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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. The Arab League's | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
ultimatum for Syria to accept an observer mission expires and still | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
no response from Damascus. This as evidence grows of more soldiers | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
defecting to the opposition. The BBC goes inside Homs with the free | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
Syrian army. After months of protest has been shot down in the | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
streets that myth of armed insurgency has become reality. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
100,000 stuck out in Cairo's Tahrir Square not satisfied by the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
concessions by the military. They want the Army out of politics now. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Thousands of candidates in elections in the Democratic | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Republic of Congo, what hope for a peaceful outcome in one of the | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
world's most war-torn countries. Also coming up: An incredible story | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
of injury and recovery. How this Dutch Paralympic champion paralysed | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
for years is now training to make her mark in the future at the | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Olympics. And the search for life in space. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
NASA is launching its biggest ever mission to Mars in a Rover called | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Curiosity. Hello and welcome. The silence from | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
the Government in Syria has been deafening. It has failed to respond | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
to an Arab League ultimatum to allow an observer mission into the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
country or face sanctions. Now the Arab League says it will meet on | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
Saturday to decide what Next Steps it should take. Inside Syria itself | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
activists say more people have been killed by security forces as the | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
protests have continued. The BBC's security correspondent Frank | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Gardner has this analysis. I undeterred by tanks, torture and | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
over 3000 deaths Syrian protesters are still taking to the streets, | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
risking their lives to call for an end to the rule of President Bush | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
are are as said. Often surrounded by acolytes he is facing the most | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
serious challenge to his role. Much of the population fears the chaos | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
that could follow his departure. There will be many Syrians who want | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
to join the opposition. There have been attacks on military | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
installations prompting fears of a civil war, a nightmare for the Arab | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
League. Its members have already suspended Syria, its chair stands | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
emptied. They have been meeting to discuss whether to introduce harsh | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
new sanctions unless Syria pulls its troops out of cities and allows | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
in monitors. Syria's neighbour Turkey says time is running out for | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the Bashar al-Assad regime. Meanwhile, the protests continue. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
The sniping, the arrests, the intimidation, torture and bloodshed | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
show no signs of stopping. We are staying with Syria. The BBC | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
has obtained first-hand evidence that the struggle for democracy in | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
the country is becoming an armed insurgency. The opposition for us, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
the free Syrian army, is made up of soldiers who have defected. Our | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
correspondent and a cameraman are the first journalists who have | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
spent time with the free Syrian army in and around Homs, the scene | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
of the worst violence in the current uprising in Syria. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Syria's border with Lebanon. These men are taking in guns are to | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
support a growing insurgency. De area is the mind and fall of Syrian | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
patrols. Hours earlier, as smuggler was captured here. Each man carries | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
two or three Kalashnikovs for the fighters inside. Our guides are not | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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paid smugglers, but supporters of the revolution. The regime has had | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
as under siege for 40 years, he says, we have been starving for 40 | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
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years. Into Homs. The Syrian army is all around. They will probably | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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shoot if they spot us. This is a suburb. The people are hemmed in by | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
the security forces. The fear is suffocating. But the firepower is | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
no longer all on one side. These are the men of the free Syria army. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
They do not exactly hold this area, but just hope to slow up the | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
security forces. Almost from the beginning it was Syrian Government | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
propaganda that armed groups, or armed gangs, were supporting the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
opposition. Now, after months of protest has been shot down in the | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
streets, that myth of an armed insurgency has become a reality. -- | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
protesters. More join every day. A gun battle signals another | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
defection. Soldiers are running into the suburb, fired on by their | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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former comrades. Five made it out, his 6th did not. We heard him | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
screaming, he says, we could not go back. There were too many troops | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
chasing us. Another explains that they fled after being ordered to | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
shoot unarmed protesters. We are all one people, one blood. You | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
cannot just kill them. The rebels believe they can win if there is | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
help from outside. They want a no- fly zone over Syria. That special | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
report is by Paul Wood with the freak Syrian army inside the city | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
of Homs. Now to the unrest in Egypt and in Cairo 100,000 people are | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
still believed to be out in Tahrir Square. The man chosen to be | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Egypt's new Prime Minister has said on state TV he wants to be given a | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
chance to serve the people. 78 year-old Kamal al-Gazouri says he | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
plans to form an all inclusive Cabinet, but his words have done | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
little to sway the protesters. They are demanding the head of the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, must step | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
aside before the elections on Monday. Lyse Doucet is in Tahrir | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
Square and joins us live. It looks like it is all happening behind you. | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
Give us an update. You can see Tahrir Square tonight is both a big | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
party as well as a political rally. This sounds you here tonight are | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
not of the tear gas canisters, but off firecrackers going off in the | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
air. There has been a whole display here tonight. You may not see them, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
but you can hear the sound of the firecrackers going off. There is a | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
huge mass of people down there in that corner with a flag waving. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Earlier this week that was a place of great tension weather were | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
running battles between the police and protesters. But the truce is | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
holding. We do not hear the wailing of the ambulance sirens, but we | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
still hear all of the chanting and new banners are still going up. | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
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This one says, we will never leave the rights of the martyrs. They are | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
calling on Egyptians to come back to the square and send a very loud | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
message. Look at all the discussions going on. People | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
assemble in groups, it is a bit of a carnival atmosphere. Every kind | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
of popular Egyptian street food is on sale. There is food in those | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
metal pots, next to the popcorn that is being sold. You can get | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
grilled corn on the cob. These are the enterprising vendors who know | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
they can turn a profit share. They even started selling gas masks in | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the square when there was tear gas throughout the week. Tonight they | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
are mostly selling candy and toffee apples as they try to send a | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
message to the military leader that they are here to stay. Lyse Doucet, | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
a party atmosphere in Cairo's Tahrir Square. We have talked about | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Syria and Egypt, and now to Yemen where tensions are high and tens of | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
thousands of people have been protesting also on the streets | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
after Friday prayers. They are angry about the power transfer | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
deals signed earlier this week by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
because the deal would give him and his family immunity from | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
prosecution. Hundreds of the Mini's have been killed since the protests | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
started in January. The impact of the Arab Spring in Morocco may not | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
be as dramatic and violent as it has been elsewhere in the Arab | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
world, but the elections in Morocco have been brought forward as a | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
result of the upheaval. The elections are the first under a new | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
constitution which gives greater powers to the prime minister and | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
parliament. But some reformers say the changes do not go far enough. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Voters casting their ballots in what should be an historic election | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
for Morocco. This time they are voting for a Government expected to | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
have power to bring about real change. This is the man who could | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
play a key role in the new Government, the leader of the | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
Islamist party. He said he hoped the turnout would be more than 50%. | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
There are concerns it could be very low. But in any case, he said, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
democracy would be the winner. These first stirrings of trouble in | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
February in Morocco prompted the political reform. Thousands poured | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
onto the streets demanding equality, justice and an end to the monopoly | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
of power held by the ruling elite. In March, King Mohammed VI address | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the nation. He promised comprehensive changes to the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
constitution. It included losing his power to appoint the Prime | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Minister, insuring the independence of the judiciary is reinforced, and | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
granting increased rights for women. Those who wrote these changes into | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
the new constitution say the King does want a parliamentary democracy. | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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He is aware of the effect that traditional legitimacy knees to be | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
strengthened and that is why he has been anticipating the demands of | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
the people and has satisfied them in advance. But not everyone is | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
convinced the king is sincere about handing over so much power. Instead | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
they fear he will retain much of his control over the country. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
So clearly it has been a significant week across the Arab | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
world and to help as tight up the threads here with me in the studio | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
is the Middle East analyst at Chatham House, Nadim Shehadi. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Clearly, the ripples of the Arab Spring have gone all over the place. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
We have just seen the situation in Morocco. But the big fear is the | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
instability we see in key countries like Syria. They have got this Arab | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
League ultimatum and the silence has been deafening from Damascus. | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
What do you think Damascus are considering? They are probably | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
confused what trick to play with the Arab League because the leaders | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
of the Arab League are probably leaders of the same type as Bashar | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
al-Assad, so they know the same tricks as he does. It could be very | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
difficult for him to gain more time. He has been buying a lot of time. | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
Yes, but it has not been working with the Arab League so far. What | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
do you think the Arab League will do? They said they will be meeting | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
in Cairo on Saturday and they have talked about sanctions. Financial | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
sanctions, what kind of things could they do? The most important | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
thing they would do is deprived the President of his legitimacy. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
Ultimately he can always cling to power when the West attacks him | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
because he says this is imperialism and I am resisting. But when his | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
fellow Arab leaders also take away his legitimacy... It is humiliating. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
But can the Arab League do anything in terms of sanctions without | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
support on the international community? The international | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
community have been waiting for the Arab League. When the Arab League | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
makes decisive steps a lot more will follow. A lot of his power | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
also comes from the indecision from the international community. This | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
will help make it clearer position. You had a report on the free Syrian | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
army and people were talking about an armed insurgency, I want to ask | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
you about Egypt. It is very clear the position in Syria calls itself | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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non-violent and peaceful. Any talk of violence in Syria plays into the | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
hands of the regime that is saying if it falls, there will be civil | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
war. This is what frightening many in the West. Overall I think one | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
has to put faith in the opposition Looking at Egypt and Yemen. | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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Concessions in Egypt, from the military, also he is standing down, | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
till still 9 protests go on? the regimes will try to re-gain | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
their power and cling to as much power as they can. This is | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
happening in Egypt. It's not flying with the protesters. That is why | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
they are continuing the protests. In the case of Egypt, I think the | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
majority of the population are not on the same wavelength as those in | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
Tahrir Square. That make it is more difficult. Nadim Shehadi thank you | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
very much for joining us. Now the day's or other news. Italy has had | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
to pay record high rates to investors to borrow money in the | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
latest auction of government bonds. Bonds due to be repaid in two | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
years' time hit more than 7.8% compared with 4.6% in the last sale | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
a month ago. The UN enjoy for North Korea has appealled for more | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
humanitarian aid to be delivered to the country. South Korea has been | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
sending medical supplies to the North over the past few weeks, but | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
it has not sent food, saying it risks being diverted to feed the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Army. The Australian government plans to establish the world's | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. The protected area north-east | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
of the Great Barrier Reef will cover an area of nearly one million | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
square kilometres. The Democratic Republic of Congo holds elections | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
on Monday in what could be a turning point for the people there | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
who have suffered decades of war and suffering that has seen | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
millions dead. 19,000 candidates are in the running. Elections in | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
the DRC have in the past been marred by violence. Andrew Harding | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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has been Togo ma gsh has been to Goma, which is still living with | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
the legacy of Congo's long wars. It's election time in one of | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Africa's most chaotic countries. No-one here is expecting a smooth | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
ride. On the throne here, one of 11 presidential hopefuls. Loyalties | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
are dangerously ferocious. So is the desire for change. They are the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
ones with the power, they don't care about the population. We don't | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
have road. No road. N-your country I think you have road. There is no | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
jobs, no water, no electricity. much peace either. This is Goma, a | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
poor town, the bicycles are wooden. The peacekeepers can't be | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
everywhere. Rival armed groups battle for power and Congo's | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
mineral wealth. Joseph Kabila has the usual advantages and may sneak | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
another victory. It could be close and tense. The elections could be a | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
step forward for a country that squandered its potential for | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
decades. There is a real danger they could trigger more instability | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
in a region that is still plagued by violence and impunity. My fear | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
is that all this might lead to serious violence. Maybe to breaking | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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up this country. Who knows. Out of sight the clearest proof of Congo's | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
enduring lawlessnesss. New victims of sexual violence that plights the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
countryside. 15-year-old Mary says she was raped this week by two | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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unknown men. "then they beat me", she says. She does not expect | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
justice. The hope for progress remains strong here. He's one of | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
19,000 candidates, running for a seat in Parliament at these | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
elections. I think this is a step forward. Let's not think of | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
miracles, but I think this is a step forward to what's strong | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
institutions and peaceful country. Miracles are not on the cards. | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
Congo's economy is growing, its fate matters to Africa. It is the | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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wounded giant at the centre of the continent. Elections there in the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
DRC. For an extraordinary story of injury and then recovery. A | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
paralympic silver medallist, in handcycling, is hoping to compete | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
in the Olympics, after regaining the use of her legs. Van der Vorst | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Vorst had been paralysed from the waist down for 13 years. Then she | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
was out training and she was hit by another cyclist, soon after the | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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feeling gradually began to return to her legs. Meet Van der Vorst | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
Vorst as she once was. Paralympian, paralysed in both her legs. Now, | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
meet her today. From the age of 13, her left leg was paralysed after | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
surgery ri on her foot went wrong. Three years ago she also lost the | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
use of her right leg in a car crash. Last year she had another terrible | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
training accident that put her back in hospital for a long time. During | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
the months of physiotherapy and training, she began to get feeting | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
in her legs and then the use of both them. Doctors can't explain. | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
It I just did it. I just walk. I did it over and over again until I | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
fall down on the ground. I could not believe it. I think many people | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
can't believe it. Yeah. Can you explain it? No. I've no idea how it | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
happened. I really don't know. couldn't use your legs for three | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
years of your life, both legs, 13 years of your life for one leg? | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Yeah. Now you are cycling again? Yeah. I don't know why but I do. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Her living room is full of the trophies and medalsals from a long | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
career as a disabled athlete. Three World Championships and eight | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
nationalists and a silver medallists at the Beijing | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
paralympics. I'm happy to do it all again, now with my legs. Also, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
besides the sport, life is easier walking. It feels like a big | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
challenge. I really want to push hard and train train and see where | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
I can get. So, she has lived one Olympic dream. She hopes to power | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
her way to another. Rio2016. I wouldn't bet against it. Amazing | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
story. Wonderful. It's been called the most ambitious mission to Mars | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
ever. On Saturday the American Space Agency, NASA, will launch a | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
vehicle, the size of a car, on a nine-month voyage to the Red Planet. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
When it arrives, the vehicle called, the Curiosity rover cure, will | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
begin the most extensive search yet for signs of whether life has ever | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
been possible on the Red Planet. To talk about NASA's latest mission to | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Mars, I'm joined from our studio in Cambridge by Paul Murdin from the | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University. Are you excited by | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
this? Yes. It's the laboratory on wheels. It will make the most | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
comprehensive survey of Martian rocks ever. It's a nuclear powered | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
Rover. What is the significance of that? Rovers up until now have been | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
powered by solar PV Panathinaikosels. They get dusty | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
and less efficient. This will last for a very long time. Well over two | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
years and possibly as long as ten. And, what do you suppose it hopes | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
to discover? How will it actually operate? Well there will be lots of | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
investigations of different sorts of the rocks that the controllers | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
in California find for the Rover to look at. The idea is that the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
compositions of these rocks will be discovered and the processes that | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
formed them. It's not only looking for minerals, but how they are made, | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
for example, at the bottom of lakes or even bye-bye logical activity, | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
bacteria or early sea creature which might have existed on Mars | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
several billion years ago. It costs a fantastic amount of money this | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
Rover, didn't it? Do you think, in some way, it's going to redeem NASA, | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
which of course had suffered a few shocks of its reputation in the | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
recent past? A lot of money. $2 billion, give or take a bob or two. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
I hope that a lot of effort has gone into it to make it work. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Having said that, Mars is a long way away. The journey is a | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
difficult one. One has to grit ones teeth and get on with it and hope | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
it goes. What would constitution a success and what would constitute a | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
failure? The worse failure is they drop it and that it doesn't make it | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
to the surface of Mars. The success will be discovering what the | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
surface of Mars is made of and the outstanding success will be finding | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
that there has been biological activity on Mars in the past and | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
maybe even somewhere in some place under the ground there is still | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
biological activity. There is life on Mars. You hope this will bring | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
us the answer to whether there is life on Mars? Yes. I hope in the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
end we will retrieve some sort of Martian life and learn about life | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
from that life. So that we can get better understand our own kind of | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
biology. Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
University thank you for. That Arab League deadline for Syria to accept | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
an observer mission or face sanctions Floyd Hasselbaink passed | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
with no response from Damascus. That is all from World News Today | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
with me Zeinab Badawi. From me, and the team, enjoy your weekend and | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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We had windy weather around today. We stick with this windy theme | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
throughout the course of the weekend. Tomorrow, strong wind | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
across northern areas with heavy rain. This weather front will push | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
in towards northern areas as we head through Saturday, further | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
south with high winds, high pressure leads to a chilly start. | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
Further north the strongest winds will develop, sometimes into Gus | :27:30. | :27:40. | |
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force. There is an amber warning from the weather centre. Guss of 70 | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
to 80mph. Further south a sunnier afternoon. The gusty winds from the | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
south-westerly direction, Gusing up to 30mph-40mph taking the edge off. | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
Wales it will turn increasingly cloudy. North-western areas will | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
see patchy rain arriving. Guss of 50mph-60mph. Wet and windy for | :28:08. | :28:12. |