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Tonight at Ten: The scandal-ridden News of the World becomes a victim | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
of its own misconduct. As the phone-hacking crisis reaches new | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
levels, the Murdoch family decides to close Britain's best-selling | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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newspaper. Certain individuals did not live up to the standards and | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
quality of journalism that we believe in, that I believe in, and | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
the company believes in. decision stunned the media world, | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
but followed an exodus of big advertisers alarmed by the public | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
and political response. I am not interested in closing down | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
newspapers, I am interested in those who were responsible being | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
brought to justice, and those who had responsibility for the running | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
of that newspaper taking that responsibility, and I don't think | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
those two things have happened today. As the alleged targets of | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
the hackers became ever more shocking, the pressure on the paper | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
intensified. And the police are, themselves, on the defensive | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
because of payments taken by some officers. If proved it is corrupt | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
practice, I will be determined to put them in front of the criminal | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
courts. We'll be considering the impact on the Murdoch empire and | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
its highly controversial plans for expansion in the British media. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Also tonight: In the European Union, interest rates are up again despite | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
the financial crisis in some member states. And a medical breakthrough | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
as scientists perform the world's first transplant using a synthetic | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Good evening. The tide of public anger about the phone-hacking | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
scandal has forced the closure of Britain's best-selling paper, the | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
News of the World. This Sunday's edition will be the last. The | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Chairman of News International, James Murdoch, told staff that the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
paper had failed to get to the bottom of "repeated wrongdoing". | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
But the company has refused to comment on rumours that another of | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
its papers, the Sun, could now be extended to a Sunday edition. First | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
tonight, our business editor Robert Peston reports on the News of the | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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World's closure. Rupert Murdoch, 1969, shortly after he bought the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
News of the World, which was to become his very profitable pride | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
and joy. I forgive the individuals by all means. 42 years later, it he | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
might well have made the same remarks about the newsroom at the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
paper whose actions shocked the nation. In the last few days, the | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
paper became indelibly linked with the worst practices in British | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
journalism and James Murdoch concluded it could not be mended. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
Clearly, the practices of certain individuals did not live up to the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
standards and quality of journalism that we believe in, that I believe | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
in, and this company believes in. This company has been a great | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
investor in journalism, a great investor in media in general, and | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
it is something we believe very strongly in. And clearly, certain | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
activities did not live up to those standards and that is a matter of | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
great regret for me personally and for the company. What did for the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
News of the World were revelations about the alleged hacking of the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
mobile phones of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
parents of the Soham victims, and the families of those who died in | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
the 7/7 atrocities, and the families of British soldiers killed | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
in action. Here is 80 year-old Rupert Murdoch earlier today | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
pursued by journalists at a media conference in Idaho, hours before | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the kind of humiliation rare for the quintessential mogul. One of | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
his staff was less tight-lipped. have done a lot of good things on | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
the News of the World, and because of what happened by some people, | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
unscrupulous souls who worked here before, those people have been | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
thrown out of the job today. Rebekah Brooks, now chief-executive | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
of News International, some feel she should have gone. A lot of | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
people are losing their jobs today, but one of the people who is | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
remaining in her job is the chief executive of News International, | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
who was the editor at the time the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
happened. I don't think this solves the real issues at News | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
International. I am satisfied that her leadership of this business and | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
her standard of ethics, and her standard of conduct throughout her | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
career are very good. With big consumer company after big consumer | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
company pulling their advertising from the News of the World for fear | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
of being tainted by association, its commercial future was looking | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
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bleak. With its demise, will be company be damaged? There must be a | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
public lead inquiry. Here is the other newspaper acquired by Rupert | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
Murdoch, the Sun - could the song on Sunday be born? The Sunday | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
without the Murdoch tabloid? Unthinkable, surely. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
As Robert noted, the News of the World title has been around for 168 | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
years, during which time it's emerged as a powerful media brand | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
and the prime vehicle for celebrity scoops and sex scandals. It was | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
bought by Rupert Murdoch in 1969, and it repaid the investment many | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
times over. Nick Higham reports on the best-selling newspaper, set to | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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disappear within days. It was as British as roast beef and in 1969 a | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
brash young Australian called Rupert Murdoch bought it. The money | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
it made helped him build a truly global media empire. The News of | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
the World was already over a century old and claimed the world's | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
biggest selling newspaper. Generations of Britons had subtle | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
to read it after Sunday lunch. The paper was notorious for its | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
sensational coverage of ghastly crimes and grisly murders, sex | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
scandals and shocking revelations. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
was among the modern News of the World victims. The paper targeted | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
celebrities and ordinary people, sometimes going too far. Max Mosley | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
successfully sued the paper for invading his privacy. This man made | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
a career out of hidden camera stings, this blue won the paper led | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
award earlier this year. Thank you to every one of you. Lie call | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
newspapers, the News of the World is a shadow of what it once was. 10 | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
years ago, it sold more than 4 million copies a week. That has | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
plummeted today to 2.7 million, but 7.5 million still read the News of | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
the World each week, and of those, too 0.9 million our beloved of the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
advertisers. Commercially it has remained a crucial part of the News | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
International stable of four International titles. The decision | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
to close the paper has shocked many, though some see it as a cynical | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
ploy. It is a typical management stunt of Rupert Murdoch. He gets | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
rid of problems, and in this case nobody in the senior management | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
clearly involved in this matter, none of those go, Rebekah Brooks | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
being a clear example. There is no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun. | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
Whether it is replaced or not, today it is clear the News of the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
World had become an expensive liability. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to oversee the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
inquiry into possible wrongdoing by officers alleged to have taken | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
thousands of pounds from journalists in exchange for | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
information. Investigators are trying to identify who received the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
cash and how much changed hands. With the latest on that, and the | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
investigation into a long list of alleged phone-hacking cases, here's | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. This famous newspaper | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
title may have been confined to history but the scrutiny of its | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
methods goes on. Britain's most senior policemen now has officers | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
investigating whether other officers were bribed by journalists. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
A small number of police officers may have engaged in corrupt | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
practice, and that is what it is. If proved, I will be determined to | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
put them in front of the criminal courts. The former News of the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
World editor Andy Coulson told a court last year as a witness he | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
knew nothing about payments to the police, but e-mails have been | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
provided by News International itself and the campaigning Labour | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
MP Tom Watson today said that raised serious questions. Either | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
Andy Coulson or News International are misleading us. If it is Andy | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Coulson, he has to answer perjury charge. Tonight it is reported that | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Andy Coulson will tomorrow be arrested, after submitting himself | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
at a police station for questioning. Scotland Yard says it investigation | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
into collusion with the press will be robust, where in the past | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
insiders say it has fallen short. One former tabloid journalist says | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the paper itself should have been more restrained. Rebekah Brooks | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
should have put the brakes on, and if she had done that we would not | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
have got into the Milly Dowler scenario. She was the boss, she | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
must have known where all of these exclusives were coming from. They | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
didn't just come out of the ether. Today families of service personnel | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
killed in action were contacting the police after claims their voice | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
mail may have been accessed. No confirmed cases have come to light | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
but the allegations forced the Royal British Legion to come out -- | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
pull out of its fund-raising with News of the World. Police are | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
investing -- are investigating the case of James Philippson. According | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
to his father, e-mails were read by hackers after his death. Wrongdoers | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
need to be called into account and suffer whatever punishment is | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
appropriate. I am sure that will happen and it will take time. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Rebekah Brooks, pictured leaving News International tonight. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Criminal investigations, public inquiries, the scrutiny of what | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
went on at her newspaper could continue for years. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
In a moment to Westminster and our political editor Nick Robinson, but | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
first to Robert Peston who's at News International headquarters in | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
East London. Robert, where does this leave the Murdoch empire? | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
more I think about today's events, the more extraordinary they seem. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Last week the News of the World was more or less the best-selling | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
newspaper in the UK, the next week it will not exist. I can't remember | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
a big company taking a decision to close down what appeared to be a | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
successful business, and incredibly well known brand, as rapidly as | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
News International did today, as rapidly as James and Rupert Murdoch | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
did. It shows how extraordinarily bad they felt, the damage that | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
would be done to the business with these revelations about the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
newsroom which they described as totally out of control, and how | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
much more damage they feared would come from further disclosures. The | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
question is, where does it leave the takeover of BSkyB? They will | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
say the water has been taken out of their business, but the critics | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
will point to these scandals and say it proves they are not | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
appropriate owners for what is after all the biggest broadcaster | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
in the UK by revenues. They will say this shows they do not have the | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
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controls to manage a business. you have been talking about how | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
tricky this issue has been for David Cameron - has that changed | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
today? No, because he is no mere spectator as we watch this drama. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Real politics he knows will resume soon. Those in Downing Street who | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
were friends of Andy Coulson, colleagues of the man, hired after | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
he resigned from News of the World to be director of communications, | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
they are waiting with some dread for his likely arrest. No one knows | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
for sure whether that report is right that he will be arrested | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
tomorrow, but if it is confirmed we know there will be a new aspect for | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
this story. Already the Prime Minister has announced inquiries | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
into the ethics of the media and the behaviour of the police, but he | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
knows this will shine a light on to the behaviour of the political | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
classes as a whole. It too much ever since Rupert Murdoch bought | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
the News of the World, politicians of all parties have sucked up to | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
him in order to get his favours. Tony Blair flew to Australia when | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
he was leader of the opposition, Gordon Brown went to the wedding of | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
the current chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks. When | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
he was there he bumped into David Cameron. David Cameron happens to | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
be the leader who was in Downing Street when the music has stopped, | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
but those close to him have told me they know he has to address that | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
relationship. His mistakes, or the politicians' mistakes, not just | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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Let's look at the day's other news for you now. The Bank of England | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
has left interest rates unchanged at 0.5%. They have been at that | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
level for 28 months. The European Central Bank has increased its | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
rates for the second time since April because of worries about | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
rising prices. That approach is worrying some experts, who warn | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
countries like Greece will be under more pressure, as our Europe | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
correspondent reports. This is the problem Europe's | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
bankers have to address - a two- speed Europe w the sleek German | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
machine powering ahead and the old Greek banker - this is a taxi | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
drivers' strike, grinding to a halt. Europe's central bank dismissed | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
fears that raising rates is good for Germany but grim for Greece. | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
consider that maintaining stability for an entire continent for 331 | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
million citizens is essential for the prosperity of the entire | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
continent. What is more Belgian than a waf | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
fell? Here the interest rate makes sense, by helping to slow inflation | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
in a vibrant economy. We are expanding in other countries in | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Europe and expanding in Asia, in other continents. Things are | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
looking good at the moment? Things are looking good. Indeed Belgian | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
growth is forecast to be close to.4%. Germany is higher. Finland | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
around 3.7%. Contrast that with the strug lers. | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Ireland should grow this -- strugglers, Ireland should grow. | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
Greece should shrink by 3.5%. Up the road, a reminder of more | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
affluent Greek times. Higher rates will slow an already struggling | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
economy there. This couple always planned to move | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
back to Greece one day. Not now, I was told, it is miserable there. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
For critics, this is just the kind of two-speed eurozone they always | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
warned would be unsustainable. years, Ireland and Greece had | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
interest rates that were too low, that encouraged an artificial boom | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
there. Now they have interest rates which are too high. This is the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
problem with the euro. Many disagree with that. Here in | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
Belgium, for instance, hardly anyone questions remaining in the | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
euro, nevertheless, there are huge economic differences across the | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
eurozone which are going to keep policy makers on their toes for | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
years to come. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Preparing for that final countdown, Atlantis on the launch pad for the | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first transplant using | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
a synthetic organ. The artificial wind pipe was created by surgeons | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
in London. The recipient is said to be recovering well. | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
This is how the world's first synthetic organ was made, dipping a | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
glass mould into a liquid polymer, which set to create an exact copy | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
of the patient's windpipe. It was created in these labs at the Royal | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
Free Hospital, in London, and then flown to Sweden. Once in Stockholm, | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
the synthetic pipe was bathed in a solution of stem cells taken from | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the patient's bone marrow. After just two days, the millions of tiny | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
holes in its surface were seeded by cells, a synthetic body part had | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
become the patient's own. And here it is in the operating theatre, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
being cut to size moments before being transplanted. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
The ability to create a 3D synthetic organ is a significant | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
moment in this field of surgery. This technique does not rely on a | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
human donation. You can have it immediately. There is no delay. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Most important, since this approach, you do not need any suppression. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
The patient was being discharged tomorrow, knows without the | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
transplant he would have died. His voice is still recovering. I was | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
very scared. Very scared. It is the difference between living and not | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
living. What next? Look at this - it's a one-metre long synthetic | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
artery, made in this machine in London in just 20 minutes. It is | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
one of many body parts the scientists say they can now create | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
at will. We make a heart valve. We make a bigger diameter for the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
aorta. We move to other parts of the body. We can make ear, nose, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
the skin and so on. This material does have limits. It can't be used | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
to create complex organs like the heart, liver or kidney. Scientists | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
hope it points the way to more transplants without the wait for a | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
donor. A man has been jailed for 20 years | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
by a court in London for trafficking two Nigerian teenagers | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
into Britain and falsely imprisoning them. Anthony Harrison | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
tried to traffic the two girls aged 14 and 16 into Greece and Spain as | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
prostitutes. It took police two years to persuade them to talk | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
about their ordeal. Anthony Harrison was a man who lived a | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
double life. A caretaker for his local council, who was also a key | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
player in a sophisticated network of people traffickers. A network | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
that used fear and rituals to terrorise its victims. This was | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Harrison recorded on CCTV at a money exchange. The blurred figure | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
with him is Kiram, a 16-year-old girl, smuggled into the UK from | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
Nigeria. The plan to traffic her to the continent for a life of | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
prostitution. I had to promise I would do prostitution to do the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
money. I promised I would not speak to anybody about what happened to | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
me. They said I would die, I believe it. They obey, because in | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Nigeria they had undergone a juju magic ritual, similar to this one, | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
which was shown to the jury. They believed they were being controlled | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
by evil forces. They took them to a juju practitioner, a juju priest, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
to go through a ceremony to instil terror into them. So it meant when | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
the young women were here, in this country, they still felt that the | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
power of that curse could still reach them. Harrison kept his | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
victims prisoner here at his home in East London. Two frightened | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
girls from small Nigerian villages, with no previous experience of the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
outside world. But the plan was to move them on as quickly as possible. | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
Detectives say they have never come across a case quite like it. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
have two young girls trafficked into and out of the UK. It is | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
unusual. If you add to that the juju element, where they are | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
convinced they will die and brainwashed around the juju, it is | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
very unusual for us. Tonight, Harrison is beginning a 20-year | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
jail sentence. His victims have been allowed to stay in Britain to | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
re-build their lives. Half a million people are expected | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
to gather along Florida's coast tomorrow to watch Atlantis take off | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
for the last time. It's the final flight for America's shuttle | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
programme which began 30 years ago. Weather-permitting, the four | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
astronauts lift off tomorrow afternoon. Our science | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
correspondent sent this report. Atlantis, on the launch pad - the | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
last of its kind, poised for the final mission. It's taken weeks of | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
effort, night and day, to get to this moment T space shuttles have | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
been flying for 30 years. Now this launch will mark the end for a | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
while of America's ability to send people into orbit. For everyone, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
the ground crews, astronauts and senior managers, it is bound to be | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
an emotional time. REPORTER: Will you feel sad? I absolutely have | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
shed tears at each of the landings of the last two orbiters. I will do | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
the same as the orbiter lands. We have just put so much into this | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
programme as a nation. But there will be tears of pride and joy. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
This massive building is where they have been assembling the space | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
shuttles and before them the Apollo rocket that took men up to the moon. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
The shuttles just won't be remembered in the same way. Their | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
job was to deliver people and cargo into orbit. They have had real | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
successes. The shuttle has cleared the tower. You have two feet to go. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
The result - these spectacular images of the most distant reaches | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
of the universe. The shuttles built the International Space Station, an | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
orbiting laboratory, now the size of a football field. There has been | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
a heavy cost. In 1986 the Challenger exploded, all seven | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
people on board were killed, including a teacher. Her parents | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
watched in horror. She had been invited to prove that space travel | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
was safe. Then in 2003, the Columbia broke up. Another seven | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
people were killed. A disastrous record for a caflt meant to reach - | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
- craft meant to reaching orbit routine. They have come with a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
tremendous cost. Anything of this kind of value comes with tremendous | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
costs. I think the greater the value, often the greater the cost. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
It is bringing a lot of cloud cover.... For now, all eyes are on | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
the images from space of the storms crossing the site. Lightning struck | :25:18. | :25:23. |