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further militarisation of the conflict in Syria as the White House | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
says it will now arm the rebels. It comes after President Obama | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
concludes the Assad regime has crossed a red line by using chemical | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
weapons. Surgeons are warned they will be | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
named and shamed if they refuse to publish performance data. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
A mother appeals for her missing daughter to come home - 14-year-old | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Lorna Vickerage disappeared with a 35-year-old man on Monday. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Millions of Iranians go to the polls to choose a successor to Mahmoud | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Ahmadinejad. Cleared for take-off - the new | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Airbus completes its maiden flight with thousands of British jobs | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
counting on its success. And Britain's Luke Donald leads the | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
field before rain halts play at the US Open. On BBC London: Testing to | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
see how the underground could cope with a poisonous gas attack. The | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Fathers For Justice campaigner accused of defacing a portrait of | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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news at One. The United Nations has issued a warning against sending | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
more arms to the combatants in the civil war in Syria. US weaponry | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
could soon be making its way to rebel forces after President Obama | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
finally acknowledged that his red line had been crossed and that | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
chemical weapons had been used by the Assad regime. But the White | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
House would not be drawn on what form the military help will take. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
Here, the Foreign Secretary said the crisis demands a strong, determined | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
and co-ordinated response from the international community. Our world | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
affairs correspondent nick Childs reports. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Grim images of suffering following April alleged chemical weapons | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
attack by Syrian Government forces. Damascus has always denied it's used | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
such weapons but now the dramatic new conclusion from the White House | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
that it has done so. After much debate, that's the White House says, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
has now shifted President Obama's view on how to help the Syrian | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
rebels in the opposition's supreme military council, the SMC. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
President has made a decision about providing more support to the | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
opposition. That will involve providing direct support to the SMC. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
That includes military support, but again suffice to say this is going | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
to be different in both Scope and scale in terms of what we are | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
providing to the SMC than what we have provided before. The shifting | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
battle lines on the ground are also behind Washington's decision. What's | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
alarmed the West lately is that Syrian Government forces seem to | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
have the rebels on the back foot, thanks in part to critical help from | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Iran and the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah. What more support might | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Washington now provide? Air strikes directly against chemical weapons | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
sites have been mooted in the past but could be an escalation and | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
risky. A no-fly zone would be complicated and risky but it's | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
thought some in the administration are pressing for at least a more | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
limited version. Arming and training the rebels looks | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
most likely. But not with their full shopping list of weapons. The | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
President's critics say this option is too little, too late. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
President better understand that just supplying weapons is not going | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
to change the equation on the ground of the balance of power. These | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
people, the Free Syrian Army, need weapons and heavy weapons to | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
countertanks and aircraft, a no-fly zone and Assad's air assets have to | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
be taken out and neutralised. President Obama clearly remains wary | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
of deeper intervention. He will get a call later today from David | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Cameron. Syria will be a key and difficult issue at next week's | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Geight summit in world -- G 8 summit in world. From Russia there's | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
scepticism over Washington's claims. And in a conflict which the United | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Nations says has now cost at least 93,000 lives on both sides, with | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
diplomacy also apparently faltering, the options don't get any easier. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Our correspondent joins me now from Washington. You are recently back | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
from Syria. How uneven has the battle become? I think it's fair to | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
say that the momentum lies with the Government. The battle in Qusair, an | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
important town, for some it's a strategic town, was key in showing | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
which direction the battle was going in. We know that forces that belong | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
to the Shi'ite movement in Lebanon, Hezbollah, joined Syrian Government | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
forces and that seemed to have made a quantitative and qualityive | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
difference on the ground. They now say they've moved towards Aleppo, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Syria's largest city in the north and they feel they have momentum on | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
their side. There has been a sense in Washington that Iran and | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Hezbollah have essentially gone all-in in supporting the Syrian | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
Government and that the support for the opposition has been fair fairly | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
piecemeal and they're on the back foot and if you want to do anything | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
about it time is running out. get the impression that President | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Obama seems a reluctant participant in this? Yes, it has been a very | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
long, difficult process. Last year the CIA, the Pentagon and state | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
department bosses were saying they believed the rebels should be | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
supported in terms of arms by the US Government but it was President | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
Obama who blocked that. Yes, they've got to the statement now where they | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
feel they should step up the support but we need to be clear, nobody has | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
said explicitly what will be supplied when and we will have to | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
wait and see what difference it will make. Thank you. You can find out | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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much more about the crisis in Syria on the BBC news website. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Surgeons who refuse to publish data about the results of their | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
operations, including mortality rates, should be publicly named, | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
according to the Health Secretary. League tables for ten medical | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
specialities are due to be published in England next month as Ministers | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
aim to make the NHS more transparent. Our health | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Publishing the results of individual surgeons is meant to raise standards | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
and give patients more information before an operation. But it can be | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
complicated. Those carrying out difficult procedures on the very | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
sick may have different results to some of their colleagues. At this | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
hospital in south Manchester they're already making some results public | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
but they acknowledge the process is not without its problems. I think | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
that it's not easy to get the measurements right and that's one of | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the challenges. That's what we are doing now. It is about us focussing | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
as doctors on the importance of this so it's not an easy thing to do, | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
it's not been done before but we think now is the time. The results | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
of individual surgeons have been made public since 2008 and the | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
feeling is that has led to an improvement in standards. But the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Royal College of Surgeons points out it took time for that system to work | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
properly for the data to be accurate. And they say that accuracy | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
is vital if the public are to have confidence in the system. Data | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
protection law means surgeons must give their consent before | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
publication on the NHS choices website. The Royal College of | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Surgeons says some of -- some have delayed until they know that data is | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
robust. The Health Secretary is prepared to name surgeon who is | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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scheme could offer more choice but that too is not without | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
complications. You take precautions and if somebody came up and it was | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
showing bad then obviously you would be considering, I am not going in | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
there. Depends how ill you are and what's wrong really. Whether you | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
have the time to look into it and not everybody's capable of looking | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
into those things. The Royal College of Surgeons says it's important as | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
many of their members as possible give their consent for the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
publication of their results. But it warns that complicated data needs | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
careful handling if it's to be reliable. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
The Treasury has announced that six more Government departments have | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
agreed their spending plans. The Government's full spending review is | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
due out later this month. Let's speak to our correspondent at | :09:11. | :09:20. | |
Westminster. We seem to be getting a running commentary on this. They're | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
looking for 11. .5 billion worth of savings. The big names who have | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
settled now, the Home Office, and as part of that police and | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
counterterror capabilities are being protected, we are told. The | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
department of environment, very much seen as one of those departments | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
that was holding out on all of this. It means is they're about a third of | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
the way towards the target of 11. .5 billion and across the departments | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
that have settled already it's cut savings, however you want to | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
describe them of about 8%. Government is emphasising those who | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
have settled but there's still a big job to get all those other | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
departments that haven't? That's right. It was interesting here is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
they're making these progress announcements as they call them, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
what they're trying to do is put pressure on some of the others and | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
there are big ones still to come, defence, we have been hearing about | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
that, about concerns about more cuts there. And the business department. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
What's going on here is these ministers are signed up to cutting | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
the deficit but when it comes to their own backyard they're not | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
always so keen. There are clearly some very tough negotiations going | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
on behind the scenes. Danny Alexander saying they're careful and | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
serious minded discussions but he's also playing hard ball, too. He said | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
look at defence, there are more horses than tanks, surely there are | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
room for efficiency savings here. The deputy governor of the Bank of | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
England, Paul Tucker, is to step down this year. He has been with the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
bank 33 years but lost out in the race to take over as governor. Mark | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Carney will take over in the top job on July 1st. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
Iranians are going to the polls today to vote for a new President to | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who leaves this month. All six | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
candidates are seen as conservative, although one cleric has been | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
reaching out to reformists in recent days. 50 million voters are able to | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
cast their ballot. Polls close at 6.00pm local time. We should know | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
the result in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Our world affairs | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
correspondent Richard Galpin reports. Voting so far has been | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
brisk. The turnout in the hours immediately after polling stations | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
opened this morning looking quite high 50 million people are eligible | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
to cast their ballots, including many who have never voted before. | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Iran has a young population. It is the first time me and my friend are | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
eligible to vote. We have been looking forward to coming and seeing | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
the elections and having a say in managing our country. Amongst the | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
early voters was Iran's supreme lead leader, the most powerful man in the | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
country. He's called on everyone to turn out. Critics in Iran and abroad | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
have accused him of trying to fix this election to ensure one of his | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
loyal supporters wins. Of this he was dismissive. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
TRANSLATION: Recently I heard someone from America's National | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Security Council has said that we don't consider Iran's elections to | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
be valid. OK, the hell with you then. If the Iranian nation waited | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
to see what you Americans accept and what you don't, it would be a loser. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
But of the hundreds of candidates who had wanted to run in this | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
election, almost all were disqualified by a vetting body | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
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packed with supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini. Amongst the front-runners | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Rowhani is considered more moderate. In the last few days opposition | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
groups have rallied around Mr Rowhani, making him the only | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
candidate representing those who want fundamental change in Iran. He | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
has an advantage, because the candidates of the ultra conservative | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
establishment, five in total, are all battling each other as well as | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
MrRowhani to become the next President. | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
The question for the international community is whether the new | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
President will compromise on Iran's nuclear programme. The current | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has pushed ahead with the programme, | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
ignoring international sanctions. Those sanctions are a crucial issue | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
for voters today. Because they've caused a severe economic crisis | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
affecting the entire population. You will find more information about the | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
candidates in the election on the BBC news channel and on the website. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Airlines around the world have been warned not to allow the man who | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
leaked information about secret US surveillance programmes to travel to | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Britain. Airlines based in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand say they've | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
received what's nope as a carrier alert about Edward Snowden. Our home | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
affairs correspondent June Kelly is here. Issued by whom? The Home | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Office, although the Home Office isn't commenting on this but we | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
understand this alert is genuine. Now, a photograph of this document | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
has emerged. This photograph was reportedly taken at April airport in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Thailand. What the document is telling airlines is they shouldn't | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
allow Edward Snowden to board a flight to the UK because he's highly | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
likely to be refused entry if he arrives in this country. Also, any | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
airline that does bring him in could face a fine. The document does also | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
have a picture of Edward Snowden on it and his personal details. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
suppose this begs the question, do we have any indication he is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
planning to come to the UK? None at all and the UK would be a strange | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
choice of destination for him given our - the fact we are a close ally | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
of the United States. Now, Edward Snowden has spoken about possibly | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
trying to seek sanctuary in - there has been a suggestion would he try | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
to get to Iceland, changing planes in London? This is all subposition | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
at the moment. No warrant has been issued for his arrest by the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Americans and at the moment we believe he is still in Hong Kong | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
which is where he gave his interview although he hasn't been seen in | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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public for a number of days. Thank The United States is to supply | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
And a glimpse into the secret life of sea mammals. Just how do they | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
stay punned water for so long? May may look pretty out of the | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
water, but these seals are beautifully adapted for life under | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
the water. This new research shows how they | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
move so efficiently and ce gracefully while holding their | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
Later, fewer people across the country are playing sports spins the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
2012 Olympics, but London bucks the trend. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
And performing jazz with Jools Holland, the unknown singer from | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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Brixton who won her place in the Next week for the first time since | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
the fall of the Taliban 12 years ago, Afghan government forces will | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
take the lead in combat operations across the whole country. It will | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
mark a significant milestone on the road to the eventual withdrawal of | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
NATO forces at the end of next year. But as Afghan troops start to do the | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
bulk of the fighting, they are paying a heavy price as David Loyn | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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reports from a military hospital in Afghan soldiers are leading the | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
fight and bearing the cost. The wounded fill hospitals after being | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
injured by roadside bombs, rockets, and gunfire. This man was fighting | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in Kandahar and lost both legs when he stepped on a mine. He is engaged | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
to be married. TRANSLATION: My fiancee is proud of | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
me for losing my limbs for our country and our people. Thank God I | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
am still alive. This man had ten operations to save | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
his leg after he was shot by the Taliban in Helmand. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
He told me that 30 of his Afghan comrades and two British soldiers | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
were killed in the firefight. Last year around 3,000 Afghan soldiers | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
and police were killed. Ten times as many as foreign forces and this | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
year, the proportion is higher. Thousands more are being injured, a | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
casualty rate that is unsustainable for this new force. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
The operating theatres in a hospital built during the Russian war 30 | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
years ago are busy all the time. In one week recently, over 100 Afghan | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
soldiers were killed. Injuries are running at a far higher total than | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
that. TRANSLATION: Most of our patients | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
are injured by roadside bombs. The enemy hasn't got the capability to | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
fight face-to-face with our security forces. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
A sad, steady stream of coffins are carried away by the families of the | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
dead. Some he leave covered in the Afghan flag in honour. But others | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
leave anonymously draped only in funeral black. These are returning | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
to Taliban controlled districts where kwon connection with the | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
military to be fatal for the families of the fallen. And the dead | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
leave behind young lives, altered forever. In Afghanistan's war | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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heels of John Bush who disappeared with Lorna Vickerage on Monday. Ed | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
Thomas is outside Doncaster Police Station for us. Ed. Yes, Jon, Lorna | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
Vickerage is 14 and has been missing for five days now. Every police | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
force in the country has her picture and the picture of the man she is | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
believed to be with. That's 35-year-old John Bush. He is wanted | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
on suspicion of child abduction and today, Lorna's mother and | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
grandmother came here to the police station to appeal directly to him to | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
release the 14-year-old. I would just like to appeal to John | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
to fetch Lorna home, please. Being a family man yourself, you see how | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
much hurting you're causing the family. Please fetch her home. We | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
are here for you and you are not in any trouble. We love you and we just | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
want you to. Come home, please. Police say John Bush is not a friend | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
of the family. Lorna's mother and grandmother say they have never | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
heard of him and concern is growing. John Bush is a convicted fraudster. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Police say he is well used to lying and they believe he is doing the | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
same to the girl. A 35-year-old man has been arrested, police confirmed | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
this is not John Bush, but he is being questioned on suss suspicion | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
of child abduction as well and police said that John Bush that his | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
time is running out and he should hand himself in soon and release | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Lorna Vickerage. Thank. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
-- thanks. The newest plane from the European | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
plane-maker, Airbus, has made its first flight. The A350 is designed | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
to meet the challenge posed by Boeing's revolutionary new fuel | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
efficient plane, the Dreamliner. The wings of the new aircraft were | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
designed and built in Britain, and it is powered by Rolls Royce | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
engines. Dave Harvey watched the flight from the Filton Airbus | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Centre. Dave over to you. It has been a day of celebration | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
here, Jon. 1,000 engineers swapped their wing design computers for | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
cake! A big screen. They are showing live pictures of the aircraft safely | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
back on the ground after four hours on its first test flight. You see | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
the same thing as this in North Wales where they manufacturer the | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
wings in Derby where Rolls-Royce make the engines and in Gloucester, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
its it is a very British plane. Today all eyes were on some tarmac | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
in Toulouse in Southern France. Planes take off all the time, but | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
rarely like this. The flight crew look like they are going into space. | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
In Bristol, slight anxiety as the wing designers watch and then... | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
APPLAUSE Ten years work comes together in | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
this. A lot of work, arduous hours, but, you know, it is worthwhile when | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
you see something like this today take place and yeah, fantastic. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
A lot of people put a lot of time, energy into this aircraft. So to see | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
it fly is something special. The engineers are excited for | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
thousands of them across the UK, it is a big day. But to passengers, it | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
looks well, just like a plane. Only this one is not made of metal. It is | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
made out of this flimsy looking tape. Huge, precision machines lay | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
thousands of strands of carbon-fibre, gradually building a | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
30 foot spine of the aircraft's wing. Then they cook it. This oven | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
hardens the carbon-fibre under high pressure. It will emerge stronger | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
than steel and much, much lighter. In North Wales, the wing takes shape | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
in this huge purpose built factory, just like the other parts, the skin | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
of the carbon-fibre is built here too. You need a plane big enough to | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
swallow a wing. Inch by inch, the huge wing is loaded on board. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
We spent five years developing them with the best technology in the | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
world. We tested them in structural testing and totally confident they | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
work, but they look really good in the air. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
Nonetheless, the days ahead are full of risk. Boeing launched the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Dreamliner just as smoothly, but when batteries started smouldering, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
the whole fleet was grounded. Airbus too have had similar problems with | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
their own planes, the superjumbo, the A 380. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
It had some issues in service. This in terms of the business case, in is | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
-- this is the better programme to make Airbus money. If it is | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
successful, it will make the company a fortune. It is a golden goose that | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
will lay lots of big cash eggs. For the 1,000 wing designers in | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
Filton, they hope he is right. They have sold 600 aircraft already. | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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Each one at over 250 million dollars. Perhaps you can see Jon | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
where the company is happy to give these guys the morning off and some | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
cake! Dave Harvey, thank you very much | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
indeed at Filton. Golf and in a rain affected first | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
round of the US Open in Philadelphia, the Englishman Luke | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Donald holds a one stroke lead over the American left-hander, Phil | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Mickelson. Joe Wilson watched the action. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
There was a tornado watch in Philadelphia, it turned out to be a | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
thunderstorm, but enough to disrupt play in the US Open. Over throw | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
hours lost on the first day. Phil Mickelson got through 18 holes, | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
three under par after flying in at 3. 30am. He had been watching his | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
daughter's graduation speech at school. Sometimes the longest | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
journeys are the most worthwhile. That takes care of it. | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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The Merion Golf Club course is 100 years old. The poles are topped by | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
wicker baskets. Lee Westwood found himself heading backwards. Tiger | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Woods has more than his score to worry about. Pain in his wrist | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
visible as he struggled to two over par. He said he was fine. He didn't | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
look it. Add midst this, Luke Donald calmly | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
putted his way to the top of the leaderboard before play was | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
suspended. Forecasts for Friday, mainly cloudy. They are drying out | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
and resuming before breakfast on the East Coast the East Coast of | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
America. Already time to make up. The mystery of how marine mammals | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
are able to hold their breath for up to an hour has been solved. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that whales and | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
seals have a special protein in their muscles which allows them to | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
store huge amounts of oxygen. Victoria Gill has the story. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Adam can hold his breath for six minutes. He is a free diver and he | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
trains in this North London swimming pool. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
After three minutes, the air for oxygen will come really strong and | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
your mind will be telling you breathe now, come up now. | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
But even a free diver can't compete with these animals. Like us, these | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
seals are air breathing mammals. But they can dive for up to 30 minutes | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
on a single breath. Now, a study led by scientists from the University of | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Liverpool has shown just how they manage this. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
They may look pretty ungainly out of the water, but these common seals | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
are beautifully adaplted for life under the water and this new | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
research shows how they move efficiently and gracefully while | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
holding their breath. The researchers studied a protein. It is | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
the oxygen storing stuff in all mammals muscles including our own. | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
But in marine mammals it has a special structure. Like most | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
proteins, it is sticky. So very large quantities of it would clog up | :27:55. | :28:03. | |
our muscles. But in aquatic mammals it evolved nonstick properties. It | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
is this nonstick that evolved to allow seals to use their oxygen | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
packed muscles. We are taking a a high amount of it | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
into their muscle. They can afford larger concentrations in their | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
muscles than humans. This allows them to stay under the water and | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
hunt for long times. Showing how oxygen can be stored efficiently | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
could help scientists develop life-saving carrying liquids or | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
artificial blood. The scientists have solved a mystery of how some of | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
the world's charismatic creatures achieve charismatic feats. | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Time for a look at the weather. | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
Here's Nick Miller. Last weekend, where the sun shown 25 Celsius with | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
high pressure. This weekend, it is low pressure across the UK. So the | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
weather is very different. Not just one area of low pressure, it brought | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
a friend, another comes in for Sunday and this is a troublemaker | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
when it comes to Sunday's forecast as I will show you in a moment. But | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
don't get me wrong, not a wash out of a weekend, because it will be | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
showery. There will be sunshine too, but it is breezy along with that. | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
And so far today, we have been dodging the downpours. Wales | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
initially heavy showers this morning. This is the rainfall | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
picture and those heavy showers with thunder too are working through the | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
mid- lands and into Northern England as we speak and a few pop up in | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
Scotland. In Northern Scotland, you see some of the best weather of the | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
day. Yes, the odd heavy shower popping up in Scotland and a | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
scattering of heavy and possibly thundery downpours. But through much | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
of south-east England, just the odd shower, but sunshine developing this | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
afternoon. For much of the South Coast will stay dry and not too bad | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
if you contend with the wind. Increasing cloud in the far | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
south-west later and for Wales, after this morning's heavy | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
downpours, sunshine and further showers to come this afternoon. We | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
have got some heavy showers in Northern Ireland. Look, there is | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
worse to come this evening. More persistent and heavier rain coming | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
in in time for the evening rush hour. This will work through the | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
night through to Scotland. It is wet for the southern up lands and | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Grampians. More showers following behind. Temperatures aren't going | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
down too far. And that takes us on to the weekend. From the word go, it | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
is sunshine and showers. A more prolonged spell of rain setting | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
itself up across Scotland. Into the afternoon, another batch of showers. | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
Maybe some prolonged spells of rain working through parts of England and | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
Wales. Windy with these and could see gales developing around the | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
south-west and Wales and temperatures mid to high teens. I am | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
not helping am I? As for Sunday, the further north and east you are, you | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
may escape with a dry and bright day. But that troublemaker I showed | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
you earlier is trying to bring rain into the south and south-west, but | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
there is uncertainty about how far north it will get. Don't make this | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
the last forecast you see between now and Sunday. Keep checking. It | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
may change. With we will update you online and mobile. Don't cancel or | :31:24. | :31:28. |