:00:09. > :00:14.A prominent dissident lawyer in China escapes from house arrest and
:00:14. > :00:17.posts an online video demanding justice.
:00:17. > :00:23.Plans to ban foreign tourists from using cannabis cafes are upheld by
:00:23. > :00:33.a Dutch judge. More pain for Spain as the jobless
:00:33. > :00:36.total reaches a record high - one Welcome to BBC World News. Also in
:00:36. > :00:46.this programme: Pakistan deports Osama Bin Laden's
:00:46. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:57.family almost a year after the US raid that killed him. And Europe
:00:57. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:08.prepares to send a spacecraft The Chinese dissident lawyer, Chen
:01:08. > :01:13.Guangcheng, has escaped from house arrest. Activists say he slipped
:01:13. > :01:17.out of his home in Shandong province on Sunday. A video of Mr
:01:17. > :01:21.Chen posted on the internet claims he is free. In it, he demands
:01:21. > :01:25.justice for himself and his family. Mr Chen has been under house arrest
:01:25. > :01:35.since 2010. Our correspondent in Beijing, Damian Grammaticas, told
:01:35. > :01:35.
:01:36. > :01:41.us more about the footage. That online video, posted by Chen
:01:41. > :01:46.Guangcheng, has been released in which he says that he escaped from
:01:46. > :01:52.that house arrest that he was under in Shandong province, about eight
:01:52. > :01:57.hours from Beijing, and he made that appeal in the video a to join
:01:58. > :02:01.the's premiere Wen Jiabao, with three demands. The first one, that
:02:01. > :02:05.the violence that had been inflicted on him and his family,
:02:05. > :02:09.about which there had been many reports, beatings and the like,
:02:09. > :02:16.that that should be investigated. He names local officials who he
:02:16. > :02:21.said did that. He calls for the safety of it -- of his family, his
:02:21. > :02:25.daughter and his wife who have been under house arrest with him. His
:02:25. > :02:30.daughter was prevented from going to school by local authorities at
:02:30. > :02:36.one point. He also calls for the government here to tackle
:02:36. > :02:40.corruption and abuses of power. Direct appeals. What we have heard
:02:40. > :02:46.from activists who say they were involved in helping him to escape
:02:46. > :02:50.is that he is in what they say it is 100% safe location in Beijing.
:02:50. > :02:55.They will not specify where. what are the authorities saying and
:02:55. > :03:00.doing about it? Saying not very much, but we know what they are
:03:00. > :03:03.doing. They have already moved to round up some of those who may have
:03:03. > :03:11.been involved in helping Chen Guangcheng escape from his
:03:11. > :03:15.confinement. There was one activist, a woman, who said she had helped by
:03:15. > :03:23.driving him away at the weekend, out of the province where his home
:03:23. > :03:26.was. There are reports that she may have been detained today. Also
:03:26. > :03:30.reports from the village that village officials, extremely
:03:30. > :03:34.angered by the escape, have moved in. There mate well have been
:03:34. > :03:39.scuffles between the village officials and Chen Guangcheng's
:03:39. > :03:46.relatives in the village and some of those relatives, his brother and
:03:46. > :03:51.nephew, appeared to have been taken away as well. Thank you.
:03:51. > :03:55.Dutch coffee shop owners have lost their appeal against a plan by the
:03:55. > :04:00.government to ban tourists from entering so-called cannabis cafes.
:04:00. > :04:06.Soft drugs in the Netherlands are not strictly legal, but they use is
:04:06. > :04:15.tolerated. Today A judge has upheld a ban designed to cut the number of
:04:16. > :04:20.Easy-going is most people's idea of the Dutch attitude to soft drugs.
:04:20. > :04:23.Not strictly legal, but tolerated at least in his most liberal of
:04:23. > :04:29.societies. But now that seems to be changing, at least when it comes to
:04:29. > :04:34.visitors. The authorities want them Netherlands's infamous cannabis
:04:34. > :04:40.cafes to carry it ID checks and ban on residents. It is an effort to
:04:40. > :04:43.draw tourists -- deter tourists just visiting for drugs. Now
:04:43. > :04:48.further disappointment for the group of cafe owners who tried to
:04:48. > :04:52.block the move in court saying it was discriminatory. A judge has
:04:52. > :04:56.upheld the Government's plan for what some have called a weed pass
:04:56. > :05:01.to enforce the ban. But the cafe owners have said they will appeal.
:05:01. > :05:05.In Amsterdam, the city authorities have also been against the ban and
:05:05. > :05:07.have been seeking a compromise. It is estimated up to a third of all
:05:07. > :05:12.visitors here come for the cafes and because they are allowed to
:05:12. > :05:15.smoke cannabis. But the City has many other attractions and many
:05:15. > :05:21.residents are uncomfortable that soft drugs are no longer an
:05:21. > :05:25.acceptable way to who attract hard currency. For now, the Government's
:05:25. > :05:31.plan is to impose the ban in three southern provinces from the
:05:31. > :05:35.beginning of May and across the country by next year.
:05:35. > :05:44.We are getting reports of a number of explosions in Ukraine. The
:05:44. > :05:48.blasts happened and we can show you some pictures. Government officials
:05:48. > :05:52.say the first blast was caused by an explosive device planted near
:05:52. > :05:56.essential tram stop. Half an hour later, the second blast happened
:05:56. > :06:06.near a local cinema. There are also reports of two further explosions
:06:06. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:14.in the city. Walk us through what happened here. What we know now is
:06:14. > :06:19.that four blasts occurred. The number of people injured is about
:06:19. > :06:26.14. These are official figures. But no information about people who
:06:26. > :06:32.died. It would appear to be co- ordinated. Well, police say these
:06:32. > :06:41.blasts are not accidental. The prosecutors have already opened a
:06:41. > :06:45.criminal case, calling this a terrorist attack. We understand the
:06:45. > :06:52.Ukrainian interior minister is on his way to the city. Has there been
:06:52. > :06:59.any word or, and yet from his department? No, we don't have any
:06:59. > :07:06.comments from him, but we have some comments from prosecutors and
:07:06. > :07:11.police. They are not telling us much information. We have probably
:07:11. > :07:21.got devices going off in three different areas in the city. Tell
:07:21. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:29.us what these particular areas are like. There are four areas, but
:07:29. > :07:37.witnesses say only three areas are were affected by the explosives and
:07:37. > :07:43.the first blast went off without any injuries. Fees are territories
:07:43. > :07:50.where many people gather because one of them there is a bus stations
:07:50. > :07:54.and another is near a cinema. The territory was near a park where
:07:54. > :07:59.people often walk with their children and their families. Many
:07:59. > :08:03.thanks. That story is still developing. We will keep you right
:08:04. > :08:08.cross developments. Benn joins us with the business news. The big
:08:08. > :08:12.story is unemployment in Spain. It gets worse and worse.
:08:12. > :08:21.One in four people in Spain out of work. It seems the problems are
:08:21. > :08:24.continuing, the highest rate in the euro's Amy Foster
:08:24. > :08:25.Unemployment in Spain has reached a record high, with new figures out
:08:26. > :08:28.record high, with new figures out from the national statistics agency.
:08:28. > :08:31.They indicate that more than 5,600,000 people are currently out
:08:31. > :08:34.of work in Spain. Nearly 400,000 people lost jobs in the first three
:08:34. > :08:36.months of 2012. It means that nearly a quarter of Spain's
:08:36. > :08:38.workforce is now unemployed. The workforce is now unemployed. The
:08:38. > :08:41.figures came hours after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded
:08:41. > :08:44.Spanish sovereign debt. Official figures due out on Monday are
:08:44. > :08:47.expected to confirm that Spain has fallen back into recession. Spain
:08:47. > :08:51.has the highest unemployment rate in the European Union and it is
:08:51. > :09:01.expected to rise further this year. Joining me is Ken Wattret, chief
:09:01. > :09:03.European economist from BNP. Hello. Almost one in four out of work and
:09:04. > :09:07.this is a double whammy because these people are costing the
:09:07. > :09:12.government money and they are also not generating any money. How to
:09:12. > :09:15.see how you reverse this decline. In the short run, it is. The
:09:15. > :09:20.situation is even worse for youth unemployment, where the ratio is
:09:20. > :09:24.more like one in two. The problem is that Spain is in a recession.
:09:24. > :09:28.The recession is deepening so the likelihood is unemployment will
:09:28. > :09:32.continue to rise substantially further. An additional problem is
:09:32. > :09:37.that the Spanish government is also running a very large budget deficit,
:09:37. > :09:40.in the region of 9% of GDP for last year, and the pressure is on to
:09:40. > :09:44.bring that deficit down and that will have a negative impact on the
:09:44. > :09:51.economy. Unfortunately the news is likely to get worse before it gets
:09:51. > :09:56.better. Let's talk about the credit rating downgrade. It is a blow to
:09:56. > :09:59.the country, but also a blow to the eurozone as a whole. What message
:09:59. > :10:04.does it send to the governments and the eurozone about how they are
:10:04. > :10:08.handling this crisis? Clearly there's a problem. The specific
:10:08. > :10:12.problem related to the downgrade is the issue we were talking about,
:10:13. > :10:18.the lack of momentum in the economy. The ratings agency was originally
:10:18. > :10:22.anticipated growth in Spain of about 0.5%. It has now revised its
:10:22. > :10:26.estimate to something like -1.5 %. That makes it more difficult to put
:10:26. > :10:30.the public finances in better shape and to do something about the
:10:30. > :10:34.upward trajectory of the public sector debt, which has been one of
:10:34. > :10:37.the key issues for the ratings agencies for some time. How does
:10:37. > :10:42.the euro area deal with these problems at a national level and
:10:42. > :10:46.how does the euro area convince markets that there is a plan to fix
:10:46. > :10:50.this? We are seeing some progress here and there in terms of
:10:50. > :10:53.facilities which are being provided to offer assistance to countries in
:10:53. > :10:59.difficulty, but there is a bottom- line issue, which is the countries
:10:59. > :11:02.will have to work their way through very difficult periods in terms of
:11:02. > :11:07.contracting economic activity and rising unemployment and problems
:11:07. > :11:10.and the public finances. This is a rolling crisis. You talk about
:11:10. > :11:15.those facilities available for countries in difficulty. Tim Guy
:11:15. > :11:19.Pearce said last week the US would not contribute to a whip round. It
:11:19. > :11:23.says the money is there, it is what they do with it that matters.
:11:24. > :11:28.has a point. The euro area could do a more effective job in stabilising
:11:28. > :11:31.the situation and other countries feel until the euro area put its
:11:31. > :11:35.house in order, they are reluctant to contribute. But the potential
:11:35. > :11:39.for these problems to its impact on the global economy is pretty large
:11:39. > :11:47.and it is probably in the interests of the US to take a more proactive
:11:47. > :11:51.view in providing assistance for up thank you. Her Italy's borrowing
:11:51. > :11:57.costs have risen sharply. It raised 5.9 5 billion euros from
:11:57. > :12:03.the sale of bonds. But it was short of targets as Spain's downgrade
:12:03. > :12:06.spooked investors. Italy has been performing better on the financial
:12:06. > :12:10.markets after Prime -- the prime minister came to power in November.
:12:10. > :12:13.It has been hit by increased jitters in the eurozone about its
:12:13. > :12:16.growth prospects. Barclays Bank is facing a serious
:12:16. > :12:20.revolt by shareholders at its annual general meeting in London
:12:20. > :12:22.today. And it's thought that nearly a third of investors could vote
:12:22. > :12:27.against the company's executive pay plan. James Bevan from CCLA
:12:27. > :12:32.Investment Management explained why shareholders are so upset.
:12:32. > :12:36.If they want to get payments over and above their base salary, they
:12:36. > :12:41.should be reasonable and appropriate levers to allow us to
:12:41. > :12:45.understand why excess pay is to be made. Or just -- we are not getting
:12:45. > :12:53.that information. The other issue is that of course but least I in a
:12:53. > :12:55.great period at the moment, but The South Korean conglomerate
:12:55. > :12:59.Samsung has overtaken the Finnish firm Nokia as the world's leading
:12:59. > :13:02.mobile phone maker. Nokia has held the number one slot for 14 years,
:13:02. > :13:06.with up to 40% of the market, but has seen sales slump and profits
:13:06. > :13:09.slashed. Samsung, with its Galaxy smart phones, and Apple with the
:13:09. > :13:11.iPhone, have cut deeply into Nokia's global market share. Our
:13:11. > :13:21.Seoul correspondent Lucy Williamson looks now at Samsung's changing
:13:21. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:26.Some things just can't be expressed with a text message. At Samsung's
:13:26. > :13:30.South Korean headquarters, there's always room for a bit of tradition,
:13:30. > :13:35.even when you're battling for the future of the global
:13:35. > :13:40.telecommunications market. Samsung employees are known as dedicated
:13:40. > :13:45.and numerous. The company has known for decades held to win them with
:13:46. > :13:49.extensive benefits, intense competition and District
:13:49. > :13:53.Conservative corporate culture. Samsung is used to competing in
:13:53. > :13:58.fast-paced markets. The company built its name in microchips, but
:13:58. > :14:02.with a reputation for being more of a fast follower, than an original
:14:02. > :14:07.creator of mobile devices, how has Samsung risen to such a superpower
:14:07. > :14:14.status? We are not following any more. I don't know whether it is a
:14:14. > :14:20.fast follower is the right word. Very often our excellence is under
:14:20. > :14:25.estimated. All of those good services can't be realised without
:14:25. > :14:29.having great hardware excellence. We feel very committed to bringing
:14:29. > :14:34.new innovation. When I say innovation, by not only mean
:14:34. > :14:38.hardware, but total solutions to market and consumers. As mobile
:14:38. > :14:42.devices become ever more aspirational, executives here are
:14:42. > :14:47.following the fortunes of the experimental galaxy note. I'd cross
:14:47. > :14:53.between a phone and a tablet. As the battle for the mobile market
:14:53. > :14:58.deepens, the focus here now is on launching and guarding Samsung's
:14:58. > :15:03.next new weapon. Here the main campus outside Seoul, security is
:15:03. > :15:07.very tight. There's an electronic ID system for vehicles and security
:15:07. > :15:12.gates in every building. But there are few things more protected here
:15:12. > :15:16.right now than this. This is Samsung's new smartphone. Do you
:15:16. > :15:20.wear it in less than a week and so well protected, it is being
:15:20. > :15:24.accompanied by 10 security guards on its way to the launch in London.
:15:24. > :15:34.For those curious about the shape of Samsung's future, if the answer
:15:34. > :15:35.
:15:35. > :15:42.could lie inside this box. But no, Banks and mining stocks weighing
:15:42. > :15:45.down the London market. Euro debt concerns heightened by the credit
:15:45. > :15:49.rating downgrade for Spain, and those unemployment numbers. The
:15:49. > :15:54.Spanish market is off, around 0.3%. Investors are also bracing
:15:54. > :15:56.themselves for an Italian debt auction on Friday. The country is
:15:56. > :15:59.offering around six billion euros in bonds, with borrowing costs
:15:59. > :16:04.expected to climb above 5.5% for the benchmark 10-year bond.
:16:04. > :16:14.You're watching BBC World News. Still to come: Europe gets set to
:16:14. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:18.send a spacecraft closer to the sun The US and Japan have reached an
:16:18. > :16:21.agreement on a historical source of friction between both countries:
:16:21. > :16:23.America's military presence on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Locals
:16:23. > :16:27.have long complained about the presence of thousands of US
:16:27. > :16:30.servicemen there. Under the terms of the deal, some of the US
:16:30. > :16:40.military contingent, around 9,000 marine, will leave Okinawa and be
:16:40. > :16:41.
:16:41. > :16:43.redeployed to Guam and other sites. Tomohiko Taniguchi, former
:16:43. > :16:46.spokesperson for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
:16:46. > :16:55.explained how the behaviour of individual US servicemen has had a
:16:55. > :16:59.sway on opinions in Okinawa. North this whole issue started when
:16:59. > :17:09.a tragic incident, involving a member of the US Marine Corps
:17:09. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:14.raping a girl in Okinawa, so people had legitimate concerns. But, more
:17:14. > :17:20.than that, there was an agreement between the two agreements, about
:17:20. > :17:25.to be implemented. Then came a new government which said something
:17:25. > :17:31.dramatically different. And then a stalemate began to be even greater.
:17:31. > :17:36.Finally, this agreement is going to give more time and space for both
:17:36. > :17:40.governments to solve these issues. For the US, there is a significant
:17:40. > :17:44.degree of opposition from the US Senate. Our Tokyo correspondent
:17:44. > :17:47.Roland Buerk says both countries are keen to reduce criticism of the
:17:47. > :17:54.bases, without damaging the ability of the US to project military power
:17:54. > :17:58.in East Asia. This alliance between Japan and the
:17:59. > :18:05.US is critical to security in the region, to the balance of power in
:18:06. > :18:10.Asia, particularly given the rise of China. Japan does rely on the
:18:10. > :18:15.United States providing basic duty umbrella, this country has its
:18:15. > :18:18.pacifist constitution, although it does have strong defence forces.
:18:19. > :18:28.The US defence posture in the Pacific will not be adversely
:18:29. > :18:30.
:18:31. > :18:35.affected, it should be improved by these changes. A The pop star Lady
:18:35. > :18:38.Gaga is due on stage in Seoul, for the start of a world tour that has,
:18:38. > :18:41.as you would expect, sparked controversy. This is the singer
:18:41. > :18:45.arriving in the country a week ago. South Korea's Media Rating Board
:18:45. > :18:47.has banned anyone under the age of 18 from attending the concert,
:18:47. > :18:51.because it says the content is unsuitable for children. Christian
:18:51. > :18:54.groups have held regular protests against the gig over the past few
:18:54. > :18:57.weeks. They have described it as "the work of Satan", and have
:18:57. > :19:00.claimed that it could taint the country's youth. Protesters have
:19:00. > :19:02.expressed particular concern over what they perceive to be the
:19:02. > :19:06.singer's "promotion of homosexuality." This is BBC World
:19:06. > :19:09.News. The headlines. A prominent dissident lawyer in
:19:09. > :19:19.China escapes from house arrest, and posts an online video demanding
:19:19. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:24.Pakistan has deported Osama Bin Laden's family, almost a year after
:19:24. > :19:27.his death. His three widows had recently completed a custodial term
:19:27. > :19:34.for living in the country illegally, a sentence they served in a house
:19:34. > :19:37.in an affluent part of Islamabad, from where Aleem Maqbool reports.
:19:37. > :19:42.Four-day Harden's London, nearly a year in Pakistani custody was about
:19:42. > :19:47.to come to an end. A sudden flurry of to duty activity and the arrival
:19:47. > :19:50.of the minibus to take them to the airport, had the curtains of the
:19:51. > :19:56.House twitching. Nothing has been seen of them publicly, and even now
:19:56. > :20:01.they bordered the two are -- behind the cover of a sheet. Then, the
:20:01. > :20:07.moment they would have been waiting for, for months. And so begins the
:20:07. > :20:12.final journey out of Pakistani for the Bin Laden family, three wives
:20:12. > :20:15.and 11 children of Osama Bin Laden. They take with them secrets of a
:20:16. > :20:21.love on the run for the world's most wanted man, secret some of
:20:21. > :20:26.which may never come to light. This passport photo is of the youngest
:20:26. > :20:32.wife, now in her early 30s. It is from leaks of her interrogations
:20:32. > :20:37.that we have the most insight into what the Al-Qaeda's did his time
:20:37. > :20:40.here. Moving from place to place in Pakistan fears before ending up in
:20:40. > :20:46.the garrison town of Abbottabad where he was killed in an operation
:20:46. > :20:50.by US Navy seals. It is sense that raid that family has been held. The
:20:50. > :20:54.Pakistani authorities will be glad to see the back of the family, and
:20:54. > :20:59.to close another chapter of what was an extremely embarrassing
:20:59. > :21:07.episode. But they may also have some anxieties about what could be
:21:07. > :21:13.said by the family now, about their time in this country.
:21:13. > :21:17.Some breaking news from Reuters, out of Syria, we understand there
:21:18. > :21:27.has been an explosion in central Damascus. There are reports of
:21:27. > :21:31.casualties. From a quote from a local TV channel. Officially, the
:21:32. > :21:35.government is backing the United Nations brokered peace plan as put
:21:35. > :21:39.forward by Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan as special envoy to the
:21:39. > :21:45.region. On the other hand, there is still a lot of trouble on the
:21:45. > :21:53.ground in places like Hama and Homs. The latest, an explosion in central
:21:53. > :21:56.Damascus. Pakistan has one of the largest
:21:56. > :22:00.populations of street children in the world. Around 1.5 half million
:22:00. > :22:03.young people live and work on the streets. More than a third of them
:22:03. > :22:06.are in Karachi, where local charities say children are targeted
:22:06. > :22:14.by criminal gangs, and forced into becoming thieves and sex workers.
:22:14. > :22:19.And they say the authorities are part of the problem.
:22:19. > :22:23.This 10-year-old boy is a scavenger. He has been sifting through rubbish
:22:23. > :22:29.all day, and shows me the best of his pickings. What things have you
:22:29. > :22:34.got here today? I collect plastic bottles, he says, and other things
:22:34. > :22:41.I can sell on to be recycled. It earns him about 100 rupees a day,
:22:41. > :22:45.around $1. It is hard work but I get money at the end of the day. I
:22:45. > :22:49.don't take drugs like the other street children, I just like eating
:22:49. > :22:54.biscuits. I would like to play football and cricket with the other
:22:54. > :23:02.children. But people say we are dirty. They chase us away. It makes
:23:02. > :23:09.me feel bad. He has only been on the street a few weeks. He says he
:23:09. > :23:13.ran away from home, after being repeatedly beaten by his father.
:23:13. > :23:17.Grinding poverty forces kids such as these to flee their homes and
:23:17. > :23:23.they end up in places such as this shrine where they can get free food
:23:23. > :23:29.one living on the pavements outside. And help is out there. But it is
:23:29. > :23:35.limited to a few sessions, like this one. Conducted by a local
:23:35. > :23:43.charity, it teaches Charles basic skills. Many are trying to escape
:23:43. > :23:49.from a life of prostitution. This centre is also run for street
:23:49. > :23:55.children. The leader says policies are a major part of the problem.
:23:55. > :23:58.This is not providing protection to children, police are providing
:23:58. > :24:06.protection and to the criminals and abusers, they have their own
:24:06. > :24:10.financial benefits in children's activities and getting cuts from
:24:10. > :24:15.criminal gangs. That is why the police are not helping the children.
:24:15. > :24:18.The police deny these allegations. They admit though they do not have
:24:18. > :24:23.enough resources to provide adequate protection for the
:24:23. > :24:29.children. As the day ended, this young boy returns to the men who
:24:29. > :24:34.will take care of him. His future looks grim. He could end up like
:24:34. > :24:39.these stories, getting high by sniffing glue. Their young lives
:24:39. > :24:44.twisted by abuse and neglect. It is claimed most will die before their
:24:44. > :24:47.18th birthday. Europe is to launch a daring
:24:47. > :24:51.mission to study the sun. A space craft, called the Solar Orbiter,
:24:51. > :24:58.will lift off later this decade, and move even closer to the sun
:24:58. > :25:03.than the planet Mercury, which orbits the star.
:25:03. > :25:07.It is that the centre of everything we know about our solar system, a
:25:07. > :25:11.ferocious ball of fire, that supply is the basic energy that drives
:25:11. > :25:14.club on earth. Down the years, we have launched an armada of
:25:14. > :25:20.satellite to photograph it and understand its temperamental
:25:20. > :25:24.behaviour. Now comes the most audacious effort to, it is called
:25:24. > :25:29.Solar Orbiter, developed by the European Space Agency. It will try
:25:29. > :25:32.to get as close as current technology will allow. Boast of the
:25:32. > :25:38.spacecraft we have launched to study the Sun do so from just above
:25:38. > :25:43.the earth. But that is a long way from the staff. 149 million
:25:43. > :25:49.kilometres in fact. But Solar Orbiter will manoeuvre itself
:25:49. > :25:53.inside the orbits of Venus and Mercury to 42 million kilometres
:25:53. > :25:58.from the Sun, NO-SPACE Croft has been so close, and it will need a
:25:58. > :26:02.special heatshield to survive to pictures approaching 600 degrees.
:26:02. > :26:05.For scientists, Solar Orbiter will enable them to trace and have
:26:05. > :26:09.stunned the flow of energy that starts at the Sun and booze out
:26:09. > :26:15.across the solar system. Much of that energy is carried by magnetic
:26:15. > :26:19.fields in huge burst of charged particles. Solar Orbiter is special
:26:19. > :26:24.because it tells us many things at the same time. A mission would have
:26:24. > :26:29.a small set of to stoat but Solar Orbiter has 10 instruments. We can
:26:29. > :26:33.take images, and also a sense the environment around the spacecraft
:26:33. > :26:36.which is ultimately coming from it. The European Space Agency has
:26:37. > :26:46.signed a contract with British industry to start developing the
:26:46. > :26:53.spacecraft. Engineers expect to have it ready for launch in 2017.