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Tonight, live ammunition and water cannon, the weapons available to | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
police in any future riots. A review of the police response to | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
the unrest in the summer calls for a new set of rules. Where arsonists | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
put people's lives at risk, police would be justified in using live | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
bullets. The report has divided opinion. The risks to civil order | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
have changed, we have seen that. And we think police need new rules | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
of engagement. We will be asking how likely police forces are to | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
embrace these new tactics. Also tonight... I have no reason or | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
knowledge to believe it was going on. Piers Morgan claims he had no | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
knowledge of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror. In North Korea, 11 | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
days of official mourning for the dictator. Banned for eight matches, | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Luis Suarez is heavily punished for racially abusing another player. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
And a glimpse of the most significant Planets ever discovered | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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Good evening. Water cannon, plastic bullets and even live ammunition | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
could be used by police in the event of another outbreak of civil | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
unrest. A review of police tactics during the summer says new rules of | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
engagement are needed to protect the public. But the findings of Her | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary have been questioned | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
by senior police officers, as well as by some MPs. June Kelly explains. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Burning buildings were among the most powerful and poignant images | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
of the summer. Arsonists destroyed homes, shops and livelihoods and | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
terrorised communities. This famous photograph showed a young woman | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
leaping to safety. It is an example of why a new rules of engagement | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
need to be drawn up for officers, according to the Inspectorate of | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Constabulary. If there are not enough police to restrain the sheer | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
numbers, and all the evidence suggests that it will take some | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
hours to muster enough numbers, then they have to have some options | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
to protect our citizens. They may consider using lethal force in some | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
circumstances. The big lesson from the summer is that in any similar | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
unrest in future, we must have more officers on the streets. The police | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
estimate that they need to outnumber the rioters Blair at | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
least three to one in order to make arrests. But it also says the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
police need to look at the possibility of bringing in water- | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
cannon and plastic bullets, up until now only used in riots in | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Northern Ireland. The latest plastic bullets are designed to | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
reduce the risk of injury. But one police chief, who used to be in | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
charge in Northern Ireland, thinks the Inspectorate of Constabulary | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
has got it wrong. Baton rounds and water cannon buy you distance. What | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
you saw in London were fast moving crowds, not standing still, in | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
which case these measures would have been totally useless. And | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
sadly, on occasions, people have died from baton rounds, and they | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
remembered ever after by their families. Tottenham, where the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
trouble began. This neighbourhood is a reminder of what was lost. But | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
one community leader believes that while the police have to learn | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
lessons, lethal force should not be part of the solution. No, it is | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
crazy to even suggest it. History shows you that a round-the-world, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
in Northern Ireland, it has not worked, it has not solved the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
problem. After the riots in Tottenham, there has been a big | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
focus on police-community relations. The rules state that for the police | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
to open fire, they have to believe there is an imminent threat to life. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
This is generally the case when there is someone with a weapon. And | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
of course, it was a police shooting which sparked the disturbances here. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
This was the man who was shot dead, Mark Duggan. A firearm was | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
recovered from the scene, and his death is still being investigated. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Four months after the events of the summer, the big question is, if | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
there is a repeat, should the police make greater use of their | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
firepower? Let's pick up on the point you made at the end there, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
how likely is it, do you think, that British police forces will | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
embrace some of these more extreme tactics? When it comes to using | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
live rounds on arsonists, the Inspectorate of Constabulary is | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
stressing this would be absolutely a last resort. The challenge for | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
police when they open fire is that they have to make decisions in a | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
split-second. During a riot, that would be very difficult to do. Also | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
there is the fact that this summer just gone, many of the people on | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
the streets were very young. When it comes to water cannon and | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
plastic bullets, we were hearing from Sir Hugh ward, one of the few | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
officers who has employed both, giving an emphatic no. It would | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
mark a significant change in British policing if those things | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
were to be employed. Only yesterday, a parliamentary committee was | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
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saying no to water cannon and Piers Morgan, the former editor of | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the News of world and of the Daily Mirror has been giving evidence to | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the Leveson inquiry into press standards. He denied the suggestion | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
that phone hacking had been endemic at the Daily Mirror, and claimed | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
that his journalists all knew they had to operate within the law. He | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
did admit to listening to a voice message which had been left by Sir | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Paul McCartney for his former wife, but refused to say who played it to | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
him. He was 28 when he was editor at the News of the World. He then | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
went to the Daily Mirror, and on to television. Now, he is the high- | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
profile post of an American chat show. Piers Morgan relishes his | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
status as interrogator of the stars. But today, by satellite link from | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Los Angeles, he was placed under an oath to answer questions. He | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
started jauntily, but when it came to phone hacking, his answers | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
became noticeably more terse. Your newspaper was near the top of the | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
list, wasn't it? Top of the list of what. Of those who were carrying | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
out this sort of practice. And you well know that. You also well know | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
that not one single person has made a formal complaint against the | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Daily Mirror. He was asked about a private voicemail message left by | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
Paul McCartney for his then girlfriend, Heather Mills. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
listened to a tape of a message, yes. It was a voicemail message, | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
wasn't it? I believed it was, yes. Mr Morgan said he had to protect | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
his sources so could not say more. Lord Justice Leveson was becoming | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
exasperated. I am perfectly happy to call Lady McCartney to give | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
evidence as to whether she authorised you to listen to her | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
voice mails. Mr Morgan remained rural on that subject, and denied | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
he had heard other celebrity voice mails, and insisted he had not even | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
known phone hacking took place. have no reason or knowledge to | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
believe it was going on. But what did you yourself know from your own | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
perception of what was going on? Did you see this sort of thing | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
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going on, Mr Morgan? No. Are you sure about that? 100%. In one | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
tantalising moment, he was quoting from his diaries about Rupert | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Murdoch's dismissive attitude towards the Press Complaints | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Commission. That may not be his recollection of events. I'm not | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
asking you for his book collection. I can ask him that. And that would | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
appear to mean that Rupert Murdoch himself is to be called to give | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
evidence. But today, it was Piers Morgan, who, before he hurried off | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
to do his chat show, signed off from the inquiry with a complaint. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
After 1.5 hours of evidence, he said he felt like a badly treated | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
rock-star, whose low points were constantly being played, but whose | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
successes were ignored. During the day, News International | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
agreed settlements with several high-profile people affected by the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
phone hacking scandal at the News of the World. The company confirmed | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
that it had settled claims brought by Princess Diana's former lover, | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
James Hewitt, television presenter Ulrika Jonsson and five others. A | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
arriving at Birmingham airport on a flight from Dubai. He was suspected | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
of having a document which could be of use to someone planning an act | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
of terrorism. In North Korea, the country's new leader, Kim Jong Un, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
has led mourners as they pay their last respects to his father, Kim | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
Jong Il, whose body is now lying in state. He died on Saturday at the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
age of 69. The country has entered an 11 day period of mourning. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Foreign governments concerned about the transition of power have been | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
monitoring events, as our correspondent reports from | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
neighbouring South Korea. Kim Jong Il, a face so familiar to the | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
outside world, revered, reviled, even caricatured, now mourned. And | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
this is the new guardian of North Korea's nuclear weapons, his son, | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
Kim Jong Un. He is not yet 30 years old, but he is every bit as | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
enigmatic as his father. He's the man China and America will be | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
negotiating with. And these are the people he will be ruling. Many of | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
them are poorer and hungrier than when his father took power. The | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
tears appear to be just as real, but those who were there the last | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
time North Korea changed its rules say, do not believe everything. | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
TRANSLATION: You could not not cry in public, so people used to pinch | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
themselves to make themselves cry. Others were just laughing. When I | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
look at it now, I think it is even more fake. But the biggest concern | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
around the world is not insincerity on the streets of Pyongyang, but | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
instability. TRANSLATION: People will be | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
watching for signs of his inexperience. From outside the | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
country, governments are straining to get a clear picture of how this | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
transition is unfolding, and the tensions it might produce. North | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Korean leaders have never been toppled by hardship, not political | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
repression or even famine. But the slow creep of capitalism into their | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
country may be an even bigger threat. This communist state has | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
already had to loosen its strict controls on the economy, but when | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
its new leader choose more reform or more repression to hold it | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs enjoys an unduly cosy relationship | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
with some of Britain's biggest firms, according to a parliamentary | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
committee. The MPs drew attention to �25 billion worth of unsettled | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
tax bills, alleging that big companies are treated more | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
favourably than individuals and small businesses. Downing Street | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
into the end -- intervened to defend the new collection system. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
The nation's tax collectors, HM Revenue & Customs, are accused of | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
not doing enough to bring in tax from business. There is �25 billion | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
of unresolved tax bills according Vodafone is one major company which | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
has been targeted by protesters, alleging that business is not | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
paying its fair share. Vodafone denies those claims. Top Shop is | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
another which has been the focus of these campaigners. Now a Commons | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
committee is to Lee Cook -- critical of HMRC, suggesting it has | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
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been cosying up to big business. -- strongly critical. They hide behind | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
this cloak of secrecy, claiming confidentiality of taxpayers' | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
affairs. In a case involving the investment bank, Goldman Sachs, | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
HMRC admitted to an �8 million mistake over what was owed. A | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
whistleblower claim to the unpaid bill was more like �20 million, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
though the tax authority denied that. It provoked fierce exchanges | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
at the hearings. Was the taxpayer ripped off? Absolutely not. Did we | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
lose �10 million that we should have had? It was smaller than that. | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
What was it? I am sorry, I am in grievous difficulty of taxpayer | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
confidentiality. Some small business owners are worried they | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
will be getting tougher treatment than the big corporations. If they | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
are going to treat larger businesses with kid gloves, in some | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
respects, I would like to see them treating small businesses and | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
freelancers the same way. Working out the UK tax liabilities of | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
multinational companies, including those based in the City of London, | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
is far from straightforward. Tax law is highly complex and | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
businesses acting on behalf of shareholders will want to do | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
whatever they can to reduce their tax bills. With all the reliefs and | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
exemptions that exist for legitimate reasons, it is difficult | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
to determine what the right amount of tax is. That can either be done | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
because you test it through the courts, and that is a long, | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
expensive process, all the encouragement is to do it | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
collaboratively. Downing Street has defended the tax authorities and | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
has denied there is an unduly cosy relationship with big business. All | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
taxpayers are treated evenly, it Coming up, America's new ball, how | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
many families have lost their homes as the economy stagnates -- | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
American's new poor. I don't think we deserve this, but at the same | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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The Liverpool striker, Luis Suarez, has been banned for eight matches | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
and fined �40,000 for racially abusing another player. Suarez was | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
found guilty of misconduct by the Football Association for comments | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
he made to Manchester United's Patrice Evra. The report said they | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
are very surprised and disappointed by the outcome. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
It was the confrontation that led to Luis Suarez becoming the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
highest-profile player in Premier League history to be found guilty | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
of racial abuse. Liverpool's Uruguayan striker was accused by | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Manchester United's Frenchman, Patrice Evra, of repeatedly | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
insulting him. Suarez said he used a span age variation of the word, | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Negro, -- a Spanish variation. Denying it was an insult in his | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
native country. But the FA decided it was racial abuse, handing the | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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Goals like this means Suarez will be sorely missed by Liverpool. The | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
striker expressed his dismay at the length of his suspension. The stain | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
of his reputation may linger longer. The case centred around the use of | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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the world -- the words nigrito, which is acceptable apparently, for | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Luis Suarez. But for us in the UK, it is not acceptable, it is wrong, | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
it is racially offensive. England FA it is still waiting to | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
discover whether John Terry will face a criminal prosecution for an | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
alleged separate incident of racism towards another opponent. Two | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
incidents which have raised the issue of racism like never before. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
With Liverpool considering an appeal, a case complicated by | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
cultural nuances may not yet be over. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
An outline agreement for big changes by public sector pensions | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
has been achieved according to the government, a book called -- after | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
months of negotiations and a national strike, ministers believe | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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most trade unions have agreed in To is this deal in danger of | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
falling apart? It was supposed to be a singer but a moment for | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
ministers, saying they have this outline agreement -- it was | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
supposed to be a significant moment for ministers. As you say, there | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
has been this last-minute hitch, it involves the Communities Secretary, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Eric Pickles. He wrote a letter to the local government unions and in | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
it, he talked about a cap on employer contributions. The problem | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
is, that had not been agreed with the unions in advance. It has led | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
the GMB to accuse Mr Pickles of complete the undermining the | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
process and they have withdrawn their support while they wait for | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
clarification. The government said it was a mistake but they want a -- | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
the unions want a meeting with ministers. Behind the scenes, some | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
ministers are pretty furious that this has taken the shine off what | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
they think should have been a very good day for the Government. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Thank you. The Prime Minister has spent the | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
day visiting British forces in Afghanistan. The visit was badly | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
disrupted by bad weather, but Mr Cameron let RAF crews stationed in | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
Kandahar, and later was asked whether the government should be | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
doing more to improve the welfare of troops and their families. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
have taken a range of steps, like doubling the operational allowance, | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
cutting council tax, making sure There is more that needs to be done | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
not just by government but by the whole country to recognise the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
forces, but I think we have made good progress this year. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
The latest census of the US population suggests that nearly | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
half of all American citizens are now classed as Paul on a low income. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
The state of the economy and the impact on many a recurrence our as | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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Rising numbers of families in Colorado are losing their homes. | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Winter in America, and the chill from an economic crisis that began | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
three years ago has set in. Denver, Colorado was a brash, can-do place | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
that grew rich on energy and mining. When night falls, the Other America | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
emerges from the shadows. Grim streets where drug dealers and | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
prostitutes tout for business around strip joints and seedy | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
motels. And this is also where you will find America's new homes. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Entire families to have lost everything, hunting for a room for | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
the night. Like Angela Rowe and his family. Moving into a motel, run by | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
a charity -- Angelo and his family. He is a single father with three | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
kids. Earlier today, they were evicted from their house. It is | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
hard, rough, unforgiving. Nobody is going to help you, except yourself | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
full but that is the only hope that is there for you, that is what I | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
believe. -- that is the only help there is. Accurate figures are hard | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
to come by, but it is thought as many as 3.5 million Americans need | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
shelter like this at some point in the year. Increasingly, it is | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
families that are the made homeless. -- being made homeless. It doesn't | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
get much harder than this. Robert and Victoria and their six children | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
have been living in the motel for weeks. He lost his job in | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
construction this autumn and he doesn't have enough money to pay | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
the rent. We had a home, a yard for our kids to play in, two dogs. I | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
used to make dinner every night. Now I can't even cook for my family. | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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That's hard. I just miss our life. I don't think we deserve this. But | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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at the same time, I am like, that's What there may be signs that the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
economy is improving, but the stories on the ground are so | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
different. My kids know we're not going do have much of a Christmas | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
this year. They are OK with that. As long as we have each other. | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
Actually, this one, she told me, even if we do get presents, can we | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
just wrap them and give them to the other kids that need them? | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
The family are victims of a slowdown and no one seems able to | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
control. For growing numbers of people, this is where their | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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A famous sculpture by Barbara Hepworth has been stolen by | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
suspected metal thieves from a park in south London. The large bronze, | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
called Two Forms (Divided Circle), had been on display in Derek -- | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Dulwich Park for over 40 years. Staff discovered the theft this | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
morning. A reward has been offered for information leading to the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
thieves arrest and conviction. Astronomers in the United States, | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
who have been studying a distant star similar to our own son, have | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
found what they say are the most important Planets ever discovered | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
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outside the solar system -- our own Planets orbit many of the stars we | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
see in the night sky. The big question is, could one of them be | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
like our own? Scientists believe they have found one that once was. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Orbiting a star 1,000 light years away, this is the first planet as | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
scientists have discovered that is almost exactly the same size as our | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
turf. It is too hot to support life now -- as our earth. Millions of | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
years ago it was further from its sun, so temperatures were much | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
lower. In the past, if it was further from its sun, it may have | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
been cooler, it may have perhaps had oceans of water, possibly even | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
have been suitable for life. Researchers worked -- writing in | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
the journal, Major, have discovered a second planet around the start | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
that is slightly smaller than the Earth -- the journal, Nature. It is | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
also too hot to support life. The discovery was made with NASA's | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
Kepler Telescope. It looks all planets twinkling. Up until now, | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
researchers have only done planets much larger being -- larger than | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
the Earth, the most recent being Today they have announced a | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
discovery of a planet that is the same size, Kepler-20f, and one that | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
is a little smaller, Kepler-20e. Scientists believe that planets at | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
a similar size to ours are more likely to support life. I think we | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
will find many more planets that I'll have like. I think we will | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
find life out there. -- that are earth like. We may not find | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
intelligent life, it may be green slime, but we may be there. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Scientists may not have long to wait. With the telescope scanning | :26:09. | :26:12. |