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Tonight at 10: 23 years after the Hillsborough football disaster, the | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
truth finally emerges. In Liverpool tonight, they remember | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the 96 fans who died. The blame is officially laid on the police and | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
emergency services. If today's is one thing to the world, we are | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
vindicated in our search for the truth. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
The events of 1989 were investigated by an independent | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
panel, which said many more lives could have been saved. On behalf of | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
the Government, and indeed a country, I am profoundly sorry this | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
double injustice has been left uncorrected for so long. We will | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
have details of the police cover-up and the blaming of in some -- | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
innocent victims. America's man in Libya is killed in | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Despite the continued recession, a modest fall in the number of | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
unemployed in the UK. In Germany, senior judges clear the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
way for the country to support a new bail out fund for the eurozone. | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
And why the gerbil might hold the key to curing deafness for some | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Good evening. The Independent report on the Hillsborough football | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives has delivered a | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
devastating verdict on the police and the emergency services. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Evidence was manipulated, innocent victims were blamed and many more | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
lives could have been saved on that afternoon in Sheffield 23 years ago. | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
Our correspondent has the details. After the revelations, the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
recriminations and the apologies, tonight a vigil to remember the 96 | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
who died at Hillsborough and to mark the moment history has been | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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rewritten. Roy Harry Hamilton, aged 34, Philip Hammond, aged 14... | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Liverpool fans were fatally crashed at Sheffield Wednesday's ground on | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
that fateful day in 1989. The primary cause of the crash was a | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
lack of control by police. But the families had spent years fighting | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
the accusation that fans were drunk. They were looking for Druse and the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
apology from the top. Today, they got just that. -- the truth. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
new evidence we have got a day makes it clear in my view that | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
these families have suffered a double injustice. The failure of | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
the state to protect their loved ones and the indefensible wait to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
get to the truth, and then the denigration of the disease that | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
somehow they were at fault for their own deaths. So on behalf of | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
the Government, I am profoundly sorry this double injustice has | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
been left uncorrected for so long. To the families we say, we are | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
deeply sorry for your loss. We are deeply sorry for the pain you have | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
suffered. We sincerely hope that today marks a day of truth. Some of | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
the family members believed by Hillsborough was so moved when they | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
saw the report, they apparently fainted. We have had all sorts of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
accusations thrown at us over the 23 years. We have been accused of | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
being a vengeful, spiteful, looking for a scapegoat. A looking for | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
compensation. All of which is a total load of rubbish. And if | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
today's is one thing to the world, we are vindicated in our search for | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
the truth. -- today says. independent panel has sifted | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
through more than 400,000 pages of documentation. After the families | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
spend years suspecting a cover-up, a hundred and 64 statements by | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
police were amended to remove Commons unfavourable to the South | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Yorkshire force. The Ambulance Service is now known to have failed | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
extensively, too, and it has emerged 41 of the 96 victims had | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
the potential to survive. 28 people had definite evidence that they did | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
not have obstruction of the blood flow. 16 people had definite | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
evidence of their heart and lungs continue into functioned for a | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
prolonged period after the crash. When the inquests were held, the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
coroner ruled that all the victims had died by 3:15pm. Today, the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
panel this brute that. The doctor was unwilling to talk to reporters | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
about his vision. -- the panelled dispute that. Now we have got such | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
an excellent report, my lawyers will be finishing the draft next | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
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week and I will be submitting to the Attorney General. Under Section | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
13, I am asking him to give Kevin his inquest. The Hillsborough | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
families'' grief has never been private. Theirs is a sorrow shared | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
by a city. And tonight, the people of Liverpool have come here to | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
support them and to share in the family's' success. Tonight, | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
survivors and bereaved have the truth. Next, they say, they want | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
justice. In Sheffield, there were apologies | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
today from the Ambulance Service and senior police officers. The | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police said he was profoundly sorry | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
for what he called the disgraceful lies told about the fans. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Buried within a mountain of official secrets. The truth and | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
lies. Among hundreds of thousands of pages, the shocking betrayal of | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the victims of Hillsborough is revealed. The fans who had made | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
their way across the Pennines had been betrayed before they even got | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
to the ground. The stadium was a death trap and the author Ritter's | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
knew it. But this was an era when managing football crowds saw Public | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Order put for a -- before public safety. Fans herded into pens, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
treated like animals, so even when it became horribly obvious lives | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
are being lost, the documents record has a fleet of ambulances | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
was kept outside the stadium, unable to help injured and dying. A | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
dreadful mistakes were made but those responsible were already | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
trying to cover up their negligence. Fans rushed through a broken | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
turnstile, crashing Liverpool supporters against the front of the | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
stand. It was lies. Return star had not been charged by fans. A gate | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
was opened by police themselves at as police officers knew only too | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
well. South Yorkshire Police then set about altering the written | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
evidence from the day, amending scores of statements to shift blame | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
away from themselves and on to the fans. Eva now, 23 years after the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
event, I would wish to profoundly apologise, not only to the family | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
of the 96, but also to Liverpool fans in general. The panel | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
discovered documents which revealed how the police spread their | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
untruths. A local Conservative MP Irvine Patnick was asked to brief a | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
local news agency that Liverpool fans had urinated on police and | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
stolen from the dead. And it was the Sun which reported lies as | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
truth. For which the newspaper finely today apologised. It is a | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
version of events which we went along with, and for that we are | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry. The original inquiry was not aware | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
with how many statements had been tampered with and destroyed. A | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Cabinet paper reveals how Margaret Thatcher was briefed by her private | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
secretary that the close to deceitful behaviour of South | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Yorkshire Police was depressingly familiar. The terrible events that | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
happened here on a warm, sunny spring Saturday carved deep wounds | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
that are still more a generation later. The bread today is that but | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
-- the document released will leave no dark corners where mistrust and | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
grievance can breed and will allow the healing process to finally | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
begin. There are no words in the English language that can describe | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
the dignity, grace and courage shown by the families of the 96 | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
loved ones we lost at Hillsborough. A monumental cover-up and a | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
sickening campaign of vilification against victims, families, | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
traumatised survivors and a city in shock. Today it is a rare and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
famous victory for the individual against the Establishment. The | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
indomitable spirit of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, who | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
waged a long and lonely battle for justice. Walk on with hope in your | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
hearts is a fitting and them for Liverpool, a city where people | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
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Over to Westminster now. As we have underlined, 23 years to get to this | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
point. What was your reading of with his impacted on Westminster | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
today? It was a day unlike most others. Gone was the noise, the | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
name-calling, the politics. There was a sense of shock and some shame | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
because people knew on all sides of the House of Commons that for year | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
after year, the pleas of the family had been ignored and a police's | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
distortions and those of parts of the press had simply been ignored | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
until this inquiry was set up. Hundreds of MPs crowded onto those | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
green benches, but for once, they crowded in order to speak as one. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
When the Prime Minister read out the verdict he had been handed only | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
a couple of hours ago, there was almost total silence, save the odd | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
gasp, the odd cry of shame, as they heard what had actually happened. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Now MPs are looking to what might happen next. It is expected the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
country's top legal officer, the Attorney General, may well apply to | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the High Court to have the inquest reopened, in other words, the great | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
hope of the families that accidental death will be replaced | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
by manslaughter. Some hope there will be individual prosecutions, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
too, though it is an awfully long time for evidence to have been | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
preserved. But it is no worthy to hear of what David Cameron also | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
said in addition to that apology. He said "after truth has to come | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
just as". A thank you. President Obama has condemned the | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which the American | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
ambassador was killed. Chris Stevens and three other Americans | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
died in the attack last night during protests against an American | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
video posted online said to Riddick with -- ridicule the Prophet | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
Muhammad. In the darkness and confusion | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
during the attack on the US consulate, witnesses said the area | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
was cordoned off by heavily armed bearded men who look like jihadist | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
fighters. The attack was linked with a row about an American film | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
that protesters said insulted the Prophet Muhammad. He is our Prophet, | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
he is the best human being in the world! So we have to have an | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
opportunity to stop this film. Stopping the film is our hope, our | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
relationship with the American's! By the morning, the US consulate in | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Benghazi was in ruins. But this was not the first attack on foreigners | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
in the city. In June, the British Ambassador's convoy was hit. Nobody | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
was killed and the UN has also been attacked. My name is Chris | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Stevens... The US ambassador started his time and Benghazi as | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
envoy to anti-Gaddafi rebels. The Libyan government says he was | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
killed by the loyalists. In Washington, there is speculation | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
the attack might have been to mark the anniversary of the 9/11. There | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
is absolutely no justification to this sort of senseless violence. At | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
the world must band together to unequivocally reject these brutal | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
acts. Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so. This attack | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
will not break the bond between the United States and Libya. Libya is | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
trying to turn the wreckage of Gaddafi's country into democracy. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
But the killings show once again that in the new Libya, armed groups | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
continued to have real power and to act seemingly with impunity. In | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Cairo, demonstrators blaming the US for the anti-is on film won at the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
embassy for the second night running. It is a challenge for | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Egypt's Brotherhood-led government, which has condemned the film while | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
calling for restraint protests. In Libya, too, the government will | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
want this kind of demonstration. Pro-America but against the film. | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
The big -- the danger remains, though, that violent extremists | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
might try to exploit what will be seen across the region as | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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Back to Washington and our North American editor Mark Mardel. What | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
more has been said about this video and indeed about the attack? Well | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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it was a very obscure film, badly- made, low-budget and there it | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
hasn't really been shown in public. The details of the film-maker don't | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
really check out, there is nobody of that name and the most offensive | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
parts were dubbed on afterwards. It is a mystery but the Americans are | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
taking it so seriously because of what happened. The top military | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
officer here rang one of the people distributing the film and asked | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
them to stop warning the tension it is would inflame and violence it | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
would cause. Having said all that the FBI are investigating and | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
checking out that the possibility that this four-hour gun battle was | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
pre-planned and was about the anniversary of 9/11 rather than the | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
film. But the Americans are saying they are taking an opening mind. | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
President Obama has said he will bring the killers to justice. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Despite the continued recession there's been a modest fall in the | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
total number of people out of work. UK-wide unemployment fell by 7,000 | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
in the three months to July but there were rises in Scotland, Wales | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
and Northern Ireland. And the headline figure now stands at 2.5 9 | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
million. As our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports, the | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
number of people find work has also risen at the fastest rate for two | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
years. It's too early to talk about a new | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
dawn but in the Medway towns in Kent, as in some other parts of the | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
country, the jobs market is looking brighter. Companies like this | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
electronics components manufacturer are recruiting. Stacey skaf driver | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
a manager in her family's business, told me how order books and staff | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
numbers were expanding. We have taken on two members of staff and | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
we are recruiting for an apprentice in the office. We are growing as a | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
business and we hopefully will see that grow again. Looking at the | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
overall economic landscape, there's one thing that's really puzzling | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
for policy-makers. Even though the economy is in recession with output | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
contracting, jobs have been created with total employment numbers | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
rising. And there doesn't appear to be a simple explanation. I think | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
the employment data are probably giving us a better impression of | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
the underlying reality. Partly because they are easier to measure | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
than the GDP numbers. Also we have seen the job growth being sustained | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
for a period of time and across different sectors. Youth | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
unemployment has increased. Caitlin got a first in her history degree | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
this year but has had to sign-on. After working hard at university, | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
she feels let down. I feel lied to. From when I was at school, you are | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
constantly being told if you do a degree you will be able to walk | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
straight into almost like a middle management job and you will get | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
paid loads of money and everything will be brilliant. You come out of | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
university and find you are having to apply for the jobs at the bottom | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
with rubbish pay. Ministers say young people are being helped | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
through Government franc schemes and with overall employment up by | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
nearly 240,000 over three months, the picture is better. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
In Pakistan 290 people are now known to have died in a fire at a | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
clething factory in the city of Karachi -- clothing faktri. It is | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
one of the worst industrial accidents in the country's history. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Many of the people in the building were unable to escape because it | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
had no fire escapes. Coming to recover the dead. Many | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
lost their lives in the basement of the factory. Some had made | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
desperate calls from here, begging to be saved. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
And among the victims, three young sisters, who died together. Their | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
family now in mourning, like so many others. This woman knows both | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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her daughters may have lost their husbands. "They called last night. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
They said take care of yourselves and the children, we don't know if | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
we'll make it home." Dozens survived by jumping from the roof | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
or the upper storeys, like this man. A crane made a hole in the wall, he | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
said, "And I jumped from the third floor, but five of my relatives | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
were trapped inside." This is the inferno from which he escaped. It | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
engulfed the garment factory in minutes. The window has metal | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
grills. Police say most of the workers didn't stand a chance. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
There was no safety measures taken in the design of the building. No | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
safety exists. The people got trapped. There is still a search | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
for bodies here. Officials say many of those who died had come to | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
collect their wages. Tonight rescue workers are still | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
dousing burning embers inside the factory. Employees say it was a | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
deathtrap. But as is often the case in Pakistan, the authorities | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
allowed it to remain open. Relatives of those who perished | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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here are asking if anyone will be held to account. BAE Systems has | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
confirmed it is in merger talks with EADS. A deal would create a | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
company with combined sales of more than �50,000 -- �50 billion. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
John Moylan is with me. What could this mean? It means Europe would | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
have a defence and airspace giant capable of taking on the biggest in | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
the world, Boeing in particular. For the UK it would be by far the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
biggest industrialentity, with something like 57,000 employees. | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
The Government is keeping a close eye on this. It is saying that it | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
would want to ensure that the UK's public interest is protected. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Number one it, would want it to be protected from being taken over by | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
a foreign company, but number two, here in Britain we maintain the | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
capibilities we have in building fighter aircraft, ship-building and | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
submarine-building. If it works it could be good news for Britain. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Defence and airspace is a massive export earner for the UK and it | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
generates the high-skilled well- paid jobs we need more of. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Germany's highest court says there is no constitutional reason to | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
block the country's involvement in a new bailout fund for the eurozone. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
The ruling is being seen as a big boost for the efforts to stabilise | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
the euro. For a moment today, Europe's eyes | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
were on these eight men and women, the judges of German's | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Constitutional Court. Would they declare the eurozone's new bailout | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
fund illegal and throw Europe into turmoil? TRANSLATION: In the name | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
of the people we reject the petition. And with those few words | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
the judges gave the go-ahead to a fund that's seen as central for | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
fighting the eurozone crisis. What did the court agree? It gave the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
green light for Germany to contribute to the eurozone's | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
permanent bailout fund. With a 500 billion euro war chest, the stpund | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
seen as essential for helping out troubled countries. The German | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Chancellor, Angela Merkel, arrived at Parliament. She knew that 37,000 | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Germans had petitioned the court, fearful that control over German | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
budgets was being lost. She also knew her European strategy depended | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
on the court backing her. TRANSLATION: I say it is a good day | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
for Germany and it is a good day for Europe. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
The court did, however, rule that if German liabilities were to | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
increase further, then Parliament would have to give its approval. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
The basic articles of the German constitution are clearly set out | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
here close to the German Parliament. Those who petitioned the court | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
argued that the eurozone's new bailout fund involved more powers | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
going to EUK institutions without proper democratic control. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
This man was one of the petitioners to the court and said the desilgs | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
to support the ESM was bad for German democracy. -- decision to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
support the ESM. I'm disappointed. With that decision I think the | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
flood gate is open for the ESM to finance southern countries at the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
expense of the north and Europe. Hamburg, the gateway for so many | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
German exports. Even here there are signs the German economy is slowing | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
and support for further bailouts is weakening. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
TRANSLATION: At some point enough is enough. Germany also has its own | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
problems. We should deal with them first. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
I think Germany helps other countries already. We're worried | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
that Germany might also onedy go down, too. European -- one day go | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
down. European integration is deepening. A first step was taken | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
today towards a full banking union, with the aim of closer economic and | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
political union in the future. A study conducted on gerbils has | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
raised hopes of finding a cure for certain kinds of deafness. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Researchers at the University of Sheffield say that the first human | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
patients could be treated within a few years. Our medical | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has more details. These nerve cells | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
under the microscope are what researchers hope will one day may | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
reverse deafness. They were created from human embryonic stem cells | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
which have the ability to turn into any tissue. The scientists are | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
trying to tackle a form of deafness that affects about one in ten | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
people with profound hearing loss. In the condition, nerve cells in | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
the cochlea, in the inner ear are damaged, preventing sound from | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
travelling along the audit trinerve to the brain, like cutting a | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
telephone wire. In the lab researchers grew stem cells derived | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
from donated human embryos, smaller than a pin head and grew them into | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
healthy nerve cells. They injected these into 18 deaf gerbils, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
considered a good animal model for human hearing and tests showed, on | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
average, about 45% of their hearing was restored. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
We have had the proof of concept that stem cells can be used to | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
repair the damaged ear. But this is only the beginning. A lot more work | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
is needed, but as proof of concept, we think it is a good step forward. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
This woman could hear perfectly as a child, until she contracted | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
typhoid. The treatment left her profoundly deaf. She works with a | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
charity that helped fund the research and says she'd volunteer | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
for any patient trials. I would definitely seize the opportunity to | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
hear again. To know that in future, when I have kids, I will be able to | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
hear them and I don't have to rely on my partner or a family member to | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
tell me what my little daughter or son is saying. But many questions | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
remain. Such as: does the hearing improvement last? The gerbils were | :26:34. | :26:39. |