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Stark warning from the United Nations that the numbers of | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
refugees fleeing Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Spaniards gripped by recession and severe unemployment are bracing | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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themselves for a new austerity budget. A Chinese dissident loses | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
his final appeal against a tax evasion fine. He says it's | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
politically motivated. Welcome to BBC World News. Also | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
coming up: a car powered by wind turbines has sped into the history | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
books after break the UK land speed record for an electric car. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
And it will either draw you in or frighten you off, but yodelling is | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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on the comeback trail in the Hello. Thanks for being with us. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
The UN's refugee agency says the number of those fleeing the | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
violence Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year. The agency | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
warned that the UN was running out of time to stem the violence. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Around 300,000 have already escaped to neighbouring Jordan, Iraq, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Lebanon and Turkey. The organisation is appealing for half | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
a billion dollars to help support the refugees. I'm joined on the | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
line from Geneva by theunun's regional coordinator for Syrian | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
refugees. Thank you very much for joining us. First of all, how do | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
you arrive at that figure because it is a huge number. This figure is | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
a humanitarian figure. It's based on trends, the fact that during | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
August we have had an average of 3,000 refugees crossing the border. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
This September we continued to have 2,000 crossing the border, so we're | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
forecasting to continue to receive and help Syrian refugees as they | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
cross, but we're also seeing an increasing number of refugees who | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
are already in Jordan or Lebanon who are are now coming forward to | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
register because the vulnerability increases they need assistance. We | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
want to make sure that in 52 organisations, NGOs we have put | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
together our planning to make sure we have the resources, the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
humanitarian assistance to provide the very bare minimum to help the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Syrian refugees when they cross the border. Right. We have pictures | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
here at the moment of thousands at border crossings trying to get help | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
of course. Give us an idea as to how well those refugees are being | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
dealt with, being sheltered now, and perhaps give us an idea as to | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
how much work you've got to do. First of all, the four neighbouring | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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countries, of Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, needs to have an open | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
border policy. It will help the neighbouring countries and host | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
countries to help the refugees as they are. At the moment we have | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
moved into an emergency mode. We have mobilised relief teams on the | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
basis on a 24-hour basis. We have relief duty workers who go on duty | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
at night to help the refugees when they arrive. The objective is to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
make sure every refugee has shelter. They're given medical emergency | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
assistance, food, water, the basic assistance. Three-quarters of those | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
crossing are women and children. Half of them are children, so we're | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
seeing primarily families who are crossing the borders in significant | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
numbers, and we're - unfortunately, we have seen a deterioration during | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
the last two months, and we want to be sure we're ready to have the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
resources to continue supporting them. Obviously, the movement of | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
this number of people is bound to bring tensions to the countries, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
isn't it? I suppose the problem the UN has as you put out this appeal | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
for more money, it's the UN itself under fire for being unable to | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
forge any positive position to try and stem the violence. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
humanitarian actors, our focus is on the humanitarian response. We | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
hope very much to see a political solution, but obviously in the | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
absence of this, those heroin consequences are dramatic and | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
deteriorating as we speak, so the impact inside the country is | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
reflected very clearly with thousands of people who are | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
crossing the border. Thank you very much. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The Spanish government is meeting to put the final touches to a new | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
round of austerity measures. Details of the new budget are due | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
to be announced to the public in just over an hour, but measures are | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
expected to include higher taxes and changes to pensions. The Prime | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
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Minister is already facing unrest on the streets as Spaniards begin a | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
a third day of protests against further austerity. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
The BBC's Tom Burridge is in Madrid with details of those budget | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
announcements. If you believe the rumours, there are going to be deep | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
cuts across the board, maybe up to 40 billion euros. We're going to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
see infrastructure spending slashed, possibly plan to privatise the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
railways. Spain has the biggest or most impressive network of high- | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
speed rail in Europe, so it is sort of closely guarded by a lot of | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
people here in Spain, and civil servants will have their wages | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
frozen for a third year running, but Spain is in trouble not only, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
you know, under pressure from the markets and from its partners in | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the eurozone, but its general finances are poor. It's in a | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
deepening recession. Of course it's got record levels of high | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
unemployment, and those are contributing to a decrease in | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
revenue for the Government. The Government is desperately trying to | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
balance its budget because it needs to do so to convince its eurozone | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
partners in the market, but that is ever harder because of the economic | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
conditions that exist here in Spain, the record unemployment, the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
recession. Therefore, within that context we're going to see yet more | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
forced austerity cuts later today. I want to stay with the crisis for | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
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Violent protests across Greece on Wednesday against the austerity | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
programme already in place, in fact, and the demonstrations really part | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
of the 24-hour general strike, and that was the first on that scale | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
since the new Conservative coalition Government came to power | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
in June. Let's put all of this together. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Aaron is with me now having a look at the business. Spain is the focus | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
today. The epicentre. If you've got the sort of pictures we have seen | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
on the streets of Madrid and now talk about more belt tightening, it | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
all goes one way, and that's just downhill for the Spaniards, isn't | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
it? Absolutely. The draconian budget we're expecting - you say | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
more belt tightening - it's going to be about a $50 million budget | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
including the structural reforms but all eyes - if I was a market I | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
wouldn't be able to talk to you because I would be holding my | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
breath. That's what the markets are doing. They're watching very, very | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
closely. But the markets are a funny old world because take a look | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
at them. They're up. This is after yesterday. They had their biggest | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
They're up on the hope this budget will nudge Madrid towards accepting | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
a full rescue package. If it accepts a full rescue package, then | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
it would go down the line of launching the European Central | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
Bank's bond buying programme where they'd buy up the debt - the debt | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
from these troubled economies in the hopes of bringing down the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
yield - the borrowing cost because Spain as of yesterday - Spain's | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
borrowing costs surpassed that 6% level, again, getting into the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
danger zone, the levels where they become unsteabl sustainable. It is | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the markets - let's not can kid ourselves - that can drive these | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
economies into having to ask for a bail-out. Let's listen to Jane | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Foley from Rabobank. She explained why this budget for Spain is so | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
I think if you're a Spanish person, particularly one of the unemployed | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
in Spain, it will certainly look very tough. Of course, one of the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
reasons this budget is expected to be tough is because the Government | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
is expected to put in place measures that'll be acceptable to | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
the IMF, to the ECB and theic toca if they were then to follow -- | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Troika if they were to ask for a bail-out. Normally when a country | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
asks for a bail-out, the Troika come back and say, yes, but you | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
need to do this, this, and this. Spain need to present this budget | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
as a fait accompli. Then they don't need to suffer if they ask for a | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
bail-out as expected. Now one European industry that's | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
been particularly hard hit by the eurozone crisis is the car industry. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
From today top bosses are getting together at the Paris Motor Show, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
the world's biggest. There'll be plenty of shiny new cars to look at | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
- but behind the glitzy faade there's plenty to worry about. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Europe is the worst performing market globally, China is slowing | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
down, and automakers are responding by cutting costs and jobs. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Germany's Daimler, the makers of Mercedes luxury cars, warned | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
earlier this month its annual profit would be lower than expected, | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
because of deteriorating market conditions in Europe and | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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intensified competition in China. Speaking to me from the Motor Show | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
was the Chief Executive Deeter Tsetche. China's forecasts are | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
coming down, but the growth rate has diminished. We expect China to | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
continue to grow perhaps at a somewhat lower level. This attracts | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
all of us, including Mercedes. That's one of the reasons why we | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
somewhat lowered our guidance for the remainder of the year. Talking | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
of China and Asia in general - I know in China I was reading - | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
correct me if I'm wrong, that Mercedes was lagging behind its | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
competitors. That was more to do with production changeover or | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
difficulties. Are you going to continue to increase exposure in | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
China and Asia? We had five years of great developments in China. We | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
were the latest to come among the premier manufacturers. We came up | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
to the level of BMW. The last 12 plus months we lost a little bit of | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
this strong momentum, and we're reestablishing part of it because | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
of lack of production. We have other homemade issues which we're | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
addressing. We're clearly on a plan of growth for the future. We were | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
at capacity. We're at capacity in China, and we're definitely betting | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
on further growth and success in China. It's also an interesting | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
comparison when you look at the US car market crisis in America in | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
2008. That crisis was sharp and dramatic where some are saying the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
European slump is proving to be a long-distance marathon. Where do | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
you see the finish line? I mean, we in this industry since 125 years, | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
and we intend to stay there another 125 years at least, so there is no | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
finish line, but in this industry you never can lean back. You have | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
to improve your efficiency. We have come up with exciting, great new | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
products all the time. Of course, the viewerment always presents you | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
sometimes with more tailwinds, sometimes more head winds. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Altogether, the economy has become more volatile, so flexibility is | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the name of the game. We do believe we're very well positioned in this | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
thing that generally the premium manufacturers have a better or a | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
more supportive business model to succeed in the future than the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
volume manufacturers. There you go. There is the boss of Daimler trying | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
to remain optimistic. I am going to talk to the boss of Nissan. There | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
is a lot going on. Thank you very much indeed for all of that. Thanks | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
for watching BBC World News. Still to come, we have the latest for you | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
on the trial of a British woman in Bali. She faces execution if | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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convicted of smuggling cocaine. It's not what you know. It's what | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
you don't know that matters - at least when you are the leader of | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
your country. That was the lesson Britain's Prime Minister, David | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Cameron, learned when he appeared on the hugely popular Late Show | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
with David Letterman in New York. He was challenged on a number of | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
key issues of British history and geography, but just when he seemed | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
to be winning,.he blew it. Our deputy political editor James | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
Landale has more. APPLAUSE | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
There were no questions about Andrew Mitchell or Boris Johnson or | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
the state of the coalition. Instead, when David Cameron appeared on the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Late Show with David Letterman in New York last night, he found | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
himself being closely interrogated about British history and culture. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
He revealed one or two gaps in his general knowledge. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Do you mind if I ask you a lot of dumb American questions? Fire away. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
He was able to explain the differences between the nations of | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
the UK, the size of the population, the extent of the British Empire | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
and the date and place where Magna Carta was signed, but much to his | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
embarrassment, Mr Cameron was unable to say what Magna Carta | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
meant in English. The literal translation is what? Again, you're | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
testing me - LAUGHTER | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Boy, it would be good if you knew this. It would. It's good for the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
American public to be able to see him. I don't think they know that | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
much about him. I didn't have a view of him before this. I liked | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
him. I thought he was a good guy. What the three million Americans | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
watching made of it is not known. When David Cameron returns home | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
later this week, he'll probably be hoping the border staff don't ask | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
The huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra back in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
April may signal the creation of a new tectonic plate boundary. This | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
is according to scientists writing in the journal, Nature. They are | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
suggesting major changes are taking place on the ocean floor which will | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
eventually split the Indo- Australian played into two. It | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
won't be happening soon, this kind of split can take a few million | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
years. We can go back further than that now. Astronomers producing | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
some extraordinary views of the universe. This image from the | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Hubble space telescope, showing galaxies stretching back almost to | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
the time when the first stars began to shine. Because the light has | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
come from so far away, it shows the universe as it was 13.2 billion | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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The headlines. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, has given a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
warning that they could be as many as 700,000 Syrian refugees in | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
neighbouring countries by the end of the year. Protesters have been | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
massing around the parliament building in Madrid as Spain | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
prepares to publish its austerity budget for the next year. The | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has lost his final appeal in a tax | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
evasion find which he says is politically motivated. The artist | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
is going to have to pay out $2.4 million, following the ruling by an | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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Ai Weiwei says this was a case he never believed he could win. During | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
the entire legal process, says the artist, he didn't see the evidence | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
against him. After the final appeal he addressed journalists outside | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
the court. TRANSLATION: People say, you knew | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
the result of this from the beginning. That is true. The result | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
today is not the result that should have been given. China should be | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
changing every day but in truth, this is not happening. We are still | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
living under a Watt and legal system. This system cannot possibly | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
have impartiality or justice. Weiwei is China's most famous | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
living artist, but he's also an outspoken critic of the ruling | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Communist Party. His high-profile case is carefully watched to see | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
how China's leaders choose to deal with dissent. Last year, he was | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
secretly detained for 81 days, sparking international condemnation. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Following his release his firm was charged with tax evasion. He | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
believes the charges were politically motivated, designed to | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
silence him. At earlier hearings the authorities wouldn't allow him | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
to attend proceedings so instead his wife attended on his behalf. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
But now he has lost his final appeal and will need to pay a | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
massive fine. Ai Weiwei has labelled China's legal system as | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
backward and barbaric. He says that he won't pay the outstanding tax | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
find against him, and that is a move that once again is likely to | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
put him on collision course with the authorities. The trial of a 56- | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
year-old British woman accused of drug smuggling in Bali has been | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
postponed. Lindsey Sandiford was in court today and told a judge she | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
had yet to appoint a lawyer. Mrs Sandiford was arrested in May, | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
charged with facilitating the sale of more than five grams of drugs. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
That is a crime punishable by death in Indonesia. Three other Britons | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
living in Bali have also been arrested and are facing trial on | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
similar charges. Lindsay Sandiford is thought to be at the very heart | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
of this case. The 56-year-old housewife from Gloucestershire was | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
arrested in May in Bali airport, after customs officials said they | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
found 4.8 kilograms of cocaine stuffed into the lining of her | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
suitcase. After her arrest she is understood to have participated in | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
a sting operation which led to the subsequent arrest of three other | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
British nationals living on the island of Bali, all of whom are | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
facing drug-related charges. Covering her head with a bright red | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
sarong and shielding her face from the glare of television cameras, | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Mrs Sandiford made her first court appearance this Thursday in Bali, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
but barely five minutes after the court session began she told judges | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
that she has yet to appoint a lawyer. Now the trial has been | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
postponed to next week. If she is found guilty of the charges that | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Indonesian prosecutors are hoping to find against her, she could face | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the death penalty. Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drug laws | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
in the world - the harshest punishment is the death penalty but | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
it is infrequently applied to foreigners. Burma's President will | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
address the United Nations later in the day. His speech coming as the | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
United States has announced it is lifting its ban on the import of | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
goods from Burma. The opposition party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
welcomed that lifting of the ban. The West relaxed its financial | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
restrictions after the country held by-elections earlier in the year. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
This is how the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, justified | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
the move. The United States is taking the next step in normalising | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
our commercial relationship. We hope this world provide more | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
opportunities for the people to sell their goods into our market. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Our correspondent has been talking to the Speaker of the Burmese | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Parliament. He was one of the top generals and the old regime. We | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
began by asking about the state of relations between the government | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
and the opposition parties there. TRANSLATION: I had good relations | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
with Aung San Suu Kyi. What happened in the past is over, it's | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
finished. I don't see any point dwelling on it. Because she also | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
loves her country, her people, we have the same intentions. She was | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
locked up for many years. The former ruler, who was very close to | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
you, could barely speak her name. Doesn't it feel strange now to be | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
working so closely with somebody who was once viewed by the | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
government you were in as an enemy? TRANSLATION: It is not strange for | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
me. I believe this is something we need to deal with the present | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
situation. That is why I'm collaborating with her very closely. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Though Aung San Suu Kyi is not my enemy, and I'm sure I am not her | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
enemy, too, we have the same ambition, and that is to serve the | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
interests of our nation and people. We are colleagues. You were a | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
senior figure in the old regime. Why did it take so long for change | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
to start and why was the old system so harsh towards its opponents, so | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
repressive? Yes, it has taken some time to change our country, but it | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
was like that because of the prevailing situation at that time. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
I believe the problem of the armed groups was an important factor. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Although the government wanted to establish a multi-party system and | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
a market economy, due to the situation then it was not possible. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
We've got a new record for you. The UK land speed record which has just | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
been set as the world's first electric supercar broke the | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
existing market the track and the North of England. This is the scene. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
This is an airfield near York when Nemesis, that is the name of the | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
car, is thought to have reached almost 150 mph. Our correspondent | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
is there. He spoke to the driver straight after the record attempt. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Nick Ponting here, who used so was the driver of Nemesis. He's been | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
waiting all morning patiently because we were waiting for some | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
safety staff to arrive. How was that? Brilliant. The car felt | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
really good. We are going to wait to see the calculations but I feel | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
fairly confident. Hopefully we've done it. I don't know whether you | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
are happy to give the game away, but what sort of speeds do you | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
think you got? A in the car it was 153. As long as the calculations | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Stack, we've done it. I'm looking across, I'm not sure if they are | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
quite right yet. We talked to you earlier about the difference | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
between driving an electric car and the type of racing cars you | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
normally drive. You don't get the role of the engine, of course. To | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
you, as the driver, how different is it and why does it feel | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
different? The acceleration is phenomenal. The quicker it goes, | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
the quicker it accelerates. It is fantastic. From 100-150, it feels | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
you are accelerating the same as from nought to 60. The car felt | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
brilliant, the most stable it's felt. It was exciting to watch. | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
Let's hope that the congratulations. They've done it, have they? Yes, | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
they've done it. Congratulations, you've broken the record. That is | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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the UK electric car record. 148.490 mph. -- 148.4 mph. Are you going to | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
have another go? Why not? Beat the old record by 11 mph. Not quite | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Formula One but an awful lot quieter. In Austria, the hills are | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
alive with the the sound of people learning to yodel. Hiking trail | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
with audio recordings and yodelling signs has recently opened in the | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
west of the country. If you've always secretly wanted to yodel but | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
were too embarrassed to really let loose, try a hike in the Austrian | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
Alps. A new trail into roll offers tips and lessons, 2000 metres above | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
sea level. TRANSLATION: You can do it on your | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
own, in pairs or in a group. On top of that, you can enjoy EA hike | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
against this incredible backdrop. With this beautiful view. I | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
personally always find it easier to your door, let out these cries of | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
joy when I am up on the mountain. Dotted along the trail are signs | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
and post with audio recordings of yodelling. You press the button and | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
sing along. TRANSLATION: It's liberating, it | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
opens us all. It's great, just great. It does the heart and the | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
soul the world of good. Yodelling was originally used by shepherds | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
calling from peak to peak. These days it is undergoing something of | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
a revival. And where better to practise than high in the hills! It | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
will either draw you in or send you fleeing. Before we go, one last | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
picture we have to show you. These pandas in China. What you can't see | :26:52. | :26:54. |