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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. In Bahrain the | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
pro-democracy activist al-Khawaja is to be re-tried. His wife says | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
he's at danger of dying from his hunger-strike and he must be freed. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
He was telling me that his hunger strike is not for negotiation and | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
he is not going to stop until he is three. -- free. Could the case of | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
this prominent Chinese activist cast a shadow over this week's top- | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
level talks between Washington and Beijing? A former Libyan oil | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
minster is found dead in the River Danube, police say he drowned, but | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
they don't know if foul play was involved. Also coming up in the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
programme: As Greece prepares for elections this week... Is the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
country heading for unchartered waters and maybe a journey out of | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
the Euro? The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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drawings of the human body is on Hello and welcome. There's to be a | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
re-trial of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the activist jailed for leading | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
last year's pro-democracy protests in Bahrain. He and 20 others were | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
convicted by military court last year. Now their cases will be heard | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
in a civil court. But his wife has spoken out. She says there won't be | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
any difference between the types of trial. And she is calling for her | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
husband to be freed. AND she says he will continue his hunger strike, | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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despite the re-trial. The BBC's Frank Gardner reports from Manama. | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
A small show of support in court today for Bahrain's jailed | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
activists. The most prominent has been on hunger strike since | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
February. Today's ruling means he will now remain in custody for a | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
civil trial. His wife says he could remain in court for one year. What | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
will make him stop his hunger strike? Being freed. I spoke to | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
them yesterday and he was telling me that his hunger strike is not | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
for negotiation. He is not going to stop until he is free. Either by | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
death or by coming out of jail. I think the Government is | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
assassinating my husband in a very slow and painful way. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
allegation that the Government intends any harm to this man is | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
untrue. He is given access 24 hours birthday to the best medical | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
attention. He has been visited regularly by ambassadors and his | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
family. At weekly prayers in this Sunni mosque there was condemnation | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
of the anti-government protest that had turned violent. We find little | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
sympathy here for those who clashed with police or the jailed hunger | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
striker. Led 10 died. There are other prisoners who have hunger and | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
no one cares about them. Why should we care about them. Let them die. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
They Shia movement are demanding more rides from the monarchy. In | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
these districts he is a popular hero. He is appealing for a Germans | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
will stop for a human rights. There followed he is a popular man and we | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
will fight for him as he is fighting them. He is not alone. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
This is one of the regular organised anti-government protests | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
that take place almost every week here in Bahrain. The problem starts | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
when most of these peaceful protesters call warm-up. Then | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
masked activists come out on the street and clash with police. We | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
witnessed the beginnings of that sort of trouble. These the recent | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
pictures of clashes could be from almost any night of the week. What | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
does the man brought you to improve policing think? You can go out | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
today and find trouble. No one has denied that. The vast majority are | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
peaceful and most people know that. In much of the country, life and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
business goes on but until issues of human rights and sharing power | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
is resolved violence will always lurk beneath the surface. Dr Ala'a | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Shehabi is a Bahraini pro-democracy activist and a founding member of | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
Bahrain Watch, an advocacy group. I understand that your father is | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
based in London but he was one of the people found guilty of trying | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
to overthrow the Government in Bahrain. He is going to be getting | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
a retrial as well. Is this something that you welcome? I think | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
it is a travesty of justice. The man in jail has been on hunger | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
strike for 80 days and only yesterday we found he was drugged | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
and force-fed against his will. He has always stated that his hunger | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
strike is for freedom or death. The Government now has chosen not to | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
offer him his freedom. It is important to note that to be judged | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
in the trial had the judice direction to find him innocent of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
the charges today but he decided to go back to square one and start | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
again. At least he is having hour week trial along with all the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
others in a civil court. Surely you must welcome that? It was a | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
civilian court today and again the judge could have looked at the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
evidence which has been baseless in terms of providing anything to | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
substantiate the claims. Free into the instantly or nothing else will | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
do? He is about to die, he is in a critical condition. But he is on a | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
hunger strike and they are force- feeding him so that he does not die. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
But that amount to torture because it is against his will. He has | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
always been a proponent of peaceful activism, the charges against them | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
are baseless and he is -- has only called for the peaceful the removal | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
of dictatorship in Bahrain. That is what supporters like you say but | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
our correspondent says there are many in Bahrain who do not support | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
the man in jail and say he has long -- strong links with Iran and wants | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
to bring in an unpopular Government to Bahrain. That is the political | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
due on his situation. The human rights situation in terms of his | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
right to a fair trial, in terms of them being subjected to torture and | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
been allowed to defend himself in a court of blog has been documented | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
by human rights Watch, observers who attended the military trial, | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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they find these pieces of evidence to be baseless. It is not the fact, | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
opinions can defer, but the right of best man is a incontestable. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Thank you for coming in the studio to talk to us. It was meant to be a | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
chance to discuss global economics and foreign affairs. But as the US | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, prepares to visit Beijing, it looks | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
like her stay will be overshadowed by the fate of the Chinese legal | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
activist Chen Guangcheng. It's thought Mr Chen is now under US | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
protection in Beijing after escaping house arrest imposed by | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
the Chinese authorities. The circumstances surrounding his | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
escape last week are still unclear. Our correspondent Martin Patience | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
has been to Mr Chen's home in the province of Shandong. Ever since | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
the blind activist fled there has been growing concern about the fate | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
of family members and friends. When we tried to enter the village we | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
were stopped from doing so by a group of men. We asked why not and | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
one said ball away, go away. We also asked if family members were | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
inside the village and he also said he did not know, and go away, go | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
away. The village remains heavily guarded. This case comes at a | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
hugely sensitive time for America and China. The two countries are | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
set to hold high-level talks and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
State is expected to attend. According to friends of Mr 10 he is | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
in America. Under protection from the State. Whatever happens it | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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could affect relations between the two countries. -- Mr Chen. So Mr | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Chen's case is coming at a very delicate time just ahead of Mrs | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Clinton's visit to Beijing on Wednesday. I'm joined now by | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Kenneth Lieberthal who is a China specialist and was a senior | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
director for Asia on the US National Security Council in the | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Clinton administration: Can you tell us what you think Hillary | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Clinton should be doing? Should she raised this issue and should she do | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
it in an open way or diplomatically and behind-the-scenes? The US | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
approach is clear -- approach. We like to keep things behind the | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
scenes. The State Department are talking with their Chinese | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
counterparts, trying to work out how to resolve this issue. I hope | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
that when Secretary Clinton gets to talk about it there will be | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
something already agreed at least in principle. Let's keep in mind | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
that we have at very big, serious and full agenda with the Chinese | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
investor upcoming dialogue. It would be at very adverse | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
development to have this particular issue of one man overshadow issues | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
of the North Korean nuclear test, Iran and so forth. You say that | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
then what do you make of these rumours and unsubstantiated reports | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
that Mr Chen is perhaps being given protection at the US embassy in | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Beijing and he might be offered safe passage out of the country and | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
exile in the United States? Let's keep in mind that this man is | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
seeking to remain in China but have the national level Government in | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
China investigate what has happened to them in one province. I | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
personally think that is not likely to occur. It is politically very | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
difficult. The second best option would be to have him and his family | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
safely leave the country. If that is the only option available to | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
them I hope he will take that. I am confident the US embassy will not | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
turn him out without an agreement with the Chinese that the man | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
himself finds satisfactory and efficient for him to remain in | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
China. Otherwise we will try to get him out of the country. Looking at | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
the US and Chinese relations, it is a very delicate time. For instance, | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
this question about whether the US will supply eight Taiwan with arms | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
has come at a very inconvenient time. How critical do you think the | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
situation is diplomatically between the two countries? We have an | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
enormously important bilateral and global agenda. The strategic and | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
economic dialogue recognises that reality. These things like a | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
dissident incident coming up, there is no way to control when the a car. | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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They always a car at an inconvenient time. -- occur. The | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
question is can we handle this in a way that enables us to pay | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
attention to this man but also allows us to move forward to | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
regional and global concerns. you very much. Now a look at some | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
other news. Several European leaders have cancelled visits to | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
the Ukraine over growing concern of the mistreatment of a jailed | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
opposition leader. There were also calls for an boycott of the 2012 | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
Football Championships. This women was allegedly beaten up and is | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
reportedly on hunger strike over her mistreatment. She was convicted | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
of abuse of office. At least nine people have been killed by | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
explosions in as Zairean city. Reports say three large bombs went | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
off. State media reported that about 100 people were injured. At | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
very has capsized in north-eastern India with 300 people on board. 68 | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
people have drowned and 150 are missing. It was in a remote area. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Here, David Cameron says he has seen no evidence that the Culture | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, acted improperly in his handling of news | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
corpse proposed takeover of the broadcaster BSkyB. Mr Cameron was | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
to make a statement in the House of Commons on the affair. He says it | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
is not necessary to order an inquiry into whether Mr Hunt broke | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
Look at the meetings Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had with Rupert | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Murdoch when they were prime minister. Blair, seven, Brown, 13, | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
me, four. One year ago he became one of the most high-profile | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
defectors from Colonel Gaddafi's government in Libya. But on Sunday, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Shukri Ghanem - the country's former oil minister - was found | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
drowned in the river Danube in Vienna. Quite what happened to Mr | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Ghanem is still far from clear, as Bethany Bell reports from the | :15:51. | :16:00. | |
Austrian capital. Shukri Ghanem was found here, dead | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
in the water. A police post mortem says he drowned. His body was fully | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
clothed and had not been in the water along. The police say the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
body showed no signs of violence and have found no evidence to | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
suggest suicide. They are still waiting for the results of | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
toxicology report which is due in a few days. TRANSLATION: We cannot | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
exclude he suffered from an illness and this was why he fell into the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
River Danube but it is under investigation. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
The Shukri Ghanem was once Prime Minister of Libya and the head of | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
the oil company. He was close to Colonel Gaddafi. But he defected | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
last year during the uprising that toppled his former leader. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
situation is unbearable, we cannot continue working and therefore I | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
left the country and I decided also to leave my job. And I would join | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
the choice of the Libyan youth to create a modern constitution. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
returned to Vienna where he used to work, the oil cartel Opec and where | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
his family had a home not far from the Danube river. At the moment, | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
police say they have nothing to suggest he was murdered or | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
committed suicide. They want find out how he drowned in the river. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
The investigation continues. Extra immigration officers have | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
been drafted in to deal with long delays at the UK's biggest airport, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
London Heathrow. Concern is mounting that they could get worse | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
as the Olympics approach. A border agency employee has told the BBC | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
that staff shortages are affecting security checks but government | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
ministers insist security remains paramount. Tom Symonds reports. | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
Smile! They would believe me. Welcome to Britain. Passport, | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
please. Last week, it was taking passengers said to Allah's plus to | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
hear those words. When one traveller made it through, this was | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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the reaction. APPLAUSE. Darren a ride in the UK on Thursday. | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
His experience was typical. I have never seen it so busy. They accuse | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
before passport control. It was ridiculous. This he threw board | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
officer who is enormous said a handful of staff are coping with | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
hundreds of passengers. We swipe the passport, take the Prince and | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
ask the minimum questions and let them in. It is quicker to stump | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
somebody than examine them. Dealing with a queue is the priority for | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
frontline officers. Over and above making sure this person is doing | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
what they say they're doing. Leaked figures suggest there waiting | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
target for non-European passengers was breached on all but two days in | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
the first half of April. The target is 45 minutes. In the Commons, the | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
minister said the keys were shorter than claims. The longest killing | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
time was 1.5 hours on Friday at Terminal 5 for non EU nationals and | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
for UK nationals lower. These times are too long. A passengers demand | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
an efficient service and the British public demand tough border | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
controls. We need both. Labour blamed government incompetence and | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
lack of staff. There's no doubt the queues are resulting in angry | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
passengers but are they also affecting the way passport control | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
of this is do their jobs? According to figures leaked to the BBC, the | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
number of forged documents detected is falling. I 26% in February. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
there a link between the staff on duty and the fall in the rate of | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
detection of forged documents? There's no question in my opinion | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
and my colleagues but the fall in detection of forged documents is | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
directly related to the lack of available staff. The Home Office | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
says better checks abroad and the use of biometric passports has | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
reduced fraud. The plan is to draft in more officers, 400 a week before | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
the Olympics. While much attention has been focused on the | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
presidential election in France - there's another crucial electoral | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
battle looming in Europe. Greece holds parliamentary elections this | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
weekend - the most critical in decades as the country struggles | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
with massive upheaval. According to the latest opinion polls, the two | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
main parties in the governing coalition may lose their majority. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
And a record number of fringe parties, who are opposed to the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
terms of the EU bailout - may win seats in parliament for the first | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
time. Our Europe correspondent Matthew Price has been exploring | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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The Peloponnese weather gods of Greek myth and legend once played. | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
And what today we found Angelopoulos waiting for better | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
times after five years of recession and continuing government cuts. Do | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
you think Greece should carry on cutting in the way Brussels is | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
asking? They have to stop, he told me, there will be trouble. People | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
have no more to give. Despite the very obvious beauty, there are docs | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
storm clouds on the horizon. A large number of people are expected | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
to vote for parties that want to turn their back on the Brussels | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
imposed austerity and if that does happen, there are those who fear | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
this country could be charting a different course, one that takes it | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
out of the euro with all the massive implications for this | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
Continent that would bring. Winding away around the country and you | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
find exhaustion, Greece is defeated. Crumbling. And that is changing | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
politics. The same old faces have governed here for decades. In the | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
local council, they know the main parties we pushed through the cuts | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
were now lose support. But the new mayor, an independent, doesn't | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
believe anyone has the vision to save the country. Now the plan is | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
to win elections. A 15 day plan, we want to plan for the next 15 years. | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
We do not have anything yet. What they need is growth. But the orange | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
groves are about the only place you find that right now. The some | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
voters, the only option is for the next government to renegotiate | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
Greece's bail out with Europe's leaders. We have to say to them, we | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
don't have the money to pay, I think they will understand. But in | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
the end if they did believe this, I think we have to leave Europe. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Which direction will Greece take? Like much of Europe, there's a | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
growing sense that austerity is making things worse. There may not | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
be can't for much longer. -- can harm. The largest ever | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body go on | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
display in Buckingham Palace this week. Da Vinci has long been | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
recognised as a great artist but he was also a pioneer in the study of | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
anatomy, dissecting the corpses of executed criminals or the destitute. | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, reports. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
The artist as an anatomist. Across nearly 90 drawings, Leonardo da | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
Vinci depicts the human body in astonishing detail. Using his skill | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
as an architect and engineer, three-dimensional structures are | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
revealed with extraordinary clarity. It is the biggest ever exhibition | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
of its kind, but is it art or science? They are scientific papers. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
They are not works of art and he didn't conceive than as that. We | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
find them beautiful and fascinating and so one and they are expressions | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
of the human spirit that match art, but it is not art, it is science. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Leonardo injected wax into the cavities of the brain to draw it | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
more accurately and he created a glass model of the aortic valve so | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
he could experiment how blood flowed through the heart. These | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
drawings were made in Florence in 1507, following Leonardo's | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
dissection of a 100 year-old man. They contain the first clear | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
descriptions of narrowing of the arteries and cirrhosis of the liver. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
This museum in London contains thousands of anatomy specimens | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
collected in the 18th century. By this stage, Leonardo's drawings | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
were still unpublished and would remain so for another 200 years. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
But even today, anatomists say that some of the studies, such as these | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
hands, using layers to build up the bone, muscle and tendons, are as | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
accurate as any modern depiction. This idea of looking in layers is | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
what we can now do with modern technology. So he predated and | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
anticipated what we are doing 500 years later. Leonardo produced the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
first accurate depiction of the spine. Again, compare it with a | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
modern-day medical image. In anatomy, as in so many fields, he | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
was a genius far ahead of his time, showing a thirst for knowledge and | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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The extraordinary drawings. One World Trade Center - the tower | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
which replaces the buildings destroyed on September 11th 2001 - | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
can now claim to be New York City's tallest skyscraper. The final steel | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
columns are put in place that make it more than three hundred and | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
eighty one metres high. That's just higher than the roof of the | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
observation deck on the Empire State Building. The building also | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
known as Freedom Tower isn't expected to reach its full height | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
for at least another year. It should then be the tallest building | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
in the US, and the third tallest in the world. A reminder of our main | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
news. A court in Bahrain has ordered a retrial in the case of a | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
hunger striker who was jailed for leading last year's pro-democracy | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
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protests in Bahrain. That is all Hello, for many of us it was dry | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
with some sunshine. Tomorrow, more rain, particularly across areas | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
where we saw the weekend flooding. Southern England and South Wales. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
It is due to weather fronts moving up across the channel through the | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
day. In the north, high-pressure so it will be dry with clear spells | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
across Northern Ireland and Scotland to begin. Misty and murky | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
around the Murray of Firth. The cloud will increase with rain in | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
the afternoon. Temperatures struggling on the east coast | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
towards Lincolnshire. Just ten degrees. It becomes dry and bright | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
in the South East as temperatures climb. Still cloudy and damp across | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
the south-east -- south-west with temperatures around 14. A grey and | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
wet afternoon across Wales. The heaviest rain moving across the | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
North. Northern Ireland stays fine and dry with sunny spells. A | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
blustering breeze from the north- east. Temperatures around 13. | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
Temperatures climbing into the mid- to high teens across Scotland | :28:28. | :28:35. |