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Tonight at Ten: The spegter of a return to recession in Europe as | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
growth collapses. Across the eurozone prospects for growth fade | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
away as the debt crisis takes its toll. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
As more austerity is imposed and protesters take to the streets, | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
calls for even more concerted action. If the leaders of the | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
eurozone want to save their currency, then they, together with | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the institutions of the eurozone, must act now. We will have the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
latest from Berlin where the Germans are under pressure to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
provide more bail-out funds. Also tonight: | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
More questions for James Murdoch on phone hacking as he is accused of | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
behaving like a gangland boss. Murdoch, you must be the first | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
enterprise. Mr Watson, please, I think that's inappropriate. Mr | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Chairman. A private future for this NHS hospital, unions say it's an | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
accident waiting to happen. The plight of child workers in the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
cocoa industry, a special report from Ivory Coast. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
The promise from the chocolate companies was to act as a matter of | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
urgency to stop hazardous child labour. But isn't that exactly what | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
we are seeing here? And how to lose a prime time debate. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
The latest Republican contender to come unstuck. It's three agencies | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
the Government that are gone, commerce, education and... | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
What's the third one there? I will be here with Sportsday later | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
on the BBC News channel as John Terry takes his place in the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
England squad. How do his teammates feel about the racist allegations | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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Good evening. The damage inflicted by the debt crisis was revealed | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
today when the EU announced a sharp reduction in its growth forecast | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
for the eurozone. It's down to just half of one per cent, and that | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
could turn out to be optimistic. The European commissioner, Olli | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Rehn, said it was the last wake-up call and raised the prospect of a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
new recession. David Cameron echoed the call for urgent action. Our | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
business editor, Robert Peston, has the latest. There's some flash | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
photography in this report. The eurozone, battling against the | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
elements. Greece, almost inundated, its Prime Minister swept away. This | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
week it's Italy in the eye of the storm and the premier, Silvio | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Berlusconi, being blown from office clinging on for a few more hours or | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
days. The clouds are gathering elsewhere, Spain, even France. And | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
the forecast, not exactly brilliant. The recovery of the EU economy has | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
stopped, the European Commission said today as it forecast growth | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
next year would be just 0.5%. forecast is, in fact, the last | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
wakeup call. The recovery in the European Union has now come to a | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
standstill and there is a risk of a new recession. It's not all doom | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
and gloom. Greece choose its new Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, a | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
respected former Central Banker, and Italy is said to have lined up | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
a former European Commissioner, Mario Monti, to replace Silvio | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Berlusconi, here leaving the premier's residence today, and | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
implicit interest rates on debt fell below the 7% it breached on | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Wednesday. Although the Italian Government managed to borrow an | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
additional five billion euros for a year today, and the interest rate | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
was less than that crippling 7%, it still paid more than 6%, a record. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
More worrying perhaps was contagion to Spain, where the yield on | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
interest rate on ten-year loans to the Government rose at one stage to | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
almost 5.9%, and in France where the rate climbed to over 3.4%. In | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
part due to a mistaken warning about its financial health. To you | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
and me they may not sound like high interest rates but the equivalent | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
interest rate for Germany is just 1.7%. When countries borrow | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
hundreds of billions of euros every little interest rate increase | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
really hurts. There is a big risk of contagion to other European | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
economies and that's why it's worrying for the UK because if it | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
impacts then, it impacts us. Even without the contagion, the UK is | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
set for growth of just 0.6% next year, too close to zero for comfort | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
according to the European Commission. The moment of truth is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
fast approaching. If the leaders of the eurozone want to save their | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
currency, then they, together with the institutions of the eurozone, | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
must act now. The longer they delay, the greater the danger. For David | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Cameron it's all about the eurozone's bail-out fund acquire | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
you go enough money to lend to Italy if no one else will. But | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
today the head of that bail-out fund raised doubts that its | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
firepower can be raised to a trillion euros, which most see as | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
the minimum needed. So, citizens of the eurozone and beyond including | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
Britain may need their umbrellas for a while longer. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
In Berlin, Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said it was | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
essential that Italy move quickly to implement a new austerity | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
package and clarify its political leadership. Mrs Merkel dismissed | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
reports that she favoured a smaller eurozone excluding the more | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
troubled economies. But Germany's options are limited, as our Europe | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
editor Gavin Hewitt reports. He spent the day in Germany | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
surveying the scene scene -- there. With the eurozone crisis deepening, | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
all eyes turn to Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse. These German | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
MPs know to a large degree, they will determine the future of the | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
single currency. Today, the German Chancellor said she still believes | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
the eurozone can survive in its present form. TRANSLATION: | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Since the beginning of the debt crisis Germany has been pursuing | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
one single goal, to stablise the eurozone in its current form and | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
make it more competitive and we firmly believe this whole eurozone, | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
each individual country, is in a situation to fully regain | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
credibility. The eurozone badly needs fixing and Germany has been | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the main country applying the sticking plaster. It has been the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
largest contributor to two Greek bail-outs. But the big question is | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
whether Germany would step in to help Italy, if that became | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
necessary. So far, it has contributed 211 billion euroes to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the main bail-out fund but says that's the limit and it is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
unwilling to allow the European Central Bank to become a lender of | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
last resort. And this is why. The memory of inflation in the 20s. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Truck loads of money were needed to pay wages on a daily basis, so | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
Germany today will not agree to the ECB, in effect, printing money. It | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
is the weight of history that makes Germans hypersensitive to the idea | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
that the European Central Bank could be used to help countries in | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
difficulty. Now, when it comes to big economies like Italy the German | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Government is still hoping that tough economic reforms may be | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
enough to help Italy save itself. The most important step is to be | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
done by Italy itself. It needs a stable, reliable Government and | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
clear commitment to domestic reform. Some MPs from within Chancellor | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Merkel's own camp are prepared to see countries in trouble leave the | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
eurozone. Member states of the eurozone, which cannot reach | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
sufficient discipline or competitiveness, will necessarily | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
reach a point at which they might be no alternative than to leave. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
But one of Chancellor Merkel's key economic advisors says more funds | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
may be needed to shore up the euro. Now we are in a situation where | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
bank investors have lost the confidence in Sovereign bonds and | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
we need a bold step that guarantees Sovereign bonds without any | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
limitation. The big question for Germany remains unanswered, if it | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
becomes necessary will it act as the main tkpwarpb are to of thure | :08:49. | :08:58. | |
zone's debts? James Murdoch has accused former | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
News International employees, including a company lawyer, of | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
misleading MPs about the phone hacking controversy. Mr Murdoch, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
the company's executive chairman, was back at Westminster today | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
answering more questions from MPs. He repeatedly denied that he'd been | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
told of the significance of a crucial e-mail which suggested that | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
phone-hacking was widespread at the News of the World. Our political | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
editor, Nick Robinson, listened to the exchanges. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
First the father, now the son. Back in the parliamentary dock for his | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
role in the phone hacking scandal. James Murdoch fidgeted nervously at | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
the start of two and a half hours of cross-examination. Perhaps | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
remembering the last time he faced this committee of MPs, when his dad, | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
Rupert, got a face full of foam. All that was thrown this time were | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
questions, allegations, oh, and scorn. Can you just confirm that | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
you have not been arrested or you are not correctly on bail and you | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
are therefore free to answer all the questions I am going to put to | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
you? I have not been arrested and I am not on bail. And I am free to | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
answer questions and I would like to. His questioners are amongst | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
those who have been hounded, spied on, and lied to. This, their chance | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
to get even. Mr Murdoch, you must be the first Mafia boss in history | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise. Mr Watson, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
please. I think that's inappropriate. Mr Chairman? It was | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
too much for some MPs, one said oh, come on. Others tutted. On the day | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
the News of the World closed its journalists cheered their editor, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
but today James Murdoch accused Colin Myler and the lawyer Tom | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Crone of knowing what was happening at the paper, but not telling | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
parliament, or him. You think Mr Crone misled us? It follows that I | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
do. Do you think Mr Myler misled us. I believe their testimony was | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
misleading. It was about what happened when James Murdoch agreed | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
to pay Gordon Taylor a huge sum, around �700,000 after his phone was | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
hacked by the News of the World. Murdoch claims not to have seen the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
E mail marked "for Neville" which had transcripts of the hacked phone | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
calls, or the memo from the paper's lawyer, which stated that the e- | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
mail was fatal to our case. Or the legal advice from a leading | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
barrister, which warned that the News of the World had a culture of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
illegal information access. James Murdoch's former executives told | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
this committee that he did at least know about the e-mail in its | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
implications, as the boss of the company he was asked surely he must | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
have known more? There was a lot of supposition and might have known | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
and should have known and this and that. What never happened is Mr | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Crone and Mr Myler showing me the relevant evidence, explaining to me | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
the relevant evidence and its relevance, or talking about wider | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
spread criminality. The Murdoches have already apologised to the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
family of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler. Today, saw another | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
apology for spying on this man, their lawyer Mark Lewis, who | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
represents them and other victims of hacking. I want to say for the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
record it's appalling, it's something I would never condone and | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
the company should never condone and it was shocking when I found | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
out. Are you aware that Mr Lewis' family was trailed by private | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
investigators, including his 14- year-old daughter? And would you | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
agree with me that is completely despicable? I totally agree. I | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
wasn't aware of that allegation, if it's the case the whole affair is | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
not acceptable and not on. So much to apologise for, so much still | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
unclear. Tonight the News of the World's former lawyer, Tom Crone, | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
has accused James Murdoch of giving evidence that was, at best, | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
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disinjemuous. MPs must now reach a A soldier killed in Afghanistan on | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Wednesday has been named. Private Matthew Thornton of the 4th | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, was killed by an explosion at | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Babaji in Helmand province. He was 28 and his family have been | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
informed. In radical Islamic group planning | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
to hold an anti-Armistice Day protest is to be banned from | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
operating in the UK. Muslims Against Crusades recently protested | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
outside the US embassy on the anniversary of September 11th. The | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Home Office says it is closely linked to a host of previously | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
banned groups. Patients could be put at risk by a | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
decision to allow a private company to take over a struggling NHS | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Hospital in Cambridgeshire, according to union leaders. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Ministers have announced that Hinchingbrooke hospital will be | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
managed by a private company, Circle Healthcare. The union Unison | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
says that the ten-year deal is an accident waiting to happen. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
A local NHS hospital, just like so many others in England. But with | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
one big difference. It is now officially under new management. A | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
private company, Circle, has signed a contract to run it for 10 years. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
On the ward, another busy day for the staff. They will go on working | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
for the NHS. But Circle is promising nurses and doctors a | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
bigger say. The Hospital's lead doctor told me he hopes that will | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
mean less red tape. The bureaucracy in the NHS never allows the speed | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
to deliver these changes. What we are hoping to have with the Circle | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
model is to achieve that speed, where we can bring these new | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
innovations. Hinchingbrooke hospital has around �14 million | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
worth of debt. That is partly due to this big new treatment centre, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
which did not bring in the money it expected. The deal with Circle is | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
meant to pay off those debts, while maintaining a full range of | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
services. Staff have been told today that no | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
job losses are planned. But union officials say there are bigger | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
questions. The big worry, obviously, is the fact that they have no | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
experience in running a district general hospital. It is one thing | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
running private, elective surgery, compared to running the range of | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
services that are run from here. Circle won the contract after | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
competition, some of it from inside the NHS. It will lose money if it | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
does not make the finances worker. But it could be earn fees if there | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
is a surplus. It says the first thing that patients should see it | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
is better care. People are going to see staff in charge of their own | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
hospitals, who have autonomy to deal and do we what they think is | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
best, be completely focused on them. Even so, many experts believe that | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
making this work is going to be tough. But if Circle pull it off, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
at least some of what happens here could be copied. If they can | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
achieve savings of this dale -- scale that they need, it will be an | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
enormous achievement. There is no precedent for the scale of change. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Circle officially take over the hospital in February of next year. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
The contract is for 10 years. But the pressure will be on to show | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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Still to come: The new brain scanning technique offering hope to | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
patients thought to be in a vegetative state. This can only | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
happen if you are conscious. It can only mean that they are aware. That | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
they are responding to the instructions we are giving them, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
both what we are asking them to do and when we are asking them to do | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
10 years ago, the leading chocolate manufacturers promised to tackle | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
child labour in the massive global cocoa industry as a matter of | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
urgency. It was hailed as a landmark agreement. But children | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
are still being exploited and made to do dangerous work. The biggest | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
producer in the world is the Ivory Coast, in West Africa. As many as | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
800,000 children work in cocoa farms there. Despite promises of | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
reforms, less than 4% of communities that produce cocoa have | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
seen investments in schools and Deep in the cocoa belt of the Ivory | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
Coast, it is not hard to find children at work. Cocoa is the raw | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
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product that makes chocolate. No laughter, no playing, no wages. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
Injuries, but no first aid kit. Even the farmer barely scrapes a | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
living. If the price is low, I lose money. Right now it is low, so I am | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
not doing very well, he says. Yet, 10 years ago, after intense | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
pressure, the chocolate industry signed an agreement. The promise | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
was to act as a matter of urgency to stop hazardous child labour. But | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
isn't that exactly what we are seeing here? The farmer said they | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
were his children or sons of friends. But at least one was not. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
When I asked his name, the farmer did not know. He became embarrassed | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
and then he just left. Many children are kept out of school and | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
taken from their families. Kuadio Kouako's home is more than 200 | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
miles away. TRANSLATION: My father sent me here to work. I haven't | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
seen my family for three years. This is where Coco begins its | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
journey to our shops. Trialled workers are a common sight. The | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
chocolate companies concede that more needs to be done to give these | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
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children hopeful stop -- hope. It says that hundreds of thousands of | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
families have been helped. Campment Paul is one such project. At its | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
heart is a school that opened three years ago. But the villagers | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
complain it is not big enough. Hundreds of children in this area | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
still have no school to go to. So, had Patroclus industry acted as a | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
matter of urgency? No! -- had the chocolate industry acted as a | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
matter of agency? TRANSLATION: The chocolate industry has an | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
obligation to deal with us in this humanitarian task, plans to build | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
roads, schools, hospitals and social centres. The industry said | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
it was committed to addressing the industry. We have been working for | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
10 years, but it has a very challenging environment. Have other | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
resources been insufficient? would definitely a great that more | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
work has to be done. We have committed a substantial amount of | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
resources in the past. Going forward, we will continue to do | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
that. There is no disagreement at this present situation is | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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The car maker Jaguar Land Rover brought some welcome news to the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
economy today, announcing the creation of 1000 new jobs at its | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
plant in Solihull. It is part of a five-year expansion by the company, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
which is owned by the Indian firm Tata Motors. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, is struggling to save his campaign | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
for the Republican presidential nomination after a memorably poor | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
performance in the latest televised debate. He declared his intention | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
to close three entire government departments if he became President, | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
and then struggled to remember which ones they were. It is the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
latest in a series of republican difficulties. In this report, there | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
was some Frosch photography. -- There are some flash photography. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
The Republicans are searching for a candidate, a person that will | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
challenge President Obama for the White House. The politics is a | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
demolition derby. In the 10th debate, the wheels came off for the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Governor of Texas. Three agencies of government, when I get there, | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
argon. Commerce, education and the... What is the third one? Five! | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
Five? OK. Commerce, education and the... They HPA? There you go! | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Wrong answer. He struggled on. cannot name the third one? | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
third agency of government I would do away with, education, the..., | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
S... Let's see... I can't. Energy was the mystery word. It took the | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
pressure of another candidate, who is being asked to research his | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
memory. Reporters want to know Herman came's response to | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
allegations of sexual harassment dating back to the 1990s. I have | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
never acted in appropriately with anyone. But one woman has gone | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
public. He suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg. He | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
put it under my skirt and reached for my genitals. He also grabbed my | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
head and brought it towards his crotch. I don't even know who this | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
woman is. But this former boss of godfathers pizza, who has never won | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
an election in his life, is adored by the right wing and is determined | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
not to be driven out of the contest. Many think this man, Mitt Romney, | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
is bound to end up as the candidate to face Obama. The Republican race | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
is now really the hunt for somebody that can stop him. Mitt Romney is | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
not liked by the powerful right- wing Tea Party Movement. They do | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
not trust him and they do not think he is conservative enough. So, they | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
are searching desperately for another candidate. After this week, | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
he probably has one less serious rival. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Prince William is to go on a six- week tour of duty in the Falkland | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Islands next week. The RAF search- and-rescue pilot will find on | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
February. It comes on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
Falklands conflict with Argentina, which continues to assert a | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
territorial claim on the islands. A new way of communicating with | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
brain-damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
been discovered by a team of British, Canadian and Belgian | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
scientists. They devised a method of measuring electrical activity in | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
the brain to detect consciousness. Doctors hope it can be used as a | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
diagnostic tool in homes and hospitals. Fergus Walsh met the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
team and experienced the technology for himself. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Vegetative patients are awake, but so brain-damaged that they are | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
totally unaware of their surroundings. Now, | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
electroencephalography, or EEG, has detected awareness in three out of | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
16 patients. Healthy volunteers are needed, so I tested the device in | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Cambridge. I was asked to close my eyes and imagine with killing my | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
toes or squeezing my right hand. -- wiggling my toes. That is because | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
thinking about movement produces the same brain pattern as doing it. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
The blue area was activated when I was asked to imagine wriggling my | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
toes. When I thought about squeezing my right hand, the left | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
side of my brain lit up, because the left hemisphere of the brain | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
controls the right side of the body. Now, compare my results with one of | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
the vegetative patients on the trial, published in the Lancet | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
medical journal. You can see that their brain activity is remarkably | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
similar to mine. This can only happen if you are conscious. It can | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
only mean that they are aware and they are responding to the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
instructions that we are giving them. But what we are asking them | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
to do and when we are asking them to do it. Rob Hayim knows what it | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
is like to be locked in his own body. He was left paralysed after | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
food poisoning. For eight months he could communicate only by moving | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
his thumb, before making a full recovery. I felt completely | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
frustrated. If I had that facility, I think it would have been a | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
tremendous relief. To know that my life would continue. MRI scanning | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
has detected awareness, but it is not practical for many patients. | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
EEG is cheap, portable and could be used at the bedside to reassess | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
vegetative patients and, perhaps, eventually allow some a means of | :26:41. | :26:49. |