hit something in the fisherton tunnel, about 200 metres microphone where we are at the moment, this is as close as we can get safely tonight due to the operation going on at the scene itself the train itself deal rails inside the tunnel, we understand it knocked out the signalling. everything went dark and we have spoken to passengers that there were noises, the flashes and bangs and then silence as they waited, and then, because the signalling had been knocked out, another train, a south western train that was heading from london to honiton, in devon, heading towards a south west, then hit the first train at the entrance to that tunnel. that s in this massive emergency response came. weight understand at least 50 foreign rescue teams were here, and then the walking wanted were brought to a church hall near here. around 12 people were injured, we understand, they were taken from
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parliaments and senates to deal with where they might not be able to get legislation through. then you have public opinion as well that might be sympathetic broadly but would worry about some of the aspects of what this could do to the cost of living. so you have politics and electoral cycles, which worked on short term expediency, and climate change, which needs long term solutions, and that might explain why limited progress will be made next week. very interesting, thank you tojon sopel in rome, and stephen mcdonell in beijing. we ll be back in glasgow a little later, but now let s join clive. british transport police say a number of people have been injured, after a crash involving two trains in wiltshire this evening. it happened near salisbury, around 7 o clock, when a train carriage was reportedly derailed after hitting an object on the line, knocking out all signalling in the area. it was then hit by a second train.
our correspondent jon kay is close to the scene in salisbury. bring us up to date with the latest. what we have managed to establish is that this started at around 6:50pm this evening when a train travelling, a great western service travelling, a great western service travelling from portsmouth towards bristol hit something, collided with something inside the fish at an tunnel, about 200 metres from where we are now. this is as close as we can get at the moment. what it it and why it hit it is unclear at the moment but the train partly derailed, knocking out signalling in the surrounding area. a few minutes later, a second passenger train with lots of people on board, a south western train travelling from london to deafen hit the first train. passengers described what happened. london to devon. they describe darkness, flashing lights, juggfing describe darkness, flashing lights, juggling and noises, and then calm and silence as people waited in the