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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
After prosecutors in Brazil question the former President - | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Lula - as part of a corruption inquiry. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
He accuses them of disrespecting democracy. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The WHO says there's growing evidence of a link between the Zika | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
virus and two neurolgoical disorders, including microcephaly. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Police in Los Angeles are carrying out tests on a knife which could be | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
linked to the killing of OJ Simpson's ex-wife and her friend | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Why the man -- why the surgeons who repaired this man's severed spinal | :00:35. | :00:53. | |
column on the search for new patient. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Brazil's former president - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
has reacted angrily to being detained and questioned | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
in connection with a corruption case. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Lula was taken from his house and questioned for three hours | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
The current president said it had been unnecessary for the police to | :01:10. | :01:22. | |
detain her predecessor because he would have wanted them voluntarily. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Scuffles outside the former President's home after he was taken | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
away for questioning by police. A long-running corruption probe | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
targets its biggest figure. For many Brazilians, Lula is a saviour but, | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
for others, he is the emblem of a corrupt government | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
TRANSLATION: He should have been detained a long time ago. Everything | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
is so slow here. If this was the US, he would have been detained and | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
investigated already. TRANSLATION: I have suffered from | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
hunger and worked a lot in the countryside until I was 18. I | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
couldn't even afford a bicycle. For me, Brazil only started existing | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
after Lula. Lula made history as the first president from a poor | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
background, a steelworker who reached the highest office. As head | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
of the Workers' Party, he ran the country from 2003 until 2011, | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
presiding over a booming economy and lifting millions out of poverty. His | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
popularity was enough to elect his chosen successor, Dilma Roussef. But | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
his legacy has been tarnished by a deepening corruption scandal at the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
state oil company Petrobras. The police alleged state appointed | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
members of the company got kickbacks from firms which wanted contracts. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
The state prosecutor says they are working on the hypothesis that some | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
of this money ended up in the former President's think tank. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
TRANSLATION: 60% of the funding comes from the top five companies | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
involved. The police alleged that homes were bought for the president | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
with the money. The former president denies all charges and, in a | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
strongly worded statement, he said he was the victim of violence and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the case was an assault against the rule of law. The police questioned | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Lula for three hours. Even if no charges are applied, this is seen as | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
a major blow to his hopes of becoming a presidential candidate in | :03:32. | :03:32. | |
2018. Let's talk to our correspondent | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
Daniel Gallas in Rio because, in the last hour or so, Lula has | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
given his own press conference. He gave every impassioned defence of | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
his institute and his work and legacy. He says he has been subject | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
to violence by institutions. He says this is a media circus, not a | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
serious investigation. He says the powerful elite are after him cause | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
of his track record against poverty, and that they don't want his project | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
for Brazil to continue. That is what he said regarding the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
investigations. He also said there is nothing wrong with the money he | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
earned with the speeches. He compared himself to Bill Clinton, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
saying he is as expensive and valuable as Bill Clinton when giving | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
speeches and there is nothing wrong with the money he earned. He gave a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
passionate defence, a challenging one. At times, he almost sounded a | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
bit like a politician who wants to run an election campaign, which is | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
what many people speculate he will do in two years' time. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
More than 20 years after the former American football | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
star OJ Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
police are investigating possible new evidence in the case. | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
Millions of people watched the televised trial back in 1995. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
Despite a huge search, the prosecution was never able | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Now the Los Angeles police department says it's testing a knife | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
that may have been recovered from a property once | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
At a news conference, the LAPD described the circumstances | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
in which the knife was reportedly found. | :05:11. | :05:22. | |
We received the knife from a retired LAPD officer retired in the late | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
90s. It was a motor officer. At that time, according to them, he was | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
working off duty, working a movie job, which a lot of our officers do | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
on and off duty bases, as well as our retired officers. I don't know | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
whether he was retired at the time he allegedly received this item from | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the person who claimed they found it on the property or whether he was | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
still an LAPD officer and they retired after that. We are looking | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
into it. The investigators will continue to look at this. The item | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
has been recovered by homicide investigators and it is being | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
treated as we would all evidence. It has been submitted to our lab. They | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
are going to study it and examine it all forensics, including DNA and | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
hair samples. That is ongoing as we speak. | :06:22. | :06:22. | |
Earlier, our correspondent in Los Angeles - James Cook - | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
gave this assessment of what the police had to say. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Quite an extraordinary develop and, more than two decades after the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman here in Los Angeles. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
1994, they were killed, stabbed to death, the murder weapon never | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
found. In the trial the following year, where it felt that point the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
entire world was watching, OJ Simpson was of course acquitted in | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the end, at the dramatic finale to quite an incredible trial. In the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
years that followed, don't forget, civil proceedings were brought | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
against him by the victims' families, which he lost, and was | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
subsequently sent to prison in 2000 for armed robbery. Such risks and | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
turns, and the latest now, the finding of this knife. Although the | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
circumstances of the discovery are not at all clear. Why it was not | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
investigated earlier is a big question for the LAPD. That officer | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
talking about the circumstances under which it may have been found, | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
and suggesting this may come to nothing. It is important to stress | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
that. A police captain addressing the media said it was important to | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
note that they did not necessarily think this was the murder weapon. At | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the moment, they were simply looking into whether or not it had a | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
relationship to the case. The police officer who was supposedly given the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
knife was given a second hand account of how it was found, so they | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
don't even know for sure that it was definitely found on the property of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
OJ Simpson, a property demolished in 1998. The suggestion was that it was | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
found around that time. They haven't confirmed that information, so a lot | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
of enquiry still to carry out, not least the DNA testing, which it is | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
interesting to note that the science is more advanced now than it was at | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
the time. Scientists in the United States say | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
they've found more evidence to suggest that the Zika virus | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
can damage brain cells after they injected the virus | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
into human stem cells. Zika is spread by mosquitoes | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
and generally causes mild flu-like But it's been linked to birth | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
defects in hundreds of babies born in Brazil whose mothers contracted | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Zika while pregnant. The findings in the US come | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
as the World Health Organisation announced there was accumulating | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
evidence linking Zika with both microcephaly and the Guillain-Barre | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
syndrome, which damages Our Science Editor David Shukman | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
says the US lab tests are an important step | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
towards proving the link It is a sort of detective job going | :08:56. | :09:09. | |
on, with teams of scientists around the world desperately trying to | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
understand how the virus works, how it could get into the body, how it | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
could affect a baby's brain development and caused that terrible | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
condition of the abnormally small heads, microcephaly. What we have is | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
a series of pieces of evidence, if you like. Traces of Zika virus were | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
found in the amniotic fluid of infected pregnant women, found in | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
some babies who had microcephaly, and now this study in America, which | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
is an important step forward, where scientists took the virus and | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
applied it to human stem cells, cells which could go on to develop | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
into brain cells. They found that 90% of them were infected by Zika | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
virus and then went on to become damaged. What you have got is the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
first tangible physical proof, if you like, of a mechanism by which | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
the virus could damage a baby's brain. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Two men have been jailed in Turkey in connection with the death | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
of a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned while trying to reach | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
A photograph of his body on a Turkish beach last September | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
came to symbolise the plight of refugees making | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
But despite the huge risks people are not being deterred. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
The latest figures show a record number of migrants and refugees | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
entered Europe last year - almost all of them by sea. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
And just to warn you it contains flash photography. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Convicted for the trade in people's lives. | :10:36. | :10:36. | |
Two Syrians, jailed today for over four years, | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
for smuggling Aylan Kurdi and his family. | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
But they were cleared of deliberately causing their deaths. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
It was the most potent image of the refugee crisis. | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Little Aylan washing-up near Bodrum last autumn sparking sympathy | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
It also put pressure on Turkey to tackle the smugglers. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
The migration crisis again topped the agenda | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Chancellor Merkel visiting President Hollande in Paris. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
TRANSLATION: We, Germany and France, entirely agreed that we must | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
protect our external borders to defend freedom of movement | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
within Europe but also for security reasons, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
because we have to know who arrives in Europe. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
And they are still arriving, at a huge rate. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
More gathered in Izmir, putting their faith in life jackets, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
The crowds of refugees and migrants who used to be camped out in places | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
like this in central Izmir have mostly been chased away by police. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
But it doesn't mean the numbers have dwindled. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
You still see them here, for example, at food hand-outs. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Turkey has been told by the EU to reduce the flows of those | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
arriving on the Greek island every day from 2,000 to 1,000. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
When, for those fleeing war, the hope of Europe burns so bright. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
One way, says the head of the European Council, | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
visiting Istanbul today, is for Turkey to take | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
There is hope it can be agreed upon at a summit next week. | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
But along the journey to Europe the bottlenecks are growing. | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
Macedonia has shut its border with Greece and 11,000 people | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
As Europe scrambles for unity, individual states close their doors, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
but that still won't kill the dreams of the desperate. | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Stay with us here. Still to come, can the cell transplant which | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
repaired this man's broken spinal cord work for others and | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
revolutionised the treatment of paralysis? The baby of a pregnant | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
woman who was stabbed multiple times in Sutton Coldfield has been born in | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
hospital and is doing well, according to police. A 41-year-old | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
man known to the woman was immediately detained in connection | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
with the attack in the town centre and he remains in custody. Speaking | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
a short time ago, Phil Mackie gave us this update on the condition of | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the mother and the child. This news came through from West Midlands | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Police not long ago. We know that the mother, who was 40 years old and | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
heavily pregnant, had been stabbed this afternoon and she was airlifted | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
to hospital. In hospital this evening, a baby has been born. We | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
presume that is by Caesarean section. We don't know the sex of | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
the child yet. The baby is doing well, according to the statement | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
from police, but the mum, who was stabbed, remains in a critical | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
condition. She is still being treated in hospital. This is BBC | :13:38. | :13:50. | |
world news. The latest headlines. Brazil's former president Lula | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
accuses proxy tutors of disrespected -- accuses prosecutors of | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
disrespecting democracy after they question him. Police are testing a | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
knife to see if it was the murder weapon in the OJ Simpson case. Now | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
all of the sport. Three points clear at the top of the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Premier League, but what has been the secret to Leicester City's | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
remarkable success? Claudio Ranieri has revealed he has kept the squad | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
focused on the training pitch by ringing and imagine rebel at them. I | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
say to them, ding-dong, when they are sleeping, no? And then I ring a | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
little bell. We have brought you a little bell. Hey, you are sleeping. | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
Come on! Do you think you have maybe got this air of a headteacher about | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
you, with the players, with us? No, no. From the beginning, when | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
something was wrong, I said, ding-dong, wake up! During the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
training sessions, ding-dong! Christmas Day, I said, I'd buy for | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
everybody, all of the staff, a little bell. Ding-dong! Just a joke. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
Arsenal have suffered another blow to their title hopes. Petr Cech, the | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
goalkeeper, will be out for three to four weeks. The the Czech... Arsenal | :15:25. | :15:36. | |
travel to north London rivals Tottenham on Sunday. It is a serious | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
calf injury and he had a green alert. From the first goal, he | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
couldn't kick the ball properly because of his groin. He may be deep | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
-- he may be compensated too much. If you look at... It is very good as | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
well. I am not honestly worried at all on that front. A report | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
commissioned into the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany says | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
it has found no conclusive evidence of vote rigging, but it cannot rule | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
out the possibility of votes being bought. The report was commissioned | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
after it emerged the German football Federation made a payment of 6.7 | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
million euros to Fifa in 2005. This investigation essentially says | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
that the World Cup of 2006 was not bought, it was not subject to | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
corruption. However, it goes on to say that the possibility that votes | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
were bought cannot be ruled out. A bit of a conflict that in the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
statement. Why cannot that possibility be ruled out? There was | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
evidence that was supposedly withheld, some documents, e-mails | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
which were destroyed, but also individuals such as the Fifa | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
president at the time, Sepp Blatter, refusing to give evidence to | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
Freshfields in the case. It is a confusing picture. There is also | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
suggestion in this report that there are unclear payments which have been | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
uncovered. One of those has come from Franz Beckenbauer, was the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
president of the German bid for the 2006 world club -- World Cup, some | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
money received in Swiss francs from a Swiss bank account to a bank | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
account in Qatar which was owned by the disgraced former Fifa vice | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
president, who was on the Fifa executive committee at the time. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Great Britain's defence of the Davis Cup title saw them finish one rubber | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
apiece after the opening round against Japan in German -- in | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Birmingham. Kei Nishikori levelled it out with a defeat against -- with | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
a win against Dan Evans. Tomas Berdych has been taken to five sets. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
World number one Novak Djokovic started winning legal Serbia but | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Mikhail Kukushkin pulled it back for Kazakhstan, beating Viktor Troicki. | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
Surgeons in Poland are launching a global search for to paralysed | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
patient is -- patients and they will try to help to walk using transplant | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
surgery. In 2014, the team announced they had reversed paralysis in a | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
former fireman using cells taken his nose to repair his spinal-cord. Our | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
correspondent broke the story and he now has this exclusive update. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
He is the paralysed man who walked again. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
This is Darek Fidyka in 2014, after his regenerative cell | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
transplant, documented by the BBC's Panorama. | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
Now, a bigger test, to ride this tricycle. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Remember, this is a man who had been completely | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
paralysed below his chest after being stabbed. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Now, he is relearning how to control his legs, | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
sending commands from his brain down to his muscles, | :18:57. | :19:14. | |
The effort is as much mental as physical. | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
TRANSLATION: If I really think, I can feel each muscle, | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
The brain is very important and I appreciate it | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
lays a crucial role in cycling, or any other exercise I do. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
The big question now is whether Darek's extraordinary | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
achievements can be repeated in other patients. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Only a clinical trial can show whether or not the cell transplant | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
does indeed represent a revolution in the treatment of paralysis, | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
which would make it one of the greatest | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
That's why his surgeon is launching a worldwide search, | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
via a website, for two patients with highly unusual injuries. | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
Their spinal-cord must be completely severed, | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
Help them, and it will silence any doubters. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
We can prove once and forever that we can repair | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
There would be no speculation if we succeed to reconstruct. | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
This would be history, this will change history. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
If we succeed, we'll find a cure for paralysis. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
The patients will have one of their olfactory bulbs, | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
at the base of the brain, shown in green, removed. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
It processes the sense of smell, and is the only part of the nervous | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
In a second operation, cells from the | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
bulb will be transplanted into the spinal-cord to provide | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
a pathway for nerve fibres to grow back. | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
The patients selected for the trial will | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
undergo intensive physiotherapy, both before and especially | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
In all, they will have to commit to spending three years | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
living at this rehabilitation centre in Poland. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
The research will be independently assessed by this team | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
They will use equipment like this magnetic stimulator | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
to monitor the patients' neurological pathways | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
As a proof of principle, I'm very excited, because | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
this is a novel treatment that holds a great deal of promise. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
This would open up hope that an alternative | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
But it is going to take some years to refine it. | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
The treatment will cost ?250,000 per patient, | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
and is being funded by a small British charity set up by a chef, | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
David Nichols, whose son was paralysed in a swimming accident. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
If the trial is successful, it might mean patients | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
For Darek, the return of muscle control and sensation has brought | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
other improvements, like bladder control and sexual function, | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
which he says are just as crucial to his growing sense of independence. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
At a cost of $4 billion, it is the most expensive railway station in | :22:27. | :22:42. | |
the world. It is in New York near where the twin towers once stood. | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Today, several years behind schedule, it finally opened. More | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
than 200,000 commuters are expected to use it everyday. The architect | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
who designed it has called it a gift of love to the city. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
A bird in flight, a Phoenix rising from the ashes, | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
New York's latest landmark is a station that doubles | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
as a symbol, of renewal, of hope, of life. | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
Almost 15 years on from the attacks of 9/11, this new transportation hub | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
at Ground Zero has finally opened its doors. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
For survivors it's a highly charged moment. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Charles DeAndrea lost 176 colleagues that day and has watched this | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Really kind of proud of New York City, being able | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
It's just absolutely remarkable, the way we have come back from this. | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
And then, to see this today, it's quite amazing. | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
It's staggeringly beautiful, but staggeringly costly. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
The project has been plagued by cost blowouts and delays. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Originally, the plan was to have a transportation hub | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
And the price tag of $4 billion is double the estimate. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
It's made this the most expensive station in the world. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
The design, his inspiration was a bird in flight. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
So the tourist trail has a new addition, but the symbolism | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
It's been likened to a turkey carcass the day after | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Like a bird, right? Seagull? | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
I don't know, I don't really see a bird. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
It just looks like a series of Nike ticks being repeated. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
I know it's supposed to look like, represent a bird, but, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
But to others it's become instantly iconic, and perfectly complements | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
I think it's a fantastic way for the city and visitors to always | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
look up and be inspired instead of feeling drugged down | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
In lower Manhattan, the skyline has been repaired, | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
the subway system has a cathedral-like new home. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
But it's still hard to see a plane in the skies without remembering | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
the monuments that stood here before. | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
Now to something very old. A medieval ring said to have belonged | :25:05. | :25:20. | |
to Joan of Arc has returned to France after nearly 600 years in | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
England. It was bought by a foundation which runs a historic -- | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
historical theme pub in western France for $425,000. It is thought | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
that Joan gave it to an English cardinal before she was burnt at the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
stake. The former resident of Brazil, Lula, has reacted angrily to | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
being detained and questioned in connection with a corruption case. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
He was taken from his house and question for three hours at a police | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
station. That is all from me and the rest of the team. Thank you for | :25:54. | :25:54. | |
watching. Goodbye. Hello. The heaviest snow really has | :25:55. | :26:12. | |
cleared away now, but we might get some fresh snow in one or two other | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
parts of the country through the evening and overnight. Across the | :26:18. | :26:19. | |
Midlands, | :26:20. | :26:20. |