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Hi, welcome to Outside Source. We start in Germany. There's been a | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
fatal head-on train crash near Munich. We will bring together the | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
late nest a moment. These are the latest primaries as America selects | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
its candidates for the presidential election. If you have any questions | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
about the campaigns, send them in now. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
The US intelligence official is accusing North Korea as being weeks | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
away as creating fuel for nuclear weapons, after restarting the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
plutonium reactor. If you were watching yesterday, we | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
reported on the exodus of people from Aleppo in Syria north towards | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
the border with Turkey. Today we're going to hear from a doctor, who is | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
inside Aleppo. Plus, we have the latest on the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
violence if Hong Kong and the world's oldest power lifter is going | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
to talk us through how he does it. First, let me update you on the | :00:57. | :01:16. | |
train crash in Germany. We know ten people have lost their lives and | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
that two passenger trains collided head on. This happened south-east of | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Munich. If we go much closer in on the map, you can see precisely where | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
this took place. There is a river with a bend in it and the rails are | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
running alongside the edge of the river. We don't know the cause. The | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
German Transport Minister visited the scene earlier saying, "The site | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
is on a bend. So we have to surmise that both train drivers had no | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
visual contact before the crash. Therefore it crashed into each other | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
largely without braking." To give you an idea of the immediate | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
pressures that the emergency services were put under, this is the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Munich blood bank issuing an appeal for donors on its Facebook page. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Let's bring you up to date with the other information we had on the | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
story. On a quiet commuter line, | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
the violence of a head-on collision. This footage was taken | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
moments after the "I can't move my arm," | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
one woman shouts. "Don't worry," a passenger replies, | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
"the police will be here soon." The man who took this | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
video escaped unhurt. There was blood everywhere because | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
some people flew away. And some hit their head | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
on the chairs or windows or armrest The train line runs between a wooded | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
hillside and river. Easier to carry the dead | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
and injured away by air, TRANSLATION: The collision was | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
head-on and at high speed. At the accident site the speed limit | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
is around 100 kilometres per hour. There is a bend in that stretch | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
of track and you have to assume the train drivers had little if any | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
eye contact before the collision. Investigators have recovered two | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
of three black boxes. The crash happened | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
on a single track. Trains use a nearby station | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
where there is a double track There is an automatic braking system | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
designed to halt any train that Joe, a regular commuter, | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
told us his train usually stops and waits for the oncoming | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
train to pass. This morning, he said, | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
was different. Normally, the train has to wait five | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
minutes for the oncoming train. And three minutes, while waiting | :03:57. | :04:10. | |
three minutes, the guy This has horrified | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
Germany, a country where rail crashes | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
are relatively rare. The German Chancellor, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Angela Merkel, said she is saddened And bear this in mind, it is the | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
school holidays. People tell us on a normal morning, | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
these trains would have been As the light fades, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
the work continues. It will be weeks | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
perhaps months before As that investigation continues, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
you'll hear the latest here on BBC News. That's one of the main stories | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
in the newsroom today. This is probably the other one, which has | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
been demanding our attention. Votes are being cast in the New Hampshire | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
primary. This is the next stage in the process of choosing the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
candidates for the US presidential election. We're not going to know | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the main results till quite a lot later, several hours away. Some | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
small towns have announced their results. Let me introduce you to | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
one. This is Dixville Notch. Polls opened at midnight, closing 20 | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
seconds later. That similar pressive. Perhaps less impressive | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
when I tell you there are only nine registered voters. Nonetheless, they | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
were first out of the blocks. Here are the results. The on the Democrat | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
side, nothing for Hillary Clinton, four for Bernie Sanders. On the | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Republican side, Donald Trump picking up two, but Kasich coming | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
top with three. A bad start for the winners in Iowa. Ted Cruz and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Hillary Clinton. Don't read anything into that. There are many, many, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
many more votes to come. Just to explain the system that we're seeing | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
play out here - candidates for the presidency are chosen by delegates | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
at the two party conventions in June. You win delegates by winning | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
primaries and caucuses in individual states. Iowa's was first. New | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Hampshire is second. Many more will follow. We're not far away from | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Super Tuesday when a number of states are involved. If you want | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
more background on what can be a long and complex system, you'll find | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
it on the BBC website and the BBC News app. Throughout the campaign | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Katty Kay has been helping us out. She joins us live from Manchester, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
new shamshire. -- New Hampshire. One viewer has tweeted me from New | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Hampshire claiming you're staying in the same hotel as Donald Trump, is | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
this true? Yes! It is true. In fact, I was just leaving the hotel a | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
little white ago and Ivanka Trump walked in the I was going to speak | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
to her, but I saw the security and I'm a wuss. He's staying at the West | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Western here in New Hampshire. I think it's probably the seediest | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
place he has ever stayed. I'm glad you're sharing a hotel. I'm told | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
you've spoken not to him but to two other Republican contenders. Yeah, I | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
caught up with Marco Rubio this morning and with governor Chris | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Christie. I saw senator Rubio outside a polling station. There | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
were few people around. He was making sure he was glad handing the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
potential voters. I asked whether he thought the same thing was happening | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
here as in Iowa, if you remember, all those people who decided late, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
many of them turned to Marco Rubio. I asked if he thought that was the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
case here. He said he thought that was happening. He sounded confident | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
about. It I have to say his manner, though, was less confident than what | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
he was actually saying. He looked a bit uneasy, I thought. Chris | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Christie never looks uneasy. He looked like he was having a blast I | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ran into him in a bar and asked him how it was going and when he thought | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
he had hit senator Rubio too hard, in the debate on Saturday night. He | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
said no, he thought senator Rubio had revealed his true self. He | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
sounded account about how things were going for -- sounded confident | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
about how things were going for him. Are votes being decided by local | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
issues or are they looking on the national stage? I think here more | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
than in Iowa, it is national issues that matter. In Iowa it's slightly | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
skewed by farmers and subsidies for farmers, corn farmers in particular | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
there. Here, people really are interested in the issues of | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
immigration, I've heard voters talking b, the economy, Bernie | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Sanders' supporters are interested in the question of income inequality | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
and wage growth. They are interested in national security issues. All the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
things that are happening around the world that our audiences are so | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
interested in, they are so focussed on here if New Hampshire too. I know | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
you're in for a long day's reporting, run us through the time | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
table from now till when we get two winners. We have the polls close | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
here in New Hampshire in a few hours' time. We should have a result | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
in seven hours' time. Then it goes on to the other states. We don't | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
know when we will have a nominee for the Republican or Democratic | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
parties. My hunch is looking at how the race is at the moment it's going | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
to take a while. We might not know until mid-March at earliest and | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
possibly not until April who, maybe even until the conventions this | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
summer, who will be the Republican nominee. Hopefully we might have a | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Democratic nominee sooner than that. Thank you very much. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Katty is part of the BBC team in New Hampshire. Full coverage as the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
results come in. When there's a winner, you will hear it first here | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
on BBC News. Now yesterday if you were watching | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
when we were covering the New Hampshire story, we brought you the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
tale of a fridge in a newspaper office which almost all the | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
candidates have signed and they have in previous campaigns. Today it's a | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
grocery store getting all the attention. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
The country star was the nerve centre for the community. 1887, Mr | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Robie bought the store. It stayed in the family for 1 so years. I think | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
candidates made it a priority to come through so they could meet the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
individual voters and the voters could meet them up close and | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
personal. The first time I became familiar with presidential | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
candidates coming through was when Jimmy Carter came through. He walked | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
in. I happened to be here that day. Walked in the back door and | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
introduced himself to Mr Robie and Mr Robie being hard of hearing said, | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
"Jimmy who? Then he was known as Jimmy who in the state of New | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Hampshire. Eight candidates have come through, Chris Christie, Jeb | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Bush, senator Marco Rubio, senator Ted Cruz. It's been a wonderful | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
experience. Most of the voters who come out and, by the way, a lot do, | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
to these meetings, want to personally hear and shake hands. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Anyone that wants to meet a candidate has the opportunity, which | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
is very unique. I know we have trends in California who say, boy, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
you're lucky you get to see them up close and personal, all we see is on | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
television. My vote will be influenced by the | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
impression that they make on me as they come through. If they don't | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
come through, if I have strong opinions, why, that will come into | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
the equation too. Thanks very much. Across the weekend one of the big | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
stories involved North Korea and it's back in the headlines because | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
of this: Claim coming from the Americans. This is copy that came | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
into the newsroom. It's not there. I'll tell what you it says all the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
same. The Americans are claiming that North Korea has restarted a | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
plutonium reactor that could provide fuel for nuclear weapons. We know | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
that North Korea has several nuclear sites, one of its most powerful, if | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
we drill in on the map, is a place called Yoongbyon. You've got to see | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
what the Americans are saying, today, in the context of North Korea | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
on Sunday launching a long-range rocket. I've been speaking to one of | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
our regional editors about her reaction to these latest st from the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Americans -- latest claims from the Americans. All this is carefully | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
planned by the north Koreans. They warned the world they would restart | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
the reactor. They said they were going to launch satellites and | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
that's what they've been doing. When they do these things, the world | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
condemns it. It doesn't seem to make any difference though. No, China is | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
proving to be the obstacle. Washington has announced that it | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
wants to toughen sanctions. South Korea and Japan wants to as well. | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
North Korea has suffered through four rounds of UN sanctions in the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
past decade. It hasn't stopped the country from progressing with the | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
nuclear weapons programme. What sanctions are left? I was under the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
impression they were stringent. Sanctions are in place. China is | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
propping up North Korea at the moment. They're responsible for up | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
to 80% of North Korea's food and fuel. Beijing wants to keep the | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
North Korean regime in place. It doesn't want the Cannes Troy | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
collapse. -- country to collapse. Presumably it doesn't want it to use | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
nuclear weapons. Beijing is walking a fine line right now. It has | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
admonished the north Koreans for pushing ahead with its weapons | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
programme. At the same time, it wants the north Koreans to stay in | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
place. It doesn't want another regime friendler to Washington to be | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
in place. Apart from irritating its rivals, why is North Korea doing | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
this now? There's key domestic politics. Kim Jong Un is looking | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
forward to a party conference being held in May, the first since 1980. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
He's pushing forward key economic reforms. If the nuclear weapons | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
programme is doing well, maybe he'll be able to push the economic reforms | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
he wants forward in May. Very interesting to hear that explained. | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Thank you very much to her for that analysis. I'm certain she will have | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
been covering this story as well earlier in the day. Clashes between | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
riot police and protesters in Hong Kong over a plan by the authorities | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
to clear illegal food stores. Junior doctors in England who stage | :14:52. | :15:13. | |
their second strike tomorrow. The Health Secretary says thousands of | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
deaths occur at weekends because staffing is low. Critics have | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
accused him of making misleading claims. Both sides blame each other | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
for the break down of talks. An agreement has not been reached on | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
the issue of Saturday pay, despite assurances from the BMA they would | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
negotiate on this point. Regrettably 2,884 operations have been cancelled | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
ahead of tomorrow's industrial action, which will affect all | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
nonemergency services. I urge the BMA to put the interests of patients | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
first. We've presented to the Government a fully worked up | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
solution that allows junior doctors to be retained in this country in | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
the long-term. The Government have rejected it. Once again they're | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
playing politics with this contract dispute, when it was obvious that it | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
had a solution and we could have avoided all this action. | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
This is Outside Source, we're live in the BBC News room. Our lead | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
story: At least ten people have died, many more injured, after two | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
passenger trains collided in Bavaria in Germany. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Let's bring you some of the stories from BBC World Service: First of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
all, reports police in Taiwan are questioning the developer of a | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
building, in which at least 39 people died after that earthquake on | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Saturday. You'd imagine the questions are being asked, the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
collapse revealed what can you see there, large tin cans being used as | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
filler in some of the building's concrete pillars. BBC Hindi is | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
covering the rescue of an Indian soldier six days after being buried | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
in an avalanche. He's critically ill, though. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Lots of you reading this, biologists say they have worked out how tiny | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
bacterium sense light and move towards it. The reason is that the | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
entire organism acts like an eye ball. You can get a full explanation | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
through the BBC News. If you were watching yesterday, our | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
lead story was about the number of Syrians who are fleeing an | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
escalation of fighting in Aleppo and heading northwards up to the Turkish | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
border. They were not being allowed across. Here's a more detailed map | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
of the area. Government forces have all but surrounded Aleppo now, with | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
the aid of Russian air strikes. That has given people north, in | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
particular to Bab al-Salama. To give you an idea how the UN is assessing | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
it. It put out this tweet, it's now saying in the region of 30,000 plus | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
people are stuck by this border. It says it's extremely concerned. One | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Doctor Who is working at a hospital inside Aleppo has been talking to | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
the BBC. We managed to get through to him on Skype earlier. It's quite | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
difficult to be here. Last year, we get used about the explosives that | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
the regime used to shell us with it. Then comes the Russian aircraft | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
bombing. Now it's quite heavier bombing over Aleppo city. Today, | :18:32. | :18:43. | |
this morning, we had three air crafts bombing in neighbourhoods. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Seven people were killed, civilians, all of them civilians. One of them | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
is a child, seven years old. It's very difficult now to be here, now | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
the regime has cut one of the two roads that supply Aleppo. Now we | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
have only one road. It's very threatened to be under siege. One | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
doctor speaking to us from Aleppo. We will update you on this story | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
every day through the week. Time for business now. Let's start | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
by talking about this man, this is the boss of Google. He's now the | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
highest paid chief executive in the US. He has been awarded stock | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
options worth $199 million. He got those on February 3. Bear in mind | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
that takes his total stock value to approximately $650 million. Let's | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
talk to Michelle Fluerry from New York. Nice work if you can get it, I | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
guess. How does Google justify paying one individual this kind of | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
cash? Well, it's all a comparison game, if you like. Look at the | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
founders of the company. They still earn substantially more than he | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
does. If you look at Eric Smidt, who previously had this position, but he | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
also is still incredibly wealthy and Med a lot more money -- made a lot | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
more money. It is a question worth asking - how do these CEOs justify | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
the salary when you compare it to the median income to the average | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
American who earns somewhere in the region of $45,000 a year. Is this | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
just a select few companies like Google, clearly known around the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
world, or can we track an upward trend in all CEO pay? I think you | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
have to look to a certain core group, obviously, big, multinational | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
companies, there you're going to see this kind of pay. There starts to | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
become competition amongst CEOs which tends to push up prices. At | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
the same time, when you look at broadly speaking what's happening | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
with wages. We saw last month, in the jobs report, the wages across | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
America are beginning to creep up. Obviously, nothing on a scale of | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
compared to what we're talking about here with Google (p Good to speak to | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
you. Big CEO pay for Google. Big CEO pay | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
is in the payments in the oil industry. We've been talking about | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
oil prices going down. We're now going to turn to another industry | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
that is suffering, the mining sector. I didn't know anywhere near | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
as much as I did about the oil industry. But there's a big industry | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
conference in Cape Town. The state of play is top of the agenda. Matt | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
Davis is there. The mood at this year's investing in | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
African mining here in Cape Town is sombre compared to previous years. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
The sound of champagne corks popping is noticeable by its absence. And | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
the reason - the tremendous fall in commodity prices over the past year. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
The prices of some metals and minerals have fallen between 30% and | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
50% in recent years. That's just where the mining company's woes | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
start. Some are heavily indebted and need serious work on their balance | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
sheets. But there is one bright spot, and that's gold. The price of | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
gold is expected to do pretty well this year compared to other | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
commodities. Miners tend to be an optimistic bunch. I guess you have | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
to be if you dig a hole in the middle of nowhere, convince people | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
to put anyone into it and get more money out of it. You have to be a | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
fairly positive type of person. It's that positivity that it's hope will | :22:37. | :22:49. | |
be more in evidence next year. Dozen of typhoons create problems | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
for farmers. One solution being explored is genetic engineers, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
creating props better equipped to deal with the weather. The BBC's | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
correspondent has been to the Philippines. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
The rice bowl of the Philippines, it may look peaceful and serene, but in | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
October, a powerful typhoon tore through this region. For farmer | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Antonio Cruz, it was a crushing experience. The third typhoon to | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
destroy his crops in as many months. It's a plight facing thousands of | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Filipino farmers as more than 20 typhoons devastate agricultural | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
areas across the country each year. Rice is a crucial crop here, as it | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
is across Asia. Once a major exporter, the Philippines has, in | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
recent years, become an importer because of shortages at home. At the | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
international rice institute, this team are trying to change all that. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
In these greenhouses, researchers have edited the genes from robust | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
rice species to tailor-make varieties which can with stand | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
typhoons and floods. The researchers aren't just working at a molecular | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
level. They're using satellite pictures to understand and map | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
changes that the weather has on rice crops in real time. One of the | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
challenges facing rice farmers is that it's almost impossible for them | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
to get insurance. That's because there simply isn't enough | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
information. With this combination of technologies from the molecular | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
level to the outer space level, is that farmers can grow rice that is | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
tolerant of the very difficult situations and have an insurance | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
product that protects them in case there is a loss they'll be | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
reimbursed. I've got to tell you about Indian scientists | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
investigating whether a man was killed by a meteorite. This happened | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
in the state of Tamil Nadu. It was on the campus of an engineer | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
college. There doesn't seem to be much doubt that an object fell to | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
earth. This is a picture clearly showing us there's a crater. We've | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
heard from the college principal speaking to a local newspaper | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
saying, "I was in the office at that time. We felt a vibration. It went | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
on for nearly a minute. All the students and faculty members came | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
outside and we saw a cloud of dust. Such was the intensities that a | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
water tank exploded, killing the bus driver who'd gone to get a drink." | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Chief of police has been speaking to local media and saying this is | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
what's been picked up, a small blue stone weighing ten grams. That's now | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
being tested by scientists. If this man was killed by the meteorite, we | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
understand by looking at the international comet quarterly, it | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
would be the first person in 200 years to die that way. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
I'll speak to you in a couple of minutes.. | :25:58. | :26:01. |