:00:08. > :00:11.The big shake-up of the UK's border security after hundreds of
:00:11. > :00:15.thousands of ID checks were not carried out properly. A damning
:00:15. > :00:18.report concludes the agency suffered from a series of problems.
:00:18. > :00:22.The Home Secretary says it is not good enough and must change.
:00:22. > :00:25.Vine Report reveals a border force that suspended important cheques
:00:25. > :00:30.without permission, spent millions on new technologies but chose not
:00:30. > :00:34.to use them, was led by managers who did not communicate with staff.
:00:34. > :00:38.She has hidden behind a report and not set out its consequences, just
:00:38. > :00:43.as she blamed officials, just as she has header from the media, just
:00:43. > :00:49.as she has hidden behind spurious statistics. We will be looking at
:00:50. > :00:55.who is to blame. I have had enough of you! I have
:00:55. > :00:59.had enough of veal and Cameron! NHS is not for sale.
:00:59. > :01:02.uncompromising message of the Health Secretary on his way to
:01:02. > :01:05.discuss the controversial NHS reforms. The south-east of England
:01:05. > :01:08.is declared a drought zone with a warning that hosepipe bans could
:01:08. > :01:13.follow. Losses at Lloyds are told they will
:01:13. > :01:16.not now get �2 million in bonuses they have been promised. -- bosses.
:01:17. > :01:21.And how one of the world's most feared diseases is close to being
:01:21. > :01:27.eradicated in India with help from British volunteers. Now that India
:01:27. > :01:30.is polio free, can the world sees the opportunity and get rid of this
:01:30. > :01:34.ancient, disabling disease for good?
:01:34. > :01:37.Coming up later in sport, retired boxer David Haye is still wanted
:01:37. > :01:40.for questioning by German police following his brawl with Dereck
:01:40. > :01:50.Chisora at the weekend. Chisora has been questioned and released
:01:50. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:06.Good evening. The UK border agencies to be split in two after a
:02:06. > :02:10.new report revealed hundreds of thousands of people were let into
:02:10. > :02:13.the country without appropriate checks. -- the UK Border Agency is
:02:13. > :02:16.to be split. The Home Secretary told the Commons that an
:02:16. > :02:20.investigation into the relaxation of border controls found that
:02:20. > :02:25.500,000 people arriving on Eurostar, for example, were not checked
:02:25. > :02:28.against a watchlist for suspected criminals. Labour accused the Home
:02:28. > :02:32.Secretary of failing to take responsibility for the problems.
:02:32. > :02:35.Nick Robinson reports. The UK Board Agency, it is meant to
:02:35. > :02:39.stop terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants entering the
:02:39. > :02:43.country, but today an official investigation found that the proper
:02:43. > :02:47.checks had not been carried out on hundreds of different occasions
:02:47. > :02:52.over several years, covering many hundreds of thousands of people.
:02:52. > :02:56.The Vine Report reveals that security checks carried out at the
:02:56. > :03:02.border have been suspended regularly and applied
:03:02. > :03:08.inconsistently since at least 2007. In other words, the problem, she
:03:08. > :03:11.was claiming, started when Labour were in power. The report of the
:03:11. > :03:16.Independent's chief inspector of the UK Border Agency highlighted a
:03:16. > :03:21.series of failures. Overall, it criticised poor communication, for
:03:21. > :03:24.a managerial oversight and a lack of clarity. This led to the so-
:03:24. > :03:30.called warnings index, extra checks on people with questionable
:03:30. > :03:34.immigration status, being suspended on 350 separate occasions.
:03:34. > :03:38.Fingerprint checks carried out on foreign nationals with visas were
:03:38. > :03:42.suspended on a further 480 occasions. No records were kept of
:03:42. > :03:46.how many people and should have been checked were not. Visitors to
:03:46. > :03:51.Euro Disney may not seem to be top of any risk list, but the report
:03:51. > :03:56.found that together with those on Eurostar's Ski Train, 500,000
:03:56. > :03:59.people escaped proper border controls. The Vine Report reveals a
:03:59. > :04:02.border force that suspended important cheques without
:04:02. > :04:07.permission, spent millions on new technologies but chose not to use
:04:07. > :04:10.them, was led by managers who did not communicate with staff, and
:04:10. > :04:15.that they send reports to ministers which were not accurate and
:04:15. > :04:19.excluded key information. I spoke to John Vine, the author of today's
:04:19. > :04:24.report, after he watched the Home Secretary's statement and asked him
:04:24. > :04:28.to sum up his verdict on the agency. Is it not fit for purpose?
:04:28. > :04:34.agency has a long way to go in order to ensure that it is truly a
:04:34. > :04:39.law-enforcement body which can be relied upon to ensure that it keeps
:04:39. > :04:43.the border safe. The government is now splitting those in uniforms who
:04:43. > :04:47.police the border, the UK Border Force, from those in suits who make
:04:47. > :04:50.and run the rules. All of this is a reaction to the revelation that
:04:50. > :04:55.last summer for the Czechs were suspended at Heathrow to avoid a
:04:55. > :05:01.lengthy queues, and news that led the Home Secretary to suspend the
:05:01. > :05:03.then head of the Border Agency, Brodie Clark, and him to resign in
:05:03. > :05:07.protest and sue the Home Office. The opposition say that the
:05:07. > :05:10.government is still blaming others for its mistakes. It is time for
:05:10. > :05:14.her to stop hiding, to take responsibility for things that have
:05:14. > :05:18.happened on her watch, for the unclear instructions from her
:05:18. > :05:21.office, for the policy decisions to downgrade border controls. Perhaps
:05:21. > :05:27.the biggest test of the border controls will come this summer as
:05:27. > :05:30.huge numbers head here, most to watch the Olympics, but some for
:05:30. > :05:35.reasons that ought to mean they are kept out.
:05:36. > :05:40.Nick Robinson is at Westminster for us. The report lists some serious
:05:40. > :05:44.security failures in the UK Border Agency. How worried should we be?
:05:45. > :05:48.The author of this report told me, look, we have to keep this in
:05:48. > :05:52.proportion, and although there were failings, he said that they were
:05:52. > :05:58.often a failure to have additional controls, in addition to the normal
:05:58. > :06:01.passport checks. What is a problem, I think, is that those in the
:06:01. > :06:06.agency, ministers in the Home Office, simply did not know what
:06:06. > :06:09.each thought and what each was doing. There is an argument still
:06:09. > :06:13.going on tonight about whether the Immigration Minister Damian Green
:06:13. > :06:18.really did know about what was being done when border controls
:06:18. > :06:22.were temporarily suspended. Some in the agencies say that he did, the
:06:22. > :06:27.union representing Brodie Clark, the man who was suspended and then
:06:27. > :06:30.resigned as head of the UK Border Force, say they do, and the Labour
:06:30. > :06:33.Party are taking that up. The government say they have nothing to
:06:33. > :06:37.apologise for. Everyone involved in this is clear, though, that you
:06:37. > :06:42.cannot check everybody equally thoroughly all the time. You have
:06:42. > :06:45.to dig you risk based Jacques, as they are called. What I am struck
:06:45. > :06:48.by is that this is far from the first time we have had these
:06:48. > :06:53.problems. Remember the UK Border Agency was only set up because of a
:06:53. > :06:57.series of failures, not least the failure over foreign prisoners that
:06:57. > :07:02.caused a former Home Secretary to have to resign. They got a new
:07:02. > :07:05.agency, they got a new logo, now there is yet another organisational
:07:05. > :07:11.restructuring and all politicians can do is this and hope things get
:07:11. > :07:16.better. The Health Secretary, Andrew
:07:16. > :07:18.Lansley, was heckled and jostled by a group of protesters today as he
:07:18. > :07:23.tried to enter Downing Street for a meeting about his controversial
:07:23. > :07:26.reforms of the NHS in England. Tonight more than 650 doctors,
:07:26. > :07:30.nurses and other health professionals signed a critical
:07:30. > :07:34.letter, branding today's meeting as a gathering of yes-men. Carole
:07:34. > :07:38.Walker reports. It clearly was not what he was
:07:38. > :07:43.expecting. The health secretary walked straight into a
:07:43. > :07:51.confrontation with opponents of his NHS plans. One former union
:07:51. > :07:56.official was emotional and she blocked his path. You can wait,
:07:56. > :08:02.like people are waiting. Waiting times in the NHS have gone down. It
:08:03. > :08:08.will not go private. I have had enough of you! I have had enough of
:08:09. > :08:14.you and Cameron! The NHS is not for sale, there is no privatisation.
:08:14. > :08:17.Codswallop! The made his way into Downing Street. Some of those
:08:17. > :08:22.around the table with the Prime Minister believed the plans will
:08:22. > :08:25.improve the NHS, although others had come to voice their concerns,
:08:25. > :08:29.and those who opposed the plans outright, including the Royal
:08:29. > :08:32.Colleges of doctors, nurses and midwives, were not invited. Downing
:08:32. > :08:37.Street say that today's meeting is simply part of the ongoing
:08:37. > :08:40.discussions about the bill, but by leaving out so many of their
:08:40. > :08:43.critics, they have increased the hostility amongst many of the
:08:43. > :08:48.healthcare professionals who will be expected to implement their
:08:48. > :08:51.plans. They keep saying that because some GPs have got involved
:08:52. > :08:57.in clinical commissioning, that means the majority supported. That
:08:57. > :09:01.is not true. In some parts of England, as in Wigan, GPs already
:09:01. > :09:06.have control over their own budgets and say that reforms to stroke
:09:06. > :09:10.services have improved results and saved money. The key aspect of the
:09:10. > :09:14.bill is about giving leadership to the clinicians on the front line.
:09:14. > :09:17.We want that to be retained. It is not just those brandishing placards
:09:17. > :09:21.that are worried about greater competition and private sector
:09:21. > :09:25.involvement, but the Prime Minister wants to reassure them. There are
:09:25. > :09:28.myths that we need to bust, but I have heard that on the ground where
:09:28. > :09:32.these reforms are taking place, you are actually seeing better health
:09:32. > :09:36.outcomes, GPs doing more for their patience, people leading healthier
:09:36. > :09:40.lives as a result of these changes, so I am committed to the changes.
:09:40. > :09:46.The Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of a bunker mentality.
:09:46. > :09:50.say directly to David Cameron, I hope he will listen to the doctors,
:09:50. > :09:55.nurses, midwives and patients, all of whom are saying to him, drop the
:09:55. > :09:59.bill. Andrew Lansley made light of today's confrontation. Sticks and
:09:59. > :10:03.stones, etcetera. He is still battling to get his bill through
:10:03. > :10:07.the House of Lords, but the government insists there is no
:10:07. > :10:11.questioning of abandoning its plans for the NHS now.
:10:11. > :10:15.The south-east of England is officially in a state of drought
:10:15. > :10:19.amid fears that water levels in reservoirs in parts of England are
:10:19. > :10:23.at lower levels than they were in 1976, when there were widespread
:10:23. > :10:25.shortages and rationing. As well as the south-east, East Anglia and the
:10:25. > :10:28.East Midlands are the worst affected areas. Jeremy Cooke
:10:28. > :10:33.reports. Take a look at the reservoir levels
:10:33. > :10:37.in Kent, and you will probably have guessed but now it is official,
:10:37. > :10:41.much of the south-east of England is in drought. In the East Midlands,
:10:41. > :10:46.that has been the case for months now. Water levels here are
:10:46. > :10:51.worryingly low. And all of this in February, when rain is usually a
:10:51. > :10:54.reliable feature of the forecast. Here you get a real sense of how
:10:54. > :10:59.low levels have dropped. This entire area should be covered with
:10:59. > :11:03.water, but as you can see, vast areas of this reservoir are now
:11:03. > :11:08.exposed, and it is not just a local problem. This picture is repeated
:11:08. > :11:14.across the East and the south-east of England. The reason for all of
:11:14. > :11:18.this is simple. Two dry windows in a row. Hard to believe if you are
:11:18. > :11:22.watching in Scotland or north-west England, but what they want here is
:11:22. > :11:26.rain and lots of it. We need months of torrential rain, to be quite
:11:26. > :11:30.honest. It might not be a popular thing to say, but persistent
:11:30. > :11:34.drizzle over weeks is what we need to get things back to normal. If it
:11:34. > :11:37.does not come, and there is no sign of that on the horizon, there is
:11:37. > :11:42.the possibility we will have restrictions. That brings back
:11:42. > :11:47.memories of the epic drought of 1976 when for many the only water
:11:47. > :11:51.supply was from standpipes. So just how bad are things today? Well,
:11:51. > :11:56.parts of East Anglia and the East Midlands have been in drought since
:11:56. > :12:01.June last year. Now add other regions from Hampshire to Kent,
:12:01. > :12:05.London to Oxfordshire, and as far west as Gloucestershire. For
:12:05. > :12:08.farmers, this is bad news. Lack of rain means they must rely on
:12:08. > :12:13.irrigation to grow their crops, but groundwater and river levels are
:12:13. > :12:18.low, and taking more out now may damage wildlife. And so farmers are
:12:18. > :12:22.calling for a radical solution. Ultimately, a national grid of
:12:22. > :12:27.water pipe networks so that we can get the water from the wetter west
:12:27. > :12:31.part of the country over to the east and utilise it here. Obviously,
:12:31. > :12:35.that is a major aspiration, but ultimately that is what we need.
:12:35. > :12:39.Severn Trent is one company which is already using pipelines to move
:12:39. > :12:49.water around its region. Today's meeting between ministers and
:12:49. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :12:53.industry leaders discussed doing The driver of a school coach which
:12:53. > :12:56.crashed in northern France killing a teacher from Worcestershire has
:12:56. > :13:00.been charged with involuntary manslaughter by French magistrates.
:13:00. > :13:03.Police are investigating if Derek Thompson, 47, may have fallen
:13:03. > :13:08.asleep at the wheel. The accident happened as he drove pupils and
:13:08. > :13:11.staff from Alvechurch Middle School home from a ski trip.
:13:11. > :13:16.Police have been given an extra 36 hours to question a man about the
:13:16. > :13:19.murders of a vicar and a pensioner. Stephen Farrow, 47, was arrested
:13:19. > :13:23.yesterday in Folkestone and is being held on suspicion of
:13:23. > :13:26.murdering reverends John Suddards, who was found dead in south
:13:26. > :13:36.Gloucestershire. And he is being questioned about the debt of 77-
:13:36. > :13:42.year-old Betty Yates from Lloyds Banking Group has decided
:13:42. > :13:45.not to pay out about �million in bonuses promised to 13 senior
:13:45. > :13:54.executives. The bank said it was holding the money because of
:13:54. > :13:59.compensation costs incured by the group over the mis-selling of PPI
:13:59. > :14:04.protection payments. In what bankers think of as the
:14:04. > :14:09.good old days when abonus was announced, it was theirs to keep
:14:09. > :14:14.forever. Not anymore. Lloyds has retrieved more than 2 million
:14:14. > :14:18.awarded a year ago to 13 executives. The mis-selling of PPI insurance
:14:18. > :14:23.policies is costing Lloyds a staggering �3 .2 billion. The
:14:23. > :14:29.losses are why it wants the bonuses back from executives it holds
:14:29. > :14:34.accountable. The biggest bonus loser is to be Eric Daniels, the
:14:34. > :14:41.former chief executive, losing �580,000 out of a bonus of under
:14:41. > :14:46.�1.5 million. Four others are losing between �10,000, rand
:14:46. > :14:49.�260,000, and a Firth ought up to �150,000 poorer than they thought
:14:49. > :14:53.that they were. Lloyds is taking the lead for the
:14:53. > :14:57.industry, that says if you make a mistake as a banking executive, you
:14:57. > :15:01.can be punished by withdrawing the bonus in the future. That changes
:15:01. > :15:06.the way that the industry thinks. Lloyds caused distress to many
:15:06. > :15:11.thousands of customers, unable to make claims on the PPI credit
:15:11. > :15:15.insurance they were mis-sold. Now the customers are being compensated,
:15:15. > :15:22.the question eis whether a 40terz reduction in the bonus payable to
:15:22. > :15:27.the former chief executive and a 25% reduction in bonuses for four
:15:27. > :15:31.other directors, whether that represents adequate punishments?
:15:31. > :15:36.have been campaigning for this for a year. It is good to see the first
:15:36. > :15:40.step. The regulator must be tougher on stopping the rewards for failure,
:15:40. > :15:45.ensuring that the banks are clawing back bonuses whether it is shares
:15:45. > :15:46.or cash from people who presided over bad behaviour, bad for
:15:46. > :15:51.customers and for us all as taxpayers.
:15:51. > :15:56.Royal Bank of Scotland, when led by Sir Fred Goodwin, was also big in
:15:56. > :16:00.the mis-selling of PPI insurance, but although he has had his
:16:00. > :16:04.knighthood taken back, he will not have to hand back a bonus as he was
:16:04. > :16:10.not paid one in a year when he departed.
:16:10. > :16:13.Coming up: The dish of the day or dangerous
:16:13. > :16:21.development? We speaking to scientist who wants to make burgers
:16:21. > :16:24.from stem cells. Polio, one of the world's most
:16:25. > :16:31.feared diseases, which has been causing paralysis an death for
:16:31. > :16:36.thousands of years is a step nearer eradication. India once had more
:16:36. > :16:41.cases than any other country, but it has been polio-free for over a
:16:41. > :16:45.year. It has an historic opportunity to eradicate it
:16:45. > :16:51.completely. We went to Delhi to see an immunisation programme in action.
:16:51. > :16:56.Just two drops is all that it takes to prevent polio. Now imagine
:16:56. > :17:00.repeating that 170 million times, tracking down every young child
:17:00. > :17:04.across India. You then begin to get an idea of what it has taken to get
:17:04. > :17:08.rid of polio here. The mark on the finger shows that they have
:17:08. > :17:15.received the vaccine. What's been achieved here is remarkable. India
:17:15. > :17:20.used to have more polio cases than anywhere else, but political will,
:17:20. > :17:25.resources and dedication have finally wiped it out.
:17:25. > :17:29.The volunteers here are from Britain. Members of the Rotary club,
:17:29. > :17:33.the global network of professionals. Rotary has been at the forefront of
:17:33. > :17:36.the fight against polio for a generation. Raising money and
:17:36. > :17:40.awareness. My dream is to have a pole free
:17:40. > :17:46.world. We have done it with smallpox, we should be able to do
:17:46. > :17:52.it with polio. We are close now. We're on the last days, I hope.
:17:52. > :17:56.a nurse clinician, I vaccinate babies on a daily basis, coming
:17:56. > :18:01.here is an extension of that. I love people. I want to see healthy
:18:01. > :18:03.children worldwide. This Delhi hospital still has a
:18:04. > :18:08.backlog of patients paralysed by the virus.
:18:08. > :18:15.He will have four operations. Mohammed caught polio as a baby. He
:18:15. > :18:18.will need repeated surgery before he can walk with the aid of
:18:18. > :18:21.calipers. I get patients from all over the
:18:21. > :18:25.world. It is painful to see the family suffering for everyone to
:18:25. > :18:29.suffer around it. If the world can stop polio it will
:18:29. > :18:33.be the greatest thing that I can dream of.
:18:33. > :18:38.Polio used to spread via contaminated water and raw sewage,
:18:38. > :18:41.but the virus has disappeared because enough people are protected.
:18:41. > :18:46.India has shown global eradication is possible, but the war is not
:18:46. > :18:51.within won yet. India's polio-free status is under
:18:51. > :18:54.threat. Neighbouring Pakistan, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria
:18:54. > :19:01.all saw increases in cases last year. This virus respects no
:19:01. > :19:06.borders. That is why it is vital, mass immunisation campaigns like
:19:06. > :19:10.this need to continue until erchild in every country is protected.
:19:10. > :19:14.Poorly run immunisation programmes and families who refuse the vaccine
:19:14. > :19:19.are what's preventing those countries from matching India's
:19:19. > :19:27.success. It will take unswerving commitment of the sorts seen here
:19:27. > :19:31.if this disabling disease is to be consigned to history.
:19:31. > :19:39.Eurozone leaders are locked in talks this evening in Brussels to
:19:39. > :19:45.try to secure a deal with Greece to allow them to approve �130 billion
:19:46. > :19:50.-- a 130 Euro billion bail out package. Gavin, what is the latest?
:19:50. > :19:55.For all of the words going into the meeting, we are optimistic. There
:19:55. > :19:58.is the expectation that a massive second bail out for Greece will be
:19:59. > :20:01.agreed and the country avoids bankruptcy, but it is worth being
:20:01. > :20:06.cautious. The finances ministers have been meeting for eight hours
:20:06. > :20:10.now. They've been arguing how precisely Greece will reduce its
:20:10. > :20:16.debt burden to the agreed target. They've been arguing also, how to
:20:17. > :20:21.ensure that Greece lives up to its commitments to implement the
:20:21. > :20:25.austerity cuts. One minister when he came to the meeting said he
:20:26. > :20:30.wanted to station monitors in Athens to ensure that they lived up
:20:30. > :20:34.to their promises. That, of course, would be highly controversial in
:20:34. > :20:38.Greece. If during the hours of darkness there is a new bail out
:20:38. > :20:43.agreement, there would be a huge sigh of relief in the eurozone, but
:20:43. > :20:47.the outcome is far less certain for Greece, they will have to implement
:20:47. > :20:52.new austerity measures at a time when the economy is shrinking fast.
:20:53. > :21:00.Thank you very much. Tomorrow, the people of Yemen go to
:21:00. > :21:04.the polls to elect a new President, but there is own one candidate, the
:21:04. > :21:10.current Vice-President. Despite a year of street protests and the
:21:11. > :21:16.departure of President salyar, the yem -- Yemen is deeply divided. On
:21:16. > :21:19.the eve of voting we have been looking to see what Yemen's next
:21:19. > :21:24.leader must address and whether the country's battle against Al-Qaeda
:21:24. > :21:29.is any closer to being won. In the streets of SANA, they are
:21:29. > :21:33.drumming up support for the Yemen presidential election. After 33
:21:34. > :21:39.years in power, the old President, President Ali Abdullah Saleh is
:21:39. > :21:44.finally going. By Tuesday night, this man, Abed
:21:44. > :21:47.Rabbo Mansour Hadi will be Yemen's new President. It is a strange
:21:47. > :21:52.election for anybody to be getting excited about. There is one
:21:52. > :21:57.candidate. If only one person votes for him he will still win, but this
:21:57. > :22:02.is not really an election about choosing a new leader for Yemen, it
:22:02. > :22:09.is an election about getting rid of the old one, but getting rid of the
:22:09. > :22:15.old President's family is not easy. Sitting beneath a portrait of his
:22:15. > :22:20.uncle in the central military command is President Ali Abdullah
:22:20. > :22:22.Saleh's enough ue. He is the head of the Head of the Central Security
:22:22. > :22:27.Forces, he said that he is going nowhere.
:22:27. > :22:37.Why should we leave? What is the problem that we are to leave? If
:22:37. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:42.this the reason for us to leave? were taken to see the troops that
:22:42. > :22:46.he commands. Their job is to track down Al-Qaeda militants. The rapid
:22:46. > :22:52.spread of Al-Qaeda across Yemen is why the West is worried about this
:22:52. > :23:01.place, why it is supplying and training the troops.
:23:01. > :23:06.But Al-Qaeda, they are thriving on poverty. Yemen is now one of the
:23:06. > :23:10.poorest country's in the world. We travelled to see for ourselves. Out
:23:10. > :23:16.here hundreds of thousands of children live on the edge of
:23:16. > :23:21.starvation. This child is severely malnourished
:23:21. > :23:31.with 1075 centimetres. 10.5 centimetres? That implicates
:23:31. > :23:32.
:23:32. > :23:36.he has severe, acute malnutrition. Half a million children in Yemen
:23:36. > :23:40.are dying from malnutrition. There is a huge problem here. If we
:23:40. > :23:45.don't address it now, it will be severe later.
:23:45. > :23:49.The new President needs to start here in Yemen's villages if there
:23:49. > :23:57.is a problem and none of the problems here can be solved with
:23:57. > :24:02.guns. The comment by Jeremy Clarkson that
:24:02. > :24:07.striking public sector workers should be taken out and shot did
:24:07. > :24:10.not breach broadcasting rules according to Ofcom.
:24:11. > :24:14.The comments sparked more than 30,000 complaints. Ofcom said when
:24:14. > :24:21.taken in context, it was clear that the comments were not an expression
:24:21. > :24:25.of seriously held beliefs. Now, when is a burger not a burger?
:24:25. > :24:30.Well, you may think if it does not contain meat, but now a Dutch
:24:30. > :24:34.scientist has created a burger grown in a laboratory. He promises
:24:35. > :24:39.it tastes as good as the real thing. As we can see, it has a serious
:24:39. > :24:44.purpose. This is a strip of muscle grown from stem cells taken from a
:24:44. > :24:48.cow. It will be used to make the world's
:24:48. > :24:52.first synthetic burger. The strip is one of thousands grown in a lab
:24:52. > :24:57.in the Netherlands. Researchers mix them with layers of fat, also grown
:24:57. > :25:00.in the lab, to make a burger. It will cost more than �200,000 to
:25:00. > :25:06.make. For now, though, the scientists
:25:06. > :25:12.behind the project will have to make do with today's fast food.
:25:12. > :25:16.My dream is to produce meat that tastes an looks exactly like this.
:25:16. > :25:22.So that you will not be able to distinguish it from the livestock
:25:22. > :25:25.meat, but you know now that it is produced in an environmental
:25:25. > :25:29.friendly animal-friendly and resource-friendly way.
:25:29. > :25:33.Dr Mark Post grows stem cells in a dish, they are then clumped
:25:33. > :25:37.together and grown into muscle. It is real meat so it should look and
:25:37. > :25:41.taste like the real thing. Researchers say it is more
:25:41. > :25:46.efficient than farming. One animal could make 1 billion burgers. A
:25:46. > :25:48.point that has been welcomed by animal welfare groups, but locals
:25:49. > :25:53.at a nearby hot dog restaurant are wary.
:25:53. > :25:58.I don't think it is a good idea. REPORTER: Why is that? It just
:25:58. > :26:03.doesn't make sense to me. There is nothing better than
:26:03. > :26:07.natural meat. This is why we've been raised our whole lives here.
:26:07. > :26:12.We know where the farming comes from, who is processing it for us,
:26:12. > :26:15.how good it is. But in the future natural meat is
:26:15. > :26:21.likely to become too expensive. Buying meat in supermarkets is
:26:21. > :26:25.something that we take for granted nowadays, but not for very much
:26:25. > :26:32.longer. They believe that because of rising demands in India and
:26:33. > :26:37.China, meat prices are set to soar. We have about 1 billion people
:26:37. > :26:42.under nourished on the planet as we push to 9 billion, we will have to