in the south china daily post, a chinese research team unveils a design for an ultra—fast plane thatfive times faster than the speed of sound. you can see it there. quite phenomenal. and finally, on the bbc website, us evangelist billy graham, one of the most influential preachers of the 20th century dies, aged 99. a p pa re ntly apparently during his lifetime, he reached some 210 million people with his message. so let's begin. with me is jane foley, senior fx strategist at rabobank. she has been busy reading these stories. lutz —— let's start with a writ of the listening session in the white house. couldn't help but be moved with all the different people and what they have to say, the pa rents, and what they have to say, the parents, the children. they had lost friends, lost children. it was awful. it is completely awful. a couple of very interesting things have emerged, and when we heard the very passionate plea by the father of one of the girls lost last week, what was interesting for him if he said he did not favour adopting new gun laws, which outside of europe, that seems quit