11/10/2012

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:00:19. > :00:28.Moscow demands to know why Turkish jets forced a Syrian passenger

:00:28. > :00:31.plane to land at Ankara. Lance Armstrong, cycling legend and

:00:31. > :00:39.allegedly behind the most sophisticated doping conspiracy in

:00:39. > :00:49.sporting history. Also, more pressure mounting on Madrid as it

:00:49. > :01:01.

:01:01. > :01:05.tries to resist growing calls to Tensions between Moscow and Turkey

:01:05. > :01:10.are on the rise after Ankara said it found illegal equipment on a

:01:10. > :01:14.Syrian flight from Moscow bound for Damascus. The plane was forced down

:01:14. > :01:18.by Turkish fighter jets and some of its cargo has been withheld. The

:01:18. > :01:27.plane itself has been allowed to continue on its journey, but Russia

:01:27. > :01:31.is demanding an explanation. In the darkness at Ankara airport, the

:01:31. > :01:35.Turkish authorities began their examination of the Syrian passenger

:01:35. > :01:40.plane. It had been intercepted by Turkish fighter jets and forced to

:01:40. > :01:46.land as it crossed Turkish airspace. There were around 30 passengers on

:01:46. > :01:51.board the Airbus A 320. Turkey's Foreign Minister said the aircraft

:01:51. > :01:57.had been carrying illegal cargo. He said objector no materials had been

:01:57. > :02:00.confiscated. TRANSLATION: We will keep the

:02:00. > :02:03.materials in Turkey to be examined. Some evidence is in question

:02:03. > :02:11.because there are some materials that needed to be declared but

:02:11. > :02:15.weren't. The Syrian air jet was on a scheduled flight from Moscow to

:02:15. > :02:22.Damascus. But as it was flying south, Turkey demanded that the

:02:22. > :02:27.plane diverted to an cava. -- Ankara. This amounts to increase

:02:27. > :02:30.tension between Turkey and Syria. There's been a week of sporadic

:02:30. > :02:35.shelling on the border, with Turkish Gunners responding to what

:02:35. > :02:40.appeared to be strays Syrian shells. Turkey's government has put its

:02:40. > :02:44.military on a high state of readiness. Russia wants an

:02:44. > :02:48.explanation from Turkey about last night's events. And Syria has

:02:48. > :02:52.described the incident as an act of piracy. An airline official in

:02:52. > :02:55.Damascus said the cargo had been legitimate and he accused the

:02:55. > :03:03.Turkish authorities of using aggression against the cruel before

:03:03. > :03:07.the plane was allowed to leave. -- against the crew. A gunman has

:03:07. > :03:12.assessed the -- assassinated be Yemeni chief of security at the

:03:12. > :03:19.American embassy in the Yemen capital, Sana'a. We will get what

:03:19. > :03:22.we can on that now. As far as the details go, what has happened?

:03:23. > :03:29.we understand is that masked gunmen on a motorbike appeared to have

:03:29. > :03:32.opened fire and then fled on a car carrying this Yemeni chief of

:03:32. > :03:36.security at the embassy and killed him. It very much looks like a

:03:36. > :03:39.target in killing on this individual. He was in his 50s, had

:03:39. > :03:42.been working at the embassy for about 20 years. He is likely to

:03:42. > :03:46.have been quite well known and therefore might well have been

:03:46. > :03:51.picked out by militants. So not actually outside the embassy or

:03:51. > :03:54.involved with in the compound. I make that point because with coming

:03:54. > :03:59.off the back of the sustained attacks on various American

:03:59. > :04:03.premises over the course of the last few weeks. That's right.

:04:03. > :04:07.Particularly the attack on Benghazi on the September 11th anniversary

:04:07. > :04:12.has become very political in America. Were there any warnings? A

:04:12. > :04:16.row that same period, again, linked to a video that had offended many

:04:16. > :04:20.people in the Islamic world, they will also -- there were also

:04:20. > :04:24.attacks on the US embassy in sat nav. People stormed that embassy.

:04:24. > :04:29.That did look very different what happened in Benghazi, though. But

:04:29. > :04:32.this killing looks much more in the model of what Al-Qaeda in the

:04:32. > :04:36.Arabian peninsula have been doing recently, which is carrying out the

:04:36. > :04:39.assassination attempts and high- profile attacks, particularly in

:04:39. > :04:43.the capital and against officials. That is very interesting inasmuch

:04:43. > :04:47.as there are plenty of observers who have gone close to writing off

:04:47. > :04:50.Al-Qaeda in the Arab peninsula with the Yemen in the course of the last

:04:50. > :04:54.few months. They've had some setbacks because I think the

:04:54. > :04:59.government has been pushing hard with some American support in the

:04:59. > :05:02.background to try and knock them down, with quite big military

:05:02. > :05:06.engagements, trying to push them out of towns where they are taking

:05:06. > :05:12.control. But they have been responding that these very high-

:05:12. > :05:14.profile attacks, particularly in the capital. Trying to assassinate

:05:14. > :05:22.the Defence Minister and attacks like this. They are definitely not

:05:22. > :05:27.out of action. And they are catching attention. To a rather

:05:27. > :05:30.different story, but as a cyclist, Lance Armstrong could be described

:05:31. > :05:34.as the most sophisticated professional and successful racer

:05:34. > :05:38.of all time. But that very phrase is now the one being used to

:05:38. > :05:42.characterise the extent to which he cheated, according to the USA anti-

:05:42. > :05:46.doping agency. It has published its report. It concludes that Armstrong,

:05:46. > :05:50.his seven time one of the Tour de France, was involved in a highly

:05:50. > :05:55.elaborate doping programme, something he has long denied but is

:05:55. > :06:00.no longer contesting. You can read the report - that you can't read

:06:00. > :06:05.the report and not be utterly convinced of Armstrong's Guild. The

:06:05. > :06:09.conspiracy of doping within his team. However, Armstrong seems to

:06:09. > :06:15.be as defiant as ever. I don't see any signs of any kind of admission

:06:16. > :06:21.from him at any point. Is this going to end in an entirely

:06:21. > :06:25.unsatisfactory situation for everyone who wants a sense that

:06:25. > :06:29.justice has been done one way or the other because Lance Armstrong

:06:29. > :06:34.World contest? We've still got his lawyer saying, this is just a

:06:34. > :06:39.hatchet job on Armstrong. Yes, it's difficult. It's a complicated

:06:39. > :06:43.situation when there is no positive drugs test, no smoking gun. That's

:06:43. > :06:48.the one thing that he would struggle to contest. Although other

:06:49. > :06:53.athletes before him have contested positive tests. I'm sure he will go

:06:53. > :06:59.on being defiant. His lawyers will continue to fight his corner. But I

:06:59. > :07:02.think that if the UCI, Cycling's world governing body, essentially

:07:02. > :07:09.rubber-stamp these findings and confirm he will be stripped of his

:07:09. > :07:13.seven titles, I'm sure an effect will be raised from the last decade

:07:13. > :07:19.of cycling. Although he can claim to be a seven-times winner, the

:07:19. > :07:27.records will say otherwise. A That Was Richard Moore, a former cyclist

:07:27. > :07:33.There is probably no better or worse place to start than Spain.

:07:33. > :07:39.Another notch on the bedpost for a ratings agency. Absolutely. This is

:07:39. > :07:43.the pressure. It is mounting on Madrid. Standard and Poor's, the US

:07:43. > :07:49.credit rating agency, late last night downgraded Spain's credit

:07:49. > :07:54.rating by two Rogers. Where does that leave Spain, it leaves it on

:07:54. > :08:01.because of junk status. That means inevitably it will make the

:08:01. > :08:06.servicing of Spain's huge debt much more expensive. Spain needs to

:08:06. > :08:10.borrow $260 billion from the international money market. That's

:08:10. > :08:14.a tough task with the credit rating that is just above junk status. On

:08:14. > :08:19.top of that, you've got a wok and a hard place and Spain is right in

:08:19. > :08:22.the middle. That's because Standard and Poor's downgraded Spain, saying

:08:22. > :08:26.it was visited far as Spain is being so hesitant to put its hand

:08:26. > :08:30.and ask for a bail-out. On the other hand, you've got Moody's, the

:08:30. > :08:34.other big credit rating agency, has said, if Spain as for a bail-out,

:08:34. > :08:39.we are also going to downgrade you. It's a tough position to bien. The

:08:39. > :08:44.question I put to our man on the ground in Madrid. Also won this

:08:44. > :08:49.report is S&P's points to some of the political problems here. It

:08:49. > :08:53.talks about the regional problems with the central government. That

:08:53. > :08:58.is an indication about Catalonia, the problems of in that North-East

:08:58. > :09:01.region of Spain, where Barcelona is the capital. Essentially that

:09:01. > :09:04.region have said, we are not getting enough money from the

:09:05. > :09:08.central government, we are going to call early elections for late in

:09:08. > :09:11.November. If the ruling party their wins those elections, they will

:09:11. > :09:15.hold a referendum on independence. We are a long way from independence

:09:15. > :09:20.but it's still adding to the political uncertainty, which has

:09:20. > :09:24.only fuelling the economic crisis. We will keep our eyes on that story.

:09:24. > :09:28.The oil giant Shell is in court in The Hague today, facing a lawsuit

:09:28. > :09:32.over three oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta or. It's been brought

:09:32. > :09:36.by a group of fishermen and farmers who say they can no longer feed

:09:36. > :09:40.their families because the area has been polluted. Shell says the

:09:40. > :09:45.pollution was caused by oil feeds and that it has cleaned up its part

:09:46. > :09:51.in that process. Tommy -- our correspondent in Lagos says twice

:09:51. > :09:57.as much oil has been spilt in the Nigeria Delta plan was built in the

:09:57. > :10:01.Gulf of Mexico. A lot of environmentalists have complained

:10:01. > :10:05.that this scenario, what you have in the Niger Delta, is nothing

:10:05. > :10:10.close to, it's a lot larger than what you have to the US Gulf, it

:10:10. > :10:14.has received as much attention as that in the US did. A lot of these

:10:14. > :10:17.people of fishermen and farmers. They've not been able to carry

:10:17. > :10:21.out... To continue with their livelihoods because the water is

:10:21. > :10:24.polluted and the soil is polluted as well. And there is the

:10:24. > :10:28.environmental hazard because these people also get their drinking

:10:28. > :10:32.water from there. They really can't do anything. Is there a sense on

:10:32. > :10:36.the ground that companies like Shell, and this is not my words,

:10:36. > :10:39.these are words in many reports, basically have double-standards?

:10:40. > :10:47.Compared to the oil spills in Nigeria, compared to any spillage

:10:47. > :10:52.in Europe or America. A lot of people complaining that these

:10:52. > :10:56.companies are able to get away with so much, to be able to make some

:10:56. > :10:59.much money from this place and yet not be able to clean up the mess

:10:59. > :11:05.that they leave. Some of the Niger Delta people are among the poorest

:11:05. > :11:08.people you find in this country, yet there is so much money being

:11:08. > :11:11.made right from their backyards. This is what a lot of

:11:11. > :11:16.environmentalists as well as a lot of these people themselves are

:11:16. > :11:18.complaining about. They are also saying that Shell and a lot of

:11:18. > :11:21.these other companies have a huge influence on the Nigerian

:11:21. > :11:27.government. So the government is not able to put pressure on them to

:11:28. > :11:34.clean up. He was explaining the situation on the ground in terms of

:11:34. > :11:38.the oil spill. An energy analyst at eco Bank explained to me what kind

:11:38. > :11:44.of damage this could do to shell. Let's not forget, Shell has

:11:44. > :11:48.actually faced a series of lawsuits in Nigeria. We don't often hear

:11:48. > :11:52.about them because many of them are minor cases. This is quite

:11:52. > :11:57.significant. There's the whole issue of corporate and social

:11:57. > :12:04.responsibility. Shell currently contributes a high percentage of

:12:04. > :12:09.oil from that area. This is coming on the back of a find this year by

:12:09. > :12:12.Nigerian regulators to the tune of 5 billion against Shell for

:12:12. > :12:16.environmental pollution. It is a theme which we have seen time and

:12:16. > :12:21.time again. There are other operators in Nigeria, so I guess

:12:21. > :12:25.the question here is - could this set a precedent where we could

:12:25. > :12:32.possibly see other lawsuits against other oil producers down there?

:12:32. > :12:35.Certainly. It's always a matter of scale. The big five companies, they

:12:35. > :12:39.all operate in Nigeria to one extent or another. There's also an

:12:39. > :12:43.issue on the Nigerian side about enforcement of environmental

:12:43. > :12:46.regulations and the stringency of some of these regulations. That is

:12:46. > :12:52.obviously a governance problem that needs to be resolved. But Shell

:12:52. > :12:55.will argue that all will theft, known locally as a oil bunkering,

:12:55. > :13:00.is a major contributor to many of these oil spills, as is sabotage

:13:00. > :13:04.and other forms of illegal activity around oil infrastructure. But it

:13:04. > :13:11.is a major PR headache for Shell. I'm glad you mentioned that about

:13:11. > :13:15.what Shell says, but what is the sense in terms of people like you

:13:15. > :13:19.in the industry? In terms of the sabotage, do they have a point?

:13:19. > :13:23.They can't control the sabotage to pipelines. Part of the problem is

:13:23. > :13:27.the data around oil spills is highly contentious and

:13:27. > :13:32.controversial. Whilst companies like Shell, they report leaks from

:13:32. > :13:36.pipelines, what Bill's report often don't capture is this illegal trade

:13:36. > :13:40.in crude oil which is on a small- scale and sometimes very lucrative

:13:41. > :13:45.if oil is stolen directly from oil wells and sold on international

:13:45. > :13:51.global markets. That could estimate for -- account for almost 25 % of

:13:51. > :13:55.daily production in Nigeria. The real issue is, how do you separate

:13:55. > :14:00.bat-pad of illegal activity that caused his bills and pollution from

:14:00. > :14:04.technical law or neglect on the part of some of these companies? It

:14:04. > :14:12.is an issue of research and data traffic. It is extremely difficult

:14:12. > :14:18.in an environment like Nigeria. Briefly, your sense of what will

:14:18. > :14:23.happen in this case - Wilshere will lose? In this case I suspect, there

:14:23. > :14:27.are many lawsuits running simultaneously, but this is a very

:14:27. > :14:30.big case to try and prove the oil spills have directly been caused by

:14:30. > :14:35.Shell over the course of a decade or so. I think it will drag on.

:14:35. > :14:39.There will be some sort of perhaps compensation that Shell would need

:14:39. > :14:43.to pay eventually, but whether it's a despise the full extent of the

:14:43. > :14:53.Niger Delta farmers who are complaining, who are the plaintiffs,

:14:53. > :15:04.

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:15:22. > :15:29.Thanks for watching BBC World News. Still to come: How should the

:15:29. > :15:34.centenary of the outbreak of World War I be remembered in 2014? Stay

:15:34. > :15:38.with us. Police in Indonesia have raised the

:15:38. > :15:41.security alert to its highest level after warning of possible terror

:15:41. > :15:50.attacks on a ceremony this Friday to mark ten years since the Bali

:15:50. > :15:55.bombings. Over the last deck - decade, Indonesia has seen a string

:15:55. > :16:00.of small attacks. In recent months, this city's been

:16:00. > :16:05.in the news for all the wrong reasons. Officials say it's become

:16:05. > :16:11.a hot bed of extremism, following the high profile arrests last month

:16:11. > :16:17.of suspected militants here. Some of those arrested studied here,

:16:17. > :16:21.the Islamic boarding school on the outskids of Solo. On the surface,

:16:21. > :16:26.this looks like any conservative Muslim boarding school in Indonesia,

:16:26. > :16:29.but critics say it's a braeding ground for young extremists and

:16:29. > :16:33.militants. They point to a long list to have school's graduates

:16:33. > :16:40.mrbgs of whom have been involved in some of the most deadly attacks in

:16:40. > :16:44.Indonesia. On the school's note its board, the

:16:44. > :16:49.founder now in prison convicted of terrorism charges. Many say his

:16:49. > :16:52.influence is still heavily felt amongst students here, but the

:16:52. > :16:55.principal says, while students are taught to defend Islam, they are

:16:55. > :16:59.not told to carry out acts of terror.

:16:59. > :17:04.TRANSLATION: Of course we teach about Jihad here and it's a must

:17:04. > :17:09.for Muslims, but it cannot be carried out randomly. Our religion,

:17:09. > :17:13.when it's threatened, and when deprived of our right to follow the

:17:13. > :17:19.Islamic laws, that's when we look to Jihad. Some Indonesian Muslims

:17:19. > :17:25.have chosen a different and unusual route to stand up for their faith.

:17:25. > :17:31.By sketching humorous cartoons. This book, the 33 Messages of the

:17:31. > :17:34.Prophet, is a best-seller because of its religious message told in a

:17:34. > :17:37.modern context. I want to tell readers from a young age what the

:17:37. > :17:40.foundation of Islam is. I want to reach out to young people because

:17:40. > :17:44.they are easy to mould. A lot of people see Islam as radical, but

:17:44. > :17:53.it's not about bombs, it's about peace.

:17:53. > :17:57.Back at Al-Mukmin, it's time for Arabic class, the language of Koran.

:17:57. > :18:01.Excelling in it is a matter of pride for these Muslims. Shaping

:18:01. > :18:04.the next Jonration of Indonesia's Muslims is crucial for this

:18:04. > :18:14.country's security and arguely for the world's too.

:18:14. > :18:14.

:18:14. > :18:21.-- arguably for the world's too. These are the headlines:

:18:21. > :18:28.Moscow demands to know why Turkish jets forced a Syrian plane with

:18:28. > :18:31.Russian passengers on board to land. The Yemen embassy has seen a

:18:31. > :18:36.shooting. The British Prime Minister is to

:18:36. > :18:39.set out plans for commemorations to mark the outbreak of the First

:18:39. > :18:48.World War. How should that occasion be marked? We can find out more

:18:48. > :18:52.from our correspondent, Robert Hall, who is in Ypres in Belgium.

:18:52. > :18:58.Memories of the First World War run deep in this town. It was destroyed

:18:58. > :19:05.during the years 1914-198 then rebuilt pretty well as it was

:19:05. > :19:09.before the war, an extraordinary feat -- 1914-1918. The Menin Gate

:19:09. > :19:13.straddles what was a road leading up to a fontline and it's inscribed

:19:13. > :19:16.with more than 50,000 British soldiers and Commonwealths whose

:19:16. > :19:19.remains were never found. We are talking about a formal

:19:19. > :19:24.commemoration for that centenary, but in a way, remembrance goes on

:19:24. > :19:33.here, hundreds of people, not just here, but in cemeteries across the

:19:33. > :19:37.battlefield every day of every year. Across the old battlefields, the

:19:37. > :19:45.autumn leaves are falling once more, as today's generation prepares to

:19:45. > :19:49.mark the event imprinted on the farmland of France and Belgium.

:19:49. > :19:53.The Tyne Cot cemetery is the largest of its kind in the world.

:19:53. > :19:57.These are the graves of nearly 12,000 British and Commonwealth

:19:57. > :20:02.soldiers killed as they struggled through the mud to reach the

:20:02. > :20:07.Belgian village of Passchendaele, an vent from the history books and

:20:08. > :20:12.yet more than 300,000 people come here every year -- an event.

:20:12. > :20:15.always think a country that forgets its past has no future. I really do

:20:15. > :20:20.think that we have to, at times, pause to reflect. All we are asking

:20:20. > :20:24.for really when you talk o our own nationals is two minutes a year to

:20:24. > :20:29.pause and reflebt on the sacrifices made by people.

:20:29. > :20:33.-- reflect. Around us, Tyne Cot was being spruced up for this year's

:20:33. > :20:37.ceremonies, a duty which the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

:20:38. > :20:40.pledged to fulfil in every cemetery in every corner of the world. The

:20:40. > :20:44.centenary commemoration also present new challenges for all

:20:44. > :20:49.involved. I think it should be treated with

:20:49. > :20:54.dignity and a lot of thought. There will be many, many formal

:20:54. > :21:00.ceremonies involving all the Armed Forces, Veterans Association and

:21:00. > :21:06.everybody else, bringing a level of pageantry to dit. But it will also

:21:06. > :21:10.be a serious pageantry -- pageantry to it.

:21:10. > :21:16.Under the great arch of the Menin Gate, surrounded by the names of

:21:16. > :21:25.the missing, we found evidence of new links being forged with the

:21:25. > :21:31.past and support for plans to mark this centenary.

:21:31. > :21:36.I think it would be quite important because it would be like this was,

:21:36. > :21:39.it would be emotional but nice because it would be paying your

:21:39. > :21:43.respects. It really catches your attention and gets you to think

:21:43. > :21:46.about what people were really fighting about and if it was all

:21:46. > :21:51.worth it. After the Great War, Ypres promised

:21:51. > :21:55.to honour the great allies who fought and fell on Belgian soil,

:21:55. > :22:00.hundreds now keep vigil as the bugles sound clear on the evening

:22:00. > :22:06.air. Anniversaries come and go, but the storys that reach out from

:22:06. > :22:12.wartime history have always touched and inspired us.

:22:12. > :22:15.So, the names on these memorials and the cemeteries are knew

:22:15. > :22:18.relevant to far more people, possibly through the Internet and

:22:19. > :22:23.schools, as we have been seeing in the report. One final fact - a poll

:22:23. > :22:27.released in Britain today suggests that a sizeable majority of people

:22:27. > :22:29.want Remembrance Sunday, 11th November, in 2014, to be a special

:22:29. > :22:33.day, perhaps with church bells ringing, perhaps with sport

:22:33. > :22:37.cancelled for the day, so that people are automobile to focus on a

:22:37. > :22:45.day of remembrance. That, no doubt, will be a consideration right

:22:45. > :22:48.across Europe. We are staying in Belgium. It's

:22:48. > :22:52.been looted in three different wars, not the country, the object I'm

:22:52. > :22:57.about to tell you about. Held for ransom, sold illegally and part of

:22:57. > :23:01.it is still missing. One of the o world's most stolen paintings is

:23:01. > :23:06.now being restored at a museum in Belgium.

:23:06. > :23:10.Getting a glimpse of the past. These art experts are the eyes

:23:10. > :23:14.behind the restoration. It's a painstaking process. There are more

:23:15. > :23:18.than 20 of these panels and they all need to be checked for damage.

:23:18. > :23:23.Layers of yellow varnish that have made the painting appear darker

:23:23. > :23:28.will be removed before the work underneath gets a retouch.

:23:28. > :23:35.Visitors to the fine art museum here can watch the entire project.

:23:35. > :23:41.It's very open, so the windows are very big. The problem with it is

:23:41. > :23:45.that people want to come very close into the lab, but we are already

:23:45. > :23:52.being very generous by having it so widely available and open. This is

:23:52. > :23:57.Gent that deed thal, the building the altar piece was commissioned

:23:57. > :24:02.for more than 60 years ago -- Gent cathedral. Once the restoration's

:24:02. > :24:07.complete, this is where it will come back to, its original home.

:24:07. > :24:11.Here, you can see a section that's already been cleaned. Look at the

:24:11. > :24:18.brighter area on the right and this part of the altar piece is one of

:24:18. > :24:22.the most famous. It's a replica of a panel called the Just Judges,

:24:22. > :24:28.which was stolen in 1934 and never returned.

:24:28. > :24:31.It has really been a point of interest since then - where is that

:24:31. > :24:35.missing panel? People still look for it and I'm sorry, I don't have

:24:35. > :24:41.a particular theory about that, the only thing I can say is, yes,

:24:41. > :24:46.people will keep looking for it and will not give up.

:24:46. > :24:51.Some argue that the paintings and their controversial histories, is

:24:51. > :24:54.already enough to keep drawing the crowds, without any expensive make-

:24:54. > :24:59.overs. The restoration will cost close to $2 million and is expected

:24:59. > :25:06.to take five years, but the people behind the project insist it will

:25:06. > :25:11.be worth the wait. Remember Dolly the Sheep, the first

:25:11. > :25:18.to be cloned. The man who led that project in the 1990s, Professor

:25:18. > :25:22.Keith Campbell, has died. Dolly was born in 1996 in Scotland. Professor

:25:22. > :25:28.Campbell moved to the University of Nottingham then where he was

:25:28. > :25:32.Professor of Animal development. It took a bit of encouragement, but

:25:33. > :25:38.after living his first two years in a nature reserve, a giant panda has

:25:38. > :25:43.been released into the wild in China. The male panda had to be

:25:43. > :25:49.nudged out of his cage, poor chap, but tentative at first, he soon

:25:49. > :25:53.wandered off into a bamboo forest, hopefully to a happy life.

:25:53. > :25:58.And on a theme for you, American scientists say mice may be able to

:25:58. > :26:01.learn to sing in harmony in a way which is similar to humans and some

:26:01. > :26:05.birds. Researchers say that when a group

:26:05. > :26:10.of male mice are kept together in the presence of a female, they

:26:10. > :26:16.match the pitch of their songs. I should say, I've heard a bit of it,

:26:16. > :26:23.it's more of a whistle, but it's really there. Extraordinary stuff.

:26:23. > :26:28.A reminder of the main story: Russian is now demanding

:26:28. > :26:34.explanations from Turkey as to why a military Turkish jet forced a

:26:34. > :26:38.passenger plane carrying 17 Russians to land at Ankara - we

:26:38. > :26:41.understand from the Turkish Foreign Minister that's what been described

:26:41. > :26:47.as an objectionable cargo has been removed - although the plane itself

:26:47. > :26:52.has been allowed to continue on its way to Damascus. Syria also