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This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The headlines: A rare royal rebuttal from Buckingham Palace over alleged | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Claims in a newspaper that Queen Elizabeth wants Britain | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
to leave the European Union are being strongly denied. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The main route for migrants trying to reach northern Europe | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
is effectively shut down as Macedonia closes its border with | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Tributes for the man who shaped the Beatles' sound from the very | :00:25. | :00:37. | |
beginning - their producer, George Martin, who's died | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
And a spectacular treat for sky-watchers in Indonesia - | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
the best country in the world to witness this rare solar eclipse. | :00:46. | :01:02. | |
We start with an official complaint from Buckingham Palace, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
about a report in Britain's Sun newspaper, which claimed the Queen | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
had expressed strong doubts about the UK's place in Europe. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
The paper said the Queen made her opinion known to the then | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Deputy Prime Minister at a lunch at Windsor Castle in 2011. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
The BBC's royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, reports. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
As many focused on the marriage and Kate Middleton, the Queen at Windsor | :01:24. | :01:41. | |
Castle was letting rip about the European Union. That at least is the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
claim from an anonymous source to the Song. Alongside a front-page | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
deadline, greenbacks breaks it, the Song claims that at a lunch at | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Windsor the monarch believed the EU was heading in the wrong direction. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
The paper says the lunch was attended by the Ven Deputy Prime | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Minister Nick Clegg, to whom the remarks were principally directed, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
and a handful of other ministers. But today Mr Clegg said he had no | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
recollection of such a conversation. I think it's appalling that the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
people who want to drag the UK out of the European Union are now trying | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
to drag the European referendum debate. As for the story in the | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Sunni, it's Sunni, it's nonsense, it's not true, I couldn't clearer. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
King Palace initially stressed the Queen's political neutrality. Later | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
it confirmed it was making a complaint about the story to the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
press standards organisation. But the paper said... | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
Might this have been the occasion at the centre of the story? The Court | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
circular shows that in early April 2011 there was a meeting of the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Privy Council at Windsor attended by Mr Clegg and Michael Gove, who was | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
then the Education Secretary, and several other ministers. None has | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
made any comment today. So what are we to make of this? The Queen does | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
ask questions, she makes observations on occasions, but she | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
doesn't take over the political positions. Her officials point to 64 | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
years of pretty pumped years neutrality. They say any idea that | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
she would take sides in anyway in the EU referendum is simply wrong. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
With me is Andrew Blake, a constitutional historian at Kings | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
College, London. What do you make of this report and furore? It engages a | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
very important constitutional issue fundamental to the way in which | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
British democracy and our monarchy functions. That is that the monarchy | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
should not be seen publicly to get involved in matters of political | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
controversy on one side or the other. The monarchy is supposed to | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
keep out of these things. You say this is vitally important that the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Queen would not be seen to have any persuasion one way or the other on | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
this sort of matter? That's exactly it and that's why the Palace are | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
taking this so seriously. This is such an important issue, such a | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
divisive issue, that the monarchy cannot be seen to be siding on one | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
side or the other, whatever the Queen may think privately. How | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
unusual is it for Buckingham Palace to come out of this weight and rebut | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
these comments and the report about what she may have said or may not | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
have said? Very unusual and they have a general policy of not getting | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
involved. It shows how seriously this is being taken. How much | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
privacy does the Queen have two express what she feels about matters | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
in politics and elsewhere? What is private for her? Where does the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
boundary like? There's a clear understanding that although the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Queen doesn't become publicly involved in controversial matters, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
she's entitled to warn ministers, to consult and advise ministers, to | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
have with ministers in private. She has a weekly audience with the Prime | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Minister in which all manner of things can come up. There's a | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
convention around this that nobody breaks ranks and actually brings | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
into the public domain things they are told by the Queen. In terms of | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
talking to the public, we've had reaction to something she said about | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Scotland and the referendum about Scotland's remaining in the UK. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
What's the difference between the Queen talking to a minister or the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Deputy Prime Minister and a member of the public? An important | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
difference is also that the Queen at that time was saying this is a | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
serious decision that needs to be taken seriously. You may attach an | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
interpretation to that... She wanted Scotland to stay. Some people | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
attached that, but she didn't say that, she said this should be taken | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
seriously, which you can't argue with. If she's saying the referendum | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
in Europe needs to be taken seriously, that's one thing. If | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
she's expressing a view that we should perhaps leave, which I'm not | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
saying is her view, but that's the insinuation, that's a different | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
matter. Thank you. Elsewhere in Europe, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Macedonia says it will no longer let any migrants through its | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
border with Greece - blocking the main route for people | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
trying to seek asylum. Tensions are high among | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
the thousands stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border, | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
which is now closed. Our correspondent, Christian Fraser, | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
is at Idomeni and has walked the last mile with some | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
of the migrants. Thousands of migrants have walked | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
through Greece and Macedonia and on into Central Europe. But in recent | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
weeks, many of the countries along that route have started applying | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
tighter restrictions. The border between Greece and Macedonia has | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
been closed and it looks as if it will stay closed. And yet still they | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
arrive in huge numbers. So who are they and why do they come? We will | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
walk the last mind -- mile of this journey and find out a bit more | :07:08. | :07:08. | |
about their stories. What has life been like | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
for Yazidis in Iraq? TRANSLATION: Absolutely difficult, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
there's no life there, only war. 4,500 women were raped | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
and a lot of men were killed. Have you heard of the | :07:28. | :07:47. | |
conditions at Idomeni? The conditions are really bad, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
only God can help us. TRANSLATION: It's very important | :07:52. | :08:07. | |
to have the right documents, and even with the right documents, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
they're kind of useless My wife is already in Austria | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
and I tried to go through the family reunion route, but I've been waiting | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
for a long time so I decided to make this journey to try | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
and join her in Austria. There's not many people to help, | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
but that guy is holding my daughter. So God sent him to help me, | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
he's from Syria. We're walking again, | :08:38. | :08:49. | |
we must keep walking. We've been walking for an hour. We | :08:50. | :09:13. | |
are in sight of the camp. These are the outskirts of the camp. You can | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
see the Kents in the fields. There's a whole process these people have to | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
go through. They have to register at the camp, get a number, the numbers | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
are called to the gate one by one, in order. We've heard while we've | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
been on the road today from the Macedonian police on the other side | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
that they've closed the border completely. These things fluctuate | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
and these people will hope the border might well open, but right | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
now, it seems this might be a futile journey and they could be sitting | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
here for days, possibly weeks. A Greek far-right MEP | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
has been thrown out of the European Parliament | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
after comparing the Turkish To applause, the parliament's | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
President Martin Schultz announced the immediate expulsion | :09:56. | :10:09. | |
of Golden Dawn MEP Eletherios Mr Schultz said his comments | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
had "crossed red lines" The MEP gathered up his | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
belongings and was escorted You've probably been | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
following the story of one of London's most audacious | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
jewellery heists last Easter. Now four of the men behind | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
the Hatton Garden raid have been The gang got away with ?14 million | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
in cash and jewels. The re-enforced wall, | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
more than a metre thick, that the Hatton Garden gang bored | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
through with a diamond-tipped drill. Once inside, they ripped open | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
73 safe deposit boxes, stuffing the diamonds, jewels, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
watches, cash and gold bullion into wheelie bins | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
for ease of transport. They made away with ?14 million | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
worth last Easter Bank Holiday Today, most of the Hatton Garden | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
gang learnt their punishment. 77-year-old Brian Reader was too | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
unwell to be sentenced yesterday, but Terry Perkins was given | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
seven years in prison, so was Kenny Collins | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
and the fourth ringleader, Jones' friend, Carl Wood, | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
who lost his nerve halfway But William Lincoln who helped store | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
the loot loot got seven years. Hugh Doyle, the plumber who helped | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
move the stolen property, Each will serve only half | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
their sentence actually in prison. There may be people out there that | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
feel a little bit of sympathy in relation to those that | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
were sentenced today. However, these were all career | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
callous criminals who had no thought in relation to the property | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
that they actually stole ?4 million worth of stolen jewellery | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
and cash was found by police, some buried in a North London | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
graveyard, but ?10 million Also missing is the mysterious Basil | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
who worked with the gang, He's now the Flying | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Squad's most wanted man. The gang gave few clues | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
in their police interviews. Secretly filmed here | :12:21. | :12:39. | |
by undercover detectives, discussing the heist in the pub, | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the gang had an average age of 63, so why were they still | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
committing crime? Noel 'Razor' Smith, himself | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
a lifetime criminal, though now reformed, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
knows some of the men and says they probably did it | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
for the thrill of it. Being a professional criminal, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
crime can be very addictive. When you're a career | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
criminal, that's your thing. No matter how old you get and how | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
much money you've got, you still get a, sort of, | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
a yearning to be on the front-line The judge today described this | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
burglary as "unprecedented" in its ambition and the value | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
of property stolen so the sentences are extremely high and things could | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
get worse for the Hatton Garden gang next year they'll be asked to give | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
the money back or spend even A Ukrainian military pilot on trial | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
for complicity in the death of two Russian journalists has | :13:33. | :13:46. | |
denounced her trial in a Russian Nadyia Savchenko has vowed | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
to continue her hunger strike, now in its fifth day, until charges | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
against her are dropped. Russian prosecutors allege | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
she coordinated this mortar attack in eastern Ukraine, in which two | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Russian journalists and other Today's hearing sparked | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
more protests outside Tom Burridge reports | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
from Kiev in a moment, but first here's Sarah Rainsford | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
outside the court in Donetsk. It was a fairly short session | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
of court today in southern Russia, Nadyia Savchenko has been on hunger | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
strike now for five days, but she managed to walk into court | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
herself and at one point she jumped and showed her middle | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
finger to the judge, a gesture of defiance, but also, | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
she said, showing what she thinks She then had a translator read | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
out a formal statement She said that Russia had no justice, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
that this trial is a farce We've heard from the EU | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
and the US this week, both calling on Russia to drop | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
the charges against Nadyia Savchenko and to return her to Ukraine, | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
saying this is an unjust trial. Russia has said this is a criminal | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
proceeding and that the outside world, the West, should not | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
try to influence Russian courts. Nadyia Savchenko is | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
a Russian military officer. She is accused of complicity | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
in the deaths of two Russian journalists during the fighting | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
in eastern Ukraine. Her lawyers, over the course | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
of several months, have shown evidence that they say proves | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
she was actually captured before She is still on hunger strike | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
and she's vowed to stay on hunger strike until the verdict | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
is delivered or until, But that verdict now | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
won't come until March 21st. Her lawyers have warned that | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
unless she is force-fed, The case of Nadyia Savchenko has | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
become much more than just one woman's claim of innocence | :15:41. | :15:56. | |
in a Russian courtroom. This is the Russian | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Embassy in central Kiev. There's paint on the walls | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
from previous protests. Further down, you can see | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
all the signs and the heavy police These people here today, | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
the protestors who have come out to the Russian Embassy, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
and across Ukraine, see her as a symbol of defiance, | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
a symbol of hope, in the face of what a lot of Ukrainians believe | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
is Russian aggression. We came here today because Nadyia | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Savchenko is a symbol of Ukraine. She shows the Russian citizens | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
and the Russian government that Thank God we have such a hero | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
who can, despite all the trials, despite all the hardships | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
she faces at the moment, she can freely express her opinion | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
and she's not definitely broken. These people really see | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Nadyia Savchenko as someone who represents the fight in Ukraine | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
for true independence, true sovereignty, from their larger | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
neighbour, Russia. In the world of music, | :17:02. | :17:17. | |
Sir George Martin was revered His death, at the age of 90, has | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
been followed by countless tributes. Paul McCartney described him | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
as the fifth Beatle, acknowledging George Martin's | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
pivotal role in taking the Fab Four's raw talent | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
and turning them into Over seven decades, he worked | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
with many of the most successful George Martin was 15 years older | :17:30. | :17:45. | |
than most of the Beatles, much more experience and had been trained as a | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
classical musician. By 1962 when he first saw the Beatles, he already | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
had seven years of experience and had already had numerous hit | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
records. He really knew the pop music business in the UK and the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Beatles, as talented as they were, were still very, very young. Give | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
the black -- classical background make the difference when it combined | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
with this war force of pop music? That background helped, but George | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
Martin had a very good understanding of what the formulas were for | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
putting together pop songs in that era. That's one of the most | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
important thing is he taught the Beatles. They had the talent, but he | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
had the ability to pull it together to something that would be | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
immediately successful. Were they sceptical at first with what he was | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
trying to do? A little bit. There's a story George Martin used to love | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
to tell. If there's anything you don't like tell me. George Harrison | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
said, I don't like your tie. They were always pushing back on anything | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
trying to control them. But they had a very healthy respect for him. The | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
students on your carts -- course, what part do they see him as having | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
played? The fifth Beatle? Probably not because the Beatles have become | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
such iconic faces, larger-than-life in many ways. George Martin was | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
always behind-the-scenes. By the time they get to the end of the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
course, they know how important George Martin was to the group. As | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
their music evolved, how did George Martin's input change? The Beatles | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
began to change from being craftsmen, trying to repeat the same | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
formula, to being artists, where they didn't want to repeat. They | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
were always trying new things and somebody had to tell them how to get | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
new effects in the studio. George Martin was in charge of that. What | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
would he do? Backward tape affects. Being for the benefit of Mr Kite, | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
they took a tape of the Steve Morgan, threw it into bits, threw it | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
up in the air, take them together and created a background wash. This | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
is the kind of thing George Martin thought up when John Lennon said he | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
wanted to sound like the Dalai Lama singing from the mountaintop. How do | :20:00. | :20:00. | |
you do that? Tens of thousands of people have | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
been holding protests across France against a new labour | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
law being brought in by The reform to the country's labour | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
code is meant to give greater flexibility to employers, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
so they'll be more willing to take But opponents say it's an erosion | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
of longstanding social rights. The biggest demonstration | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
was in Paris and Hugh Schofield At the end of today there will be | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
the normal numbers game to see how many people have turned up for this | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
protest against the government's new labour law. I would say it's a | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
pretty big turnout, but maybe not quite as much as the organisers | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
would have liked. Maybe the bad weather has something to do with it. | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
Most people here are young people. Students, university students, and | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
they say they will be the first in line if this reform goes through. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Just to remind you what this government reform is about, it's | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
about a change to the labour code. The government wants to reassure | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
business to take on more staff by removing some of the protection | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
enjoyed by workers up to now. For examples there would be a ceiling on | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
the amount of fines courts could impose on companies in the case of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
wrongful dismissal, for example. The aim is to combat the country's | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
punishingly high unemployment, but young people are saying that when | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
they hit the jobs market, they will be the first to suffer. They'll be | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
condemned to a life of job insecurity. Precariousness. That's a | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
long way from the idea of social progress which of course is so dear | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
to the French left. A pioneering procedure for treating | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the leading cause of blindness has been successful in helping | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
children in China to see. Around 20 million people worldwide | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
are blind because of cataracts, which is the clouding | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
of the eye's lens. It's normally treated | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
by implanting a lens, but the new technique activates stem | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
cells in the eye to grow a new one. It was trialled in China | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
amongst 12 children, where the regenerated lens grew | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
to a normal size in eight months. Our health and science reporter, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
James Gallagher, explains. If you imagine light comes | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
in your eye through the pupil, the little black dot in the middle | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
of your eye and just behind When that becomes cloudy, | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
and it's no longer able to focus the light onto the back of the eye | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
to allow you to see. That's why there are millions | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
of people around the world So the best treatment at the moment | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
is to use ultrasound to break up the lens and then you just wash it | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
out and then you put in an implant. Now that works really | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
well for older people. It's less successful, | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
although still the best thing So the idea here was to try | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
something completely different. So they go in and they remove | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
the cataract, which is that blue bit But what they do is they leave | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the rest, the outside So they just take it out | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
through a tiny little hole. The thing is, that capsule, | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
the outer surface of the lens, is covered in these regenerative | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
cells which would normally heal minor bits of damage, | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
but actually if, if you keep them intact, then they can repair | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
the entire lens when left That's what they've just | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
done in these children. Indonesians have been treated | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
to a rare solar eclipse - that's when the moon passes | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
in front of the sun, Indonesia was the best country | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
in the world to see the spectacle. People in Belitung had | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
a particularly good view. Foreign and local tourists have | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
flocked to this small island to catch one of the best views of the | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
rare solar eclipse. Cheers of excitement and then silence. You can | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
tell. The shades are different and the colours become different. Even | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
the temperature gets a bit lower. You cannot compare it with something | :23:59. | :24:11. | |
else. It's very special. You see the curl on the diamond. The noise of | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
the sea comes back. It's loud. Before that it's so silent. For many | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
in Indonesia it was deeply spiritual. Across the diverse | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
cultures of this archipelago, there are many myths and beliefs about the | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
solar eclipse. I'm so happy but also frightened. I have mixed feelings. I | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
am frightened by the darkness and I'm scared. It's an omen of | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
something bad happening in the future. Like more natural disaster. | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
But the event has given the island economy a major boost. We already | :24:57. | :25:09. | |
sold out since October last year. Mostly the guests are coming from | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
outside Indonesia. In some places officials have had to find extra | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
space for tourists on boats. People not wanting to miss it. Quite | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
exciting and quite incredible. Once-in-a-lifetime maybe. Scientists | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
have also flocked to Indonesia, using the event to study solar | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
physics. The next one is in 18 months' time in North America. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Buckingham Palace has complained to the British press watchdog over a | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
newspaper story claiming Queen Elizabeth supports Britain's except | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
from the European Union. The palace said the Queen remained politically | :25:52. | :25:52. | |
neutral. But for now from me and the rest | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
of the team, goodbye. | :25:57. | :26:00. |