:00:14. > :00:18.me Daniela Ritorto. The headlines tonight...
:00:18. > :00:21.Diplomatic damage, in the wake of the Edward Snowden saga.
:00:21. > :00:25.President Obama cancels a meeting with Vladimir Putin, just days after
:00:25. > :00:28.Russia granted temporary asylum to the US intelligence worker.
:00:28. > :00:35.A massive fire rips through Kenya's main airport, affecting passengers
:00:35. > :00:39.and trade to East Africa. Also coming up - a house of horror
:00:39. > :00:49.is destroyed in Ohio, to the relief of the three women held captive by
:00:49. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:54.Ariel Castro for a decade. It was important to be via today because no
:00:54. > :00:59.one was there for me when I was missing. I wonder people overreact
:00:59. > :01:02.to know, especially the mothers, that they can have strength and
:01:02. > :01:07.hope. And forget about using space rockets
:01:07. > :01:17.and rovers. We travel to the inner reaches of our own planet, to learn
:01:17. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:34.more about alien life. Good evening. The international
:01:34. > :01:38.airport in Nairobi has been reduced to each are dreck after a huge fire
:01:38. > :01:41.ripped through the airport. Passengers are facing huge delays
:01:41. > :01:49.and diversions. There are reports that international flights will land
:01:49. > :01:55.again from Thursday. The international airport early this
:01:55. > :02:00.morning. It is the biggest airport in Africa and it was turned on an
:02:00. > :02:07.inferno. It happened just after dawn in the emigration section. It spread
:02:07. > :02:13.quickly. Fire crews battled for hours to bring it under control.
:02:13. > :02:18.They even ran out of water at one point. For passengers, there was
:02:18. > :02:28.confusion and dismay, although no lives were lost, many were critical
:02:28. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:35.of the official response. We did not get assistance. I had to go
:02:35. > :02:39.downstairs. It was not easy with all this smoke. We did not appear to be
:02:39. > :02:45.any plan of action. People were running from left to right and then
:02:45. > :02:49.I could see only one Fire Brigade coming and people were very worried.
:02:49. > :02:55.We have no idea what is going to happen now. We are still waiting to
:02:55. > :03:00.wait for the officers to open so we can get more information. This is
:03:00. > :03:06.the impact of the devastation -- everything so in litres of water and
:03:06. > :03:13.the roof has completely come down. We're not sure when repairs will be
:03:13. > :03:22.started, but when that happens, it will have a huge impact on the end
:03:22. > :03:32.of the economy of the area and the region as a whole. The present most
:03:32. > :03:33.
:03:33. > :03:36.keen to cash as you ever learn of the future of the economy. I will
:03:36. > :03:42.reassure international passengers that everything is being done to
:03:42. > :03:45.restart operations. Because of the fire is not yet known. Security
:03:45. > :03:52.officials say they are waiting to see the damage before the draw any
:03:52. > :04:00.conclusions. But it may take a bit more time before repairs are
:04:01. > :04:06.started. And you strain of flu has probably been passed from one person
:04:06. > :04:14.to the other. More than 130 people in China have been diagnosed with
:04:14. > :04:19.the new strain. Most cases have been traced to contact with infected
:04:19. > :04:27.poultry, but no experts say one person who died from the flu seems
:04:27. > :04:33.to have caught the disease from her sick father. This is the virus -- a
:04:33. > :04:37.deadly strain of bird flu, no thought to have passed between
:04:37. > :04:42.people for the first time. Most people who have contracted the virus
:04:42. > :04:49.had visited the market selling live birds or had contact with live
:04:49. > :04:53.poultry. The 60-year-old man is the focus of new research published by
:04:53. > :04:59.the British medical Journal. He regularly visited the life poultry
:04:59. > :05:06.market in eastern China and became ill in March. His daughter looked
:05:06. > :05:13.after and before he was taken into intensive care, he later died of
:05:14. > :05:20.multiple organ failure. She too has now died because of multiple organ
:05:20. > :05:28.failure. She is not believed to have had any exposure to live poultry.
:05:28. > :05:34.The virus strains the contracted when nearly genetically identical
:05:34. > :05:44.and it has the strongest evidence yet of the finest being passed
:05:44. > :05:50.between humans. 16 years ago, the bird flu virus in 1997 made the
:05:50. > :06:00.headlines. It has since killed in 400 people. It was only in March
:06:00. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:04.this year that the new virus was detected in eastern China. 133 cases
:06:04. > :06:12.have now been reported, with 43 deaths, all of them in China and
:06:12. > :06:15.Taiwan. This is an unusually high rate for a new infection. So how
:06:15. > :06:22.worrying are these latest developments? Expats in the virus
:06:22. > :06:27.does not transmit easily. They seem it is not surprising that under
:06:27. > :06:32.close contact, some transmission is seen and it does not mean the virus
:06:32. > :06:36.is any closer to starting a pandemic. If the United States had
:06:36. > :06:38.not made it clear enough that they wanted help in detaining Edward
:06:38. > :06:42.Snowden, then Russia's move to grant the former intelligence contractor
:06:42. > :06:45.asylum was the final straw. Now, in a rare diplomatic rebuke,
:06:45. > :06:48.the White House has announced that President Barack Obama is wiping
:06:48. > :06:58.from his diary a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in
:06:58. > :06:59.
:06:59. > :07:03.Moscow. The Kremlin said it was disappointed by the move. The
:07:03. > :07:06.decision comes after the president appeared on each actual in the
:07:06. > :07:12.United States saying they were disappointed with the Russian
:07:12. > :07:16.decision to offer Edward Snow Dome asylum. There are times when they
:07:16. > :07:22.seem to go back to you a Cold War thinking and Cold War mentality.
:07:22. > :07:27.say to president Hooton, that is the past and we have got to think about
:07:27. > :07:32.the future. There is no reason why we should not be able to cooperate
:07:32. > :07:42.more effectively than we do. White House has released a
:07:42. > :08:13.
:08:13. > :08:21.He joins me from there now. Thank you very much for joining us. It is
:08:21. > :08:27.pretty provocative? Yes, on both sides. On one side, the Russians
:08:27. > :08:32.have signalled that they are just not seriously interested in engaging
:08:32. > :08:38.with the United States on a number of issues. It is not just Edward
:08:38. > :08:43.Snowden. We have been trying to make progress on Syria. We have been
:08:43. > :08:49.trained to make progress on nuclear reductions. The Russians have simply
:08:49. > :08:54.said no, we're not ready to make progress. It is a lesson we should
:08:54. > :08:59.have learned before. This is a relationship which goes in cycles of
:09:00. > :09:03.up and down and we know when we close the door on it, that is just
:09:03. > :09:13.justifying another down cycle. I am not hopeful. Things look pretty bad
:09:13. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:22.in the short-term. If there are consequences of a breakdown on a
:09:22. > :09:26.freezing and relations? What is the outcome? The White House have stated
:09:26. > :09:31.pretty clearly that they do not want the relationship to end, that they
:09:32. > :09:37.are so disappointed with this nonresponse and non-engagement by
:09:37. > :09:43.the Russians. They are expecting Russia to throw them a bone on any
:09:43. > :09:49.issue. Russia is not a society we're decisions get taken a working level.
:09:49. > :09:54.There is one person deciding. His name is Vladimir Putin. By not
:09:54. > :09:58.engaging at the highest level and thinking that it is not worth it
:09:58. > :10:02.because they cannot predetermine that things will have a positive
:10:02. > :10:06.outcome, there is a fear to take any risk to invest in their
:10:06. > :10:13.relationship. If they do not have the guarantee that there will be a
:10:13. > :10:19.positive outcome, the did not seem interested. There is not going to be
:10:19. > :10:25.another reset. You cannot do that once in an administration. That
:10:25. > :10:30.opportunity has come and gone. It is not all bad. John Kerry is still
:10:30. > :10:36.meeting with his counterpart on Friday at the lower level. It would
:10:36. > :10:43.appear that it is business as usual they are. Maybe. But business as
:10:43. > :10:48.usual has not been a good thing. has seen a failure to communicate on
:10:48. > :10:52.issues we had taken four counted. Look back at the Boston bombings in
:10:52. > :10:55.April. We found out they had connections with Russia and the
:10:55. > :11:01.could have been better intelligence sharing with them which could have
:11:01. > :11:07.saved American lives. We really should have received a memo from
:11:07. > :11:11.them at that time. You cannot take a temporary pause in United
:11:11. > :11:16.States-Russian cooperation. The problem with the meeting on Friday
:11:16. > :11:21.is that we have cancelled the summit and that is predetermine the outcome
:11:21. > :11:26.of Friday. It is not going to be productive. What are they going to
:11:26. > :11:33.propose, knowing that from the top, the signals are negative? Thank you
:11:33. > :11:36.very much for joining us. As that diplomatic spat plays out,
:11:36. > :11:39.efforts have been made today to smooth over tensions between three
:11:39. > :11:41.European partners. David Cameron has phoned up his Spanish counterpart to
:11:41. > :11:49.talk about the controversy over the British territory of Gilbraltar,
:11:50. > :11:53.which sits just off south Spain. Last weekend, there were long delays
:11:53. > :11:57.at the border crossing. The rigorous Spanish checks followed Gibraltar's
:11:57. > :12:07.move to create an artificial reef in disputed waters. Tom Burridge
:12:07. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:14.reports from the tiny British territory. Today, more delays from
:12:14. > :12:21.those crossing into Gibraltar. The rock on the southern tip of Spain.
:12:21. > :12:25.The waters around Gibraltar are disputed. Near the coastline of the
:12:25. > :12:29.coastline of this British territory and though the sport. This is the
:12:29. > :12:33.focus of the road. The Gibraltar government said it would an
:12:33. > :12:39.artificial reef and the water to protect marine life. Spain said they
:12:40. > :12:45.were dumped to stop Spanish boats fishing year. Gibraltar often feels
:12:45. > :12:49.very British. The words of the Prime Minister today will be welcomed
:12:49. > :12:55.here. After speaking to his Spanish counterpart, David Cameron
:12:55. > :13:00.reiterated his commitment to Gibraltar. He contended delays on
:13:00. > :13:04.the border, but said both countries would need to seek a solution to the
:13:04. > :13:09.fishing dispute. For the 10,000 people who live in Spain but what
:13:09. > :13:13.can Gibraltar, in places like this restaurant, perhaps some relief.
:13:13. > :13:17.Almost everyone living on either side of the border has been
:13:17. > :13:21.affected. The problem is the frontier. When there is a political
:13:21. > :13:28.situation like this, their reactions are extreme, the result is that
:13:28. > :13:34.innocent people have to suffer. Why? At least there is no talk, but a
:13:34. > :13:40.solution to the escalating tension has still yet to be flown to the
:13:40. > :13:47.waters around this disputed region. Letters have a look at some of the
:13:47. > :13:50.other news. . Yemen is conducting a massive
:13:50. > :13:52.security operation to protect government buildings and other key
:13:52. > :13:55.targets against possible attacks from Al-Qaeda. A Yemeni government
:13:55. > :13:58.spokesman says authorities have foiled a major plot to seize ports
:13:58. > :14:00.and blow up oil pipelines at the end of Ramadan.
:14:00. > :14:06.Egypt's interim government says international efforts to resolve the
:14:06. > :14:09.stand-off with the Muslim Brotherhood have collapsed.
:14:09. > :14:12.Negotiators have been trying to broker a deal in Cairo, after
:14:12. > :14:15.Mohammed Morsi was removed from power last month by the Egyptian
:14:15. > :14:19.military. More than 100,000 people have been
:14:19. > :14:25.killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011. Just today, activists
:14:25. > :14:28.say the army has killed 62 rebel fighters in an ambush in Damascus.
:14:29. > :14:37.Trying to figure out precisely what is happening in the country is not
:14:37. > :14:44.easy. Our World Affairs correspondent has been piecing
:14:44. > :14:52.together the information coming in from both sides of the conflict. The
:14:52. > :14:57.fighting in Syria rages on, with both the regime army and the
:14:57. > :15:04.opposition troops claiming parts of the country. Letters take a look at
:15:04. > :15:11.the map. Now, remember where the initial conflict was focused, the
:15:11. > :15:18.Syrian army was able to reclaim it with the help of the Lebanon on
:15:19. > :15:27.militant group Hezbollah. Now, letters take you to the area of the
:15:27. > :15:32.capital. Areas in the east of the country are -- the city are in rebel
:15:32. > :15:37.hands. But there are fierce battles going on in Damascus in the north
:15:37. > :15:47.and south of the area. The regime are wanting to reclaim districts
:15:47. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:55.close to the road to Jordan. Let us know take you to the city of horns.
:15:55. > :16:05.Shelling as a daily occurrence in this part of the city. The
:16:05. > :16:09.
:16:09. > :16:19.government has reclaimed a couple of districts. Person 's will and is in
:16:19. > :16:32.
:16:32. > :16:41.these uses are still is a difference you are a visual and hope all is the
:16:41. > :16:44.film 's is a It is significant that the rebels have control in the
:16:44. > :16:49.north, over the Turkish-Syrian border, as as well as some parts of
:16:49. > :16:51.Deraa, on the Jordanian border in the south. Fair and in a The key
:16:51. > :16:54.thing is, the government controls some of the major roads - for
:16:54. > :17:04.example, from Damascus to Jordan, and from Damascus to Beirut and
:17:04. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:44.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds
:17:44. > :17:54.Lebanon. Full and well and you... Is this is a little so is this - - the
:17:54. > :17:55.
:17:55. > :18:01.government is trying to have some breakthrough. The situation is, the
:18:01. > :18:07.concept of victory for both parties is different. The victory for the
:18:07. > :18:13.regime is controlling every single village in the country, so it is
:18:13. > :18:21.geographic. On the other side, for the opposition, seeing Assad ousted
:18:21. > :18:25.is the end of the war, regardless of any geographic victory. There is a
:18:25. > :18:35.big difference between both sides. Meanwhile, they are trying to gain
:18:35. > :18:39.
:18:39. > :18:46.more ground and preparing themselves for the future. It is difficult
:18:46. > :18:51.financial is winning and who is losing. The objectives of both sides
:18:51. > :19:01.are different. Yes, definitely. And especially the opposition is now
:19:01. > :19:07.
:19:07. > :19:12.divided into different parties. The Islamists have different names. In
:19:12. > :19:22.you have the FSA, fighting against the regime. This is all affecting
:19:22. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:33.everything. What is going to happen next? It is difficult to predict.
:19:33. > :19:36.can see there is no breakthrough so far, and the end of the war should
:19:36. > :19:46.go through an international understanding between the big
:19:46. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:55.players. We will see. Very good to talk to you.
:19:55. > :20:04.Our house work former American bus driver held three women for a decade
:20:04. > :20:09.has been demolished. Ariel Castro was jailed for life last week after
:20:09. > :20:15.pleading guilty to several hundred counts of kidnapping and rape.
:20:15. > :20:22.Michelle Knight watch the demolition. She was one of the women
:20:22. > :20:27.abducted by him. Nobody was there for me, and I want the people out
:20:27. > :20:37.there to know they can have strength, they can have hope, and
:20:37. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:49.their child can come back. It is a question we have often asked. Is
:20:49. > :20:51.there anyone out there? Learning whether extra-terrestrial life
:20:51. > :20:55.exists is one of the biggest challenges of science, but now it
:20:55. > :20:58.seems the best place to learn about this could be right here, in the
:20:58. > :21:01.rocks beneath the Earth. Scientists have started a new research project
:21:01. > :21:04.deep underground in England's north east. And as Rebecca Morelle
:21:04. > :21:12.reports, it could hold the key to finding out whether life could
:21:12. > :21:15.thrive on other planets. On a journey beneath the Earth. A
:21:15. > :21:23.descent into one of Europe's deepest mines. We're more than a kilometre
:21:23. > :21:32.underground. Here, miners have been extracting salt and pot ash since
:21:32. > :21:37.the 1970s. But these underground rocks hold something more. Down
:21:37. > :21:40.here, it's dark, it hot, it's dusty. You can even taste the salt in the
:21:40. > :21:43.air. But this kind of extreme environment is just like those found
:21:43. > :21:47.on other planets, and scientists say that studying the tiny organisms
:21:47. > :21:57.that live here can help them find out whether life can thrive up there
:21:57. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:04.in space. What we've got here is salt in contact with water. It's
:22:04. > :22:09.essentially table salt. It might look barren, but this place is
:22:09. > :22:13.teeming with life. Microbes invisible to the naked eye are
:22:13. > :22:16.everywhere. If you look at Mars, you will find salt on the surface of the
:22:17. > :22:25.planet. If you look at Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, you will
:22:25. > :22:27.find a salty ocean beneath an icy crust. There are salts everywhere in
:22:27. > :22:30.the universe. If you want to understand whether life might be
:22:30. > :22:33.able to originate and grow in some of these extraterrestrial
:22:33. > :22:39.environments, you need to come to a dark, salty environment. The salts
:22:39. > :22:48.are taken to the subterranean laboratory. It's early days, but
:22:48. > :22:51.genetic tests are revealing unusual species in the mine. The hope is if
:22:51. > :22:54.life can cope with the tough conditions here, perhaps it could be
:22:54. > :22:57.found in harsh environments beyond the Earth. It does seem a
:22:57. > :23:01.contradiction that you can do that, and you've got the big questions
:23:01. > :23:04.about what the universe is made of and is there life on other planets,
:23:04. > :23:07.and yet here we are, standing underground. This sort of
:23:07. > :23:10.environment allows you to do that sort of study. Scientists say the
:23:10. > :23:13.best way to understand extraterrestrial life is to start in
:23:13. > :23:16.places like this. While there might be intelligent advanced beings out
:23:16. > :23:24.there, the chances are, any aliens would be simple bugs like the ones
:23:24. > :23:27.found here. For 20 years, an abandoned series of
:23:28. > :23:35.factory buildings in Long Island City in New York has been one of the
:23:35. > :23:38.world's prime legal outdoor graffiti spaces. But soon artists may have to
:23:38. > :23:41.take their spray cans somewhere else. There are now plans for the
:23:41. > :23:43.site, called five Pointz, to be demolished to make room for two
:23:43. > :23:47.high-rise towers for residential flats.
:23:47. > :23:53.Most cities, like, every city has a Hall of Fame, so I would say five
:23:53. > :23:56.Pointz is, like, New York's Hall of Fame. I mean, five Pointz is by far
:23:56. > :24:06.the biggest graffiti convention, we'll say, where anyone can just go
:24:06. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:12.and paint. Five Pointz is the largest legal aerosol art centre in
:24:12. > :24:16.the world. We get an average of seven to eight tour buses, 51 to 61
:24:16. > :24:20.seaters, every week. Every major tour operator brings people here.
:24:20. > :24:24.The owner of the building purchased it in the early '70s and at this
:24:24. > :24:34.point, he wants to cash in, and he wants to put up two towers and
:24:34. > :24:38.
:24:38. > :24:48.destroy the building. We never gave the buildings to the artists. They
:24:48. > :24:48.
:24:48. > :24:52.have always been our buildings. However, over 20 years, the artists
:24:52. > :24:56.have been here working on the walls without any trouble. They've always
:24:56. > :25:00.had the freedom to do what they wanted to do. Now, we want to do
:25:00. > :25:03.what we want to do with our property, and that is to build two
:25:03. > :25:09.towers and grow with the growing neighbourhood. We've been a part of
:25:09. > :25:13.the fabric of Long Island City for 40 years. We understand and listen
:25:13. > :25:16.to the community and what they have to say. But, you know, it's time.
:25:16. > :25:20.The committee is changing, and I don't think they understand this is
:25:20. > :25:22.our property and we would like to do what we think is right for the
:25:22. > :25:28.neighbourhood and for ourselves. developer is talking about 1,000
:25:28. > :25:30.apartments on that site. In the New York City real estate economy, that
:25:31. > :25:33.is potentially going to net the developer, after expenses, after
:25:33. > :25:43.construction costs, something probably in the order of $300
:25:43. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:47.million. So, that's the mathematics. Technically, we never allow any
:25:47. > :25:54.political content or religious content or pornography or anything
:25:54. > :25:58.offensive on the building. Luckily for us, they never look at the wall
:25:58. > :26:03.and they have no understanding of the art form. It basically says, eat
:26:03. > :26:07.or be eaten. At the end of the food chain is a corporate looking guy
:26:07. > :26:14.with a briefcase in the suit, and the artists came all the way from
:26:14. > :26:17.Germany and Austria. Five Pointz is a snapshot of this moment in time.
:26:17. > :26:21.New York's population is growing, its economy is growing, and anything
:26:21. > :26:30.that is less than economically the highest and best use of a piece of
:26:30. > :26:34.property has a very difficult time holding on.
:26:34. > :26:37.A reminder of our main news: President Barack Obama has cancelled
:26:37. > :26:40.a planned meeting with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow
:26:40. > :26:42.next month. It follows Russia's decision to
:26:42. > :26:44.grant temporary asylum to the fugitive American intelligence
:26:44. > :26:54.analyst, Edward Snowden, which the White House said had further
:26:54. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:03.strained relations. Moscow said it Goodbye for now.
:27:03. > :27:11.Temperatures will be falling sharply over the night. Another chilly start
:27:11. > :27:15.tomorrow morning. Temperatures fall away. There is no real weather
:27:15. > :27:19.systems close by. This weather front will change things a little bit
:27:19. > :27:28.during the latter half of Thursday, bringing some cloud from the West.
:27:28. > :27:35.Foremost, it is dry night and a fine day tomorrow. We will see a few
:27:35. > :27:40.scattered showers developing. Very much hit and miss. Temperatures will
:27:40. > :27:50.still get up to 20 degrees or more. Public right across East Anglia and
:27:50. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:56.the south-east. Highs of 2324. The south-west, cloud will increase.
:27:56. > :28:06.Rain edges its way towards Pembrokeshire. For most of Wales, it
:28:06. > :28:10.