[03:08.86]The MEPs said the budget was not acceptable in its current form.
[03:12.50]Bethany Bell reports.
[03:14.29]The battle over the EU’s long-term budget continues.
[03:18.07]In February after lengthy and difficult negotiations, national leaders agreed to a 3.3% cut.
[03:24.85]Countries like Britain want their EU contributions to fall in line with national austerity cuts.
[03:30.90]But other countries want to protect EU spending arguing that it will help re-launch growth.
[03:37.42]Now a resolution backed by the main parties in the EU Parliament has demanded further negotiations on the multi-year budget,
[03:45.57]although it doesn’t explicitly reject the 3% cut.
[03:49.06]The world’s biggest radio telescope has been inaugurated in Chile on a mountain high above the Atacama Desert.
[03:55.48]The Alma project, which consists of 66 huge antennae,
[03:59.55] is expected to provide unprecedented information that may help us understand the origins of the universe.
[04:05.57]Andreas Lundgren, a Swedish astronomer who works on the project,
[04:09.22] explained what advantages this radio telescope has over traditional optical telescopes.
[04:14.98]"The radio waves, they can penetrate into these black clouds to understand star formation.
[04:21.40]Optical telescopes, they can just see the surface while we can see what’s actually going on inside the cloud.