"She's conscious. She looks ok, but also she's quite aware of her situation. She needs a, you know, surgical operation, you know, in a proper environment. So we have to take her out of Homs quite quickly, and that's the most difficult part of course."
The court-martial has opened near Washington of the American soldier Bradley Manning, who's accused of passing hundreds of thousands of
classified documents
to the Wikileaks website. Paul Adams reports from Washington.
This is the start of what could be a
protracted
process. Bradley Manning has now been formally charged with 22 separate offences, including aiding America's enemies. But after hearing the charges, the 24-year-old soldier exercised his right - not to enter a plea or to choose whether to be tried by a military jury or judge alone. If found guilty, he could face a maximum sentence of life in prison. The prosecution will say that he leaked more than 700,000 documents to Wikileaks. His defence will counter that he was a troubled soldier who should never have
had access to
such a large quantity of classified material.
Doubts have been raised about an experiment which stunned the scientific world last year when it appeared to show subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light. Researchers at the Cern laboratory near Geneva now say they've found flaws in the way that sophisticated clocks were set up to measure the speed of