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This is BBC World News Today with me, Nuala McGovern. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
A clinical trial in France to test a new painkiller has | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
One man is declared brain dead and another three face | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
After a week of tough economic news, there's been another sharp fall | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
Guys, you can start opening your cuff check list to page seven. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
A spacewalk to repair parts of the International Space Station | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
is cut short, after one astronaut reports a water leak in his helmet. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
China says it's planning a space mission - to the dark side | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
A clinical trial of a new drug in France has left one person | :00:45. | :01:03. | |
brain-dead and another five people in hospital, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The painkiller was being tested in a government-approved laboratory | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
in Rennes in northwest France and was given to 90 people. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
The study has been halted and all the volunteers | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Earlier reports that the drug was a cannabis-based painkiller have | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The chief neuroscientist says there's no known antidote | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
to the experimental drug they were testing. | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
TRANSLATION: Four of the five other patients have neurological problems | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
of different levels of seriousness. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
One patient has no symptoms but is being | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
carefully watched because of what happen to other patients that | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Among the four patients, three are already in a condition | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
that is sufficiently serious to cause us to fear a handicap | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
which could be irreversible in the best possible situation. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
Our Medical Correspondent, Fergus Walsh, is here. | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
What else do we know? We heard about the number of people, one brain dead | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
and another five in hospital. Are they releasing more information | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
about these people? It is important to set this in context. All the six | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
men are part of a clinical trial which actually began in July last | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
year. 90 healthy volunteers have been given this experimental drug, | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
which works on the pain and mood receptors in the brain. They have | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
been gradually given escalating doses. It is a phase one safety | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
trial. Up to date there have been no apparent serious side effects for | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the last week, the six men were given the highest dose so far. Three | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
days later one of them was rushed into hospital with a catastrophic | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
brain injury, others then followed. The first man is brain dead. It is | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
just a question of time before the life support is switched off. Three | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
others may have irreversible brain damage. The doctors are struggling | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
because they do not know how to treat this. It is important to | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
stress this is not a first in man trial, it has been going on for six | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
months. There is always a risk with these safety trials that at some | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
months. There is always a risk with point there will be a side-effect. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
It does seem like a very unusual story. It is a rare thing to happen. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
It is. There are strict procedures. Across Europe they were tightened | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
considerably after a Across Europe they were tightened | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
years ago in London six men, a Across Europe they were tightened | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
they all became ill within minutes of receiving | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
they all became ill within minutes That was the first time it had been | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
given to man. You can see it is That was the first time it had been | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
quite different here. We were like, we all rely, on volunteers, who come | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
forward. They would have been paid for this debate | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
forward. They would have been paid the drugs. Without them, we would | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
not have the drugs. Without them, we would | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
called a serious accident. Strong words from the health Ministry in | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
France. What do you think will happen in the next day or so? | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
France. What do you think will inquiries have been setup. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
France. What do you think will Health Minister has been to meet | :04:43. | :04:43. | |
France. What do you think will focus is on trying to their | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
condition. This lab, it is a Portuguese company which has this | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
private land in north-west France. They were inspected two years | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
private land in north-west France. and that all went through. The trial | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
data, that was approved last year. We await to see whether there were | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
any indications in the earlier test result of what might happen. If that | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
emerges, result of what might happen. If that | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
wrong with the dizzying, then it is not just simply an accident. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Fascinating story. Thank you for bringing us up with our top story | :05:28. | :05:28. | |
this hour. US stocks have fallen | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
sharply in morning trading. At times, the Dow Jones has been as | :05:32. | :05:45. | |
much as 500 points down. Oil has fallen below $30 about for the | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
second time this week. What can you tell us about the | :05:48. | :05:59. | |
situation right now? Well, the Dow is down, as you say, over 400 | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
points. It was at 500 points down early in the day. It is the lowest | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
it has been since August when we saw the Chinese turmoil and all the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
panic created in Wall Street in August. Stocks have had the worst | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
start to year ever. This is really concerning for investors. As you | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
said, the oil price for the second time this week is below $30 about. | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
We are now in $29 barrel territory. You also have China today, the stock | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
market entered into bearish territory. Declining 20% from their | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
eyes. It really caused nervousness there. -- their highs. Another big | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
factor is playing into how we have seen the market plunging since this | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
morning. It is the fact we have had US economic data at which has been | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
really weak. US retail sales were down, which was unexpected in | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
December. That shows concern about consumer spending, which was | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
supposed to be a bright spot. Manufacturing data has also peaked | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
or December. We saw a broad sell-off across all indices. We are seeing | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
people moving their money into Treasuries or gold, which are | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
considered more say. Traders are saying this is the most fear they | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
have experienced in a while. Officials in Sierra Leone have | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
confirmed a death from ebola, hours after the World Health | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
Organization declared the latest Tests on the person who died | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
in northern Sierra Leone earlier this week proved positive | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
according to an ebola The country was declared free | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
of the virus late last year, and the region as a whole | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
was cleared when Liberia was pronounced | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
ebola-free on Thursday. The WHO has warned, however, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
that more flare-ups are expected. The BBC's Umaru Fofana sent this | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
report from Freetown. There is bewilderment | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
all across Sierra Leone today, as people come to the realisation | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
that a woman who died some three years ago was in fact | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
killed by ebola. The 22-year-old apparently | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
got into a district on the border with Guinea but moved | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
further into the north where she got She was discharged from hospital | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
and died a couple of days Her body was released | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
to her family to bury. There was angry reaction from people | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
in that town who have been They said they should | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
not have allowed the body to be released | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
to the family for them to bury, nor should the woman | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
have been discharged without first being | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
diagnosed with ebola. This comes two months | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
after the World Health Organisation declared the end of | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
the outbreak in Sierra Leone. But nevertheless it should not | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
mean people should worry about it because it can be | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
contained, however rapid deployment, medical personnel who are ready | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
to contain any eventual situation This is Sierra Leone's | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
largest referral hospital. It still operates its ebola | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
holding centre, where patients are brought | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
in and they are released once they are deemed not to be | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
carrying the ebola virus. and the hope is that the ebola virus | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
will stop where it has raised its head again in the | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
north of the country. Confirms are being expressed | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
around that many have gone back to the old ways | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
of doing things. I have seen, for example, | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
signs of people eating bush meets These are animals deemed to be | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
harbouring the virus. Now a look at some of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
the day's other news. The Islamist group Al Shabaab | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
says it's taken control of an African Union base in southern | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Somalia near the border Residents in the town of El Adde | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
report many Kenyan troops Al Shabaab says its killed more | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
than sixty Kenyan soldiers and seized military vehicles, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
arms and ammunition. The United States Coast Guard | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
is searching for two military helicopters that reportedly collided | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
mid-air near the island of Oahu The Coast Guard says they've found | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
debris in the water - There were a total of 12 people | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
on board the helicopters. The court in Burundi has sentenced | :10:30. | :10:46. | |
ex-generals to life in prison. That failed coup was sparked when the | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
president announced his decision to run for a controversial third term. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Hundreds of people have been killed in the country in subsequent | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
arrests. after fellow astronaut Tim Kopra | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
"reported a water bubble They had been carrying out repairs | :11:05. | :11:16. | |
on the International Space Station. It was the first spacewalk done | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
by an astronaut representing the UK. Our Science Editor | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
David Shukman reports. The first British citizen | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
to walk in space today, A moment of exploration history, | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
as Tim Peake prepares to venture Weightless, but jammed | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
into a bulky spacesuit, he needs his colleagues to guide him | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
into the airlock and hear Make sure the large hook is attached | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
to the large hook in the airlock. There have been plenty of space | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
walks before but they are always At about one o'clock, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
it was time to float out. A tiny figure against | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
the vast space station. Seeing the Union Jack go outside, | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
exploring all over the world, And, by hand, Tim Peake | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
and a fellow astronaut, Filmed by his American colleagues, | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
Tim Peake is perched at the very edge of the space station, | :12:15. | :12:26. | |
in position to help carry out But look how hard it is | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
managing tools in space. This is the view from | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
Tim Peake's own camera. Everything is weightless | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
and wants to float away. One hour 22 minutes | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
into today's spacewalk... Stepping outside the International | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Space Station is always risky but spacewalks are essential | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
to build and fix things. The astronauts emerge | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
through an airlock here. If we take a closer look, | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
we can see how they had to make their way, about 60 metres, | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
to replace what is called That is part of the power supply | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
connecting the solar panels. So, how do they stay safe | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
while they are out there? Their spacesuits have 14 | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
layers of material to give protection from the vacuum of space | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
and temperatures ranging Backpacks contain oxygen, | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
a power supply, and In case the astronauts | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
drift away, small thruster jets can manoeuvre | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
them back to safety. The main task was to | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
replace that power unit. They had to get it down | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
within 31 minutes. That is how long night lasts | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
on the space station. If sunlight hit the solar panels, | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
they could have been electrocuted. or to try to drink it | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and note the taste. China is planning to launch | :13:45. | :14:02. | |
a mission to land on the dark side good to have you with us. Let's talk | :14:03. | :14:43. | |
a little bit about this. Somewhere good to have you with us. Let's talk | :14:44. | :15:10. | |
that he wins have not actually got to experience | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
that he wins have not actually got fascination? To begin with, the dark | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
side of fascination? To begin with, the dark | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
snowman. It is actually the far side of the moon. Because it is on the | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
far side of the of the moon. Because it is on the | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
our own eyes on it. We have seen photographs but no one has ever | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
landed, even robotically, on the far side of the moon. China is about to | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
break new ground in terms of landing a probe on the far side of the moon | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
and taking some samples, which is the plan. Take some samples and try | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
to figure out what the differences, apart from it being a shade darker | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
than we are used to looking at. Exactly. There is some evidence that | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
the far side of the moon seems to have undergone some different | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
effects. Material which has risen to the service may be slightly | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
different from the part of the moon we can see and therefore it has | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
always been something that many scientists hope to do, to land there | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
and take some samples, do chemical and other tests, to see if there is | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
a difference. We can show our viewers some of the pictures so far. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
The first is the Soviet spacecraft which happen to take some pictures. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
You can imagine how exciting that was full of it is called the lunar | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
spacecraft. The pictures are still impressive, I think, even 55 years | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
later. It began to show a little bit of the surface. It did those then | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
move on. We got another clearer, better picture, coming back in July. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
That is when Nasa decided to have a satellite that was able to take | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
these pictures. When you looked at those pictures, what were you | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
thinking? It has been such a long time since we have gone back to the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
moon. Despite the fact it is our nearest celestial neighbour, we | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
still actually know relatively limited amounts about it. When I | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
heard the news Chinese are interested in doing this, more than | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
anything else, it was a feeling of, about time. What would you like them | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
to find out? What was the burning question when it comes to the far | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
side of the moon? Among other things, the positioning of it, where | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
it may have suffered more hits from asteroids and things. It may have | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
churned up deeper down some of the soil. What would it look like on the | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
far side of the moon? What might we learn from asteroids bits and | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
pieces? What has greater exposure to a different set of conditions | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
resulted in? Is there water? We have already found there is more water on | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
the near side of the Moon. Will it also be the case on the far side? | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Chinese plans are very ambitious. What about the United States? China | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
is going to lead this. Is there some competition when it comes to new | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
adventures like this, getting to the far side of the moon? Speaking a lot | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
about the terminated spacewalk early that this is a whole other area. | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
Yes. Basically, in terms of deep space exploration, the United States | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
really has been alone. We just had the new Horizons project. There are | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
probes currently planned for places like Jupiter and Saturn. Much of the | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
outer solar system in particular, certainly nothing has landed on | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
those planets and moons. Even the flybys are rare. One can only hope | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
this excites a new generation of students around the world to renew | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
their interest and go and explore our own solar system. It remains to | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
be seen. One person who were very much be watching as China gets that | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
under way, and that is deemed sharing. Speaking to bus from the | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
United States. That will be taking place in 2018. -- speaking to us. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
The actor Sean Penn has defended his secret trip to Mexico | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
to interview the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
while he was in hiding from authorities. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
"El Chapo" was recaptured last week more than six months | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
after his dramatic escape from maximum-security prison. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
It later emerged Sean Penn had boosted the drug lord last October | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
and the actor published his account of the visit in Rolling Stone | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
magazine. Sean Penn says he is hoping to change the conversation | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
around the so-called war on drugs. The discussion around this article | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
about the policy and war on drugs. Let's go to the big picture of what | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
we all want. We all want this drug problem to stop. We all want the | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
killings in Chicago to stop. We are the consumer. Whether you agree with | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Sean Penn or not, there is a complicity there. If you are in them | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
all right or the far left, just as many of your children are doing | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
drugs. The Archbishop of Canterbury today | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
apologised to the gay and lesbian community for the "hurt and pain" | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
caused by the Anglican church. Justin Welby was speaking at the end | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
of a meeting of senior bishops The Episcopal Church | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
in the United States has been suspended from the Anglican | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
communion for three years - because of its support | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
for same-sex marriage. Our Religious Affairs correspondent, | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
Caroline Wyatt, reports. Gay and lesbian protesters in places | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
where being gay is still a crime gathered just outside | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Canterbury Cathedral. Here, Anglican leaders have been | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
discussing the issue. Between the minority who approve of | :21:17. | :21:30. | |
same-sex marriage and the majority that do not. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
They have reiterated that marriage within the church remained | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
between a man and a woman and have had a telling off from the Episcopal | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
church in America for allowing same-sex marriage. | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
With gay and lesbian, and Anglicans say they feel abandoned. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
They say that in some countries, being homosexual is still | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
the Archbishop of Canterbury was flanked by three | :21:59. | :22:21. | |
other Anglican leaders, although not the most conservative. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Justin Welby started with an apology. | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
I would like to say how sorry I am for the hurt and pain in the past | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
and present that the Church has caused, and that they love | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
that we have at times completely failed to show. | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
If you condemn homophobic prejudice or have done just now, | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
why was it not mentioned in the joint resolution that you put | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
out, because the protesters outside have been saying that they feel | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
It was not mentioned in the joint resolution that was done yesterday, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
because that was going to be published today. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
It just happened that someone leaked it. | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
So what do the more traditionalists think? | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Even if we disagree, we still love each other, | :23:01. | :23:15. | |
And sometimes we have to argue, and that is OK, it is not | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury says the next conference will come | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
in 2020, and by then, the differences between | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
the Conservative Churches of the south and the liberal | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
treating congregations of the North will not have gone away. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
South African Airways has blacklisted a passenger who could be | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
part of a crime syndicate on its long haul flights. There were a | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
number of tests last month. $2.5 million of items were taken on | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
flights to Hong Kong in 2014. Now, what's the longest number | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
of rainy days you've experienced? Well, in the village | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
of Eglwyswrw in Pembrokeshire, Wales, it's rained every day | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
since October 26th last year. The BBC's Wales correspondent, | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Hywel Griffith, has been there. Spare a thought for the parents | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
of Britain's wettest village. It has been too rainy for children | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
to play out for 81 days. Endless wet days have | :24:14. | :24:29. | |
taken their toll. Very wound up and very | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
difficult, I have to admit. Nestled on the edge | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
of the mountains, at least Eglwyswrw But since its last village | :24:34. | :24:51. | |
pub closed last year, it has had nowhere for people | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
to drown their sorrows. But not everyone's spirits | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
have been dampened. We sell waterproofs and Wellington | :24:58. | :24:58. | |
boots and you could not survive or get about anywhere without a good | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
pair of Wellington boots And those wellies have | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
been put into action. John Davis is the fourth generation | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
of his family to farm this land and he has never known | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
it to be so wet. With lambing just a few weeks away, | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
his sheep are being kept They say maybe it's | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
coming to an end. If that's the case, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
there will be a party It is one record we do not | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
want to be famous for. 81 days is enough, that's | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
what the villagers are saying. That record of 89 days of rain | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
was on the Isle of Isla in 1923. Here, they are keeping their eyes | :25:37. | :25:49. | |
on the skies and hoping the record From me and the rest of the team, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
goodbye. | :25:55. | :26:05. |