:00:09. > :00:12.Edinburgh is admitted to hospital following abdominal tests. Hours
:00:12. > :00:16.after attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace he was taken to
:00:16. > :00:20.hospital, for an operation tomorrow. He's expected to stay at The London
:00:20. > :00:25.Clinic for up to two weeks - the palace says it was not an emergency
:00:25. > :00:29.admission. The Duke will be 92 next week. We'll have the latest on his
:00:29. > :00:33.condition. Also tonight: Labour promises a
:00:34. > :00:37.three-year cap on welfare spending if it wins the next election.
:00:37. > :00:47.In Syria, after the battle for Qusair, a special report on the
:00:47. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:54.extent of the devastation. Physical construction in Qusair is immense
:00:54. > :00:57.and shocking. But something even more worrying has happened here.
:00:57. > :01:01.Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, pleads not guilty
:01:01. > :01:11.to phone hacking and corruption. And we report from inside Guantanamo
:01:11. > :01:12.
:01:13. > :01:18.Bay, where most of the detainees are on hunger strike. In Sportsday
:01:18. > :01:28.Serena Williams blasts her way into the French Open final in 46 minutes.
:01:28. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:44.Good evening. The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to hospital earlier
:01:44. > :01:47.today. Buckingham Palace said it was not an emergency admission, and the
:01:47. > :01:52.Duke would be having an exploratory operation tomorrow at The London
:01:52. > :01:55.Clinic. The Duke, who's 91, is expected to stay in hospital for up
:01:55. > :02:04.to two weeks. Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,
:02:04. > :02:07.has the latest. Buckingham Palace this afternoon and one of the garden
:02:07. > :02:12.parties that the Queen gives every summer. And there at her siefd as
:02:12. > :02:17.usual was the Duke of Edinburgh, looking entirely untroubled.
:02:17. > :02:25.According to guests he seemed well and was telling jokes, as is his
:02:25. > :02:29.habit, but it transpires that in recent days the Duke has had tests
:02:30. > :02:35.and what the Palace describes as abdominal investigations. He was
:02:35. > :02:38.taken by car this evening to the London Clinic for what the Palace
:02:38. > :02:42.describes as an exploratory operation. Such an operation is
:02:42. > :02:46.expected to take place tomorrow. It is thought it will involve a general
:02:46. > :02:51.anaesthetic. A young person might be able to get over an operation like
:02:51. > :02:55.that within a few days, but for an older person, the cardia vascular
:02:55. > :03:03.system, the heart and the lungs and the other organs are older and take
:03:03. > :03:06.more time to recover. Although the Duke pulled out of an engagement on
:03:06. > :03:11.Monday night he was with the Queen at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday for
:03:11. > :03:17.the service marking the 60 years since her Coronation. Yesterday he
:03:17. > :03:21.was visiting a ship, the SS Robin, at the royal Victoria dock. There
:03:21. > :03:24.was no hint of any problem then. That too was the impression of the
:03:24. > :03:28.guests at the garden party at Buckingham Palace this afternoon.
:03:28. > :03:32.didn't look ill. He was joking and smiling and walking around, and
:03:32. > :03:39.making a very big effort this week, which has been such a special week
:03:39. > :03:44.for the Queen, to be there by her side. As my son and I were leaving
:03:44. > :03:48.the Palace in our car going up to Victoria, he was going in the
:03:48. > :03:51.opposite direction in another car. We did think it was strange to see
:03:51. > :03:56.him jetting away from Buckingham Palace right after the party.
:03:56. > :04:01.inescapable fact is that the Duke will be 92 on Monday.
:04:01. > :04:06.Notwithstanding that he's been continuing with a busy diary of
:04:06. > :04:09.engagements. He was in Canada two weeks ago. He had a noticeably
:04:09. > :04:14.bruised right eye on that occasion, another sign of which the greater
:04:14. > :04:19.vulnerability of his advancing age, but it didn't stop him. I regret
:04:19. > :04:24.that circumstances have prevented me from seeing more of the third
:04:24. > :04:29.Battalion in recent years. Twice last summer, notably of a very damp
:04:29. > :04:34.afternoon on the Thames for the Jubilee river pageant, he had to go
:04:34. > :04:39.into hospital with a bladder inn fection. He was able to leave
:04:39. > :04:42.hospital after a few nights. It was a similar story at Christmas 2011
:04:42. > :04:46.when there was a serious health scare, a blocked coronary artery.
:04:46. > :04:50.Even then the Duke was leaving hospital after less than a week. On
:04:50. > :04:54.this occasion, Buckingham Palace says the Duke will be in hospital
:04:54. > :04:59.for up to two weeks. The Queen will be continuing with her programme as
:04:59. > :05:03.normal. For the latest from the London
:05:03. > :05:07.Clinic tonight Nicholas Witchell is there for us. What more can you tell
:05:07. > :05:10.us this evening? This as I understand it is the sequence of
:05:10. > :05:16.events. There were routine tests which produced a result which caused
:05:16. > :05:21.the doctors to feel that they needed these abdominal investigations, as
:05:21. > :05:25.the Palace has described them. Some of those took place here at this
:05:25. > :05:30.hospital and they caused the doctors to feel they needed to take it a
:05:30. > :05:33.stage further and admit the Duke for these exploratory operation. It is
:05:33. > :05:37.exploratory. It is not we are told an emergency. He is said to have
:05:37. > :05:43.been in good spirits when he walked into the hospital earlier this
:05:43. > :05:48.evening. I'm not going to speculate about what they may be exploring
:05:48. > :05:53.except I understand it is nothing to do with his heart. Clearly if it is
:05:53. > :05:56.centred on his abdomen, and it is nothing to do with his bladder. He
:05:56. > :06:01.had two instances of a bladder infection last year. What's in
:06:01. > :06:07.everybody's mind is the fact that in four days' time he will be 92 years
:06:08. > :06:15.old. For anybody of that ij to undergo an operation under general
:06:15. > :06:19.anaesthetic inevitably will be quite challenging. Nick, thank you.
:06:19. > :06:23.On to the day's other main news. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has
:06:23. > :06:26.promised to put a three-year cap on welfare spending if he wins the next
:06:26. > :06:30.election. Outlining a new approach to social security, Mr Miliband said
:06:30. > :06:32.Labour would have a laser focus on how every pound was spent. The
:06:32. > :06:38.Conservatives say the plan lacks detail and credibility. Our
:06:38. > :06:42.political editor Nick Robinson reports. Public spending and the
:06:42. > :06:46.cost of welfare. Two things which Labour knows it has yet to persuade
:06:46. > :06:50.many voters to trust them with. Which is why the party unveiled a
:06:50. > :06:55.plan today to cap the amount the next Government can spend on
:06:55. > :07:01.welfare. Jobs for everyone who can work and help to make that happen
:07:01. > :07:06.must be the starting point for social security reform, because it
:07:06. > :07:10.is right and because it cuts the costs of worklessness. Ed Miliband's
:07:10. > :07:13.argument today on a visit to London's City Airport was that you
:07:13. > :07:18.can't cut the benefits bill by simply cutting benefits. You have
:07:18. > :07:21.instead, he claimed, to cut unemployment, low pay and high
:07:21. > :07:25.rents. Some of which the biggest councils in the country have all
:07:25. > :07:30.come to us and said if they had the power to negotiate on behalf of
:07:30. > :07:33.tenants on housing benefit, they could get far greater savings than
:07:33. > :07:37.the individual on their own. So a Labour Government would give
:07:37. > :07:41.councils that power. These young people were helped into work by
:07:41. > :07:46.their local council. The Labour leader says he would subsidise firms
:07:46. > :07:50.to take on the young long-term unemployed and force them to take
:07:50. > :07:54.the jobs. He argues that if businesses were invent advised they
:07:54. > :08:00.would increase wages for the low paid and that too would cut the
:08:00. > :08:06.benefit bill. I've been here two-and-a-half years now. Fantastic.
:08:06. > :08:10.Ed Miliband says Labour's welfare policies mark a departure from the
:08:10. > :08:14.current Government's who he claims are paying the price for failure.
:08:14. > :08:19.The critics will ask whether they are a departure from Labour's past.
:08:19. > :08:23.There's nothing of any substance in this speech. What we've got are the
:08:23. > :08:29.Labour Party worried about their image on welfare. They've become the
:08:29. > :08:32.welfare party. They've voted against �80 billion of savings on welfare.
:08:32. > :08:37.They say they are in favour of a limit but don't tell us what they
:08:37. > :08:40.would cut. The idea of a welfare spending cap was raised by the
:08:40. > :08:44.Government, not Labour. Both sides agree it should apply to that part
:08:44. > :08:48.of the benefit bill not affected by rises in unemployment, which
:08:48. > :08:52.benefits would it cover? No-one said. How high would the cap be?
:08:52. > :08:59.No-one said that either. Therefore we simply can't know who would be
:08:59. > :09:03.affected. Is your message to the country that you can cut the welfare
:09:03. > :09:08.bill without any real losers? my message to the country is we can
:09:08. > :09:13.keep welfare bills under control by making the right decisions and cut
:09:13. > :09:17.the costs of failure. Are you saying you can cut the cost of welfare
:09:17. > :09:21.without there being any real losers? I'm saying we do need to cut the
:09:21. > :09:24.numbers of people on benefits. We need to cut the number of people on
:09:24. > :09:28.unemployment benefits, because that is a massive problem for our
:09:28. > :09:32.country. Labour has been walking a tightrope with the public this week,
:09:32. > :09:38.trying to reassure those people who see it as a party of big spending,
:09:38. > :09:41.without alienating those who want to see coalition cuts reversed. Labour
:09:41. > :09:46.wants to give families more money and the people more money. If they
:09:46. > :09:49.are saying they are going to keep a cap on that shouldn't they be
:09:49. > :09:54.putting caps on other things other than the thing you are voting for
:09:54. > :09:57.them for? I think #24er looking for quick fixes. He is very brave to say
:09:57. > :10:02.that, because it is a change of direction for the Labour Party. I
:10:02. > :10:06.think it is a change that's inevitable. Labour hope a new
:10:06. > :10:09.political debate has taken you have a this week about who can best be
:10:09. > :10:14.trusted to keep the lid on the cost of welfare.
:10:14. > :10:18.Live to Westminster and Nick is there for us. All the focus there
:10:18. > :10:23.today on welfare, but let's talk about something else Mr Miliband is
:10:23. > :10:27.contending with, a controversial party donation. He is accused of not
:10:27. > :10:31.practising what he has preached on the issue of tax avoidance. A it is
:10:31. > :10:34.a charge made by his political enemies, by George Osborne, the
:10:34. > :10:38.Chancellor in particular, because of the news that emerged about a
:10:38. > :10:46.particular donation to the Labour Party. A very significant donation,
:10:46. > :10:50.one. .65 million that was given not in cash but in shares. The man who
:10:50. > :10:53.gave the money, John Mills, rather unhelpfully for the Labour Party
:10:53. > :10:57.told the Daily Telegraph he had done it because it was tax efficient. He
:10:57. > :11:02.went on to point out if had simply written a cheque instead of giving
:11:02. > :11:06.the money in shares he would have had to do that from post-tax in
:11:06. > :11:10.income. Half of what he planned to give would, in other words, gone to
:11:10. > :11:14.the taxman, to the Government and not the Labour Party. The electoral
:11:14. > :11:18.commission approved this donation, it has not breached any rules. It is
:11:18. > :11:23.clearly within the law. Labour has said that. The difficulty of course
:11:23. > :11:27.is just a few weeks ago it was Ed Miliband who was saying that for
:11:27. > :11:32.large companies following the law when it came to tax avoidance was
:11:32. > :11:34.not really good enough. Nick, thank you.
:11:35. > :11:37.Syrian Government forces have been consolidating their hold on villages
:11:38. > :11:41.around the key town of Qusair, which they seized from rebel fighters
:11:41. > :11:45.yesterday after a two-week offensive. The fierce fighting over
:11:45. > :11:48.Qusair reflects its strategic importance. It sits on a key route
:11:48. > :11:51.north from the capitalm Damascus, and close to the border with
:11:51. > :12:01.Lebanon. Our correspondent, Lyse Doucet, was the first western
:12:01. > :12:05.journalist to enter Qusair after it fell. She returned there today.
:12:05. > :12:08.Qusair is calmer today. There is non-of which the edginess we saw in
:12:08. > :12:13.the immediate aftermath of battle. There's more traffic on the streets.
:12:13. > :12:20.But it is almost all soldiers. Taking away whatever they can find
:12:20. > :12:25.in whatever way they can. We saw almost no civilians in Qusair.
:12:25. > :12:30.Except in one family. They are not staying long. They fled a year ago
:12:30. > :12:38.and came back to find their home was unrecognisable. It had been occupied
:12:38. > :12:43.by the rebels. It is a rebel T-shirt. A symbol of the Free Syrian
:12:43. > :12:48.Army's Faruk brigades. Up stairs they show me what the fighters left
:12:49. > :12:55.behind. A rifle scope. Clothes still hanging on hooks. And on the wall a
:12:55. > :13:00.list of their blood groups. We are not here long and soldiers turn up.
:13:00. > :13:05.Syrians and Lebanese Hezbollah, now working side by side. We spoke to
:13:05. > :13:09.some Hezbollah off camera and they confirmed they are now doing regular
:13:09. > :13:14.rotations into Syria. They come across the border. It is so close
:13:14. > :13:20.you can even see it from the edges of Qusair. That's why the battles
:13:20. > :13:30.here have been so fierce over the last 18 months. Why the Government
:13:30. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:39.deployed overwhelming force. We saw some of the makeshift weapons the
:13:39. > :13:46.opposition were told to bring in. These men wave us down. They want us
:13:46. > :13:50.to see other improvised devices. TRANSLATION: This is what the rebels
:13:50. > :13:56.call freedom. They hate us. Before Qusair was plunged into war,
:13:56. > :14:06.this was a city where Syrians of many beliefs lived together. The
:14:06. > :14:09.
:14:09. > :14:15.Church here was not just destroyed, it was desecrated. The physical
:14:15. > :14:22.destruction in Qusair is immense and shocking. Something even more
:14:23. > :14:29.worrying has happened here. The social fabric has been ripped apart.
:14:29. > :14:36.Rebuilding Qusair may just be a matter of time. Rebuilding trust?
:14:36. > :14:41.That may never happen. The possibility that Britain might
:14:41. > :14:45.send arms to the Syrian opposition is being resisted by dozens of
:14:45. > :14:48.Conservative MPs. More than 80 have signed a letter to the Prime
:14:48. > :14:57.Minister demanding a parliamentary debate and vote before any weapons
:14:57. > :15:01.are sent. David Cameron says that no decision has yet been made to arm
:15:02. > :15:05.the Syrian rebels. The Coronation Street actor William
:15:05. > :15:10.Roache has been charged with five historical offences of indecent
:15:10. > :15:17.assault. The actor was arrested this morning after attending a police
:15:17. > :15:22.station by appointment. The police have confirmed the offences, or the
:15:22. > :15:25.alleged offences involve four girls between the age of 12 and 16.
:15:25. > :15:29.David Cameron's former Director of Communication has appeared in court
:15:29. > :15:35.to enter a plea of not guilty to phone-hacking and corruption
:15:35. > :15:40.charges. The alleged offences date back to when he was the Editor of
:15:40. > :15:43.the News of the World. Andy Coulson was the Editor of the
:15:43. > :15:48.News of the World and today was the latest in a series of senior figures
:15:48. > :15:53.from the paper to make their way to Southwark Crown Court. He stood in a
:15:53. > :15:56.dock occupied the day before by News International Chief Executive
:15:56. > :16:01.Rebekah Brooks and her husband, who were in court today, and answered
:16:01. > :16:05.the charges put to him. They include illegally intercepting
:16:05. > :16:10.communications, better known as phone-hacking, specifically
:16:10. > :16:16.accessing mobile phone voicemail messages. Andy Coulson pleaded not
:16:16. > :16:22.guilty, as did another defendant, Ian Edmondson. A second set of
:16:22. > :16:24.charges cover alleged conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office
:16:24. > :16:29.including paying officers for confidential royal phone
:16:29. > :16:33.directories. Andy Coulson pleaded not guilty to two charges. Ian
:16:33. > :16:37.Edmondson was not accused of this offence. This has been a week of
:16:37. > :16:42.hearings, partly to decide how future trials are organised. That is
:16:42. > :16:46.not easy. Three big police investigations have produced a
:16:46. > :16:50.series of interconnected charges. There is expected to be a single
:16:50. > :16:56.major trial covering all the phone-hacking allegations here in
:16:56. > :17:01.September. But there will be plenty of legal argument before then. In a
:17:01. > :17:05.case with dozens of barristers and defendants.
:17:05. > :17:10.Now, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that
:17:10. > :17:18.his government will press on with plans to redevelop a park in
:17:18. > :17:22.Istanbul, despite days of nationwide protests. He said extremists were
:17:22. > :17:27.manipulating the anti-government demonstrations. Jeremy Bowen is in
:17:27. > :17:32.Istanbul tonight. What is your latest assessment of things there?
:17:32. > :17:37.Well, the protest is very much going on at the moment. More people here
:17:37. > :17:42.at the moment than yesterday. I have been walking around the area. Quite
:17:42. > :17:51.a relaxed atmosphere. It feels like a festival. Now, they are saying
:17:51. > :17:55.they are not going to go. Mr Erdogan is a pragmatic politician. He has in
:17:55. > :17:59.the past done big U-turns. He doesn't appear to want to do one on
:17:59. > :18:05.this particular subject. Are the two sides on a collision course? Well,
:18:05. > :18:10.perhaps they are. Unless one side or the other can offer the other
:18:10. > :18:16.something which will allow them to back down. Always a sensible thing
:18:17. > :18:21.in any negotiation. No negotiation is going on at the moment. On the
:18:21. > :18:24.opposition side here, no-one to negotiate with. Turkey is a new
:18:24. > :18:30.territory. Mr Erdogan has never faced a challenge like this before
:18:30. > :18:36.in his ten years in office. So, really, the country waits.
:18:36. > :18:43.Thank you very much. A mass hunger strike by detainees at
:18:43. > :18:47.Guantanamo Bay is now in its fourth month. Of the 166 detainees at the
:18:47. > :18:52.American-run facility for alleged terror suspects, 103 are refusing
:18:52. > :18:57.food. In the past 24 hours, the number being force fed has risen to
:18:57. > :19:01.41. It's been seen as a deep embarrassment for President Obama.
:19:01. > :19:05.His executive order to close the camp within one year was signed
:19:05. > :19:14.four-and-a-half years ago. Jonathan Beale has been inside Guantanamo Bay
:19:14. > :19:18.and he sent this report. The start of another day at one of
:19:18. > :19:24.the world's most infamous jails. Guantanamo is still here after more
:19:24. > :19:30.than a decade. Inside, no sign of any let-up with prisoners locked up
:19:30. > :19:34.for 22 hours a day. The US military describes all those being held as
:19:34. > :19:40."dangerous men" picked up on the battlefield, even though most have
:19:40. > :19:44.never been charged. Most are also now on hunger strike. This is a
:19:44. > :19:48.standard cell... We were shown around by guards who didn't want to
:19:49. > :19:55.be identified. It is a place where nothing is quite what it seems.
:19:55. > :20:01.Would you shackle somebody if they were going to watch TV? Those are
:20:01. > :20:07.humane restraints. You don't call it shackling? It's a humane restraint.
:20:07. > :20:11.Force-feeding, too, is a term that is avoided. Instead, they call this
:20:11. > :20:16.enteral feeding, inserting a tube through a prisoner's nose and down
:20:16. > :20:20.to their stomach. You call it enteral feeding? Yes.I call it
:20:20. > :20:28.force-feeding. It is force-feeding, isn't it? It is a bit of semantics.
:20:28. > :20:31.Less emotional. It is a medical procedure. We do this to regular
:20:31. > :20:37.patients who need to be fed. Again, you can choose to call it what you
:20:37. > :20:42.like. 41 detainees are being fed this way twice a day, restrained in
:20:42. > :20:47.this chair to ensure they survive. It is now a war of wills, defiant
:20:47. > :20:52.detainees met with an equally firm hand. The old privileges of communal
:20:52. > :20:57.living withdrawn from all but the most compliant. We would lock them
:20:57. > :21:03.down there for two hours so we can secure those yards, check it for
:21:03. > :21:08.safety. They are making noise about something. Life isn't too happy here
:21:08. > :21:13.at the moment? At least with one detainee! That is one detainee?It
:21:13. > :21:19.is. You know who that is?I don't know which one that is. You are
:21:19. > :21:23.welcome to look into the cell here. You sense the tensions are high here
:21:23. > :21:28.behind the razor-wire fences. We have been kept well away from those
:21:28. > :21:38.prisoners who are locked up inside. But we have occasionally heard their
:21:38. > :21:48.
:21:48. > :21:54.strike? Well, their initial issues were to do with changes in camp
:21:55. > :21:58.rules. Their primary issue is that they want to go home. No-one here
:21:58. > :22:07.knows how this hunger strike will end. Or whether President Obama will
:22:07. > :22:11.finally be able to deliver on his promise to close down this prison.
:22:11. > :22:15.Britain is to give �20 million in compensation to thousands of Kenyans
:22:15. > :22:21.who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial
:22:21. > :22:26.rule in the 1950s. Some 5,000 victims will receive payouts.
:22:26. > :22:29.William Hague said the Government sincerely regretted the abuses. He
:22:29. > :22:34.did stop short of giving a formal apology.
:22:34. > :22:38.President Obama is to hold his first summit with China's new leader, Xi
:22:38. > :22:42.Jinping, in California tomorrow. One of the issues he will raise is the
:22:42. > :22:47.level of cyber attacks on the US state and on US companies which
:22:47. > :22:52.originate in China. Theft of intellectual property by Chinese
:22:52. > :22:58.hackers is alleged to be costing American firms hundreds of billions
:22:58. > :23:07.of dollars each year. They are some of America's most
:23:07. > :23:13.powerful businessmen. In Beijing, looking for deals. Behind the
:23:13. > :23:17.smiles, worries. Their companies' secrets are being stolen by Chinese
:23:17. > :23:24.computer hackers. We get intrusions daily. They come from all over the
:23:25. > :23:28.world. Some of those come from China? We believe so, yes.The
:23:28. > :23:35.designs for America's latest Stealth fighter have been taken and China is
:23:35. > :23:42.now building its own Stealth planes. Firms like Coca-Cola have been
:23:42. > :23:48.targeted and Google's secret codes, too. Google traced that intrusion to
:23:48. > :23:55.computers here. The thefts are happening every day and US patience
:23:55. > :24:00.is thin. From our point of view, this is Communist China coming over
:24:00. > :24:05.and stealing our secrets and using them against us. Unfortunately,
:24:05. > :24:11.Chinese behaviour is feeding that image. President Xi Jinping will be
:24:11. > :24:17.told that many of the attacks have been traced to China's own army. A
:24:17. > :24:22.special PLA unit operating from this site in Shanghai. Both sides agree
:24:22. > :24:23.military espionage is to be expected but America says the focus on US
:24:23. > :24:28.companies and technologies must stop.
:24:28. > :24:32.TRANSLATION: What is the fuss? Getting information, especially
:24:32. > :24:38.military information from other countries didn't just begin with the
:24:38. > :24:42.internet. Spying has been around for hundreds of years. It is normal.
:24:42. > :24:47.you go online, you see China has a growing industry around cyber
:24:47. > :24:52.attacks. You can find lessons in hacking, hacking software for sale,
:24:52. > :25:00.even Chinese hackers for hire. This one will steal any information you
:25:00. > :25:07.want and for �20 an hour take any website you like offline and it says
:25:07. > :25:15.the service is 100% guaranteed. China is churning out cheap but
:25:15. > :25:24.skilled Praguers and some aren't launching -- programmers and some
:25:24. > :25:30.aren't launching attacks but helping stop them. Mostly, it is for money.
:25:30. > :25:37.The largest amount I ever saw is like 100 million. So like �10
:25:37. > :25:39.million? Yes.America is warning cyber theft is now harming US
:25:39. > :25:44.companies and jobs, damaging American competitiveness and
:25:44. > :25:50.innovation. If it gets worse, the issue could poison relations with
:25:50. > :25:54.China. Let's have more on the main story,
:25:54. > :26:00.the news that the Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital for up
:26:00. > :26:06.to two weeks for an exploratory operation. Nicholas Witchell is at
:26:06. > :26:11.the London Clinic for us. Despite the shock of this news, it is worth
:26:11. > :26:16.stressing that Buckingham Palace has been saying it was not an emergency
:26:16. > :26:20.admission? Yes. That is something that they are stressing. An
:26:20. > :26:26.exploratory operation, that is the phrase used by the Palace. We
:26:26. > :26:27.presume tomorrow, under general anaesthetic, an exploratory
:26:27. > :26:32.operation after abdominal investigations, presumably giving
:26:32. > :26:36.rise to something that the doctors feel need to be explored further. An
:26:36. > :26:40.exploratory operation under general anaesthetic on someone who will be
:26:40. > :26:44.92 in four days' time. He was, we are told, in good spirits when he
:26:45. > :26:49.came in here earlier this evening and that is how he looked at the
:26:49. > :26:55.garden party this afternoon. The Queen will be continuing with her