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Tonight at ten, Egypt in crisis again after three days of violence | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
in the fight for democracy. In the heart of Cairo, thousands demand a | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
rapid change from military rule to civilian government. At least 30 | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
dead and 1800 injured in the past few days. We report from the scene. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Here they are, fighting in clashes, some being killed, many being | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
wounded, and demanding that the military get out of politics | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
altogether. And tonight the Egyptian cabinet | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
has offered its resignation. We will have the latest from Cairo. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Also on the programme: The parents of Milly Dowler | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
describe the false hope that their daughter was still alive when her | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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phone was hacked. I heard her voice. It was like, she has picked up her | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
voicemails, she is alive! It was then, really. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Also at the inquiry, the actor Hugh Grant accuses the Mail on Sunday of | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
hacking his voicemails. The Stephen Lawrence murder trial, | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
and claims that crucial evidence could have been contaminated. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
New plans to increase the supply of housing in England, with mortgage | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
help for some first-time buyers. And the Chinese pandas soon to be | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
heading for Scotland, with a hefty bill in prospect. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Later in the hour, I will have all the sport. Join me to find out if | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
it was a happy return to the dug- out for Harry Redknapp as he | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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watched his Tottenham side take on Good evening. The Egyptian cabinet | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
has offered to resign tonight in the wake of three days of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
escalating violence against the ruling military council. Protesters | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
want the military to transfer power to a civilian government. It is the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
worst unrest since President Mubarak was toppled in February. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Clashes between police, soldiers and demonstrators have been | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
reported in several cities, including Alexandria and Suez. But | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
the most serious eruption has been in Cairo, where at least 30 people | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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have been killed and 1800 injured around Tahrir Square. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Outside the hated Interior Ministry, a long time symbol of authoritarian | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
rule in Egypt, protesters clashed for a fourth consecutive day with | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
riot police. Shocking images beamed almost instantly around the globe | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. None more disturbing than pictures | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
apparently showing protesters being viciously beaten in front of a sign | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
proclaiming freedom. Unconscious, completely overcome by tear-gas, | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
dozens, even hundreds of pro- democracy campaigners rushed to | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
pavement clinics in Tahrir Square this afternoon. At times, there | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
were not enough scooters and mopeds to ferry bodies back for treatment. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
It is thought many of those who died in these clashes suffocated | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
under the effects of tear-gas. One man wanted to tell us what happened | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
to him, struggling to get his words out. Moments later, he collapsed | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
into the arms of his friends. It is almost as though the February | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Revolution and all that was achieved in Tahrir Square never | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
happened. None of these protesters can believe they are back on the | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
streets of Cairo fighting for the reforms and freedoms they thought | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
they would say several months ago. But here they are, fighting and | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
some of them being killed, many of them being winded, demanding that | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
the military get out of politics altogether. It was perhaps naive to | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
assume that having forced Mubarak to resign, the entire system would | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
collapse. It was a big mistake. At the time, people were euphoric | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
about it. They could not believe that they toppled Mubarak, but it | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
was just the tip of the iceberg. The protesters say they will not | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
give ground again until the military cedes power altogether. No | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
easy task in a country where the generals are the absolute authority. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
By torchlight, the roadside medics treated a steady stream of | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
casualties, but thousands more protesters arrived in the square. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
In less than a week, this country is due to hold its first truly | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
democratic elections. It is difficult to see how they can go | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
ahead in such circumstances. Sorry for the ditches on the sound | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
in that report. As we have heard, the slow process | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
of change in Egypt is the main factor in the renewed | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
demonstrations. The protest leaders say they have no faith in the plans | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
for a transition to a fully democratic society. Stephen Sackur | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
reports from Cairo on what has gone wrong since the toppling of Mubarak | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
earlier this year. His report contains strong images. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
A new, dangerous phase in Egypt's revolution. Trust has now broken | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
down between the people and the country's military rulers. This is | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
no overnight storm. Tension and anger have been brewing for months. | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Field Marshal Hussein Ted Tally is the protesters' chief target, head | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
of Egypt's military junta and the two decades, President Mubarak's | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
loyal military chiefs. He took power promising stability. He has | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
delivered repression and bloodshed. The turning point came last month. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Thousands of demonstrators, mostly Coptic Christians, gathered in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Cairo to protest about -- about sectarian violence. We have | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
obtained this shocking footage. Snipers opened fire. Armoured | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
vehicles career down the street. 27 demonstrators were killed, many | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
crashed. For young democracy activists like this web designer, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
the military, with its entrenched economic and political power, now | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
represents the counter-revolution. It is easy to get rid of Mubarak | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
and get someone else who will keep the same policies, maintain the | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
corruption and keep killing and torturing. We want to overhaul the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
system. The military council made promises last February. They talk | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
of democracy within six months. Actually, parliamentary elections | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
are supposed to begin next week, but will drag on. There may not be | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
a presidential election until 2013. They said Egypt's state of | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
emergency would end. It hasn't. More than 10,000 protesters are in | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
military jails. They stressed their commitment to genuine democracy, | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
but have proposed a constitution which seems to give the military | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
free rein. Today, Egypt's civilian cabinet, a political fig-leaf for | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
the generals, officially resigned. Even before that news, their | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
position was becoming untenable. You are in a government which is | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
entirely dominated by the Supreme Council of the armed forces. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
TRANSLATION: no. Not true. You can put it that way if you want, but | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the reality is that we are operating under exceptional | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
circumstances. We are in a transitional phase. The Supreme | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Council of the armed forces has both presidential and law-making | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
powers, but there is co-operation between the Cabinet and the | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
military. Tonight, political chaos and a dark mood in Egypt. The Arab | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Spring captured a longing for freedom and stability. Now | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Egyptians have neither, and the generals are taking much of the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
blame. And Stephen Sackur has a series of | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
reports on the situation in Egypt being broadcast on the BBC News | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
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Channel throughout this week. Let's take stock after this third | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
day of violence and go live to Cairo and our Middle East editor | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
Jeremy Bowen. What is your sense of things there tonight? I have been | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
here in the square for a lot of the evening, and even after midnight, | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
there are thousands of people milling around and cash is going on | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
in the streets towards the Interior Ministry. This is a really serious | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
crisis for Egypt. And if it is serious for Egypt, it is serious | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
for the region as well, because people across the Middle East are | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
looking at what is going on here. At the heart of it, the future. Who | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
runs this country? The people in this square have decided that the | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
military want to retain power and are not prepared to hand it over to | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
civilians. It is a fundamental thing about completing the | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
revolution. They believe that until the army council steps down and | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
gives up the power it has, the revolution will not be complete. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
The army seems determined to hang on to its entrenched position in | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Egyptian society. It is worth mentioning that the whole of Cairo | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
is not like this tonight. There are plenty of areas where life is going | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
on as normal. It was not like that in January and February. That | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
suggests that there are people here who support the military, who do | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
not like this kind of disruption. But meanwhile, the people here, | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
perhaps 100,000 are here tonight and determined to hang on. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
The parents of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have told a | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
public inquiry of the false hope they suffered when told that | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
voicemails on their daughter's phone had been deleted. Sally | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Dowler said they had been led to think that Milly was still alive. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Mr and Mrs Dowler were giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
into press standards. During the day, the actor Hugh Grant also | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
outlined his case against the tabloid press. This report contains | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
flash photography. They suffered the devastating pain | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
of losing a beloved daughter, only to find that their lives had been | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
violated by tabloid journalists. Bob and Sally Dowler, parents of | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
Milly, victims of unforgivable intrusion. They spoke about Milly | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
and described how they had gone to retrace her last known steps. It | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
should have been a private moment, but the News Of The World had a | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
photographer lurking, and the photograph was published. We did | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
not see anyone. They had obviously taken the picture with some sort of | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
telephoto lens. How on earth did they know we were doing that walk | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
on that day? It felt like such an intrusion into a really private | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
grief moment. Then there was the hacking of Milly's phone, again by | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
the News Of The World. Messages were deleted from her previously | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
full voice mailbox. It meant Mrs Dowler could finally get through. | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
It gave her hope. I rang her phone, and it clicked through on to her | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
voicemail, so I heard her voice. And I thought, she has picked up | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
her voicemails! She is alive! came the crushing news that it had | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
been the News Of The World fiddling with the voicemail in search of a | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
story. As soon as I was told it was about phone hacking, I did not | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
literally sleep for about three nights, because you replay | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
everything in your mind, just thinking, that makes sense now. | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Tonight the former News Of The World investigator Glenn Mulcaire | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
denied deleting Milly Dowler's voicemail messages. His solicitors | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
said he confirms that he did not delete call them had no reason to | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
do so. From a private couple to a public figure and his allegations | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
of intrusion. The actor Hugh Grant. His targets - the Daily Mail and | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
the Mail on Sunday, which he said had printed a false story linking | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
him with a woman in Los Angeles. cannot for the life of me think of | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
any conceivable source for this story in the Mail on Sunday, except | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
those voice messages on my mobile telephone. To that, the Mail on | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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The inquiry heard how recently Hugh Grant had fathered a baby can tinge | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
tinge tinge, a former girlfriend. - - Tinglan Hong. The day after that, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
I think it was, the phone calls started from the daily mail in this | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
case, saying that we know about Tinglan Hong having the baby. That | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
we know about Hugh having visited. We know what name she checked in | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
under, that they were to write the story. The British press, Hugh | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Grant said, was the only major industry that was regulated by | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
itself. That was not working for over 20 years. The witness item is | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
expected to continue into the new year. In the next few days the | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
inquiry is to hear from Gerrard, the actress, 7/7 and the author, JK | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Rowling and in due course newspaper executives and editors are expected | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
to give their side of the story. The Prime Minister has given a | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
warning on the state of the economy. Telling the CB ifrplt that Britain | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
is well behind where it needs to be and that getting debt under cell | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
control is proving harder than anyone envisaged. He spoke on the | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
day that the Government was trying to revive parts of the housing | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
market with mortgage help with First-time buyers and help for | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
developers too. Radical and unashamedly ambitious, he has had | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
the Prime Minister and the deputy describe their long-awaited | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
strategy for housing in England. It needs to be. It is important to | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
build more houses in our country. Decades of political failure on | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
housing, the Government admits, are causing damage to the economy and | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
society, measured in lost jobs, overcrowded homes and shattered | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
dreams. The Government is trying to inject help into the beleaguered | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
housing sector, for the banks to lend, for the developers to build | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
and for the consumers to borrow. By with the State spending less on | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
housing subsidy in the economy, it being on a knife edge, the success | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
is as uncertain as the times. Invigorating supply and demand for | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
housing is key. Having cut Government support by almost �4 | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
billion, today the ministers announced they are putting back | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
�400 million, that may help stalled projects like this town in Devon to | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
get re-started. Another idea means that developers can build on unused | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
public land without having to pay for it until the homes are sold, | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
but more than 230,000 new homes are needed each year. I have looked at | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the housing strategy, nowhere can I find the number of houses you need | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
to build next year or the year after that? There is demand out | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
there. We need the homes. We are not going for figures that have not | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
worked. So you are not telling us how many houses you will build? | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
market has to provide the houses. For millions on middle or lower | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
incomes, the problem is finding an affordable home. There is access | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
to... Jon and Anna in York can only dream of getting the deposit | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
required for their first house. When you are renting a property as | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
it is, you cannot afford to do that, the mortgage payments would be our | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
rent. It is frustrating that we can pay the rent, but they don't think | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
we can pay the mortgage. The couple could benefit from a mortgage endem | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
knity scheme, but what does this strategy offer those who would once | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
have relied on social housing? The charity Shelter, thinks that Sandra | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
should anybody a council or Housing Association home, but instead, a | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
shortage of social housing means she is forced into the private | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
rented sector, where the represents are so high that he is and her son | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
face eviction and an uncertain future. This housebuilding | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
programme will take a few years to get up and running. In the meantime | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
hundreds of families are being forced into the private rented | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
sector in which the rents are going up, it will push up the welfare | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
bill. The strategy may be billed as radical and ambitious, but whether | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
it works depends on the confidence of the markets. Coming up: As fears | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
grow about Iran's nuclear research, America and Britain impose tough | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
new sanctions. The trial of the two men accused of murdering the black | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
teenager, Stephen Lawrence has heard that important evidence may | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
have been contaminated because of the way it was handled by the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
police. The court was told that blood-stained clothing worn by the | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
student may have been placed in unsealed paper bags. Gary Dobson | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
and David Norris deny the charges against them. 18 years after his | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
killing. This is Stephen's blue jumper, stained with his blood. His | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
shirt, his green trousers, the prosecution says that the fiebfrers | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
the clothes as well as Stephen's blood and hair were found on the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
defendant's clothing, including this pair of jeans. The defence | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
argued it happened because of contamination while the police | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
examined the exhibits. So part of the evidence focused on the brown | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
paper bags, similar to these, used to store and transport in evidence | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
1993. The court heard that the practise was to fold the top down | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
two or three times and to sale them with Sellotape. The defence claims | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
that the tape could have come loose, the top unrolling and dried blood | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
gotten stuck to the sides of the bags seized from db dob dob and | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
David Norris. One detective said he may have folded over an evidence | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
bag rather than sealing it, if it contained clothes belonging to | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Stephen that were so bloody they had to be dried out. The defence | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
said they could have been the clothes that contaminated the | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
suspect's clothing. The jury heard evidence from former detective, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Graham Cooke, who did house-to- house interviews in the road where | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Gary Dobson lived. He spoke to the defendant, who, the detective said, | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
seemed nervous. He claimed not to know David Norris, but the police | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
took pictures of them together outside of the home of Neil and | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Jamie Acourt, the brothers also under investigation. The two deny | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
murdering Stephen Lawrence. Within the past hour, the Americans have | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
announced new sanctions on Iran because of concerns about the | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
country's nuclear programme. The last week, the UN's nuclear | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
watchdog said it had evidence of a military dimension to Iran's | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
research. Earlier today Britain ended all financial links with | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
Tehran. Mark, what do you make of the measures and what is expected | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
on this impact? Hillary Clinton has announced these are a serious | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
ratcheting up of sanctions. They have labelled this a money | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
labelling concern. It seems that they are pretty serious. They are | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
hitting Iran where it hurts. In its vital industries. They are doing as | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
much as they can, along with not only Britain, but Canada and France | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
but can't get new sanctions through the UN as China and Russia don't | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
agree with them. Unlike Britain it doesn't seem on the first look at | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
this as if America is targeting the Iranian Central Bank. There has | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
long been concerns in the Obama administration that would drive up | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the oil prices and harm the economic recovery, so not taking | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the full measures, but it is serious, it will hurt Iran. Thank | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
you very much. The President of Turkey has told the BBC that his | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
country doesn't want to intervene in neighbouring Syria, but he says | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
that change is clearly needed and he is preparing for the worst. | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
Abdullah Gul was speaking after a bus carrying Turkish civilians came | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
under attack. He said that Turkey would be defending its interests. | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
Istanbul's latest tourist attraction. A panorama of the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
historic Turkish conquest that launched the Ottoman Empire. Turkey | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
is once again wielding its power, influential in the Arab Spring and | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
piling the pressure on Syria. In London Abdullah Gul told me that | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Turkey did not want to intervene in Syria, but was basing itself for | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
the worst. Well are -- we are all prepared for the worst scenario. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
You are not ruling out the buffer zones, even if there is up support | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
from this and from the Arab League? The Arab League is meeting on | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Wednesday. Let's see what position they are taking. There are some who | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
say that Turkish once was a great power in the region, the Ottoman | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Empire, maybe the time has come again for Turkey to the -- to be | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
the centre of this part of the world? We have no hidden agenda in | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
the region. Turkey's influence is showing in other ways. Its wildly | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
successful soap operas have gripped the Arab audiences. The late sest a | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
rags to riches story about the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent. | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
On the film set is it is a frantic schedule, these exports are | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
creating fans of Turkey across the region. Turkey argued it was a | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
bridge between the East and the West. Here in Istanbul it straddles | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
two continents. This is European soil, but all the time, the boats | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
are ferrying people across the water to the Asian side. Turkey | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
says part of its appeal is that it offers a modern Muslim democracy | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
with European values, but looking at its human rights record there is | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
a problem. Amazingly, there are more journalists in jail here than | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
either China or Iran. This crowd at Istanbul's book fair was to support | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
one of them. Abdullah Gul dismisses the criticism. He says it is the | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
looming crisis in Syria that overshadows everything. Two giant | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
pand yarbs are soon to be on their -- pandas are soon to be on their | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
way to Edinburgh Zoo. It's part of a global conservation project. The | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
hope is that the pair will settle quickly in their new home and breed, | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
but keeping the panda happy is a costly business. We have this | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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report from China. Meet young young young. It means "sunshine". Meet | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Yang Guang. In the pen next door, more laid back is Mike Tindall, or | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
"sweety". It is part of condition's panda conservation export. -- | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
TianTian. The hope is that the two will mate. The probshrem that | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
pandas are fickle. Own one born in captivity has been re-introduced in | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
the wild and that died soon after. Pandas don't come cheap. Edinburgh | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
Zoo is to pay �7,000 for each bear plus �70,000 to feed their bamboo | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
habit and there is no guarantee that the two will pair up. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
TRANSLATION: They must like each other for themselves there to be a | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
mutual attraction. That's the key. If not, they will walk away and | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
nothing will happen. China's panda- breeding programme is producing | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
about 30 pandas ayear, but most through artificial insell nation, | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
they are not good at conceiving naturally. While they are pampered | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
in captivity, in the wild they are threatened. In the natural home, | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
the mountain ranges of Sichuan is urbder pressure. The bamboo that | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
they eat is dying off and China's break-neck roads and cities are | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
coming ever closer. Soon, "sunshine" and "sweety" will be | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
moving too. They will anybody Edinburgh Zoo for ten years. The | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
zoo is hoping that they will be so popular that the visitor numbers | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
double, but in the wild the pressing kouds mean that the | :26:36. | :26:40. |