:00:11. > :00:19.This is outside source. It is official. We have detected
:00:20. > :00:24.gravitational waves, we have done it.
:00:25. > :00:32.Scientists are saying that the discovery of the waves will usher in
:00:33. > :00:36.a new era of for the understanding of the universe will stop as
:00:37. > :00:41.officials is struggled to take the first step towards a peace deal, the
:00:42. > :00:44.situation in the city of Aleppo continues to worsen. The ordinary
:00:45. > :00:48.scenes in South African Parliament, the president is heckled while
:00:49. > :00:54.delivering his State of the nation address. Reports that 52 people have
:00:55. > :00:57.died at a ride in a prison in Mexico, streets around the jail have
:00:58. > :01:04.been blocked by families that are worried about the relatives inside.
:01:05. > :01:23.If you want to get in touch with us at any time, we are on Twitter.
:01:24. > :01:29.Scientists are hailing it as one of the most important discoveries of
:01:30. > :01:33.this century. One that will bring a much greater understanding of the
:01:34. > :01:38.origin of our universe. Albert Einstein first came up with the
:01:39. > :01:42.concept of gravitational waves, 100 years ago, it has taken up until now
:01:43. > :01:50.to show that they actually do exist, there is some more of the details
:01:51. > :01:54.from the BBC. VOICEOVER: Powerful telescopes can see distant stars and
:01:55. > :01:57.far-away galaxies, for now, astronomers will be able to see much
:01:58. > :02:07.deeper into space, and further back in time. Eventually, right up to the
:02:08. > :02:14.moment of the Big Bang. Scientists have been searching for ripples in
:02:15. > :02:16.space. Gravitational waves. Today, they told the world that they found
:02:17. > :02:36.them. Gravitational waves provide
:02:37. > :02:38.a completely new way of looking The ability to detect
:02:39. > :02:49.them has the potential This discovery is the first
:02:50. > :02:53.detection of the black hole binary system and the first observation
:02:54. > :02:55.of black holes merging. Albert Einstein predicted
:02:56. > :02:57.the existence of gravitational waves Gravitational waves are created
:02:58. > :03:09.whenever there is a seismic event in the universe, such
:03:10. > :03:11.as an exploding star. These waves ripple across the galaxy
:03:12. > :03:14.at the speed of light, stretching and squeezing space
:03:15. > :03:16.as they go, but they are incredibly hard to detect because when they hit
:03:17. > :03:20.the earth they give it the tiniest of jolts that is barely
:03:21. > :03:22.the width of an atom. Researchers developed a powerful
:03:23. > :03:32.laser system capable of measuring The beam runs along a tube under
:03:33. > :03:35.the ground and is stretch by a minute amount when
:03:36. > :03:38.a gravitational wave passes through. When you consider these black holes
:03:39. > :03:47.actually spiralled in over a billion years ago and the signal has been
:03:48. > :03:52.travelling to us since then and we turned on our detectors
:03:53. > :03:54.at just the right time And those gravitational waves can
:03:55. > :04:00.be turned into sound. That is the chirp we have
:04:01. > :04:10.been looking for. That is one of the beautiful
:04:11. > :04:12.things about this. We are not only going to see
:04:13. > :04:15.the universe, we will be Today's result opens a new window
:04:16. > :04:22.into how the universe began and reveals a new view of the cosmos
:04:23. > :04:32.that is beyond our imagination. One person who's excited about this
:04:33. > :04:42.discovery is Rebecca Morelle. Gravitational waves detected, she
:04:43. > :04:47.says! I asked her just what's
:04:48. > :04:56.so exciting about it. The universe is awash with
:04:57. > :05:01.gravitational waves, anything with mast that moves, even we have them.
:05:02. > :05:04.But they are very small so when we have huge cosmic events like a
:05:05. > :05:14.colliding parent like Coles, I would give off a tsunami of Coles,
:05:15. > :05:25.gravitational waves. Einstein, brilliant piece of work
:05:26. > :05:29.and this next feather to his cap. It is it pretty, literally astronomical
:05:30. > :05:33.discovery. Some said this is a new era for the universe and people will
:05:34. > :05:39.be able to see things they were unable to the previously when it
:05:40. > :05:44.comes to black holes? It as it 118, but only have we detect dead
:05:45. > :05:50.gravitational -- gravitational waves, binary black holes, spinning
:05:51. > :05:54.around, telescopes are amazing, brilliant eyes on the sky, we can
:05:55. > :05:58.see lots of the universe with radio waves and light to see what is out
:05:59. > :06:05.there but gravitational waves, they give us this new layer, more than
:06:06. > :06:08.99% of the universe we cannot see with telescopes but we can look at
:06:09. > :06:14.gravitational waves generated by objects and catch them. It tells us
:06:15. > :06:20.about the objects themselves, about all of these things we just cannot
:06:21. > :06:23.see. Will things begin to speed up with discoveries? We have been
:06:24. > :06:29.waiting for the machine sensitive enough to detect gravitational waves
:06:30. > :06:33.and it is working correctly. This is enormous and beautiful and
:06:34. > :06:38.wonderful. We are sure they are gravitational waves, we will see
:06:39. > :06:43.more of them, you cannot just be two of them, they must be exploding
:06:44. > :06:52.stars, neutron stars, so many discoveries waiting to be made.
:06:53. > :06:56.A new push for a ceasefire in Syria is getting underway in Munich.
:06:57. > :07:03.In a minute, we'll get the latest from Germany.
:07:04. > :07:23.Let's look at the fighting in the north of Syria.
:07:24. > :07:26.One of the biggest influences recently has been the Russian air
:07:27. > :07:28.strikes in support of President Assad's force.
:07:29. > :07:30.Moscow says it's hit 1,900 targets in the last week alone.
:07:31. > :07:35.Despite that ferocity they've accused the United States of bombing
:07:36. > :07:50.TRANSLATION: On Wednesday, two attack aircraft from the U.S. Air
:07:51. > :07:55.Force entered Syrian airspace from tricky and struck targets in Aleppo
:07:56. > :07:59.that we would not wish to be had. The Americans did not make this
:08:00. > :08:04.public. Russia will not become similar to the Americans. Frankly,
:08:05. > :08:08.there had not been enough time to identify the slice leave those nine
:08:09. > :08:18.targets engaged in Aleppo, perhaps there were hospitals among them? The
:08:19. > :08:23.Defence Ministry will find out. The United States denied this has
:08:24. > :08:27.happened. Basis back that Russia wants to begin a ceasefire on the
:08:28. > :08:32.1st of March aimed at giving the Syrian army a chance to crush rebel
:08:33. > :08:39.forces. American aircraft has not operated around and let both, or
:08:40. > :08:46.have struck any hospitals. This is Russian indiscriminate use of this
:08:47. > :08:53.Don box, pushing them out of the back of the aircraft, scattering
:08:54. > :08:58.them across populated areas, regardless if they have women,
:08:59. > :09:02.children, civilians, hospitals, the Russians are not interested, they
:09:03. > :09:06.are interested in supporting this brittle regime of Bashar al-Assad.
:09:07. > :09:13.-- brittle. Lyse Doucet is at the peace
:09:14. > :09:23.talks in Munich. At some point there will be a press
:09:24. > :09:24.conference, some people came out of those talks and said they are
:09:25. > :09:32.engaging in some difficult discussions about the ceasefire,
:09:33. > :09:36.when and where would it take place? This is the hardest part of
:09:37. > :09:38.discussions taking place in Munich but on the brighter side we
:09:39. > :09:50.understand there has been progress when it comes to deciding on a way
:09:51. > :09:53.forward to enter these punishing situations with millions trapped
:09:54. > :09:58.without regular access to food and water and medical supplies. These
:09:59. > :10:02.are one of the food and water are used as a weapon of war and there is
:10:03. > :10:06.some hope there will be agreement tonight on how to enter those sieges
:10:07. > :10:11.and on the ceasefire were waiting but there is cautious hope that they
:10:12. > :10:16.can agree on something tonight, it will not end the war, but they will
:10:17. > :10:23.begin to come to some understanding on how to move towards that. Any
:10:24. > :10:33.conversations about that March one you a potential date? -- the 1st of
:10:34. > :10:41.March being. That is the day the Russians wanted the proposal,
:10:42. > :10:46.restructured proposal, the date was that of the 1st of March, which has
:10:47. > :10:50.been treated with scepticism by the opposition and the United States,
:10:51. > :10:56.which is calling for an immediate truce because if it is March the
:10:57. > :11:00.1st, that gives the Russians working with Syrian military more time to
:11:01. > :11:05.try to encircle Aleppo and squeeze the opposition there. They do not
:11:06. > :11:09.want to give the Russians that time. The opposition does not want to give
:11:10. > :11:14.in to the government demands because they want to see proof that the
:11:15. > :11:19.Syrian military and government is serious about trying to move towards
:11:20. > :11:24.a negotiated way out of this war. A lack of trust on both sides and we
:11:25. > :11:28.had the warning from the Russian Prime Minister who has been warning
:11:29. > :11:34.that the other side does not accept the ceasefire, Syria will move to a
:11:35. > :11:40.permanent world war, a third World War, as he put it. Thank you very
:11:41. > :11:41.much. Waiting for that press conference and we will bring that to
:11:42. > :11:46.you when it does come online. A six-week stand-off in Oregon
:11:47. > :11:49.could be about to end . The remaining four protesters
:11:50. > :12:14.are preparing to walk out. The British Medical Association will
:12:15. > :12:20.fight on after the junior contract on doctors. Janowicz hot -- Jeremy
:12:21. > :12:25.Hunt said he was left with no choice after a rejection of the final
:12:26. > :12:29.offer. We demonstrated time and again willingness to associate with
:12:30. > :12:35.the BMA on the concerns they raised. But the definition of negotiation is
:12:36. > :12:39.a discussion where both sides demonstrate flexibility and
:12:40. > :12:46.compromise on their original objectives. And the BMA ultimately
:12:47. > :12:51.proved unwilling to do this. I am saying that the NHS is already an
:12:52. > :12:55.overstretched service for many years and there is already a shortage of
:12:56. > :13:00.doctors in the NHS under the current conditions. This contract will make
:13:01. > :13:01.it worse, there will not be enough doctors to look after patients
:13:02. > :13:10.safely. This is Outside Source live
:13:11. > :13:13.from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is? Scientists
:13:14. > :13:19.in the US have first the first time detected gravitational waves -
:13:20. > :13:21.They're saying the discovery will usher in a new era
:13:22. > :13:23.in our understanding BBC Chinese reports that North Korea
:13:24. > :13:33.has expelled all South Koreans from a joint run industrial park -
:13:34. > :13:36.saying its neighbours' earlier decision to shutter the complex
:13:37. > :13:42.amounted to a "declaration of war". One of the most read stories
:13:43. > :13:45.on our website is about a 94-year former Nazi SS guard has gone
:13:46. > :13:50.on trial in Germany over the murder of at least 170,000 people
:13:51. > :13:55.at the Auschwitz camp. He has acknowledged
:13:56. > :13:58.he WAS a guard there. But he denies any involvement
:13:59. > :14:22.in the mass killings. Genevieve quintile is a reporter at
:14:23. > :14:25.news 24 in South Africa. This is the state of nation address.
:14:26. > :14:27.MPs calling for Zuma to resign while he speaks.
:14:28. > :14:30.That hashtag is trending in South Africa because President Jacob Zuma
:14:31. > :14:34.has been giving his State of the Nation address.
:14:35. > :14:39.It comes as he awaits the outcome of a court case about the use
:14:40. > :14:41.of taxpayers' money being spent on controversial upgrades
:14:42. > :14:45.He's already offered to pay back some of the approximately
:14:46. > :14:52.Opposition politicians have clearly had enough.
:14:53. > :14:56.Julius Malema and his fellow Economic Freedom Fighters MPs
:14:57. > :15:05.were thrown out of parliament for heckling.
:15:06. > :15:16.You are prepared to remove the whole party! Which has been elected by the
:15:17. > :15:26.people in defence of one man! View will join them to macro Jacob Zuma
:15:27. > :15:34.is no longer the president. He has stolen from us. He has made this
:15:35. > :15:39.country a joke. And after that he has laughed at us, we cannot allow
:15:40. > :15:46.him to do as he wishes in this country. Quite the scene in the
:15:47. > :15:52.parliament. The cruise ship was hit in -- hit by Atlantic storm of the
:15:53. > :15:58.East Coast of the US. They returned to tell the story of it terrifying
:15:59. > :16:03.voyage. The ship docked in his Jersey with more than 4000 people on
:16:04. > :16:12.board who were very grateful to be back on dry land. A room with a view
:16:13. > :16:18.they did not want. Oh my God! Hurricane force wind battered this
:16:19. > :16:23.cruise ship for 12 hours. It was a test of injury and is rather than a
:16:24. > :16:30.dream holiday to the departments. -- to the tip -- to the Bahamas. When
:16:31. > :16:35.they got home, many of the 6000 on board could not hide their relief.
:16:36. > :16:40.We thought that we were going to die. They were fearing for our lives
:16:41. > :16:47.because we were told we were in good shape. They were trapped in the room
:16:48. > :16:52.for 17 hours. It was like on a roller-coaster that you could not
:16:53. > :16:57.get off. Passengers were expected to expect a bit of whether does the
:16:58. > :17:01.ship battled through the Atlantic, they were told to go to their rooms
:17:02. > :17:10.and stay there. The captain gave updates on television. The captain
:17:11. > :17:14.knew about this for days before and he still took us out there and when
:17:15. > :17:21.you see the crew praying with rosary beads and crying, it was so scary.
:17:22. > :17:28.Nobody was seriously injured. The furniture on board took the brunt of
:17:29. > :17:33.the storm, which was much worse than forecast, prompting an apology from
:17:34. > :17:37.the company. Our guests went through it terrible experience over the
:17:38. > :17:40.weekend and that should not happen, they came to us for a dream vacation
:17:41. > :17:45.and they had a terrifying weather experience. That should not happen
:17:46. > :17:50.and we don't want it to happen again and we are so sorry. Passengers did
:17:51. > :17:55.get their money back and 50% of the next cruise. But it might be some
:17:56. > :18:03.time before many of them set sail again. And often experience! -- and
:18:04. > :18:07.awful experience. That's Matt Brittin -
:18:08. > :18:09.he's the man in charge of Google's He faced some tough
:18:10. > :18:12.questions from a committee This is all about the low level
:18:13. > :18:16.of taxes paid by big companies that operate in the UK but have
:18:17. > :18:18.headquarters abroad. Google recently agreed to pay
:18:19. > :18:22.?130-million in back taxes for a ten year period - after an "open
:18:23. > :18:29.audit" of its accounts But there have been questions
:18:30. > :18:37.asked about that audit. Our Economics Editor Kamal
:18:38. > :18:42.Ahmed has the story. Google, a company that likes to help
:18:43. > :18:45.us answer questions. It is a search powerhouse that makes
:18:46. > :18:48.billions of pounds of profit Today it appeared to have a little
:18:49. > :18:54.difficulty answering this question - For the Head of Europe Matt Brittin,
:18:55. > :19:02.it was not that simple. I don't have the figure,
:19:03. > :19:06.but I will provide it. A bit of knock-about maybe,
:19:07. > :19:14.but MPs insisted it showed just how out of touch the
:19:15. > :19:17.technology giant is. He seemed on surer ground
:19:18. > :19:21.when defending their settlement We are paying the tax the HMRC
:19:22. > :19:27.believes is the highest amount, they cannot settle until we are
:19:28. > :19:29.paying the tax fully, based on the facts,
:19:30. > :19:32.we cannot pay more, I understand we are in
:19:33. > :19:37.the spotlight, but we are paying Here at their HQ, I am told
:19:38. > :19:44.they are pretty relieved that The company has stuck
:19:45. > :19:52.steadfastly to the argument that it is an American company that
:19:53. > :19:57.pays its taxes in America. There was a more interesting
:19:58. > :20:00.witness before MPs today, Could they convince a sceptical
:20:01. > :20:08.public that this was not The key question for that tax
:20:09. > :20:13.collector, did Google run We don't get outmanoeuvred by these
:20:14. > :20:18.big firms, we make them If I am honest, I would like to see
:20:19. > :20:25.more recognition of that. We have a fine set of tax inspectors
:20:26. > :20:28.who do an extremely good job. Google says it wants
:20:29. > :20:31.to see a simpler tax code. We have to have confidence that they
:20:32. > :20:44.are not getting better treatment. But I think we need a process
:20:45. > :20:50.in place which reassures the public. Mr Brittin was still being thrown
:20:51. > :20:53.questions as he left the inquiry. But for now, the technology company
:20:54. > :21:03.decided it had said quite enough. Now, recently we told
:21:04. > :21:06.you about Facebook's attempt to introduce Free Basics
:21:07. > :21:09.internet in India - it was a scheme that offered
:21:10. > :21:11.free access to a limited But, it was blocked by the Indian
:21:12. > :21:17.telecoms regulator. Well, Marc Andre-essen,
:21:18. > :21:21.one of the company's influential board members, tweeted this:
:21:22. > :21:30.Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic
:21:31. > :21:32.for Indian people for decades. He's now deleted the tweet
:21:33. > :21:40.it was in, this is a screenshot. It's caused an outcry -
:21:41. > :21:43.and Mark Zuckerberg has I found the comments
:21:44. > :21:48.deeply upsetting. They do not represent the way
:21:49. > :21:59.Facebook or I think at all. That contained use that discussion.
:22:00. > :22:08.We can speak to Michelle Fleury in New York. Someone about the fallout
:22:09. > :22:12.from that deleted tweet. Mark is not only the directory Facebook but a
:22:13. > :22:18.fairly high-profile venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and
:22:19. > :22:23.what shocked many people what the comments revealed is the gap between
:22:24. > :22:30.how the world of technology sees itself and the rest of the world
:22:31. > :22:34.does. He was forced within hours of that to reverse course, he was on
:22:35. > :22:40.the back foot and he took to Twitter to apologise and said last by I made
:22:41. > :22:48.an informed and ill-advised comment about Indian economics and to be
:22:49. > :22:56.clear or 100% opposed to colonialism and he said he was 100% for freedom
:22:57. > :23:00.and he admired the Indian people and he apologised for the offences
:23:01. > :23:02.comment caused and said in future he would leave all commentary on these
:23:03. > :23:07.topics to people with more knowledge. The point really is this
:23:08. > :23:13.highlights this gap between how those in Silicon Valley perceive
:23:14. > :23:18.themselves and what they feel is the good they do and how the rest of the
:23:19. > :23:21.world sees it. Thank you, some context from New York on that story.
:23:22. > :23:24.The production company behind the latest Star Wars movie
:23:25. > :23:26.is being prosecuted over an accident which left Harrison Ford
:23:27. > :23:37.He was hit by a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon
:23:38. > :23:42.Britain's Health and Safety Executive have charged
:23:43. > :23:44.Foodles Production, which is part of Disney,
:23:45. > :23:54.with four breaches of health and safety law.
:23:55. > :23:57.A 93-year-old World War II veteran from America has been reunited
:23:58. > :23:59.with his British wartime girlfriend after more than 70 years apart.
:24:00. > :24:02.Norwood Thomas and Joyce Morris fell in love in London shortly before
:24:03. > :24:10.But they lost touch after a misunderstanding.
:24:11. > :24:13.For Norwood Thomas, this was the most memorable
:24:14. > :24:21.He arrived in Adelaide after more than seven decades,
:24:22. > :24:23.wondering what became of his wartime sweetheart.
:24:24. > :24:25.What's the first thing you are going to do?
:24:26. > :24:30.His journey from the United States was paid for by well-wishers,
:24:31. > :24:33.when they read about the romance cut short by the war.
:24:34. > :24:35.They met by the River Thames in 1944.
:24:36. > :24:51.And it very rapidly developed into something from attraction,
:24:52. > :24:58.After the war, he wrote to her about marriage.
:24:59. > :25:00.She thought he was engaged to someone else.
:25:01. > :25:10.Last year, their story went viral when she tracked him down on a whim
:25:11. > :25:17.You know, to find someone who loves you, you love them,
:25:18. > :25:20.in the latter years of your life, it would rather be special,
:25:21. > :25:33.They've waited almost a lifetime for this.
:25:34. > :25:43.Over tea, they made plans for Valentine's Day
:25:44. > :26:01.What a heart-warming story! Back from other 30 minutes, stay with us
:26:02. > :26:13.if you can. Let us see what is happening around
:26:14. > :26:17.the globe and turning cold for this Valentine 's weekend across the
:26:18. > :26:18.north-east of the US, on