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This is BBC World News Today with me the Zeinab Badawi. The | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Palestinian president raises the stakes and takes a gamble by | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
announcing he will be asking for recognition as a member state next | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
week at the UN. TRANSLATION: We will be going to the United Nations | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
to ask for a legitimate right we choose to obtain, full membership | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
of the state of Palestine. Fierce fighting in two Libyan towns still | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
held by pro-Gadaffi forces as the new interim Government gets Libya's | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
UN seat. Europe's leaders are warned by | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
America at a finance summit in Poland that the euro crisis | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
threatens the global economy it will stop all hope extinguished as | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
police confirm a four men trapped in a flooded coal mine in South | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
Wales have all been found dead. It may sound like something out of | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Star Wars, but American astronomers have say they have discovered a | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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Hello and welcome. The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
confirmed he will go to the UN Security Council next week to ask | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
for a full UN membership. It is a bold move because it would amount | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
to an implicit recognition of state of. Washington has already said it | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
will veto any such vote, set in the Palestinians on a collision course. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
International, televised address, Mahmoud Abbas said he will apply | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
for a state within the 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Here is Jeremy Bowen. The campaign for a Palestinian | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
membership of the UN stopped the traffic in a manner in the Israeli | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
occupied West Bank. Israel and the Americans say going to the UN could | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
put a stop to any chance of peace. President Mahmoud Abbas, and a | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
speech broadcast live from Ramallah, announced his determination to go | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
ahead with an application be Americans say they will veto. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
TRANSLATION: We are going to the UN to ask for the legitimate right of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
full membership. We will take with us the suffering and hope of our | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
people. He rejected criticism he wanted to not legitimise Israel. He | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
said the occupation and settlement of the lands Israel captured in | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
1967 is that what Palestinians want as a state. Palestinians say they | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
have rehearsed long enough. Their security forces on another practice | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
run are ready for independence, they say, along with all the other | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
institutions a state needs. But Israel's stubbornness, the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
President said, mean that decisions are at a dead end, so they are | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
turning to the UN. Israel's campaign against includes a video, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
blaming the Palestinians for not accepting a Jewish state. What | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
about security arrangements? What about Jerusalem? It all needs to be | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
in an agreement. In an agreement you give and take. In a resolution | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
they just take. This is a big mistake. This is not what it seems. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Both sides are Israelis. They are rehearsing for an attack by | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Palestinians on a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Many Israelis | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
predict a UN vote will touch of such violence. The ingredients of | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
this conflict are always the same. What the Palestinians are trying to | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
do is to change the diplomatic game decisively in their favour. It is a | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
risky strategy, given the hostility of the Israelis and the Americans. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
The talk of imminent violence may be overdone, but there is no doubt | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
the temperature is rising again. The conflict is going to continue | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
whatever happens next week. The question is whether the | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Palestinian-UN tactic makes matters better or worse. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Let's talk about the implications of the announcement. We are joint | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
from Washington by Ghaith al Omari, a former adviser to Mahmoud Abbas | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
and executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine. | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
Will it make matters worse or better? This as you said raises the | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
stakes. We are in a game of diplomatic chicken, classic and | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
brinkmanship. Everybody will be raising the stakes publicly as | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
intensive activity happens behind the scenes to reach a compromise. | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
The Palestinians might face loss of services on the ground, the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Israelis might be isolated, and the UN may be divided. Let's have a | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
look at the Palestinians. It is a unilateral move. The Americans and | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
the Israelis have said that they cannot do that, they have to have | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
they no decision process. But Mahmoud Abbas says in the end, we | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
are going to have made associations. What is he playing at? So he | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
believes in negotiation. He is someone who has spent his whole | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
life advocating negotiations. But there is a sense of frustration. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Things have been stalled by reality on the ground and they have been | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
changing in terms of settlement building. He is trying to remind | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
the world that it still exists. The question to ask his do the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Palestinians stand to gain or to lose? They are the weaker party in | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
this formula and they might end up losing more than they gain. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Washington is unhappy, Congress, of course, and they find a great deal | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
of activities on the West Bank. That money could be threatened if | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
he carries on with theirs. absolutely. I have been involved in | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the peace process for a long time and I have seen diplomatic | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
disagreements come and go. But there is one thing that has been | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
happening on the ground over the last couple of years. In terms of | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
improving the economy, the institution building and relied, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
this might be the ultimate victim of this move and that would be | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
truly tragic. That institution building project is working. What | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
about a compromise, a water down membership of the UN, and observers | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
stayed for the Palestinians, like the Vatican? There are many | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
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similarities. These are being proposed. Tony Blair has been | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
having great efforts to propose ideas. There is a great chance for | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
that. At the end of the day, this is a diplomatic blip and we go back | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
to what will ease matters, getting a closer solution. It has been far | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
easier for Libya's interim Government to get their seat at the | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
UN, despite opposition from some African and Latin American members. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
The National Transitional Council now hold their seat at the General | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Assembly. Libyan forces backing the interim Government are renewing | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
their attacks on Sirte and Bani Walid, another one of Gaddafi's few | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
remaining strongholds. In Bani Walid fighters have pulled back | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
under heavy fire. Richard Galpin has this report. This new assault | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
on Bani Walid began early in the morning. Fighters loyal to the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
interim Government picking their way through the streets, trying to | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
push forward towards their goal, the town centre. But it is slow and | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
dangerous. Close by are Colonel Gaddafi's snipers and other gunmen. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
There may be more fighters involved in the attack this time, but it is | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
still proving to be a tough fight for control of what is a key town. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
A new front has also opened up in the battle for the strategic | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
coastal town of Sirte, Colonel Gaddafi's birthplace. Thousands of | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
fighters closing in from the west and south. They are breaking | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
through the outer defences, getting to within a few miles of the centre | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
and taking control of the airport. But here they are facing fierce | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
resistance from Gaddafi's men. While Colonel Gaddafi's men are | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
making what appears to be a file stand in the towns which they still | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
control, in the capital Tripoli more and more are world leaders | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
have been arriving to give their support to the new, interim | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
Government. Today it was the turn of the Turkish Prime Minister. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Tayyip Erdogan was following in the footsteps of the British and French | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
leaders who came here yesterday. He also promised to help Libya make | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
the difficult transition to a democratic country. Speaking in | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
martyrs Square in the heart of Tripoli he praised the Libyans, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
saying they proved it was impossible for any Government to | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
stand in the way of the might and will of the people. It was a barbed | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
comment aimed at the repressive Government in Syria, another Arab | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
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country in turmoil. A BBC correspondent from BBC Arabic | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
has been injured was reporting from Bani Walid. Mohammad Ballout, seen | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
here, was preparing to go live on air when he and other journalists | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
were targeted by sniper fire. His injuries are not life-threatening | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
and medical teams are looking after him. As fighters loyal to Libya's | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
interim council make their push into Gaddafi stronghold, other | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
members of his inner circle have gone into hiding. Colonel Gaddafi | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
has pledged to continue the fight in Libya, but some senior aides and | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
family members have sought safety in neighbouring Niger. Thousands of | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
sub-Saharan Africans have also crossed through the desert to | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
escape the war. They were caught in Libya's war, | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
hundreds of refugees, most of them from West Africa, who have | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
travelled hundreds of kilometres across the desert. It is thought | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
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more than 150,000 have already made it to northern Niger. Senior aides | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
of Colonel Gaddafi reach the capital further south. They had to | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
pass through this checkpoint at the city limits. Convoys loyal to | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Colonel Gaddafi are being escorted through hundreds of kilometres | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
through the sentry points. The authorities here expect more to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
come as they struggle to secure the past desert borders owner with | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
Libya. The Government has confirmed that Gaddafi's son, among those now | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
here, it remains under close surveillance, his movements are | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
restricted. Under pressure the Government has defended its actions. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Ministers say their main concern are the weapons left over from the | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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Libyan war or crossing the border. This concentration is not really | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
these people fleeing the war from Libya. The worst is the arms which | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
can be in any hands. This man is another victim of Libya's award. A | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Libyan national, he was granted permission to stay in Niger after | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
he fled his home country to escape the violence. He opposed Colonel | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Gaddafi, but his problem is not that, but old members of the Libyan | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
regime are seeking refuge in Niger. TRANSLATION: It is up to Niger if | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
they want to harbour a senior Gaddafi loyalists, but those guys | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
are rich, we are poor and have nothing at all. Neither the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Government here, nor are the NTC leaders can help us. They have | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
offered us nothing. More and more a West Africans have left Libya since | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Tripoli fell. Many have been accused of working as mercenaries | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
to defend the Gaddafi regime. In countries like Niger they benefited | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
from the former Libyan rule and now that relationship leaves the | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Government here in an awkward situation. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
These days any meeting involving EU finance ministers is described as a | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
crisis meeting and certainly today European Union finance ministers | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
got together in Poland to discuss the euro-zone crisis. The United | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
States has also warned that the EU's problems have threaten to | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
undermine further the global economy. But ministers in Poland's | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
delayed a decision until October to pay out a second instalment of a | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
bail-out to Greece. Greece will go bankrupt if it does not receive the | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
funds amounting to $11 billion. They had other central European | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
bank said concerted action was needed. It calls for being alert, | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
putting our house in order in all the countries individually. It also | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
calls for collective orderliness. There are a whole load of decisions | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
to be taken and they have to be full and as rapid as possible and | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
implementation of all the decisions that have been taken have to be | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
rapid. Chris Morris has been following events in Poland. First | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
of all, why did they delayed his decision on the second tranche of | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
money to Greece? It is actually the 6th tranche of money, part of the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
first bail-out to Greece. The reason it has been delayed is | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
because there is not agree more on how to proceed and the policy is | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
one of carrot and stick. They want to give more money to Greece, | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
partly because they are not ready for the consequences were Greece to | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
have to default on its debts, but there are those countries, Germany | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
among them, who still believe that Greece could be doing more. Instead | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
of a proving this next tranche of money right now, they have delayed | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
it for a few weeks. It means there will be plenty more talk in the | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
next few weeks. It is a bit of a higher risk strategy, especially on | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
a day when so many people have come out and said, no more delay, it is | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
time for action. But that is the way this entity works. 17 different | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
governments in the euro-zone and you have to try and crush all their | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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different opinions into one He it must raise serious questions. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
They say that they can. What they cannot do, and they all admitted, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
his move as fast as the markets might demand. On the one hand, they | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
are criticised for going too slowly, but on the other hand, they are | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
criticised for not consulting their electric and Parliament. That is | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
what is happening at the moment. Some of the agreements made in an | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
emergency summit in July have to be approved by all 17 parliaments in | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
the eurozone and some parliaments are basically dragging their feet a | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
little because they are unhappy about some of the decisions which | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
have been made. So it is a very difficult political mix. Forcing | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
the pace and tried to get a handle on this while also trying to listen | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
to the voters back home. Thank you very much. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Now let us look at some of the other main developments. Human | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
rights activists say that security forces in Syria have shot dead at | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
least 15 people. They say that four people died during a raid in a town | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
near Hammad. They fired at random after Friday prayers. They were | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
seeking to prevent pro-democracy demonstrations. The Prime Minister | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
of Pakistan has said that he will take charge of the belief benefit - | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
- belief that that for millions of victims who have suffered from | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
monsoon rains which have not yet recovered from similar floods last | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
year. The Deputy First Minister of | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Northern Ireland has announced he is going to run for the Irish | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
presidency. His party Sinn Fein has confirmed that the former IRA | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
leader will contest next month's elections. He is due to be formally | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
endorsed by his party leadership over the weekend. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Police have confirmed that all four miners trapped in a flooded coal | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
mine in South Wales since Thursday have been found dead. Rescue | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
workers had been searching through a maze of tunnels to try to save | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
the men. Officials say that everything humanly possible meet -- | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
humanly possible had been done. A police investigation is under way. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
The rescue teams said they had that they met such difficult conditions | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
but they worked day and night in the hope of finding at least one | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
miner still alive. This evening, their hopes were finally dashed. | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
can confirm that the 4th dead miner has now been recovered from the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Gleision colliery. On behalf of us all, I would like to express our | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
deepest and most sincere condolences to the families of | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
Philip Hill, David Powell, Garry Jenkins and Charles Bresnan. I can | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
confirm that of the four deceased miners, they were found in close | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
proximity to each other, one was on the exit side of the blockage as we | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
know. The other three were covered this afternoon were all found | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
together in the area where they had been working. Families, friends and | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
neighbours suffered an agonising wait for information in the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
community centre. Over the course of the day, the news just got worse | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
as one by one, the rescue teams found more bodies. They receive | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
messages of support from around the country and around the world. Gifts | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
of food and toys for the children. This has been a crippling growth -- | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
crippling blow. One miner, his wife did not want him to go to work | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
yesterday but he insisted. It is just devastated. Not only for the | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
community but for the whole valley. Everybody is devastated. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
operation had been hampered by the silt and debris carried by the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
flood which blocked the tunnels where the four men died. There will | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
be an inquiry into the strategy and politicians from all sides said | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
that their thoughts were with the community. I spoke to the commander | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
and it is clear that the emergency services have done everything they | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
can and worked incredibly hard and have not lacked for anything but it | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
is at a desperately sad situation brought everyone concerned. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
these are tight-knit communities that this is a tragedy not just for | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
those families but for the community as well. News all the | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
amazing rescue effort that happened but sadly it was in vain -- you saw. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Mining has long been at the heart of life in these ballets but now | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
the questions will begin about the risks the miners faced and whether | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
their deaths could have been prevented. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
A London financial trader wept in court this afternoon as he was | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
charged with fraud in connection with a �1.3 billion loss at the | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Swiss banking group UBS. The 31- year-old was remanded in custody | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
after the hearing. There was a big media presence at | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
the City of London magistrates' court but this was the only glimpse | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
they got of the man accused of a �1.3 billion fraud. He was remanded | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
in custody until another hearing next week. He wept in court as he | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
stood facing charges of fraud and two of false accounting, one of | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
which dated back to 2008. He was a senior trader in the London office | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
of the Swiss bank UBS. He was arrested at his desk in the early | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
hours of yesterday. It is alleged he dishonestly abused his position, | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
causing losses to the bank. His family home is in Ghana. His father, | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
a former UN official, said that the family was heartbroken and hoping - | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
- hoping to hear his son's side of the stories. Whatever the details | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
of the transactions, the big questions being asked are wide work | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
senior managers not aware of what was going on and how could losses | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
of more than a billion pounds been ranked up with out their knowledge? | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
It is not incredible in the sense that it will be very hard to | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
regulate away any of these sorts of accidents happening. It is very | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
difficult to believe it has happened just now when there is so | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
much attention being put on better enforcement of regulations. It it | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
is not clear precisely what kind of deals he was carrying out. His job | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
involved complex and potentially risky trading with the Bank's money. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
To minimise risks, there is a technique called hedging. A first | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
transaction might involve putting money on a market move going up, | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
but a second transaction puts money on it going down and it can only go | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
wrong when the balancing bet is not made or is not be enough. We do not | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
know what has happened in this particular case. There are only | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
allegations of rogue trading. But allowing some on the authority to | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
run up a �2 billion debts... The man concern was a man with a degree | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
in computer science. I am not sure what sum of money I would allow | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
someone with that background to have but it would not be that much. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Just what was going on and why his bosses did not seem to know they | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
only become clear when the full case gets to trial. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
It may sound like something out of Star Wars but American astronomers | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
say they have discovered a planet orbiting two sons. The Saturn size | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
planet has been named Kepler-16b and it is the first concerned -- | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
first confirmed solar system of its kind. It circles the true sons | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
every two ended and 29 days but is thought to be too cold to support | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
life. -- 229 days. I am joined by the astronomer David | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
White House. It is a bit like Star Wars. Didn't star was have a planet | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
that went to run two sons? That is right, it is called Tatooine and | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
there's a famous scene with Luke Skywalker watching the double | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
sunset. It is a gas giant so it does not have a surface but if it | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
has a nude, a rocky moon, then if you look to towards it, you would | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
seek the two sons in your Sky because they are smaller than our | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
Sun and one of them is a yellow and the other is a deep red. That would | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
be blocked by dark scars of sunspots on net, much larger than | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
the sunspots on our staff. It would be a spectacular multi-coloured | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
display which you would see in the sky. You are used start and son at | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
interchangeably? The sun is a star? The sun is a typical staff. This | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
just goes to show that because most from planets and most stars are not | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
like our son, solitary stars, they are part of multiple systems. That | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
is the first one we have found where the planet orbits both of | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
them. As we explore the cosmos, we will no doubt find planets which | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
orbit two stars in a figure of eight orbit or something weird like | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
that. Ballet movements in the solar system. What does this tell us | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
about our Earth, or the space? shows us the diversity of planetary | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
systems. One of the major themes of discovery in recent years is that | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
we have found planets orbiting other stars. Before that, we only | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
knew about our own planets. Now we are finding more and more and these, | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
we are finding weird and wonderful combinations. I know it is a | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
typical question but I have to ask, could there be life potentially? | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
Not on the planet that we have found because it is a gas giant. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
But if it has a rocky moon, that is a possibility. It is a cold planet, | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
so these two sons are not warming it up? If they are very cool but | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
one of them has huge explosions on the surface and that might make a | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
difference to a rocky moon of Kepler-16b. A I have learnt so much. | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
Thank you very much. A reminder of our main story. The | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Palestinian President has confirmed that he will ask for full | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
membership of the United Nations next week in a national address | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
from the Mahler on the West Bank, he said that he would apply to the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Security Council within the 1967 borders with the capital as east | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Jerusalem. That is all. Now the weather. Enjoy | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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It has been fairly cloudy and this weekend is not looking that | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
inspiring. Blustery showers on the cards for tomorrow. More of the | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
same poll Sunday. That is courtesy to an area of low pressure pushing | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
its way into northern Scotland overnight. Some pretty dusty winds | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
to boot. Where ever you are tomorrow, you are likely to pick up | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
one or two showers. In between, some decent spells of sunshine. It | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
is likely they will become banded together in places. Through | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
southernmost counties, it is a bit hit and miss. Sunny spells and a | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
few scattered showers. It is for south-west England and Wales that | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
are exposed to the dusty south westerly winds where they will be | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
showers packing in for much of the day -- gusty south westerly winds. | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
Further north in Northern Ireland, here again, fairly cloudy and at | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
some scattered showers. They will be on the heavy side at times. For | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
northern Scotland, the remnants of the weather front still bringing | :28:07. | :28:11. |