:00:10. > :00:13.Tonight at Ten: The spegter of a return to recession in Europe as
:00:13. > :00:19.growth collapses. Across the eurozone prospects for growth fade
:00:19. > :00:23.away as the debt crisis takes its toll.
:00:23. > :00:27.As more austerity is imposed and protesters take to the streets,
:00:27. > :00:31.calls for even more concerted action. If the leaders of the
:00:31. > :00:36.eurozone want to save their currency, then they, together with
:00:36. > :00:39.the institutions of the eurozone, must act now. We will have the
:00:39. > :00:42.latest from Berlin where the Germans are under pressure to
:00:42. > :00:46.provide more bail-out funds. Also tonight:
:00:46. > :00:50.More questions for James Murdoch on phone hacking as he is accused of
:00:50. > :00:54.behaving like a gangland boss. Murdoch, you must be the first
:00:54. > :00:58.Mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal
:00:58. > :01:02.enterprise. Mr Watson, please, I think that's inappropriate. Mr
:01:02. > :01:07.Chairman. A private future for this NHS hospital, unions say it's an
:01:07. > :01:10.accident waiting to happen. The plight of child workers in the
:01:10. > :01:15.cocoa industry, a special report from Ivory Coast.
:01:15. > :01:19.The promise from the chocolate companies was to act as a matter of
:01:19. > :01:24.urgency to stop hazardous child labour. But isn't that exactly what
:01:24. > :01:29.we are seeing here? And how to lose a prime time debate.
:01:29. > :01:34.The latest Republican contender to come unstuck. It's three agencies
:01:34. > :01:40.the Government that are gone, commerce, education and...
:01:40. > :01:44.What's the third one there? I will be here with Sportsday later
:01:44. > :01:47.on the BBC News channel as John Terry takes his place in the
:01:47. > :01:57.England squad. How do his teammates feel about the racist allegations
:01:57. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:11.Good evening. The damage inflicted by the debt crisis was revealed
:02:11. > :02:17.today when the EU announced a sharp reduction in its growth forecast
:02:17. > :02:19.for the eurozone. It's down to just half of one per cent, and that
:02:20. > :02:23.could turn out to be optimistic. The European commissioner, Olli
:02:23. > :02:27.Rehn, said it was the last wake-up call and raised the prospect of a
:02:27. > :02:29.new recession. David Cameron echoed the call for urgent action. Our
:02:30. > :02:36.business editor, Robert Peston, has the latest. There's some flash
:02:36. > :02:43.photography in this report. The eurozone, battling against the
:02:43. > :02:46.elements. Greece, almost inundated, its Prime Minister swept away. This
:02:46. > :02:50.week it's Italy in the eye of the storm and the premier, Silvio
:02:50. > :02:56.Berlusconi, being blown from office clinging on for a few more hours or
:02:56. > :03:04.days. The clouds are gathering elsewhere, Spain, even France. And
:03:04. > :03:07.the forecast, not exactly brilliant. The recovery of the EU economy has
:03:07. > :03:16.stopped, the European Commission said today as it forecast growth
:03:16. > :03:21.next year would be just 0.5%. forecast is, in fact, the last
:03:21. > :03:27.wakeup call. The recovery in the European Union has now come to a
:03:27. > :03:31.standstill and there is a risk of a new recession. It's not all doom
:03:31. > :03:34.and gloom. Greece choose its new Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, a
:03:35. > :03:39.respected former Central Banker, and Italy is said to have lined up
:03:39. > :03:43.a former European Commissioner, Mario Monti, to replace Silvio
:03:43. > :03:48.Berlusconi, here leaving the premier's residence today, and
:03:49. > :03:53.implicit interest rates on debt fell below the 7% it breached on
:03:53. > :03:56.Wednesday. Although the Italian Government managed to borrow an
:03:56. > :04:02.additional five billion euros for a year today, and the interest rate
:04:02. > :04:06.was less than that crippling 7%, it still paid more than 6%, a record.
:04:06. > :04:11.More worrying perhaps was contagion to Spain, where the yield on
:04:11. > :04:16.interest rate on ten-year loans to the Government rose at one stage to
:04:16. > :04:20.almost 5.9%, and in France where the rate climbed to over 3.4%. In
:04:20. > :04:24.part due to a mistaken warning about its financial health. To you
:04:24. > :04:29.and me they may not sound like high interest rates but the equivalent
:04:29. > :04:34.interest rate for Germany is just 1.7%. When countries borrow
:04:34. > :04:39.hundreds of billions of euros every little interest rate increase
:04:40. > :04:43.really hurts. There is a big risk of contagion to other European
:04:43. > :04:49.economies and that's why it's worrying for the UK because if it
:04:49. > :04:54.impacts then, it impacts us. Even without the contagion, the UK is
:04:55. > :04:58.set for growth of just 0.6% next year, too close to zero for comfort
:04:58. > :05:01.according to the European Commission. The moment of truth is
:05:01. > :05:06.fast approaching. If the leaders of the eurozone want to save their
:05:06. > :05:13.currency, then they, together with the institutions of the eurozone,
:05:13. > :05:17.must act now. The longer they delay, the greater the danger. For David
:05:17. > :05:20.Cameron it's all about the eurozone's bail-out fund acquire
:05:20. > :05:24.you go enough money to lend to Italy if no one else will. But
:05:24. > :05:28.today the head of that bail-out fund raised doubts that its
:05:28. > :05:33.firepower can be raised to a trillion euros, which most see as
:05:33. > :05:41.the minimum needed. So, citizens of the eurozone and beyond including
:05:41. > :05:43.Britain may need their umbrellas for a while longer.
:05:43. > :05:45.In Berlin, Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said it was
:05:45. > :05:48.essential that Italy move quickly to implement a new austerity
:05:48. > :05:51.package and clarify its political leadership. Mrs Merkel dismissed
:05:51. > :05:56.reports that she favoured a smaller eurozone excluding the more
:05:56. > :06:01.troubled economies. But Germany's options are limited, as our Europe
:06:01. > :06:06.editor Gavin Hewitt reports. He spent the day in Germany
:06:06. > :06:12.surveying the scene scene -- there. With the eurozone crisis deepening,
:06:12. > :06:16.all eyes turn to Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse. These German
:06:16. > :06:20.MPs know to a large degree, they will determine the future of the
:06:20. > :06:27.single currency. Today, the German Chancellor said she still believes
:06:27. > :06:30.the eurozone can survive in its present form. TRANSLATION:
:06:30. > :06:34.Since the beginning of the debt crisis Germany has been pursuing
:06:34. > :06:38.one single goal, to stablise the eurozone in its current form and
:06:38. > :06:41.make it more competitive and we firmly believe this whole eurozone,
:06:41. > :06:45.each individual country, is in a situation to fully regain
:06:46. > :06:50.credibility. The eurozone badly needs fixing and Germany has been
:06:50. > :06:53.the main country applying the sticking plaster. It has been the
:06:53. > :06:56.largest contributor to two Greek bail-outs. But the big question is
:06:56. > :07:03.whether Germany would step in to help Italy, if that became
:07:03. > :07:06.necessary. So far, it has contributed 211 billion euroes to
:07:06. > :07:10.the main bail-out fund but says that's the limit and it is
:07:10. > :07:18.unwilling to allow the European Central Bank to become a lender of
:07:18. > :07:22.last resort. And this is why. The memory of inflation in the 20s.
:07:22. > :07:29.Truck loads of money were needed to pay wages on a daily basis, so
:07:29. > :07:33.Germany today will not agree to the ECB, in effect, printing money. It
:07:33. > :07:37.is the weight of history that makes Germans hypersensitive to the idea
:07:37. > :07:42.that the European Central Bank could be used to help countries in
:07:42. > :07:46.difficulty. Now, when it comes to big economies like Italy the German
:07:46. > :07:51.Government is still hoping that tough economic reforms may be
:07:51. > :07:57.enough to help Italy save itself. The most important step is to be
:07:57. > :08:02.done by Italy itself. It needs a stable, reliable Government and
:08:02. > :08:06.clear commitment to domestic reform. Some MPs from within Chancellor
:08:06. > :08:13.Merkel's own camp are prepared to see countries in trouble leave the
:08:13. > :08:16.eurozone. Member states of the eurozone, which cannot reach
:08:16. > :08:20.sufficient discipline or competitiveness, will necessarily
:08:20. > :08:25.reach a point at which they might be no alternative than to leave.
:08:25. > :08:30.But one of Chancellor Merkel's key economic advisors says more funds
:08:30. > :08:34.may be needed to shore up the euro. Now we are in a situation where
:08:34. > :08:38.bank investors have lost the confidence in Sovereign bonds and
:08:38. > :08:43.we need a bold step that guarantees Sovereign bonds without any
:08:43. > :08:49.limitation. The big question for Germany remains unanswered, if it
:08:49. > :08:58.becomes necessary will it act as the main tkpwarpb are to of thure
:08:58. > :09:00.zone's debts? James Murdoch has accused former
:09:00. > :09:03.News International employees, including a company lawyer, of
:09:03. > :09:05.misleading MPs about the phone hacking controversy. Mr Murdoch,
:09:05. > :09:08.the company's executive chairman, was back at Westminster today
:09:08. > :09:10.answering more questions from MPs. He repeatedly denied that he'd been
:09:11. > :09:15.told of the significance of a crucial e-mail which suggested that
:09:15. > :09:20.phone-hacking was widespread at the News of the World. Our political
:09:20. > :09:24.editor, Nick Robinson, listened to the exchanges.
:09:24. > :09:29.First the father, now the son. Back in the parliamentary dock for his
:09:29. > :09:33.role in the phone hacking scandal. James Murdoch fidgeted nervously at
:09:33. > :09:37.the start of two and a half hours of cross-examination. Perhaps
:09:37. > :09:41.remembering the last time he faced this committee of MPs, when his dad,
:09:41. > :09:46.Rupert, got a face full of foam. All that was thrown this time were
:09:46. > :09:50.questions, allegations, oh, and scorn. Can you just confirm that
:09:50. > :09:52.you have not been arrested or you are not correctly on bail and you
:09:53. > :09:58.are therefore free to answer all the questions I am going to put to
:09:58. > :10:01.you? I have not been arrested and I am not on bail. And I am free to
:10:01. > :10:06.answer questions and I would like to. His questioners are amongst
:10:06. > :10:10.those who have been hounded, spied on, and lied to. This, their chance
:10:10. > :10:13.to get even. Mr Murdoch, you must be the first Mafia boss in history
:10:13. > :10:17.who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise. Mr Watson,
:10:17. > :10:25.please. I think that's inappropriate. Mr Chairman? It was
:10:25. > :10:29.too much for some MPs, one said oh, come on. Others tutted. On the day
:10:29. > :10:34.the News of the World closed its journalists cheered their editor,
:10:34. > :10:38.but today James Murdoch accused Colin Myler and the lawyer Tom
:10:38. > :10:44.Crone of knowing what was happening at the paper, but not telling
:10:44. > :10:50.parliament, or him. You think Mr Crone misled us? It follows that I
:10:50. > :10:55.do. Do you think Mr Myler misled us. I believe their testimony was
:10:55. > :11:01.misleading. It was about what happened when James Murdoch agreed
:11:01. > :11:06.to pay Gordon Taylor a huge sum, around �700,000 after his phone was
:11:06. > :11:11.hacked by the News of the World. Murdoch claims not to have seen the
:11:11. > :11:15.E mail marked "for Neville" which had transcripts of the hacked phone
:11:15. > :11:19.calls, or the memo from the paper's lawyer, which stated that the e-
:11:19. > :11:23.mail was fatal to our case. Or the legal advice from a leading
:11:23. > :11:27.barrister, which warned that the News of the World had a culture of
:11:27. > :11:31.illegal information access. James Murdoch's former executives told
:11:31. > :11:35.this committee that he did at least know about the e-mail in its
:11:35. > :11:41.implications, as the boss of the company he was asked surely he must
:11:41. > :11:46.have known more? There was a lot of supposition and might have known
:11:46. > :11:50.and should have known and this and that. What never happened is Mr
:11:50. > :11:55.Crone and Mr Myler showing me the relevant evidence, explaining to me
:11:55. > :11:58.the relevant evidence and its relevance, or talking about wider
:11:58. > :12:02.spread criminality. The Murdoches have already apologised to the
:12:02. > :12:07.family of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler. Today, saw another
:12:07. > :12:11.apology for spying on this man, their lawyer Mark Lewis, who
:12:11. > :12:14.represents them and other victims of hacking. I want to say for the
:12:14. > :12:17.record it's appalling, it's something I would never condone and
:12:17. > :12:23.the company should never condone and it was shocking when I found
:12:23. > :12:25.out. Are you aware that Mr Lewis' family was trailed by private
:12:25. > :12:30.investigators, including his 14- year-old daughter? And would you
:12:31. > :12:34.agree with me that is completely despicable? I totally agree. I
:12:34. > :12:39.wasn't aware of that allegation, if it's the case the whole affair is
:12:39. > :12:43.not acceptable and not on. So much to apologise for, so much still
:12:43. > :12:50.unclear. Tonight the News of the World's former lawyer, Tom Crone,
:12:50. > :13:00.has accused James Murdoch of giving evidence that was, at best,
:13:00. > :13:00.
:13:00. > :13:04.disinjemuous. MPs must now reach a A soldier killed in Afghanistan on
:13:04. > :13:09.Wednesday has been named. Private Matthew Thornton of the 4th
:13:09. > :13:12.Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, was killed by an explosion at
:13:12. > :13:16.Babaji in Helmand province. He was 28 and his family have been
:13:16. > :13:23.informed. In radical Islamic group planning
:13:23. > :13:26.to hold an anti-Armistice Day protest is to be banned from
:13:26. > :13:30.operating in the UK. Muslims Against Crusades recently protested
:13:30. > :13:33.outside the US embassy on the anniversary of September 11th. The
:13:33. > :13:39.Home Office says it is closely linked to a host of previously
:13:39. > :13:43.banned groups. Patients could be put at risk by a
:13:43. > :13:47.decision to allow a private company to take over a struggling NHS
:13:47. > :13:50.Hospital in Cambridgeshire, according to union leaders.
:13:50. > :13:55.Ministers have announced that Hinchingbrooke hospital will be
:13:55. > :14:02.managed by a private company, Circle Healthcare. The union Unison
:14:02. > :14:07.says that the ten-year deal is an accident waiting to happen.
:14:07. > :14:11.A local NHS hospital, just like so many others in England. But with
:14:11. > :14:17.one big difference. It is now officially under new management. A
:14:17. > :14:22.private company, Circle, has signed a contract to run it for 10 years.
:14:22. > :14:26.On the ward, another busy day for the staff. They will go on working
:14:26. > :14:30.for the NHS. But Circle is promising nurses and doctors a
:14:30. > :14:36.bigger say. The Hospital's lead doctor told me he hopes that will
:14:36. > :14:42.mean less red tape. The bureaucracy in the NHS never allows the speed
:14:42. > :14:45.to deliver these changes. What we are hoping to have with the Circle
:14:45. > :14:50.model is to achieve that speed, where we can bring these new
:14:50. > :14:54.innovations. Hinchingbrooke hospital has around �14 million
:14:54. > :14:59.worth of debt. That is partly due to this big new treatment centre,
:14:59. > :15:03.which did not bring in the money it expected. The deal with Circle is
:15:03. > :15:06.meant to pay off those debts, while maintaining a full range of
:15:06. > :15:11.services. Staff have been told today that no
:15:11. > :15:16.job losses are planned. But union officials say there are bigger
:15:16. > :15:21.questions. The big worry, obviously, is the fact that they have no
:15:21. > :15:26.experience in running a district general hospital. It is one thing
:15:26. > :15:31.running private, elective surgery, compared to running the range of
:15:31. > :15:35.services that are run from here. Circle won the contract after
:15:35. > :15:41.competition, some of it from inside the NHS. It will lose money if it
:15:41. > :15:45.does not make the finances worker. But it could be earn fees if there
:15:45. > :15:50.is a surplus. It says the first thing that patients should see it
:15:50. > :15:55.is better care. People are going to see staff in charge of their own
:15:55. > :15:59.hospitals, who have autonomy to deal and do we what they think is
:15:59. > :16:04.best, be completely focused on them. Even so, many experts believe that
:16:04. > :16:09.making this work is going to be tough. But if Circle pull it off,
:16:09. > :16:15.at least some of what happens here could be copied. If they can
:16:15. > :16:19.achieve savings of this dale -- scale that they need, it will be an
:16:19. > :16:24.enormous achievement. There is no precedent for the scale of change.
:16:24. > :16:28.Circle officially take over the hospital in February of next year.
:16:28. > :16:38.The contract is for 10 years. But the pressure will be on to show
:16:38. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:44.Still to come: The new brain scanning technique offering hope to
:16:44. > :16:49.patients thought to be in a vegetative state. This can only
:16:49. > :16:52.happen if you are conscious. It can only mean that they are aware. That
:16:52. > :16:56.they are responding to the instructions we are giving them,
:16:56. > :17:06.both what we are asking them to do and when we are asking them to do
:17:06. > :17:10.10 years ago, the leading chocolate manufacturers promised to tackle
:17:10. > :17:14.child labour in the massive global cocoa industry as a matter of
:17:14. > :17:17.urgency. It was hailed as a landmark agreement. But children
:17:17. > :17:25.are still being exploited and made to do dangerous work. The biggest
:17:25. > :17:28.producer in the world is the Ivory Coast, in West Africa. As many as
:17:28. > :17:32.800,000 children work in cocoa farms there. Despite promises of
:17:32. > :17:41.reforms, less than 4% of communities that produce cocoa have
:17:41. > :17:48.seen investments in schools and Deep in the cocoa belt of the Ivory
:17:48. > :17:58.Coast, it is not hard to find children at work. Cocoa is the raw
:17:58. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:05.product that makes chocolate. No laughter, no playing, no wages.
:18:05. > :18:14.Injuries, but no first aid kit. Even the farmer barely scrapes a
:18:14. > :18:19.living. If the price is low, I lose money. Right now it is low, so I am
:18:19. > :18:26.not doing very well, he says. Yet, 10 years ago, after intense
:18:26. > :18:31.pressure, the chocolate industry signed an agreement. The promise
:18:31. > :18:38.was to act as a matter of urgency to stop hazardous child labour. But
:18:38. > :18:42.isn't that exactly what we are seeing here? The farmer said they
:18:42. > :18:47.were his children or sons of friends. But at least one was not.
:18:47. > :18:53.When I asked his name, the farmer did not know. He became embarrassed
:18:53. > :19:00.and then he just left. Many children are kept out of school and
:19:00. > :19:08.taken from their families. Kuadio Kouako's home is more than 200
:19:08. > :19:15.miles away. TRANSLATION: My father sent me here to work. I haven't
:19:16. > :19:23.seen my family for three years. This is where Coco begins its
:19:23. > :19:26.journey to our shops. Trialled workers are a common sight. The
:19:26. > :19:36.chocolate companies concede that more needs to be done to give these
:19:36. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:42.children hopeful stop -- hope. It says that hundreds of thousands of
:19:42. > :19:48.families have been helped. Campment Paul is one such project. At its
:19:48. > :19:52.heart is a school that opened three years ago. But the villagers
:19:52. > :19:59.complain it is not big enough. Hundreds of children in this area
:19:59. > :20:06.still have no school to go to. So, had Patroclus industry acted as a
:20:06. > :20:13.matter of urgency? No! -- had the chocolate industry acted as a
:20:13. > :20:17.matter of agency? TRANSLATION: The chocolate industry has an
:20:17. > :20:21.obligation to deal with us in this humanitarian task, plans to build
:20:21. > :20:26.roads, schools, hospitals and social centres. The industry said
:20:26. > :20:30.it was committed to addressing the industry. We have been working for
:20:30. > :20:35.10 years, but it has a very challenging environment. Have other
:20:35. > :20:39.resources been insufficient? would definitely a great that more
:20:39. > :20:42.work has to be done. We have committed a substantial amount of
:20:42. > :20:46.resources in the past. Going forward, we will continue to do
:20:46. > :20:56.that. There is no disagreement at this present situation is
:20:56. > :20:58.
:20:58. > :21:03.The car maker Jaguar Land Rover brought some welcome news to the
:21:03. > :21:07.economy today, announcing the creation of 1000 new jobs at its
:21:07. > :21:11.plant in Solihull. It is part of a five-year expansion by the company,
:21:11. > :21:15.which is owned by the Indian firm Tata Motors.
:21:15. > :21:18.Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, is struggling to save his campaign
:21:18. > :21:24.for the Republican presidential nomination after a memorably poor
:21:24. > :21:28.performance in the latest televised debate. He declared his intention
:21:28. > :21:32.to close three entire government departments if he became President,
:21:32. > :21:36.and then struggled to remember which ones they were. It is the
:21:36. > :21:41.latest in a series of republican difficulties. In this report, there
:21:41. > :21:45.was some Frosch photography. -- There are some flash photography.
:21:45. > :21:49.The Republicans are searching for a candidate, a person that will
:21:49. > :21:53.challenge President Obama for the White House. The politics is a
:21:53. > :21:57.demolition derby. In the 10th debate, the wheels came off for the
:21:57. > :22:05.Governor of Texas. Three agencies of government, when I get there,
:22:05. > :22:15.argon. Commerce, education and the... What is the third one? Five!
:22:15. > :22:20.Five? OK. Commerce, education and the... They HPA? There you go!
:22:20. > :22:26.Wrong answer. He struggled on. cannot name the third one?
:22:26. > :22:34.third agency of government I would do away with, education, the...,
:22:34. > :22:38.S... Let's see... I can't. Energy was the mystery word. It took the
:22:38. > :22:42.pressure of another candidate, who is being asked to research his
:22:42. > :22:46.memory. Reporters want to know Herman came's response to
:22:46. > :22:51.allegations of sexual harassment dating back to the 1990s. I have
:22:51. > :22:59.never acted in appropriately with anyone. But one woman has gone
:22:59. > :23:03.public. He suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg. He
:23:03. > :23:07.put it under my skirt and reached for my genitals. He also grabbed my
:23:07. > :23:14.head and brought it towards his crotch. I don't even know who this
:23:14. > :23:18.woman is. But this former boss of godfathers pizza, who has never won
:23:18. > :23:22.an election in his life, is adored by the right wing and is determined
:23:22. > :23:26.not to be driven out of the contest. Many think this man, Mitt Romney,
:23:26. > :23:31.is bound to end up as the candidate to face Obama. The Republican race
:23:31. > :23:34.is now really the hunt for somebody that can stop him. Mitt Romney is
:23:34. > :23:38.not liked by the powerful right- wing Tea Party Movement. They do
:23:38. > :23:44.not trust him and they do not think he is conservative enough. So, they
:23:44. > :23:49.are searching desperately for another candidate. After this week,
:23:49. > :23:53.he probably has one less serious rival.
:23:53. > :23:58.Prince William is to go on a six- week tour of duty in the Falkland
:23:58. > :24:01.Islands next week. The RAF search- and-rescue pilot will find on
:24:01. > :24:06.February. It comes on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the
:24:06. > :24:11.Falklands conflict with Argentina, which continues to assert a
:24:11. > :24:14.territorial claim on the islands. A new way of communicating with
:24:14. > :24:18.brain-damaged patients who appear to be in a vegetative state has
:24:18. > :24:22.been discovered by a team of British, Canadian and Belgian
:24:22. > :24:26.scientists. They devised a method of measuring electrical activity in
:24:26. > :24:32.the brain to detect consciousness. Doctors hope it can be used as a
:24:32. > :24:36.diagnostic tool in homes and hospitals. Fergus Walsh met the
:24:36. > :24:39.team and experienced the technology for himself.
:24:39. > :24:43.Vegetative patients are awake, but so brain-damaged that they are
:24:43. > :24:48.totally unaware of their surroundings. Now,
:24:48. > :24:55.electroencephalography, or EEG, has detected awareness in three out of
:24:55. > :24:59.16 patients. Healthy volunteers are needed, so I tested the device in
:24:59. > :25:04.Cambridge. I was asked to close my eyes and imagine with killing my
:25:04. > :25:09.toes or squeezing my right hand. -- wiggling my toes. That is because
:25:09. > :25:13.thinking about movement produces the same brain pattern as doing it.
:25:13. > :25:19.The blue area was activated when I was asked to imagine wriggling my
:25:19. > :25:23.toes. When I thought about squeezing my right hand, the left
:25:23. > :25:30.side of my brain lit up, because the left hemisphere of the brain
:25:30. > :25:33.controls the right side of the body. Now, compare my results with one of
:25:33. > :25:37.the vegetative patients on the trial, published in the Lancet
:25:37. > :25:42.medical journal. You can see that their brain activity is remarkably
:25:42. > :25:46.similar to mine. This can only happen if you are conscious. It can
:25:46. > :25:50.only mean that they are aware and they are responding to the
:25:50. > :25:55.instructions that we are giving them. But what we are asking them
:25:55. > :26:01.to do and when we are asking them to do it. Rob Hayim knows what it
:26:01. > :26:05.is like to be locked in his own body. He was left paralysed after
:26:05. > :26:10.food poisoning. For eight months he could communicate only by moving
:26:10. > :26:18.his thumb, before making a full recovery. I felt completely
:26:18. > :26:24.frustrated. If I had that facility, I think it would have been a
:26:24. > :26:29.tremendous relief. To know that my life would continue. MRI scanning
:26:29. > :26:36.has detected awareness, but it is not practical for many patients.
:26:36. > :26:40.EEG is cheap, portable and could be used at the bedside to reassess
:26:41. > :26:49.vegetative patients and, perhaps, eventually allow some a means of