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Police investigating alleged corruption in India's coal mining | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
industry carry out raids across the country. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Who is in and who is out, Britain's Prime Minister shakes up his | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Government with his first Cabinet reshuffle. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Help needed fighting the flapelts as Portugal appeals to its | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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neighbours to tackling dozens of forest fires. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Another day of disruption for Lufthansa as cabin crew strike. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Samsung is to inspect its Chinese suppliers after one manufacturer is | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Police in India have carried out raids in ten cities, as part of an | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
investigation into alleged corruption in the allocation of | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
coal mining concessions. The Central Bureau of Investigation | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
said it had filed cases against five mining companies and that a | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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number of employees had been charged. This Is based on a report | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
from the Government's auditor which said the mining concessions which | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
were handed out over a period between 2004 and 2009 were handed | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
out in a manner that wasn't transparent. The allocations were | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
made to companies, some of whom may not have had the ability to mine | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
coal. More importantly, the rates at which they were given out were | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
well below market rates and the allegation is the Government could | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
have lost $33 billion. The raids that began today which were carried | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
out by the central bureau of investigation took place in 30 | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
locations across ten cities including Delhi, Calcutta and | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Mumbai. The five companies that are are targeted are small companies | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and the suggestion is these are companies may may have only been | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
set up before the mining rights were handed out and some may have | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
sold their rights for massive profits. The Opposition are trying | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
to pin the responsibility for this on the Prime Minister himself? | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Yes, that's right. Manmohan Singh the Prime Minister was in charge of | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
the coal ministry at the time the sales were made and the main | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
opposition party believes since he was the man in charge, he needs to | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
take the blame, he needs to step down. The Prime Minister, no | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Government official, has been named in this report. He himself has | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
denied any wrongdoing and rejected the the calls for his resignation. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
For the past few weeks, every session of the national Parliament | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
has been disrupted by the Opposition which says that unless | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
the Prime Minister steps down and an independent investigation | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
carried out, they will not let Parliament function. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
How does this this feed into the problem of perception of corruption | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
which gripped India for a long time now? | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
Well, this is a very familiar tale now. A massive corruption scandal | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
hits the Government which is forced on the defensive. We have had so | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
many of them now. The telecoms scandal, the scandal over | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
concession and rights during the Commonwealth Games and now this one. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Allegations that favours were handed out. A lot of money lost by | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the Government. This one in terms of its scale is quite big and given | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
its timing, the Opposition sense thats Government is on -- senses | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
that the Government is on the back foot and maybe it can push for an | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
early election. David Cameron has been shaking up | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
his Government. The first Cabinet reshuffle since he became Prime | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Minister. All morning ministers have been coming and going from | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
Number Ten, Downing Street. Joining me from our Central London studios | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
is Naomi Grimly. There has been a controversial shake-up of the NHS | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
by Andrew Lansley and he is out and Jeremy Hunt is in? I should start | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
by saying this isn't a really major reshuffle. The major offices of | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
State like the Foreign Secretary, the Home Secretary, and the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, they remain the same, but he has moved | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
his Health Secretary after a really stormy passage of a Health Bill | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
through Parliament which did the Conservatives a lot of damage. He | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
put in his place up-to-date. That isn't without controversy. Up-to- | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
date was a minister who got got mired in the phone hacking scandal. | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
He was accused of being too close to Rupert Murdoch. There will be | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
eyebrows raised at that appointment. We don't know what happened at | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
transport. Justine Greening the minister, that is interesting | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
because it could change policy on whether Heathrow gets a third | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
runway? That's right. There has has been a lot in the press about | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
whether David Cameron may do alU- turn about airport expansion, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
particularly Heathrow Airport. There has been a battle running for | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
years about whether there should be an extra runway added there and his | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Transport Secretary, who we think is leaving that post, had a | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
constituency in South West London underneath the flightpath so it | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
looks like he moved her and many people are speculating as to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
whether that means that David Cameron will now let Heathrow be | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
expanded. I should point out that David Cameron doesn't really like | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
doing reshuffles. This is the first rearrangement of ministers since he | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
came to power. So he is doing it almost reluctantly but the reason | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
is because he feels the Government needs to be rejuvenated. The | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
opinion polls are not good reading for him and he is hoping he can | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
inject fresh blood into the Government and get Government back | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
on course. Thank you very much indeed. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
George Osborne Was booed at the Paralympics last night giving medal | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
away. So the Government aware of needing something of a fresh start. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
We will, of course, keep you across those developments. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Water bombing planes from France and Spain have been sent to | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Portugal to help fight forest fires. The request was made after 3,000 | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
firefighters failed to contain blazes. Officials told the BBC that | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
the situation has eased. Up to 3,000 firefighters have been | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
engaged in battling the latest wildfires in Portugal. 20 separate | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
fires broke out on Sunday fuelled by strong winds and high | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
temperatures and weather conditions are expected to remain the same | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
same for the next few days. It is worrying for local residents whose | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
homes are in the path of the flames. There are a lot of people in this | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
area with many houses near here. There are a lot of small villages | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
throughout this region. On Monday this helicopter crashed | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
as it was trying to douse the flames. Now Spain offered two | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
firefighting aircraft and two more are being deployed from France | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
through the European Union. TRANSLATION: It was time to | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
implement the European Union's civil protection mechanism. We did | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
it as a prevention due to the to the present situation and taking | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
into account the weather forecast for the coming days. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Firefighters force their way into a burning house. It is more than a | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
threat to life and property. Elsewhere, a factory has been | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
destroyed. On Monday a man in his 50s was found burnt to death. He | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
was trying to save his chicken farm. The wildfires come after many | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
others this summer. Over 70,000 hectares have been destroyed in | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
fires this year and police say they have detained around 40 suspected | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
arsonists. There has been a lot of disruption | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
for passengers going through Lufthansa's airports in Germany? | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Yes, they have they have they have striked again. The first strike was | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
in Germany. About 200 flights on Friday were cancelled. We are | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
expecting huge disruptions today, but they have upped the ante the | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
union and the cabin crew because they have targeted Frankfurt | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
airport and in 20 minutes time, they are targeting Munich which is | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
is Lufthansa's second biggest airport. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
So thousands affected here? Absolutely. This stems from a long | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
discussion, I I believe the talks have been going on for 13 months. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
The cabin crew who haven't received a pay rise are asking for a 5% | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
increase backdated to January this year. The airline is going, "No, we | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
put an offer on the table of 3.5 percent." Let's listen to the | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
reaction. TRANSLATION: I saw it on my phone, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
my flight has been cancelled. I have to get to the United States, | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
we have a big conference there. I don't know what will happen. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
I think Lufthansa won't give in because they would have done it | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
already after the strike last week. I have the impression both parties | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
want to take it out on the passengers to show their power and | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
it is a shame because it is not our fault if an employer and employees | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
can't a I gree. -- agree. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Let's go to Berlin and speak to Stephen Evans. Stephen, good to see | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
you again, I want to talk about the passengers and the feeling on the | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
ground. They seemed to have upped the ante, the union and the cabin | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
crew. How disruptive are we expecting these to be? Pretty | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
disruptive. We had a strike on Friday, single airport, 28,000 | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
passengers affected. We have three airports today so it will be more. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Both sides are serious about this. As you say, it is a pay dispute, | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
but actually the background is about restructuring an airline. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Lufthansa is trying to compete with Emirates on the long haul routes to | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Asia and with budget airlines in Europe, in a market which is | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
growing, not at all, at best, shrinking it other parts of Europe, | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
it wants a new budget airline for example. The cabin staff feel that | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
they will be casual employees in the new budget airline therefore, | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
their pay and conditions will be squeezed. So it might ostensibly | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
about pay, but it is about more than that. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
You mentioned the tough competition facing Lufthansa and the national | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
carriers. But what are you hearing on on the ground. Lufthansa is an | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
airline that has $1 billion in the bank. That's a lot of money and the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
union which have told me on Friday they have a pretty big car chest. | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
If nobody budges, this could go on for sometime? Yes. Both sides are | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
saying they are determined, but that's the way industrial disputes | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
are. Both sides, I think, feel this isn't just another industrial | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
dispute which they can afford to lose. There are bigger things at | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
stake. The next move would probably be to escalate the thing from | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
strikes taking place in parts of a day to all day strikes. The airline | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
on the other hand lost substantial sums of money at the beginning of | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
the year. It badly needs to restructure it feels so it too has | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
a big stake in winning the thing. There is no sign to sum-up of this | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
dispute, of this strike today being the end of the process. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Well, all eyes and ears on that. Stephen, thank you very much indeed. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Stephen Evans joining us live from Berlin. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Samsung will inspect its Chinese suppliers. 250 firms to see whether | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
they comply with its labour policies. It comes after a US | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
campaign group accused money manufacturer of using child labour. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
The South Korean company said an internal audit didn't find anyone | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
younger than 16 working at the company, but there were problems | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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with working conditions. They have expressed concern that a | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
Samsung supplier, of phones and DVD players, HEQ Electronics employed | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
seven children younger than 16 in the factory. Samsung officials said | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
they did their investigation and and they found no under-age workers, | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
but identified several instances of poor management and improper safety | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
measures. The Korean company warned HEG to improve its working | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
conditions or else its contract would be terminated. | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
There is another story with Samsung because two of its new televisions | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
have gone missing en route to Berlin to a big technology trade | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
fair. Lost in transit? Yes. Or lost in translation. The German police | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
and South Korean police are investigating. They think it could | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
be industrial espionage because only a handful of companies that | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
make televisions have this technology. | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
Thank you, Aaron. Still to come. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
What is it like for a blind person to navigate their way across the | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been found guilty of murdering a 15- | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
year-old girl after a dispute on Facebook. In court, Jinhau K was | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
said to have a serious behavioural disorder with psychopathic traits. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
He received the maximum sentence for a juvenile of one year. The | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
victim's father said the sentence was too low and called the Dutch | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
justice system "powerless". Joyce Hau, seen here on the left, | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
was just 15 when she was repeatedly stabbed on her own doorstep. Her | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
killer was a boy the same age who had never even met her. The reason? | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Joyce and her friend, a 16-year-old known only as Polly W, have fallen | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
out over alleged comments the victim had made on Facebook. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Prosecutors said the killer, a Jinhau K, had been instructed by | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
others to murder a teenager, a crime for which she received the | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
maximum sentence for a juvenile. has killed a 15-year-old girl and | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
he has attempted manslaughter on her father, and these are very | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
serious facts. That is why the court is saying the maximum | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
sentence is justified in this case. But in Dutch law, under sixteens | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
cannot serve longer than one year in jail. The killer will then spend | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
a further three years in psychiatric care. The court said he | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
had his serious behavioural disorder with psychopathic traits. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
But the victim's dad said the sentence was too lenient. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
TRANSLATION: And I am not happy with the one-year sentence for the | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
crime that took my daughter's live, but that is written in the law, so | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
that is powerless, the justice is powerless. The crime has shocked | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
the Netherlands, where it has sparked fierce debate over the role | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
of social media in violent crime. But exactly why the attack took | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
place remains unanswered. The victim's friend Polly and her 17- | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
year-old boyfriend are accused of ordering and planning the murder. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
They will appear in court next month. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
Tuesday marks the second anniversary of a devastating 7.1 | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
magnitude earthquake which struck New Zealand's South Island. There | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
were no fatalities, but Christchurch, the country's second- | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
largest city, suffered serious damage. Then a strong aftershock | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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followed five months later, killing 185 people. Much more on all other | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
news on the website. This is BBC World News. The | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
headlines: Police investigating alleged | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
corruption in India's coal mining industry carry out raids across the | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
country. Britain's Prime Minister shakes up | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
his government with his first cabinet reshuffle. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
The race is hotting up for the US Presidential election, with the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Democrat National Convention kicking off in North Carolina later | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
today. With opinion polls currently too close to call, Barack Obama | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
will be hoping it will help push him above his rival Mitt Romney in | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
the race for the White House. From Charlotte in North Carolina, Steve | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
Kingstone reports. In this convention season, the | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
weather is proving strictly impartial. A A deluge as Democrats | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
arrived in Charlotte, a week after a tropical storm washed out their | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Republican rivals. This city is heavily and is a be policed. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Protesters of various persuasions are expected to make their presence | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
felt. The man of the moment is touring the swing states that will | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
decide his future. For a partisan crowd in are higher, the President | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
mocked the speech of his opponent - - a higher. Mitt Romney had the | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
chance to let you in on the secret source of job creation. He did not | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
offer you a single new idea. It was just a retread of the same old | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years. | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
Fighting talk. But for millions of Americans, this historic presidency | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
has been a wild a ride as the attractions at this Labour they | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
fared just outside Charlotte. Under Barack Obama, unemployment in North | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Carolina has soared to over 11%. It is a state he won by a whisker four | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
years ago and it is split whether he deserves more time. It hasn't | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
made a big impression on me that he has really done anything to help | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
the average person. He didn't start this best to begin with, so four es | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
is not enough time for him to fix it -- years. So I think he needs | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
more time. Give him more time will be the theme of tonight's headline | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
speaker. In rehearsal, Michelle Obama has been finding her bearings | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
on stage. Had natural warmth as a plus for a husband who is often | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
seen as cool and distant. When Barack Obama speaks here on | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Thursday night, he will acknowledge the pain of the past four years, | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
but he will also warned that under Mitt Romney, things would be even | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
worse, especially for the middle class. It is essentially a negative | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
message, a long way from Hope and change. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Four British Christians who claim they lost their jobs as a result of | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
discrimination against their beliefs are taking their cases to | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
the European Court of Human Rights today. The court must decide | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
whether their right to act in line with those beliefs extends to | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
wearing a cross at work against company policy or refusing to | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
provide services to gay people. 15 police officers have been | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
injured in a second night of violence in Belfast in Northern | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Ireland. Three of them were taken to hospital. Officers fired baton | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
rounds and used water cannon when they came under attack from rioters | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
throwing petrol bombs and bricks. The violence began over the weekend | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
when pro-British Protestants in the city attacked an Irish Republican | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
parade Another night in north Belfast and | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
another riot. Like on Sunday evening, the police came under | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
sustained attack as they tried to keep loyalist and republican crowds | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
apart. The trouble was in the same place, the Carlisle Circus area, | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
I'd be a mile from Belfast city centre. 47 police officers were | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
hurt on Sunday. More were injured last night. They were hit with | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
stones, bottles, bricks, golf balls, petrol bombs and fireworks. Police | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
responded with water cannon and they fired a number of plastic | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
rounds. Tensions have been simmering since July, when a | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
loyalist band was accused of playing his sectarian June outside | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
a Catholic Church. There were a number of clashes last month, but | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
nothing on this scale. Politicians across Northern Ireland have | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
condemned the violence, but they haven't found a way of stopping it. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Prince Harry has made his first public appearance since those | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
photographs were published of him naked at a party in Las Vegas. He's | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
attended an awards ceremony organised by the WellChild charity | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
to support seriously ill children and their medical staff. This | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
report from our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell contains some | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
flash photography. This was Harry attempting to | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
restore his image so it is closer to what people expect to see the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Royal Family doing and away from the seediness of that late night in | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
Las Vegas. He has been patron of the charity WellChild for five | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
years, it recognises the courage of children and their carers who are | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
faced with medical adversity. At a reception, Harry did what he always | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
did well, chatting easily with some of the youngsters. And at an awards | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
ceremony, he presented the most inspirational Child Award to two 5 | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
euros, Alexander Lurgan who suffers from leukaemia, and hope Hillis, | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
who has had more than 50 operations -- two five year-olds. It was | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
difficult, Harry said, to find the words to describe how inspiring he | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
finds this. It is you who represents the very best of Britain. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Your spirit triumphs to adversity and makes our everyday worries seem | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
very, very insignificant. It had been an opportunity for Harry to | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
demonstrate the side of him that perhaps people most admire. A | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
caring prince with an easy manner. That and his ongoing military | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
commitments as a helicopter pilot well, his advisers have, or sooner | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
raised or at least soften the images of a weekend away that got | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
out of hand. The Fuego volcano in central | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
Guatemala spewed ash at least, to into the air yesterday. There have | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
been lava flows down the east and west of the volcano and authorities | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
say the ash could affect air traffic. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
For blind and visually impaired fans making their way to the | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Paralympic Games this week, navigating London's transport | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
network could seem quite daunting. To get an understanding of what | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
it's like to make that journey, the BBC World Service's Mani Djazmi - | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
who's been blind since childhood - travelled from the centre of the | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
city to the Paralympic Park. Welcome to the heart of the | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Paralympic city. Usually teeming with tourists, but for the moment, | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
many of these are going east, where the Paralympic Games are taking | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
place. Of course, for the Paralympic athletes, getting around | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
the venues and the village is fairly straightforward. They get | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
chauffeured to wherever they need to be. But what if you are a | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
disabled fan and you want to get to the Games by yourself? For me as a | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
blind person, my journey will always start with my favourite mode | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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of transport in London, the tube. The first thing I need to do is | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
find a helpful member of staff. Would you mind showing me to the | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
top of the Victoria northbound escalator, please? Of course. This | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
way. That is very kind, thanks a lot for | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
your help. Cheers. You can ask members of staff to go | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
all the way to the platform with you, but I know this station really | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
well, so I will make my own way there. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
It is all very well for me to swan around the place like Ioan it, but | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
that is because I am very familiar with here. Just close your eyes and | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
imagine you are a blind person who has come here for the first time. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
You emerge onto the platform, there are people everywhere, there is the | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
noise of the train, you don't care how far away from the age you are, | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
you don't care who you could walk into. Every step is a voyage of | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
discovery. -- From the Edge. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
We are off at King's Cross. Three stops. One of the best things about | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
the underground is the announcements, because even if you | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
don't quite know where you are, what you have lost your bearings, | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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you have a chance of getting off at Backs a lot for your help. Have a | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
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good day. -- thanks a lot. Is this And here I am at the Paralympic | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Park. You may have noticed that the journey getting here was pretty | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
straightforward and that may have had something to do with the fact | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
that we alerted Transport for London, so that their staff were | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
perhaps a little bit extra prepared for make and not every day is that | :26:38. | :26:41. |