:00:02. > :00:07.Global markets surge after Europe's leaders pull the single currency
:00:07. > :00:10.back from the brink and strike a deal. Share prices rise again but
:00:10. > :00:20.many details of the plan to solve the eurozone debt crisis remain
:00:20. > :00:20.
:00:21. > :00:25.unresolved. It is very important to keep up the momentum, to keep
:00:25. > :00:28.people's confidence. That is the critical thing, so, yes, this is
:00:28. > :00:32.something the British Government has worked hard to encourage, and
:00:33. > :00:35.we certainly hope it works. Tonight the French President claims
:00:35. > :00:38.the deal's prevented catastrophe but says Greece shouldn't have been
:00:38. > :00:41.allowed to join the euro. We'll be assessing whether the deal
:00:41. > :00:44.will work and what it means here. Also tonight:
:00:44. > :00:48.Serial killer Robert Black's found guilty of the murder of a nine-
:00:48. > :00:58.year-old girl 30 years ago. Her family say they're relieved it's
:00:58. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:05.finally over. And all of a sudden we are confronted with the awful
:01:05. > :01:09.last few hours and what she had to suffer. And that has been truly
:01:09. > :01:11.awful for each and every one of us. Thousands flee Thailand's capital
:01:12. > :01:14.as the worst floodwaters for decades threaten to engulf the
:01:14. > :01:17.centre of Bangkok. A senior cleric at St Paul's
:01:17. > :01:25.resigns in a row over how the church should deal with anti-
:01:25. > :01:28.capitalist protestors camped outside the cathedral. My red line
:01:28. > :01:31.on the issue was that I do not believe the Church should sanction
:01:31. > :01:35.any course of action that could lead to violence against the
:01:35. > :01:43.protesters. I would prefer that to be negotiated.
:01:43. > :01:47.And the gene therapy that could stop people going blind.
:01:47. > :01:51.Coming up in Sportsday, a blow for Chelsea in their bid to buy back
:01:51. > :02:01.Stamford Bridge and move to a new stadium. The Chelsea Pitch owners
:02:01. > :02:06.
:02:06. > :02:10.Good evening. The French President Nicolas
:02:10. > :02:13.Sarkozy says it is a plan that has saved the world from catastrophe
:02:13. > :02:18.and markets have surged following the deal to contain the Eurozone
:02:18. > :02:21.debt crisis. It's hoped the agreement, reached by the leaders
:02:21. > :02:26.of the 17 eurozone countries, will be enough to prevent the collapse
:02:26. > :02:29.of the euro and ensure that Europe isn't pushed back into recession.
:02:29. > :02:32.But already a fresh argument has broken out tonight after President
:02:32. > :02:42.Sarkozy declared that Greece should never have been allowed to join the
:02:42. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:46.eurozone. From Brussels, Gavin Hewitt reports.
:02:46. > :02:50.Financial markets across the world rose today, following the news that
:02:50. > :02:54.Europe's leaders had agreed a plan to fix the eurozone crisis. They
:02:54. > :02:58.did not get all of the detail they were looking for but what they
:02:58. > :03:03.heard exceeded expectations, and has bought Europe time to deliver
:03:03. > :03:09.on commitments made. Last night at 4am, with people slumped at their
:03:09. > :03:13.desks, Europe's two most powerful leaders stepped into the spotlight.
:03:13. > :03:17.TRANSLATION: I am very aware, as we all are, that the world was
:03:17. > :03:23.watching us closely tonight and I think that we Europeans proved that
:03:23. > :03:27.we came to the right conclusion. think the result will be welcomed
:03:27. > :03:31.by the entire world, which was expecting strong decisions from the
:03:31. > :03:36.eurozone. I think these decisions have been taken. Away from the
:03:36. > :03:41.summit, others were more cautious, spying progress but seeing the
:03:41. > :03:45.outcome has just a first step. are in a much better position to
:03:45. > :03:48.Deighan we were yesterday. It is very important to keep up the
:03:48. > :03:51.momentum, to keep people's confidence. That is the critical
:03:51. > :03:56.thing. This is something the British government has worked hard
:03:57. > :04:01.to encourage, and we certainly hope it works a. So what was in the
:04:01. > :04:05.deal? Banks that have invested in Greece will take losses of up to
:04:06. > :04:12.50%, so reducing Greek debt. This will mean Europe's banks will need
:04:12. > :04:16.to raise more capital of around 108 billion euros. And the EU's main
:04:16. > :04:21.bail out fund will be boosted up to one trillion euros to protect
:04:21. > :04:25.countries like Italy. The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou,
:04:25. > :04:30.returned home and so the deal would help to turn a page for his country.
:04:30. > :04:32.TRANSLATION: This is a fight that we have to win. It is clear that
:04:32. > :04:38.our colleagues in the European Union recognise our efforts and
:04:38. > :04:43.they want our success. They also support us. President Sarkozy of
:04:43. > :04:47.France also went on TV tonight, but he said it had been an error to
:04:47. > :04:51.admit Greece to the eurozone in the first place. Let's say how it is,
:04:52. > :04:57.he said, it was a mistake, Greece was not ready to join the euro when
:04:57. > :05:01.it did because of its economy. President Sarkozy also said,
:05:01. > :05:07.however, that he was confident the country could emerge from its debt
:05:07. > :05:09.crisis. Not everyone is persuaded by last night's deal. A lot of
:05:10. > :05:14.detail is missing and some of the key elements in increasing the
:05:14. > :05:19.firepower of the main bail out fund will not even be negotiated until
:05:19. > :05:23.November. They have stopped the Euro from collapsing today, even
:05:23. > :05:26.perhaps tomorrow, but they definitely have not saved the euro.
:05:26. > :05:31.We are still in the thick of trouble. We are not out of the
:05:31. > :05:35.woods and we are not going to be for a number of years to come.
:05:35. > :05:39.night's most sensitive decisions were taken here by just the
:05:39. > :05:43.eurozone leaders. Britain, not being in the Euro, was not
:05:43. > :05:47.represented, and it raises questions of whether there will now
:05:47. > :05:50.be a two-tier Europe, insiders and outsiders.
:05:51. > :05:54.As Gavin was saying, there are still doubts as to whether the
:05:54. > :05:57.agreement signed by the eurozone countries will work in the long-
:05:57. > :06:02.term. Hugh Pym is here to look at the details and the implications
:06:02. > :06:04.for the UK. There may be an agreement on
:06:05. > :06:09.tackling the eurozone crisis, but there are still many unanswered
:06:09. > :06:12.questions. First of all, what's the detail? As you've heard, 50% of
:06:12. > :06:16.Greek debt owed to private investors like banks will be
:06:16. > :06:20.written off. Even after that Greek government debt will still be the
:06:20. > :06:23.highest in the eurozone relative to the size of its economy. It still
:06:23. > :06:33.needs individual bank approval, though the signs are that shouldn't
:06:33. > :06:35.
:06:35. > :06:40.be a problem. Most, if not all of the banks have agreed as to the 50%
:06:40. > :06:42.write-down on Greek debt holding. So that is one part of the
:06:42. > :06:46.announcement this morning that, from our perspective and certainly
:06:46. > :06:51.from the perspective of the markets, was clear. There is a lot more
:06:51. > :06:56.detail to come on another key bit of the package, the one trillion
:06:56. > :07:00.euros bail out fund. The idea is to take existing agreed eurozone
:07:00. > :07:06.funding and encourage other investors to come on board. But it
:07:07. > :07:10.is unclear who exactly will pay for There will be calls on the
:07:10. > :07:14.financial might of Chinese authorities. A senior European
:07:14. > :07:17.official is in Beijing for talks on China hoping to finance the bail
:07:17. > :07:22.out fund. There could also be an insurance type scheme covering
:07:23. > :07:26.future losses on loans to eurozone governments, the aim being to
:07:26. > :07:31.reassure private investors. And of course, another key question for
:07:31. > :07:35.all of us - what might the cost be to the UK? There will be nothing on
:07:35. > :07:39.this eurozone bail out - the UK is not involved - but the Government
:07:39. > :07:42.has already given loan guarantees to an EU-wide bail out fund, and
:07:42. > :07:46.there is also a British contribution to the International
:07:46. > :07:51.Monetary Fund, which has made loans to stricken eurozone countries. It
:07:51. > :07:55.could well make more in future, as the Chancellor conceded today.
:07:55. > :07:59.Britain, as a founding and permanent member of its governing
:07:59. > :08:03.board, stands ready to consider the case for further resources and to
:08:03. > :08:08.contribute with other countries if necessary. Let us remember that
:08:08. > :08:13.support for the IMF does not add to our debt or deficit, and that no
:08:13. > :08:17.one who has ever provided money to the IMF has ever lost that money.
:08:17. > :08:20.Perhaps the biggest question is, will it work? We do not know if the
:08:20. > :08:23.size of the bail out fund is enough and whether it will provide
:08:23. > :08:28.sufficient firepower, and we do not know if it will help economic
:08:28. > :08:32.growth, especially at a time when eurozone leaders want to have
:08:32. > :08:37.tougher central controls on budgets. There is nothing they can deliver
:08:37. > :08:40.to us overnight in a summit that could make us say, absolutely,
:08:40. > :08:44.these economies are on a sustainable path. We need to see
:08:44. > :08:49.whether, politically, this austerity can be delivered, and how
:08:49. > :08:52.the economies react in the face of European stock markets have risen
:08:52. > :08:56.sharply in reaction to the agreement. Bank shares got a real
:08:56. > :09:06.boost, but as we've seen all too often, moods can shift quickly on
:09:06. > :09:10.
:09:10. > :09:13.eurozone bail out deals. Gavin Hewitt is in Brussels. Relief
:09:13. > :09:18.for European leaders today, but what about the Commons that
:09:18. > :09:23.President Sarkozy has made tonight about Greece? Yes, it has been a
:09:23. > :09:26.day of progress but also a day that has revealed how sensitive all of
:09:26. > :09:31.this is, with President Sarkozy same tonight that Greece should
:09:31. > :09:36.never have joined the eurozone in the first place. The Greek Foreign
:09:36. > :09:39.Minister replied by saying that no country should be made a scapegoat.
:09:39. > :09:42.But what President Sarkozy was trying to say was that they had no
:09:42. > :09:46.alternative to avoid a Greek default, otherwise, he said, it
:09:46. > :09:50.would have brought about a domino effect and would have been a
:09:50. > :09:54.catastrophe. He actually said, if the euro had exploded, Europe would
:09:54. > :09:59.have exploded. He said it could have brought down the entire system
:09:59. > :10:03.in Europe. I think this gives an insight into the drama at play here,
:10:03. > :10:07.and the fact that, clearly, when they were meeting last night, they
:10:07. > :10:11.felt those were the stakes. I think what President Sarkozy was
:10:11. > :10:16.underlining tonight was that there is now an absolute commitment to
:10:16. > :10:23.avoid Greece defaulting. Where does this deal leave David Cameron and
:10:23. > :10:26.his party's relationship with Europe? The Government certainly
:10:26. > :10:29.believes the eurozone countries are moving towards sorting out their
:10:29. > :10:32.economic difficulties but the eurozone crisis is causing
:10:32. > :10:37.political difficulties for the Prime Minister. Downing Street
:10:37. > :10:40.officials are emphasising that they believe this deal to bolster the
:10:40. > :10:44.euro will lead to only limited changes to EU treaties. To
:10:44. > :10:48.translate that into plain speaking, that means they see absolutely no
:10:48. > :10:52.need for any referendum on our relationship with the EU any time
:10:52. > :10:54.soon, which is already disappointing many of the 81
:10:54. > :10:59.Conservative backbenchers who rebelled against the Government on
:10:59. > :11:02.Europe this week. They say that even if only limited treaty changes
:11:03. > :11:06.are necessary, the Government should use that to rest powers back
:11:06. > :11:11.from Brussels to Britain. Some of them say they will drop their own
:11:11. > :11:14.list of measures which they demand David Cameron demands to return to
:11:14. > :11:17.Britain. In a few hours, David Cameron will be touching down in
:11:17. > :11:24.Australia but he cannot leave behind some of the problems he has
:11:24. > :11:27.with his party over Europe. The notorious child killer Robert
:11:27. > :11:31.Black, who's already serving life in prison for the murders of three
:11:31. > :11:33.young girls in the 1980s, has been found guilty of killing a fourth
:11:33. > :11:39.victim in Northern Ireland. Nine- year-old Jennifer Cardy went
:11:39. > :11:46.missing in County Antrim. Her body was found six days later. Mark
:11:46. > :11:50.Simpson reports. Is one of the most notorious
:11:50. > :11:55.killers in British criminal history, and to Dave Robert Black was
:11:55. > :12:00.convicted of another murder of a young girl. -- today. Nine-year-old
:12:00. > :12:06.Jennifer Cardy disappear 30 years ago as she rode her bicycle to her
:12:06. > :12:10.friend's house. -- she disappeared. As the years went on, hopes faded
:12:10. > :12:16.of finding her killer, but the case was recently reopened, and the
:12:16. > :12:20.evidence all pointed to one man, Robert Black. Today, he was found
:12:20. > :12:27.guilty of murdering Jennifer Cardy. Her parents were in court for every
:12:27. > :12:31.day of the five week trial. All of a sudden we are concerned Tidworth
:12:31. > :12:36.-- confronted with the awful last few hours and what she would have
:12:36. > :12:42.had to suffer. That has been truly awful for each and every one of us.
:12:42. > :12:48.I do not think, being realistic and honest, I do not think we will ever
:12:48. > :12:57.have closure, because our daughter has gone. But we have the relief of
:12:57. > :13:02.knowing that the perpetrator of this gruesome, horrible crime has
:13:02. > :13:07.been brought to justice. Robert Black was convicted in 1994 or
:13:07. > :13:11.three other murders. The victims of the Scottish van driver were all
:13:11. > :13:16.schoolgirls. 11-year-old Susan Maxwell from Northumberland, five-
:13:16. > :13:19.year-old Caroline Hogg from Edinburgh, and a ten-year-old
:13:19. > :13:24.Sarah-Jane Harper from Leeds. The killing in Northern Ireland came
:13:24. > :13:29.first, in the summer of 1981. Jennifer Cardy was found dead, 10
:13:29. > :13:34.miles from her home. Robert Black brought the schoolgirl's body here
:13:34. > :13:38.in the back of his van, and because he was a long-distance driver he
:13:38. > :13:42.was constantly on the move right across the UK. It is one of the
:13:42. > :13:47.reasons why it took the police so long to catch him. He was
:13:47. > :13:50.eventually arrested while attacking another schoolgirl. According to
:13:50. > :13:57.one detective who interviewed him, he is arguably Britain's most
:13:57. > :14:01.dangerous criminal. He is a child molester, on one level, but an
:14:01. > :14:06.aggressive predatory paedophile on another, and I think unique in the
:14:06. > :14:10.history of serious offending against children in the UK. Robert
:14:10. > :14:14.Black is now serving life for four murders. He has never admitted any
:14:14. > :14:23.of his killings, and the suspicion remains that the full horror of his
:14:24. > :14:27.The United Nations Security Council has voted to end international
:14:27. > :14:31.military operations in Libya next Monday. During a seven-month
:14:31. > :14:36.campaign established to protect civilians from Colonel Gaddafi's
:14:36. > :14:39.forces, the Alliance carried out 26,000 sorties and almost 10,000
:14:39. > :14:43.strike missions. In Thailand, thousands of residents
:14:43. > :14:49.are fleeing the capital, Bangkok, which is being threatened by severe
:14:49. > :14:53.flooding over the weekend. So far, 360 people have died in Thailand's
:14:53. > :14:57.worst floods in decades. 9 million people live in Bangkok but
:14:57. > :15:01.thousands have already left the northern suburbs as the deluge
:15:01. > :15:05.swamped their homes. As you can see from the satellite image, the city
:15:05. > :15:10.centre is almost completely surrounded by water.
:15:10. > :15:16.Street by street, the water is winning the battle for control of
:15:16. > :15:20.Bangkok's northern suburbs. Advancing further every day,
:15:21. > :15:26.torrents of it. A middle-class neighbourhood is rapidly being
:15:26. > :15:34.submerged. This woman has just watched her street disappear under
:15:34. > :15:39.the deluge. Water is at the waist, but inside, it is up to my chest.
:15:39. > :15:43.The water is coming higher all the time? Yes. Most take with them only
:15:43. > :15:47.what they can carry, valuable possessions and treasured pets.
:15:47. > :15:51.There is no panic, but a very definite sense of urgency, tinged
:15:51. > :15:56.with disbelief. The government had originally said Bangkok would be
:15:56. > :16:00.protected. There are no such assurances any more. This is just
:16:00. > :16:05.the latest district of Bangkok that has been told to evacuate with each
:16:05. > :16:08.passing day, more areas of the capital city are put on a lead. Now
:16:08. > :16:15.the government says there is no part of Bangkok that it can
:16:15. > :16:19.guarantee will be safe. TRANSLATION: We are trying our best.
:16:19. > :16:24.An emotional Prime Minister it tells reporters. Just two months
:16:24. > :16:29.into the job, she finds herself struggling to manage a national
:16:29. > :16:33.crisis. In the centre of the city, things much as normal, apart from
:16:33. > :16:37.the sandbag flood defences, and new warnings from foreign governments,
:16:37. > :16:40.including Britain: avoid Bangkok if you can. Our assessment is not
:16:40. > :16:45.alarmist but practical and realistic. If things improve, we
:16:45. > :16:51.will adjust our assessments accordingly. If things get worse,
:16:51. > :16:55.we will take that into account. the St -- the signs are not
:16:55. > :17:01.encouraging. Market traders in the old quarter of Bangkok kept going
:17:01. > :17:05.as long as they could. But few customers are prepared to wade to
:17:05. > :17:11.their stalls. Little point in hanging on to watch the water's
:17:11. > :17:21.relentless rise. Those who can are getting out of town. Confidence has
:17:21. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:28.ebbed away. Complacency, drowned in Coming up, the lawyer undergoing
:17:28. > :17:33.pioneering gene therapy surgery that could cure many types of
:17:33. > :17:40.degenerative blindness. The judge turned to me and snapped,
:17:40. > :17:50.can't you read, Mr Wyatt? I then decided it was time to put my wick
:17:50. > :17:54.A senior clergyman at St Paul's Cathedral has resigned following a
:17:54. > :17:57.row over the way anti-capitalist protesters who are camped outside
:17:58. > :18:01.are being treated. The Canon Chancellor Dr Charles Fraser told
:18:01. > :18:08.the BBC he could not accept the use of force to remove the
:18:08. > :18:11.demonstrators. After a stand-off or almost two
:18:11. > :18:14.weeks, protesters and the Church have been asking themselves
:18:14. > :18:19.fundamental questions about how best to serve the poor and
:18:19. > :18:23.marginalised. The cathedral's first instinct was to give the campaign
:18:23. > :18:27.this century. Now it could join in legal action to evict them. Giles
:18:27. > :18:31.Fraser joined colleagues in calling on the protesters to leave, but he
:18:31. > :18:34.could not accept the use of force. He believes the spectacle of
:18:34. > :18:39.protesters being physically removed would undermine the Church's
:18:39. > :18:42.preference for the needy over the ridge. I think the Church should
:18:42. > :18:46.stand for the oppressed and the poor. My red line on this issue is
:18:46. > :18:50.I don't believe the Church should sanction any course of action that
:18:50. > :18:54.could lead to violence against the protesters. Occupy London didn't
:18:54. > :18:57.choose the soft target of St Paul's. Their sights were set on the
:18:57. > :19:01.neighbouring London Stock Exchange, but they were turned away by the
:19:01. > :19:06.police. When officers advanced on protesters outside the cathedral,
:19:06. > :19:09.Giles Fraser asked them to back off. He explained his action at the time.
:19:09. > :19:19.We are very happy for people to exercise their right peacefully to
:19:19. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:30.protest, and that is what they are Where is the church? Out here in
:19:30. > :19:34.these tents or in that MT pile of stones? Jesus was a socialist and
:19:34. > :19:39.he would not have wanted capitalism to be carried on in the way that it
:19:40. > :19:44.is. The Bishop of London said it would be a tragedy if Charles
:19:44. > :19:48.Fraser's voice were lost to the church, but he insisted the camp
:19:48. > :19:51.undermined the cathedral's own efforts to work for social justice.
:19:51. > :19:54.The continued existence of the campsite will make it very
:19:54. > :20:00.difficult to involve some of the major City players in the kind of
:20:00. > :20:05.dialogue and debate which I see as being able to move the thing Ford.
:20:05. > :20:09.This has become a distraction. -- the thing for it. This is what Dr
:20:09. > :20:13.Fraser fears could happen. In America in the last two days, a
:20:13. > :20:17.number of similar protests have ended in violence. A path to the
:20:17. > :20:22.main entrance and the cafe has been cleared of tents and St Paul's will
:20:22. > :20:26.reopen tomorrow, with a special lunch time servers. The cathedral's
:20:26. > :20:30.reputation has been bruised by the way it has handled this occupation,
:20:30. > :20:34.and Giles Fraser's resignation will make it all the harder to use force
:20:34. > :20:38.to end it. A man has been pulled alive from
:20:38. > :20:45.the rubble of a collapsed building, more than four days after a
:20:45. > :20:47.powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey. Rescuers cheered as the 18-
:20:47. > :20:52.year-old university student was carried out of the debris, but hope
:20:52. > :20:56.is running out of finding any more survivors. The death toll has now
:20:56. > :21:00.risen to over 520. The Somali militant group Al-Shabab,
:21:00. > :21:04.linked to the killing of -- kidnapping of tourists and aid
:21:04. > :21:08.workers, has vowed to carry out more attacks on Kenya. Today, four
:21:08. > :21:11.people were killed in the third grenade attack this week. Kenya has
:21:11. > :21:21.sent hundreds of troops into Somalia to attack the group, which
:21:21. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:27.There is a queasy sense of dread on the streets of Nairobi, the city,
:21:27. > :21:31.braced for trouble. Already this week, two grenade attacks and today,
:21:31. > :21:38.a rocket attack in northern Kenya. The authorities, struggling to
:21:38. > :21:44.reassure the public and foreign tourists. We have enough men, we
:21:44. > :21:50.have enough capacity to secure Kenyans. Not only Kenyon's
:21:50. > :21:55.including those visitors who wish to come to Kenya. Here is why a
:21:55. > :22:05.Kenya may be in danger, its army has stormed across the border. It
:22:05. > :22:10.-- chasing Al-Shabab, a group linked to Kenya. No one is sure how
:22:10. > :22:16.far the Kenyans will go. It could make the famine in Somalia even
:22:16. > :22:20.worse. Al-Shabab have lost some territory recently, but today, they
:22:20. > :22:27.vowed to retaliate inside Kenya and they are still could double in --
:22:27. > :22:31.of devastating terrorist attacks and ambitious. -- and ambushes. The
:22:31. > :22:34.danger is that you are being lured into a trap? I don't think so. If
:22:34. > :22:39.we were in a trap, something negative would have happened to our
:22:39. > :22:45.forces. I believe we are very positive, moving positively and
:22:45. > :22:51.capturing those hideouts. In Kenya, the authorities are claiming
:22:51. > :22:55.progress. An arms cache, a la -- allegedly linked to Somali
:22:55. > :23:00.militants, discovered here. But as the security clampdown continues,
:23:00. > :23:05.there is growing concern about the impact of all this on the region's
:23:05. > :23:08.biggest economy. Three years, Kenya has managed to keep the anarchy in
:23:08. > :23:14.Somalia more or less at arm's length. But that has just changed
:23:14. > :23:24.abruptly. By invading its neighbour, Kenya has taken a very big, very
:23:24. > :23:29.
:23:30. > :23:37.risky gamble. In Nairobi, the Kenya made a mistake? Yeah, I think
:23:37. > :23:45.so. But for now, Kenya's army is pushing on, deeper into the chaos
:23:45. > :23:49.of Somalia. With no exit strategy inside. -- in sight.
:23:49. > :23:52.Researchers in Oxford are developing a genetic therapy, which
:23:52. > :23:56.they hope could eventually stop people going blind. They have
:23:56. > :23:59.treated a man in his 60s, who is on the verge of losing his sight. If
:23:59. > :24:09.the new technique works, the gene therapy could transform the lives
:24:09. > :24:15.of thousands of people in years to Jonathan Wyatt is going blind. He
:24:15. > :24:20.can just about see enough to work from home. But 10 years ago, he was
:24:20. > :24:24.a successful courtroom barrister. He had to abandon his job because
:24:24. > :24:29.he began making mistakes. The worst occasion was when I was reading out
:24:29. > :24:35.a statement to the court, and I made a mistake. The judge turned to
:24:35. > :24:43.me and snapped, can't you read, Mr Wyatt? I then decided it was time
:24:44. > :24:47.to put my weight down and leave advocacy. -- wig down. Have you any
:24:47. > :24:52.specific questions? Jonathan is lose in his side because of a
:24:52. > :24:54.faulty gene. -- Jonathan is losing his sight. Is the first in the
:24:54. > :24:59.world to take part in an experimental operation which aims
:24:59. > :25:02.to replace the faulty gene with a working one. What we hope is that I
:25:02. > :25:06.put in the gene back into the cells, we can stop further degeneration
:25:06. > :25:10.and preserve the vision that he already has. In Jonathan's case,
:25:10. > :25:18.because of a faulty gene, sells at the back of the I have been dying,
:25:18. > :25:24.leaving only the ones in the middle. Doctors hope to stop further
:25:24. > :25:27.degeneration by inserting a new working copies of the faulty gene.
:25:27. > :25:31.Jonathan's operation is just about to begin. There is a bit of tension
:25:31. > :25:37.in the air because it is incredibly precise and delicate procedure. One
:25:37. > :25:42.small slip and is written a good tear, and attempts to save his life
:25:42. > :25:47.will have -- his retina could tear and the attempt to save his side
:25:47. > :25:51.will have failed. The procedure has never been carried out before -- to
:25:51. > :25:57.save his sight. Now the riskiest part, as the needle is inserted by
:25:57. > :26:02.a foot operated control. Has the operation been successful? It went
:26:02. > :26:09.very well indeed, absolutely no problems. So far, so good question
:26:09. > :26:14.Jonathan claims he can already see better. But it is far too soon to
:26:14. > :26:18.be sure whether it is a real, lasting effect. Scientists believe