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following America's lead and says he's not yet ready to arm the rebels | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
in Syria. But he backs the US claim that there is credible evidence of | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
chemical weapons being used by the Syrian government on its own people. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
I welcome the candid assessment from the Americans. It is consistent with | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
what we have already said. There is credible evidence of multiple | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
attacks using chemical weapons in Syria. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
We'll be looking at the difficulties of arming the rebels in Syria and | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the dangers of introducing more weapons into the war there. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Also tonight: The Government says it wants to name and | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
shame surgeons if they don't allow their results to be published in new | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
league tables. The future of long haul air travel. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Flying the flag for the new leaner, greener Airbus. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
And can Manchester City get back to winning ways with their new man in | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
Coyle becomes the second big managerial signing of the day as he | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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The Prime Minister says he shares America's view that chemical weapons | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
have been used by the Syrian government, but has stopped short of | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
echoing America's pledge to send military aid to rebel groups. The | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Syrian government insists it hasn't used chemical weapons. Russia, which | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
supplies arms to the Syrian government, says it remains | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
unconvinced by America's evidence. Our first report is from Washington | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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chemical attack? Activist and eyewitnesses claim he | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
was. That many people have been injured or killed in similar | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
incidents across the country. We investigated one of these cases last | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
month. And establishing proof beyond doubt is extremely difficult. But | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
now, America claims that evidence from sites like this proves the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Syrian Government has used chemical weapons on a small-scale and many | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
times. I welcome the candid assessment from the Americans. It is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
consistent with what we've already said. There is credible evidence of | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
multiple attacks using chem weapons in Syria including the use of the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
agents sarin. Washington says President Obama's red line has been | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
crossed and now he has decided to send military aid to the rebels. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
There is those are decisions he made over the course of the last several | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
weeks particularly as our assessment of chemical weapons use firmed up | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
and as we saw a deteriorating situation in general. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Now America must decide what military options it wants to pursue. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Many expect that light arms and ammunition will be sent to the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
rebels. There could be sophisticated antitank weapons. Less likely, but | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
still possible, are shoulder launched antiaircraft missiles. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Finally, some want a no-fly zone, shooting down Syrian jets, but for | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
now, Washington seems to think that would be too difficult and | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
dangerous. President Obama has been criticised | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
for failing to act sooner, not least by the man who led the call for | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
America to arm the rebels. Right now, the conflict is spread | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
spreading. Hezbollah is all in and the Russians are send sending | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
sophisticated equipment. It is an unfair fight. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
More than 90,000 people have been killed in Syria. Many more injured. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
And millions of families have been made homeless. The Russians have | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
dismissed America's claim that chemical weapons have been used | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
here. Others fear that sending more weapons won't stop the fighting or | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
the bloodshed, it will make it worse. Providing arms to either side | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
would not address this current situation. There is no such military | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
solution. Only political solution can address this issue sustainably. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Tonight, President Obama has been speaking to David Cameron as well as | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
the leaders of the Germany, France and Italy and we're told that Syria | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
was at the top of their agenda. Next week, they will all gather in | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Northern Ireland for the G8 summit as they attempt to put some form of | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
diplomatic cover over what's called military support for the armed | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
opposition in Syria. Yet in all those countries there will be | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
reservations about what looks like an open-ended commitment in a war | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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that doesn't seem to have an end. to act. Syrian troops have been | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
making gains against the opposition, cap turl a -- capturing a key rebel | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
stronghold. Jeremy Bowen reports. It was not just the fall of what had | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
been the rebel stronghold that brought a new urgency, to the West's | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
approach to the Syrian war, it was the way it fell. To an assault spear | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
headed by these fighters, from the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah. The | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Syrian regime denies the allegations about the use of chemical weapons, | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
but the success of its offensive is clear. In Beirut, Hezbollah | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
supporters watch the latest TV address by their leader. A key ally | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
of Shia Muslim Iran, self declared enemy of the US, Israel and Sunni | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
Muslim extremists and now a major force in the Syrian war. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
He said Hezbollah would keep fighting in Syria. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
The strategic ramifications are big and huge, you know. It gave the | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
regime this momentum and it gave the regime the psychological, you know, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
push. That's why the Americans want to | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
change the game to end the era of home-made weapons for the rebels | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
they judge it safe to support. Swales what they have made | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
themselves, this factory is in a suburb of Damascus, the rebels had | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
weapons from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and they are desperate for more fire | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
power to break the regime's momentum. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
TRANSLATION: The credibility of the US is at stake for two-and-a-half | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
years, all we got from the West and the US was words. So if this is just | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
the same, it won't change anything. The Syrian people will continue the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
revolution even if they have to fight with their bare hands, but if | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the Americans do as they say, I believe it will change the balance | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
of power in the region. The Americans believe they can keep | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
their weapons away from these rebels, allies of Al-Qaeda and the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
most effective rebel fighters in Syria. Instead, the US wants to | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
build up the West's allies in the free Syria army. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Here in Beirut, and across the border in Syria, supporters of the | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
rebel fear the West is still not ready to help them overthrow the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Assad regime. It looks peaceful enough here, but the war in Syria is | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
spreading danger right across the region. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
And there seems to be incost cystancies in the West's political | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
strategy. Britain says the threat of ashling the rebels could have enough | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
to persuade the Assad regime to negotiate a transition of power, but | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
it is hard to see how that would be enough to persuade the president to | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
sack ra heifies himself and his regime at a time when his forces | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
right now are doing well on the battlefield. Backed by Iran, Russia | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, is in Downing Street. David | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Cameron spoke to President Obama and other international leaders this | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
evening about Syria, but the Prime Minister also needs to win over his | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
backbenchers? President Obama maybe getting closer to David Cameron's | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
way of thinking. The conference involved the leaders of Italy and | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Germany and Downing Street said they agreed to work together on a | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
political transition to end the conflict. They clearly all want to | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
put as much diplomatic pressure as they can on President Assad to come | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to the negotiating table. In the House of Commons as well, with | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Labour, some of the Liberal Democrats, and dozens of | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Conservative MPs uneasy about the idea of further involvement for | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Britain in Syria. One Tory backbencher saying today it could be | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
a mistake of historic proportions. David Cameron is under a lot of | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
pressure to give MPs a vote before Britain makes any decision about | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
arming the Syrian rebels and that's not a vote that he is guaranteed to | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
win, but he is clear, he says, if the international community walks | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
away from the situation in Syria, it will only make things worse there. | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
Thank you. Pm Surgeons who refuse to allow the | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
results of their operations to be published online will be named and | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
shamed, the Government is warning. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
wants new league tables that will compare the performance of | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
consultants. But under data protection laws, surgeons will be | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
able to opt out as our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
carried out by individual consultants is meant to raise | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
standards and give patients more information and choice before an | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
operation. But it can be complicated. Those carrying out | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
complex procedures on the very sick will have different results to | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
surgeons performing more straightforward operations. At this | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
hospital they are making results public, but they acknowledge the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
process is not without its problems. It is about us focussing on the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
importance of this. So it is not an easy thing to do. It has not been | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
done before, but we think now is the time to do it. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
The result of individual cardiac surgeons have been made public since | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
2008 and the feeling is that led to an improvement in standards. But the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Royal College of Surgeons points out it took time for that system to work | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
properly, for the data to be accurate and they say that rack rasy | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
is vital -- and arc rasy is vital. The data will be available online | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
and translated on to graphs. The figures are adjusted so the risk of | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
every operation istain into account. The further below the red dotted | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
line, the lower the mortality rate for individual surgeons. The graphs | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
can be used to see how each doctor is performing in comparison to | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
others, but data protection law means surgeons must give their | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
consent before figures are published and some are delaying until they | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
know the data is roe gust. Ust. want a situation where surgeons can | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
have confidence that the data is valid and reliable and confident in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
the way it is presented give a good picture too patients. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
The Health Secretary says he is prepared to name surgeons who | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
worthwhile hold consent. Jeremy Hunt said as long as the data properly | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
reflects what the doctors are doing, there should be no valid reason why | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
it can not be published. For patients facing surgery, the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
scheme could offer more choice, but that's not as simple as it seems. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
depends how ill you are and what's wrong with you really? Whether you | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
have the time to look into it and not everybody is capable of looking | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
into those things. You take precautions and if | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
something came up and it was showing bad, you would be considering I'm | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
not going in there. How does that effect you? How are | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
you feeling. NHS England says only 4% of surgeons | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
opted out of publishing their results, the Royal College of | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Surgeons says it supports publication, but warns complicated | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
:12:48. | :13:00. | ||
data needs careful handling. a woman on the BBC yesterday | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Yesterday, the BBC broadcast material showing numerous failings | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
in the care of an 83-year-old women in Blackpool by Mosaic Community | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Care. . The company says it is working to | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
remedy the situation. Millions of voters across Iran are | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
casting their ballots in the country's presidential elections. | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
With long queues outside polling stations, the interior ministry | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
extended voting four times during the day. Although all six candidates | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
are seen as conservatives, one of them, cleric Hassan Rouhani, has | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
been reaching out to the reformists in recent days. Outgoing leader | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad already cast his vote today. His eight years in power | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
have been characterised by economic turmoil and Western sanctions | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
against Iran over its controversial nuclear programme. | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
Next week, Afghan government forces will, for the first time, take the | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
lead in combat operations across the country. It is a significant | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
milestone. The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is in Afghanistan as | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
British troops repaired to leave the HQ in Helmand they have occupied | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
since 2006. Our world affairs correspondent David Loyn has been | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
travelling with them. A familiar sight in Helmand but not | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
for much longer. The arrival of a British defence secretary to Lashkar | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
Gar. The military headquarters set-up to run the war here seven | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
years ago is close down. It is age mentally significant moment and | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
significant for the Afghans as well. They are a very proud people | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
and this is the moment where they formally take responsibility for | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
their own security throughout the country and here in Helmand a | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
significant further step with the brigade headquarters drawing down | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
into Camp Bastion. Some helicopters are already being packed up to go | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
home, not needed as there are fewer troops to fly around. By the end of | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
this year, there will be only four British bases in Helmand, down from | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
130 at the peak. Afghanistan is hoping that as foreign armies pack | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
up and go home, the fighting will reduce, since so much of the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
insurgency was directed against a foreign invasion. It may turn out to | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
be a forlorn hope. There will be more ceremony next week, as Afghan | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
forces take a combat lead across the country, shouldering the burden for | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
themselves. This war may be winding down for the British Army, but | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Afghan losses are rising fast, now rising at ten times the | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
international casualty rate. This is the new face of the Afghan war. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Afghan soldiers leading the fight and bearing the cost. The wounded | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
pack hospital is. Nazir Ahmad lost both his legs when he stepped on a | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
mine in Kandahar. He is engaged. He says his fiancee still wants to get | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
married, proud of his sacrifice for his country. Shah Isul has had ten | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
operations to save his leg, after being shot by the Taliban in | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
Helmand. He said 30 of his Afghan comrades died on his tour, and two | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
British soldiers, the new balance of casualties. A sad, steady stream of | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
coffins carried away by the families of the dead. Some leave draped only | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
in funeral black, for fear of the Taliban. Connection with the | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
military could be fatal for the families of the fallen. And the dead | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
leaves behind young lives altered forever in Afghanistan's war without | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
end. David Cameron has promised not to | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
make further cuts to the number of military personnel beyond those | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
already announced. Today, six government departments agreed to | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
reductions in their budget ahead of this month's Comprehensive Spending | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Review. The Ministry of Defence still has to agree its next round of | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
savings with the Treasury. With me is our defence correspondent | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
Caroline Wyatt. There has been a debate about cuts with the chief of | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the General staff? That is right. It is the latest in a long-running | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
battle between the MoD and the Treasury. It began with unusually | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
public concerns being expressed by the man in charge of the Army. He | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
said more cuts could be quite dangerous quite quickly that the | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
army which is already reducing numbers. He said it could affect | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
UK's chance of success in future wars. Then the prime minister said | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
there would be no cut in the number of military personnel. Danny | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Alexander said the department like the MOD which still had more horses | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
than tanks could make efficiency savings. The MOD agrees. It knows it | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
can take its share of the pain but it cannot cut much more, nothing | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
like the 8% cuts that some other departments are seeing. While the | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
battle is going on in public, in private they know they have to agree | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
that budget. The MOD hopes that will come soon. Thank you. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
We hear a lot about the power of the grey pound. Research out today shows | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
pensioners have seen their incomes rise faster than any other age group | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
in the last 30 years. Spending power, how far your money will go | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
once inflation is taken into account for the over 60s has increased at | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
double the rate of working people since the 1970s. A charity has | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
warned that millions of pensioners are still living in poverty. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Has the age of pensioner poverty being knocked sideways with the real | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
risk that it is the young who need financial help. At this retirement | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
village in the Midlands, this looks like eight Golden generation, | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
healthier, living longer and better. I would say I am comfortably off, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
yes. I have got grandchildren and 32 downwards to 17 and I do know that | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
they are struggling. I suppose we were better off than my father and | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
mother's generation. I suppose, like everybody, I would like a little bit | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
more but we keep our head above water. For Valerie, who is 72, the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
state pension goes up every year. But for those in their 20s like | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
Natalie have suffered most from the squeeze on wages, the cut in | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
benefits and the lack of jobs. work here and some are else because | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
I do not then just working here would cover all the bills. I have | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
two working two places to men try can make ends meet at the end of the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
month. The austerity years have been tough but campaigners insist it has | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
been right to protect pensioners. 1.6 million older people are still | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
living in poverty, that shows there is no room for complacency. Most | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
pensioners are living on modest incomes. 40 years ago, in the 1970s, | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
the picture was much worse. Two out of every five pensioners living in | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
poverty. It is nothing like that now. The pattern of poverty has now | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
changed. If the government wants to focus on reducing poverty, they may | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
have to focus resources on younger people who offer higher priority | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
than those over the state pension age. There are still many pensioners | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
on low incomes, but nowadays they are no more likely than anyone else | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
to be in poverty. That will increase calls the trends to benefits, such | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
as winter fuel payments which Labour says it will axe for wealthier | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
pensioners. It raises the question as to whether generous guaranteed | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
increases in the state pension should continue. So should the young | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
be squeezed and not the old? The Prime Minister has promised not to | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
cut the winter fuel payment for pensioners, but the message today is | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
that it is those in their 20s, even in work, who are against it. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
The Airbus 350, the newest aircraft from the European train | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
manufacturer, has taken off on its maiden flight. It will compete with | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
the Boeing 787's Dreamliner. The A350 has cost �10 billion to develop | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
and is designed to be more fuel-efficient. 100,000 British jobs | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
are said to be dependent on Airbus. A critical moment in a battle for | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
the skies. This is your's aid to dominate the next generation of | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
European aircraft. A brand-new design and its very first test. | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
Delight and relief in Toulouse. And also at Filton near Bristol. | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Thousands of jobs depend on this project. A lot of work, arduous | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
hours, but it is worthwhile when you see something like this today take | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
days. Fantastic. So surreal. A lot of people have put time and energy | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
into this aircraft so to finally see it flies something really special. | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
The key selling point is fuel consumption. The distinctively | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
curved wingtips reduce friction as the plane pushes through the air. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
The engines, made by Rolls-Royce, are built of the world's most | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
efficient. Designed and built in Derby. Like every new engine, this | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
one is all about squeezing as much power out of every last opera fuel. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
These are the largest ever fan blades made from titanium. They are | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
incredibly light. The clearance between the edge of the blade and | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
the casing has never been so narrow. It is all about maximising | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
efficiency. Inside the engine itself, the temperature reaches half | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
that of the surface of the sun. Hot enough to melt many components which | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
have to be kept cool by a specially designed flow of air. This is all | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
about increasing the power and reducing the amount of fuel used. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
The engines will run at greater pressure than ever before, so to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
handle this, the turbine blades are made from a special alloy and each | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
one is created from a single crystal. We pull around 18,000 | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
individual components together to make one jet engine. And then that | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
jet engine is capable, it takes in 1.3 tonnes of air every three | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
seconds. It would empty a squash court in a second. A test for heavy | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
rain. Each generation of engines is slightly more efficient than the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
last. But there may be physical limits to what current designs can | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
deliver. You can do the one or 2% per year average which is what | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
Rolls-Royce is getting silly -- over a number of years you get 20%. But | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
it is a real challenge. Some radical ideas are on the cards to make | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
aviation generally greener but they are decades away. Today, with its | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
distinctive wings, the Airbus was back from its test flight. New | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
designs are always challenging. Boeing learned that to its cost. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
Airbus has a lot of work ahead. Prince Charles has said the Duke of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Edinburgh is much better after visiting his father at a private | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
London clinic where he had abdominal surgery. He spoke after he left the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
hospital with the Duchess of Cornwall. 92-year-old Prince Philip | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
had an exploratory operation last Friday. Prince William and Prince | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Harry were also among the visitors. It has taken a while, but Manchester | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
City have finally confirmed Manuel Pellegrini are their new boss. City | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
had been chasing the former Malaga manager for months. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
He is nicknamed the engineer. Can he fix Manchester City? This season | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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Manuel Mallard -- Manuel Pellegrini took Malaga to the top. After | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Roberto Mancini paid the price for domestic and European | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
disappointment, his successor knows there will be no hiding place. | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
think, I am sure we have got the best squad of the Premier League. We | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
have wonderful players and we can reach important titles in the next | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
three or four seasons here in Manchester. City say they were | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
impressed by Manuel Pellegrini's philosophy and attitude. He has a | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
reputation for stylish football and calm man management. All that will | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
count for little if he does not win trophies. It is only a year since | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
Manchester City won the Premier League, but won silverware free | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
season later and Roberto Mancini was out. The club's billionaire owners | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
want sustained success. Some fans may need more convincing. We are | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
still a bit sore about Mancini because of the great job he has done | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
but onwards and upwards. We are not strangers to controversy so we will | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
give the man a chance. Why get rid of a decent manager to bring in | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
someone got knows? At 59, and after briefly managing Real Madrid, | :26:53. | :26:58. |