uluru is steeped in ancient stories about the creation time.le believe that in the beginning, the world was unformed and featureless. from this void, ancestral being submerged and travelled across the land, creating all living species. uluru is the physical evidence of feats performed during the creation period. they have walked this land for over 50,000 years. the anangu believe they are the direct descendants of the ancestral beings that created uluru and are responsible for the protection of these ancestral lands. pamela taylor is one of the rock's traditional owners, a painter and holder of the sacred stories enshrined in it. the rock has a lot of stories, some of them i can't tell you, they are too sacred. what would happen? i would be in trouble! individual stories passed down orally as precious inheritance to families. some shared with outsiders like me in the hope that they will understand their significance. but it is pamela's family holds the story of lungkata, a greedy and dishonest blue—tongue lizard ancestral being who came to ulur

as soon as though word got out that the uluru was found in fairbanks, people were coming up to the interior to mine. >> we have a tour operation here were basically entertaining people, guests come up to the state. we are trying to share the history of gold mining and the fairbanks district. back in the early 1900s, felix pedro was in this area. it was the first discovery in the fairbanks area. --d binding basically put gold mining put fairbanks on the map. gold-mining is huge in this area to this day. >> we want to show people how it used to be done. give them a little but of a history and right up to modern day, about as modern as you can with the gold pan hair. felixgo back to when pedro hit on gold. he had to walk 130 miles back to thate city to validate claim. as soon as the word of the new strike got out, the johnny-come-lately's began to stampede into this and to be called fairbanks district. that is he is places to walk but often the streambeds contained clue to the gold they were seeking. so a typical camp for the night, you pitched your tent, go down to the gravel, shovel up some

and coming up — the fight over uluru, australia's sacred mountain.in reclaiming the rock in half an hour on bbc news. president trump has played golf at his resort in ayrshire, as thousands of people in scotland staged their own protests. marches were held in glasgow, dundee and edinburgh, and some demonstrators heckled the president at his turnberry course. from there, here's the bbc‘s ros atkins. those organising donald trump's visit the uk have been very careful to keep the president away from the protestors who they knew would be turning out to object to his visit and to object to some of the policies he has pursued from the white house. today, though, as he spent a couple of nights at his turnberry golf resort, it has been impossible to avoid the protestors. we knew he was going to play golf. he has played golf on over 50 weekends since arriving in the white house at the beginning of last year, and so he turned out today, but so did protestors who knew he would be out playing 18 —— weighing 18 holes. so, in this report from lorna gordon, you wil

rock at10.30am, we hear from the indigenous people of central australia as changes get under way at ulurugood morning. welcome to bbc news. theresa may says she still wants to deliver brexit for the uk but has to be hard—headed about protecting jobs, as she fended off criticism of her controversial new strategy for negotiating brexit. this comes after she warned conservative mps they are putting brexit at risk if they fail to support her proposals in the commons this week. the prime minister in the last hour gave a staunch defence of the proposal of what's being called a common rule book on the andrew marr show on bbc. the european commission's two ideas, two proposals, they were no good. on one hand, what would have been for us one hand, what would have been for usa one hand, what would have been for us a very one hand, what would have been for us a very poor deal and would have kept northern ireland in the customs union, effectively carving northern ireland out from the uk, unacceptable ireland out from the uk, u na cce pta ble to ireland out from the uk, unacceptable to any uk governme