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Tonight at 10pm: The Taliban are blamed for the deaths of six | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
British soldiers in a single explosion in Afghanistan. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
At the scene Afghan soldiers fired at insurgents, as the men's bodies | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
were recovered. Here at the British base in Lashkar Gah, the shock that | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
such a heavily armoured vehicle was destroyed, with so many men lost | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
four. The attack means more than 400 | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
British troops have died during the ten years of the Afghan war. It is | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
a reminder of the huge price we are paying for the work we are doing in | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
Afghanistan fourth --. We'll be looking at the biggest single loss | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
of life due to enemy action of the conflict. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Also tonight: Fears for the future of 1,700 people with disabilities | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
about to lose their jobs at Remploy factories. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Guilty. The three men behind a fraud scheme that swindled | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
investors out of more than �100 million. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
And man and the great apes. A new study of what makes us uniquely | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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human. In BBC London,... Administrators | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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say it is pay cuts of or damaging Good evening. A large Taliban bomb | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
is being blamed for the worst British loss of life due to enemy | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
action of the Afghanistan conflict. Six soldiers were killed when their | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Five were serving with 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
The other was from 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
The soldiers were travelling north to Lashkar Gah when the explosion | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
happened just over the Helmand border in Kandahar province. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Quentin Sommerville reports from Lashkar Gar. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
At the base in Lashkar Gah, the flags fly at half mast, marking a | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
landmark British loss. Six of their comrades gone, killed in a single | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
explosion. The size of the loss left most in this camp in shock. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
The feeling in your gut is that this is the sickening blow but one | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
thing I have learnt over the years is that these young soldiers are | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
incredibly tough and resilient, through the grief, and it is right | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
that they grieve, and we all do, but in many ways it makes their | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
resolve even stronger. This site around the wreckage was quickly | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
secured by British troops. The force of the explosion left the | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
vehicle barely recognisable. The gun turret and caterpillar tracks | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
landed over 100 metres away. We travelled along this road before. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Highway 1 is the country's main road. It and its surrounding areas | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
are notoriously dangerous. The six British soldiers were travelling | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
along this route. They were on what was described as the routine patrol. | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
It was twilight as they approached the area where they left the road. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
It is a common tactic. They were travelling in a Warrior. The | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Warrior is heavily armoured but the explosion was still able to cut | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
into its underbelly. The wreckage of the vehicle and the remains of | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
the men have now been returned to base. Initial assessments appeared | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
to indicate that this was a very large Taliban bomb, which was | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
extremely well placed. One officer told me this is not a change in him | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
surging tactics, it is just a rotten luck. David Cameron paid | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
tribute. It is a reminder of the huge price that we are paying for | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the work we are doing in Afghanistan, the sacrifice that our | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
troops have made and continued to make. I do believe it is important | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
work from our national security at home, but this work will | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
increasingly be carried out by Afghan soldiers and we all want to | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
see that transition take place. Warminster is the home of the | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Yorkshire Regiment. There, the stock to honour the dead. It is | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
where five of the six soldiers served -- they stop. In Afghanistan, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
they are handing over control to Afghan forces and most British | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
troops will leave by the end of 2014. Today that seems like a long | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
way off. Even though Britain's part in this war Chris Small, they will | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
continue to fight alongside Afghan soldiers and sacrifice their lives | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
for a far-off country -- Britain's part in the war grows smaller. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
The loss of life today brings the death toll among British troops in | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Afghanistan to 404 since operations began, raising questions once again | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
about Britain's role there. Caroline Wyatt looks at how these | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
latest deaths might affect the campaign. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
11 of the dead were just 18. The oldest was 51. Each death leaves | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
behind a family whose life is changed forever by the loss. The | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
toll of the dead went up slowly at first after British forces went to | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Afghanistan after 9/11, but in 2006, when British troops went to Helmand, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
the numbers of dead and injured soared in a conflict that has | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
lasted longer than the two world wars combined. The US sent in | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
reinforcements in 2009, eventually helping to bring down the level of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
casualties, but the fighting and the dying in home and continues. So | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
will the latest losses changed the fourth's tactics and British | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
strategy? -- change the force's tactics? It has an effect on all of | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
us but it does not reduce our resolved to get this right. We are | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
confident we can, progress is be made in ways I never thought | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
possible. The process of handing over responsibility to Afghan | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
forces is under way. The UK has 9500 troops in Afghanistan but that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
will start to fall. British forces are due to finish their combat role | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
by the end of 2014, although some will stay on to train their | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
counterparts. The task for British forces in Helmand remains powerless, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
perhaps even more so when the numbers start to come down, but the | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
government insists the UK must see this through. They are fighting in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the desert of Afghanistan a battle to ensure that we are not fighting | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
be terrorists on the streets of Britain's cities. -- fighting the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
terrorists. But many will ask what it is that Britain and the rest of | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the airlines really hope to achieve in Afghanistan by the time the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
troops withdraw. The objective for Britain and the other allies in | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Afghanistan is to leave behind some sort of sustainable Afghan | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
administration, so that whatever happens next is the responsibility | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
of the Afghans themselves. rising toll of the dead is not the | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
only price that has been paid. More than 5,000 service people have been | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
injured and will have to live with that bitter legacy and tonight, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
there will be more questions in many people's mindss about what has | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
been achieved, and whether the sacrifices are worth it. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
More than 1,700 people with disabilities face losing their jobs, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
after the government announced the closure of most of the Remploy | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
factories for disabled workers. The government has cut its support, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
saying there are better ways to help. The move is supported by some | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
campaigners but union leaders say it is an attack on vulnerable | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
people. Jeremy Cooke reports from one of the factories ear-marked for | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
closure in Wrexham in North Wales. It is the end of the shift. It | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
feels like the end of the line. The Wrexham Remploy factory is one of | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
dozens being axed. The government says the money saved will help of | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
thousands of disabled people into mainstream workplaces. And here it | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
means more than 30 job losses. is very hurtful because I have made | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
a lot more friends, I have so many friends here, and it just hurts. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
You do get bullied in mainstream employment because of your | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
disability and it will be hard for these people. There of 40 people in | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
there. Hopefully they will find them work but they already have a | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
job, so why move them? Remploy's state subsidised factories were | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
founded after the second world war to provide work for injured | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
servicemen. This government clearly sees them as inefficient, | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
unaffordable, ready to be consigned to history. Amid outrage from | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
unions and the opposition, the Disability Minister defended the | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
decision. I believe the strategy better fit their needs and | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
aspirations of disabled people in the 21st century, and a more equal | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
world, where disabled people participate fully in the mainstream. | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
Access to work, needs for a job. 1700 people tonight do not know | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
were there in three months' time they are going to have one! | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
dozens of people here, and for 1700 in the country, the closure is a | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
devastating blow, and yet many charities say that places like this | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
are not the answer. That there are better ways to get disabled people | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
into work. For every one person that is funded by subsidising a | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
loss-making factory, we can get at least eight people into employment, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
so what this is about is more jobs are for more disabled people. | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
what exactly is the scale of the cuts? In total, 36 of the UK's 54 | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
Remploy factories will close. The government argues a 320 million- | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
pound budget for disability employment can be spent more | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
efficiently. Annually, Remploy factories make a loss of �70 | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
million, with each employing the subsidised to the tune of �25,000 a | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
year. The government has promised to help find new jobs for Remploy | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
workers but today, that was of little comfort at the factory gate. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
The United Nations' most senior humanitarian official, Baroness | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
Amos, has visited the Syrian city of Homs. She briefly entered the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Baba Amr quarter, which she said had been completely devastated and | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
was almost devoid of people. The International Red Cross is still | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
being denied access to the area. The government has been defeated | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
three times in the House of Lords tonight over plans to cut legal aid | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
payments in England and Wales. Peers voted to protect free legal | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
advice and representation for people seeking to challenge | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
benefits cuts. They also backed a demand for retaining expert reports | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
in clinical negligence cases. The government wants legal aid to be | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
focussed on criminal cases. Three men will be sentenced | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
tomorrow over a scam that defrauded investors, including sports stars | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
and celebrities, of more than �100 million. One of the men had already | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
pleaded guilty to deceiving investors. Today a jury cleared two | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
others of that offence but found them guilty on lesser charges. Matt | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Prodger reports. They appeared to be financial | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
wizards but the only trick was making people's money disappear. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Londoner Kautilya Pruthi admitted being the mastermind, a career | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
fraudster, once jailed in America. Kenneth Peacock and John Anderson | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
were found guilty of lesser offences. They spent the money | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
renting these luxury homes. They travelled to meetings by helicopter, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
and one of them even bought a private jet. These cars seized by | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
police are some of the few remaining assets to be recovered | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
from a massive scam. John Anderson told investors they were putting | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
money into a loan business, but police found no evidence of it. He | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
and his co-defendant were cleared by a jury of misleading investors | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
but found guilty of unlawfully accepting deposits. People's lives | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
have been devastated, they have lost homes, pension funds, and | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
people in the later stages of their lives are having to start again and | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
face decisions they would not have to face. From this office in | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Knightsbridge, nearly 800 people were persuaded to part with their | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
money, promised returns of up to 20% a month. Among the victims were | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
former cricketer Darren Gough, seen here on Strictly Come Dancing a few | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
years ago, the actor and singer Jerome Flynn... What the investors | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
did not know was that it was a massive Ponzi fraud scheme. The | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
mastermind, Kautilya Pruthi, would take money from new investors and | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
use it to pay out to existing investors. He then squandered the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
rest on his lifestyle. When new investors dried up, his scheme | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
collapsed, owing �150 million. Bevis Nathan and his partner lost | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
nearly half-a-million pounds. All the money they had. I was naive and | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
ignorant because I had good friends who said it was a good idea and I | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
trusted them and because it was perfect timing, and I didn't really | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
trust the high street banks and know what to do with my money | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
because I have never invested before, so I was perfectly set up | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
for the job, as it were. The men behind the scheme will be sentenced | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
tomorrow morning. Less than �3 million of the money is expected to | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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Coming up, how halal meat has become one of the main items on the | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
menu of the French presidential campaign. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
The Republican presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, is looking more like | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
his party's candidate tonight after winning six out of the 10 Super | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Tuesday contests. They included a wafer-thin victory in the crucial | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
battleground of Ohio. Many in the party still have misgivings about | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
their front one her. -- front runner. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
The somewhat stiff billionaire is a runaway winner, on paper at least. | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
But he gained snow bounce from his Winning is a grind, not a breeze. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Tomorrow we wake up and we start again. The next day, we do the same. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
So we go, day by day, step-by-step, door by door, heart to heart. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Appealing to republican hearts, one candidate after another, has been | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
the hope of Conservatives as the anti Romney. Christian conservative | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Rick Santorum is the standard- bearer of the right, attacking Mitt | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Romney first past the post credibility. We need a person | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
running against President Obama who is right on the issues and truthful | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
with the American public. That message appeals in rural America. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
It is places like Hillsborough in a hire that mean Mitt Romney cannot | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
seal the deal. -- in Ohio. In places like this, they pit their | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
politicians as carefully as they choose their cattle. The | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
agricultural economy is booming. Issues like abortion and gay | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
marriage have become surprisingly important in this election. I have | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
done voting for economics, I am voting for values. I don't think | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
you can never be too conservative, especially in this day and age. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
There is a new, almost militant mood. For Karen, the priority is | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
choosing a white -- right-wing firebrand, even if it means putting | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
of voters to lose next November. That is a chance I am willing to | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
take. I don't want a halfway. I want the whole enchilada, I don't | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
want halfway. Hillsborough's Republican mayor is not your | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
average politician. He has been a stand-up comedian for 22 years. He | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
says people want something different, they are not happy with | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the choice they have. We are looking for Clint Eastwood and | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
Ronald Reagan, wrapped up in one, to come walking up and there he is, | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
it is a slam dunk. And there isn't that guy, so we have Rick Santorum. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Despite the misgivings, it was important for Mitt Romney to win | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
this state. He is inching towards victory but it is a hard slog, | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
against the mood of many in his party. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Blair, has told | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
the Leveson inquiry that more effort could have been made to | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
investigate phone hacking had he been better briefed. The inquiry | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
also heard that the police were pressurised to end an investigation | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
into parliamentary Blix. The report contains flash photography. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
-- parliamentary leaks. Sir Ian Blair was commission of the | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Metropolitan Police in 2006, when the original phone hacking inquiry | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
took place. After two people were convicted, commissioner Blair's Met | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
dropped the inquiry. He accepted that evidence about the large | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
number of hacking victims was simply ignored. At that stage, I | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
did not ask the question which now looks so obvious, as to how many | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
other people there were. Fast forward to 2009, when the then | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
assistant commissioner John Yates decided not to reopen the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
investigation. Mr Yates gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
that he had friendly contacts with a number of journalists. Do I | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
believe that John Yates took that decision in order to placate News | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
International? Know. But Lord Blair said the perception was a damaging | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
one. It is very difficult, not to put these two situations together | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
in terms of the failure to investigate, and the levels of | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
contact, and not see a reference between them. The inquiry also | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
heard how Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
International, was lent a Metropolitan Police force after | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
attending a lunch with the then commissioner. Lord Blair said he | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
had no recollection of the discussion and Mrs Brooks kept the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
horse for two years. -- lent a Metropolitan Police horse. The next | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
witness to give evidence was former assistant commissioner, Bob Quick. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
He revealed how John Yates had refused to have his own -- his own | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
records analysed when he was carrying out the cash for this | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
inquiry. The reason he gave was that he was very well connected. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Then there was the arrest, in 2008, of the Conservative MP David Green. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
He is now a government minister. Then, he was suspected of receiving | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
leaked documents from the Home Office and kissed office -- his | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
office was raided. There was pressure to abandon the operation. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
I detected that had an impact and I detected a change in attitude | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
towards the operation on a -- the part of one or two colleagues. And | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
real anxiety and fear about what was going around them. According to | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Bob Quick, the Met's then acting commissioner Paul Stevenson became | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
so concerned, he thought he might have to resign, though that has | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
been denied. The administrators of Rangers | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Football Club have warned that unless they can find a buyer | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
quickly, the Scottish Premier League champions may not be able to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
finish the season. The company brought in to rescue the club | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
confirmed that a potential deal, under which the players would have | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
had to accept wage cuts to avoid being made redundant, had fallen | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
through. The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said they are | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
too many foreigners in France, and pledged to halve the number of | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
immigrants arriving, if he is re- elected next year. His comments | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
come as the presidential election campaign is already overshadowed by | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
a row about French identity. Christian Fraser's report contains | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
some flash photography. He tried to ignore him, even tried | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
to belittle him, but now the French President must face the threat | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
posed by the Socialist challenger. In recent days, the President has | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
changed tactics, veering to the TRANSLATION: our system of | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
integration is not working, we have too many foreigners. No longer can | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
we find them accommodation, a job, a school. The reason for the change, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
Marine Le Pen. The leader of the far-right resurgent National Front, | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
who is taking his votes. Amid debts, the two party are fighting on the | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
most curious campaign issue. The sale of halal and kosher meat. In | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
both Islamic and Jewish cost -- custom, the animal is slaughtered | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
by slitting the throat while it is still conscious. Marine Le Pen | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
claimed, wrongly, that all consumers in Paris were unwittingly | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
eating meat in the Muslim tradition. Mr Sarkozy sent out his prime | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
minister, who said that was not -- that was absurd. He also suggested | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Jews and Muslims rethink their outdated traditions. Today, he was | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
paid a visit, by the head of the Jewish community. TRANSLATION: We | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
don't want this debate over ritual slaughter hijack for election | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
purposes. We won the political parties to leave us out. -- we want | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
the political parties for stopping 2007, President Sarkozy proposed a | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
series of debates on French identity, a scheme that was | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
scrapped. Now trailing in the polls and desperate to poach boats from | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
the far right, identity and immigration are firmly back on the | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
agenda -- to poach the votes. Mr Sarkozy has never shied away from | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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tough issues, the ban on the full fleece -- faced veil for example. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
If he wants to win, he has to take the majority of those votes to vote | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
for the National Front. If Marine Le Pen bows out in the first round, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
there are no assurances her supporters will switch to Mr | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
Sarkozy. The French President has picked a battle, fighting for a | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
blue-collar, working-class vote. Those who think their jobs and | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
values are under threat. Scientists have deciphered the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
genetic code of the gorilla, which may help explain why they are so | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
similar, and yet so different from us humans. They say they hope to | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
understand the genetic mutations that led human beings to develop | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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They are one of our closest relatives. They are sociable and | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
live in communities. And in the distant past, humans were little | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
different from coroners -- from guerrillas. Hundreds of thousands | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
of years ago, we think we are very similar, in that we lived in small | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
social groups, probably in Africa. At some point, humans developed | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
language and art. We don't know what that spark was. Behavioural | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
studies in the 1960s show that fellow apes were intelligent. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Chimps, in particular. They can solve problems and use simple tools. | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
They can even put on a show. But of course, humans can do much more. So | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
what happened in the distant past that enabled our species to rise | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
above fellow apes? It could be down to genetics. The DNA of humans and | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
other apes is practically the same, around 98% identical. But somewhere | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
in our jeans, tiny differences that enabled our species to stand up | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
right, develop bigger brains and crucially, learn how to think. | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
can put... Researchers in Cambridge have to go to the DNA of guerrillas. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Now, for the first time, they can compare our DNA with that of all | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the other eight, and discover the changes that made our species | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
unique. -- the other apes. Among those are the changes which allow | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Einstein to come up with the feeling -- theory of relativity, or | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet. I couldn't put my finger on | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
which are the key changes now, but I think through this study and | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
others being carried out, we are making process in understanding -- | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
progress in understanding the genetic processes behind evolution | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
and it is exciting. Humans separated from guerrillas 10 | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
million years ago, much earlier than scientists first thought. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Something in that their genes prevents them from suffering from | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
dementia, something that could help medical researchers from -- to find | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
a cure for senility. The ultimate prize would be to discover what it | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
is that makes us so different from them for. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Argentine Lionel Messi has proved again why he is rated the best | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
footballer in the world. Tonight, the Barcelona forward became the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
first player to score five goals in a Champions League game as the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Spanish side thrashed by a Leverkusen 7-1. Barcelona are on | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
track for a third Champions League final in four years by cruising | :26:03. | :26:07. |