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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
A dramatic development in the battle for a Syrian city sees tunnels dug | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
under historic sites to stage a huge explosion. | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
As the massive bomb blast rips through the Syrian city of Aleppo - | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
a hotel and several other buildings are flattened. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Nigeria's missing schoolgirls - the president says their abduction could | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
mark a turning point in the fight against Islamic extremism. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Also coming up: With most of the votes in, the ANC appears to have | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
won a decisive victory in South Africa's general election. I am | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
Zeinab Badawi at the results centre in Pretoria. With 83% of electoral | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
districts declared, the ANC has 63% of the vote. I will be talking to | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
the justice minister. Are electrical devices making birds | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
lose their way? We find out why they've been ruffling the feathers | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
of migratory birds. Hello and welcome. Another dramatic | :01:05. | :01:20. | |
episode in Syria's bloody civil war after yesterday's mass retreat of | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
rebel fighters from the city of Homs. Today rebels set off a large | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
explosion in the northern city of Aleppo which has destroyed a hotel | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
and several other buildings. A group called the Islamic Front has claimed | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
responsibility for the attack. The blast in the city's government-held | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
area struck the Carlton hotel in the Old City, next to Aleppo's medieval | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
citadel. Opposition activists said that Government troops were based | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
there and that a number had been killed. Mike Wooldridge reports. | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
The massive blast sending a huge column of debris and dust into the | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
air. The Carlton Hotel in Aleppo's Old City, which was being used as a | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
base by Government forces, destroyed. And other buildings | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
damaged. The rebel Islamic Front was responsible for the blast. The | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
violence, said fighters had placed explosives in a tunnel underneath | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
the hotel. The rebel offensive in 2012 in Aleppo, left the Carlton and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
other nearby hotels on the front line of the conflict. Next to the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
city's medieval citadel, this was an area much frequented by tourists | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
before the war. After the expulsion, soldiers searching for any | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
survivors. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that there | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
were wounded as well as dead among the troops who had been occupying | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the building. Today's huge blast, a blow to the Assad regime in the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
North, as here in the central city of Homs, Government troops are | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
regaining control, after a cease-fire by the rebels. | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
With me is Edgard Jallad, the TV News Editor for BBC Arabic. You were | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
just telling the you have got a hold of some video that shows the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
preparations for this attack. Yes. It should the lead up to the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
operation and is about 20 minutes of video footage. It includes an | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
interview with a man who is one of the leaders of this Islamic Front | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
group. He was describing the work that led up to this explosion. He | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
said that the work took two and a half months of working day and | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
night. We can see them pulling out the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
rubble from underneath the building. He said there were 40 tonnes of | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
explosives planted underneath. He also said that the tunnel is 75 | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
metres long. It led to this checkpoint or base used by the | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
regular army. He promised that you should expect us to appear in | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
Damascus, perhaps at the presidential palace, to arrest the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
president. Apart from the damage that has been | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
done, this is a propaganda coup? Bexactly. It is a new tactic. We | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
have not witnessed anything like this before. It is an operation | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
which shows that the rebels are following different tactics and | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
imposing new rules on the Government. It is not limited to the | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
surface, but now we need to consider underground activity. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
We were talking about the retreat of rebel fighters from the city of is. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
You could say, the rebels appear to have scored a significant coup, but | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
that would be to simplify too much, wouldn't it? | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
Yes. These are different groups in different conditions. Yesterday, it | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
was portrayed as a victory for the Government. But these rebels left | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
this area to fight in another area. So, they are leaving but to go and | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
fight elsewhere. This was announced even by the Syrian Council leaders. | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
They said: Do not think these rebels are going home, they are going to | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
fight. So, these are two different things. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Good to talk to you. Thank you. There's been an earthquake in | :05:50. | :06:02. | |
Mexico. The epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude quake was on the pacific | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
coast. The nearest town was Tecpan which is just north of Acapulco. The | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
tremor was felt in Mexico City, several hundred kilometres away. A | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
number of office buildings were temporarily evacuated, but so far | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
there have been no reports of any serious damage or injuries in the | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Mexican capital. The Nigerian President, Goodluck | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Jonathan, has said terrorism is the greatest threat facing his country. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
The president has been talking to the BBC - claiming that with | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
international help, he'll be able to bring terrorism to an end and find | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
militants. Our world affairs editor John Simpson reports from the | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
capital Abuja. Gradually, and even now with a | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
surprising degree of slowness, the Nigerian authorities are starting to | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
deal with a crime that has shocked the world. At Chibok, the missing | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
girls' relatives are still in shock but at least the Government is | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
making an effort. In the capital, Abuja, one of the | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
daily protest gatherings is taking place. Quietly, peacefully but with | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
real determination, the organisers of the Bring Back Our Girls movement | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
are keeping up the pressure. It's the sustained advocacy and | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
effort by everybody around the world, the way everyone has said | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
that this is not acceptable - ignoring an abduction of over 200 | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
girls - I think, that is primarily the pressure making the Nigerian | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Government rethink the fact they ignored this issue initially. | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
In fact, until just a few days ago, no real effort seemed to be being | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
made at all. It was only earlier this week that a reward was offered | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
for information about the girls' whereabouts. Now though, the whole | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
situation seems to be changing. Today should have been a memorable | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
one for Nigeria. At this hotel in Abuja, the World Economic Forum is | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
taking place. Instead, everyone even here was thinking about the missing | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
girls. The forum started with a minute's silence for them. Has | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
President Goodluck Jonathan been too preoccupied with economics to pay | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
sufficient attention to the crime? When he spoke to the BBC, he showed | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
he was clearly taking the problem a lot more seriously. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
I believe with the assistance and investment we are making now, we are | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
able to bring terror to an end in Nigeria. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
For days now, relatives of the missing girls have been revisiting | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
the school they were taken from. If so many girls hadn't been kidnapped, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
maybe it would not have stirred up this worldwide response. | :08:44. | :08:58. | |
Pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine have said they plan to push | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
ahead with votes on independence this weekend. The Russian President, | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Vladimir Putin, yesterday called for the vote to be postponed. But one | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
separatist leader has said the rebels are sticking to their plans | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
because they represent the will of pro-Russian Ukrainians. The | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Government in Kiev meanwhile says any such poll will be illegal. On | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
the streets here in Donetsk, the regional capital, there are already | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
unofficial advertisements for the referendum. It is being portrayed as | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
a vote to save the region from fascism. At a packed news conference | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
in the city, the separatist rebels appeared before the world's media to | :09:40. | :09:52. | |
make their crucial announcement. And it was that all the leaders at the | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
self-declared people to Donetsk that the referendum should go ahead as | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
planned. They have decided to ignore President Putin's call for a delay | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
in the boat. By holding this referendum on Sunday, the fear is | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
that this will exacerbate tensions and potentially lead to a full-blown | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
civil war in Ukraine. I asked the man responsible for organising the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
referendum what he thought would happen now. He denied that a vote in | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
favour of independence for this region would lead to civil war. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Because, he said, there was already a civil War in Eastern Ukraine. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Government forces have deployed in large numbers in this region. To try | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
to push the pro-Russian separatists out of their strongholds. This | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
operation may well intensify now he for the rebels can hold their fault | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
to break away from Ukraine, potentially becoming part of Russia. | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
Meanwhile in Russia President Vladimir Putin has overseen military | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
exercises including the test launch of several ballistic missiles. Mr | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Putin said the exercises simulated a retaliatory nuclear strike in | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
response to an enemy attack, and that Russia's nuclear defence | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
capabilities remained on constant alert. He said the military drills | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
were planned in November, making no mention of tensions over Ukraine. | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Joining me from Brussels is an analyst at the European Policy | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
Centre. Thank you for joining us. It had been thought that President | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Putin was executing a masterly strategy, stirring up tensions in | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Eastern Ukraine, to strike back against the pro-Westerners in Kiev. | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
But how do you think the situation looks today? | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Nothing much will really change. It is very difficult to guess President | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
Putin's calculations and thoughts, but in practice not much has | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
changed. On the ground in Ukraine, what has changed is the position of | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
the member States of the European Union. As a result of President | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Putin's speech. This change and apparent U-turn has eased Drescher | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
on Russia. Russia looked like a constructive actor and one that does | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
not control the separatist forces. And we also see negotiations in | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
Brussels with member States talking about changing the legal framework | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
regarding sanctions. They have included the possibility to add | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
companies, but only from Crimea and not Russia. Part of these changes | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
are due to the speech given by President Putin yesterday. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Could the rebels be a spontaneous local or regional uprising, as they | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
have always claimed? They are clearly involved in local | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
grievances in that part of Ukraine, so that plays a major role in this. | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
We have seen evidence that Russian agents at present there and at | :13:29. | :13:40. | |
organising themselves. This is not difficult to believe, just months | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
ago we had one region of Ukraine having its own separatists, | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
spontaneously. They were supported by Russia. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Briefly, how much of this is just an economic story? The impact of | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
sanctions hitting those close to President Putin? | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
Sanctions to play a role in the calculation is being made in the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Kremlin. Again, in practice, nothing much has changed and President Putin | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
knows that. He knows that the situation on the ground will not | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
change if he gives a speech saying he does not want the referendum to | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
take place. It changes the position of the EU member States. And maybe | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
it changes the position of the United dates. President -- United | :14:41. | :14:54. | |
States. President Putin... Thank you for joining us. One of the | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
world's biggest banks, Barclays, has announced that it's cutting 19,000 | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
jobs worldwide over the next three years. The biggest cutbacks are in | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
the investment banking division. Barclays will also set up a so | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
called "bad bank" where it will park some of its riskiest investments, | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
including some commodities and emerging markets products. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Venezuelan security forces have broken up four protest camps in the | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
capital Caracas and rounded up hundreds of student activists in an | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
early morning raid. The students set up the tented camps more than a | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
month ago as part of protests against President Nicolas Maduro. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
The authorities said they'd seized drugs and weapons and accused the | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
students of using the camps to stage violent protests in other parts of | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
the city, but one of the student leaders denied this. Oscar | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Pistorius' defence team continued to present a picture of a man who was | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
heartbroken after he killed his girlfriend in what he says was a | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
tragic accident. On day 28 of the murder trial, the defence called a | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
social worker and probation officer who visited Pistorius in a police | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
cell a day after he fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp, to testify. The | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
social worker said she observed an emotionally devastated Pistorius. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
South Africa's governing African National Congress has taken a | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
commanding lead in the country's national elections. With more than | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
two thirds of the votes counted, the ANC has 63%, giving them a strong | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
mandate to try to tackle South Africa's many economic challenges. | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
Zeinab Badawi reports from the National Results Centre in Pretoria. | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
Thank you. Well just a few minutes ago you can't see him, but president | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Jacob Zuma arrived at the result sceptre. So quite a lot of people | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
around here. -- results centre. 83% of districts have declared. So you | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
can say with confidence that the picture is going to remain by and | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
large as it is. Were still waiting for the two most populist provinces | :17:01. | :17:13. | |
in South Africa to declare. One has Johannesburg and Pretoria there. So | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
the big us -- figures could adjust. I'm joined by the justice minister | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
in the ANC Government. 63%. You could say respectable, but it is | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
lower than the last election and the election before that. You're seeing | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
your vote diminish? No, if you take into account under the presidency of | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Nelson Mandela we had 62%. So it is not diminishing. If you look at the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
actual numbers of people who have voted for the ANC you realise that | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
the number is even larger than in the previous elections. I don't want | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
to get too pointy heady about it. 62% is right in 1994, but the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
political landscape was different, because the Zulu vote went to the | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
Freedom Party and that has changed. Having said that, the last three | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
elections after that, you're seeing your vote diminish. That would | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
suggest that you're doing something wrong? No f you look at 2009, even | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
the percentage was about 65%, but in actual numbers of people in 2009 | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
there were a million more people who voted for the ANC than in other | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
previous election. In real numbers the ANC is growing. If you look at | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
the membership and supporters when Mandela was president, we had | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
150,000 members. Now we have 1.2 million South Africans who are | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
card-carrying members. What about the economic freedom fighters in | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Johannesburg, they're eroding your vote. You have got just over 50% so | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
far in the count. That is the reflection of our democracy. We | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
don't have a system of winner takes all. Our system is based on | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
proportional representation and those members are former members of | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
the ANC who for one reason or the other have left the ANC. Jobs, a big | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
thing in your fifth term, will that be it? Indeed. Our vision national | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
development plan, the topic in town is jobs, fighting unemployment, | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
fighting poverty and fighting in quality in our country. So that we | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
grow this economy to create the jobs that we require. Thank you. There | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
you have an idea of what a fifth term of an ANC going is going to | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
focus on. Back to you. Thank you. There's a new weapon in the war | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
against Colombia's rebels and drug traffickers. The authorities there | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
have begun deploying British-made combat hovercraft in one of the most | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
troubled provinces to deal with country's rebel insurgency. Even | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
though talks have taken place between the Colombian government and | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
the main rebel group, the FARC, about ending rebel involvement in | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
the drugs trade, there's no ceasefire in place and the fighting | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
goes on. Frank Gardner has been to the remote Amazon settlement of | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
Puerto Leguizamo, with the Colombian navy as it tries to tackle the | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
traffickers. Deep in the jungle of Columbia there is something new on | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
the river. They're fast, heavily armed and can reach places ordinary | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
boats can't get to. These British-built hover craft have been | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
been brought from Southampton and the Columbian navy hopes it will | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
give them an advantage in chasing drug smugglers and insurgents in the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
heart of the world's cocaine industry. We watched them practice a | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
river-borne assault. They are operating where the Jungles is -- | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
where the jungle is held by the FARC movement. Both sides have committed | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
human rights abuses. TRANSLATION: They will change the whole dynamics | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
of war with FARC. Until now, we have only been able to operate for half | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
of the year. From October to January we can't move, because the river | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
levels drop so far, our boats hit the rocks. But these hover craft | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
don't need high water and we can cut off the rebel supply lines. Peace | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
talks are under way, but there is no deal. We should expect as we have | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
seen in the past that some crimes and some criminal gangs might pop | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
up, may appear in some areas, trying to keep the kind of business. The | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
new hover craft are unlike will I to stop that happening. But they may | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
just hasten the end of Latin America's longest-running | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
insurgency. Radio stations could be causing migratory birds such as | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
robins to lose their way - that's according to a new study. Low | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
frequency waves produced by equipment such as AM radio signals | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
apparently interfere with the animals' internal compass. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Scientists believe the effects are strongest when the birds fly over | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
urban areas. And the report says the birds are forced to switch to their | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
backup navigational systems, using the sun and stars instead. Joining | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
me from Essen in Germany is Professor Henrik Mouritsen. He's the | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
lead researcher from the University of Oldenburg. Thank you for joining | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
us, tell us more about your discovery. What are the worst | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
culprits from the birds' point of view? Well basically it is radio | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
frequency noise in a frequency... I think you're breaking up a bit. We | :23:11. | :23:22. | |
will continue. Those... Comes... Basically... I think we are going to | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
have to leave that. I'm so sorry to leave you there. But we are having | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
problems with the line. So we will just move on and leave you wondering | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
about the Robins and they're migration. - and their migration. | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
The space scientist Colin Pillinger - who's best known for leading a | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
mission to try to land a British spacecraft on Mars - has died at the | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
age of 70. He began his career with NASA, before becoming the driving | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
force behind the Beagle 2 mission. The Royal Astronomical Society said | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
he wasn't afraid to challenge the establishment and get things done. | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
Our Science Editor David Shukman looks back now at his life. With his | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
trade mark whiskers and a sharp eye for publicity, Colin Pillinger was | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
no ordinary scientist. Who else would wheel a replica of his space | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
craft in a shopping trolley. To say I was part of a mission that went to | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
Mars and even if it found life on Mars, that would be even more | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
phenomenal. Against all the odds, using humour and determination, | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Colin Pillinger raised the money for the mission. He started his career | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
studying moon rocks. The launch was flawless, but harder would be | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
achieving a landing on Mars. The tiny craft was named Beagle Two | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
after the ship that carried Charles Darwin. The risks were high, but it | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
was about British daring. We are only the country that would send a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
man to climb the highest mountain in a tweed suit. So I have all the | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
confidence. Alex James of Blur, one of many stars enthused by Colin | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Pillinger. I joined him on a visit to the radio telescope. He was a | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
very passionate man. He listened to a degree, but he was keen to get his | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
point of view across as well. And with that came a certain I would say | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
glint in his eye. Sadly, the mission to Mars failed. You could see the | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
agony on Colin Pillinger's face. But his technology live on in other | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
space craft. He will be remembered as a pioneer and as someone who | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
brought home the excitement of space exploration. The life of Colin | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Pillinger. Now some extraordinary images from a television show in | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Jordan. Nothing out of the ordinary it seeps, just two -- seem, just two | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
guests debating. The presenter tried to moderate with little success. | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
They're talking about the crisis in Syria and they have a difference of | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
opinion and ended up picking up huge parts of set, before having to be | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
torn apart by staff. I am glad to say guests here do tend to be more | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
restrained and our sets are more rigid. Now our main news: A huge | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
bomb has destroyed a hotel in Aleppo that was being used as a base by | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
Government forces. Thank you for being us with here on Word News | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
Today. It was a wet day across much of the | :26:47. | :27:00. | |
country. The showery rain continues tonight. By dawn another crop | :27:01. | :27:01. |