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Good evening and welcome to World News Today. More union -- European | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
this union. They are at another crunch summit but yet again the | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
prospects on a rumoured official rescue plan looks slim. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
She once afforded a from our own Government, Angela Merkel says that | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
of the euro fails, Europe fails. still have a lot of problems to | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
solve. The work is not yet done but I believe that told her here today | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
to get further run. Questions are raised of the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
benefits of breast cancer screening. Some experts argue they can do more | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
harm than good. Also coming up: The terror of | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Somali pirates as one couple reaches a year held hostage, we | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
talk to the South African negotiating to secure their release. | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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And the last of America's Cold War bombs comes to an end. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Hello and welcome. Another crunch summit and another opportunity that | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
may well be missed. European leaders are meeting right now and | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Brussels tried to come up of a way out our share of the UK's own debt | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
crisis. The proposals being discussed include a bigger write- | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
off of Greek debt, further guarantees. Jon Sopel joins us from | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Brussels. Part one is over. The meeting | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
involving all 27 members at the European Union broke up a few | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
minutes ago. The Polish presidency briefing on that. The really | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
critical one is the one that is about to get underway. That | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
involves the 17 members of the eurozone, trying to work a ways of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
dealing with the Greek Government debt and how much of a write-off | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
they should be for private investors. Also, how to reinforce | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
and strengthened the bail-out fund and also what to do about the | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Italian debt. Those are the key issues that are going to occupy the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
17 leaders this evening. Angela Merkel, the key power-broker in all | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
this, said that we are aiming to get a bit further on. A bit further | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
on. She had been talking about a comprehensive settlement. That | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
seems to be a bit of away off. 14 times in the past 18 months, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Europe's leaders have driven this week, pledging to fix the eurozone | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
crisis. But never has the pressure been bigger than today. It is in | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
British interests that we solve this crisis. Some of the issues | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
discussed this afternoon are directly relevant to Britain in | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
terms of strengthening banks across Europe. In any event, we need a | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
have the greatest support for the comprehensive solution possible. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
The mood on arrival was that many problems remain to be resolved and | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
tense negotiations lie ahead. are all going to have to work hard | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
but there is also a lot of good will. Some have called this the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
summit of the last chance. Can Europe's leaders finally adopt a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
plan that does with the markets that they have taken control of the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
debt crisis that began in Greece? The main players in all of this, | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
Germany. Before today's summit, the German Parliament met. Angela | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Merkel told MPs that Europe was watching them. They are watching | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
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whether we are willing and able to deal with this. Our economic and | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
monetary union must pass the severe test and emerge stronger in the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
long-term. We all know that this is the greatest test that we have | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
faced. The Parliament voted to boost the eurozone's bail-out fund, | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
a key factor in the talks in Brussels. And here is the challenge. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
To/Greek debt by encouraging banks to take a glosses by around 50%. To | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
strengthen Europe's banks, perhaps Spike 100 billion euros and to | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
increase the firepower of the EU's main be a light hand by over one | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
trillion Euros. Also the centre of attention, the Italian Prime | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Minister Silvio Berlusconi. France and Germany had insisted he bring | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
with him a letter setting out the economic reforms he would make. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Back in Rome, there was a scuffle in the Parliament over plans to | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
raise the retirement age. The eurozone crisis is exacerbating | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Italy's political crisis. Europe's leaders will meet well into the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
evening. What the markets will be watching for is not just political | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
stay was a detail, hard numbers indicate that this time a deal is | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
more than sticking plaster. Let's speak with our correspondent | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Richard who is in Rome. We understand that Silvio Berlusconi | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
came with a letter of intent. Do we know any detail about it? I have | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
been speaking to a member of his Parliament -- his party here. He is | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
not certain what is in the letter but he spelt out what he thought | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
was in it. One is that key issue of increasing the pension age. He says | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
there has been a compromise reached with one of the keep coalition | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
partners which was crucial. So he is saying that is in the letter. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
And there are other plans, cutting bureaucracy. And also according to | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
the senator, selling off some of the vast amounts of realistic that | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the Government bonds. It amounts to hundreds of billions of Euros. The | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
other thing he was saying was that they were considering selling off | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Government sticks and national companies, which she says are quite | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
significant. So he was putting a positive spin on it. There are ways | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Italy can decrease its debt. The question is whether these are in | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the lighter and also the timetable. Will this be implemented | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
effectively and quickly. Also, the other part is the instability it | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
brings. Silvio Berlusconi and his Northern League partners. That is | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
absolutely crucial. That is the party that they have been | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
negotiating over the pension age. There was a stumbling block over | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
that. The Northern League is vital for the Government. It could not | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
survive in power without the support of the Northern League. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
They have to keep them on board which is why there has been | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
something of a problem with increasing the pension age. What | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
the senator is saying is that it will not affect everybody. People | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
coming close to retirement now, it will not affect them now. According | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
to some media reports, it could be implemented in 15 years. For the | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
rest of the European Union, that would be far too late. Thank you | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
very much for that. Wheat always get an idea of what | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
might be going on. What is your sense of it? We are going to get in | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
an agreement in principle tonight. It would be a disaster if we did | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
not. Presumably it has to have figures attached to it, otherwise | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
it is just good intention. You are going to get agreement on various | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
structures that will be created, leverage mechanisms. They may not | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
have figures because one of them are so was to be pots of money. We | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
do not know how much or how little people are going to put into these | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
things. The haircut. The famous Greek hair cut. Do you think we | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
will get a figure on by how much they Greeks, private investors, are | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
going to have a take a loss on Greig debt? It depends on what | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
happens on the negotiations. The idea is to do a volunteer early, | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
that is the banks, without too much trouble saying they would give up | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
so much. Creases in such a big hole, it may need a her park that is so | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
large that it may not be presented as voluntary. -- it may need an | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
hair cut. Nobody is sure how much. It may have serious knock-on | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
effects. There are insurance policies. You do not know who is | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
liable to pick up the debt, that is what creates uncertainty. We do not | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
know who the contracts are going to. Certain institutions have a lot of | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
these contracts and then are expected to pay out on. That | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
weakens their position. You could get the domino effect of that. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Let's take a look at the other news as rescue workers continued to | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
search for survivors from the Turkish earthquake, the Government | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
is saying it will accept offers of foreign aid. It said it would call | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
upon its own with the impact of the disaster which is claiming some 460 | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
lives. The Government has accepted help for Reconstruction for those | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
who have been left homeless. The authorities in just a say nine | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
people have died and seven more are missing after torrential rain | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
caused flash flooding. Most of the victims are from towns and villages | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
from the north. Rescuers are working with dogs to try and find | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
missing people. Boeing's latest aircraft, 7-8-7 | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Dreamliner has made its first commercial flight. The flight from | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Tokyo to Hong Kong took place three years later than planned due to | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
production delays. Development costs billions of dollars over | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
budget. Boeing says the plan is the most fuel-efficient of its kind | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
because it is built with light composite materials rather than | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
metals. Does screening for breast cancer | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
actually do more good than harm? The evidence has been viewed in the | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
UK after doubts were raised after - - of his effectiveness. 60,000 | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
women -- our survey of 60,000 women showed some women suffer from | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
psychological - a psychological problems. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Thousands of women can say the UK breast cancer screening programme | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
has saved their lives. This woman is one of them. If I had not gone | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
for that screening, I would not have had it picked up. I would not | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
be walking around nine. Around 2.7 million women across the UK, aged | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
between 50 and 70, are offered screening each year. Nearly 17,000 | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
cases of breast cancer are detected as a result. But the NHS estimates | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
approximately five to 10% of cases are over diagnosed. That means | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
women are told they have a long but it is not clear if it is requiring | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
treatment. The gamut of Health says that his face is unchanged. -- the | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
Department of Health. There are some women who needed an operation | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
that was on required. This woman says her life was turned upside- | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
down by unnecessary treatment following a scan. I would not have | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
got into that situation if I had been warned about it. I would have | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
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avoided as that -- avoided it. independent review of press | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
screening will cover the whole of the UK and doctors recognise that | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
as our understanding of the disease has improved, it will re-evaluate | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
the evidence behind the programme. We are taking a large research | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
study at the moment to see if we can develop more targeted screening. | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
So ladies who are at higher risk of developing breast cancer have more | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
frequent screening. Critics of press screening say it is no longer | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
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clear if benefits away at the possible risks. -- out way. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
One year ago today, Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz were working as | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
they can sailing a what towards the was a Mike Channel when it was | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
boarded by 12 Somali pirates. -- Mozambique channel. They are being | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
held ransom by pirates. Bruno Pelizzari's sister has held talks | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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and recorded one conversation when she was talking with Debbie Calitz. | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
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Are you OK? Yes, so far. I must tell you she does not stop thinking | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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of you. You will be home soon. is Bruno Pelizzari's sister there. | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
How did this conversation come about? She is the sister of one of | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
the hostages than -- hostages. For months she has been speaking to the | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
Paris Ritz negotiator or. He is somewhere in Somalia. Last week he | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
gave her permission to speak to both Bruno Pelizzari and every over | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
the phone and to record the conversation and give it to the | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
media. She has given it to me and the BBC. That was the exchange | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
there. Debbie did raise some concerns about the type of food | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
they are receiving. She said they are deficient in vitamins and | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
minerals and that Bruno Pelizzari's hair is falling out. After all this | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
time, more than one year, it was fantastic to hear the voices. But | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
it was as distressing Kohl. She did speak to her brother as well. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
her brother and one of the hostages. She was more restricted in what she | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
could ask him and what he could say to her. He managed to tell her the | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
type of food to they are getting. They have so open the morning and | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
rice and spaghetti in the evening and he made his appeal for their | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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release. We are trying everything we can. I do not know what else to | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
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An emotional conversations. What does the South African government | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
say? That demand was straight to decide African government. I spoke | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
to someone there, I was told that the pirates employ every tactic | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
they think will assist them to achieve their goal. They said the | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
government does not entertain demands for ransom, but he says | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
that the government would not intervene in the family's | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
initiative to attempt to raise the money. The amount that the pirates | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
what has gone up and down. It stands at $4 million at the moment, | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
a huge amount of money. The family says it is working class, not | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
wealthy, and is struggling to raise that money. It is doing its best to | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
get the money together and do everything it can to attempt to | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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bring Bruno and steady home safely. Thank you. So we can now go to the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
brother of Debbie Calitz. He joins us from Johannesburg. What do you | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
make of these conversations taking place? Do they give you heart? Or | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
do you feel they are counter- productive? There is a mixed view | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
their. We have given the government one year to try and do what they | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
can, and they have tried. But we have realised with past cases that | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
if the money is not paid, they will not release them. They may hold | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
them for many years. You must be concerned about what is being said | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
concerning nutrition? Definitely, because apart from malnutrition, my | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
sister suffers from asthma, and so we are not sure if they have access | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
to asthma pumps and medication and so on. For what other information | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
did you get from these conversations that were being had? | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Her could you repeat the question? For what other in formation did you | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
get from the conversations that took place? Conversations with the | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
pirates? The conversations between, that we have just heard, that took | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
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place between the Rat and Bruno, and the Rat and Debbie. There is a | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
bittersweet feeling. Because it is reassuring to hear their voices, to | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
know that they are definitely alive. But at the same time, getting them | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
out of there is becoming a daunting task. You know, to raise the money. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
You realise that paying the pirates may feel the situation, but from | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
the family's perspective, we have no other means at the moment to get | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
them out of their. Thank you very much. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
South as the United States prepared to withdraw its troops from | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Afghanistan, there are tensions with Pakistan about its | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
relationship with insurgents. Last week, Pakistan said it could do | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
more to prevent militant groups from operating within its borders. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
But a BBC investigation has heard allegations that Pakistan has been | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
actively is -- supporting the insurgents, while acting as | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
Washington's ally in public. The long war in Afghanistan was | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
intensifying in 2006, causing casualties among Afghans and treats | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
mainly from the US and UK. Now, there is new evidence of Pakistan's | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
support for the Taliban fighting that ward. One insurgents says he | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
was trained by Pakistani intelligence. TRANSLATION: The | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
military would arriving cars at 8:00am, and leave at 4pm. They were | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
wearing military uniforms. The uniforms of the Palace of --... | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
They gave us a specialised weapons training. The US was set and by | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
2008 that Pakistan controlled the gunmen who went on the rampaging | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Mumbai. As evidence piled up of a secret double game in Afghanistan | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
as well. Our own intelligence was unequivocal. In Afghanistan. We saw | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
an insurgency that was not only getting passive support from the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Pakistani army, and the Pakistani intelligence service, but getting | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
active support. And it was only when the US stopped giving Pakistan | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
tick box of impending drone attacks that the attacks became successful. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
At the beginning of the drone operations, we gave Pakistan | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
advance warnings of where we were going. And every single time, the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
target was not there anymore. You did not have to be Sherlock Holmes | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
to put the dogs together. Pakistan had denied the charges. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
They are fighting a new campaign against insurgents in the Frontier | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
regions, and deny they backed the Taliban. They all speak contrary to | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
this perception that the state is in support of these groups. That we | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
are providing sanctuary, providing material support. The recent | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
assault on the US embassy in Kabul was quickly blamed on Pakistan, as | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the US is taking a harder line. The new revelations raise further and | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Constable questions from the US and UK governments, could both have | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
large aid budgets in Pakistan and counted as an ally -- uncomfortable | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
questions. One of the largest and most | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
powerful bombs ever built has been dismantled and removed from the US | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
military arsenal. At B 53 was built in the 1960s and desire to maximise | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
damage. Defence strategy has changed, and over the past 14 years | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
the US has taken steps to eliminate massive nuclear weapons. In a | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
moment we will see if this makes the world a safer place. Now, I | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
look back at the B 53 bomb. Tommy knows that the bond can explode any | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
time of the Year, day or night. a height of the cold war, Americans | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
were told to be prepared - they were under threat of an atomic | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
attack on US soil. The United States had strike power of its own, | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
though. The nuclear bomb so began so powerful it was said to be 600 | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
times more destructive than the one which levelled Hiroshima in 1945. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
The B 53, the so-called bunker buster, was the size of a small car. | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
It was first added to America's Arsenal in 1962, G target Soviet | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
underground shelters. The ball was flown by the B 52 bomber for nearly | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
40 years, before being retired from service in 1997 -- the bomb. Now, | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
the explosives had been removed. Part of President Obama's new | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
security agenda and goal to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Another | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
of the big bombs is now gone, another chapter in the cold war | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
closed. Neil Miller is second in command of | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the US National Nuclear Security Administration, responsible for | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
maintaining a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Was this largely a | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
symbolic moment? It was more than symbolic. The actual removal of the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
very last piece one could call symbolic, but this has been an | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
active dismantlement programme going on for some time. In removing | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
this weapon from the stockpile, you can say for sure this is a clear | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
indication we are in a safer time. You were there at the dismantling. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Was it an impressive moment? I was, and it was. And I think that in | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
addition to just the sense of history we had, watching the | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
dedication of the team of people that have worked for quite some | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
time dismantling it, the precision and dedication with which they | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
worked and which they showed to the overall job, but also getting it | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
right every would you describe this as the end of an Era? In particular | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
terms -- political terms it is very symbolic, but these are not the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
type of weapons used in that type of warfare now being conducted. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
That's right. This was a significant moment, as many people | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
have said - the end of an Era. It marked the end of a dangerous time. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
The Cold War has been over for quite some time, this but then | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
remained in the stockpile and it was a weapon for another time. I | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
said something to one of my colleagues last night he is in | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
charge of our weapons programme, that it looked like something out | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
will and early 1960s science- fiction movie. He said to some | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
extent it was. So this was a big moment for us. The concern about | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
nuclear weapons has not gone away, has it? No, not at all. And when we | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
talk about a concern about then, we remain concerned that no one should | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
have possession of nuclear weapon was special nuclear materials that | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
could cause harm. And certainly, none of us want to imagine a world | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
where nuclear weapons continue to be part of active foreign policy. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Why has it taken so long to dismantle this particular weapon? | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
This has been going on for quite some time, the dismantlement of the | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
weapons. At the facility where this took place in Amarillo does a lot | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
of things, including the dismantling of the B 53. There is | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
surveillance over active pieces in the stockpile, to make think -- | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
sure everything is functioning, and there are types of dismantlement of | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
other weapons going on. These things are done in a sequence and | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
at the capacity they can run. thank-you very much. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
A reminder of banning story. European leaders are gathering in | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Brussels for a summit aimed at fixing and speed Eurozone debt | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
crisis. The proposals being discussed include a bigger write | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
off all week debt, provisional further guarantees that Italy and | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Spain may borrow more, and a plan to strengthen the big European | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
banks, against a possible Greek default. We will keep you up-to- | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
date with any developments from the date with any developments from the | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
Hello, the weather is on the changed again. After a reasonable | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
day, there will be some rain around for a good few tomorrow - | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
particularly across England and Wales. Scotland and Northern | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
Ireland will see some reasonable sunshine. Low pressure is coming up, | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
and it is this which will bring the rain during the course of the night. | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
I first thing in the morning, many parts of England and Wales will be | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
cloudy and damp. Their heaviest rain in the South West of England | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
and South Wales. The rain will have extended into the North East of | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
England by 3pm, always in bits-and- pieces in East Anglia and the East. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
Quite cool under the rain clouds, 11-12 degrees Celsius. Eventually, | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
the rain will start to ease from parts of the South West, but not | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
much prospect of sunshine. For Wales, also at that prospect. The | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
western areas might brighten up before the sun goes down. Across | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
the Irish Sea, it should be a reasonable day. Just a few showers | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
around. Some heavy showers across the Western Isles at times, but | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
most of Scotland having a reasonable day. The rain will ease | :28:12. | :28:16. |