New plane sent to Japan to ferry Czech president

The Czech army has sent a replacement plane to Japan to carry the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus. On Thursday the president was forced to cut short a visit to Hiroshima due to problems with his official jet, which had a battery fault. But Mr Klaus did get to visit a memorial to victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The president is on a four-day official visit to Japan with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and a delegation of Czech businessmen.