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Our top story, reports from China that this vehicle which burst into | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
flames in Tiananmen Square, in which five people died, was a suicide | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
attack. Survivors recount their narrow | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
escape. TRANSLATION: And mother and I had nowhere to run from the car. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
We did not move. -- my mother. I thought if the car hit us, we would | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
die. US politicians order a review of surveillance operations and the | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
extent of the NSA's monitoring of foreigners. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
The United Nations says ten cases of polio have been confirmed among | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
children in Syria. Officials warn of a risk that the outbreak will | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
spread. A new mission to the red planet at | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
this time NASA scientists want to find out why the atmosphere on Mars | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
changed so dramatically. Police in China have named two | :00:56. | :01:21. | |
people who are suspects in this major incident in Tiananmen Square. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
A vehicle crashed into a crowd and caught fire in the centre of the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Chinese capital on Monday. Five people are known to have been | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
killed. Police say that nearly 40 were injured. Some reports suggest | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
it may have been a suicide attack. First came the fiery crash, in the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
heart of one of the most politically sensitive places in China. Next, | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Tiananmen Square, and just below the iconic portrait of Chairman Mao. And | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
now the questions. The crash was not an accident. Who was responsible? An | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
unnamed source has told Reuters that the incident seems to have been a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
planned suicide attack. The people inside the SUV have not been | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
identified, says the same source. But outside Beijing, vehicles are | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
being stopped at a checkpoint. A note has circulated to city hotels, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
indicating that police are looking for two Mail suspect in connection | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
to Monday's episode. The suspects hail from counties like this, which | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
have witnessed clashes between security forces and local people. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Many blame the security forces for suppressing their culture and | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
customs. In Beijing, several people hurt by the vehicle are receiving | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
treatment at a local hospital. TRANSLATION: I thought that if the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
car was going to hit us, then we would directly. -- diet right there. | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
But it hit every link. -- it hit a railing. Nobody noticed the car. We | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
were standing there and it suddenly came towards us. Luckily, I'm moved | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
to the side and the car went past. Chinese censors have been hard at | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
work wiping messages from internet forums attempting to start a | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
meaningful discussion about Monday's incident. As he saw Quays | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
try to figure out what really happened, they are not turning to | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
the public for help. Should the US stop spying on | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
countries it considers friends? That is the key question when the head of | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
the US National Security Agency appears before politicians in | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Washington in a few hours. A review of US buying programmes has been | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
ordered by the Senate. This follows allegations that the NSA has been | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
monitoring the phones of allies, including Angela Merkel. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Another day, another embarrassment, another American ambassador summoned | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
to see angry European officials. It was the newspaper Elmendorf that, on | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Monday, revealed large-scale American intelligence gathering in | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Spain. As many as 60 million phone calls scooped up in one month alone. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
-- El Mundo. Parliamentarians met congressional leaders in Washington | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
to discuss the surveillance. Many of my colleagues angry and disturbed | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
that friends are spying on friends. The stock answer, spying occurs | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
anyway. If that is the case, then I think you have to register the anger | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
of my German colleagues and others, who do not feel that that has to be | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
the case. The revelations keep coming and they are acutely | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
embarrassing for Washington. There is already reviewed into the way | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
that intelligence is gathered and the White House says that additional | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
restraint may be needed. But the administration is quick to defend | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
the need for large-scale intelligence gathering. The work | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
being done here saves lives. It protects the United States and our | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
allies. It protects Americans stationed in dangerous places around | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
the world. They say wiretap, we say fightback! It is not just Europeans | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
angry about surveillance. In the US, there is disquiet about the breadth | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
and depth of intelligence gathering. This is a problem that | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
will not go away for the politicians. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
The storms which have left a trail of destruction across Britain and | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
much of northern Europe... At least 30 people were killed by falling | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
trees. As well as four deaths in Britain, six were killed in Germany. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Becker gusts of up to 191 mph were measured over the North Sea. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
The raft of the storm which battered much of north-western Europe. In | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Belgium, working force wind knocked people off their feet. Motorways | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
across the country remain shut. Meteorologists in Germany measured | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
record gusts of 191 kph hour. It caused severe disruption for | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
commuters. Trains were cancelled and there were heavy delays at airports. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Wind and rain lashed the south of England. Debris was flung from | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
buildings and more than half a million people suffered power cuts. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Four people died on Monday. In one incident in west London, a man and a | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
woman were killed after an uprooted tree caused a gas expulsion. -- gas | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
explosion. In Brittany, a woman was swept into the sea from a cliff. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Trees fell like Nacht X, weaving thousands without Ultra city. -- | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
matchsticks. Heavy winds swept across land land | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
-- low-lying land, shutting down traffic. The Danish capital saw | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
record gusts of up to 194, metres per hour. One man managed to capture | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
this on camera. Scaffolding ripped off this office building in | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Copenhagen. From the British Isles, across the North Sea, through | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Scandinavia, the storm is no easing. Meteorologists say that the Baltic | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
states will weather the storm today that it looks like the worst is now | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
over. -- but it looks. Europe is recovering from that | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
ferocious storm. This time one year ago, the other side of the Atlantic | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
was dealing with Hurricane Sandy, causing massive disruption on the | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
north-eastern coast of the United States. One of the hardest hit | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
places was Staten Island, where 23 people died. Laura Trevelyan has | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
returned to see the recovery effort. On a clear day, the view from Staten | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Island is unrivalled. But the island's position is it's on | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
ability. It is here that the death toll from Superstorm Sandy was | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
highest. The search was so strong that floodwaters ripped homes from | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
their foundations. -- surge. Help was slow to arrive. There is still | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
so much work left to do. This used to be my house. This man barely | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
survives the storm. My mother was underwater. I had to pull an | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
extension cord, and help her out. I do not know how to swim. And neither | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
does my mum or my nephew. We opened the door and we asked my neighbour | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
if we could come in. He said yes. His dog miraculously escaped. But | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
everything else was gone. He has been in a hotel for most of the last | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
year. You put up a tent where his house once stood. He has started a | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
charity to help other victims as he waits for the money to rebuild. It | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
looks like it is going to take years to rebuild. We should not be | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
suffering like this after one year. Nearby, where three drowned during | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
the storm, the toll taken by Sandy has led to major changes. This | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
neighbourhood will be demolished, returned to nature, since it is | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
likely to flood again. The federal government will buy the houses at | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the value they held before the storm. An estate agent here came up | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
with the plan. This is a win-win. Taxpayers are saying, why are these | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
people getting bought out? They live right near the ocean, they know | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
that. No one ever suspected this would happen. From the government's | :09:44. | :09:55. | |
perspective, they will save money. And for this portion of Staten | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Island, it will act as a barrier so it is great for them and the people | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
who were victims of the storm. New York City is so vulnerable to storms | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
because much of it is at sea level. Officials are shoring up the causal | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
defences now. One of the things they're is bringing in rocks. The | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
idea is that they will break up the impact of the weights if there is | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
another storm. One other beaches, they are building | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
sand walls. The parks commissioner says that these are some of the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
solutions that New York is working on because no one wants to back away | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
from the coastline. In judgement is not a problem. And Hatton is an | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
island. -- Manhattan. We are a city of islands and we are going to be | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
protecting our shoreline and our forms, ensuring that we create a | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
resilient city for the future. Sea levels are predicted to rise if the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
climate continues to change. New York is not taking any chances. | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
News in the last hour, the world health organisation has confirmed an | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
outbreak of wholly on Syria, the first for 14 years. They warn that | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
there is a high-risk that the disease will spread. I'd put it to | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
our correspondent in Geneva that this is an ominous that element. -- | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
ominous development. This is very bad news and an indication, if one | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
were needed, of just how serious the public health situation in Syria is. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Let alone the risks of being caught up in the Civil War. The fact is, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
there are 22 cases of polio being investigated. Ten are now confirmed. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Ely all of them in children under two, showing signs of acute | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
paralysis. That is a sign of polio. Those children almost certainly were | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
not immunised at all. Syria was a country until two and a half years | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
ago which had eradicated polio. There had not been a case there for | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
14 years. But now children are not being vaccinated because of the | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
collapse of the public health system, and somehow the polio virus | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
has found its way back into Syria. What, then, is the scale of | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
monitoring in a war zone of some kind or another? Well, I think this | :12:21. | :12:32. | |
is very difficult. We do know that hospitals and medical professionals | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
in the north-east of Syria reported these cases. And now the Syrian | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
health ministry, with UN aid agencies, is apparently trying to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
get a mass immunisation campaign going across the country, but we | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
know that fighting rages in many, many areas. And we know that other | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
forms of vital aids, food, water, shelter, medicine, cannot be | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
delivered because of the fighting. I think it is very clear that many | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
children who do need vital that a nation will not get it. The view | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
from the World Health Organisation. You with BBC World News. Still to | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
come, it is safer than cash in the bank. Why owning a car in Venice | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
will is a better investment than a savings account. -- Venice well. To | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Brazil, and a change in the law should end a highly unlikely | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
occupation. She's smuggling. For more than half a century, it has | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
been illegal to sell cheese made from unpasteurised milk. It has been | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
a big problem for the traditional cheesemakers of Brazil. A | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
refrigerator packed full with Artisan cheese, destined for sale in | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
Sao Paulo. This cheese specialist has an | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
international client list. But there is an important detail. Up until | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
quite recently, some of what he has been doing has been technically | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
illegal. All from the 1950s the sale of raw milk or unpasteurised | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
cheeses. Anywhere in the country, unless they were mature for at least | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
two months. TRANSLATION: Lately, consumers have been looking for | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Brazilian Artisan cheese. But people like me have to sell it informally. | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
70% of this cheese is going to Sao Paulo illegally. Some of Brazil's | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
most sought after Artisan cheeses are made in farms like this in the | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
mountains. Here, cheesemaking techniques have remained unchanged | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
for three centuries. Raw milk cheese has proved so popular in the past | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
that it had to be smuggled all over the country. Now a change in the law | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
means that small producers will no longer have to sell the specific | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
type of cheese under the counter. -- this specific. It can be sold now | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
when it is less mature. For Brazilian cheesemakers, this is a | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
welcome boost. It seems the quicker you get it to market, the bigger the | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
sales. In this shop, Fernando sells more than 80 types of cheese from | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
six baits. Bringing the taste of resulting locals and foreigners | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
alike. I have found a lot of Brazilian cheese which looks like | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
French cheese. The taste, the colour. Encouraged by the approval | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
of customers, small producers hope that this traditional cheesemaking | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
technique, handed down from generation to generation, could soon | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
become as well-known abroad as it is in Brazil. | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
You are with BBC World News. Reports from China say a vehicle explosion | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
in Tiananmen Square which killed five people may have been a suicide | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
attack. Police have named two suspects. The US Senate intelligence | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
committee board is a major review of surveillance operations, head of the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
National Security agency appearing in Washington in a few hours. | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
Now,that age old question - when the economy looks uncertain, where do | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
you invest your spare cash? For many, the answer is to buy gold. In | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Indonesia the growth rate is slowing and the currency getting weaker. But | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
the precious metal isn't just a valuable commodity for investors, | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
the country's gold miners are also benefiting too. At end an easy as | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
state gold company hundreds of people arrive every day to buy this | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
precious metal. Some -- many of them are first-time buyers. How much have | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
you bought today? 50 grams. Why have you decided to invest in gold? I | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
hope it will have a good price in the future. At around 43 US dollars | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
per gram, these are significant investments. Many Indonesians would | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
see it as a hedge to the risks in the country and having undergone a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
lot of economic turbulence in the past, they feel the risks are very | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
real. Indonesia is not only a gold buying nation, it is also a producer | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
and in times of economic uncertainty, thousands of migrants | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
try their luck at unregulated, unlicensed gold mines like this one | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
on the island of Borneo. In the capital of the island, there is no | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
shortage of demand for goods made of gold. The informal gold mining | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
sector in Indonesia is huge, second only to China. The gold market here | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
is an essential trading hub and its services thousands of miners who | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
labour in makeshift sites around this area. With the Root beer still | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
fluctuating, it is likely Indonesia 's many gold investors will keep | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
these gold miners busy for the foreseeable future. | :18:44. | :18:57. | |
Where best to invest any spare cash isn't just an issue for Indonesians. | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. So the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
country should be an economic success story. But the country is | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
plagued by regular shortages of basic goods. The inflation rate is | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
almost 50%. Instead of putting their money in the bank, some Venezuelan | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
are now buying old cars as a way to save cash. | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
This man bought his car a year ago, since then its value has more than | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
doubled. I bought this jeep as a way to invest my money, it is an | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
investment. Currently in this country, keeping money in the bank | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
is not a viable option. I have it but I rarely use it because repair | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
parts are very expensive. Used cars are popular because new ones are | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
almost impossible to buy. This is one of many empty car dealerships | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
here in Caracas. We are told there isn't even a waiting list, it has | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
been one year since they last had a car available. The government | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
regulates access, making it difficult to import adults from | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
overseas. Economists also blame inflation. At 45% it is one of the | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
highest in the world. Cars have become a way for people to save | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
money. If you keep your money in the bank, it loses value. If you invest | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
in a car, you could sell it again at a higher price. Cars are not the | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
only affected sector, the country also suffers from shortages of | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
milk, sugar and toilet paper. Even members of the government admit now | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
that there are problems with the economy, they have called for | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
reforms and in future the price of used cars will be regulated. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Jonathan says he's not worried. For now, he is sure that his car will | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
sell a good price, remaining his safest investment. | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
Two years after US forces withdrew from Iraq, violent incidents are on | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
the increase. On Monday alone, two car bombs and an ambush of a police | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
checkpoint in Iraq killed 11 people near the capital Baghdad on Monday. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
Such attacks have become more and more common this year in Iraq, a | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
country that remains fragile in a number of ways. The BBC's Paul Adams | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
looks at some of the issues at play in today's Iraq. It is not quite two | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
years since the last US troops left Iraq, relief for America at the end | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
of a long and unpopular war and an opportunity, they said, for Iraq to | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
go it alone. This is a time for Iraq to look forward. This is an | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
opportunity for Iraq to forge ahead on the path to security and | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
prosperity. But the path so far seems to have led backwards to | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
scenes reminiscent of its darkest days and statistics that tell a | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
gruesome tale. Back in 2008, it is thought almost 6800 Iraqis died, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
that is a conservative UN estimate. The following three years saw a | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
steady decline to a low of around 2800 the year the Americans finally | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
withdrew, but the numbers have climbed ever since. Already this | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
year the figure stands at over 6000. Once again, Baghdad is at the | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
centre. In recent weeks there have been several coordinated car bomb | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
attacks in the capital but other parts of the country are also being | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
affected. In September, a rare attack in the Kurdish north, and | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
another worrying sign the southern Shia dominated city of Basra has | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
also seen a surge in violence. What does this point to? The politicians | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
in the country have their fears. We hope it will not develop but there | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
is a real fear the conflicts could develop into a civil war. So who and | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
what is responsible for these developments? As always, the country | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
is awash with malicious and armed groups, jostling for political and | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
geographical authority. The central government is weak and divided, but | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
groups allied with Al-Qaeda, once on the retreat, are back with a | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
vengeance still capable of pulling off so-called spectaculars, | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
coordinated mass casualty attacks like this one in Baghdad. One of the | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
largest groups is Isis, operating in both countries. To make matters | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
worse, the Iraq military is weak, and its approach to | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
counterinsurgency tends to rely on mass arrests. In the words of one UN | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
official, the battlefields are merging. A decade of agony which | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
shows no sign of ending. Now let's go into a far greater | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
distance across the universe and the punditry system. -- planetary | :24:10. | :24:19. | |
system. Scientists believe that Mars once had an atmosphere thicker than | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
ours here on Earth. Now they're getting closer to finding out how it | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
lost it so dramatically. India's Mars Orbiter Mission, the country's | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
first interplanetary foray, is due to blast off on November fifth. Now | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
NASA says it's on track to launch its Maven spacecraft on the 18th. | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
NASA's next mission to Mars. The spacecraft is called Maven, standing | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. The plan is for it to | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
soar over 6000 kilometres above the surface of Mars, dipping download | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
five times during the mission. This model simulation shows solar winds | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
sweeping across Mars, stripping it of its atmosphere molecule by | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
molecule. At one time it was believed the Red Planet had an | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
atmosphere they than that of Earth. Scientists want to use the probe to | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
find out why it went through such a dramatic change. We want to | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
understand what the history of the atmosphere has been, how the climate | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
has changed through time, and how that has influenced the revolution | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
of the service and potential habitability, at least by microbes, | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
of Mars. A year ago last August, NASA successfully deployed its | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Curiosity Rover. In its first year of operations it has been exploring | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
the landscape for clues about whether the planet could ever have | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
supported life. It is part of a series of probes and Rovers by NASA | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
to gather key dated before a planned mission to send humans there as | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
early as the 2030s. Maven is on track to launch next month and if | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
all goes well it should arrive back by next September, and look | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
something like this. Let me conclude our programme here | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
with a couple of videos which are quite extraordinary. This is how to | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
open a bottle of beer with a helicopter in China. It is the last | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
event event in the three-day long China Helicopter Tournament. Pilots | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
had to take the top off a bottle using an opener tied to the skid. | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
This attempt appeared successful. Did he celebrate with a beer? After | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
careful inspection the pilot wasn't awarded points because the top of | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
the bottle was damaged. Seems a bit harsh. What about how to benefit | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
from the hurricane force winds? Look at this Brazilian surfer. He is | :26:49. | :27:01. | |
riding the wave, which is reported to be 30 metres high. You have been | :27:02. | :27:03. |