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A historic visit - David Cameron becomes the first British prime | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
minister to go to Burma for more than half a century. He met the | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Gyan called for sanctions | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
against Burma to be eased in recognition of political reform. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
think there are prospects for change in Burma, and it is right | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
for the rest of the world to respond to those changes. In the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
capital, Mr Cameron called on the country's president to demonstrate | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
that Burma's moves to democracy are irreversible. We will assess | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
whether the Burmese authorities can deliver a permanent change. Also | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
tonight: a possible deal to avert a strike by tanker drivers - new | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
developments tonight. A North Korea's rocket launch ends | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
in failure as it crashes into the Yellow Sea. Despite international | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
humiliation, a mass rally goes ahead to unveil colossal statues of | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
the country's founders. The failure is embarrassing. The question is, | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
what effect will it have on the regime of the young Kim Jong Un? | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
We prices soaring at the end of the month, the Royal Mail's rationing | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
supplies to stop people stockpiling the cheaper stamps. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
And picking out a penguin from space - scientists use satellites | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
to track them, with surprising results. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
In Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, the Bahrain Grand Prix is | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
on. Formula One bosses say they have been reassured about safety | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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Good evening. David Cameron has said he backs a suspension of most | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
of the sanctions against Burma in recognition of the country's | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
gradual move towards democracy. The Prime Minister made the comments on | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
a historic visit to the country during which he held talks with the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Burma's President and with the pro- democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Mr Cameron said there was every prospect of change in Burma, and he | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
invited Ms Suu Kyi to visit Britain in June. She has not left Burma for | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
more than two decades. This report contains flash photography. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
This was the moment a British Prime Minister has set foot in Burma for | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
the first time in more than 60 years, the moment he met the woman | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
whose confinement in his house for 14 years captured the world's | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
attention. But today she was free to receive her guest. No longer a | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
political prisoner and instead, after historic elections, a new | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
member of parliament. Their aim was to persuade Mr Cameron that her | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
country's move to reform his genuine, he is to lend Britain's | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
support to that change. He said EU sanctions against Burma should not | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
be lifted, but suspended. Of course we must respond with caution, with | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
care. We must always be sceptical and questioning, because we want to | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
know those changes are irreversible. But as we have discussed, I think | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
it is right to suspend the sanctions that there are against | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Burma, to suspend them, not to lift them, and not to include the arms | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
embargo. This suspension would have taken place because of the steps | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
taken by the president and other reformers. And it will also make it | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
clear to those who are against reform that, should they try to | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
obstruct the way of the reformers, sanctions could come back. David | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Cameron has never met Aung San Suu Kyi before, but the smiles and body | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
language showed that he was inspired by what she said. You are | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
sitting in a garden where you were barely allowed to walk or stand. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Which used to be a jungle anyway. And only three years ago, you were | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
threatened with prison. This visit is another example of David | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Cameron's willingness to play a bold stroke on the international | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
stage. But for all the symbolic significance of his meeting today | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
with Aung San Suu Kyi, the real impact will only be known if reform | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
continues and sanctions are lifted. And that depends on how the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
military-backed government responds. So the Prime Minister travelled | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
along the often empty 20 lane roads that lead to the imposing palace of | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Burma's President Thein Sein. He went to meet a man once at the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
heart of the dictatorship, and now, he hopes, part of the country's | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
move to democracy. It was perhaps telling that along the way, he was | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
greeted by the traditional water festivities that they believe wash | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
away people's sins. The smiles were gone and the meeting more formal, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
but the Prime Minister welcomed Thein Sein's decision to allow new | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
elections and urged him to go further in releasing political | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
prisoners. He left that meeting convinced that the former general | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
was at least sincere. This is a country where a third of its | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
citizens live in poverty and have waited so many decades for change. | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Leaving Burma today, David Cameron believes that change is so deep- | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
seated that he is inviting Aung San Suu Kyi to London this summer. She | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
has never felt confident enough to take the risk of leaving her | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
country before. Today, she said she just might. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
The fuel tanker drivers' union Unite and six distribution | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
companies have reached a possible deal tonight to avert a strike. The | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
threat of industrial action by drivers and government advice to | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
motorists to stock up on fuel led to panic buying at petrol stations | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
last month. Our transport correspondent is at the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
conciliation service ACAS, where the deal was reached. But neither | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
side is giving much away? Yes, a deal is on the table, but all sides | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
are staying tight-lipped. They have a lot to discuss. Everything from | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
pay and pensions to safety and training. What happens next? The | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
unions now have to put this deal to their members. Delegates will meet | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
next week at a conference. I am told they are coming from all over | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the country and it will not be a straightforward yes or no vote. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
They will discuss the proposals and decide if they like elements of it | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
all want clarification. The deadline will be next Friday. The | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
union has until then to basically say yes, we like the proposals, or | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
"we are going on strike". It is not a done deal yet. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned North | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Korea's latest attempt to launch a rocket into space in defiance of UN | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
resolutions. The launch, which ended in failure, is widely seen as | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
an attempt to develop a missile capable of carrying nuclear | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
warheads. It came as thousands of North Koreans parade in the capital | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Pyongyang in a show of support for their ruling family. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
His swagger is that of a man bred for power. Kim Jong Un is 29 years | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
old. Today anointed Supreme Leader. The third generation of the Kim | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
dynasty. A statue of his father next to his grandfather was | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
unveiled this afternoon. Both ruled before him. North Koreans are | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
taught to revere them like gods. But the young Kim's elevation was | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
meant to be accompanied by news that North Korea had successfully | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
put a satellite into space, an achievement which would help such a | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
young man reinforce his right to the mantle of power. But there was | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
no mention here of the rocket blowing up a minute into flight, | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
just a brief statement earlier in the day that things had not gone to | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
plan. North Korea's leadership placed huge importance on the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
satellite launch. Its failure is embarrassing. The question is, what | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
effect will it have on the regime of the young Kim Jong Un? Twinning | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
by hand, gangs of workers line the boulevards at Pyongyang. The rocket | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
was meant to be a way of showing North Koreans that the socialist | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
state the Kims have created is technology -- technologically | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
advanced. America said it was a disguised to test an | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
intercontinental missile. The young Kim's father also tested nuclear | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
bombs. She is one of the last North Korea's to have seen Kim Jong Il | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
life. He visited this enterprise two days before his death last | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
December. Her tears are genuine. We came here before the rocket | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
exploded. She told us, we are grateful to Kim Jong Il for making | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
our nation a powerful and strong country. Strength and self-reliance. | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
They are virtues that are taught to all North Koreans. But now this | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
country's neighbours fear that its young leader, who has suffered a | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
blow to his prestige, may be tempted to respond with a new show | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
of power, perhaps by testing a nuclear bomb. This is already a | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
deeply isolated place, under sanctions. The developing -- it is | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
developing both missile technology and nuclear weapons. But today, | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
there was only reverence for the Kim dynasty. North Koreans are | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
oblivious or unconcerned that Kim Jong Un's rocket was a failure and | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
that America, Britain and others may now seek, at the UN, to isolate | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
this country even further. We can talk to our correspondent in | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Pyongyang now. What now for the North Korean regime? There are | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
thought to be two reasons why North Korea spends millions of dollars on | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
rockets and nuclear bombs when it is impoverished. The first is as a | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
deterrent against what it sees as threats from America. The second, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
as a bargaining chip to seek concessions from America, | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
particularly their food aid, because this country cannot feed | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
all its own people. Today America has said it will not go ahead with | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
planned food aid here because of the missile launch today. So how | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
will North Korea's 29-year-old leader respond? Within the logic of | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
North Korea, it may now up the ante, conducting an underground test. | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
That is what North Korea's neighbours are worried about, Kim | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Jong Un try to restore some lost prestige and also trying to seek | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
new concessions from America. But the results of a nuclear test would | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
be more tensions in this region and probably more isolation for North | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Korea and for Kim Jong Un. Police are encouraging victims of | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
domestic violence to have the confidence to come forward and | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
reported use after a man carried out a horrific attack on his | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
girlfriend that left her blind. Shane Jenkin set upon Tina Nash at | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
her home in Hayle in Cornwall last year. Today he pleaded guilty to | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
grievous bodily harm and will be sentenced next month. Some may find | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
this report distressing. Tina Nash was a happy, bubbly and | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
confident young mum who loved dancing and being with her friends. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
But that life was shattered when she was blinded at her home in a | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
brutal attack. The man responsible was not an intruder, but her | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
boyfriend, Shane Jenkin. After the attack, he kept her imprisoned for | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
nearly 12 hours. If I had seen someone in that much pain, looking | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
like that, the first thing I would do is get help, and he didn't. So I | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
can't forgive him. He said I was like his best mate, so I don't | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
understand why he would hurt someone he was supposed to care | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
about. It was here at the Royal Cornwall Hospital that surgeons | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
battled unsuccessfully to save Tina Nash's site. She had also been | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
severely beaten. She had a turbulent relationship with Shane | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Jenkin. There had been violence in the past, but she had taken him | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
back, believing she could change him. Detectives described her | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
ordeal as a premeditated, sustained and vicious attack. They urged | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
other victims of domestic violence to come forward. There are lots of | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
people out there who we do not know about who will not report it to us. | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
But unfortunately, as we have seen today, this could be the end result. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
We want to help. Police have praised Tina for her bravery in the | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
year since her ordeal, but she admits that her courage sometimes | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
wavers. It makes me feel like I have been buried alive. I feel like | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
a ghost. You know, I can hear everyone around me and I can't even | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
see my hand in front of my face. When I hear my kids, I can't... | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
Sorry... I can't see their faces. Shane Jenkin will be sentenced next | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
month. Meanwhile, Tina is concentrating on her children and | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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One of the world's biggest cigarette manufacturers has | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
criticised Andrew Lansley for saying that the industry should | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
have no business in the UK. The firm said the remark was very | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
unhelpful. It has also dismissed as preposterous a plan to remove | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
branding from cigarettes. The government will begin a | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
consultation on the idea next week. The Royal Mail is rationing the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
number of stamps it issues, ahead of a sharp increase in prices at | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the end of the month. It says the move is intended to protect its | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
revenue. From the end of the month, first class stamps will increase | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
from 46 pence to 60p, while second class stamps will rise from 36 to | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
50p. Unsurprisingly many customers are not happy and they have been | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
stockpiling stamps. Whether it is first class or second | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
class, many of us it seems are stocking up before they go up in | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
price. Superdrug says supplies are running low and it cannot get any | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
more stamps before the end of the month. Tesco, Sainsbury's and | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Morrisons told us today they had seen a significant increase in | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
demand. It is small businesses like this one that are most affected by | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
the price rises. Richard isn't by specialist in central Scotland and | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
relied on Royal Mail. -- is an eye specialist. We have to receive the | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
money or past the costs on to the cost of your spectacles. He doesn't | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
want to do that so today, Richard went to stock up. Can I have | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
3.002nd class stamps, police? lightly. It is too big and order. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
But he does get a few hundred. Royal Mail says it can meet the | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
demand but it has capped suppliers to retailers. They cannot buy more | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
than 20% of their annual allocation. Royal Mail says it does not want | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
retailers profiteering, bulk-buying now and selling later for more, and | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
it also wants to protect its revenue. Royal Mail are under great | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
pressure, losing money, volumes in post are declining rapidly because | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
of e-mail and text messages, so something has to be done. Some | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
consumers are trying to beat the price rises. At this village post | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
office in Surrey, they have been busier than at Christmas. It has | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
been amazing. People have been buying hundreds at a time. We are | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
left with very few stamps. This country has plenty of stamps but | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
stockpiling shows how keen people are right now to save every penny | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
they can. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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The fancy frocks, hats and horses of Ladies' Day at Aintree. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Formula One bosses say the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead despite | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
calls from pro-democracy protesters in the country it to be cancelled. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Last year's event was called off after a crack-down by the Bahraini | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
authorities and widespread violence. Our security correspondent Frank | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
Gardner reports. A Friday funeral turned violent | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
today for a man shot dead two weeks ago during one of our rain's anti- | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
government protests. -- Bahrain's. Hardly the best backdrop for | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Formula One. The police say they will insure the team's safety and | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the decision to go ahead rests with Formula One bosses. We heard | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
something from the FDA this morning. What has been discussed about | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
Bahrain? Nothing. We are going there? Yes, of course. The row over | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Bahrain's Grand Prix goes beyond sport. It is worth �25 million to | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Formula One and it takes place on a circuit which cost �92 million to | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
build. The Royal Family there owns 50% of the team McLaren so there is | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
a lot at stake if it were to be cancelled. The question is, now it | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
is going ahead, will it aggravate or defuse the highly charged | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
atmosphere in the troubled villages in Bahrain? The fundamental | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
conflict is between those who support the Sunni ruling elite and | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
those who oppose them. Sectarian divisions are growing. This CCTV | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
video shows a Sunni gang are looting eight Shia owned | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
supermarket. The police appeared to be warning them of the cameras. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Bahrain tonight said an investigation has been launched. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
Bahrain's civil unrest is not going away. As protests continue, Amnesty | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
International says the human rights crisis is not over. The opposition | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
thinks the government will exploit the Grand Prix to delay reform. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
They might use it not to move ahead because they feel they have more | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
space now because they have communicated to the international | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
community, everything is normal in Bahrain. Unfortunately this is the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
mentality of a dictatorship. police there are coming | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
increasingly under attack. EXPLOSION. On the night this was | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
filmed this week, a pipe bomb sent seven police officers to hospital | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
and many want to see the government take a tougher line with protesters. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
The last Grand Prix in Bahrain was two years ago. The track may be | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
full again once more but it will not get rid of deep and 10 | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
divisions. Activists in Syria say several | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
protesters have been shot dead by government forces a day after a | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
ceasefire came into force. Today's protests were seen as a major test | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
of the ceasefire as part of a peace plan negotiated by the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
international envoy Kofi Annan. Discussions are continuing at the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
UN to try to agree on the deployment of observers to the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
country. An international team of scientists | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
has been using high resolution satellite images from space to | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
count penguins. They have found that there are twice as many | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. It's the first | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
time that an entire species has been tracked from space. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
The long march of the emperor penguin. Every winter, Faye Turney | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
100 miles from the ocean inland to their breeding ground -- they | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
journey. It is that time that conservationists used to monitor | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
their numbers. But it is hard to count them. They look the same and | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
inconveniently for researchers, they move around. Against the | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Antarctic stock white landscape, it is easy to take a picture of all of | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
them from space. The dark areas are colonies of hundreds of penguins. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
These satellite images have shown that there are nearly 600,000 | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
emperor penguins here, twice as many as previous estimates. It is | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
almost impossible to count them on the ground because of the remote | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
and harsh environment but with a satellite, weekend take every | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
single colony with a snapshot of time -- we can take. It is only | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
recently that cameras have become powerful enough on satellite to | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
track individual animals. On the top left-hand corner, you can see | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
the sea, with five floating. On the bottom right, is the land, looking | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
desolate and pristine. But if we zoom in, you can see these are | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
penguin droppings, stretching out for miles. That alerts scientists | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
to the fact that nearby, there must be a colony. If we zoom in further, | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
we can see them, in black. Using statistical techniques, computer | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
programs can calculate where the individuals are and count them. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Conservationists believe that this type of satellite tracking could | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
enable them to study how many species across the world are doing. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Satellite technology is increasingly being used in a number | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
of different aspects of biology. Refining those techniques will be | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
crucial to our understanding of how what life is changing in reaction | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
to human intervention. Although the results suggest there are more | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
emperor penguins than previously thought, many other species are | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
endangered and satellite techniques could enable researchers to track | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
their numbers with greater accuracy than ever before. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
The Chinese economy, the world's second-largest, has expanded at its | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
slowest pace in almost three years. Annual economic growth was 8.1% for | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
the first quarter of the year, lower than most analysts had | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
predicted. It has raised more questions about the ability of the | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
Chinese leadership to keep the economy on track. Hugh Pym reports. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
China's retailers are having to try harder to shift their goods, the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
pace of economic growth has slowed and that is partly because of | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
deliberate attempts by the government to rein back the boom | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
before it got out of control. Consumer demand is not as big as | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
last year. First the government suspended all the subsidies for | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
home appliances. Second, the policies to control property prices. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
This affects the market alight. So is the party over for the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Chinese economy? Most experts say no, but the atmosphere is more | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
muted. China is trying to shift away from being an economy that has | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
this enormous export base drive to one that is more dependent on | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
itself, and they are trying to do it at a time when they want to | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
bring inflation under control, so it is not surprising the economy | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
has been slowing. If China has a growth problem, many other | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
economies would happily swap it for theirs. Last year the UK saw growth | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
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But China had more than 90% growth. Even with the pace of expansion | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
easing off, China is still one of the bright spots for the global | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
economy -- 9% growth. UK exports have really benefited from China's | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
growth in the last few years. Trade with the eurozone may have been | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
difficult but surge in demand from China has really kept things | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
ticking over. Jobs have been created largely on the back of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
those exports and there is more expansion on the way. China is a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
huge prospect, opportunity for us. We are expecting the growth of | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
certainly up to 20% of our business, and that will be no growth and jobs. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
So British companies will hope the Chinese authorities can keep the | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
economy on course, as they prepare for a big change in leadership | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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later this year. It has been a day of stylish hats | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
and fancy frocks. Ladies' Day at Aintree has, as always, attracted | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
thousands of women, as well as a few men, and comes as the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
excitement builds for tomorrow's Grand National. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
On Ladies' Day, the dress code is uniquely Aintree. Months of | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
planning go into Friday's display. The serious side is often not seen. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
We filmed animal welfare campaigners inspecting the Grand | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
National course with the British Horseracing Authority. Things have | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
changed, to an extent. Older, better horses will run and in | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
places, the ground where they land has been levelled, but most of the | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
fences are just as big. One has to ask the simple question: Is it | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
reasonable? Have the animal been properly prepared? Does the Jockey | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
have the ability? Let's hope everything goes the way it should. | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
40 horses charging at over 30 mph, trying to leap fences 5 ft tall. It | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
is risky, it is supposed to be, the ultimate challenge. For horses and | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
for jockeys. It is where Ruby Walsh excelled, twice National winner in | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
the last few years. This time he has been joined by his sister. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Katie Walsh is riding Sea Bass and has a genuine hope of winning | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
herself. She was always tagging along behind but there was five | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
years between us. It would be great for the race to have a woman | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
winner? It would be absolutely fantastic but I don't know if that | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
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will be the case. If it happens... It would be unbelievable. Better | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
story, me winning three... If you didn't catch him! One thing that | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
will make the ground softer and the Grand National safe bet is the rain | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
and address groat can always be adapted -- and the dress code can | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
always be adapted. After several years as a couple, | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are said to be engaged according to | :27:01. | :27:05. |