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This this is BBC World Today, with me, Kirsty Lang. A convoy of | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Gaddafi loyalists have crossed into Niger. It's thought to be carrying | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
senior members much his government, gold and money. It points - I hope | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
it points to an underlying fact which is that many of the pro- | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Gaddafi forces are realising the game is up. Turkey suspends all | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
military ties with Israel and steps up naval patrols in the Eastern | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Mediterranean. The cabinet meets to beef up its | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
austerity plan under pressure from Europe and the markets in Italy. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Brought together by the tragedy of Hello, and welcome. While | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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negotiations continue in Libya for the vernd of ban any Wally - Bani | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Wali, a convoy is heading for Niger. It is thought it contains senior | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
members of the Gaddafi regime who have realised the game is up and | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
are fleeing with large quantities of money. The Colonel himself is | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
not thought to be among them. Is the net closing around Colonel | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Gaddafi, or have his associates found an escape route? This is | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Agadez, a Tuareg market town in northern Niger, important for trade | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
across The Sahara, but now the focus of international attention | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
amid reports that a Libyan convoy has been heading in this direction. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Accurate information is sparse. We have had reports in the past few | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
days about a number of pro-Gaddafi forces trying to exit the country. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Some of those have been confirmed, some have not. We still need to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
confirm these most recent reports, but I think it points to an | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
underlying - I hope it points to an underlying fact which is that many | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
of the pro-Gaddafi forces are realising that the game is up. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Around Bani Wali, south of Tripoli, Libyan rebels are engaged in a | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
waiting game. They're trying to persuade Gaddafi loyalists to vernd | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
in what is one of their last strongholds. The National | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Transitional Council has reassured tribal elders that no-one in the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
town will be hurt and people lay down their arms. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
As far as I know, the elders, they were very pleased and surprised | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
that this is our stance. They thought that we would take avenge, | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
especially the Gaddafi supporters that killed 13 from Bani Wali, and | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
there are some, even from not Bani Wali, they are Libyans and we will | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
protect them as we protect four families. The transitional | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
authorities in Libya still hope that Colonel Gaddafi has not | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
slipped out of the country. NATO has refused to comment on the | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
intelligence it gathers. It all means that rumour and speculation | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
will be at fever pitch until Gaddafi is found. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Let's go now to Southampton where I can speak to Professor Jeremy | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Keenan from the school of oriental and African studies at the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
University of London. Let's talk first of all about the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
links between the regime in Niger and Colonel Gaddafi. What was the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
relationship like? We've got a new regime in nerj now. There was a | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
coup in February last year, and the old regime was thrown out. There's | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
then a junta took over and there's been elections, so there is a new | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
regime, and so far a very good one. It's cleaned up a lot of the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
country, and the relationship between the new regime and Gaddafi | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
is not quite as clear as the old one. I personally don't think that | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
the new regime, the new president, President Isifu, would be | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
particularly keen to have Gaddafi in the country. He may well | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
facilitate his transference and transit through to somewhere else | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
such as Burkina Faso or Senegal, but I don't think any of the powers | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
in NATO, certainly the NTC in Libya, would really want to have Gaddafi | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
staying in Niger for more than a transitory period. I think that is | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
possibly the pattern we're beginning to see here. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
mentioned Burkina Faso. There had been reports earlier on in the day | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
that they might offer Gaddafi asylum. A spokesman for their | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
government has come out and said no. What's his relationship been like | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
with that country? He's put a lot of money in there. Gaddafi has | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
thrown a lot of money around in these countries, hundreds of | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
millions into Ma limit i, into Niger and Burkina Faso. A lot of | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
that money has gone into the hands of politicians, some into | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
investments, buildings, infrastructure, so, in a sense, all | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
of these countries have a degree of indebtedness to him, and that is | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
through of Burkina Faso as well. There had been some reports that in | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
that convoy that crossed over the border, there were Tuareg fighters | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
from Niger who had been fighting with Gaddafi loyalists. Is it | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
possible that members of the Tuareg tribe might actually protect | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Gaddafi loyalists within Niger? Have they the power to do that? | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
It's a very complex situation. Yes, there's a possibility of that. The | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Tuareg cover much of the country from near to Tripoli right down | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
through the part of the world we're talking about, central Sahara, | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Some of them have been on Gaddafi's side, | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
for all sorts of different reasons; some have been against him and with | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the rebels. It's a very complex picture and it's rather dangerous | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
and misleading to talk about the Tuareg as a unified tribe or | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
something of that nature. There are divisions between them, not of | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
their own making, but of which side they've been rather caught up on, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
in a sense, either for the Gaddafi or against. So a pretty complex | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
picture there. But certainly these coming back might well have been | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
some of those who were closer to him in terms of a body guard, yes. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Who in that region is most likely to offer Gaddafi shelter, if | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
anyone? Gosh. Mali would be quite happy to have him. He's got a lot | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
of friends in Mali. He's got a big property in Tim buck did you and in | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
the capital, but there will be a lot of pressure on Mali not to have | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
him, from NATO, France, and the - I think there would be a lot of | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
pressure on Mali not to have him, probably the same in Niger as well. | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
If he does find or make a home in any of these countries in the Sahil, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
it will keep a major destabilising force in the area so his presence | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
is not really going to be welcomed at that level, even though he may | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
have a lot of friends on the ground and people who are indebted to him. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Thank you very much. It's a relationship that is going | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
from bad to worse: today, the Turkish Prime Minister has said | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
that all military deals with Israel have been suspended. Israel has | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
refused to apologise for attacking a flotilla heading for Gaza last | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
year during which nine Turkish activists were killed. Recep Tayyip | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Erdogan has accused Israel of acting like a spoiled child. His | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
comments four days after Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
with Israel following a UN report on the Gaza raid. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Israeli tour I have to say at Istanbul airport. No longer sure of | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
a welcome. Some have reported being strip | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
searched in what Turkish officials describe as reciprocation for | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
similar treatment of Turks in Israel. So Israeli travel agents | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
are reporting multiple cancellations. Numbers travelling | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
to Turkey are now less than ten per cent of what they were three years | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
ago. The Turkish Prime Minister is | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
offering only more of the same. Israel behaves like a spoilt child, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
he complained. All military deals are now suspended. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
15 years ago, the two countries signed a mutual defence pact | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
bringing with it substantial military co-operation. Israel won | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
contracts to upgrade 100 US-made fnch 4 and fnch 5 fighters in the | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
Turkish air force. It was also to modernise 170 US-made MS-60 tanks | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
and agreed to sell ten unmanned aircraft. They already play an | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
important role in the Turkish army's operations against Kurdish | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
insurgence in the south-east. It didn't end there. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Israel also sold missiles and other high-tech equipment to the Turkish | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
military. In return, Turkey allowed Israeli air force jets to join | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
exercises in its air space. That relationship now seems finished. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Although some Israeli ministers still hold out hope that it can be | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
revived. Israel and Turkey are the two | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
strongest and most important nations at the present time in the | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
region, and even when we have disputes and we have several | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
disputes, we should act out of our heads not our guts on both sides. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
What happened aboard the flotilla last year makes that advice very | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
difficult to follow in Turkey - at least without some form of an | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Israeli apology. Right now, the Turkish government seems determined | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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to punish Israel in any way it can. We're going to get some analysis of | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
that situation between Turkey and Israel in a moment, but let's get | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
some other news first. The BBC has learned that NATO-led | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
mission in Afghanistan is considering suspending the transfer | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
of detainees to Afghan jails in a number of areas in the country | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
following allegations of widespread torture and the mistreatment of | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
prisoners. Our correspondent in Kabul has the details. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The allegations come in a UN report. It hasn't actually been published | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
yet, but the NDS, the National directorate of Security, the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
intelgeneral service here, and indeed the police, are aware of | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
some of the allegations in this report, and the allegations are | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
fairly strong stuff. They suggest that prisoners have been tortured | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
or seriously mistreated at a number of intelligence service jails and | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
police jails across this country. The NDS denies these claims and | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
says its jails are in proper order. That is to be treated with | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
scepticism because we've known in the past, we've heard reports of | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
prisoners being tortured. The big problem for the NATO-led mission | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
here is that their plan to get out of Afghanistan is that they will | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
transfer responsibility for security to Afghans, while some | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
people here in Kabul are saying they now believe that it those | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Afghan security forces simply can't be trusted. The UN War Crimes | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Tribunal in the Hague has found the former Chief of Staff of the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Yugoslav army guilty of crimes against humanity. During the | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Bosnian and Croatian wars of the 1990s, Momcilo Perisic was | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
sentenced to 27 years in jail. He organised support for Serb armies | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
in the two former Yugoslav republics. James Murdoch has said | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
he stands by his evidence to British MPs investigating the News | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
of the World phone hacking scandal. He spoke out after two former | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
executives at News International told a parliamentary committee that | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Mr Murdoch knew about evidence suggesting phone hacking was | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
widespread at the newspaper. A siege in the Australian city of | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
siege involved a man holding his daughter and claiming to have a | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
bomb has ended without injury. Police decided to bring the | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
negotiations to an end forcefully after negotiations broke down. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Let's return now to that story about the relationship between | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
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Turkey and Israel which has broken down severely. I'm severely Recep | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey, is demanding an apology | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
from the Israelis. He's clearly not going to get that. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
What is he going to gain out of prolonging this fight, and upping | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
the ante? It is really all about saving face. Prime Minister Erdogan | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
wants to be seen, especially among the Turkish public, and the wider | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Arab public, of doing something, to try to demonstrate to the Israelis | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
that Turkey will not accept Israel's objection to giving an | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
apology to Turkey. He's got a lot to lose because there were quite | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
close links by the Turkish military and the zeal military. Both Turkey | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
and Israel will lose. Israel will lose a lucrative market for its | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
weaponry and technology, and Israel will lose access to quality, | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
sensitive intelligence, especially on Iran, Iraq, and Syria, and vice | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
versa, Turkey will lose access to military technology, and access to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
high-quality intelligence. Washington is very worried about | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
this, the State Department put out a statement a short time ago | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
because obviously these are two of America's key allies in the region. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
What is Washington doing to try and bring them closer together? The US | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
secretary of state Hillary Clinton, has tried to put enormous pressure | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to give an apology, a | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
diluted form of apology, to Turkey. Prime Minister Netanyahu has | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
refused, so now what I think what Washington is trying to do is | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
trying to do some damage limitation, try to mend the fences, but I | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
suspect that although Washington will chaperone both Turkey and | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Israel, I still think that the disagreements between them will | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
escalate. Briefly, the Prime Minister also said today that he | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
was going to increase naval patrols by Turkey in the Eastern | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Mediterranean. This is not going to go down well with Israel, is it? | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
Israel will not be happy to see Turkish ships on the patrolling the | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Eastern Mediterranean, but I do not think that Turkey will try to break | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Thank you very much. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Millions of people across Italy went on strike today piling the | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
pressure on a government desperately trying to produce and | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
enforce a credible austerity plan. Italy is the eurozone's third | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
largest economy, and its ability to take control of its finances is | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
considered essential for the stability of the single currency. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
The Italian cabinet is, as we speak, holding an extraordinary meeting to | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
put the final touches on an austerity plan and discuss the best | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
way to put it through parliament. We can now speak to our Rome | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
correspondent. This austerity plan has been through quite a few | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
changes, hasn't it, since it was first agreed earlier last month? | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
has indeed. It has been zig-zagging all the way, and Mr Berlusconi put | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
forward the idea for an increase in VAT, and then he said he withdrew | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
it, and then he put it in again and said it would just last for three | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
months. There's been talk about changing pension arrangements, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
there's been talk about a wealth tax which was originally going to | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
affect people with an income of over 100,000 euros. This we | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
understand has been changed. The percentage is going to be less than | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
before. In other words, Mr Berlusconi has shown that his | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
government is really rather weak, and there are too many people | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
lobbying - interest groups - lobbying to get a better deal out | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
of this austerity package. Because the wealth tax in particular was | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
quite controversial, with lots of Italian footballers jumped up and | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
down about that one. Well, what happened was that it caused a | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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strike. It caused a fortnight's delay in the start of the Italian | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Serie A games. A member of the Northern League, one of the | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
government ministers, who said it was very very important for | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
footballers to be able to earn lots of money, and, of course, the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
government appears to agree. The whole way in which the government | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
has handled this affair seems to show that Mr Berlusconi does not | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
have full control of his government. He is enmeshed in various scandals | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
affecting him personally, and it remains to be seen, actually, just | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
how the financial markets are going to react to this much tweaked | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
austerity budget which is being passed by parliament tonight and | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
tomorrow. Mr Berlusconi set a deadline of Thursday for getting | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
the whole package approved by the parliament but it's by no means | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
sure that the European Central Bank is going to continue purchasing | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Italian government bonds as it has been doing in recent days, and this | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
has helped the Italians immensely. We will just have to wait and see. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Thank you very much. Helicopters have begun lifting | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
supplies to communities cut off by a powerful typhoon in central and | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
western Japan. It has been confirmed that almost 40 people | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
have been killed and that more than 50 are missing after the country's | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
most powerful storm in recent years powered landslides and floods. The | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
back back prefrequenture was the most heavily hit. Days after the | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
typhoon lashed western Japan, rescuers are still hoping to find | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
survivors. Police teams are flying into the | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
remote mountains. The death toll is rising, and dozens of people are | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
still missing. The airlift was taking in supplies, | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
too. Villages have been cut off by landslides, the mostly elderly | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
residents left without food, electricity, and water. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
The Hamlet of Nachi Katsuura is filled with debris. For the | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Japanese, a painful reminder of the tsunami in March. The local mayor | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
found his daughter's body on Sunday. His wife is missing and presumed | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
dead too. TRANSLATION: I have to think about | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
how to help the people of the town deal with this disaster. Only after | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
that can I think about my family. I hope that I can find my wife soon | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
to send off my family with my daughter. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
24-year-old Sachi Teremoto was due to celebrate her engagement on the | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
day the storm swept in. Elsewhere, in Totsukawa, a swear house filled | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
with explosives has been destroyed. More than half a tonne of material | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
used for blasting tunnels is somewhere in the mud, hampering the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
relief effort. Railways and roads across the | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
region have been washed away. Japan's new Prime Minister is | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
hoping to travel to the areas affected by the typhoon, according | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
to the government's chief spokesman. So far, there's been little | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
criticism of his response to the disaster, but he'll be mindful that | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
inept handling of the earthquake and tsunami cost his predecessor | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
his job. On September 11th 2001, there were | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
only a handful of survivors above the point at which the Al-Qaeda | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
piloted planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center. This is | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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the remarkable story of Brian Clark and sandy pram gnat who escaped the | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
Stanley Praimnath gives thanks to the God he believes sent a guardian | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
angel to protect him. Ten years ago, Stanley thought his last day on | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
earth had come when a plane samd into the 81 is it floor of the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
World Trade Center south tower, as he was at his desk on the phone. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
I'm looking towards the Statue of Liberty, and something caught my | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
eyes. As the plane is getting closer, I can hear the revving | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
sound, as if total acceleration would pick up more force. I | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
screamed, I said, "Lord, I can't do this, you take over." | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Brian Clark worked three floors above Stanley in the south tower. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
The two men had never met. He was three floors below me. Brian told | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
me how a discussion with his colleagues about what to do after | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
the plane hit the building was interrupted by the sound of Stanley | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
seeking help. I heard "Help, I'm buried, I can't breathe." That sort | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
of thing. Brian and Stanley worked away at the walls separating them. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
I said the only way out of here is for you to come up the wall, so he | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
scrambled up, I missed him the first time, the second time when he | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
jumped, I caught something, hevd him up and over the wall, and we | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
fell back down on the ground. He gave me this big kiss. I said, "I'm | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Brian." I stood up. He said "I'm Stanley." He said "All my life I | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
live as an only child. I was born and raised in Canada. I always | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
wanted a brother, and I find that man today. This good man put a hand | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
on my shoulder, and he looked at me, and he said, "Come on, Buddy, let's | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
go home." Just minutes after the two men | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
escaped from the south tower, the unthinkable happened. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Before losing one another in the confusion, Stanley had given Brian | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
his business card. I had this feeling come over me | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
that there was no Stanley at all, a guardian angel kind of concept that | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
was there, I imagined it all to get me out of the building. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
I reached in my pocket, and I pulled out the business card, so I | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
knew there was really a Stanley. The line between life and death | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
that day was a clear one. Almost everyone above the point at | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
which the planes hit the twin towers perished. | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Stanley and Brian were among a handful of survivors. Brian loves | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
me unconditionally, and if I was to be in trouble again, God forbid, I | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
don't want anybody else to rescue me but Brian Clark. Is it possible | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
that Stanley helped to save you? There's no question that as the | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
events unrolled that day, I happened to be the one that heard | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
him. I went in and got him. I came back with him, and together we dug | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
through the debris, so we were dependent on each other, absolutely. | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Brian will join Stanley at his New York church on the tenth | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
anniversary of the attacks. The two men who became blood | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
brothers will mourn their lost colleagues and reflect on their | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
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remarkable bond. 8 NASA has has released new images | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
of the Apollo landing sites on the moon. The images show signs of | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
equipment the lunar Rovers and a trail of footprints left on the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
lunar surface by astronauts 40 years ago. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
This was the best view we had of a lunar landing site - until now. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
This new image is from a spacecraft in low orbit. Look closely, and you | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
can see the footprints of astronauts as they bounced along | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
the lunar surface, and here, a trail left by their moon buggy. In | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
the vacuum of space, the hardware has remained in pristine condition. | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
What is wonderful about these pictures is their clarity. We can | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
now see the individual experiments left on the moon, but the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
footprints, particularly for Apollo 17, the last footprints left on the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
moon, and we can see they've hardly changed in 40 years. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
It's one small step for man... was more than 40 years ago that | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was the first of just six lunar | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
landings. The astronauts had fun, but having | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
achieved its goal of beating the Russians to the moon, NASA | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
cancelled the Apollo programme, and in 1974, the Americans lefpt the | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
moon and haven't been back since. The equipment on the lunar surface | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
is all that's left of the moon missions. The Rovers, the landers, | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
the flagpoles, will be preserved for millions of years as a | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
testament to a heroic era of human space travel. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
NASA has scrapped its shuttle programme but says it wants to go | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
back to the moon in a new spacecraft. Many doubt whether the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
US has the money or or desire to do so. The new pictures should lay to | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
rest, though, the conspiracy theories that the moon landings | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
were shot in a Hollywood studio as part of an elaborate hoax. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Amazing to think those footprints are still there. A quick reminder | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
of our main news: a heavily armed convoy of 15 Libyan vehicles is | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
driving through the African state of Niger. Ministers in Niger say | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Colonel Gaddafi is not on board but opposition leaders say they believe | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
the vehicles are carrying gold and money. Meanwhile, opposition forces | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
have finished their talks with the elders of Bani Wali. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
This was one of the last bastions of support for Colonel Gaddafi. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Turkey says all military ties with Israel have been suspended. It's | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
the latest sign of growing Turkish anger over Israel's refusal to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
apologise for a raid on the flotilla heading for Gaza last year | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
during which nine activists were killed. That's all from the | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
programme.. From me and the rest of programme.. From me and the rest of | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
the team, goodbye. Hello, we've all been buffeted | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
today by strong strong winds and heavy showers and the winds will | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
not die down any time soon. Tomorrow, very breezy and some of | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
us will have to contend with further showers. Low pressure is | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
driving our weather. You see the isobars close together responsible | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
for those strong winds and still that noticeable breeze going into | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Wednesday. Most of the showers will be to the north-west of the UK, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
southern and eastern areas will avoid most of the showers and stay | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
dry. North-west England, showers merging to give longer spells of | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
rain again durgt afternoon, north- east England, though, largely dry | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
and bright, across the Midlands, East Anglia, and much of southern | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
England, broken cloud, the cloud racing through the sky, but sunny | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
spells and mostly dry, just the odd shower coming through especially to | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
coastal parts of south-west England. Southern Wales looking mostly dry | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
but across the north, showers here merging to give a longer spell of | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
rain into the late afternoon and it will be turn wetter across western | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
parts of Northern Ireland. The further south-east you are, it | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
stays mainly dry. Further showers coming into western Scotland, again | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
developing into spells of rain later in the day. The east, apart | :28:09. | :28:14. |