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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Another severe | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
food crisis in West Africa looms yet again. We're in the worst | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
affected country Niger, to report on those doing what they can to | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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stave off disaster. 2012 will be particularly tough. Harvest have | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
failed, prices are shooting up, there is growing | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
But a leading development agency tells us such food shortages are | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
entirely avoidable - so why do they keep on happening? | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
North Korea's nuclear ambitions hijack talks between major world | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
powers on nuclear terrorism at a summit in Seoul. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Guess who's coming to dinner? The row over the political donors who | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
are given access to the Prime Minister David Cameron. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Also coming up in the programme: The director of the hit movie | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
Titanic, hits rock bottom. James Cameron returns from the | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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deepest place on earth at the Hello and welcome: 'It's hunger | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
season again' - that's how the BBC's Andrew Harding has described | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
the food shortage that's affecting the Sahel region of West Africa. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
The spectre of a major food crisis is once again casting its shadow. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
The UN and international aid agencies are warning of severe food | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
shortages that are threatening the lives of the most vulnerable. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
The BBC's Andrew Harding has travelled to the Sahel region and | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
sent this report from one of the affected villages in Niger, a short | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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distance from the capital Niamey. We need an armed escort to venture | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
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a. Islamist militants are a growing threat. Saw his hunger. In this | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
tiny village this 50-year-old woman threshes grain. In recent years she | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
has lost her husband and children to disease and poverty. This | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
pitiful crop will only feed what is left of the family for one week. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
course we are hungry. The rain did not come. It has been getting worse | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
for years. There are almost no men left in the village. All have gone | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
abroad in search of work. There is a food crisis nearly every year in | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
this village and 2012 will be particularly tough. Prices are | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
shooting up, have also failed, and there is growing insecurity across | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
the region. The familiar warning signs. 10 are | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
severely malnourished children arrived in the clinic this week. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
The UN fears 400,000 children could be in this condition within months. | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
One in 10 is likely to die. It is much worse already this year it | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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says this nurse. Yet in Niger is not without hope. | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
In his village there is a scheme to trap rainwater. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
The democratic government is acknowledging the crisis and co- | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
operating with the outside world. As women get a small wage from the | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
UN. Because of this work we can feed our families, she says. Maybe | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
in the future these fields will recover. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
That does not change the fact that the village well is drying up. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Along the road is needed each year. As a child she remembers life was | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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wonderful here. Not any more. A little earlier Deborah Doane from | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
the World Development Movement told us that she believed this food | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
crisis is entirely avoidable. Famines are entirely avoidable. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
They are man-made. What is happening in the Sahel is based on | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
the poor planning, poor structures, and policies that have been going | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
on for many years. Who is to blame? It is not down to one particular | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
thing. In the 1990s there were a series of policies from the IMF and | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the World Bank which forced that removal of price controls which led | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
to the loss of investment in agriculture over the past 15 years. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
We can look at an over-reliance on an international system that takes | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
the levers of control out of countries in that region. Rising | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
food prices that we are seeing recently that were the result of | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
the 2005 crisis, the 2010 crisis, those are down to the fact that | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
there are too many people buying their local -- eyeing the global | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
markets and not looking locally. many people see an anomaly. There | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
is food available in these countries. The markets are well | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
stocked. But a large number of people are simply unable to afford | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
to buy food. That is precisely the problem that is happening in Niger | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
and elsewhere in that the Sahel. If you are having a crop failure in a | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
time of drought, exacerbated by climate change, you are buying and | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
more of your food. You are buying in these. That is traded on global | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
commodity market. We are seen a rise in maize prices since 2010 of | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
75 %. When you are in are the poorest countries in the world and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
you cannot afford to buy food that is a fundamental problem. Is there | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
are grounds for optimism? A lot of people are saying that high | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
commodity prices as well as increasing democratisation in the | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Continent should promise a better future. If they are relying on | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
exports of other commodities, primary commodities, you are still | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
relying on food. The fundamental problem will be if they do not | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
prioritise food security and how to produce the right crops for the | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
right people locally. There are some signs of optimism. There is | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
some research that looked at and the culture in the region. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
Investment in the local crops has proved to be quite good, but a lot | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
more needs to be done to make sure that that is prioritise. If they | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
are simply looking at exporting more of a primary commodities and | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
bring in enough income to pay for the commodities, be will be in the | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
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same position in a few years' time. A rare moment of co-operation | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
between China and the United States. Barack Obama at Hu Jintao met on | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
the sidelines of a nuclear summit. Barack Obama reiterated the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
commitment of the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
weapons. They cannot have been many | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
surprises in the conversation between these two men today. Barack | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Obama began the meeting by reminding his Chinese counterpart | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
they had already met 11 times before. The list of topics was | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
familiar. At the top of that was North Korea and its nuclear | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
programme. Non-Proliferation said Barack Obama was in their interests | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
of both leaders. He has already criticised China for | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
not being tough enough. Its approach to dealing with North | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Korea he said was not working. At a Korean university today he | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
demonstrated the kind of message he wanted to be heard. This is a | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
decision you must make. Today we say, have the courage to pursue | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
peace and give a better light to the people of North Korea. America, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
he said, had no hostile intent towards North Korea. He said it was | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
committed to reducing its own nuclear stockpile as well as | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
pressuring others. I say this as President of the only nation ever | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
to use nuclear weapons. I see it as a commander in chief finos that the | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
nuclear codes are never far from my side. Most of all I see it as a | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
father, who once might two young doctors to grow up in a world where | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
everything they know and love can be instantly wiped out. Barack | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Obama's visit began on Sunday with his first glimpse inside the close, | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
his state. Korea has dominated discussions ever since. China has | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
reportedly urged fellow delegations not to be sidetracked by the sight | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
of -- by the North Korean question. North Korea is not coming to the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
sum at. It is not even on the official agenda. This meeting is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
about preventing nuclear material from falling into the hands of | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
terrorist groups, not about nuclear disarmament, but North Korea is | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
just one hour's drive away from here. Barack Obama's speech and his | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
schedule shows just how much part of the discussion this is. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Let us look at some of the other news. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Coffee and man has said the crisis in Syria cannot be allowed to drag | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
on indefinitely. More fighting and deaths have been reported in Syria | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
today. After a meeting in Moscow Mr Coffey | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
a man urged all parties to accept change. This cannot be allowed to | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
drag on indefinitely. I have told the parties on the ground they | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
cannot resist the transformation. They have to accept that reforms | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
have to come, change has to come. The prospect of political deadlock | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
in Senegal appears to have faded after the incumbent president said | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
he had accepted defeat in the election. He had contested the | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
ballot. He had already served two terms in office. The winner of the | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
election said his victory marked a new year for Senegal. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Savage teams have recovered five more bodies from the wreck of the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Costa Concordia. 32 people are thought to have died when he the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
ship crashed into rocks. Pope Benedict is flying to Cuba | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
following his visit to Mexico. He will spend three days in Santiago. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Catholic leaders dared say they hoped his visit will help | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
revitalise faith on the island. Reports say that the authorities | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
have detained in dissidents prior to his arrival. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Two British soldiers have been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by a | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
man in Afghan army uniform. The attacker died when a Coalition | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
forces returned fire. In the last hour it has been confirmed that | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
another NATO service member has been shot in eastern Afghanistan by | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
someone who was apparently part of the local Afghan police. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
A growing number of NATO troops are being killed by Afghans who are | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
supposed to be their comrades and allies. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
This is a tough conflict at the best of times. For international | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
troops the risk of being shot by the very men they are training is | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
the hardest on the face. These two deaths bring to 15 the number of | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
British troops who have died in this way. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
The news was announced in the Commons. Details of the incident | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
are still emerging but it appears that a member of the Afghan | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
National Army opened fire at entrance to their British | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
headquarters killing two British personnel. The assailant was killed | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
by return of fire. Afghan anger has followed stories of US soldiers | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
urinating on enemy corpses, burning copies of the Koran, and then 17 | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
villagers were killed by one rogue US soldier. It is the background to | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
the attacks by Afghan soldiers. In military jargon NATO is always | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
blue, Afghan forces are always green. These attacks are known as | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
Green on blue. A total of 13 troops have died this year at a hands of | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
Afghan forces. Before the debt of the two British personnel, six | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
American personnel were killed. One Albanian was killed. Fought French | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
troops were killed by an Afghan soldier in February. We are taking | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
measures to ensure that these are cadences are kept to a minimum. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
This is at terrible spate of attacks. Although all these attacks | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
a relatively small in number the effect they have is Severe. Their | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
aim is that Afghan forces will be ready to take on the fight against | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
the Taliban for themselves by 2014. There is international resolve to | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
stick to the plan, keep to the timetable of withdrawal by the end | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
of 2014. However strong that maybe it is hard to see how there can be | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
just on the ground between the soldiers of these such different | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
nations. After the spate of violent killings. Flags will be flying at | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
Here, the British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed that | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
some of the leading Conservative party's biggest donors have been | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
invited to private dinners at Number 10. It follows the emergence | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
of secret filming in which the party's former treasurer said six- | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
figure donations would buy access to the Prime Minister and his | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
policy unit. Initially Downing Street refused to give the names of | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
the guests, but there has been mounting pressure to do so. Mr | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Cameron has launched an internal party inquiry - but Labour says | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
that is not enough. Here is our political Editor Nick Robinson. Not | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
everyone can afford to have dinner in the flat over the shop, not | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
least when the shop in question is Number Ten Downing Street and your | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
host is the Prime Minister himself. To date came confirmation that | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
David Cameron had, as claimed, hosted Doran parties for the very | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
very rich. In the two years that I had been Prime Minister, there have | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
been three occasions when it significant donors have come to | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
dinner in my flat. They were not fund-raising dinners nor the paid | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
for by the taxpayer. This is not what those attending a conference | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
on dementia expected but David Cameron knew he had no choice but | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
to reveal who had attended the demurs. Our bigger donors have been | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
for dinner in Number Ten Downing Street, in the Prime Minister's | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
private apartments. The guests at the parties hosted in the flat | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
contributed nearly �10 million to the Conservative Party. Amongst the | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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6th donors where Henry angriest - a Swiss-born banker. Like father - I | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
hedge-fund trader. Ian Taylor, chief executor of an oil company. | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
And Michael Spencer a billionaire businessman. At the end of the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
speech today, David Cameron left, refusing to take questions from | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
reporters. And the Prime Minister was not in the Commons to answer | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
questions in a statement on party funding. The Minister had come to | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
talk about reforming party funding and was met with derision. As set | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
out in the coalition government document, party funding in Britain | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
needs to be reformed. LAUGHTER. shows utter contempt for this house | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
that the Prime Minister can make a statement to the media just three | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
hours ago and refuses to come here to face us. Ed Miliband condemned | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
what he called the whitewash of an inquiry into the Conservative Party | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
by the Conservative Party for the Conservative Party. This scandal | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
speaks to the conduct and character of the prime minister and | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
government. Anything short of an independent inquiry will leave a | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
permanent stain on his government and this Prime Minister. -- this | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
government. 0 of the a few weeks ago the Prime Minister told | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
schoolchildren about his flat above the shop. I live in a very nice | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
flat above Number 11 Downing Street, but what I get up to there is | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
private. How he must wish what -- that that remained true. It is | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
private no longer. Joining us now is our political correspondent. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Downing Street moving fast to dispel this controversy? Absolutely, | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
the key is to move quickly and try and limit the damage. And of course | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
to blunt the story under amount of detail. Moving fast but the story | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
has been given fresh momentum now because a former Downing Street | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
aide who is now a lobbyist, has been caught in that Sting as well | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
by the Sunday Times. A in terms of the face time, that is more | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
difficult. It is not impossible. The Prime Minister is obviously | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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very busy. There are certain ways of meeting. This cannot be seen in | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
isolation, it leads into a wider and long lasting scandal about | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
donors who give cash to political parties in order to gain access to | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
political leaders? That is right. I do not think David Cameron or his | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
closest advisers would describe this as anything other than a | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
potentially dangerous political moment. That is why they have moved | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
so quickly. The problem with this episode is that it feeds into a | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
broader image and it reinforces that sense that we know the voters | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
in Britain have of the Conservatives, as being a party of | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
the rich and powerful, which is considered to be the party's | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
greatest weakness. Do you think this has the potential to create | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
awful damage to David Cameron and his party? I think it is too early | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
to say. Downing Street is hoping that by releasing this detail, that | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
will help to be the story but that will not stop journalists from | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
continuing to Dec. It will not stop the opposition party, despite their | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
troubles in power, at from continuing to think there is an | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
opportunity here and to keep asking for an inquiry. Thank you very much. | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
When the Hollywood film director, James Cameron was working on the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
abyss more than 20 years ago, he cannot have known that the plot for | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
his film about a mission to the bottom of the ocean would become | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
part of his own story. Earlier today, he returned from a four-hour | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
expedition to the deepest place on Earth - 11 kilometres down to the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. In his one man submersible, | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Mr Cameron has made history - becoming the first person to make | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
the journey alone. Rebecca Morelle reports from the island of Guam - | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
the nearest landmass to the dive site. Heading to the deep his place | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
on earth, bad wetter threatened to scupper the mission but finally | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
James Cameron was a way. -- bad weather. He was left alone and | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
cramped in a tiny metal sphere. The descent took 2 1/2 hours. The | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
pressure built to 1,000 at his fears. I did not see anything | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
bigger than an inch long. I was hoping to get to rock outcrop | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
things where I expected to see a different community there, | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
unfortunately I ran out of power before I got that far. We will have | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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to go back and do a different dived. This thing is beg. -- the Hague. It | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
is 50 times the size of the Grand Canyon. This is a vast frontier | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
down there. It will take us a while to understand. I after several | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
hours of exploring, Mr Cameron resurfaced to the delight of his | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
team. James Cameron is the first person to have journeyed to the | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Mariana Trench for half a century. He says he hopes to inspire a new | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
era of deep-sea exploration. The ocean is the final frontier of the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Earth, we know less about it than the planets. But now with the | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
success of this mission, James Cameron hopes to inspire a new era | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
of deep-sea exploration. To talk some more about this, we | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
are joined by ate a marine biologist. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Unlike in abyss, there are no aliens at the bottom of the Pacific, | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
but what kind of things might James Cameron have encountered? He would | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
probably see a lot of small at sea cucumbers. Possibly a lot of the | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
things like shims. Probably nothing too conspicuous. Could he have | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
spotted new species? At those kind of debt, spotting new species would | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
be very difficult, you should really go more shallower than that. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Tell us what kind of experience he would have had going down like | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
that? 11 kilometres is a fantastic debt. It took him to add a have | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
first to get down there, it is a long distance. The temperature | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
would be colder than the more you got to the bottom. There is very | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
little light there. He would have kicked up a lot of sediment and I | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
would imagine it was an uncomfortable experience. By it | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
sounds like an understatement! think it would be horrible. Was it | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
quite danger is? He could have lost communication with the outside | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
world for instance. That is always the risk you take with a | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
submersible. If you employed, that is the worst thing that could | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
happen. -- implode. It was a life- threatening adventure then? Yes, | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
but he has put a lot of money and time and trainee into this. I am | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
sure it is pretty safe, but it just looks very dangerous. Are you | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
impressed or not? Absolutely. It is amazing, it raises the profile of | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
deep-sea biology, it is fantastic. Does it take us anywhere apart from | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
be exciting for Mr Cameron? I hope so. He commented that he was | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
planning to go back. I was concerned they would just go once | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
and that would be yet but it is nice to hear he plans to do some | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
more. Going to the marionette branch is not necessarily | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
representative of other take places. -- the Mariana Trench. The trenches | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
are very isolated habitats and why happens one trench does not mess | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
his family have been in other trenches, it is similar to | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
mountains. Going to Mount Everest does not tell you about Mount | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Kilimanjaro. This is a good start and it has proved the technology. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Is there any point in a human going down like this? Can they do more | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
than machines? People would disagree. My feeling is that you | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
can get more bottom time with a remote systems. You do not have the | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
danger issue. There are a lot of arguments for and against. Let us | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
hope James Cameron was not wasting his time with that life threatening | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
exploration. Thank you very much. A reminder of our main news: A | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
drought, chronic underdevelopment and political instability have | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
created a landscape which has more than 60 million people in the Sahel | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
Region of West Africa at risk of food shortages. That's it for now. | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
Goodbye. Hello. On Monday afternoon we | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
Hello. On Monday afternoon we continued with the warmth across | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
many parts of the country, but tomorrow there is more of the same. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
We have sunshine and high temperatures for the end of March. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Although we have the sunshine around, high pressure is keeping | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
things in try which is not good news for those regions which need | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
rain. No sign of significant rained throughout the week. Another dry | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
day tomorrow, it begins cold with Matt -- with mist and fog. The | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
sunshine will have temperatures by the afternoon. It is still cooler | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
on the coast of East Anglia but come further inland, there will be | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
temperatures of 18 Celsius. 21 tomorrow in London. 18 degrees in | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
the south-west and breezy in Cornwall, but as the breeze travels | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
up the north coast of Wales, we see the temperatures climbing up to 20 | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
degrees. For Northern Ireland, it is cooler towards the coast of | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Antrim but we will see temperatures up to 19 degrees on the north coast. | :28:08. | :28:14. |