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This is BBC World News Today with me, Geeta Guru Murthy. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
France reels from another horrific attack | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
An elderly priest in the city of Rouen is brutally murdered by two | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
men armed with knives, who filmed the attack before | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Very, very gentle, kind priest, attentive to people. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
He wanted to be at the work until the end. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
He was helping the parish priest here. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Police have made an arrest following the attack, | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
in which several people were held hostage. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
President Hollande visited the scene. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
TRANSLATION: This group has declared war against us. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
We must face up to this war by all means. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
I'm Nick Bryant at the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
where Bill Clinton is due to speak later. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Last night, Michelle Obama brought a degree of unity to a fractured | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
party as she heaped praised on their Presidential candidate. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
and daughters, take for granted that a woman can be president | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The attacks keep coming, the horror is unimaginable. | :01:18. | :01:43. | |
Foul attacks in the last two weeks alone in France or Germany, inspired | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
by so-called Islamic State. Today an 84-year-old Catholic Priest | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
was murdered in church. Two men armed with knives stormed | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
into morning mass in the northern city of Rouen and took | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
several people hostage. A nun who escaped says the attackers | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
forced the priest to kneel The attackers were | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
shot dead by police. This scene has become France's | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
shorthand for horror. Today, the sirens were sounding | :02:08. | :02:21. | |
for the dead and wounded of saying for an elderly priest and a handful | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
of nuns and worshippers knifed during their morning service by two | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
men claiming to wage Father Jacques Hamel was executed | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
in this quiet local church. Reports say his throat was cut. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
He was 84 years old. His attackers shot dead by police | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
as they stepped outside Jean-Claude had known | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Father Jacques for years. This was a peaceful town, | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
he says, too small to be a target. TRANSLATION: I knew | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
the priest personally. The nuns were my neighbours, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and they would have lunch together next door. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
They were humble people. The priest was a good | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
man, calm and friendly. Today, the line between president | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
and public was thin. But this was an act designed | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
to start a war, create division. An act the president linked | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
to so-called Islamic State, TRANSLATION: The threat | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
remains high, very high. This is what we've lived | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
through over the past few days, We must face up to this war | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
by all means, whilst respecting The far right leader Marine Le Pen | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
has described it as another horror Less than two weeks after its last | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
attack here, France is again faced with the problem of how | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
to confront its jihadist threat. Police have raided a nearby flat | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
amid reports that one of the attackers was a local man, | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
who may have been wearing an electronic tag after trying | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
to travel to Syria. But this is a national battle, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
for the things France values most - its freedoms, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
its lifestyle, its identity. Each time, France argues a little | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
more over the cause of this menace and how to beat it, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
and each time, it happens again. With me now is Frederic | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
Ischebeck-Baum, Intelligence and Security Analyst | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
at King's College London. Just to let you know, President | :04:38. | :04:49. | |
Hollande has just been speaking, and he said that the threat from Islamic | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
militants has never been so great in France. Obviously, he has said | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
before this is a war. But France is just not equipped to fight a war | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
with the enemy in its midst, is it? With so many new migrants who have | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
been welcomed into Europe I Angela Merkel, nobody knows who they are. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Well, the migration and refugee issue is certainly flaring up again | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
in the whole discussion. The thing as that now we know that one of the | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
attackers from today happened to be known to the security services. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Occasional failure is something quite natural, sadly, so people | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
slipping through the net of security is something we cannot avoid. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
But we have no idea, with all the people who came in. I know some of | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
these attacks are not being committed by new arrivals, but the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
fact is, people are going to be incredibly fearful and scared, and | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the rise of right-wing politics, we have seen it already, it is | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
inevitable, isn't it, if the authorities got no answer key macro | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
because these attacks are coming daily. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Yes, indeed. I fear that we will see a shift to the right, obviously. | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
Stemming from the public fear, as you say. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Do you think, though, that the fact that each new attack is still, | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
obviously, the horror is so bleak, that there is a risk of contagion? | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
We have seen four in two weeks. What about the fear of the copycat, the | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
fact that the media inevitably have to report this? | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Yes, this is clearly something we can observe. We can observe three | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
things, I believe. The first is individuals who clearly have a | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
well-established link with Islamic State, so they have people behind | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
these attackers. Then you can see the lone wolves, as we know them, | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
and then, there are also the typical copycats, so the issue I see here is | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
that if someone, for example, who has no IS background, they can, | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
before, during or shortly after the attack, most of the time shortly | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
before they die, they can just declare that this happened to be in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the name of IS, and this is what makes us deal with the attack. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
What are the responses you are hearing about? Germany is talking | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
about some change now, isn't it? Well, there has to be some change, | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
in modus operandi, as to how the intelligence of the two services | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
operate, but again, as I said in the beginning, occasional failure, I | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
would not want to call it failure, really, but occasional attacks that | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
do happen... What about the talk of potential conscription in Germany | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
and a new National Guard and so on? Well, in Germany right now, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
conscription is suspended, by the constitution. I haven't heard | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
anything about re-enacting it yet, but people are talking about | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
establishing something like the National Guard. These talks have | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
happened in Berlin today. So we will see where things go. I fear, as I | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
said before, that there will be a shift to the right. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
You think, briefly, that the media is playing a role in this? Yes. In | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
what way? Should we be doing something different key macro | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
terrorism needs publicity. Without publicity, without the media, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
terrorism fails to achieve its goal. So the best thing would be to cut | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
off every media from them, but that is, of course, something we can't | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
do. We will have to leave it there. I do | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
very much. -- thank you very much. In the US, Hillary Clinton is due | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
to be formally nominated in a few hours' time by the Democratic Party | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
to be the first woman The traditional roll call | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
of delegates could get feisty, unless Bernie Sanders has been | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
persuaded to effectively And hoping to build on the unifying | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
speech by Michelle Obama last night, this evening, appearing | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
at the Convention for the first time as a political spouse, | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
the former President, Bill Clinton. For more, let's cross | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
to the BBC's Nick Bryant, Nick, it is extraordinary. I first | :08:52. | :09:03. | |
saw Bill Clinton speak in the immediate aftermath of the Monica | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Lewinsky scandal, when his wife, of course, had been globally | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
humiliated, and here he is coming to draw attention and proclaim his wife | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
as a potential future leader. Yes, I covered that in Washington as | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
well. What amazes me most is, I wrote my first Bill Clinton story | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
almost 25 years ago! I am feeling like a veterans and night here in | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Philadelphia. I think we are seeing a different kind of Bill Clinton in | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
this campaign. He doesn't quite have the energy, perhaps not the same | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
magnetism, perhaps not the same sort of overpowering charisma that he has | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
had in previous years. He made a remarkable speech in 2012 on behalf | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
of Barack Obama, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Democrats last | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
met. Can he do the things I? Big question. And then he repeat the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
success last night at Michelle Obama, talking about charisma and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
magnetism. She really did deliver an electrifying speech last night, as | :09:59. | :09:59. | |
you can hear now. In this election, and every | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
election, it is about who will have the power | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
to shape our children for the next And I am here tonight because, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
in this election, there is only one person who I trust with | :10:08. | :10:20. | |
that responsibility. Only one person who I believe | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
is truly qualified to be President of the United States, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
and that is our friend, Some speech. Well, joining me here | :10:28. | :10:42. | |
in Philadelphia is a long-time Hillary Clinton supporter, worked in | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
the Bill Clinton White House, on the National Security Council, and also | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
in Hillary Clinton's State Department. Daniel Farmer, welcome | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to the programme. When you heard those blues yesterday, as a | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
long-term fan of Hillary Clinton, had it make you feel? I think the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
most important thing to note is, we saw last night a remarkable | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
experience, where I think the perception that this is a party that | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
does not, is not unified at this point, is way overblown. We saw over | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
the course of the evening those blues being minimised to the point | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
where you did not hear them at all any more. Most you saw laid out such | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
a stark difference between what Democrats were laying out together, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
and unified, compared to the very frightening philosophy that Donald | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Trump and his supporters have laid out. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
A lot of Bernie Sanders supporters here clearly hate Hillary Clinton. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Not just dislike, but hate her. And her public persona, a lot of people | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
in the country at large, don't like her either. How does her public | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
persona differed from the Hillary Clinton you know, and why is she | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
having so much difficulty with this kind of likeability issue? | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
First of all, this is a person that has endured just a barrage of | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
attacks from 25 years, but my experience with her is, and that | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
virtually anyone who has worked with her, is overwhelmingly positive, and | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
the reason that we are all such passionate supporters. Not only are | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
we so frightened by the prospect of a trump presidency, but we truly | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
believe in this Hillary Clinton, the one that I know is extremely | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
thoughtful, is a listener, is very analytic, is rigorous, is one, is | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
funny, writes to my young daughters when they send very Christmas card, | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
and they now believe, as Michelle Obama said last night, that they can | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
do anything. Brings back a teddy bear from Afghanistan for them at | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
some point. And one that I just trust her judgment and their | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
analysis, anything that she would make a wonderful president. We have | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
never seen a candidate this prepared before. | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
So when you look at Hillary Clinton on the political stage, do you see a | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
different person than the Hillary Clinton you see behind closed doors | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
and on the diplomatic stage? We certainly saw on the diplomatic | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
stage where her favourite abilities were very high, and the US stage and | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
internationally, by the time you laptop is. She introduced America to | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the rest of the world again, extreme since her split, and built extremely | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
successful relationships with the UK, Europe and elsewhere, and | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
demonstrated this belief in partnership and doing these things | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
together, not only domestic, but in our international partnerships, as | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
we saw in Afghanistan, which I was responsible for, with a very strong | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
and important support of the British others. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
So I see someone that I believe in, and I know has the experience and | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
judgment to be a remarkable president. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
We will see how many people agree with you at the end of this | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
convention, and indeed, at the end of this election. Many thanks. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
And with that, we handed back to London. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
In for another fun few hours! Thank you very much. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Later today at the Democratic convention, we'll be hearing | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
from the mothers of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
They were two black men whose deaths at the hands of police sparked | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
That whole question of all the tensions linked to race in the US | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
have alarmed similar people across the country. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
Singer Michelle Williams sold millions of records around the world | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
as part of the American group Destiny's Child in the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
More recently, she's been speaking out on racial tensions in the US, | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
as result of a spate of shootings involving black men | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
The BBC caught up with her on a trip to the UK and asked her how | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
she reacted to the recent series of shootings. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
My reaction is still shock, hurt, questions. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
What were they thinking, the fear, and how | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Did you know that they were scared for their life? | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
They don't know what's going on, and then you just shoot them | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
because you have a gun in your hand and your hand's on the trigger | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
and you think that's your only choice. | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
Now, I don't know what goes on in the police academy, and | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
I thank the amazing good police and authority that there is, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
because there is more good, I believe, than there is bad. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Are you trained to get your gun first, or are you trying to | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Even just the other day, a man in Miami - | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
I don't know if you saw - he's lying on the ground, his hands | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
are actually up, he's saying, "I don't have a gun. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
And you still shot him! So it's like, man! | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
When you're doing right, you still might get shot. | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
And now, to think that every time a black man | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
goes out of his house, he has to worry, what is he going | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
to encounter today that might not end so well? | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
What, because you're angry, you don't like | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
them, you think I'm going to take justice into my own hands? | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
Somebody got a phone call saying, can you come identify this body? | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
No matter how you slice it, it's all wrong. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Uniting with people different from you, actually being hands-on with | :16:12. | :16:29. | |
people who are different from you always helps, so that you can no. | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
Getting out there. Get in the hood. Singer Michelle Williams, speaking | :16:38. | :16:38. | |
to the BBC. Police in Japan are questioning | :16:39. | :16:39. | |
a 26-year-old man about the country's worst mass | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
killing in generations. He's suspected of stabbing 19 people | :16:43. | :16:43. | |
to death at a residential care home near Tokyo where he worked | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
until February this year. Many more were injured. | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
John Sudworth reports. This CCTV footage from outside | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
the care home is thought to capture the moment late last night | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
that the killer arrived, This morning, forensic teams | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
began piecing together the elements of a crime | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
that is beyond imagination. And Japan is a country | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
in profound shock. In room after room, | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
the victims were found Many had serious | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
mental disabilities. The oldest of those | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
killed was aged 70. Shortly afterwards, a former | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
employee at the care home, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
seen here in a Facebook photo, TRANSLATION: This wasn't | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
an impulsive crime, where the suspect just blew up | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
and grabbed a knife. He went in the dead of night, | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
opened one door at a time, and stabbed sleeping people | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
one at a time. Again, this footage is said | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
to match the timings, and shortly afterwards, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
the alleged killer handed himself Uematsu had begun to publicly | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
express his disturbing view that disabled people, unable to live | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
independent lives, should be killed, and in February this year, | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
his employment came to an end after he wrote | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
to the national parliament. The letter, pictures of which have | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
been broadcast today, was enough to prompt the authorities | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
to act, and Uematsu was detained But, just two weeks later, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
he was released, returning to live in this house a short | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
distance from the care home. TRANSLATION: When I worked there, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
the staff and tenants Amid the grief, the debate | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
is already turning to whether more Now a look at some of | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
the day's other news. There have been two car bomb attacks | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
at the main entrance to the airport in the Somali capital, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Mogadishu. Bursts of gunfire have | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
been heard at the scene. At least 12 people are believed | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
to be dead, many of them The Islamist group Al Shabaab says | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
that it carried out the attack. Canoeing is the latest | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
sport to ban some Russian The president of South Sudan has | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
sacked his long-standing rival, the opposition leader, and replaced him | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
as first vice president with the former mining minister. He fled the | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
capital at Cawood Juba earlier this month, after fighting between his | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
forces and those loyal to the president left hundreds dead. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
The Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina says a swift operation | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
against suspected Islamist militants has saved the country | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
from what she called "a terrible situation". | :19:55. | :19:55. | |
Her comments came after police said they killed nine Islamists | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
at their hideout in the capital Dhaka. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
It is not yet clear which group the men belonged to. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
From the capital, Anbarasan Ethirajan. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
It's hard to imagine that suspected Islamists were living in a quiet | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
residential area like this one here in Dhaka. | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
It is hard for the police officers to bring in vehicles through these | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
They say they started this operation earlier in the morning, | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
The militants were living on the fifth floor of an apartment | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
at the end of this road, and the fighting started as when one | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
at the end of this road, and the fighting started as and when one | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
of the gunmen threw a bomb on the police officers. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
Residents here talk about several hours of gunfights | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
Nine Islamist militants have been killed. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Bangladesh has been on high alert since the attack on a cafe | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
in Dhaka earlier this month, in which more than 20 | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
people were killed, most of them foreigners. | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Police here suspect that dozens of young men could have been | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
radicalised, and they could be living in a residential area | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
like this one here in Dakar, and also, in other parts | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
The celebrated Egyptian film director Mohamed Khan has | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
died at the age of 73 after a prolific career. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Khan has been one of Egypt's leading cinematic figures since the 1980s, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
making a string of movies tackling social issues. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Soumer Daghastani looks back at his life and career. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Acclaimed by the critics and the public alike, | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Khan was one of Egypt's leading cinematic figures | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
A British national, born to an Egyptian mother | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
and a Pakistani father in Cairo in 1942, his directing | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
He was one of the founders of Egypt's neorealism cinema movement. | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
He led the way in taking the cameras out in the city, | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
shooting most of his films on the streets of | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
His 24 films always focused on the lives of ordinary | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
In many of them, he portrayed the hardships faced by women. | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
One of his most memorable films, The Wife of an Important Man, | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
Khan tells the story of a woman married to a brutal police | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
officer involved in the repression of opponents | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Despite being widely celebrated as a great figure | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
in Egyptian and Arab cinema, Egypt only granted Khan | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
nationality in 2014, after a presidential decree. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
His death has left Egyptian cinema bereft of one of its biggest names, | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
The first solar-powered round the world flight | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft has flown 26,000 miles using only | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
It landed in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of this morning, at the end | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Just to warn you, there is some flash photography | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Arriving to great fanfare, the smooth and controlled touchdown | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
bringing an end to what's been a remarkable and record-breaking | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
Solar Impulse 2 is the brainchild of Bertrand Picard, who | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
was piloting the plane for the final time. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Everything is possible. Why don't we dream more? | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
And when I touch my wheels here, I thought, OK. | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
The aircraft has the wingspan of a jumbo jet, | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Using the sun's rays, it's powered by 17,000 solar cells, | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
peppered all over the wings, which drive four electric motors. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Its mission, to promote renewable energy. | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
The aircraft set off from Abu Dhabi on the 9th of March last year, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
heading for the Persian Gulf, then across India, China, America, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
and lastly Europe, before returning to the Emirates this morning. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
The fifth leg of its journey, from Burma | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
to China, was deemed to be one of the trickiest | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
by the pilot and his compatriot, Andre Borschberg, | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Today, it is the flight to China, Chongqing. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
If everything goes well all day, we continue tomorrow | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
morning with Solar Impulse, to bring into Nanjing. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
For the team behind this wonder plane, a chance | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
now to reflect and consider that maybe, one day in the not-so-distant | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
future, passenger planes could become a lot greener and cleaner. | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
And there's just time for one last, tall story. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
When it comes to height, it seems Dutch men tower | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
New research shows the average Dutchman is now 183 | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
But to find the tallest women, you need to travel further east | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
in Europe and make your way to Latvia. | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
There women, on average, are 170 centimetres tall. | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
The research, published in the journal eLife, | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
has tracked growth trends in 187 countries since 1914. | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
I wonder if there is a secret, has someone somewhat vertically | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
challenged! If you know the secret to having tall children, let me | :26:01. | :26:01. | |
know. See you soon. It certainly looks as though we will | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
see some rain in the forecast over the next couple of days. In fact, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
once you wake up on Wednesday, you could start the day | :26:16. | :26:16. |