:00:26. > :00:32.He would step down, but he'd also create an ability to reach out and
:00:32. > :00:36.start a new phase of Syrian political life. We'll be asking if
:00:36. > :00:41.King Abdullah's unprecedented intervention marks a turning point.
:00:41. > :00:44.Also tonight: The Leveson Inquiry into press
:00:44. > :00:48.standards reveals 28 News International staff were involved
:00:48. > :00:53.in phone hacking. David Cameron's most outspoken remarks yet about
:00:54. > :00:59.the shape of the European Union and how he wants to see it changed.
:00:59. > :01:02.should look skeptically at grand plans and utopian visions. We have
:01:02. > :01:06.a right to ask what the European Union should and shouldn't do and
:01:06. > :01:10.change it accordingly. Two men appear in court charged
:01:10. > :01:15.with murdering Stephen Lawrence. The judge says there will be new
:01:15. > :01:17.scientific evidence. Beijing had them. Now Britain may
:01:17. > :01:27.deploy ground-to-air missiles to protect London during the Olympic
:01:27. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:55.Good evening. King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab
:01:55. > :01:58.leader openly to call for President Assad of Syria to step down.
:01:58. > :02:01.Speaking exclusively to the BBC the King said Mr Assad should go in the
:02:01. > :02:11.interests of his country. The unprecedented intervention marks a
:02:11. > :02:13.
:02:13. > :02:16.further isolation of Syria by its neighbours. Over the weekend it was
:02:16. > :02:19.suspended from the Arab League - a move condemned as dangerous by the
:02:19. > :02:21.country's foreign minister. Activists say more than 40 people
:02:22. > :02:25.have been killed today in the crackdown against anti-government
:02:25. > :02:29.protestors. Here's our middle east editor Jeremy Bowen. It was another
:02:29. > :02:32.hard and bloody day in Homs which has become the centre of the
:02:32. > :02:37.uprising in Syria. Most foreign journalists are banned from the
:02:37. > :02:47.country, so we're relying again on pictures taken by opponents of the
:02:47. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:50.regime and sent out on the internet. The Assad regime says it's fighting
:02:50. > :02:55.an armed plot incited by foreigners to destroy the country, but
:02:55. > :03:01.evidence has piled up of security forces killing Syrian protesters,
:03:01. > :03:04.many or most unarmed and with broken promises to take armour off
:03:04. > :03:09.the streets, the Syrian President is now under intense political
:03:09. > :03:13.pressure to go, the latest coming from the King of Jordan in a BBC
:03:13. > :03:17.interview. If he has the interests of his country, he would step down,
:03:17. > :03:20.but he'd also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of
:03:20. > :03:25.Syrian political life. But the answer to the pressure has been
:03:26. > :03:29.defiance. At the weekend, pro-Assad demonstration were held in Damascus
:03:29. > :03:33.and elsewhere. His regime still has loyalists, but the opposition has
:03:33. > :03:38.also alleged that students and others were forced to take part and
:03:38. > :03:42.threatened or even shot if they refused. In Damascus this morning,
:03:42. > :03:45.the Foreign Minister said a decision by the Arab League to
:03:45. > :03:52.suspend Syria's membership was malicious and part of a Western
:03:52. > :03:57.conspiracy. "It's dangerous step for the
:03:57. > :04:03.future," he said. Syria's at the troubled centre of
:04:03. > :04:06.the Middle East, already overloaded with conflict and instability.
:04:06. > :04:10.Syria's neighbours are getting very nervous about violence, perhaps a
:04:10. > :04:15.civil war spilling into their countries. They think when you look
:04:15. > :04:19.at the makeup of Syria, where you have Jews, Kurds, Sunnis,
:04:19. > :04:22.Christians, Muslims, it's a far more complicated fabric, and as a
:04:22. > :04:26.result, this is why I think all of us in the international community
:04:26. > :04:31.are concerned because if it starts to unravel, it's not going to be a
:04:32. > :04:37.sort of straight-forward Libyan scenario. It will be an even more
:04:37. > :04:40.complicated Iraqi scenario, if that makes any sense to you. In Damascus,
:04:41. > :04:44.crowds attacked the embassies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who
:04:44. > :04:48.have led the condemnation of what's happening in Syria. The Arab League
:04:48. > :04:52.has a plan to send observers, allowing them in and letting them
:04:52. > :04:55.work will be another test for the regime. Assad's men are still
:04:55. > :05:01.powerful, but they haven't been able to stop the demonstrations.
:05:01. > :05:05.It's become a stalemate. Foreign pressure, now stronger than
:05:05. > :05:10.at any time since uprising started, could change the balance.
:05:10. > :05:14.And Jeremy joins me now. To what extent do King Abdullah's comments
:05:14. > :05:17.make a turning point, do you think? I think we're into a new phase now.
:05:17. > :05:22.I think the stage is set for greater international pressure,
:05:22. > :05:26.first, sanctions. There have already been more EU sanctions,
:05:26. > :05:30.nothing so far at the UN, because Russia has been blocking them. If
:05:30. > :05:33.they haven't called for sanctions, could Russia continue to block
:05:33. > :05:36.that? Probably not. Why are the Arab League doing these things?
:05:36. > :05:40.Don't forget, this is the first year of people power in the Middle
:05:41. > :05:44.East. It's not possible anymore for Arab leaders to condome the killing
:05:44. > :05:49.of civilians by another Arab leader in the way that once they could,
:05:49. > :05:55.and as well as that the Arab spring has now got very mixed up with
:05:55. > :05:58.existing conflicts. Syria is a big friend of Iran. The Saudis, leading
:05:58. > :06:02.some of the criticism, consider themselves enemys of Iran. Their
:06:02. > :06:05.thought pattern is what's bad for Assad is good for us. Don't forget,
:06:05. > :06:09.though, the Arab League was decisive in Libya, calling for a
:06:09. > :06:14.no-fly zone. That was - everything that followed came from that, but
:06:14. > :06:19.last thing to remember for tonight, anyway is no credible talk yet of
:06:19. > :06:22.foreign military intervention, and the reason for that, I think is no-
:06:22. > :06:28.one can really think of a way of doing it that doesn't make matters
:06:28. > :06:30.a lot worse. Thank you. Thanks. Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into
:06:30. > :06:32.press standards got underway today and it's already revealed that
:06:32. > :06:35.twenty eight staff at News International were involved in
:06:35. > :06:38.phone hacking. It's emerged that there were thousands of victims.
:06:38. > :06:41.The inquiry will be looking at whether the press can be left to
:06:41. > :06:50.set its own standards. As Lord Justice Leveson put it today, "Who
:06:50. > :06:52.will guard the guardians"? Nick Higham was at the inquiry. It was
:06:52. > :06:56.the scandal that began with the News of the World, Britain's
:06:56. > :07:01.biggest selling newspaper and one of its brashest, the revelation
:07:01. > :07:05.that the paper had hacked into the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler's
:07:05. > :07:09.voicemails prompted outrage, the paper's closure and the Leveson
:07:09. > :07:16.Inquiry. The parents of Madeleine McCann, politicians like Lord
:07:16. > :07:20.Justice Leveson and -- Lord press con and Tessa Jowell along with
:07:20. > :07:23.celebrities like JK Rowling, Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller were among
:07:23. > :07:31.those who gave evidence to the inquiry. Today in the measured
:07:31. > :07:36.tones of an Appeal Court judge, Lord Justice Leveson issued a
:07:36. > :07:39.warning to newspapers. Those who speak out might be targeted by the
:07:39. > :07:46.press as a result. I have absolutely no wish to stifle
:07:46. > :07:48.freedom of speech and expression. If it appears that those concerns
:07:49. > :07:52.are made out without objective justification, it might be
:07:52. > :07:57.appropriate to draw the conclusion that these vital rights are being
:07:57. > :08:01.abused. Today, the inquiry heard just how much phone hacking had
:08:01. > :08:05.been done by this man, Private Detective Glenn Mulcaire,
:08:05. > :08:09.originally said to have been working for a single rogue reporter.
:08:09. > :08:14.In his notebooks, police found the names of staff not just at the News
:08:14. > :08:21.of the World but at its sister paper the Sun and even the Daily
:08:21. > :08:26.Mail, -- Mirror, though they denied involvement. 28 were involved. One
:08:26. > :08:29.News of the World journalist alone had made over 1,400 requests for
:08:29. > :08:33.information. The inquiry was told it would hear evidence from
:08:34. > :08:37.celebrities and ordinary people alike. Common themes are complaints
:08:37. > :08:43.of systematic breachs of privacy, of conduct amounting to harassment
:08:43. > :08:47.and of unfair, sensationalist and inaccurate reporting. His inquiry
:08:47. > :08:50.is actually in two parts. The first is look at the general culture of
:08:50. > :08:53.the press, its relations between the police and politicians and
:08:53. > :08:57.whether the present system of newspaper regulation is broken, and
:08:58. > :09:01.if so, how it should be fixed. The second is into the illegal activity
:09:01. > :09:04.by newspapers which started all of this in the first place. But that
:09:04. > :09:09.can't begin until the police have finished their investigations,
:09:09. > :09:13.which won't be for many months. The inquiry admitted today it's putting
:09:13. > :09:18.the cart before the horse. In court for the start of the inquiry today
:09:18. > :09:24.was Milly Dowler's Fowler, Bob, victims of press intrusion like him
:09:24. > :09:26.will start giving evidence next John Yeates, the former Assistant
:09:26. > :09:29.Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, has been cleared of
:09:29. > :09:32.misconduct over allegations that he secured a Scotland Yard job for the
:09:32. > :09:36.daughter of the former News of the World executive Neil Wallis. The
:09:36. > :09:39.police watchdog - the IPCC - said it could find no grounds for taking
:09:39. > :09:47.disciplinary action against Mr Yates over passing on the CV of Mr
:09:47. > :09:51.Wallis' daughter. Europe faces its biggest challenge
:09:51. > :09:53.since the Second World War. That's the alarming assessment of the
:09:53. > :10:01.German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who's at the centre of attempts to
:10:01. > :10:04.hold the eurozone together. Here there's a growing argument over
:10:04. > :10:06.whether the debt crisis in the Eurozone is affecting our recovery,
:10:06. > :10:09.as the Government suggests, or whether Labour is right when it
:10:09. > :10:13.says ministers are pursuing the wrong policies. Here is our
:10:13. > :10:17.economics editor Stephanie Flanders. The crisis in the eurozone is
:10:17. > :10:21.having a chilling effect. Instability in the euro is having a
:10:21. > :10:25.huge impact. The eurozone is having a very chilling effect on our
:10:25. > :10:29.economy. Well, we know who the Government blames for Britain's
:10:29. > :10:36.faltering economic recovery. That was also the Governor of the Bank
:10:36. > :10:40.of England's line last month in Liverpool. We were on track, but
:10:40. > :10:44.the problems in the euro area and the marked slowing in the world
:10:45. > :10:50.economy have lengthened the period over which a return to normality is
:10:50. > :10:54.likely. You would certainly expect our exports to be affected by the
:10:54. > :11:03.crisis on the continent. 40% of them go to countries in the
:11:03. > :11:08.eurozone, as the Chancellor's fond of reminding us - Britain sells
:11:08. > :11:12.more to them than Russia, India and China combineded. The British
:11:12. > :11:17.economic recovery was choked off well before the instability of the
:11:17. > :11:20.last few months in the eurozone, and our unemployment has been
:11:20. > :11:25.rising when most European countries in the EU have seen that
:11:25. > :11:28.unemployment falling it's not true to say that it was the Euro crisis
:11:28. > :11:33.which has caused the problems in Britain. You can blame the crisis
:11:33. > :11:37.for the weakening state of major eurozone economies over the past
:11:37. > :11:41.few months. When the latest GDP figures come out tomorrow they're
:11:41. > :11:45.expected to show little or no growth in the single currency area,
:11:45. > :11:48.but the countries closest to the action will have still grown by
:11:48. > :11:53.1.4% in the last year. That compares with just half a per cent
:11:53. > :11:57.in the UK. Our exports to eurozone countries did fall by 0.2% last
:11:57. > :12:05.month, but up until then, they have been a source of strength, up by
:12:05. > :12:09.more than 17% over the last year. Pound for pound, most economists
:12:09. > :12:13.would expect the Chancellor's tax rises and spending cuts to have had
:12:13. > :12:17.a bigger direct impact on growth this year than the eurozone, but
:12:17. > :12:22.without his tough approach, Mr Osborne would say we might now be
:12:22. > :12:26.facing a crisis like Italy. We have to press on with the deficit
:12:26. > :12:29.reduction package, and yes, that can be painful, but the
:12:30. > :12:34.consequences of it would be even worse in the absence of the package,
:12:34. > :12:38.and we've really got to focus on the eurozone. All eyes today were
:12:38. > :12:43.on Mario Monti, the new technocrat Prime Minister of Italy, who is
:12:43. > :12:47.supposed to help them turn a corner, but the financial markets don't
:12:47. > :12:51.seem to believe the dangers of past. In fact, today, the worries move to
:12:51. > :12:55.Spain. The blame game in Westminster will continue, but
:12:55. > :13:04.everyone can agree this crisis of confidence on our doorstep could
:13:04. > :13:07.As the debt crisis looks set to re- shape relations between members of
:13:07. > :13:14.the European Union, David Cameron has made his most outspoken remarks
:13:14. > :13:17.yet about the role Britain should play in that process. Speaking at
:13:17. > :13:21.the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall tonight, he said he
:13:21. > :13:26.yearned for fundamental reform with powers ebbing back not flowing away.
:13:26. > :13:31.For years, people who suggested doing less at the European level
:13:31. > :13:37.have been accused of not being committed to a successful European
:13:37. > :13:42.Union, but we sceptics have a vital point. We should look skeptically
:13:42. > :13:46.at grand plans and utopian visions. We have a right to ask what the
:13:46. > :13:50.European Union should and shouldn't do and change it accordingly. As I
:13:51. > :13:54.have said, change brings opportunities, an opportunity to
:13:54. > :13:59.begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's
:13:59. > :14:04.interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too. Well, let's
:14:04. > :14:07.talk to our political editor Nick Robinson who is at the Guildhall
:14:08. > :14:12.for us tonight. It strikes me the Prime Minister has gone further
:14:12. > :14:16.than ever before on Europe. Why? Just listen to the words to back
:14:17. > :14:22.that up - a source of alarm and crisis is how he described the EU,
:14:22. > :14:27.an organisation in peril, out of touch, immune from developments in
:14:27. > :14:31.the real world. Lords, ladies and gentlemen here at the Guildhall,
:14:31. > :14:35.that's how a Prime Minister now describes the EU and above all uses
:14:35. > :14:39.that phrase "we sceptics", guaranteeed to reassure many in his
:14:39. > :14:43.own party, guaranteeed to get the headlines in Euro-sceptic papers
:14:43. > :14:49.tomorrow, and yet listen carefully, George, because this is a speech
:14:49. > :14:53.about positioning not just at home, but in Europe too. Madam and
:14:53. > :14:57.monsieur, he also wanted to tell you in the Chancellories of Europe
:14:57. > :15:01.that Britain had an opportunity. He didn't want Britain to get out. He
:15:01. > :15:05.didn't regard Britain as an outsider. Indeed, he thought the
:15:05. > :15:09.plight of Norway, affected by rules you couldn't in fact change and
:15:09. > :15:13.govern, was one that he didn't want for this country, so in the end a
:15:13. > :15:16.man who told his party not to obsess about Europe before he
:15:16. > :15:21.became Prime Minister, tonight really accepted he has no choice
:15:21. > :15:24.but to obsess about it, but he didn't tonight, despite that new
:15:24. > :15:30.positioning. Not only did he not answer the questions about the
:15:30. > :15:40.future of you know, he didn't even Nick, thank you.
:15:40. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:49.Coming up: 4, 3, 2, 1... Lift off.
:15:49. > :15:54.It was designed in the 1960s, now it is the only way to get
:15:54. > :15:59.astronauts to space. Russia resumes its manned space flights.
:15:59. > :16:03.The Government is considering to deploy ground-to-air missiles to
:16:03. > :16:07.protect London from attack during the Paralympic Games next year.
:16:07. > :16:10.Philip Hammond said that the missiles would be deployed if
:16:10. > :16:15.deemed operationally necessary. Here is David Bond.
:16:15. > :16:17.The Olympic Games, a sporting festival, but also a massive
:16:17. > :16:23.security challenge. Last time in Beijing, the Chinese
:16:23. > :16:26.made no secret of their plans to tackle the terror threat, deploying
:16:26. > :16:29.surface-to-air missiles. Today the Defence Secretary said we would do
:16:29. > :16:35.the same. All necessary measures to ensure
:16:35. > :16:40.the security and the safety of the London Olympic Games will be taken
:16:40. > :16:42.including if the advice of the military is that it is required,
:16:42. > :16:44.including appropriate ground-to-air defences.
:16:44. > :16:49.Philip Hammond says that the Government will take whatever
:16:49. > :16:52.measures are necessary to ensure that the Olympic Games pass
:16:52. > :16:57.peacefully. That's why officials here at the Home Office are
:16:57. > :16:59.overseeing a review of security in and around the venues next summer.
:16:59. > :17:03.After the London Organising Committee got their numbers badly
:17:03. > :17:06.wrong. The London Organising Committee for
:17:07. > :17:11.the Gamesest maithed that they would need 10,000 private security
:17:11. > :17:16.staff to secure the venues, but the review is expected to conclude that
:17:17. > :17:22.the numbers required are more than double that. Jumping to around it
:17:22. > :17:26.2,000. London 2012 have been allocated
:17:26. > :17:33.�282 million of public money for the venue security, but the bill
:17:33. > :17:37.will be much higher than that. Test events across London like this
:17:37. > :17:40.basketball tournament in the summer were one of the reasons for review.
:17:40. > :17:45.The security officials say that the plans are now on track.
:17:45. > :17:48.We are working closely with a number of bodies, the event
:17:49. > :17:53.organisers and the police services up and down the country to ensure
:17:53. > :17:57.these are a safe and secure Games. I am satisfied that while we are
:17:57. > :18:02.not complacent and recognise there is a lot to do, we are still in a
:18:02. > :18:08.gad place. For the London organisers, the 7/7
:18:08. > :18:13.bombings that happened the day after the City won the 2012 bid are
:18:13. > :18:17.a reminder of the threat. Some countries like America will bring
:18:17. > :18:20.their own security, something that some thing is rite.
:18:20. > :18:26.The athletes, if they are concerned about the security measures it
:18:26. > :18:31.would be encome bent upon the US to employ a level of security to the
:18:31. > :18:36.athletes to get in there and have the performances that they want.
:18:36. > :18:41.For all of the impressive progress made, security has always been the
:18:41. > :18:45.big unknown for London 2012, the Government is trying to limit that
:18:45. > :18:48.uncertainty, but as past Games have shown, there is only so much you
:18:49. > :18:52.can plan for. Two men, Gary Dobson and David
:18:52. > :18:58.Norris have appeared in court, charged with the murder of Stephen
:18:58. > :19:02.Lawrence, 18 years after the teenagers rer's death. The student
:19:02. > :19:08.was stabbed twice by white youths in south London on the 22nd of
:19:08. > :19:11.April, 1993. The Old Bailey was told that new evidence would be
:19:11. > :19:16.central to the proceedings. Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he
:19:16. > :19:19.died. He was stabbed while waiting for a bus late one night in south
:19:19. > :19:24.London. For his mother, Doreen Lawrence, it was a loss made so
:19:24. > :19:30.much worse by the fact that no-one has been convicted of the killing.
:19:30. > :19:35.His father, Neville, also came to see the trial begin. The two
:19:35. > :19:39.accused men, David Norris on the left is 35 Gary Dobson is 36, both
:19:39. > :19:46.deny murder. This is a case with a difficult history. Stephen died on
:19:47. > :19:55.the 22nd of April, 1993. There were court hearing in the mid-90s, and
:19:55. > :19:59.an inquest in 1997. A full public inquiry was held in 1988 chaired by
:19:59. > :20:03.Lord mac fersson. The judge, Mr Justice Treacy, said that the case
:20:03. > :20:07.aroused strong feelings, but it was told in the court that what
:20:07. > :20:10.happened in the past was irrelevant. That this case had to start with a
:20:10. > :20:15.clean slate. The judge said: A reinvestigation
:20:15. > :20:19.of the case had led to new scientific evidence. There would be
:20:19. > :20:24.an examination of its reliability. The two accused men questioned the
:20:24. > :20:28.handling of that evidence. The jurors will consider who killed
:20:28. > :20:34.learns Lawrence Lawrence have been told to expect the trial to stretch
:20:34. > :20:41.into next year. The FDA trade union which
:20:41. > :20:44.represents thousands of high- ranking civil servants, including
:20:44. > :20:50.tax inspectors, diplomats and government special advisors has
:20:50. > :20:54.voted by 4-1 to strike over changes to pensions. It is expected that
:20:54. > :21:04.thousands including teachers and health service workers will be
:21:04. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:10.involved in the day of action. Anders Braevi eq has made his first
:21:10. > :21:16.public appearance in court. He tried to explain his actions to
:21:16. > :21:23.survivors and victims. In July, the 32-year-old carried out a bomb
:21:23. > :21:30.attack in Oslo and went on a shooting rampage on the island of
:21:30. > :21:34.vitora. The Home Secretary, who has accused
:21:34. > :21:38.the UK Border Agency has gone further tonight, evealing the
:21:38. > :21:42.extent of the problem there. Labour has said they have obtained
:21:42. > :21:47.e-mails about the lack of checks on passengers on private flights.
:21:47. > :21:51.Carole Walker is at Westminster for us. What have we learned? Well,
:21:51. > :21:56.Theresa May said she did authorise pilots to reduce the level of
:21:57. > :22:00.checks on some passengers from Europe, but that border staff
:22:00. > :22:04.disobeyed her, went further and reduced the level of the security
:22:04. > :22:09.for passengers from outside of Europe as well. She's been under
:22:09. > :22:13.pressure to say how wide spread this practise was, tonight she's
:22:13. > :22:18.revealed that it took place at 28 ports and airports, including
:22:18. > :22:25.Heathrow Airport, Glasgow, Manchester and Calais. Now,
:22:25. > :22:29.tomorrow, the man who has lost his job over this, the head of the UK
:22:29. > :22:34.Border Force, as it was, borrowed borrowed, he is giving evidence
:22:35. > :22:40.tomorrow. He made it clear he disputes the Home Secretary's
:22:40. > :22:45.events, and to add to the pressure, tonight Labour say that they are
:22:45. > :22:50.obtained leaked e-mails about security for private flights. These
:22:50. > :22:53.appear to be from worried border staff to say that they are not
:22:53. > :22:59.allowed to check the passports of the passengers on the private
:22:59. > :23:05.flights and in some cases are not able to verify if the right number
:23:05. > :23:09.of people are coming off the planes. We have had a brief statement from
:23:09. > :23:14.the UK Border Agency saying it is not true that the passports are not
:23:14. > :23:18.checked. That they have not been able to oirptly verify the e-mails,
:23:18. > :23:20.but Labour say that the e-mails speak for themselves. Clearly, they
:23:20. > :23:25.will have to provide answers on this.
:23:25. > :23:29.Russia has resumed its manned space flights with a launch of a Soyuz
:23:29. > :23:34.rocket with two Russians and an American on board. The flight had
:23:34. > :23:39.been postponed for two months after a similar rocket carrying cargo
:23:39. > :23:46.crashed after take-off. With the retirement of the South American
:23:46. > :23:55.shuttle fleet, this is the only way to get astronauts into the space
:23:55. > :24:00.station. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Generating vast
:24:00. > :24:04.thrusts from the four booster engines, a Soyuz rocket blasting
:24:04. > :24:08.off from a snowy Baikonur cosmodrome this morning. On board
:24:08. > :24:11.two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut, heading for the
:24:11. > :24:15.International Space Station, on what is currently the only route
:24:15. > :24:18.into orbit. The launch had been delayed for two months because of
:24:18. > :24:24.safety fears, but they said they were not concerned.
:24:24. > :24:29.A lot of very, very difficult and diligent work was done to verify
:24:29. > :24:34.that rocket, that it is good. I'm not nervous about it.
:24:34. > :24:39.This was why he might have been worried, an almost identical rocket
:24:39. > :24:42.carrying cargo in August that crashed back to Earth, that led to
:24:42. > :24:46.all manned launchs to be put on hold.
:24:46. > :24:51.Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other,
:24:51. > :24:55.its place in history is secured, the space shuttle pulls into the
:24:55. > :24:59.port for the last time. The trouble is that since the space
:24:59. > :25:03.shuttle's retired in July, there was no other way of getting people
:25:03. > :25:10.into space, but NASA insists that the Russian-built and op rated
:25:10. > :25:14.Soyuz was not rushed back into operation -- Russian-built and
:25:14. > :25:19.operated Soyuz. In this case, I think that we
:25:19. > :25:24.really worked with the Russians. We had confidence that they had
:25:24. > :25:29.resolved this problem. Amazingly, the rocket on which
:25:29. > :25:33.everyone is relying, the Soyuz, dates back to the 1960s, the
:25:33. > :25:39.Americans don't expect their next manned vehicle launch to be ready
:25:39. > :25:45.for five years. When Russia put the first man into orbit 50 years ago
:25:45. > :25:49.it led the world in space flight, now, almost by accident it finds