:00:16. > :00:21.This this is BBC World Today, with me, Kirsty Lang. A convoy of
:00:21. > :00:23.Gaddafi loyalists have crossed into Niger. It's thought to be carrying
:00:23. > :00:31.senior members much his government, gold and money. It points - I hope
:00:31. > :00:36.it points to an underlying fact which is that many of the pro-
:00:36. > :00:41.Gaddafi forces are realising the game is up. Turkey suspends all
:00:41. > :00:45.military ties with Israel and steps up naval patrols in the Eastern
:00:45. > :00:49.Mediterranean. The cabinet meets to beef up its
:00:49. > :00:59.austerity plan under pressure from Europe and the markets in Italy.
:00:59. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:16.Brought together by the tragedy of Hello, and welcome. While
:01:16. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:24.negotiations continue in Libya for the vernd of ban any Wally - Bani
:01:24. > :01:27.Wali, a convoy is heading for Niger. It is thought it contains senior
:01:27. > :01:30.members of the Gaddafi regime who have realised the game is up and
:01:30. > :01:37.are fleeing with large quantities of money. The Colonel himself is
:01:37. > :01:42.not thought to be among them. Is the net closing around Colonel
:01:42. > :01:47.Gaddafi, or have his associates found an escape route? This is
:01:47. > :01:50.Agadez, a Tuareg market town in northern Niger, important for trade
:01:50. > :01:56.across The Sahara, but now the focus of international attention
:01:56. > :02:01.amid reports that a Libyan convoy has been heading in this direction.
:02:01. > :02:07.Accurate information is sparse. We have had reports in the past few
:02:07. > :02:11.days about a number of pro-Gaddafi forces trying to exit the country.
:02:11. > :02:15.Some of those have been confirmed, some have not. We still need to
:02:15. > :02:19.confirm these most recent reports, but I think it points to an
:02:19. > :02:25.underlying - I hope it points to an underlying fact which is that many
:02:25. > :02:29.of the pro-Gaddafi forces are realising that the game is up.
:02:29. > :02:33.Around Bani Wali, south of Tripoli, Libyan rebels are engaged in a
:02:33. > :02:38.waiting game. They're trying to persuade Gaddafi loyalists to vernd
:02:38. > :02:40.in what is one of their last strongholds. The National
:02:41. > :02:44.Transitional Council has reassured tribal elders that no-one in the
:02:44. > :02:47.town will be hurt and people lay down their arms.
:02:47. > :02:52.As far as I know, the elders, they were very pleased and surprised
:02:52. > :03:00.that this is our stance. They thought that we would take avenge,
:03:00. > :03:06.especially the Gaddafi supporters that killed 13 from Bani Wali, and
:03:06. > :03:09.there are some, even from not Bani Wali, they are Libyans and we will
:03:09. > :03:12.protect them as we protect four families. The transitional
:03:12. > :03:17.authorities in Libya still hope that Colonel Gaddafi has not
:03:17. > :03:19.slipped out of the country. NATO has refused to comment on the
:03:19. > :03:25.intelligence it gathers. It all means that rumour and speculation
:03:25. > :03:29.will be at fever pitch until Gaddafi is found.
:03:29. > :03:33.Let's go now to Southampton where I can speak to Professor Jeremy
:03:33. > :03:36.Keenan from the school of oriental and African studies at the
:03:36. > :03:41.University of London. Let's talk first of all about the
:03:41. > :03:46.links between the regime in Niger and Colonel Gaddafi. What was the
:03:46. > :03:49.relationship like? We've got a new regime in nerj now. There was a
:03:49. > :03:53.coup in February last year, and the old regime was thrown out. There's
:03:53. > :03:57.then a junta took over and there's been elections, so there is a new
:03:57. > :04:00.regime, and so far a very good one. It's cleaned up a lot of the
:04:00. > :04:05.country, and the relationship between the new regime and Gaddafi
:04:05. > :04:12.is not quite as clear as the old one. I personally don't think that
:04:12. > :04:16.the new regime, the new president, President Isifu, would be
:04:16. > :04:20.particularly keen to have Gaddafi in the country. He may well
:04:20. > :04:26.facilitate his transference and transit through to somewhere else
:04:26. > :04:31.such as Burkina Faso or Senegal, but I don't think any of the powers
:04:31. > :04:36.in NATO, certainly the NTC in Libya, would really want to have Gaddafi
:04:36. > :04:40.staying in Niger for more than a transitory period. I think that is
:04:40. > :04:43.possibly the pattern we're beginning to see here.
:04:43. > :04:46.mentioned Burkina Faso. There had been reports earlier on in the day
:04:46. > :04:50.that they might offer Gaddafi asylum. A spokesman for their
:04:50. > :04:54.government has come out and said no. What's his relationship been like
:04:54. > :04:59.with that country? He's put a lot of money in there. Gaddafi has
:05:00. > :05:06.thrown a lot of money around in these countries, hundreds of
:05:06. > :05:10.millions into Ma limit i, into Niger and Burkina Faso. A lot of
:05:10. > :05:12.that money has gone into the hands of politicians, some into
:05:12. > :05:16.investments, buildings, infrastructure, so, in a sense, all
:05:16. > :05:19.of these countries have a degree of indebtedness to him, and that is
:05:19. > :05:25.through of Burkina Faso as well. There had been some reports that in
:05:25. > :05:29.that convoy that crossed over the border, there were Tuareg fighters
:05:29. > :05:33.from Niger who had been fighting with Gaddafi loyalists. Is it
:05:33. > :05:37.possible that members of the Tuareg tribe might actually protect
:05:37. > :05:41.Gaddafi loyalists within Niger? Have they the power to do that?
:05:41. > :05:45.It's a very complex situation. Yes, there's a possibility of that. The
:05:45. > :05:49.Tuareg cover much of the country from near to Tripoli right down
:05:49. > :05:55.through the part of the world we're talking about, central Sahara,
:05:55. > :05:59.Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Some of them have been on Gaddafi's side,
:05:59. > :06:03.for all sorts of different reasons; some have been against him and with
:06:03. > :06:06.the rebels. It's a very complex picture and it's rather dangerous
:06:06. > :06:09.and misleading to talk about the Tuareg as a unified tribe or
:06:09. > :06:13.something of that nature. There are divisions between them, not of
:06:13. > :06:18.their own making, but of which side they've been rather caught up on,
:06:18. > :06:22.in a sense, either for the Gaddafi or against. So a pretty complex
:06:22. > :06:25.picture there. But certainly these coming back might well have been
:06:25. > :06:30.some of those who were closer to him in terms of a body guard, yes.
:06:30. > :06:40.Who in that region is most likely to offer Gaddafi shelter, if
:06:40. > :06:45.anyone? Gosh. Mali would be quite happy to have him. He's got a lot
:06:45. > :06:48.of friends in Mali. He's got a big property in Tim buck did you and in
:06:48. > :06:54.the capital, but there will be a lot of pressure on Mali not to have
:06:54. > :06:58.him, from NATO, France, and the - I think there would be a lot of
:06:58. > :07:04.pressure on Mali not to have him, probably the same in Niger as well.
:07:04. > :07:08.If he does find or make a home in any of these countries in the Sahil,
:07:08. > :07:13.it will keep a major destabilising force in the area so his presence
:07:13. > :07:16.is not really going to be welcomed at that level, even though he may
:07:16. > :07:21.have a lot of friends on the ground and people who are indebted to him.
:07:21. > :07:25.Thank you very much. It's a relationship that is going
:07:25. > :07:29.from bad to worse: today, the Turkish Prime Minister has said
:07:29. > :07:33.that all military deals with Israel have been suspended. Israel has
:07:33. > :07:37.refused to apologise for attacking a flotilla heading for Gaza last
:07:37. > :07:40.year during which nine Turkish activists were killed. Recep Tayyip
:07:40. > :07:44.Erdogan has accused Israel of acting like a spoiled child. His
:07:44. > :07:52.comments four days after Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations
:07:52. > :07:55.with Israel following a UN report on the Gaza raid.
:07:55. > :08:00.Israeli tour I have to say at Istanbul airport. No longer sure of
:08:00. > :08:04.a welcome. Some have reported being strip
:08:04. > :08:08.searched in what Turkish officials describe as reciprocation for
:08:08. > :08:11.similar treatment of Turks in Israel. So Israeli travel agents
:08:11. > :08:16.are reporting multiple cancellations. Numbers travelling
:08:17. > :08:18.to Turkey are now less than ten per cent of what they were three years
:08:18. > :08:25.ago. The Turkish Prime Minister is
:08:26. > :08:28.offering only more of the same. Israel behaves like a spoilt child,
:08:28. > :08:33.he complained. All military deals are now suspended.
:08:33. > :08:36.15 years ago, the two countries signed a mutual defence pact
:08:36. > :08:43.bringing with it substantial military co-operation. Israel won
:08:43. > :08:50.contracts to upgrade 100 US-made fnch 4 and fnch 5 fighters in the
:08:50. > :08:55.Turkish air force. It was also to modernise 170 US-made MS-60 tanks
:08:55. > :08:59.and agreed to sell ten unmanned aircraft. They already play an
:08:59. > :09:02.important role in the Turkish army's operations against Kurdish
:09:02. > :09:06.insurgence in the south-east. It didn't end there.
:09:06. > :09:11.Israel also sold missiles and other high-tech equipment to the Turkish
:09:11. > :09:17.military. In return, Turkey allowed Israeli air force jets to join
:09:17. > :09:20.exercises in its air space. That relationship now seems finished.
:09:20. > :09:24.Although some Israeli ministers still hold out hope that it can be
:09:24. > :09:30.revived. Israel and Turkey are the two
:09:30. > :09:35.strongest and most important nations at the present time in the
:09:35. > :09:44.region, and even when we have disputes and we have several
:09:44. > :09:47.disputes, we should act out of our heads not our guts on both sides.
:09:47. > :09:52.What happened aboard the flotilla last year makes that advice very
:09:52. > :09:56.difficult to follow in Turkey - at least without some form of an
:09:56. > :10:06.Israeli apology. Right now, the Turkish government seems determined
:10:06. > :10:09.
:10:09. > :10:12.to punish Israel in any way it can. We're going to get some analysis of
:10:12. > :10:17.that situation between Turkey and Israel in a moment, but let's get
:10:17. > :10:20.some other news first. The BBC has learned that NATO-led
:10:20. > :10:24.mission in Afghanistan is considering suspending the transfer
:10:24. > :10:27.of detainees to Afghan jails in a number of areas in the country
:10:27. > :10:32.following allegations of widespread torture and the mistreatment of
:10:32. > :10:36.prisoners. Our correspondent in Kabul has the details.
:10:36. > :10:40.The allegations come in a UN report. It hasn't actually been published
:10:40. > :10:43.yet, but the NDS, the National directorate of Security, the
:10:43. > :10:48.intelgeneral service here, and indeed the police, are aware of
:10:48. > :10:51.some of the allegations in this report, and the allegations are
:10:51. > :10:56.fairly strong stuff. They suggest that prisoners have been tortured
:10:56. > :11:02.or seriously mistreated at a number of intelligence service jails and
:11:02. > :11:06.police jails across this country. The NDS denies these claims and
:11:06. > :11:08.says its jails are in proper order. That is to be treated with
:11:08. > :11:11.scepticism because we've known in the past, we've heard reports of
:11:11. > :11:17.prisoners being tortured. The big problem for the NATO-led mission
:11:17. > :11:20.here is that their plan to get out of Afghanistan is that they will
:11:20. > :11:24.transfer responsibility for security to Afghans, while some
:11:24. > :11:28.people here in Kabul are saying they now believe that it those
:11:28. > :11:31.Afghan security forces simply can't be trusted. The UN War Crimes
:11:31. > :11:34.Tribunal in the Hague has found the former Chief of Staff of the
:11:34. > :11:40.Yugoslav army guilty of crimes against humanity. During the
:11:40. > :11:43.Bosnian and Croatian wars of the 1990s, Momcilo Perisic was
:11:43. > :11:47.sentenced to 27 years in jail. He organised support for Serb armies
:11:48. > :11:51.in the two former Yugoslav republics. James Murdoch has said
:11:51. > :11:54.he stands by his evidence to British MPs investigating the News
:11:55. > :11:58.of the World phone hacking scandal. He spoke out after two former
:11:58. > :12:02.executives at News International told a parliamentary committee that
:12:03. > :12:10.Mr Murdoch knew about evidence suggesting phone hacking was
:12:10. > :12:13.widespread at the newspaper. A siege in the Australian city of
:12:13. > :12:18.siege involved a man holding his daughter and claiming to have a
:12:18. > :12:25.bomb has ended without injury. Police decided to bring the
:12:25. > :12:29.negotiations to an end forcefully after negotiations broke down.
:12:29. > :12:39.Let's return now to that story about the relationship between
:12:39. > :12:42.
:12:43. > :12:45.Turkey and Israel which has broken down severely. I'm severely Recep
:12:45. > :12:49.Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey, is demanding an apology
:12:49. > :12:55.from the Israelis. He's clearly not going to get that.
:12:55. > :13:00.What is he going to gain out of prolonging this fight, and upping
:13:00. > :13:05.the ante? It is really all about saving face. Prime Minister Erdogan
:13:05. > :13:08.wants to be seen, especially among the Turkish public, and the wider
:13:08. > :13:13.Arab public, of doing something, to try to demonstrate to the Israelis
:13:13. > :13:18.that Turkey will not accept Israel's objection to giving an
:13:18. > :13:24.apology to Turkey. He's got a lot to lose because there were quite
:13:24. > :13:30.close links by the Turkish military and the zeal military. Both Turkey
:13:30. > :13:36.and Israel will lose. Israel will lose a lucrative market for its
:13:36. > :13:41.weaponry and technology, and Israel will lose access to quality,
:13:41. > :13:45.sensitive intelligence, especially on Iran, Iraq, and Syria, and vice
:13:45. > :13:48.versa, Turkey will lose access to military technology, and access to
:13:48. > :13:52.high-quality intelligence. Washington is very worried about
:13:52. > :13:57.this, the State Department put out a statement a short time ago
:13:57. > :14:02.because obviously these are two of America's key allies in the region.
:14:02. > :14:06.What is Washington doing to try and bring them closer together? The US
:14:07. > :14:10.secretary of state Hillary Clinton, has tried to put enormous pressure
:14:10. > :14:16.on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to give an apology, a
:14:16. > :14:21.diluted form of apology, to Turkey. Prime Minister Netanyahu has
:14:21. > :14:25.refused, so now what I think what Washington is trying to do is
:14:25. > :14:31.trying to do some damage limitation, try to mend the fences, but I
:14:31. > :14:36.suspect that although Washington will chaperone both Turkey and
:14:36. > :14:38.Israel, I still think that the disagreements between them will
:14:38. > :14:42.escalate. Briefly, the Prime Minister also said today that he
:14:42. > :14:46.was going to increase naval patrols by Turkey in the Eastern
:14:46. > :14:52.Mediterranean. This is not going to go down well with Israel, is it?
:14:52. > :14:57.Israel will not be happy to see Turkish ships on the patrolling the
:14:57. > :15:04.Eastern Mediterranean, but I do not think that Turkey will try to break
:15:04. > :15:07.the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Thank you very much.
:15:07. > :15:11.Millions of people across Italy went on strike today piling the
:15:11. > :15:17.pressure on a government desperately trying to produce and
:15:17. > :15:20.enforce a credible austerity plan. Italy is the eurozone's third
:15:20. > :15:23.largest economy, and its ability to take control of its finances is
:15:23. > :15:29.considered essential for the stability of the single currency.
:15:29. > :15:32.The Italian cabinet is, as we speak, holding an extraordinary meeting to
:15:32. > :15:36.put the final touches on an austerity plan and discuss the best
:15:37. > :15:40.way to put it through parliament. We can now speak to our Rome
:15:40. > :15:46.correspondent. This austerity plan has been through quite a few
:15:46. > :15:50.changes, hasn't it, since it was first agreed earlier last month?
:15:50. > :15:56.has indeed. It has been zig-zagging all the way, and Mr Berlusconi put
:15:56. > :16:00.forward the idea for an increase in VAT, and then he said he withdrew
:16:00. > :16:04.it, and then he put it in again and said it would just last for three
:16:04. > :16:08.months. There's been talk about changing pension arrangements,
:16:08. > :16:14.there's been talk about a wealth tax which was originally going to
:16:14. > :16:18.affect people with an income of over 100,000 euros. This we
:16:18. > :16:20.understand has been changed. The percentage is going to be less than
:16:20. > :16:24.before. In other words, Mr Berlusconi has shown that his
:16:24. > :16:28.government is really rather weak, and there are too many people
:16:28. > :16:32.lobbying - interest groups - lobbying to get a better deal out
:16:32. > :16:35.of this austerity package. Because the wealth tax in particular was
:16:35. > :16:39.quite controversial, with lots of Italian footballers jumped up and
:16:39. > :16:49.down about that one. Well, what happened was that it caused a
:16:49. > :16:49.
:16:49. > :16:53.strike. It caused a fortnight's delay in the start of the Italian
:16:53. > :16:56.Serie A games. A member of the Northern League, one of the
:16:56. > :17:00.government ministers, who said it was very very important for
:17:00. > :17:03.footballers to be able to earn lots of money, and, of course, the
:17:03. > :17:09.government appears to agree. The whole way in which the government
:17:09. > :17:16.has handled this affair seems to show that Mr Berlusconi does not
:17:16. > :17:20.have full control of his government. He is enmeshed in various scandals
:17:20. > :17:25.affecting him personally, and it remains to be seen, actually, just
:17:25. > :17:30.how the financial markets are going to react to this much tweaked
:17:30. > :17:33.austerity budget which is being passed by parliament tonight and
:17:33. > :17:37.tomorrow. Mr Berlusconi set a deadline of Thursday for getting
:17:37. > :17:42.the whole package approved by the parliament but it's by no means
:17:42. > :17:46.sure that the European Central Bank is going to continue purchasing
:17:46. > :17:51.Italian government bonds as it has been doing in recent days, and this
:17:51. > :17:56.has helped the Italians immensely. We will just have to wait and see.
:17:56. > :18:01.Thank you very much. Helicopters have begun lifting
:18:01. > :18:05.supplies to communities cut off by a powerful typhoon in central and
:18:05. > :18:10.western Japan. It has been confirmed that almost 40 people
:18:10. > :18:17.have been killed and that more than 50 are missing after the country's
:18:17. > :18:22.most powerful storm in recent years powered landslides and floods. The
:18:22. > :18:26.back back prefrequenture was the most heavily hit. Days after the
:18:26. > :18:29.typhoon lashed western Japan, rescuers are still hoping to find
:18:29. > :18:34.survivors. Police teams are flying into the
:18:34. > :18:38.remote mountains. The death toll is rising, and dozens of people are
:18:38. > :18:44.still missing. The airlift was taking in supplies,
:18:44. > :18:48.too. Villages have been cut off by landslides, the mostly elderly
:18:48. > :18:52.residents left without food, electricity, and water.
:18:52. > :18:58.The Hamlet of Nachi Katsuura is filled with debris. For the
:18:58. > :19:00.Japanese, a painful reminder of the tsunami in March. The local mayor
:19:00. > :19:06.found his daughter's body on Sunday. His wife is missing and presumed
:19:07. > :19:10.dead too. TRANSLATION: I have to think about
:19:10. > :19:15.how to help the people of the town deal with this disaster. Only after
:19:15. > :19:21.that can I think about my family. I hope that I can find my wife soon
:19:21. > :19:25.to send off my family with my daughter.
:19:25. > :19:32.24-year-old Sachi Teremoto was due to celebrate her engagement on the
:19:32. > :19:35.day the storm swept in. Elsewhere, in Totsukawa, a swear house filled
:19:35. > :19:38.with explosives has been destroyed. More than half a tonne of material
:19:38. > :19:43.used for blasting tunnels is somewhere in the mud, hampering the
:19:43. > :19:49.relief effort. Railways and roads across the
:19:49. > :19:54.region have been washed away. Japan's new Prime Minister is
:19:54. > :19:57.hoping to travel to the areas affected by the typhoon, according
:19:57. > :20:02.to the government's chief spokesman. So far, there's been little
:20:02. > :20:06.criticism of his response to the disaster, but he'll be mindful that
:20:06. > :20:13.inept handling of the earthquake and tsunami cost his predecessor
:20:13. > :20:17.his job. On September 11th 2001, there were
:20:17. > :20:22.only a handful of survivors above the point at which the Al-Qaeda
:20:22. > :20:32.piloted planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center. This is
:20:32. > :20:33.
:20:33. > :20:42.the remarkable story of Brian Clark and sandy pram gnat who escaped the
:20:42. > :20:45.Stanley Praimnath gives thanks to the God he believes sent a guardian
:20:45. > :20:51.angel to protect him. Ten years ago, Stanley thought his last day on
:20:51. > :20:55.earth had come when a plane samd into the 81 is it floor of the
:20:55. > :21:01.World Trade Center south tower, as he was at his desk on the phone.
:21:01. > :21:05.I'm looking towards the Statue of Liberty, and something caught my
:21:05. > :21:10.eyes. As the plane is getting closer, I can hear the revving
:21:10. > :21:16.sound, as if total acceleration would pick up more force. I
:21:16. > :21:20.screamed, I said, "Lord, I can't do this, you take over."
:21:20. > :21:24.Brian Clark worked three floors above Stanley in the south tower.
:21:24. > :21:27.The two men had never met. He was three floors below me. Brian told
:21:28. > :21:31.me how a discussion with his colleagues about what to do after
:21:31. > :21:37.the plane hit the building was interrupted by the sound of Stanley
:21:37. > :21:41.seeking help. I heard "Help, I'm buried, I can't breathe." That sort
:21:41. > :21:45.of thing. Brian and Stanley worked away at the walls separating them.
:21:45. > :21:48.I said the only way out of here is for you to come up the wall, so he
:21:48. > :21:52.scrambled up, I missed him the first time, the second time when he
:21:52. > :21:57.jumped, I caught something, hevd him up and over the wall, and we
:21:57. > :22:02.fell back down on the ground. He gave me this big kiss. I said, "I'm
:22:02. > :22:07.Brian." I stood up. He said "I'm Stanley." He said "All my life I
:22:07. > :22:11.live as an only child. I was born and raised in Canada. I always
:22:11. > :22:16.wanted a brother, and I find that man today. This good man put a hand
:22:16. > :22:21.on my shoulder, and he looked at me, and he said, "Come on, Buddy, let's
:22:21. > :22:26.go home." Just minutes after the two men
:22:26. > :22:29.escaped from the south tower, the unthinkable happened.
:22:29. > :22:33.Before losing one another in the confusion, Stanley had given Brian
:22:33. > :22:38.his business card. I had this feeling come over me
:22:38. > :22:41.that there was no Stanley at all, a guardian angel kind of concept that
:22:41. > :22:45.was there, I imagined it all to get me out of the building.
:22:45. > :22:50.I reached in my pocket, and I pulled out the business card, so I
:22:50. > :22:54.knew there was really a Stanley. The line between life and death
:22:54. > :22:58.that day was a clear one. Almost everyone above the point at
:22:58. > :23:03.which the planes hit the twin towers perished.
:23:03. > :23:07.Stanley and Brian were among a handful of survivors. Brian loves
:23:07. > :23:11.me unconditionally, and if I was to be in trouble again, God forbid, I
:23:11. > :23:15.don't want anybody else to rescue me but Brian Clark. Is it possible
:23:15. > :23:19.that Stanley helped to save you? There's no question that as the
:23:19. > :23:22.events unrolled that day, I happened to be the one that heard
:23:23. > :23:27.him. I went in and got him. I came back with him, and together we dug
:23:27. > :23:32.through the debris, so we were dependent on each other, absolutely.
:23:32. > :23:35.Brian will join Stanley at his New York church on the tenth
:23:35. > :23:39.anniversary of the attacks. The two men who became blood
:23:39. > :23:49.brothers will mourn their lost colleagues and reflect on their
:23:49. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:55.remarkable bond. 8 NASA has has released new images
:23:55. > :24:00.of the Apollo landing sites on the moon. The images show signs of
:24:00. > :24:04.equipment the lunar Rovers and a trail of footprints left on the
:24:04. > :24:09.lunar surface by astronauts 40 years ago.
:24:09. > :24:14.This was the best view we had of a lunar landing site - until now.
:24:14. > :24:21.This new image is from a spacecraft in low orbit. Look closely, and you
:24:21. > :24:24.can see the footprints of astronauts as they bounced along
:24:24. > :24:29.the lunar surface, and here, a trail left by their moon buggy. In
:24:29. > :24:32.the vacuum of space, the hardware has remained in pristine condition.
:24:32. > :24:36.What is wonderful about these pictures is their clarity. We can
:24:36. > :24:40.now see the individual experiments left on the moon, but the
:24:40. > :24:45.footprints, particularly for Apollo 17, the last footprints left on the
:24:45. > :24:50.moon, and we can see they've hardly changed in 40 years.
:24:50. > :24:53.It's one small step for man... was more than 40 years ago that
:24:53. > :24:59.Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was the first of just six lunar
:24:59. > :25:04.landings. The astronauts had fun, but having
:25:04. > :25:07.achieved its goal of beating the Russians to the moon, NASA
:25:07. > :25:14.cancelled the Apollo programme, and in 1974, the Americans lefpt the
:25:14. > :25:18.moon and haven't been back since. The equipment on the lunar surface
:25:18. > :25:22.is all that's left of the moon missions. The Rovers, the landers,
:25:22. > :25:27.the flagpoles, will be preserved for millions of years as a
:25:27. > :25:32.testament to a heroic era of human space travel.
:25:32. > :25:35.NASA has scrapped its shuttle programme but says it wants to go
:25:35. > :25:40.back to the moon in a new spacecraft. Many doubt whether the
:25:40. > :25:44.US has the money or or desire to do so. The new pictures should lay to
:25:44. > :25:50.rest, though, the conspiracy theories that the moon landings
:25:50. > :25:53.were shot in a Hollywood studio as part of an elaborate hoax.
:25:53. > :25:59.Amazing to think those footprints are still there. A quick reminder
:25:59. > :26:04.of our main news: a heavily armed convoy of 15 Libyan vehicles is
:26:04. > :26:09.driving through the African state of Niger. Ministers in Niger say
:26:09. > :26:18.Colonel Gaddafi is not on board but opposition leaders say they believe
:26:18. > :26:25.the vehicles are carrying gold and money. Meanwhile, opposition forces
:26:25. > :26:28.have finished their talks with the elders of Bani Wali.
:26:28. > :26:32.This was one of the last bastions of support for Colonel Gaddafi.
:26:32. > :26:38.Turkey says all military ties with Israel have been suspended. It's
:26:38. > :26:42.the latest sign of growing Turkish anger over Israel's refusal to
:26:42. > :26:47.apologise for a raid on the flotilla heading for Gaza last year
:26:48. > :26:56.during which nine activists were killed. That's all from the
:26:56. > :27:01.programme.. From me and the rest of programme.. From me and the rest of
:27:01. > :27:06.the team, goodbye. Hello, we've all been buffeted
:27:06. > :27:11.today by strong strong winds and heavy showers and the winds will
:27:11. > :27:13.not die down any time soon. Tomorrow, very breezy and some of
:27:13. > :27:16.us will have to contend with further showers. Low pressure is
:27:16. > :27:20.driving our weather. You see the isobars close together responsible
:27:20. > :27:23.for those strong winds and still that noticeable breeze going into
:27:23. > :27:28.Wednesday. Most of the showers will be to the north-west of the UK,
:27:28. > :27:30.southern and eastern areas will avoid most of the showers and stay
:27:30. > :27:34.dry. North-west England, showers merging to give longer spells of
:27:34. > :27:37.rain again durgt afternoon, north- east England, though, largely dry
:27:38. > :27:43.and bright, across the Midlands, East Anglia, and much of southern
:27:43. > :27:46.England, broken cloud, the cloud racing through the sky, but sunny
:27:47. > :27:50.spells and mostly dry, just the odd shower coming through especially to
:27:50. > :27:53.coastal parts of south-west England. Southern Wales looking mostly dry
:27:54. > :27:58.but across the north, showers here merging to give a longer spell of
:27:58. > :28:02.rain into the late afternoon and it will be turn wetter across western
:28:02. > :28:05.parts of Northern Ireland. The further south-east you are, it
:28:05. > :28:09.stays mainly dry. Further showers coming into western Scotland, again
:28:09. > :28:14.developing into spells of rain later in the day. The east, apart