12/04/2016

:00:07. > :00:17.The IMF warns that the world is increasingly exposed

:00:18. > :00:21.The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, accuses her

:00:22. > :00:27.Vice President of being one of the leaders of a plot

:00:28. > :00:32.Reaching for the stars - why Stephen Hawking is backing

:00:33. > :00:58.a journey to another solar system - 25 TRILLION miles away.

:00:59. > :01:05.If we are to survive as a species, we must ultimately spread to the

:01:06. > :01:08.stars. Too slow for too long -

:01:09. > :01:10.that's the International Monetary Fund's assessment of the global

:01:11. > :01:12.economy for 2016. For the second time this year it has

:01:13. > :01:15.downgraded its forecast for growth, raising fears of another

:01:16. > :01:17.global recession. This time, the IMF has

:01:18. > :01:20.forecast growth of 3.2% - Crashing oil prices have

:01:21. > :01:25.badly affected Nigeria, The IMF says the economies of Brazil

:01:26. > :01:31.and Russia will shrink this year. Elsewhere, China's growth

:01:32. > :01:33.figures have actually been revised up slightly -

:01:34. > :01:37.to 6.5 per cent - but there is still long-term concern about

:01:38. > :01:45.whether its economy can diversify. Maurice Obstfeld, the IMF's chief

:01:46. > :01:48.economist, told the BBC how different the picture looks

:01:49. > :01:59.around the world. It's an incredibly diverse picture

:02:00. > :02:04.if you look at it. Some are doing really well, India is growing over

:02:05. > :02:08.7% and benefiting from these low commodity prices that are precisely

:02:09. > :02:20.the cause of the very slow growth, if not crises, in other economies.

:02:21. > :02:24.Survey we see a lot of diversity. The headwinds in the commodity

:02:25. > :02:29.exporters are severe, longer term they have to find new growth models

:02:30. > :02:31.with Maud diverse export bases and that won't happen overnight.

:02:32. > :02:43.Financial markets of course react to that. So hopefully be is the report?

:02:44. > :02:47.Over the last couple of years there has been a gradual change in the

:02:48. > :02:52.town from the IMF, increasing concern that the recovery after the

:02:53. > :02:58.financial crisis, which was back in 2008, it is never really got a head

:02:59. > :03:03.of steam going. Increasingly they are concerned that there is this

:03:04. > :03:07.vulnerability to shocks, that an economy that is growing strongly

:03:08. > :03:13.might be able to take it in its stride but there is a real concern

:03:14. > :03:16.that unexpected or even expected adverse effects, if we look at the

:03:17. > :03:20.geopolitical issues around the world, could lead to the world

:03:21. > :03:27.economy stalling and going into what they call a period of protracted

:03:28. > :03:33.stagnation. Eurozone first of all, what in particular didn't have to

:03:34. > :03:37.say about Greece? On Greece, it does expect the economy to contract a

:03:38. > :03:41.can, it's one of the small number of countries which is actually looking

:03:42. > :03:45.at contraction this year. Having said that, Greece in particular

:03:46. > :03:53.wasn't quite as bad as when the IMF last forecast, and I have heard

:03:54. > :03:56.people suggest that what the IMF are trying to do with Greece is painted

:03:57. > :04:04.downbeat picture to encourage the likes of Germany to cooperate more.

:04:05. > :04:08.Within the Eurozone still, what does it have to say about the issue of

:04:09. > :04:13.the British exit with a referendum on the possible British exit? The

:04:14. > :04:19.IMF does have a concern that it could lead to what is called severe

:04:20. > :04:23.regional and global economic damage, disrupting established patterns of

:04:24. > :04:28.trade, worries it might affect confidence and investment in

:04:29. > :04:33.Britain, and trading with the UK. It has to be said this is very much a

:04:34. > :04:39.judgment of the IMF's on economists, one of the campaign groups seeking

:04:40. > :04:43.to persuade the British to leave the EU has said the IMF has talked down

:04:44. > :04:49.the British economy before and has been proved wrong. And some for up

:04:50. > :04:56.and coming stars, particularly Brazil and Russia, singled out?

:04:57. > :05:01.Puzzle is looking at the contraction this year of frequent 8%, same as

:05:02. > :05:10.last day, that is a dismal picture? Brazil is looking. There is also

:05:11. > :05:14.commodity prices, result is a big exporter of Soria beans, that has

:05:15. > :05:19.been a factor, as has been the slowdown in China, which is a big

:05:20. > :05:22.trading partner for Brazil. As for Russia, it is also to do with the

:05:23. > :05:28.international sanctions that have been put in place as a result of the

:05:29. > :05:32.crisis in Ukraine. Russia is probably also going to contract this

:05:33. > :05:38.year but not as sharply as Brazil. Any good news in this report? I

:05:39. > :05:45.suppose that there is still growth, just not as we would like to see it.

:05:46. > :05:47.Brazil's president Dilma Rouseff, who is facing impeachment,

:05:48. > :05:51.has accused her second in command of conspiring to overthrow her.

:05:52. > :05:52.Brazil's Vice President, Michel Temer, accidentally released

:05:53. > :05:56.an audio message of himself rehearsing a speech in which he

:05:57. > :06:09.speaks as if the impeachment has already happened.

:06:10. > :06:14.TRANSLATION: As below house of Congress decides with the

:06:15. > :06:18.significant number of votes to open impeachment proceedings, many people

:06:19. > :06:22.sought me out so I would give at least some preliminary remarks to

:06:23. > :06:27.the Brazilian nation, which I'm doing with modesty, caution and

:06:28. > :06:33.moderation but also as a vice president, and natural substitute of

:06:34. > :06:40.the president. Let's go over to our correspondent in Rio where a hugely

:06:41. > :06:45.angry Dilma Rousseff was. It's not the first time she has alleged what

:06:46. > :06:48.is happening against her is a coup against a democratically elected

:06:49. > :06:51.government, but as the week progresses, as that big boat before

:06:52. > :06:56.the full house of Congress at the end of the week comes close, the

:06:57. > :06:59.division lines are becoming clearer between was going to support Dilma

:07:00. > :07:06.Rousseff and who is against her. Michel Temer still is vice president

:07:07. > :07:09.in our government but his party has withdrawn from government, so from

:07:10. > :07:13.being a close ally of the president, she has now accused him of being one

:07:14. > :07:20.of the main plotters, of being part of this can attempt against the

:07:21. > :07:25.government. -- coup attempt. For her, proof of the pudding was

:07:26. > :07:30.yesterday in which this audio tape was released, in which Michel Temer

:07:31. > :07:36.appears presidential himself, reluctantly taking on the Brazilian

:07:37. > :07:40.presidency as Dilma Rousseff is temporarily suspended. That

:07:41. > :07:45.impeachment vote hasn't actually happened yet so this was either a

:07:46. > :07:50.silly mistake by Michel Temer or as Dilma Rousseff would see it, part of

:07:51. > :07:57.a plot to weaken her position, as we await this crucial vote. Where are

:07:58. > :08:00.we with this proceeding against Dilma Rousseff and how likely is it

:08:01. > :08:07.thought that she will face impeachment proceedings? Momentum

:08:08. > :08:11.certainly against the president. A congressional committee yesterday

:08:12. > :08:15.voted by a simple majority to advance the impeachment proceedings

:08:16. > :08:18.further. That goes to the full house of Congress at the weekend. The

:08:19. > :08:23.problem for the opposition is they need a two thirds majority to force

:08:24. > :08:27.this removal of Dilma Rousseff from office for the impeachment trial

:08:28. > :08:33.takes place. Getting that majority won't be easy. It will have to be

:08:34. > :08:38.very close. That is what the release of this tape by Michel Temer, the

:08:39. > :08:42.position of the medium-sized and small parties in Congress, will be

:08:43. > :08:45.crucial. One thing that Dilma Rousseff says is that many of those

:08:46. > :08:51.who are against her are accused of far more serious crimes that she is.

:08:52. > :08:55.She is being impeached over a relatively minor fiscal

:08:56. > :08:59.misdemeanour, yet many of the people in Congress who are sitting in

:09:00. > :09:05.judgment on her are accused of much more serious crimes. We just heard

:09:06. > :09:10.from the IMF, Brazil in particular mentioned with a rather negative

:09:11. > :09:14.outlook, particularly in light of the political instability we are

:09:15. > :09:18.seeing. That is a huge problem, the country is in recession, we have 10%

:09:19. > :09:23.inflation here, all of this after a decade of Stella economic growth.

:09:24. > :09:29.The big problem right now is while everybody's attention is focused on

:09:30. > :09:33.the corruption crisis and political crisis, nobody is focusing on the

:09:34. > :09:40.economy. One of those problems you pointed out, are still there. -- all

:09:41. > :09:44.of those problems. This impeachment process could last until the end of

:09:45. > :09:48.the year. So the economic crisis isn't going to get better any time

:09:49. > :09:52.soon, all of those issues like commodity prices, the falling price

:09:53. > :09:54.of oil, are real factors here but nobody is talking about that right

:09:55. > :09:58.now. Prince Harry and the David Cameron

:09:59. > :10:00.have joined the families of British victims of last year's terror

:10:01. > :10:03.attacks in Tunisia for a memorial service

:10:04. > :10:10.at Westminster Abbey. Candles, representing the life

:10:11. > :10:12.of each of those killed in the attacks on a tourist beach

:10:13. > :10:16.in Sousse and a museum in Tunis, A Lebanese court has charged

:10:17. > :10:19.an Australian mother and four Australian television journalists

:10:20. > :10:21.with abducting the woman's two The incident was caught

:10:22. > :10:25.on these CCTV pictures. The team was following the story

:10:26. > :10:28.of the woman, Sally Faulkner, who was trying to get back her

:10:29. > :10:32.children from her ex-husband, Belgian authorities have charged

:10:33. > :10:38.a further two men with terrorist offences, over last month's

:10:39. > :10:41.attacks on Brussels airport The men - identified only

:10:42. > :10:49.as "Smail F" and "Ibrahim F" - are suspected of helping to rent

:10:50. > :10:52.an apartment, that served as a safe 32 people were killed

:10:53. > :10:55.in the attacks. David Gest, the American music

:10:56. > :10:58.producer, who became a reality television star in Britain, has been

:10:59. > :11:01.found dead in a London hotel. Gest was briefly married

:11:02. > :11:13.to the actress and singer A childhood friend of

:11:14. > :11:16.Michael Jackson, in 2001 Gest produced a highly successful show

:11:17. > :11:18.featuring the star. Imagine a journey far

:11:19. > :11:21.beyond our solar system. Scientists have already sent

:11:22. > :11:23.satellites billions of miles into deep space, but now there's

:11:24. > :11:26.a new project that could see spacecraft the size of a thumbnail

:11:27. > :11:28.travelling to another star The interstellar mission

:11:29. > :11:32.has the backing of Professor Stephen Hawking,

:11:33. > :11:34.as our science correspondent For thousands of years,

:11:35. > :11:43.people have dreamt of one day The world's most famous scientist,

:11:44. > :11:47.Stephen Hawking, thinks that that Astronomers believe there

:11:48. > :11:54.is a reasonable chance of an earth-like planet orbiting one

:11:55. > :12:00.of the stars in the Alpha Centauri system, but we'll know more

:12:01. > :12:10.in the next two decades Technological developments

:12:11. > :12:12.in the last two decades and in the future make it,

:12:13. > :12:14.in principle, possible Already a probe has been

:12:15. > :12:23.sent to Pluto. That is seven-and-a-half

:12:24. > :12:26.billion miles away. And Voyager I has reached the edge

:12:27. > :12:29.of our solar system. The plan is to send a spacecraft

:12:30. > :12:37.to a star in another solar system. That's a staggering 25

:12:38. > :12:43.trillion miles away. Using current technology,

:12:44. > :12:45.it would take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to to our closest star,

:12:46. > :12:48.but by making them smaller, Over the years, the size of

:12:49. > :12:57.spacecraft have shrunk dramatically. In the 1980s this microsatellite

:12:58. > :13:01.was used for earth observation. In the 1990s, this nano-satellite

:13:02. > :13:07.was launched for communications. The ultimate aim of the new research

:13:08. > :13:10.programme is to make them even smaller, to cram all the cameras

:13:11. > :13:15.and instruments you have in these The idea is to launch

:13:16. > :13:26.these mini-spacecraft A giant laser on earth would give

:13:27. > :13:32.each one a powerful push, sending it on its way, reaching

:13:33. > :13:37.a speed of 100 miles per second. Life on earth faces dangers

:13:38. > :13:39.from astronomical events likes astroids and supernovas,

:13:40. > :13:43.another danger from ourselves. If we are to survive

:13:44. > :13:45.as a species, we must ultimately Here in Surrey where they pioneered

:13:46. > :14:01.the development of minisatellites 30 years ago, scientists believe it

:14:02. > :14:03.will be possible. What we did back in the 1980s

:14:04. > :14:05.was considered very wacky, and now small satellites

:14:06. > :14:07.are all the fashion. This is currently a wacky-sounding

:14:08. > :14:10.idea, but technologies have moved There is still a lot of work needed

:14:11. > :14:16.to develop the technology, but scientists believe that

:14:17. > :14:18.although it will be difficult, What was once a distant dream

:14:19. > :14:33.could very soon become reality. Dr Matteo Ceriotti is a Lecturer

:14:34. > :14:44.in space systems engineering I suppose the question many will be

:14:45. > :14:51.wondering about is, is it really possible? What do you say? Well,

:14:52. > :14:56.it's very, very ambitious, definitely, but this doesn't mean we

:14:57. > :15:02.shouldn't sit a timeline and set up a framework to work towards, to

:15:03. > :15:10.achieve this goal within the next hundred years. 100 years, you think

:15:11. > :15:15.is the realistic timescale? Yes, this is what they are proposing, and

:15:16. > :15:19.the budget is estimated in about $100 million, it's quite a big

:15:20. > :15:25.budget, white bread, in the relatively near future. Just talk us

:15:26. > :15:32.through what we saw in the report about the technology you would use

:15:33. > :15:39.to get something to travel in say, 30 years, rather than 30,000 years

:15:40. > :15:44.that it would take at present. It would need a radically different

:15:45. > :15:50.propulsion system. At the moment spacecraft travelling using rockets,

:15:51. > :15:57.we need to propulsion mass, we could reach relatively low speeds, so 17

:15:58. > :15:59.kilometres per second, we need a disruptive technology and this is

:16:00. > :16:06.what they are suggesting, using laser pumped solar seeds, miniature

:16:07. > :16:11.right spacecraft that deploy a reflective surface, which would be

:16:12. > :16:15.fired upon from a massive later on earth and by reflecting the laser

:16:16. > :16:21.would receive a force that would eventually boost the spacecraft to

:16:22. > :16:26.speeds that have never been reached before by anything built by human

:16:27. > :16:29.beings. We are talking about something really tiny, possibly as

:16:30. > :16:36.small as a thumbnail, but what can that do when it eventually arrives

:16:37. > :16:39.at its destination? Definitely miniaturisation of electronics is

:16:40. > :16:44.one of the challenges but this is what is needed, we need the

:16:45. > :16:49.spacecraft mass extra low if we wanted to accelerate to such speeds,

:16:50. > :16:59.so electronics and the need as well as the engineering of lightweight

:17:00. > :17:02.materials. And what is behind this project, is it to find

:17:03. > :17:07.extraterrestrials are? That is definitely one of the aims, another

:17:08. > :17:12.one is to look outside of the solar system, we have never done that, we

:17:13. > :17:16.want to see the solar system from the outside. So you think this is

:17:17. > :17:20.going to happen? This is definitely something we are going to see from

:17:21. > :17:25.the realms of space fiction to reality? I definitely hope it's good

:17:26. > :17:28.to happen and we should definitely pursue the project, yes. Thank you

:17:29. > :17:32.very much. German prosecutors say an unnamed

:17:33. > :17:34.rail dispatcher was using his mobile phone to play games,

:17:35. > :17:36.shortly before two trains 11 people were killed

:17:37. > :17:42.in the crash in February. Prosecutors say the dispatcher has

:17:43. > :17:46.been arrested on suspicion In a statement, prosecutors said

:17:47. > :17:51.the man was likely to have been distracted from his work,

:17:52. > :17:54.leading him to give He then made a mistake sending

:17:55. > :17:59.an emergency message, which The statement said that the man

:18:00. > :18:23.admitted playing games on his phone, Art experts in front say they

:18:24. > :18:27.believe a painting found in an attic two years ago is an authentic

:18:28. > :18:36.Caravaggio. It could be worth over $130 million. The canvas is thought

:18:37. > :18:40.to have been lying in the property in Toulouse for 150 years before its

:18:41. > :18:44.discovery. The art specialist to retrieve the painting says it bears

:18:45. > :18:49.all the hallmarks of the Italian Renaissance master. The owners of

:18:50. > :18:52.this painting not know of the existence of the picture, they did

:18:53. > :18:57.not know that they had this picture, because they found it in part of an

:18:58. > :19:03.attic which they had never been. There was a leak in the roof so the

:19:04. > :19:06.reach the roof, they had to go through the attic and to break the

:19:07. > :19:08.door they had never opened at the end of the attic. Behind the door

:19:09. > :19:11.was the picture. The England cricketer James Taylor

:19:12. > :19:13.has been forced to retire due The 26-year-old has been

:19:14. > :19:17.diagnosed with ARVC - which means one side of his heart

:19:18. > :19:20.fails to pump blood around He posted this picture

:19:21. > :19:29.from his hospital bed -he's due to have a heart

:19:30. > :19:30.operation within days. He went on to say the diagnosis had

:19:31. > :19:34.turned his world upside down. The former premier league

:19:35. > :19:35.player Fabrice Muamba has His heart stopped beating

:19:36. > :19:39.for 78 minutes during a match four years ago -

:19:40. > :19:55.he came close to death but later Thank you for coming in. A very sad

:19:56. > :19:58.thing for the career of one sport person but perhaps having this

:19:59. > :20:07.diagnosed has averted a worse tragedy? It is a real shame for the

:20:08. > :20:12.cricketer, but the positive is that a condition has been identified. We

:20:13. > :20:18.know this particular condition is genetic with a propensity to be

:20:19. > :20:25.inherited. Today is characterised by fibrous and fatty replacement of the

:20:26. > :20:29.heart muscle which renders it more susceptible -- ARVC. That is

:20:30. > :20:35.worsened by factors such as exercise,... So it could strike at

:20:36. > :20:39.any time, if there was a factor like exertion? In particular it is during

:20:40. > :20:45.exercise or often just after exercise, the heart becomes more

:20:46. > :20:51.susceptible to surges, during exercise, the heart has the cope

:20:52. > :20:54.with increased demand, stretching of the heart muscle and that can render

:20:55. > :21:00.it more susceptible to potentially fatal arrhythmias. Lots of people

:21:01. > :21:03.will be wondering if this could be latent in any of them, that this

:21:04. > :21:10.could appear out of the blue? Could there have been any symptoms

:21:11. > :21:13.previously in somebody's life? The thing to stress is that exercise has

:21:14. > :21:18.a multitude of benefits and that should be pushed home. However in a

:21:19. > :21:24.small proportion. Our experience shows that we find these conditions

:21:25. > :21:29.in about one of 300 individuals, rendering them susceptible to a

:21:30. > :21:38.potentially life-threatening arrhythmia. So in those cases yes,

:21:39. > :21:42.there is a need to be cautious. So it is asymptomatic, their symptoms

:21:43. > :21:47.in the past majority of cases. We are told exercise is good for our

:21:48. > :21:50.heart but they say it is rare, they will always be the worry of people

:21:51. > :21:57.exercising and this could potentially happen? The point is not

:21:58. > :22:01.to scaremonger, exercise is very good, multifaceted benefits, but we

:22:02. > :22:07.need to be looking actively for these conditions when appropriate in

:22:08. > :22:10.a certain proportion of cases, especially athletes who are pushing

:22:11. > :22:15.themselves beyond their own metabolic capabilities. Told me

:22:16. > :22:19.about the screening being done and how it has improved and what it

:22:20. > :22:25.enables you to do for a person when it has picked up? There are a

:22:26. > :22:31.variety of sporting organisations that mandate that their athletes do

:22:32. > :22:36.undergo screening, and an ECG, and electrical tracing of the heart,

:22:37. > :22:43.that would detect cases of three macro in a 80% of cases, and

:22:44. > :22:53.hypertrophic, in those cases, the ECG is sensitive in up to 95% of

:22:54. > :23:01.cases. -- detect cases of ARVC. In some cases they would... But through

:23:02. > :23:06.history of examination and an ECG, we would detect the majority of

:23:07. > :23:11.cases which would potentially lead to a potentially fatal arrhythmia.

:23:12. > :23:17.What might be the options for the wider population? There are a

:23:18. > :23:19.variety of treatments available, if one is diagnosed, including

:23:20. > :23:25.lifestyle modification, perhaps reducing the amount of exercise you

:23:26. > :23:35.do, but if one wants to be screened, there is the Test cap M Heart

:23:36. > :23:39.screening,. Thank you very much. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

:23:40. > :23:42.have visited a charity working with street children in India

:23:43. > :23:44.on the third day of They saw how the Salaam Baalak Trust

:23:45. > :23:48.provides support for This report from our

:23:49. > :23:51.Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell contains

:23:52. > :24:16.some flash photography. In Delhi alone, there are thousands

:24:17. > :24:28.of street children, at risk of abuse and exploitation. Could

:24:29. > :24:36.you ask... Doctors and psychiatrists who treat the children, mental

:24:37. > :24:41.health among children is an issue couple are keen to highlight, so

:24:42. > :24:46.from William, the question. What can we do to help? Spread the word about

:24:47. > :24:52.street children, they have a right to being in a safe space. The couple

:24:53. > :24:56.joined the children in a hostel run by a charity. Kate sat on the ground

:24:57. > :25:01.and did some sketching. The thing many of the children through was her

:25:02. > :25:06.house, the thing none of them has. That is what Kate Crew, too, rather

:25:07. > :25:10.English Home Counties sort of house. With you are a duchess or a street

:25:11. > :25:16.kid, it seems the instinct is much the same. It was time to go. William

:25:17. > :25:20.and Catherine had an appointment to see India's Prime Minister, from the

:25:21. > :25:26.powerless to be powerful, their journey through India's extremes

:25:27. > :25:30.continues. This week is an intense emotion in the many sides of India.

:25:31. > :25:33.Tonight they are in the east, in Assam, the journey to see nature

:25:34. > :25:49.conservation tomorrow. We are also on Facebook and on the

:25:50. > :25:52.BBC News act. That is it from us. Next, the weather. From me and the

:25:53. > :26:11.rest of the team, goodbye. We continue to see huge contrasts

:26:12. > :26:15.from day-to-day and placed the place. Low pressure is in control of

:26:16. > :26:20.our weather, that means the air is unstable, volatile, allowing areas

:26:21. > :26:21.of rain to develop and we have certainly