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Passengers at Heathrow are warned to expect gridlock as border | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
officials join the public sector strike next week. There are likely | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
to be mass cancellations and delays of up to 12 hours at immigration. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
We have worked hard all year to pay for the holiday and to go and enjoy | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
our snowboarding trip, and to spend 12 plus hours at Heathrow is not | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
the way we planned on starting it. The Government says it will do all | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
it can to ease the chaos and maintain national security. And | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
there are indications tonight that the military could be deployed to | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
help man the borders. Also on the programme: | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Undercover inside Syria in the town which has seen the worst violence | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
of the uprising so far. We meet the soldiers who've | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
defected from the government side to form a rebel army. We have a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
special report. A billion-pound scheme to subsidise | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
work placements to try to get young people into employment. | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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And the buggy being sent on the On the News Channel, all the sport, | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
including Martin Johnson's defence of his time as England manager at | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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the Rugby World Cup in the face of Good evening. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Air passengers are being warned to expect delays of up to 12 hours at | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Heathrow next week, as border officials join the public sector | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
strike. BAA has asked airlines to reduce the number of passengers | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
they're carrying by half to try to avoid gridlock and mass | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
cancellations. The unions have defended the strike, saying staff | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
are acting to protect their pensions. The Government has | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
criticised the action and there are indications tonight that the | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
military could be deployed to help man the borders. Our transport | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
correspondent Richard Lister reports. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
More international passengers fly into Heathrow than anywhere else, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
but the airport is warning that next Wednesday they may face | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
gridlock. Industrial action has caused problems here before. These | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
planes were grounded during a dispute in March last year. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Heathrow is asking airlines to fly their planes in half fall during | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the strike, warning them that without further action arriving | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
passengers could face delays of up to 12 hours, so long that | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
passengers could not be safely accommodated and would need to be | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
held on arriving aircraft. Sarah Helm from Gloucestershire is flying | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
to Colorado on Wednesday. British Airways have warned her she may | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
face delays and have offered to change her flight. Very angry. We | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
have worked hard all year to pay for the holiday and to go and enjoy | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
our snowboarding trip, and to spend 12 plus hours in Heathrow is not | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the way we planned on starting it. Border Agency managers who worked | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
during previous strikes are also expected to walk out next week. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Union leaders said they have little choice but to strike to protect | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
pensions. This is not something the trade union has done lightly. It is | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
our first action in 28 years and we have no wish to repeated. The key | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
is in Government's hands. They need to come back and negotiate. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Striking unions represent more than 1800 border staff at Heathrow. The | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Government is trying to find replacements, but the airport | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
expects less than half of the normal immigration staff to process | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
the 90,000 people who fly Ian every day. The problem for Heathrow is | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
that it operates at 98% capacity, which gives little room for | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
manoeuvre when trouble strikes. Even a moderate disruption can | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
spiral into something worse. Other UK airports are not expected to be | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
as badly hit, but Heathrow is desperate to avoid the kind of | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
gridlock caused by the snow last winter, and ministers say they are | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
doing all they can to keep passengers moving. We are taking | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
every measure to put the contingencies in place, to make | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
sure first of all that borders are secured, and secondly, that we | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
minimise the disruption to travellers that will be caused by | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
what is an unnecessary strike. Heathrow officials say that most | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
airlines are now offering alternative flights to those flying | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
in on Wednesday, but no one yet knows how many passengers will | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
change their plans, or how many immigration officials will be there | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
to greet them. Our Home Affairs Correspondent June | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Kelly is at the Home Office. The Home Office says they are looking | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
at all measures, including using the military. What are their | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
options? Well, discussions will be going on all weekend between | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
officials from here and ministers over the key issue of how to keep | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the border as safe. We know that civil servants who are standing in | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
for strikers at ports and airports will be undergoing two days of | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
training from Monday. The big question is, will the army be | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
brought in? The Ministry of Defence is saying tonight that no units are | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
on standby, the but it is being acknowledge that what is described | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
as "prudent planning" is in place, should the army be called upon. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Government sources are stressing that if the army were to be called | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
in, we would not be seeing tanks at Heathrow and any soldiers who were | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
deployed would not be armed. The roles they would have would be | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
checking bags, crowd control, that sort of thing. On a separate from, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
NHS managers are warning that thousands of non-emergency | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
operations scheduled for Wednesday will be postponed, as well | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
thousands of out-patient appointments. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
The Arab League is to meet this weekend to discuss imposing | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
sanctions on Syria after President Assad ignored a deadline to allow | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
observers into the country. Journalists are banned from Syria | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
but the BBC has managed to get into the country with the Syrian Free | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Army, the opposition force made up of soldiers who have defected from | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
the government side. Our correspondent Paul Wood and | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
cameraman Fred Scott report from Homs, the scene of the worst | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
violence of the eight-month uprising. | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Syria's border with Lebanon. We are travelling with men taking in guns | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
to a growing insurgency. They enter Syria. The area is heavily mined, | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
and full of army patrols. A man was captured here just hours earlier. | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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Into Homs. The Syrian army is all around. They will probably shoot if | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
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they spot us. The suburb of Baba Amr. The people are hemmed in by | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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security forces. The fear is suffocating. But the firepower is | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
no longer all on one side. These are the men of the Free Syria Army. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
They don't exactly hold this area, they just hope to slow up the | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
security forces. Almost from the beginning, it was Syrian government | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
propaganda that armed groups, armed gangs as they were called, were | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
supporting the opposition. Now, after months of protest has been | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
shot down in the streets, that myth of an armed insurgency has become | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
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More joy in every day. -- more people join every day. A gun battle | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
signals another defection. Soldiers are running and, fired on by former | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
comrades. -- they are running into town. Five made it out, a 6th did | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
not. One of the soldiers explains that they fled after being ordered | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
to shoot unarmed protesters. We are all one people, one blood, we | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
cannot just kill them, he says. The nightly demonstration in Baba Amr. | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
They are calling for a no-fly zone. With international protection, they | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
say, millions would take to the streets to sweep away the regime. | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
But help is not on the way. The conflict is escalating. The Free | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Syria Army is starting to go on the offensive. A sniper prepares to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
fire on a soldier guarding an army post. He is aiming to wound, not to | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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Rebels still hope that most of the army is prepared to change sides. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
This woman lost her son, her grandson and her brother in law, | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
all shot dead. They had to demonstrate, she says, we have had | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
40 years of injustice while they lived in luxury. So much bitterness | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
is being stored up against the ruling minority. The six-year-old | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
boy died as we left, shot by a sniper, they said. They were | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
quietly angry. The longer this goes on, the more chance that the | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
struggle for democracy in Syria will end in sectarian bloodletting. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Hundreds of thousands of work placements are to be created for | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
unemployed young people in a new Government scheme. Private | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
employers will be offered a subsidy if they take on an 18 to 24-year- | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
old for at least six months. The Deputy Prime Minister said �1 | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
billion would be spent on the project over three years but it's | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
unclear where that money will come from. Our political correspondent | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Ben Geoghegan reports. More than 1 million young people | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
are now out of work, the highest level since the early 1990s. Some | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
people talk about the risk of a lost generation. So today, Nick | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Clegg announced details of a so- called Youth Contract, where | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
taxpayers' money is used to subsidise work placements. If you | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
are between the age of 18 and 24 and you are out of work, feeling | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
lonely, demoralised and cut off at home, sending out job applications | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and never getting an answer, we will, under the new contract, give | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
you the opportunity to learn or learn. Sean left college two months | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
ago and has been looking for a job ever since. But when he sends of | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
his CV, often employers do not even bothered to reply. I feel stock. I | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
am in the middle. I feel stock, basically. I am applying and no one | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
is getting back to me so it feels like time is flying but it is just | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
me standing still. Under the Youth contract, 250,000 extra work- | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
experience places will be on offer, each lasting up to eight weeks. On | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
top of that, the wages of 160,000 young people will be subsidised by | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the Government for six months. Employers will get over �2,000 for | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
every person they take on. The Government is putting �1 billion | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
into the Youth Contract, which will be paid out over three years. The | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
hope is that it will help more than 400,000 young people find work. But | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
what ministers have not spelled out today is exactly where the money | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
will come from. Labour have criticised the Government for axing | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
their jobs scheme. They are concerned at suggestions that this | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
one will be paid for by freezing some tax credits. We think that is | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
wrong. We think there should be a much bigger scheme that would get | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
more young people back to work and we would funded by a sensible and | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
fair tax on bankers' bonuses. It should be a bank bonus tax paying | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
to get young people back to work, not a squeeze on Working Families | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Tax Credits. The sort of thing has been tried before. The | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Conservatives set up the youth training scheme in the 1980s. One | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
entrepreneurs as these proposals are is that forward but the real | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
jobs depend on a buoyant economy. Have we got enough orders coming | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
into my business in order for me to take on more people? Let's consider | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
that, also. We cannot just create jobs. The Government cannot create | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
a job, a private organisation cannot create a job just for the | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
sake of it. I have to have some business to deploy these people in. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Next week, the Government will make more announcements about how to get | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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the economy moving. Critics say its The jury in the Stephen Lawrence | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
murder trial has been hearing about the forensic evidence discovered | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
when the case was reviewed four years ago. The Old Bailey was told | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
that microscopic red fibres from a polo shirt the teenager had been | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
wearing the night he was stabbed to death were found on a jacket of one | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
of the defendants, Gary Dobson. There was also alleged to be hair | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
on David Norris' trousers which was almost a complete DNA match for | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Stephen Lawrence. The defence for both men claimed the evidence could | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
have been the result of contamination in the 18 years since | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
the Delors's death. Both men deny murder. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
In Egypt the crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square have grown much | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
bigger sense next week's elections. But the voices in the Square | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
calling for the Army to step down are now being. Our Middle East | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
editor Jeremy Boeing has been assessing the support for the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
various factions as the country heads for elections. The wire is to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
help the truce to hold. The road where protesters and riot police | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
fought has been sealed off by the Army and outside the Square | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
soldiers kept their distance. Inside the cordon it was a day for | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
candyfloss, not clashes. Tahrir Square was much more relaxed. But | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
this is not a place for every Egyptian. The Muslim Brotherhood's | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
leaders say they support the Tahrir Square people, but they are staying | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
away. Many demonstrators believe the Brotherhood and the generals | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
are conspiring over a flawed election the square once the | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
spurned. The leaders are not clear. They are with the Army? Yes, they | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
are with the Army even if they say they are not, but the truth is they | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
are. It was the biggest turnout in Tahrir Square this week. The | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
message that the Army should give up politics is a powerful one. But | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
it was not among the chance across Cairo at the historic mosque. This | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
was the alternative protests supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Egypt's biggest political movement. Here, the chanting was all about | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
Palestine, Israel and Jerusalem. The Muslim Brotherhood Speaker had | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
nothing to say about Tahrir Square, he did not even mention the name. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
That is because the brotherhood would prefer the protesters to go | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
home. They do not want anything to disrupt the progress towards | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
elections on Monday in which is expected to be their victory. Some | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
brother of its supporters were on from the moors to Tahrir Square, | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
but the leaders calculate they are far enough ahead to play it safe by | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
co-operating with the generals. we had the election results in our | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
mind, we would have taken the decision to go to Tahrir Square | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
because this is the popular thing to happen. We are willing to | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
sacrifice some of our support in order to make sure the process is | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
the most important thing. A third rally was going on in Cairo in | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
support of the armed forces and against the Tahrir Square protest. | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Elections, he said, not Tahrir Square. We support the Army and the | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
police. We do not want Tahrir Square. If an Egyptian democracy | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
emerges it would be tested from birth by the dictatorships, mighty | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
generals, intolerance and bitter division. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
Coming up: She competed in the Paralympics paralysed from the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
waist down, now she is aiming for the Olympics after regaining the | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
use of her legs. It has been called the most ambitious mission to Mars | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
ever. Tomorrow afternoon, Nasa will launch a vehicle the size of a car | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
on a nine-month voyage to the Red Planet. When it arrives the | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
Curiosity rover will begin the most extensive search yet of whether | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
life -- light was or is possible yet. David Shukman was given | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
special access to the preparations. High above Earth this is what is | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
meant to happen tomorrow afternoon. The start of the boulders journey | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
to Mars so far. By next August a strange craft should be descending | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
to the Martian surface. A rover called Curiosity packed with | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
instruments. Nothing is big has ever been sent to another planet. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
This full-scale replica shows you the size of this mission. It is the | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
largest machine ever to be sent to the surface of Mars. It is a roving | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
laboratory, cameras up top, down below and drill to get beneath the | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
Martian surface to look for clues about possible live. Conditions are | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
extremely hostile on Mars, but the hope is to gather samples from | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
inside the rock. The aim is to search for evidence about what | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
might have flourished in the past. Each tiny collection of dust will | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
be dropped into a special container and will then be analysed inside | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
the rover, the most detailed investigation of whether anything | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
had ever lived here. We are hoping to figure out whether Mars was ever | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
a habitable planet. We are going to look in one of the ancient | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
environments on Mars when there was flowing water and rivers and nights | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
and understand where their that ever offered a chance for life to | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
take place and develop. But before any of that the rover must get to | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
Mars safely. For this mission they are trying out a new way of landing. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
A rocket powered descent with the rover itself lowered on a tether. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
It is highly risky. The man behind Britain's failed mission to Mars | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
eight years ago is worried again. Hovering above a landing site, | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
lowering a rover, a car size rover, it is not easy, it is tricky. I | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
shall be nervous. So, a huge gamble, but if it works, we may get a bit | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
closer to knowing if it is possible that we are not alone. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
There was Government has finally reached a deal over its �14.5 | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
billion budget after weeks of deadlock. The minority Labour | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
administration in Cardiff Bay has secured Liberal Democrat backing | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
for its spending plans which include an extra �20 million to | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
spend on the education of the poorest pupils. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
There have been strikes and protests in Greece and Portugal, | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
but the other a euro-zone country to receive a bail-out, Ireland, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
appears to have taken its austerity medicine without much protest. It | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
is a year this week since the republic agreed is bail-out and | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Hugh Pym has gone back to find out how the people there have been | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
coping. A year ago this week, protesters | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
tried to force their way into the Government buildings in Dublin. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Swingeing cuts were unveiled as our Ireland succumbed to a financial | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
bail-out. 12 months on and the mood is very different. There have not | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
been mass protests or widespread public sector strikes as there have | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
been in other countries which were bailed out. His seems as if Ireland | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
is taking the pain and getting on with it. What's more, the economy | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
is growing. Food is one industry fuelling that growth. This is | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
pepperoni produced in Ireland. It is sold for pizzas and ready meals | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
all over Europe. Exports are growing strongly and that is | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
feeding the economy. The recovery - - recovery will be at export-led | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
recovery. The more exports we have, particularly in the foot area, will | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
add greater value back to the economy and the state coffers that | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
will help to deal with the position we are in. In sharp contrast is the | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
story of the depressed Irish housing market. This is the other | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
side of the Irish economy, the continuing legacy of the housing | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
boom and bust, unsold, empty, a new homes. There are ghost estates | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
dotted around the country. House prices are down more than half | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
since the peak of the market. People are cautious and reluctant | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
to spend. Then there is the austerity package hitting public | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
sector workers. Their pay has been cut by 14% and like other employees | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
they have seen tax rises, 4.5% on average. The retirement age is | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
going up to 68 by 2028. Niamh Dodrill teaches at a Dublin primary | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
and says tolerance is turning to anger. The Joe Soaps on the street | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
who are working their backsides of are paying for this. People are | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
very angry and annoyed that it has come to this. The finance minister | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
told me there would be more cuts in the Budget next month, but he said | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
the economy was on the right track. For jobs is the key issue and as | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
soon as the growth lose two jobs, people will see the programme has | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
been successful. That is beginning to happen in the private sector. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
is beginning to happen, but there is still hard work ahead. Ireland's | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
growth could be hit hard if world trade those into decline. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
The former England rugby manager Martin Johnson has spoken for the | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
first time since a series of damaging leaks appeared in | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
newspapers this week about his team's disappointing World Cup | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
campaign. He described the fall-out from the campaign as one of the | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
worst things he has experienced in the game. He defended his Blair' | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
actions and said much of what had been reported was untrue. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
It is a remarkable story that has astonished medical experts. Monique | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Van der Vorst from the Netherlands has been partially paralysed for 13 | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
years. She won a silver medal in the Paralympics and cycling. Last | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
year she crashed during training and soon after the feeling | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
gradually began to return to her legs. Now she hopes to compete in | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the Olympics as an able-bodied athletes. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
Meet Monique Van der Vorst -- she once was, paralympian, a world | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
beater at handcycling, paralysed in both her legs. And now meet her | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
today. From the age of 13 her left leg was paralysed after surgery on | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
her for it went wrong. Three years ago, she also lost the use of her | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
right leg in a car crash. Last year she had another terrible training | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
accident that put her back into hospital for a long time. But | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
during the months of physiotherapy and training she began to get the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
feeling in her legs and then the use of both of them. Doctors cannot | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
explain it. I just did it. I did it over and over again until I fell | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
down. I could not believe it. people cannot believe it. Can you | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
explain it? No, I have no idea how it happened. You could not use your | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
legs before three years of your life, 13 years for one leg, and now | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
you are cyclic again. I do not know why, but I do. Her living room is | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
full of the trophies and medals from her long career as a disabled | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
athlete. Three world championships, eight Nationals and twice as | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
although medallist at the Beijing Paralympics. That is all over now. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
It feels like a new life, a new chance. I am very lucky and very | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
happy to do it all again. Also, beside the sport, life is a lot | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
easier walking. It feels like a big challenge and I want to push hard | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
and train and see where I can get. She lived one Olympic dream, now | :25:59. | :26:06. |