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of cheese, but it is made of water. spacecraft discovered moon moisture. a fortune in ancient gold and silver is unearthed in an english field. hello. after 25 years of searching the best hope yet has emerged of a vaccine for hiv, the virus that causes aids. the vaccine cuts the risk of one particular risk -- one particular strain by one-third. the trial on 16,000 volunteers his time -- in thailand is the biggest in the world. we have the report straight from bangkok. >> thailand was once the center of the global aids pandemic.

now it is at the heart of efforts to try to prevent it. infection rates in remote rural villages are nothing compared africa, but people know the damage it can do. 16,000 volunteered to test the vaccine. some of his relatives were infected, he stepped forward to help. >> the reason that i volunteered is because i want the world to find a way to prevent hiv and aids. i lived in a community that is facing a pandemic. some years ago many in the community died of aids so when this child came the us i really wanted to help. >> help it did. >> we are one step closer to finding an hiv vaccine. >> the result of the human hiv vaccine trial shows that there is a chance of contracting the virus reduced by nearly one-

third. >> this is a major finding. this is the first time that we have seen an hiv vaccine that cannot reduce the hiv infection. -- that can reduce the i checked -- hiv infection. it has taken us many years to get here. we are closer but not there yet. but we have a great deal more hope. >> the vaccine has been a holy grail for 25 years. the previous trials came up with nothing. the latest world health organization figures say that since it was discovered in 1981, 25 million people have died. in one year there were 2.5 million new cases. finding a vaccine is vital.

results will be poured over by biologists across the world who have seen little in progress in decades. the vaccine is not going to be available for the people most at risk any time soon. this proves that a vaccine is possible. >> the leader of burma's a democratic opposition has welcomed the new american approach. she believes that direct engagement with the military junta is the right move. yesterday the secretary of state said that washington would engage to promote democracy. 16 members of al qaeda in iraq have escaped from a prison. the group included five men sentenced to death for their role in attacks.

it is believed that they climbed to the jail walls. one of them has been recaptured. the palestinian president accused israel of making it impossible for peace talks to be possible. they say that the israeli government keeps building settlements on occupied land and will not discuss the future for palestinian refugees. as an act of symbolism, it was pop -- powerful. was it more than that? with president obama in the chair for the first time the u.n. security council has approved a resolution aimed at a spread of nuclear weapons promoting disarmament and reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. >> president obama talks about a world without nuclear weapons. a first from the american head

of state, passing this resolution, it is designed as a symbolic start. at the moment eliminating nuclear weapons is a distant aspiration. urgently the security council is worried about iran getting them. >> today i believe that we have to draw a line in the sand. iran must not allow its actions to prevent the international community from moving forward to a more peaceful era. as evidence of its breach, we must now consider far tougher sanctions together. >> be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, interviewed by abc news, believes that a nuclear-arms iran is a danger. >> to have the regime to acquire nuclear weapons, tomorrow they will be much stronger. something that threatens the peace of the world. it should not be allowed that happen.

>> iranians protested outside of the u.n. last night against what they believed was a dictator by present -- president ahmadinejad. >> we are incensed. >> inside many delegations did not stay to hear president ahmadinejad address the general assembly. he defended the election, condemned israel, not mentioning the iranian nuclear plant. in treating the use the same method of negotiation as president obama. he said that iran was prepared warmly to shake all of those hands that were honestly extended to it. iran denies that it is developing nuclear weapons. if diplomats cannot make progress by the end of the year, there will be more talk about israel or the americans attacking the iranian nuclear installations. they were morning in the 1990's

that iran was close to getting the bomb. some believe that the dangers are still being exaggerated. world leaders have to the side was right. mistakes will be very costly. >> many of the world's most powerful people are running from the u.n. to the city of pittsburgh for the g-20 summit that is getting underway. it is the third time that the leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies have met since the global economy went into a tailspin. our special correspondent is that the summit. >> what are they hoping to get out of this? >> it is not about dealing with crisis and emergency measures of that kind. it is more about getting towards stability and growth, talking about whether there will be a trap -- a time to withdraw from stimulus spending. with me now is the man that helped to organize the first g-

20 summit in washington, last november of course. you were the economic adviser to president bush. you have seen three of these now. a big issue, is that a fact? do you have to crack down on that? of what do you make of that? -- do you have to crack down on it? what you make of that? >> in the run-up to these summits, it was about unregulated hedge funds. in london it was about tax havens. this one appears to be about bankers. interestingly none of these issues were precipitating causes of the crisis. dealing with them properly will not insure that a crisis does not happen again. the issue of bonuses is a risk distraction from the bonus before dealing with capital adequacy liquidity.

fortunately the discussion has moved beyond the issue of trying to find cash ratios and forcing a sensible approach of principles to discourage risk- taking and insuring that the incentives of the executive are aligned with long-term performance. >> booking long term, we also have to look back at the power, who has the power to make these decisions? what about india, china, brazil? >> the subject of reform of the international financial institutions will receive significant attention here. there is a great deal of support for giving developing countries and a greater voice in the international monetary fund. the imf will be critical to attending the macro-economic policy going forward. >> thank you. daniel organized the first g-20,

there is a lot for them to talk about here in pittsburgh for the next 24 hours. wider structural reform, free trade, protectionism, balancing global growth and a lot more. >> thank you to you both. four other international business stories, it demonstrates how much they have on their plates that the g 20 -- g-20. the biggest car maker in russia is going to cut 30,000 jobs. layoffs amount to more than one- quarter of their work force? -- work force. japanese airlines is asking for a government bailout to stay in business. it lost $1 billion between april and june.

diplomats are working overtime to restore manuel zalia to seek a resolution to the crisis of the military coup. we have this update. >> there is something of a sense of normalcy returning to the streets. but curfew has now been lifted, the international airport has been opened. the government is telling people to get back to work. there can be guaranteed by the police and the army, still felt on the streets is their present. the deposed president remounts ago is still trapped inside a building, claiming that his forces had been killed since monday. police says that the monday riot has found more than one person dead.

in principle he has agreed to be the interim leader. when that will happen, no one knows. the only people to really suffer are the people of honduras. a curfew has cost the company $50 million. this has been but a real hardship. -- this has been a real hardship. >> explosions in the united states, zazi was indicted in new york where it was believed he might have been plotting to blow up trains. his father and another man had been charged with lying to investigators. they all maintained their innocence. the commander of nato forces in afghanistan has denied a rift with the white house about whether more troops should go to afghanistan. stanley mcchrystal just

submitted a assessment warning of a high risk of failure without a change in strategy and more forces. killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in turkey, people have died after being swept away. three weeks since people were killed in flash floods in istanbul. good to have you with us on "bbc world news." still to come, some suggest that there are grounds for concern, a commercial airline that can cause long-term neurological damage in pilots. now, it is called the left party. it seems to think it has found the way to shake up germany. on the campaign trail they claim to be the party that is the voice of german workers. left, social democrats, at this

weekend's parliamentary election. >> the market square is a small stage. they are using it to call for big change. the message to the voters? it is not capitalism that germany needs, but a new kind of socialism. her party is the left. an increasingly popular branch of german politics. they include disillusioned democrats from western germany and people who used to belong to the car -- communist party. bigger parties have left their election slogans vauge, the left is more specific. it is the only parliamentary party calling for troops to pull out immediately from afghanistan. less for the banks. simple messages.

it could help the left with more than 10% of the boat. the rise of the left party has transformed the political landscape. it has made it more fragmented and uncertain. the party that is suffering the most as a result are the social democrats. >> the left party worked with at this election, claiming to be, the social democrats have traditionally been in germany. the voice of the workers. [applause] >> the latest headlines in this hour, the biggest ever trial of a new vaccine has showed encouraging results. scientists say that it can reduce the risk of infection by 1/3.

the u.n. security council has adopted a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament and non- proliferation. yesterday we brought you the news that at least 22 people had been killed when a 100 meters jiminy collapsed a power plant in a central indian state. -- 100 meter jimmy -- chemulpo -- chimney collapsed at a power plant in a central indian state. >> the number of dead is feared to be rising, possibly dramatically. no one seems to know exactly how many people were in the facility when a huge shambled -- huge chimney collapsed. labor is not worker in -- working were sheltering close by -- laborers not working were children close by.

one of the people said that it fell by a shake, we could see mangled bodies above six or seven men. we tried to remove the bubble. trains and heavy earth moving at whitman are being used to shift the collapse. -- cranes and heavy earth moving equipment are being used to shift the collapse. sub standard material was being used in the construction. the state government, where the power plant is situated, they had ordered a judicial inquiry. >> the bbc has been told of new research linking toxins in the era of commercial airliners and neurological damage suffered by pilots. scientists guess that there is a direct link between the arab toxic syndrome and the people

who breathe at the cabin air supplies. flex the danger of chemicals in aircraft, -- >> our chemicals in the aircraft making us bill? -- are the chemicals in the aircraft making us biill? >> i thought that neurological problems like muscle twitching, i was having trouble keeping up with the aircraft. >> half of the air that we breathe on board is recycle. the other half is drawn through the heart of the jet engines. potentially poisonous gases can be pumped into the aircraft. scientists in the united states found that toxins called organophosphates in the blood and fat tissue of 26 pilots.

new tests show that these chemicals have caused neurological damage. aircraft manufacturers say that the air supplies in their airplanes meet health and safety standards. the jury is still out. campaigners and victims alike say that this is an industry- wide problem. >> scientists have found evidence of much more water on the moon. found in the rocks of the moon. there may be enough to sustain human life on the lunar surface. >> astronomers have gazed at it for thousands of years. astronauts have set foot on it. we still know relatively little about our nearest neighbor in the solar system. >> 3, 2, 1, 0.

>> the indian space agency launched a probe to carry out a detailed servants -- survey of the lunar surface. the results are astonishing. previous missions found evidence of water at the polls of the moon. this new test has discovered that the move as much more water than we thought. it spreads right across the lunar surface. >> the water is all locked away. scientists think that one day factories to be built on the moon to extract water from the rocks. >> water is another resource for us. water is the raw material that allows you to send rockets farther into space. >> when astronauts brought back samples from the moon, scientists found evidence of water in the rocks back then. they did not believe their

readings, thinking that the samples were contaminated. results show that the scientist were right all along. >> this water could someday be used by lunar explorers that return to the moon, to do science there. >> some at nasa imagine that a lunar colony will be base for us from which to leave the earth, perhaps in the far future move on to other worlds, making new homes in the solar system. >> thieves in brussels have stolen a painting by a belgian surrealist artist that is valued at over $1 million. two people made off with the painting. it was in a small museum that used to be the artists' house. entry is by appointment only. one of the would-be visitors produced a gun. after threatening the staff, the

thieves left on foot with the painting, one of only a handful on display. priceless stolen art, an unbelievable recovery, unparalleled in size and value. a treasure hunter has honors the largest holder of -- largest ford of gold and silver -- largest ford of gold and silver found in england. -- largest hoard th of gold and silver found in england. >> for british archaeology it does not get much more exciting than this. gold, anglo-saxon gold. >> never did i think that i would be holding this kind of treasure. >> this is really just a handful of the hundreds of pieces that have just been found. >> it is like for all these

years we have been picking up crumbs. now we are in the middle of a cake shop. >> pieces from helmets, crosses, some with biblical inscriptions'. this is where it all came from. one piece of gold would have been a significant find. watch. piece after piece after piece was dug out from the ground. how did they know that it was all here? it was a man with a metal detector. it was only when tony herbert called in the county archaeologist that he truly realized the significance of the fine. >> you have got to realize that the objects on the label, they come from boxes. when they first saw the one box they could not stop saying wow. >> while the amount of gold is

extraordinary, what it actually means -- academics have not even begun to work out what this will really mean for british history. >> the field is being kept secret. this is about far more than just treasure. this is a window on an ancient kingdom. it now has a new place in the history books. the gold, the gemstones, the barbarian past has suddenly become a bit more sophisticated. the dark ages of britain a little brighter. >> certainly worth a lot of wow. a reminder of the top stories, scientists are saying they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of one strain of hiv infection by 30%. the first time that a vaccine

has been shown to give this limited protection. in bangkok, there are the tests with modest increase in results. the u.n. security council has adopted a resolution to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, chaired for a first time by a u.s. president. thank you for watching. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, the newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, union bank, and "bright star," a new film by jane campion. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you?

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