:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at Ten: The International Monetary Fund intervenes in the
:00:08. > :00:11.debate about Britain's future in the European Union.
:00:12. > :00:13.It warns that if Britain votes to leave there'll be
:00:14. > :00:22.severe regional and global damage and the Chancellor agrees.
:00:23. > :00:26.This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things to
:00:27. > :00:30.come if we leave the EU. I think we are better off if we stay in the EU,
:00:31. > :00:35.that would make Britain stronger, safer and better off.
:00:36. > :00:36.But there's no reason to think the economy
:00:37. > :00:37.would suffer, according to
:00:38. > :00:40.those who want Britain to leave, as they dismiss the latest warning.
:00:41. > :00:45.This is just a matter of opinion. The IMF is often, like other
:00:46. > :00:49.institutions, wrong in the forecasts and opinions its offered.
:00:50. > :00:53.The IMF also set out a bleak picture of the world economy and lowered its
:00:54. > :00:57.Also tonight: Prince Harry leads tributes in a
:00:58. > :01:00.service at Westminster Abbey to remember the British victims of the
:01:01. > :01:05.Two years after Nigerian school girls were
:01:06. > :01:08.kidnapped by Islamist militants, hundreds are still missing, we have
:01:09. > :01:14.Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had,
:01:15. > :01:17.that's why they sent them to this school.
:01:18. > :01:22.But it was a choice that had devastating consequences.
:01:23. > :01:26.An ambitious project involving British scientists to send a
:01:27. > :01:29.spacecraft to another solar system trillions of miles away.
:01:30. > :01:33.If we are to survive as a species we must ultimately
:01:34. > :01:40.And, Manchester City claim their first
:01:41. > :01:46.ever semifinal place in the Champions League.
:01:47. > :01:49.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England cricketer James Taylor
:01:50. > :01:51.is forced to suddenly retire because of an undetected
:01:52. > :02:13.He says it's been the toughest week of his life.
:02:14. > :02:19.The International Monetary Fund has intervened in the debate
:02:20. > :02:25.about Britain's future in the European Union.
:02:26. > :02:28.It's warned that a vote for the UK to leave could cause severe
:02:29. > :02:30.damage to the regional and global economy.
:02:31. > :02:34.In its latest report the IMF sets out a gloomy picture
:02:35. > :02:37.of the world economy and lowers its growth forecast
:02:38. > :02:39.for the UK, the eurozone, and around the world.
:02:40. > :02:44.Campaigners who want the UK to leave the EU
:02:45. > :02:48.Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has the story.
:02:49. > :02:50.It is certainly a gloomy cocktail - weakening global growth,
:02:51. > :02:54.an economic outlook diminished, further financial turmoil
:02:55. > :02:57.on the markets and, for the UK, an extra risk -
:02:58. > :03:00.that the decision to leave the European union could do severe
:03:01. > :03:07.It would create a lot of uncertainty.
:03:08. > :03:10.We already see the uncertainty about the referendum result
:03:11. > :03:18.And a vote to leave would set off a process of two years,
:03:19. > :03:26.a lengthy divorce, with a very uncertain settlement at the end.
:03:27. > :03:29.Despite the IMF downgrading the UK's growth forecast,
:03:30. > :03:32.the Government welcomed today's report.
:03:33. > :03:34.The worse the economic news, the better chance the Government
:03:35. > :03:38.feels it has of persuading voters to stick with the European Union.
:03:39. > :03:41.Today we have a stark warning from the IMF.
:03:42. > :03:45.For the first time they're saying that the threat of Britain leaving
:03:46. > :03:48.the EU is having an impact on our economy and they've
:03:49. > :03:55.They say if we were actually to leave the EU there would be
:03:56. > :03:57.a short-term impact on stability and a long-term cost
:03:58. > :04:03.This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things
:04:04. > :04:09.The Treasury certainly thinks this is a key moment.
:04:10. > :04:12.The IMF's warning comes in three major parts.
:04:13. > :04:13.It warns that sterling could lose its value.
:04:14. > :04:16.Now, that's not so good for our holidays, but could
:04:17. > :04:23.It warns that there could be a return of market volatility
:04:24. > :04:25.which could mean that our pensions and savings investments
:04:26. > :04:30.It also warns that trade could be disrupted and,
:04:31. > :04:34.of course, the EU is our most important trading partner.
:04:35. > :04:38.But whatever the IMF warns, there are plenty of people
:04:39. > :04:41.who disagree fundamentally with their analysis.
:04:42. > :04:44.The IMF is an important organisation but it's very closely connected
:04:45. > :04:47.to the European Union, its managing director is a former
:04:48. > :04:56.At the end of the day, this is just a matter of opinion.
:04:57. > :04:59.The IMF is often, like other institutions, wrong in the forecasts
:05:00. > :05:05.Don't forget, just a couple of years ago George Osborne had a spat
:05:06. > :05:08.with the IMF over its gloomy forecasts for the UK economy
:05:09. > :05:12.which he demanded they revised and rethought.
:05:13. > :05:16.The UK's trade relationship with the rest of the world
:05:17. > :05:19.and at the heart of a lot of this debate, the question
:05:20. > :05:22.is would economic uncertainty give way to a brighter future?
:05:23. > :05:26.Those who support an exit believe it would.
:05:27. > :05:29.There would be a fairly short period of uncertainty.
:05:30. > :05:31.There's bound to be because some things are changing.
:05:32. > :05:34.There are going to be some losers, there are also going
:05:35. > :05:39.Before long that gives way to a different world indeed
:05:40. > :05:42.in which Britain can take advantage of actually being outside the EU
:05:43. > :05:45.and this is what the IMF doesn't seem to have focussed on at all.
:05:46. > :05:48.Next week sees the arrival in Britain of this man,
:05:49. > :05:52.President Barack Obama, who is likely to deliver another
:05:53. > :05:57.He should be well aware of the IMF's views, its chief economist used
:05:58. > :06:06.Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is in
:06:07. > :06:16.A big debate about how much weight people should attach to this report,
:06:17. > :06:20.how do you see it? I think it does matter because in a debate that's
:06:21. > :06:25.full of noisy claims and counter claims the identity of who is making
:06:26. > :06:28.the claims matters very much. This is not just some other nameless
:06:29. > :06:33.person saying there might be jitters if we leave the EU, the IMF is a
:06:34. > :06:37.major international organisation, delivering what is a pretty grim
:06:38. > :06:41.warning about what might happen. For the residents of this street who
:06:42. > :06:46.want this campaign to be all about the risks to jobs as they see it and
:06:47. > :06:46.the risks to our livelihoods t plays perfectly into the
:06:47. > :06:49.the risks to our livelihoods t plays want to make in the coming weeks. If
:06:50. > :06:52.we think about want to make in the coming weeks. If
:06:53. > :06:55.of an intervention like this one trying to look ahead a few weeks,
:06:56. > :06:58.how would we read trying to look ahead a few weeks,
:06:59. > :07:00.think we are going to hear it again and again. I think we will
:07:01. > :07:02.think we are going to hear it again we have heard today from the
:07:03. > :07:07.opponents of Number 10 in this campaign, they have tried to slug
:07:08. > :07:18.this off as the campaign, they have tried to slug
:07:19. > :07:23.stay in the EU. It's harder for them to shrug off that from the IMF, to
:07:24. > :07:27.chuck that accusation around than it is for them to hurl
:07:28. > :07:29.chuck that accusation around than it their fellow politicians. Yes, of
:07:30. > :07:31.course, we should remember the IMF has been wrong
:07:32. > :07:34.course, we should remember the IMF wrong about a lot. As an
:07:35. > :07:39.organisation they're pretty remote, they're a bunch of academics based
:07:40. > :07:40.in the United States, not necessarily familiar
:07:41. > :07:44.in the United States, not to individual voters, but the kind
:07:45. > :07:47.of warning this is, the influence they have in these parts, mean this
:07:48. > :07:53.warning from today I think we they have in these parts, mean this
:07:54. > :07:55.hear again and again and again as this campaign proceeds and it's not
:07:56. > :07:59.long now. Thank you very much. And there's much more about the EU
:08:00. > :08:05.referendum and the facts behind in the resort of Sousse
:08:06. > :08:29.and in the capital, Tunis. Survivors and relatives
:08:30. > :08:34.of the victims attended the service this lunchtime,
:08:35. > :08:35.along with Prince Harry and the Prime Minister,
:08:36. > :08:37.as our special correspondent Their mothers, fathers,
:08:38. > :08:51.brothers and sisters, husbands and wives had just been
:08:52. > :08:56.on holiday, many on the beach Prince Harry, with the Prime
:08:57. > :09:15.Minister watching, laid a wreath at the memorial for innocent victims
:09:16. > :09:20.and one by one the names of those who did not come home
:09:21. > :09:26.echoed around the abbey. Connor was at the memorial
:09:27. > :09:47.to represent his mother, It is important to come
:09:48. > :09:53.and do my mum proud, go and walk down with a candle,
:09:54. > :09:57.dress up look smart and be a representation of her really,
:09:58. > :10:00.because that is what she would have It was a lovely service,
:10:01. > :10:05.but I kept thinking how can Who had such a big personality
:10:06. > :10:11.and was such a strong character. Nearly a year on it is clear
:10:12. > :10:21.you still miss your mum. Some nights I sit there
:10:22. > :10:24.and think why is it my mum? I'm never going to talk
:10:25. > :10:27.to my mum again. My mum's never going
:10:28. > :10:29.to walk through the door It is hard when you're at home
:10:30. > :10:36.sometimes and people are saying, oh, you see Brussels or Paris
:10:37. > :10:39.and does it bring it all back? But it hasn't gone for me so it
:10:40. > :10:42.doesn't bring anything back, Those who were injured and escaped
:10:43. > :10:51.were also at the service. Two friends who ran
:10:52. > :10:54.after the shooting started. We were so lucky to have come home
:10:55. > :11:00.and for us to be able to be there and think of others that
:11:01. > :11:05.didn't come home was... Was lovely for us to
:11:06. > :11:08.be able to do that. The family who lost three
:11:09. > :11:14.generations, the couple enjoying their wedding anniversary,
:11:15. > :11:18.the mum celebrating her 50th birthday - families
:11:19. > :11:26.destroyed by terror. Ministers might offer state loans
:11:27. > :11:30.to tempt a private bid for Tata's steelworks in Port
:11:31. > :11:31.Talbot. It's the latest suggestion
:11:32. > :11:35.as the government searches for a way of saving thousands of jobs
:11:36. > :11:37.threatened by Tata's decision to sell its steel
:11:38. > :11:40.business in the UK. The Business Secretary,
:11:41. > :11:43.Sajid Javid, said he was looking at a range of options
:11:44. > :11:46.when he spoke during an emergency Our Wales correspondent
:11:47. > :11:55.Hywel Griffith reports. After two full weeks
:11:56. > :11:57.of watching and waiting, are some of the clouds over
:11:58. > :12:00.Britain's steel industry At Port Talbot's Docks cafe
:12:01. > :12:03.they know all about seeing There is optimism after
:12:04. > :12:09.the Government said it could co-invest in the nearby works,
:12:10. > :12:15.even take on some of the debt. Watching today's emergency debate,
:12:16. > :12:16.steel worker Matthew Piercy What he saw was a
:12:17. > :12:23.government under attack. There has been what can only be
:12:24. > :12:27.described as an ideologically driven reluctance to get involved
:12:28. > :12:31.as the crisis has deepened. It's been a mixture
:12:32. > :12:32.of indifference and incompetence. I am fighting for Britain's steel
:12:33. > :12:36.workers every hour of the day. I was fighting for them long before
:12:37. > :12:39.this crisis hit the headlines and I will go on fighting
:12:40. > :12:42.as long as it takes. For me, there is more of a glimmer
:12:43. > :12:52.of hope now than there was before. If the suppliers lose confidence
:12:53. > :13:00.in our ability to pay the bills, then we won't get those raw
:13:01. > :13:03.materials and then the coke ovens will stop, and the furnaces
:13:04. > :13:09.will stop, and that will be the end. Any big decisions will be made
:13:10. > :13:13.in India, where it's reported Prince William today discussed
:13:14. > :13:14.British steel-making With lobbying home and abroad,
:13:15. > :13:22.workers here are told to stay hopeful, and yet people here have
:13:23. > :13:26.to think the unthinkable. What if, at the end of all this,
:13:27. > :13:29.no deal can be done? If production were to grind
:13:30. > :13:33.to a halt, it wouldn't just be Tata This haulage company
:13:34. > :13:42.carries their steel, Like we explained to the lads,
:13:43. > :13:49.it's the uncertainty of everything at this moment
:13:50. > :13:51.of time, isn't it? We can't really look them in the eye
:13:52. > :13:55.and say there is going to be a takeover and everything will be
:13:56. > :13:58.fine from next month on. There's no doubt having a huge
:13:59. > :14:03.steelworks in South Wales has Some question whether the Government
:14:04. > :14:11.should keep that going. At the moment the plant
:14:12. > :14:14.is not making any money, even without thinking about pension
:14:15. > :14:16.deficits and clean-up costs. If you factor those two elements
:14:17. > :14:20.into any rescue plan, it's very hard to see
:14:21. > :14:22.what kind of steel price, what kind of energy price,
:14:23. > :14:26.what wages could be paid So much hangs on the next few
:14:27. > :14:29.weeks of negotiations. Hywel Griffith, BBC News,
:14:30. > :14:36.Port Talbot. The European Commission has unveiled
:14:37. > :14:38.plans to force large companies to reveal more
:14:39. > :14:40.about their tax affairs. They would have to declare publicly
:14:41. > :14:43.how much tax they paid in each EU country as well as any activities
:14:44. > :14:47.carried out in specific tax havens. Firms like Google,
:14:48. > :14:51.Apple and Amazon have been criticised for not paying
:14:52. > :14:53.enough in tax. The rules on country-by-country
:14:54. > :14:56.reporting would affect multinational firms with more
:14:57. > :15:01.than 750 million euros in sales. It is estimated that EU
:15:02. > :15:04.states lose at least 50-70 billion euros each year to
:15:05. > :15:09.corporate tax avoidance. Our correspondent Alex Forsyth is at
:15:10. > :15:18.the European Commission in Brussels. Alex, lots of talk about how complex
:15:19. > :15:33.all this is, so how close The thinking behind this proposal is
:15:34. > :15:37.that if big businesses have to open up their books to the public, they
:15:38. > :15:43.would be less inclined to try to move profits around to avoid tax. It
:15:44. > :15:45.needs the backing of European countries and the European
:15:46. > :16:00.Parliament but if the law is approved, it would mean any large
:16:01. > :16:07.firm operating would have to published details. Critics say the
:16:08. > :16:11.proposal is not tough enough. Businesses say publishing too much
:16:12. > :16:14.information could be commercially damaging, but EU leaders want to be
:16:15. > :16:19.seen to be doing something in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers,
:16:20. > :16:23.which exposed large-scale tax avoidance. They have been planning
:16:24. > :16:28.this for months but there is no political momentum behind it and
:16:29. > :16:32.whether it is UK politicians publishing tax returns or the
:16:33. > :16:37.spotlight on big business in the EU, the hope is transparency over tax
:16:38. > :16:39.affairs will go some way to restoring public trust. Thank you.
:16:40. > :16:41.Two years ago this week, hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls
:16:42. > :16:44.were kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
:16:45. > :16:46.Their abductors claimed it was punishment for
:16:47. > :16:57.But despite global condemnation, an international campaign to free
:16:58. > :17:02.them, and a major government military offensive, more than 200
:17:03. > :17:05.The girls came from Chibok in northeast Nigeria.
:17:06. > :17:07.The BBC's Martin Patience has been given rare access to their former
:17:08. > :17:14.school and has spoken to relatives who remain desperate for news.
:17:15. > :17:23.Chibok, once a small market town barely anyone had heard of.
:17:24. > :17:30.But then Boko Haram came, kidnapping hundreds of its daughters.
:17:31. > :17:33.It's now haunted by the horrors of that night.
:17:34. > :17:44.A place where families are left picking up the pieces.
:17:45. > :17:46.These parents show us all their daughters left behind.
:17:47. > :17:50.TRANSLATION: This is the dress she was supposed to wear
:17:51. > :17:52.at her friend's wedding, but it never happened.
:17:53. > :17:56.I'm going to keep the dress in case she comes back.
:17:57. > :18:11.TRANSLATION: My daughter was such a hard-working girl.
:18:12. > :18:16.Just before she was taken, she begged me to buy
:18:17. > :18:42.She was great with the customer. is a budding entrepreneur.
:18:43. > :18:45.These were the last moments I had with her.
:18:46. > :18:49.I pray that my daughter will come back alive,
:18:50. > :18:52.but if not I hope that her soul will rest in peace.
:18:53. > :18:56.I hope the horrors she witnessed during this kidnap are the last
:18:57. > :19:01.But how can they make sense of what happened?
:19:02. > :19:03.We travelled to the school, granted exclusive access
:19:04. > :19:15.It was here late one night that the nightmare began.
:19:16. > :19:22.Boko Haram stormed this compound, rounding up the girls
:19:23. > :19:24.from their dormitories, which now lie in ruins.
:19:25. > :19:30.Then they were loaded onto trucks and driven into the forest.
:19:31. > :19:40.The skeletons of desks where the girls once sat.
:19:41. > :19:59.An overgrown basketball court, where they once played.
:20:00. > :20:02.laughing, having fun, talking about the exam the next day,
:20:03. > :20:07.Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had,
:20:08. > :20:12.but it was a choice that had devastating consequences.
:20:13. > :20:14.Two years on, there's no news of the girls.
:20:15. > :20:21.It's likely many were forced to marry fighters.
:20:22. > :20:25.Slowly, life is returning to Chibok but there is an anger
:20:26. > :20:31.Because despite worldwide attention, not a single one of
:20:32. > :20:40.Martin Patience, BBC News, Chibok.
:20:41. > :20:43.And on tomorrow's programme, we'll be hearing about the thousands
:20:44. > :20:49.We've spoken to some who've survived their ordeal only
:20:50. > :21:00.to be rejected by their communities when they return.
:21:01. > :21:04.That will be our latest update on that story tomorrow.
:21:05. > :21:06.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:21:07. > :21:08.The music producer David Gest has been found dead
:21:09. > :21:13.The cause of his death is not yet known.
:21:14. > :21:15.Born in California, David Gest grew up alongside Michael Jackson
:21:16. > :21:18.and his brothers, and went on to produce many of their tours
:21:19. > :21:22.There's been an unexpectedly sharp rise in the rate of inflation.
:21:23. > :21:25.The Office for National Statistics says the cost of living went up
:21:26. > :21:33.The price of goods fell but the cost of services rose by 2.8%.
:21:34. > :21:35.A 69-year-old man has been convicted at the Old Bailey
:21:36. > :21:38.of murdering his long-term partner in a fit of jealousy
:21:39. > :21:47.Dempsey Nibbs beat Judith Nibbs, who was 60, with an iron bar.
:21:48. > :21:50.The National Crime Agency says gangs are attempting to smuggle migrants
:21:51. > :21:52.into the UK through less busy ports after security was increased
:21:53. > :21:57.The findings were uncovered by a task-force set up
:21:58. > :22:00.by David Cameron last year to tackle people-smuggling in the wake
:22:01. > :22:10.In just over three weeks' time, voters in Scotland will be electing
:22:11. > :22:15.The Labour Party, once the dominant force in Scottish politics, has
:22:16. > :22:20.for the past decade been overshadowed by the SNP at Holyrood.
:22:21. > :22:22.Its new leader, Kezia Dugdale, has set out to reverse
:22:23. > :22:28.But she faces a major challenge, as our Scotland editor
:22:29. > :22:33.Sarah Smith discovered when she talked to voters.
:22:34. > :22:42.No political candidates have come to disturb the practice sessions
:22:43. > :22:46.here, in years gone by Labour could have assumed the support of most
:22:47. > :22:48.people here, but now, even people who voted
:22:49. > :22:49.Labour for generations say
:22:50. > :22:56.I was very, very much in favour of the Labour Party
:22:57. > :22:58.at one time, Labour was for the working man.
:22:59. > :23:00.I don't know what it is
:23:01. > :23:03.nowadays, I mean, I feel it has got so mixed up.
:23:04. > :23:05.That is why Labour have come up with eye-catching policies
:23:06. > :23:10.that are obviously to the left of the SNP.
:23:11. > :23:12.A bold pledge to increase income taxes in Scotland is designed
:23:13. > :23:16.to try and win back traditional supporters.
:23:17. > :23:18.Would you be happy for somebody who would ask
:23:19. > :23:22.They should try and recoup some money from the people who can
:23:23. > :23:34.But people vote with their hearts as well as their
:23:35. > :23:37.Perceptions matter as much as policies.
:23:38. > :23:41.Because the SNP were pushing forward Scotland, Scotland,
:23:42. > :23:45.Scotland, there was a lot of people got behind it.
:23:46. > :23:49.Because they felt patriotic to Scotland.
:23:50. > :23:52.Yet there is a desire to see a Labour resurgence,
:23:53. > :23:59.I have faith in Labour and hope they will come
:24:00. > :24:07.SNP are making a lot of promises they will not be able to keep.
:24:08. > :24:09.In towns like Coatbridge in central Scotland,
:24:10. > :24:16.plenty of voters do believe the SNP.
:24:17. > :24:20.Where once this was the definition of a
:24:21. > :24:23.The heavy industries, coal and steel, that
:24:24. > :24:24.once dominated this part of
:24:25. > :24:26.Scotland, has been consigned to the museum
:24:27. > :24:31.Now, the fear from many in the Labour
:24:32. > :24:34.Party is that the days of Labour rule in Scotland could also be
:24:35. > :24:38.The party have moved significantly to
:24:39. > :24:42.the left, to try and win back some of their traditional supporters, but
:24:43. > :24:47.the independence referendum still casts a long shadow.
:24:48. > :25:01.Labour did not handle the whole constitutional question well.
:25:02. > :25:03.It took a rather sour approach to saying no to
:25:04. > :25:13.And that is what young voters remember.
:25:14. > :25:17.In Scotland now, 16 and 17-year-olds can vote, which suits the SNP.
:25:18. > :25:19.Younger voters are far more likely to support them.
:25:20. > :25:21.Do you think you know what Labour stand for?
:25:22. > :25:22.No. Not at all.
:25:23. > :25:25.They spend a lot of time talking about what the SNP are doing
:25:26. > :25:28.and what their policies are and how it is bad,
:25:29. > :25:30.but I don't understand what Labour's policies are.
:25:31. > :25:33.Scottish Labour want people to understand they have changed.
:25:34. > :25:39.But they won't win over young hearts or old heads if
:25:40. > :25:46.voters aren't listening to their promises.
:25:47. > :25:48.The England and Nottinghamshire cricketer James Taylor has been
:25:49. > :25:51.forced to retire at the age of 26 after being diagnosed
:25:52. > :25:55.He said his world had been turned upside down
:25:56. > :26:01.Scans have revealed it's the same rare condition which caused
:26:02. > :26:03.the former Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba to suffer a cardiac
:26:04. > :26:13.The golfer Danny Willett has arrived back in the UK
:26:14. > :26:18.The 28-year-old arrived at Manchester Airport this morning
:26:19. > :26:21.wearing the winner's traditional green blazer.
:26:22. > :26:31.The more you say it, obviously, and things like this happen,
:26:32. > :26:35.obviously I think you start to realise just what we did last week.
:26:36. > :26:38.And everything that's going to go with it and kind of come round.
:26:39. > :26:40.So, yeah, hopefully we will take it in our stride
:26:41. > :26:45.We have had a lot of encouraging messages from a lot
:26:46. > :26:51.of really nice people around the world, offering advice.
:26:52. > :26:54.Football, and Manchester City have reached the semi finals
:26:55. > :26:55.of the Champions League for the first time
:26:56. > :26:59.They beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Manchester tonight, giving them
:27:00. > :27:08.One of the biggest nights in their history, and certainly
:27:09. > :27:14.Could Manchester City go where they have never gone before?
:27:15. > :27:17.At 2-2 after the first leg, hopes were high but Paris
:27:18. > :27:23.Zlatan Ibrahimovic testing Joe Hart's fingertips.
:27:24. > :27:28.Sergio Aguero upended, penalty, but one of
:27:29. > :27:38.Could that prove costly? promptly did this.
:27:39. > :27:41.After the break, they were soon living dangerously.
:27:42. > :27:43.Hart once again denying Ibrahimovic, but with 15
:27:44. > :27:47.minutes left the pressure was quite gloriously lifted.
:27:48. > :27:50.Kevin De Bruyne sending the Etihad into euphoria with a moment
:27:51. > :27:58.The visitors now had to score twice, but Hart was inspired, and soon City
:27:59. > :28:03.For the fans, their European adventure is into
:28:04. > :28:18.What a night for Manchester City, through to the semifinals for the
:28:19. > :28:22.very first time, and for their manager Manuel Pellegrini, who is
:28:23. > :28:26.leaving at the end of the season, what a way to go if he could win
:28:27. > :28:28.European football's biggest prize. Leading scientists including
:28:29. > :28:31.Professor Stephen Hawking have given their support to an ambitious
:28:32. > :28:34.project to send a spacecraft The ship would need to travel
:28:35. > :28:42.trillions of miles much further than any before, and the plan
:28:43. > :28:45.is to develop a craft about the size of a microchip that could travel
:28:46. > :28:48.at exceptional speed. Our science correspondent
:28:49. > :28:51.Pallab Ghosh reports. For thousands of years,
:28:52. > :28:53.people have dreamed of one day The world's most famous
:28:54. > :28:58.scientist, Stephen Hawking, thinks that that day
:28:59. > :29:04.will come very soon. Astronomers believe there
:29:05. > :29:08.is reasonable a chance of an earth-like planet
:29:09. > :29:11.orbiting one of the stars There are no greater heights
:29:12. > :29:17.to aspire to than the stars. Technological developments
:29:18. > :29:22.in the last two decades and in the future make it
:29:23. > :29:24.in principle possible So what are the sort of distances
:29:25. > :29:30.we are talking about? Already, a probe has
:29:31. > :29:33.been sent to Pluto. That is seven-and-a-half
:29:34. > :29:37.billion miles away. And Voyager 1 has reached the edge
:29:38. > :29:39.of the solar system, The plan is to send spacecraft
:29:40. > :29:51.to a star in another solar system. That is a staggering
:29:52. > :29:55.25 trillion miles from Earth. Using current technology,
:29:56. > :29:59.it would take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to our closest star,
:30:00. > :30:01.but by making them Over the years the size
:30:02. > :30:16.of spacecraft have shrunk. In the 1980s this micro satellite
:30:17. > :30:19.was used for Earth observation, in the '90s, this nano-satellite
:30:20. > :30:21.was launched for communications. The ultimate aim of the new research
:30:22. > :30:23.programme is to make To cram all the cameras
:30:24. > :30:28.and instruments you have in these, The idea is to launch these
:30:29. > :30:34.mini-spacecraft into A giant laser on Earth would give
:30:35. > :30:44.each one a powerful push, Life on Earth faces danger
:30:45. > :30:53.from astronomical events like asteroids or super novas and there
:30:54. > :30:56.are dangers from ourselves. If we are to survive that,
:30:57. > :31:03.we must ultimately go to stars. Here in Surrey where they pioneered
:31:04. > :31:06.the development of mini satellites 30 years ago, scientists believe
:31:07. > :31:12.it will be possible. What we did back in the 1980s
:31:13. > :31:16.was considered very whacky, and now small satellites now
:31:17. > :31:19.are all the fashion. This is currently
:31:20. > :31:20.a whacky sounding idea, Now it is not just whacky,
:31:21. > :31:24.it is just difficult. There is still a lot of work needed
:31:25. > :31:28.to develop the technology. But scientists believe that,
:31:29. > :31:35.although it will be difficult, What was once a distant dream
:31:36. > :31:45.could very soon become reality.