up welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. the cop27 climate summit has begun in egypt with an agreement to discuss the possibility of wealthy countries handing money to poorer nations to help them cope with the impact of global warming. until now, developed countries have resisted pressure to put what s referred to as loss and damage on the agenda. the conference heard a warning that the past eight years have been the warmest on record. our climate editor justin rowlatt reports. cyclones ripped through madagascar earlier this year. floods displaced more than a million people in nigeria. while another year of rainfall pushed parts of somalia and elsewhere in east africa even closer to famine. our planet is sending a distress signal. our planet is sending a distress signal, the un conference in egypt was warned. the last 80 years have been warmest on record, making each wave were life especially for vulnerable populations. sea levels are rising at twice the level
Fessor woody holton from the university of South Carolina. Third we hear from professor eri c slauter from the university of chicago. Finally, we hear from professor David Armitage at Harvard University known fo the declaration of independence a global history. Everyone will speak about 10 to 12 minutes and then we have questions from the audience. I think youre all set. Prof. Brewer thank you to organizers of this conference, which is terrific. When the delegates to the Continental Congress assembled in june of 1776, they faced a dilemma. Fighting between colonists and british troops have been going on more than a year. Political disputes over whether colonists needed to dissent to their own government and taxes remained at a standoff. Some delegates sought peace and redfin scissors peace and reckons lesion with their king. Only seven supported independence. New york, new jersey delaware, and South Carolina were not yet ready to fight. Congress chose a committee of five men to persuad
Racetrack opened in 1936. It was started because of the world war ii rail shortage. Most of the horsemen were shipping horses to saratoga to be sold. Without they roll service, they could not ship the horses to be sold. They started an option here on the grounds to service the local horsemen who are here raising their horses. It was set up as a trust because they did not want to be set up as a dividend paying corporation. They do not want able to feel like they wanted to make money off of this place. They wanted to fulfill the mission it was set out for. We have three trustees to govern our trust that our Management Team reports two. The association itself is owned by the community. In some ways, we are more like an arboretum than a racetrack. We only raised 32 days in 32 days a year, but we are or 65 days a year. We want people to come visit. Lexington is unique. Based on geography, topography is great for or since. Son we have underneath is the same thing that makes our bourbon great
This was a rotunda with an oculus in the middle of it. The oculus was several feet wide. The room is completely circular. Even the woodwork is steamed into place to fit in a circular room. The dome is mostly gone now. We have various remnants of it in storage. It was plastered, painted skyblue to imitate to the outdoor sky. And the oculus gave early appearance of having leaked quite a bit. The interior was the interior of the dome was painted skyblue. The walls, there is some evidence they were painted a dusty rose or almost a pink. What we have here is the beginning of several surprises on this floor. There is an arched statuary niche. You would have put a marble or plaster statue you to add to the scene. There was an added niche on the side but it appears to have originally held an iron heating stove. Then we enter the two main living areas of the house, the dining room and the parlor. The big surprise here, these rooms with gigantic 14foot ceilings and twin curved walls that butted
Track. We have a fairly large campus, full security and maintenance apartment. We have when we have training going on we are open 365 busy year for training. We recently did our dirt surface here in keeneland. We have highly engineered dirt. We are fortunate that we have a great surface and the trainers that are in our service love it. You have a lot of traders that treat this as their home base. And they ship to those other racetracks to run in those other races and then come back here. Trainers love to come back here. Every morning, you see some of the best horses in the world working out. You see those famous trainers. There are so many people because of the horse farms who can live anywhere in the world which used to live here because of what they are able to do here locally. Keeneland is a fun and social atmosphere, much like an sec football game. You have tailgating early in the morning. Our races do not start until 1 00. People start piling in around noon. On our larger saturday