imposed on Catalonia last year by the previous Spanish government go ahead go is in Barcelona so only Pedro Sanchez since he came into power 6 months ago has made this a priority he said he wants to reduce tensions between Madrid and Catalonia he has taken some measures along those lines he's reintroduced a bilateral working group between Madrid and Catalonia Yesterday he met with him top of the cattle and president but back in Madrid there's a lot of pressure on him from Unionist politicians and parties who say that Pedro Sanchez has been too soft on the Catalan independence movement and he's appeasing them so he is walking a very fine line there were news from the b.b.c. . 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Government might shut down later today unless Mr Trump gets congressional approval for $5000000000.00 to build a wall on the Mexican border we'll cover those remarkable stories in about 20 minutes time but before that warnings of the dangers of commercial drones to air traffic have been talked about often in Britain there are laws backed by 5 years of imprisonment for misuse of drones nonetheless an armed and identified drone operator or operators has closed down one of Europe's busiest airports for 36 hours starting on Wednesday the runway at Britain's got weak airport has reopened a flight. In Lapland was the 1st plane to depart the airport is the 2nd largest in Britain and it says delays and cancellations remain likely there's a backlog of more than 100000 passengers whose flights were distracted by the closure at the start of a busy holiday period and police so far have failed to locate either the drone or its operator people are calling for tougher sentences as well as better defense to protect sensitive sites like airports from malicious drones the transport secretary in the u.k. Is Chris Grayling this technology the ability to stop trains is really only just emerging so it's not a question of waiting to introduce technology the technology literally only just appearing one of the things we're going to have to learn from this is what the existing technology can do what else needs to be done but there certainly isn't a straightforward commercial off the shelf solution that automatically solves all problems with no hard evidence identifying the drone pilot there's media speculation. Environmental activists could be responsible for the drone chaos the police say that is one line of inquiry Here's the Assistant Chief Constable Steve Berry This scenario that we're dealing with is has been unprecedented So in terms of getting the the level of options available to respond to it to mitigate it to detect into response but that has taken us some time but I'm really confident now that we've got everything that we could possibly have here that way I can't go into the details but there are a range of options some of them very sophisticated and some of them less sophisticated but it has as I say person a much better position to respond to any of those trying sightings Well let's find out the latest from the b.b.c. Is now Joe who's at Gatwick what's happening there and update. Yes good morning welcome to a busy debt which airport not quite as busy as it was this time yesterday morning people are continuing to arrive wheeling their suitcases in but the big difference from today compared to yesterday is the sight and sound of just scene one of flights of aircraft coming in and leaving that wake airport the runway reopened this morning at around 6 o'clock as you say the 1st flight was 613 this morning a China Eastern flight from Shanghai that was the 1st aircraft to land here at the airport since Wednesday evening of the 1st departing flight will shortly afterwards to Lapland 126000 passengers and 765 flights are to be either arriving or departing from Gatwick today and at least 100 of them have already been cancelled due to the backlog and we estimate that around 114000 people are going to be affected overall today expected to arrive that's because of the backlog from yesterday where over $100000.00 passengers were affected too and today is actually one of the busiest traveling days of the year it's the start of the Christmas getaway here at the single at the busiest single runway airport in the world. This disruption we're told will not call until the weekend staff passengers are being asked to check in some of them here at Gatwick and then being taken by bus to other airports around the u.k. Such as stunts to Heathrow or even as far away as Birmingham in the Midlands and as you mentioned earlier no one has been arrested yet the drone or drones have not been found and there have however been missing getting 2nd mitigating circumstances security measures put in place around the runway to secure the site as well and just very briefly an update to they say what those are those mitigating circumstances. Well as you heard there from Sussex Police in the few moments ago the details are still very much unknown then haven't released what those details of who and what they're using to ensure that the site around the runway you can't say any sort of christening a big antennas on the edge of the airport or anything like that. I'm afraid no no none of that has been confirmed as yet we are being told that the military of course was called in yesterday by Sussex Police but as to what exactly Dick Whitman is that they're using at the moment that detail is still on no thanks so much indeed there's not a teacher highlight got me to speak to Phillips bank Well she is head of drone law the law firm Royds with the king and a former fighter controller in the Arias So you know what goes on up there what kind of technology is available to deal with this kind of problem for that well that there's a Ranger technology which is. Sort of in development really a radar jamming systems wish which detects radio frequency. You know a wide range of sort technical solutions but also less technical ones such as sort of firing drones which will bring them down and stop them working and a whole range of sort of technological solutions again laser laser guided sort of weaponry and things like that so that now it's very the they're all in different stages of development and it's very difficult to know exactly what resources will be available on the ground right now and there are risks associated of course because if you point a laser this thing and it falls out of the ground it might fall on somebody because it's it's not over the airport or even then if it does fall down in the airport it could do damage to one of the planes. What is the system by which these drones are piloted they don't have to be somebody actually operating a joystick do they can be programmed now know that subsidy right that they can be programmed that they can be remotely operated from a number of miles away they can be operated through through p.c. Computer technology so it's not an easy task to find somebody who is operating the drone remotely or via sort of computer technology and what does the law say about the responsibility to those whose lives have been so disrupted this cost of this so far very difficult to calculate it must run into millions. Yeah and the so the law would say that that anyone who sort of acts the response gets to cause a sort of damage will be liable for it and that the general regulation around drone uses is so criminal regulation so prosecution would almost certainly follow and that there are sort of house to sentence for up to 5 years which you can imagine the public outcry the moment and the destruction what would generally sort of support a prosecution that would be looking for a felon and could jail sentence I would imagine what kind of damage might one of these do if a plane was to hit it it could cause it could cause critical damage and there have been a number of strikes and fairly small trends will wish that demonstrate that the drone will will easily penetrate the fears large if they went into an engine it would be probably cut to traffic so now that the decision to sort of suspend science is absolutely understandable and Chris has causing terrible chaos but it's it's it's not worst you could simply kind of take the risk of one of these trends hitting and I cross you've been asked to advise you guys to public transport on how to deal with this Should they have responded more quickly. Well I I'm I'm part of a concert Consultative Group that does that there in the us and yes yes it's probably there on set but it's almost inevitable that. An incident like this would would be the catalyst to make them sit up and take more notice you know the cost that would be involved in and deploying. Countertrend technology. And the extent to which that would have to happen around a number of critical sort of sites ports and in the country it's not surprising that. It hasn't happened and that was how to have an incident like this which would I think change their minds and make them react much more quickly now Philip thank you for the banks works who is from the north royals with the King he's the head of drone law and didn't even know there was such a thing but now we do 50 years ago today talking even further out into the firmament 3 astronauts were setting off on a mission never come to before the 1st manned mission to orbit the moon Frank Borman module pilot Jim Lovell and the lunar module pilot Bill and those were the crew announcers Apollo 8 the 1st humans to see the far side of the Moon years later Jim Lovell recalled that momentous morning as my 2 companions were the 1st to go into the spacecraft where the gantry some 330 feet tall There's a bridge across there they walked across and they went into the spacecraft I was left alone fully suited up and then I looked down and I saw the ground and I went to the press corps and I said. 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Current Surely you probably know my problem. On the Air Force trip around the moon studying possible sites for a future Apollo landing Bill Anders took one of the most iconic photographs of all time psoriasis Frank Borman a tilted the spaceship national soul an unexpected sight the distant and colorful planet Earth based in sunlight rising above the desolate Luna surface. I've been all. I look at it. They don't think they're good. For you very very worried but. They probably are going to get the right that they. Will Get ready for the. Most famous photographs possibly ever taken Well the crew landed on the 27th of December and the mission proved a huge success for Nasser put Americans ahead of the Soviets and just 7 months later the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon for the 1st time remarkable times and we are looking at a future that includes mosse in the routes out into the stars you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London. Coming up later on our program we're going to talk about Uganda's netball team which is ranked 7th in the world so can they compete with the likes of New Zealand we'll talk about that and we'll talk about the decision by President Trump to withdraw our troops from Syria and from Afghanistan a decision that appears to have cost him his defense secretary also there is the question of the potential close down of the government in the United States this over the issue of funding for the border wall that's on the Trump wants on the border with Mexico all of those things to come let me give you the headlines London Gatwick Airport has revealed some flights after a row drone grounded services for a day and a half and 13 miners have been killed in a meeting an explosion at a coal mine in the Czech Republic Those are the headlines this is the b.b.c. . This is Dan Damon in London this is the sounds of Barcelona now. Pro independence protesters in Barcelona saying the streets will be ours they are blocking a number of roads in the region they're protesting at the Spanish government's decision to hold a capital meeting in Barcelona which hasn't happened for decades they've also gathered in the center of the city there's a large security presence the Spanish prime minister Petro Sanchez is holding his cabinet meeting today there the 1st time in the democratic era that the central government has done that and he is not welcome traveling to f.l. Independence demonstrations have been taking place along and across Catalonia this of course is the dates the smocks the anniversary of those elections imposed on the region last year by the Spanish government following an outlawed independence referendum many activists a critical of the way Mr Sanchez who took office in June has handled the crisis I spoke to else Toddy she's a Spanish economist also currently minister of the presidency and government spokes person for the government of Catalonia So I asked her what's the mood like in Barcelona at the moment we have protesters because of the busy shot of the Spanish government who has that meeting in Barcelona which is something that hasn't happened in the last 40 years the last time this happened it was during the time of Franco it's meant to be a conciliatory gesture by the government to Petro Sanchez why isn't it probably they don't understand at all a couple earning a feeling that this is a very jester either someone is up by seeing them Bay back or they don't want to have a very tester and what they want to provoke that Anya what is the state at the moment of the relationship then between the government to Catalonia and the government in Madrid both governments we start that more less at. The same time and after 6 months. Relationship has been getting colder and colder at the very beginning of a bit of scientific He was talking a lot about dialogue about political solution he came into power thanks to the both of the Independent these parties in order to try to change had tried to find that different way of what we had with a government of body are a whole it that lead into repression and. Of fundamental rights. He thought that well at least in terms of what he was saying and he said public appearances but little by little the relationship has become colder and colder there because he has not made no gesture or no step in favor of this dialogue and he has called do you support the same measures that the government of Mali on the whole and for example there are still 9 countries and politicians in prison might Petro Sanchez have been able to do something about that so there's still exactly as you say there still 9 political prisoners some of them are members of the party I mean the only European country with members of the parliament in prison we have 7 more in exile that I think you can do because one of the accusations is done by the public government by their by the government itself we've seen no gesture we see that the government keeps accusing them of something that they actually know it's faults because privately they tell you that the that it follows that that