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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
After months of political turmoil, the army stages a coup | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Soldiers are on the streets as a nationwide curfew begins. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The UN and Washington condemn the military takeover. | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
The Secretary-General is seriously concerned by the military takeover | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
in Thailand today. He appeals for a prompt return to constitutional, | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
civilian, democratic rule. Ukraine's military suffers | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
its biggest loss of life in the current conflict after | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
an attack by armed separatists. A man in California is charged with | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
kidnapping and raping his girlfriend's daughter and | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
holding her captive for a decade. Russia's response to comments | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
allegedly made by Prince Charles Should the future King be | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
more careful about expressing A curfew is in place in Thailand, | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
the army has staged a coup, the government has been dissolved | :01:05. | :01:25. | |
and the constitution suspended. And there's been | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
a strong reaction to all this the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
says he's "seriously concerned" And the US Secretary of | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
State John Kerry says there's no justification for the coup, | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
and is reviewing aid to Thailand. The army stepped in and stopped two | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
days of reconciliation talks in Bangkok between Thailand's | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
political factions. The head of the armed forces, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
General Prayut Chan-ocha, will lead a ruling military body, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
and the heads of Thailand's navy, air force and the national police | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
chief will be his deputies. This is the twelfth coup in Thailand | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
since the early 1930s, Jonathan Head looks back | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
at the day's events. The Army club in Bangkok. Inside, | :02:10. | :02:25. | |
rival political factions were holding reconciliation talks. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
Suddenly, the axis were blocked. Troops raced into position. Thailand | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
was having another coup. The faction leaders were detained and taken | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
away. The man who had invited them here, General Prayut Chan-ocha, now | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
runs the country. In time-honoured fashion, a new military council | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
announced that the constitution was being suspended and a curfew | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
imposed. General Prayut Chan-ocha now done what he vowed many times to | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
offer a solution to the crisis. He has offered a takeover, saying he | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
has done it for peace and stability. But there is bound to be strong | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
opposition, mostly from supporters of the former Prime Minister and her | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
taking brother taxing. The so-called red shirts. They have won every | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
election for the past 15 years. Many of their leaders are now under | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
arrest, but they have said they would always resist a clue with | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
force if necessary. The anti-government protesters, the | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
so-called yellow shirts, have long been calling for military | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
intervention. After seven months in Bangkok's streets, they can now go | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
home. That leaves the soldiers to sort out a chronically divided | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
country. Their prospects for success do not look promising. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
He's Professor of International Development | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
at the London School of Economics, and a specialist on Thailand. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
In fact, you just got back last week from being in Thailand, where he | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
were conducting research and also trying to see what was going on with | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
these protest. First question, is Thailand's democracy in danger? Most | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
definitely, yes. This is supposedly a modern country which has just had | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
a military coup. It is not doing very well in terms of democracy. But | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
that is par for the cause, isn't it? The last one was in 2006. It is | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
almost traditional for the Army to step in. The Army has been trying to | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
reduce its obvious presence in the politics of Thailand. I think it has | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
realised in the last two years that do includes does not do its | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
reputation much good, and does not necessarily solve the problems of | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Thailand. I think it is a surprise today they have stepped in | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
likeness. Is it an honest broker in any way wanting to restore | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
stability, or does its favour one particular faction over another? The | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Army always has its own interests at heart, so it is not necessarily a | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
disinterested actor. But it has become slightly unclear as to which | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
side it now stands on. In 2006, the Army was instrumental in | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
overthrowing Thaksin Shinawatra, the rebel leader at that time. And the | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
brother of the Prime Minister who was forced out earlier this month. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Yes. Historically, the Army has been against their family. However, it | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
has been notable that the Army could have intervened any time during the | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
last year during the chaos, but they did not do that. So it seems like | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
possibly they were interested in letting her stay in power. What is | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
your gas now about what is going to happen. The constitution has been | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
suspended, a military body is running the country. How long will | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
this last Umag my guess is one year. That is what they do in recent | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
years. The first thing will be to try and Rijeka process to move on to | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
general elections, but to pass reforms which will prevent any | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
member of the family taxing standing for election. How do they fit with | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
other institutions in the country, the judiciary, for instance, and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
other big state institutions? It is one other thing that has happened in | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Thailand recently that instead of the Parliament making decisions, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
sometimes it is the judiciary, the Law Courts, that do it as well. It | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
is unclear how far the Army can control the law courts, but it is | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
certainly true that when the Army wants people to do things they will. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
And the Royal family, the monarchy? They have not made much of a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
statement so far. How does the Army see them? The Army has always | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
traditionally supported the monarchy, that is part of their | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
role. I don't really see them speaking very loudly about the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
monarchy, but I cannot see them doing anything against the monarchy. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
OK, so about a year, you think? We will see how events unfold. Thank | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
you very much indeed. Armed separatists in eastern Ukraine | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
have opened fire on Ukrainian soldiers in the deadliest attack | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
since the conflict began, just three days before presidential | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
elections in the country. Thirteen soldiers were killed | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
and dozens more injured. The attack took place | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of the town of Volnovakha, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
25 kilometres south of Donetsk. From there, our correspondent | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Mark Lowen reports. The attack came before dawn, and | :07:21. | :07:34. | |
with devastating effect. This was a Ukrainian army checkpoint, targeted | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
in the deadliest assault on the military since this conflict began. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
At least 13 were killed and at least 30 injured in a well-planned strike. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
TRANSLATION: Three of my friends have fallen, and I cannot even | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
collect their bodies. Their combat unit has been lying there in the | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
field for an hour already. Separatist groups are thought to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
have carried it out. They showed off their spoils, which they claim to | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
have taken from troops at the checkpoint. This unverified footage | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
appears to show helicopters moving in after the incident. It is not | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
confirmed to whom they belong, but the video was shot in daylight, and | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
one Ukrainian soldier told as it was an operation against the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
separatists. At the local hospital, the dad kept coming as serious | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
injuries proved fatal. Dash-macro the GATT. Another body is being | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
taken out of this vehicle into the morgue. This is a terrible blow for | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
the Ukrainian armed forces, and a reminder of just what these aren't | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
separatists are capable of doing. The Ukrainian general would only | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
talk with his identity hidden for fear of reprise all. TRANSLATION: | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
They were professional killers. Hired soldiers. They mowed down my | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
men in 15 minutes. They are doing it for money, not unpatriotic ideals. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
The Ukrainian government laid the blame at Moscow and its links with | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
the armed groups in the East. TRANSLATION: This is a confirmation | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
that Putin's words are a lie. When he talks of withdrawing troops and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
not interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In reality, | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Russia continues to conduct very aggressive military activity. The | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
attack comes three days before Ukraine's presidential election, | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
that here vows will also be healthier. Separatist leaders vowed | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
to block it, and that the region is now independent. Could today have | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
been a warning shots? Ukrainian forces secured the scene, but in | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
this battle for control of the volatile east, it is slipping | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
further from their grasp. A girl who went missing a decade | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
ago has turned up in California. The man who police say kidnapped | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
her is due in court soon. She hasn't been named, | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
but 42-year-old Isidro Garcia was her mother's boyfriend | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
before he kidnapped her. He had a child with her | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
and has been charged with sexual Our correspondent Alistair Leithead | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
is at the court in Santa Ana. Tell us, the man has appeared in | :09:59. | :10:15. | |
court? Yes, he appeared very briefly. He has been charged, as you | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
say, with charges including forcible rape, leave it acts on a minor, and | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
one charge of kidnapping with intent of committing a sexual offence. He | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
was granted bail of $1 million. He was told to return to the court on | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
June the 9th. His lawyer is behind me at the moment is open to the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
media. He said that his client is denying all the charges. When will | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
the trial starts, around that time? There is a great deal of attention | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
now on this case. There is. These are just charges that have been laid | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
today. First court appearance, obviously, it is a long process. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
With regard to the situation, police knew nothing of this apart from a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
missing person report file ten years ago, when suddenly, a 25-year-old | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
woman turned up at a police station until this astonishing story of how | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
she had been kidnapped as a 15-year-old girl, held against her | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
will for ten years, and she was not kept locked up. Neighbours who we | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
have spoken to thought they were just an ordinary couple with a young | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
child. She was forced to marry and have a child with him, she claims. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
She claims to have been threatened, physically and sexually abused, and | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
she was told that her family was deported and she would also she went | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
to the authorities. She was also told her family had abandoned there. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
It was only when she made contact with her sister through Facebook to | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
wish a happy birthday that she realised her sister had not | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
abandoned her. This is the story she has told the police, and what this | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
man is being charged with. He is currently denying these judges. | :11:56. | :11:56. | |
Thank you very much. There's been another violent attack | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
in China's western Xinjiang region. Two vehicles ploughed | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
into a crowd of people at a street market, explosives were | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
thrown from one of the cars and one of the vehicles then blew up. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
It happened in Urumqi. Officials say 31 | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
people were killed. Similar violence in the past has | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
been carried out by separatist extremists belonging to the region's | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
ethnic Uighur minority group. Within minutes of the attack, | :12:23. | :12:36. | |
pictures began appearing on Chinese intranet sites. Victims lying in the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
wreckage of market stalls. They were elderly, out doing their early | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
morning shopping. It was mostly ethnic hand Chinese who live in the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
centre. They said terrorists were responsible and must be punished | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
severely, but attacks seem to be growing. China usually says Islamic | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
terrorists wanting independence are to blame. Violence wriggling out of | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Xinjiang is one of the biggest security challenges facing China's | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
commonest leaders. TRANSLATION: Last month, they talked of harmony, but | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
knife and bomb attacks on women workers are spreading across China, | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
also targeting civilians. Xinjiang's Muslim grouping is linked | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
to Turkey in Central Asia. A massive influx of Chinese settlers and | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
workers means they are now a minority here. A recent visit to the | :13:35. | :13:46. | |
old city, we found Chinese security everywhere. Young Uighur men are | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
singled out for ID checks. Authorities are on edge, and | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
violence has erupted in many towns. The road to this village was | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
blocked. A local police chief had his head chopped off here. Another | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
official was stabbed 27 times. In response, or least shot dead 15 | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Uighurs, among them, it is claimed, women. Resentments lurk beneath the | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
surface. Regulations prevent young men from growing beards. Women are | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
urged not to wear veils. Many Uighurs feel they're very identity | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
is being repressed. Because a pervasive security, many people are | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
afraid to Doctor was openly here. It could be dangerous for them. What | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
has been whispered is that tensions and mistrust are on the injuries | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
between Uighurs and Chinese, and many Uighurs say | :14:37. | :14:37. | |
between Uighurs and Chinese, and many Uighurs that for some time, | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
they have been under intense scrutiny, a ticket only when it | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
comes to their religion. TRANSLATION: If somebody finds out | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
that you have religious texts on your phone, they report you to the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
police, and you will be arrested. My wife was wearing a mask because she | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
had a cold. The police told her to take it off. Sometimes they detain | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
people just for wearing a veil. In another part of China today, police | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
surround an aircraft. It was heading to Xinjiang but was grounded. Two | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
passengers were taken away. Tiny security forces are fearful that | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
after this attack, more may be coming. | :15:15. | :15:26. | |
So, what do you find striking about this particular attack? This | :15:27. | :15:39. | |
particular attack and the recent ones are very different from what | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
happens in China previously. This one in particular, they are | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
resembling the kind of Islamist terrorist attacks we have seen | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
elsewhere. In China, Regis attacks by Uighur people against the Chinese | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
do not fall into the same category, so we are seeing a new development, | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
and it is very serious. You say that these extremist are now left to a | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
wider jihadist movement. Why did you think that has happened? Hasn't got | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
anything to do with Afghanistan? There are two reasons. The first was | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
what your correspondent reported, the heavy-handed way in which the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Chinese government is dealing with the problems. The other, because of | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
the drawdown by NATO and American forces, that changed the situation | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
for China, because China has more investment in Afghanistan than any | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
other great power. Until now, the Taliban had left the Chinese alone, | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
they were protected by NATO forces, but with the NATO drawdown, that is | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
less reason for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda related people to give the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Chinese courtesy. What impact will this time attack have on Chinese | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
foreign policy? Will they find a common cause with other countries, | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
like Russia, for instance, and countries in the West who feel they | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
are fighting the global jihadist movement? The Chinese will engage | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
with Russia and other essential Asian countries to be more | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
repressive against potential Islamic terrorists that could be operating | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
in China, but above all, they will be using even stronger repressive | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
measures within Sinn Jang, which is likely to radicalise the people | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
there. Some of the venues. | :18:03. | :18:14. | |
Syrian government forces have ended enviable siege of a prison in | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Aleppo, which has gone on for a year. They were trying to free some | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
of the prisoners. The jail is on a supply route between the Turkish | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
border and the rebels. It is seen as a bellwether of the progress of the | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
war. Russia and China have been towed a | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Security Council resolution referring Syria to the International | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Criminal Court for war crimes. Western resolutions have been | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
blocked for times, more than 150,000 people are thought to have died | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
during the conflict. Voting is taking place in Britain | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
and the Netherlands in elections for the European Parliament. Polling | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
takes place in all of the member states over the next four days. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Here, David Cameron attended a polling station. The vote will be | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
counted on Sunday, but the results will be announced until polling | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
closes throughout Europe. The England and Wales or has charged | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
two players, Lou Vincent and Naved Arif, with match fixing. Money was | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
bet on a televised one-day game between Sussex and Kent three days | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
ago. If they found guilty, it will be the first time the fixing of a | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
game in England been proven. Outrageous and unacceptable, that is | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
how Russian officials have described comments allegedly made in the | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Prince of Wales comparing Russia's actions in Ukraine to those of Nazi | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Germany. According to press reports, Prince Charles's conversation with a | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
former Polish war refugee was overheard in Canada. She had told | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
him how her family had fled to Canada that that's left behind had | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
perished in Poland under the Nazis. The Prince reportedly replied, and | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
now Vladimir Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler. The | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Russian Foreign Ministry said the remarks did him no credit if he said | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
this. Not wise for the Prince to have said this, even if he did not | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
think anybody else was listening. It was reported by a journalist. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Journalists are allowed to go and talk to the people that royalty have | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
spoken to, and say, what did he say? It is a reportage from this | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
woman, who had this story to tell, she sailed to Canada when the knots | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
is occupied Poland, and Prince Charles is alleged to have said... | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
We should say alleged, because there has been no confirmation. It is | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
considered a private conversation. The Russian Embassy cannot make too | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
much fuss over an alleged conversation. If he had said it in a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
speech or something, everybody would be going even more mad, but we must | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
give him the credit that this was not meant for public repetition, and | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
I am sure that this immigrant feels dreadful that she has caused so much | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
trouble. She said it would not cause so much of a stir. Use a Private | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
each time, private conversation, put the future king cannot really | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
consider a conversation he has with a member of the public to be | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
private. Try that conversations will have to be extremely private in his | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
case. It is sad but true, there is no such thing as a private | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
conversation any more, because technology has moved forward so | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
fast, it is so vastly global, even if you blink, it will be reported | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
everywhere. I think that Prince Charles probably was aware that what | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
he said might be repeated, but we do not know what he did say. We do have | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
that proviso. It fuels the fire. You do not think they will comment? I do | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
not think so. Underlying this, the debate about what we expect from our | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
monarchy in the UK. People do not accept -- expect them to wait into | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
political affairs or hot topics of the day. I wish they did. Prince | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Charles has had an immense amount of support for his remarks. It is much | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
more fun than saying, have you come far? What the traffic bad? Have you | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
got a cold? At least he engages in conversation, he has hundreds of | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
conversations everyday. He was concentrating on this woman's | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
applied. On June the 6th, he will be in France for the anniversary of the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
D-day landings. World leaders, including Vladimir Putin, are | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
expected to be there. We will all be watching. Yes, but I think Prince | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Charles has been in the situations before, he knows how to handle it. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
They are not scheduled to meet, I am sure they will not now. Vladimir | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Putin will not allow his officials to make too much fuss. | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
In Nigeria, more than 1000 members of the brink back our girls campaign | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
staged a march to the presidential villa in Abuja. They are protesting | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
the support of more than -- in support of the schoolgirls kidnapped | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
by Boko Haram. Teachers across the country were also on strike. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
A new 3-D fossil scanning tech week has produced the clearest images yet | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
of Archaeopteryx, known as the first true bird, but will this tell us if | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
the creature could fly? Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? Or | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
something in between? The feathered limbs have fascinated | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
palaeontologists since Charles Darwin's day. Now, it is under the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
glare of an x-ray beam to see what lies beneath the stone. We want to | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
know how Archaeopteryx lived. Was he a little dinosaur running and then | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
climbing injuries? The most important question for us is, did he | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
fly or not? Could he fly? The tests are taking place here, at the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
European radiation facility at the foot of the French Alps. This ring | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
is a giant x-ray machine, the brightest team in the world. Inside, | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
scientists are using it's like to look deeper and claim it into one of | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
the most famous fossils ever found. In the past, fossils like this were | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
too big to x-ray. But now, the scientists are using a new trick, a | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
pinhole camera, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's camera obscure rep. It is | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
the thickness of a human hair, but extremely powerful. The decision of | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
the x-rays can be detect it by a camera system, a small hole, and | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
through the whole, we will see the picture. Thereafter, you can | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
construct in three-dimensional. Here are the results, the most detailed | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
picture yet of Archaeopteryx, including hidden features buried in | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the stone. What is visible are the feathers, far more visible than the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
original specimen. That is not all. This reveals a lot of information | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
about anatomy that is not visible, because it is below the surface. | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
They cannot understand the fossil in a museum, but now we can see the | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
wings, and it is a fine specimen. This x-ray spectacle can be | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
performed on other famous fossils, and we will soon see dinosaurs in a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
whole new light. Fascinating stuff. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
The main news, the army in Thailand has staged a coup, suspending the | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
concert Jewish and dissolving the government. Soldiers halted | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
reconciliation talks between politicians, which were being held | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
in Bangkok. That is it, from May, and the team, | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
goodbye. We have seen plenty of them today, | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
unfortunately, there are more to come tomorrow. I am talking about | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
heavy showers. For a queue areas, tomorrow looks drier than | :27:07. | :27:07. |