:00:07. > :00:13.further militarisation of the conflict in Syria as the White House
:00:13. > :00:16.says it will now arm the rebels. It comes after President Obama
:00:16. > :00:24.concludes the Assad regime has crossed a red line by using chemical
:00:24. > :00:28.weapons. Surgeons are warned they will be
:00:28. > :00:31.named and shamed if they refuse to publish performance data.
:00:31. > :00:36.A mother appeals for her missing daughter to come home - 14-year-old
:00:36. > :00:39.Lorna Vickerage disappeared with a 35-year-old man on Monday.
:00:39. > :00:43.Millions of Iranians go to the polls to choose a successor to Mahmoud
:00:43. > :00:45.Ahmadinejad. Cleared for take-off - the new
:00:45. > :00:52.Airbus completes its maiden flight with thousands of British jobs
:00:52. > :01:02.counting on its success. And Britain's Luke Donald leads the
:01:02. > :01:08.field before rain halts play at the US Open. On BBC London: Testing to
:01:08. > :01:12.see how the underground could cope with a poisonous gas attack. The
:01:12. > :01:22.Fathers For Justice campaigner accused of defacing a portrait of
:01:22. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:38.news at One. The United Nations has issued a warning against sending
:01:38. > :01:43.more arms to the combatants in the civil war in Syria. US weaponry
:01:43. > :01:46.could soon be making its way to rebel forces after President Obama
:01:46. > :01:50.finally acknowledged that his red line had been crossed and that
:01:50. > :01:53.chemical weapons had been used by the Assad regime. But the White
:01:53. > :01:59.House would not be drawn on what form the military help will take.
:01:59. > :02:02.Here, the Foreign Secretary said the crisis demands a strong, determined
:02:02. > :02:06.and co-ordinated response from the international community. Our world
:02:06. > :02:09.affairs correspondent nick Childs reports.
:02:09. > :02:13.Grim images of suffering following April alleged chemical weapons
:02:13. > :02:16.attack by Syrian Government forces. Damascus has always denied it's used
:02:17. > :02:21.such weapons but now the dramatic new conclusion from the White House
:02:21. > :02:25.that it has done so. After much debate, that's the White House says,
:02:25. > :02:30.has now shifted President Obama's view on how to help the Syrian
:02:30. > :02:33.rebels in the opposition's supreme military council, the SMC.
:02:33. > :02:40.President has made a decision about providing more support to the
:02:40. > :02:46.opposition. That will involve providing direct support to the SMC.
:02:46. > :02:49.That includes military support, but again suffice to say this is going
:02:49. > :02:56.to be different in both Scope and scale in terms of what we are
:02:56. > :03:00.providing to the SMC than what we have provided before. The shifting
:03:00. > :03:03.battle lines on the ground are also behind Washington's decision. What's
:03:03. > :03:07.alarmed the West lately is that Syrian Government forces seem to
:03:07. > :03:13.have the rebels on the back foot, thanks in part to critical help from
:03:13. > :03:19.Iran and the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah. What more support might
:03:19. > :03:23.Washington now provide? Air strikes directly against chemical weapons
:03:23. > :03:27.sites have been mooted in the past but could be an escalation and
:03:27. > :03:30.risky. A no-fly zone would be complicated and risky but it's
:03:30. > :03:34.thought some in the administration are pressing for at least a more
:03:34. > :03:39.limited version. Arming and training the rebels looks
:03:39. > :03:43.most likely. But not with their full shopping list of weapons. The
:03:44. > :03:46.President's critics say this option is too little, too late.
:03:46. > :03:51.President better understand that just supplying weapons is not going
:03:51. > :03:57.to change the equation on the ground of the balance of power. These
:03:57. > :04:02.people, the Free Syrian Army, need weapons and heavy weapons to
:04:02. > :04:06.countertanks and aircraft, a no-fly zone and Assad's air assets have to
:04:06. > :04:10.be taken out and neutralised. President Obama clearly remains wary
:04:10. > :04:16.of deeper intervention. He will get a call later today from David
:04:16. > :04:23.Cameron. Syria will be a key and difficult issue at next week's
:04:23. > :04:28.Geight summit in world -- G 8 summit in world. From Russia there's
:04:28. > :04:33.scepticism over Washington's claims. And in a conflict which the United
:04:33. > :04:41.Nations says has now cost at least 93,000 lives on both sides, with
:04:41. > :04:44.diplomacy also apparently faltering, the options don't get any easier.
:04:44. > :04:49.Our correspondent joins me now from Washington. You are recently back
:04:49. > :04:55.from Syria. How uneven has the battle become? I think it's fair to
:04:56. > :05:00.say that the momentum lies with the Government. The battle in Qusair, an
:05:00. > :05:04.important town, for some it's a strategic town, was key in showing
:05:04. > :05:09.which direction the battle was going in. We know that forces that belong
:05:09. > :05:14.to the Shi'ite movement in Lebanon, Hezbollah, joined Syrian Government
:05:14. > :05:18.forces and that seemed to have made a quantitative and qualityive
:05:18. > :05:21.difference on the ground. They now say they've moved towards Aleppo,
:05:21. > :05:26.Syria's largest city in the north and they feel they have momentum on
:05:26. > :05:29.their side. There has been a sense in Washington that Iran and
:05:29. > :05:34.Hezbollah have essentially gone all-in in supporting the Syrian
:05:34. > :05:38.Government and that the support for the opposition has been fair fairly
:05:38. > :05:41.piecemeal and they're on the back foot and if you want to do anything
:05:41. > :05:47.about it time is running out. get the impression that President
:05:47. > :05:57.Obama seems a reluctant participant in this? Yes, it has been a very
:05:57. > :05:58.long, difficult process. Last year the CIA, the Pentagon and state
:05:58. > :06:01.department bosses were saying they believed the rebels should be
:06:01. > :06:05.supported in terms of arms by the US Government but it was President
:06:05. > :06:09.Obama who blocked that. Yes, they've got to the statement now where they
:06:09. > :06:12.feel they should step up the support but we need to be clear, nobody has
:06:13. > :06:17.said explicitly what will be supplied when and we will have to
:06:17. > :06:27.wait and see what difference it will make. Thank you. You can find out
:06:27. > :06:27.
:06:27. > :06:30.much more about the crisis in Syria on the BBC news website.
:06:30. > :06:33.Surgeons who refuse to publish data about the results of their
:06:33. > :06:38.operations, including mortality rates, should be publicly named,
:06:39. > :06:42.according to the Health Secretary. League tables for ten medical
:06:42. > :06:46.specialities are due to be published in England next month as Ministers
:06:46. > :06:52.aim to make the NHS more transparent. Our health
:06:52. > :06:55.correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:06:55. > :06:59.Publishing the results of individual surgeons is meant to raise standards
:06:59. > :07:03.and give patients more information before an operation. But it can be
:07:03. > :07:09.complicated. Those carrying out difficult procedures on the very
:07:09. > :07:13.sick may have different results to some of their colleagues. At this
:07:13. > :07:16.hospital in south Manchester they're already making some results public
:07:16. > :07:20.but they acknowledge the process is not without its problems. I think
:07:20. > :07:24.that it's not easy to get the measurements right and that's one of
:07:24. > :07:29.the challenges. That's what we are doing now. It is about us focussing
:07:29. > :07:33.as doctors on the importance of this so it's not an easy thing to do,
:07:33. > :07:37.it's not been done before but we think now is the time. The results
:07:37. > :07:42.of individual surgeons have been made public since 2008 and the
:07:42. > :07:45.feeling is that has led to an improvement in standards. But the
:07:45. > :07:48.Royal College of Surgeons points out it took time for that system to work
:07:48. > :07:53.properly for the data to be accurate. And they say that accuracy
:07:53. > :07:56.is vital if the public are to have confidence in the system. Data
:07:57. > :08:01.protection law means surgeons must give their consent before
:08:01. > :08:06.publication on the NHS choices website. The Royal College of
:08:06. > :08:11.Surgeons says some of -- some have delayed until they know that data is
:08:11. > :08:21.robust. The Health Secretary is prepared to name surgeon who is
:08:21. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:29.scheme could offer more choice but that too is not without
:08:29. > :08:32.complications. You take precautions and if somebody came up and it was
:08:32. > :08:36.showing bad then obviously you would be considering, I am not going in
:08:36. > :08:41.there. Depends how ill you are and what's wrong really. Whether you
:08:41. > :08:49.have the time to look into it and not everybody's capable of looking
:08:49. > :08:50.into those things. The Royal College of Surgeons says it's important as
:08:50. > :08:54.many of their members as possible give their consent for the
:08:54. > :09:00.publication of their results. But it warns that complicated data needs
:09:00. > :09:04.careful handling if it's to be reliable.
:09:04. > :09:07.The Treasury has announced that six more Government departments have
:09:07. > :09:11.agreed their spending plans. The Government's full spending review is
:09:11. > :09:20.due out later this month. Let's speak to our correspondent at
:09:20. > :09:24.Westminster. We seem to be getting a running commentary on this. They're
:09:24. > :09:28.looking for 11. .5 billion worth of savings. The big names who have
:09:28. > :09:30.settled now, the Home Office, and as part of that police and
:09:30. > :09:33.counterterror capabilities are being protected, we are told. The
:09:33. > :09:37.department of environment, very much seen as one of those departments
:09:37. > :09:41.that was holding out on all of this. It means is they're about a third of
:09:41. > :09:45.the way towards the target of 11. .5 billion and across the departments
:09:45. > :09:48.that have settled already it's cut savings, however you want to
:09:48. > :09:52.describe them of about 8%. Government is emphasising those who
:09:52. > :09:55.have settled but there's still a big job to get all those other
:09:55. > :09:58.departments that haven't? That's right. It was interesting here is
:09:58. > :10:01.they're making these progress announcements as they call them,
:10:01. > :10:04.what they're trying to do is put pressure on some of the others and
:10:04. > :10:08.there are big ones still to come, defence, we have been hearing about
:10:08. > :10:11.that, about concerns about more cuts there. And the business department.
:10:11. > :10:14.What's going on here is these ministers are signed up to cutting
:10:14. > :10:18.the deficit but when it comes to their own backyard they're not
:10:18. > :10:25.always so keen. There are clearly some very tough negotiations going
:10:25. > :10:28.on behind the scenes. Danny Alexander saying they're careful and
:10:28. > :10:32.serious minded discussions but he's also playing hard ball, too. He said
:10:32. > :10:40.look at defence, there are more horses than tanks, surely there are
:10:40. > :10:45.room for efficiency savings here. The deputy governor of the Bank of
:10:45. > :10:49.England, Paul Tucker, is to step down this year. He has been with the
:10:49. > :10:53.bank 33 years but lost out in the race to take over as governor. Mark
:10:53. > :10:58.Carney will take over in the top job on July 1st.
:10:58. > :11:01.Iranians are going to the polls today to vote for a new President to
:11:01. > :11:04.replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who leaves this month. All six
:11:04. > :11:08.candidates are seen as conservative, although one cleric has been
:11:08. > :11:13.reaching out to reformists in recent days. 50 million voters are able to
:11:13. > :11:18.cast their ballot. Polls close at 6.00pm local time. We should know
:11:18. > :11:24.the result in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Our world affairs
:11:24. > :11:28.correspondent Richard Galpin reports. Voting so far has been
:11:28. > :11:34.brisk. The turnout in the hours immediately after polling stations
:11:34. > :11:38.opened this morning looking quite high 50 million people are eligible
:11:38. > :11:44.to cast their ballots, including many who have never voted before.
:11:45. > :11:48.Iran has a young population. It is the first time me and my friend are
:11:48. > :11:54.eligible to vote. We have been looking forward to coming and seeing
:11:54. > :12:01.the elections and having a say in managing our country. Amongst the
:12:01. > :12:06.early voters was Iran's supreme lead leader, the most powerful man in the
:12:07. > :12:11.country. He's called on everyone to turn out. Critics in Iran and abroad
:12:12. > :12:18.have accused him of trying to fix this election to ensure one of his
:12:18. > :12:23.loyal supporters wins. Of this he was dismissive.
:12:23. > :12:26.TRANSLATION: Recently I heard someone from America's National
:12:26. > :12:30.Security Council has said that we don't consider Iran's elections to
:12:30. > :12:35.be valid. OK, the hell with you then. If the Iranian nation waited
:12:35. > :12:40.to see what you Americans accept and what you don't, it would be a loser.
:12:40. > :12:43.But of the hundreds of candidates who had wanted to run in this
:12:44. > :12:53.election, almost all were disqualified by a vetting body
:12:54. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:00.packed with supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini. Amongst the front-runners
:13:00. > :13:04.Rowhani is considered more moderate. In the last few days opposition
:13:04. > :13:08.groups have rallied around Mr Rowhani, making him the only
:13:08. > :13:13.candidate representing those who want fundamental change in Iran. He
:13:13. > :13:17.has an advantage, because the candidates of the ultra conservative
:13:17. > :13:23.establishment, five in total, are all battling each other as well as
:13:23. > :13:28.MrRowhani to become the next President.
:13:28. > :13:33.The question for the international community is whether the new
:13:33. > :13:37.President will compromise on Iran's nuclear programme. The current
:13:37. > :13:42.leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has pushed ahead with the programme,
:13:42. > :13:47.ignoring international sanctions. Those sanctions are a crucial issue
:13:47. > :13:55.for voters today. Because they've caused a severe economic crisis
:13:55. > :14:04.affecting the entire population. You will find more information about the
:14:04. > :14:07.candidates in the election on the BBC news channel and on the website.
:14:07. > :14:10.Airlines around the world have been warned not to allow the man who
:14:10. > :14:15.leaked information about secret US surveillance programmes to travel to
:14:15. > :14:20.Britain. Airlines based in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand say they've
:14:20. > :14:25.received what's nope as a carrier alert about Edward Snowden. Our home
:14:25. > :14:28.affairs correspondent June Kelly is here. Issued by whom? The Home
:14:28. > :14:33.Office, although the Home Office isn't commenting on this but we
:14:33. > :14:37.understand this alert is genuine. Now, a photograph of this document
:14:37. > :14:40.has emerged. This photograph was reportedly taken at April airport in
:14:40. > :14:44.Thailand. What the document is telling airlines is they shouldn't
:14:44. > :14:50.allow Edward Snowden to board a flight to the UK because he's highly
:14:50. > :14:55.likely to be refused entry if he arrives in this country. Also, any
:14:55. > :14:59.airline that does bring him in could face a fine. The document does also
:14:59. > :15:03.have a picture of Edward Snowden on it and his personal details.
:15:03. > :15:07.suppose this begs the question, do we have any indication he is
:15:07. > :15:11.planning to come to the UK? None at all and the UK would be a strange
:15:11. > :15:15.choice of destination for him given our - the fact we are a close ally
:15:15. > :15:21.of the United States. Now, Edward Snowden has spoken about possibly
:15:21. > :15:27.trying to seek sanctuary in - there has been a suggestion would he try
:15:27. > :15:31.to get to Iceland, changing planes in London? This is all subposition
:15:31. > :15:34.at the moment. No warrant has been issued for his arrest by the
:15:34. > :15:36.Americans and at the moment we believe he is still in Hong Kong
:15:36. > :15:46.which is where he gave his interview although he hasn't been seen in
:15:46. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:51.public for a number of days. Thank The United States is to supply
:15:51. > :15:56.direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time.
:15:56. > :16:02.And a glimpse into the secret life of sea mammals. Just how do they
:16:02. > :16:05.stay punned water for so long? May may look pretty out of the
:16:05. > :16:09.water, but these seals are beautifully adapted for life under
:16:09. > :16:14.the water. This new research shows how they
:16:14. > :16:20.move so efficiently and ce gracefully while holding their
:16:20. > :16:24.Later, fewer people across the country are playing sports spins the
:16:24. > :16:28.2012 Olympics, but London bucks the trend.
:16:28. > :16:38.And performing jazz with Jools Holland, the unknown singer from
:16:38. > :16:38.
:16:38. > :16:41.Brixton who won her place in the Next week for the first time since
:16:41. > :16:44.the fall of the Taliban 12 years ago, Afghan government forces will
:16:44. > :16:47.take the lead in combat operations across the whole country. It will
:16:47. > :16:52.mark a significant milestone on the road to the eventual withdrawal of
:16:52. > :16:55.NATO forces at the end of next year. But as Afghan troops start to do the
:16:55. > :17:05.bulk of the fighting, they are paying a heavy price as David Loyn
:17:05. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:16.reports from a military hospital in Afghan soldiers are leading the
:17:16. > :17:24.fight and bearing the cost. The wounded fill hospitals after being
:17:24. > :17:28.injured by roadside bombs, rockets, and gunfire. This man was fighting
:17:29. > :17:34.in Kandahar and lost both legs when he stepped on a mine. He is engaged
:17:34. > :17:38.to be married. TRANSLATION: My fiancee is proud of
:17:38. > :17:43.me for losing my limbs for our country and our people. Thank God I
:17:43. > :17:49.am still alive. This man had ten operations to save
:17:49. > :17:53.his leg after he was shot by the Taliban in Helmand.
:17:53. > :17:59.He told me that 30 of his Afghan comrades and two British soldiers
:17:59. > :18:03.were killed in the firefight. Last year around 3,000 Afghan soldiers
:18:03. > :18:09.and police were killed. Ten times as many as foreign forces and this
:18:09. > :18:16.year, the proportion is higher. Thousands more are being injured, a
:18:16. > :18:19.casualty rate that is unsustainable for this new force.
:18:19. > :18:28.The operating theatres in a hospital built during the Russian war 30
:18:28. > :18:32.years ago are busy all the time. In one week recently, over 100 Afghan
:18:32. > :18:36.soldiers were killed. Injuries are running at a far higher total than
:18:36. > :18:41.that. TRANSLATION: Most of our patients
:18:41. > :18:46.are injured by roadside bombs. The enemy hasn't got the capability to
:18:46. > :18:50.fight face-to-face with our security forces.
:18:51. > :18:58.A sad, steady stream of coffins are carried away by the families of the
:18:58. > :19:03.dead. Some he leave covered in the Afghan flag in honour. But others
:19:03. > :19:06.leave anonymously draped only in funeral black. These are returning
:19:06. > :19:13.to Taliban controlled districts where kwon connection with the
:19:13. > :19:18.military to be fatal for the families of the fallen. And the dead
:19:18. > :19:28.leave behind young lives, altered forever. In Afghanistan's war
:19:28. > :19:37.
:19:37. > :19:44.heels of John Bush who disappeared with Lorna Vickerage on Monday. Ed
:19:44. > :19:48.Thomas is outside Doncaster Police Station for us. Ed. Yes, Jon, Lorna
:19:48. > :19:52.Vickerage is 14 and has been missing for five days now. Every police
:19:52. > :19:56.force in the country has her picture and the picture of the man she is
:19:56. > :20:00.believed to be with. That's 35-year-old John Bush. He is wanted
:20:00. > :20:04.on suspicion of child abduction and today, Lorna's mother and
:20:04. > :20:08.grandmother came here to the police station to appeal directly to him to
:20:08. > :20:14.release the 14-year-old. I would just like to appeal to John
:20:14. > :20:20.to fetch Lorna home, please. Being a family man yourself, you see how
:20:20. > :20:24.much hurting you're causing the family. Please fetch her home. We
:20:24. > :20:30.are here for you and you are not in any trouble. We love you and we just
:20:30. > :20:34.want you to. Come home, please. Police say John Bush is not a friend
:20:34. > :20:39.of the family. Lorna's mother and grandmother say they have never
:20:39. > :20:42.heard of him and concern is growing. John Bush is a convicted fraudster.
:20:42. > :20:47.Police say he is well used to lying and they believe he is doing the
:20:47. > :20:52.same to the girl. A 35-year-old man has been arrested, police confirmed
:20:52. > :20:55.this is not John Bush, but he is being questioned on suss suspicion
:20:55. > :21:00.of child abduction as well and police said that John Bush that his
:21:00. > :21:04.time is running out and he should hand himself in soon and release
:21:04. > :21:10.Lorna Vickerage. Thank.
:21:10. > :21:14.-- thanks. The newest plane from the European
:21:14. > :21:17.plane-maker, Airbus, has made its first flight. The A350 is designed
:21:17. > :21:20.to meet the challenge posed by Boeing's revolutionary new fuel
:21:20. > :21:23.efficient plane, the Dreamliner. The wings of the new aircraft were
:21:23. > :21:25.designed and built in Britain, and it is powered by Rolls Royce
:21:25. > :21:29.engines. Dave Harvey watched the flight from the Filton Airbus
:21:29. > :21:34.Centre. Dave over to you. It has been a day of celebration
:21:34. > :21:38.here, Jon. 1,000 engineers swapped their wing design computers for
:21:38. > :21:44.cake! A big screen. They are showing live pictures of the aircraft safely
:21:44. > :21:48.back on the ground after four hours on its first test flight. You see
:21:48. > :21:54.the same thing as this in North Wales where they manufacturer the
:21:54. > :22:00.wings in Derby where Rolls-Royce make the engines and in Gloucester,
:22:00. > :22:05.its it is a very British plane. Today all eyes were on some tarmac
:22:05. > :22:11.in Toulouse in Southern France. Planes take off all the time, but
:22:11. > :22:18.rarely like this. The flight crew look like they are going into space.
:22:18. > :22:20.In Bristol, slight anxiety as the wing designers watch and then...
:22:20. > :22:24.APPLAUSE Ten years work comes together in
:22:24. > :22:28.this. A lot of work, arduous hours, but, you know, it is worthwhile when
:22:28. > :22:34.you see something like this today take place and yeah, fantastic.
:22:34. > :22:37.A lot of people put a lot of time, energy into this aircraft. So to see
:22:37. > :22:42.it fly is something special. The engineers are excited for
:22:42. > :22:48.thousands of them across the UK, it is a big day. But to passengers, it
:22:49. > :22:54.looks well, just like a plane. Only this one is not made of metal. It is
:22:54. > :23:03.made out of this flimsy looking tape. Huge, precision machines lay
:23:03. > :23:09.thousands of strands of carbon-fibre, gradually building a
:23:09. > :23:11.30 foot spine of the aircraft's wing. Then they cook it. This oven
:23:12. > :23:16.hardens the carbon-fibre under high pressure. It will emerge stronger
:23:16. > :23:24.than steel and much, much lighter. In North Wales, the wing takes shape
:23:24. > :23:30.in this huge purpose built factory, just like the other parts, the skin
:23:30. > :23:38.of the carbon-fibre is built here too. You need a plane big enough to
:23:38. > :23:41.swallow a wing. Inch by inch, the huge wing is loaded on board.
:23:41. > :23:46.We spent five years developing them with the best technology in the
:23:46. > :23:48.world. We tested them in structural testing and totally confident they
:23:48. > :23:52.work, but they look really good in the air.
:23:53. > :23:56.Nonetheless, the days ahead are full of risk. Boeing launched the
:23:57. > :24:00.Dreamliner just as smoothly, but when batteries started smouldering,
:24:00. > :24:07.the whole fleet was grounded. Airbus too have had similar problems with
:24:07. > :24:13.their own planes, the superjumbo, the A 380.
:24:13. > :24:17.It had some issues in service. This in terms of the business case, in is
:24:17. > :24:21.-- this is the better programme to make Airbus money. If it is
:24:21. > :24:29.successful, it will make the company a fortune. It is a golden goose that
:24:29. > :24:34.will lay lots of big cash eggs. For the 1,000 wing designers in
:24:34. > :24:44.Filton, they hope he is right. They have sold 600 aircraft already.
:24:44. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:48.Each one at over 250 million dollars. Perhaps you can see Jon
:24:48. > :24:52.where the company is happy to give these guys the morning off and some
:24:52. > :24:56.cake! Dave Harvey, thank you very much
:24:56. > :24:59.indeed at Filton. Golf and in a rain affected first
:24:59. > :25:01.round of the US Open in Philadelphia, the Englishman Luke
:25:01. > :25:07.Donald holds a one stroke lead over the American left-hander, Phil
:25:07. > :25:12.Mickelson. Joe Wilson watched the action.
:25:12. > :25:15.There was a tornado watch in Philadelphia, it turned out to be a
:25:15. > :25:22.thunderstorm, but enough to disrupt play in the US Open. Over throw
:25:22. > :25:27.hours lost on the first day. Phil Mickelson got through 18 holes,
:25:27. > :25:30.three under par after flying in at 3. 30am. He had been watching his
:25:30. > :25:37.daughter's graduation speech at school. Sometimes the longest
:25:37. > :25:47.journeys are the most worthwhile. That takes care of it.
:25:47. > :25:47.
:25:47. > :25:51.The Merion Golf Club course is 100 years old. The poles are topped by
:25:51. > :25:56.wicker baskets. Lee Westwood found himself heading backwards. Tiger
:25:56. > :26:00.Woods has more than his score to worry about. Pain in his wrist
:26:00. > :26:06.visible as he struggled to two over par. He said he was fine. He didn't
:26:06. > :26:09.look it. Add midst this, Luke Donald calmly
:26:09. > :26:13.putted his way to the top of the leaderboard before play was
:26:13. > :26:18.suspended. Forecasts for Friday, mainly cloudy. They are drying out
:26:18. > :26:25.and resuming before breakfast on the East Coast the East Coast of
:26:25. > :26:29.America. Already time to make up. The mystery of how marine mammals
:26:29. > :26:32.are able to hold their breath for up to an hour has been solved.
:26:32. > :26:35.Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that whales and
:26:35. > :26:41.seals have a special protein in their muscles which allows them to
:26:41. > :26:45.store huge amounts of oxygen. Victoria Gill has the story.
:26:45. > :26:53.Adam can hold his breath for six minutes. He is a free diver and he
:26:53. > :26:58.trains in this North London swimming pool.
:26:58. > :27:03.After three minutes, the air for oxygen will come really strong and
:27:03. > :27:07.your mind will be telling you breathe now, come up now.
:27:07. > :27:12.But even a free diver can't compete with these animals. Like us, these
:27:12. > :27:17.seals are air breathing mammals. But they can dive for up to 30 minutes
:27:17. > :27:21.on a single breath. Now, a study led by scientists from the University of
:27:21. > :27:27.Liverpool has shown just how they manage this.
:27:27. > :27:32.They may look pretty ungainly out of the water, but these common seals
:27:32. > :27:34.are beautifully adaplted for life under the water and this new
:27:34. > :27:40.research shows how they move efficiently and gracefully while
:27:40. > :27:44.holding their breath. The researchers studied a protein. It is
:27:44. > :27:50.the oxygen storing stuff in all mammals muscles including our own.
:27:50. > :27:55.But in marine mammals it has a special structure. Like most
:27:55. > :28:03.proteins, it is sticky. So very large quantities of it would clog up
:28:03. > :28:08.our muscles. But in aquatic mammals it evolved nonstick properties. It
:28:08. > :28:13.is this nonstick that evolved to allow seals to use their oxygen
:28:14. > :28:19.packed muscles. We are taking a a high amount of it
:28:19. > :28:23.into their muscle. They can afford larger concentrations in their
:28:23. > :28:30.muscles than humans. This allows them to stay under the water and
:28:30. > :28:36.hunt for long times. Showing how oxygen can be stored efficiently
:28:36. > :28:41.could help scientists develop life-saving carrying liquids or
:28:41. > :28:51.artificial blood. The scientists have solved a mystery of how some of
:28:51. > :28:54.the world's charismatic creatures achieve charismatic feats.
:28:54. > :28:57.Time for a look at the weather. Time for a look at the weather.
:28:57. > :29:01.Here's Nick Miller. Last weekend, where the sun shown 25 Celsius with
:29:01. > :29:06.high pressure. This weekend, it is low pressure across the UK. So the
:29:06. > :29:09.weather is very different. Not just one area of low pressure, it brought
:29:09. > :29:13.a friend, another comes in for Sunday and this is a troublemaker
:29:13. > :29:17.when it comes to Sunday's forecast as I will show you in a moment. But
:29:17. > :29:20.don't get me wrong, not a wash out of a weekend, because it will be
:29:20. > :29:26.showery. There will be sunshine too, but it is breezy along with that.
:29:26. > :29:29.And so far today, we have been dodging the downpours. Wales
:29:29. > :29:33.initially heavy showers this morning. This is the rainfall
:29:33. > :29:39.picture and those heavy showers with thunder too are working through the
:29:39. > :29:43.mid- lands and into Northern England as we speak and a few pop up in
:29:43. > :29:47.Scotland. In Northern Scotland, you see some of the best weather of the
:29:47. > :29:53.day. Yes, the odd heavy shower popping up in Scotland and a
:29:53. > :29:58.scattering of heavy and possibly thundery downpours. But through much
:29:58. > :30:02.of south-east England, just the odd shower, but sunshine developing this
:30:02. > :30:05.afternoon. For much of the South Coast will stay dry and not too bad
:30:05. > :30:09.if you contend with the wind. Increasing cloud in the far
:30:09. > :30:11.south-west later and for Wales, after this morning's heavy
:30:11. > :30:15.downpours, sunshine and further showers to come this afternoon. We
:30:15. > :30:20.have got some heavy showers in Northern Ireland. Look, there is
:30:20. > :30:23.worse to come this evening. More persistent and heavier rain coming
:30:23. > :30:28.in in time for the evening rush hour. This will work through the
:30:28. > :30:32.night through to Scotland. It is wet for the southern up lands and
:30:32. > :30:36.Grampians. More showers following behind. Temperatures aren't going
:30:37. > :30:41.down too far. And that takes us on to the weekend. From the word go, it
:30:41. > :30:45.is sunshine and showers. A more prolonged spell of rain setting
:30:45. > :30:47.itself up across Scotland. Into the afternoon, another batch of showers.
:30:48. > :30:52.Maybe some prolonged spells of rain working through parts of England and
:30:53. > :30:57.Wales. Windy with these and could see gales developing around the
:30:57. > :31:02.south-west and Wales and temperatures mid to high teens. I am
:31:02. > :31:05.not helping am I? As for Sunday, the further north and east you are, you
:31:05. > :31:10.may escape with a dry and bright day. But that troublemaker I showed
:31:10. > :31:13.you earlier is trying to bring rain into the south and south-west, but
:31:13. > :31:17.there is uncertainty about how far north it will get. Don't make this
:31:17. > :31:24.the last forecast you see between now and Sunday. Keep checking. It
:31:24. > :31:28.may change. With we will update you online and mobile. Don't cancel or