Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre
Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre
Welcome to witness, here at the British Library in london. This month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. Well be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. A breakthrough for women in the mens world of racing, and, in a moment, the Russian Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west. But first, we go back to a Turning Point for china. China was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. Translation i never even thought about joining the communists. I followed the nationalist party all the way. Im 99 years old, and i still havent changed my mind about that. For most people, life was wretched. Someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. There were two men willing to try. One was Chiang Kai Shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. The other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. The two men were to become bitter rivals. Translation
Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre
Our Breaking News this hour the australian Prime Minister says his country has foiled a plot to bring down an aeroplane. Malcolm turnbull says four people have been arrested in what he called a majorjoint Counter Terrorism operation. There are few further details at this point. Additional security has been put in place at all Australian Domestic and international airports. The australian public, as andrew and mick observed, can have great confidence in our security arrangements, and in particular our Security Screening Procedures at airports. However, what we have done is increased them so that there will be more bags being checked, it is really intensifying what we are already doing. And some of that will be visible, some of it will not be visible. But it will take more time. The bbcs phil mercers live in sydney for us. What more do you know about this plot . Well, the Australian Federal police say they have no specific details of time, date or location, but they believe they have cre