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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Another deadly suicide attack in Mogadishu - Somalia's Olympics | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Chief and the President of the country's football federation are | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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among ten people killed. Shortages begin to bite as the | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
international community repeats calls for the Mali coup leaders to | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
give up power. Mitt Romney edges closer to the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Republican presidential nomination as President Obama's team turn | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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their fire on him. Too broke to compete - how Greece's | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
austerity could stop athletes in their tracks. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Also coming up in the programme: The Russians who've developed a | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
taste for politics. Pushing for policies with a bit | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
more bite - we meet the newcomers who've decided to take charge. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
When the protests began after the parliamentary elections, I read on | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Facebook that new people should run for office. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
And our master butchers' ancestors - beating lions to the best cuts of | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Hello and welcome. At least ten people have been killed in an | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
explosion at Somalia's National Theatre. Among the dead are the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
presidents of the Somali Olympic committee and the country's | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
football federation. Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali narrowly | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
escaped the blast. He told the BBC a female suicide bomber was | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
responsible. The Islamist group Al- Shabaab, linked to Al Qaeda, says | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
it carried out the attack, and promised more to come. But, under | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
fire from the African Union, and Kenyan and Ethiopian forces, how | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
does Al Shabaab still present such a potent threat? Peter Biles | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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Just a few bricks ago, Somalia's National Theatre reopened for the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
first time in 20 years. It was a moment of optimism, but today, as | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
ministers, MPs and local dignitaries gathered at a theatre, | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
an explosion tore apart this Mogadishu landmark. The Prime | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Minister was addressing an audience of 200 people when the bomb went | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
off. I am safe, and most of my Cabinet | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
is safe and secure. However, some Somalis at the ceremony lost their | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
lives. There are conflicting accounts of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
what happened. The transitional government says a female suicide | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
bomber was responsible. But the militant Islamist group out to bat | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
says the explosives were planted before hand. -- Al-Shabaab. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
I don't know what to say but there are a lot of casualties. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Among them were two sports officials, the president of the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Somali Olympic Committee and the head of the Football Association. | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Both of them died in the bombing. In London, where David Cameron | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
hosted an international conference on Somalia in February, the British | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Prime Minister has condemned the latest attack. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
The Al-Shabaab fighters, often said to be inspired by Al-Qaeda, have | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
been on the back foot in recent months. They were driven out of | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Mogadishu and forced into adopting guerrilla tactics. But their | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
ability to stage an attack in the heart of the capital served as a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
reminder that this is still one of the most dangerous countries on | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
earth. Richard Dowden is the director of | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
the Royal African Society and joins us from Central London. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
How much of Somalia does Al-Shabaab control? | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Probably not the right word. They did control a lot of the South and | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
south-west until recently, but now they have been displaced from that | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
by the invasion from Kenya and Ethiopia. I think they operate, | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
they can easily go back to being an underground movement, but until | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
recently, they controlled a lot of the South and parts of the capital | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
as well. Recently, the Ethiopian has managed to drive them out of a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
place where they could shell the city. The city has been much safer | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
recently. But why is it impossible for Kenyan | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
and Ethiopian and African Union forces to actually defeat Al- | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
Shabaab? This... The Somalis... How to put | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
this? They did defeat the Americans, who tried to invade in 1991, 1992, | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
and only lasted a year. It ended in the black cork down incident. They | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
have been fighting since about 1989. There are a lot of skill for | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
fighters there, where as Kenya has had absolutely no war experience, | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
and the Ethiopians have had some but not of this type, of an urban | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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fighting. The Somalis fighting at home, and they have experience | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
behind them and are extremely good at these sorts of tactics. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
How pure are the motives of Ethiopia and Kenya? Are they | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
fighting because out a bad represent a threat to their nation | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
states as well? -- because Al- Shabaab represents a threat. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
I'm not convinced that Al-Shabaab is a threat to Kenya or Ethiopia in | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
that way. I think it is an internal Somali force that has become funded | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
by Saudi Arabian money, I suspect, as many of these movements are in | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
Africa. I think they are not able to hold ground any more, Al-Shabaab, | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
but they can create these nasty attacks. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Thank you theme for joining us. 6,000 kilometres to the west is | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Mali - until a fortnight ago a relatively stable West African | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
country, fighting a rebellion in its northern region. But since Army | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
officers seized power in a coup, rebel fighters have made important | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
territorial gains. Thousands of refugees have now fled their homes | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
to escape the violence around cities like Timbuktu and Gao. As | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
the crisis in Mali has deepened, the international community has | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
urged the coup leaders to give up power. Mike Wooldridge has this | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
report. In Mali's capital, this, the face | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
of the crisis. People queuing to beat the shortages that are likely | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
to impact on daily life. A West African organisation and the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
African Union had the sanctions they imposed will convince the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
military junta to step down by today. So far, the junta has other | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
ideas. Its leader is calling for the country's feature to be decided | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
at a national convention tomorrow. TRANSLATION: The conclusion of this | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
conference should be accepted by everybody in order to put a stop to | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
political considerations and the rapidly with the security situation | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
in the north and the integrity of our national territory. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
For now, the northern half of the country remains effectively in the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
hands of the rebels, who swept through its main towns when the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
junta said its main aims were to prevent this. Some labels - recruit | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
rebels are said to have links to Al-Qaeda. | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
Including in the historic city of Timbuktu, as it mayor told the BBC. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
There are armed people going around. I have seen 15-year-old people with | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
rifles and weapons. They are roaming the streets and pillaging. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
The stakes are high for the organisations, with their past | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
success here in Togo, for example. Last year the presidential problems | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
in Ivory Coast was a bigger challenge. The victor of that, as | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
the chair of the organisation, is overseeing the Mali crisis. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
The President has called for the activation of the West African | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
blocks' security force of around 3,000. But that could take weeks. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Mali's envoy to the UN pleaded for support from the Security Council, | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
calling the situation indescribable, and that is country was threatened | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
with partition. Here we have the spokesperson for | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
the organisation on the phone. Despite the sanctions, despite the | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
course for these two leaders to hand over, you're not having much | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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success, are you? Yes, we are. I believe the military | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
junta does not have much time to gamble. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
How much time do they have? Already several deadlines have passed. | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
they haven't. We have a process for the sanctions. From the reports in | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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the media, the queues suggest the sanctions are beginning to bite. I | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
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am glad that the rebels have How much support do you think the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
captain has, the leader of this chunter? | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
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It is within the junta. He has the few people around him. I doubt if | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
he enjoys any other support beyond his immediate supporters. Of course, | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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in West Africa, he does not enjoy I think the support is limited to | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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the military junta. Thank you for joining us. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
It looks as if Mitt Romney will become the Republican nominee to | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
take on Barack Obama in November. The former Massachusetts governor | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
won all the latest primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
DC. And Barack Obama is now targeting him in his presidential | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
campaign. So does this mean game over for the other candidates? Our | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
correspondent Steve Kingstone reports from Washington. | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
It is not official yet, but this 65-year-old multi-millionaire will | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama. That is what Mitt | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Romney thinks, and it is what the President thinks, too. Just listen | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
to his words this week during a speech on entitlement reform. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Governor Romney has said he hoped a similar version of this plan from | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
last year would be introduced as a bill on day one macro of this | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Parliament. It was the first time he had | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
singled out Mr Romney by name, an unmistakable sign that the general | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
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The air war has already begun. The Obama campaign portrays Mr Romney | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
as a puppet of the or industry. And the when the camp fires back, say | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
the President is to blame for soaring petrol prices. In | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Washington, the candidate ignored his Republican rivals and targeted | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
the real opponent. The President did not cause the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
economic crisis. But he did make it worse. He delayed the recovery and | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
he made it anaemic. Then, the clearest possible | :12:57. | :12:57. | |
statement of what Mitt Romney stands for. Free enterprise has | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
middle-class, to help educate our kids and to make our lives better | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
than all of the government's programmes put together. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Technically, there are three other republicans contesting the | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
nomination. But the incumbent and his opponent had already moved on. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
When you strip away the spin and the slurs, the battle for the White | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
House will come down to an old- fashioned ideological divide | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
between a president who thinks that government can help to solve | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
America's problems and a Republican challenger who says government is | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
the problem. Tim Stanley is a journalist and | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
historian of the United States, who joins us from Washington. | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
Mitt Romney has got 21 wins now either Rick Santorum's 11. Is there | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
a sense of inevitability about this? | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
There certainly has. Mommy has half the delegates he needs to get the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
nomination. -- Romney. He is getting endorsements from important | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
people, like the Cenotaph Florida. A lot of pressure is going to start | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
to be put on Rick Santorum to drop out. At the end of the month, we | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
have got some big contests in big states, and it is likely the state | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
of Pennsylvania will go to Santorum. But Romney will win places like New | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
York, putting him closer to the nomination. Yes, Romney is the one. | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
There is a tea-party favourite. Are more of the tea party movement | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
coming in behind Mitt Romney now? No. That has not started to happen | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
yet. More of them voted for him in Maryland, although that was not | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
terribly competitive. If you look at Bromley's support, he is trapped | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
in what you might call a demographic prison. He is popular | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
among people who earn more than $100,000 per year, people you are | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
over 65 and people who say they are moderate or somewhat conservative. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
He still fails to draw support from tea-party people, and part of his | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
problem is going to be he is going to have to spend a lot of time | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
appealing not only to moderate and independent and Democrats, he is | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
also going to have to spend a lot of time still reaching out to | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
people on the right of American politics. | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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And he is prettily, isn't it, but And I do not think it will be that | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
began issue. The Democrats will look mean if they play upon it. I | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
think foreign-made, it is a plus overall. He can play the card | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
saying, I am from a religious minority, I am from a people who | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
understand pursue -- understand persecutions. I do not think the | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Mormon and all will be played in this election in the way we expect. | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
Briefly, it will cost a lot of money. Who is going to be the | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
number two? We do not know who that is going to be yet. We cannot | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
possibly say. Many people who would should be, they are halfway through | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Senate terms that they want to complete. It is more likely to be | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
someone like Rick Santorum, but I would not advise anyone to place | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
money on anyone at this moment. Stanley, thank you. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
The man suspected of masterminding the September 11th attacks has been | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
referred to trial. He has been charged with terrorism, hijacking | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
aircraft and a number of other accounts, along with four others. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
The case will be heard at a military -- at a military tribunal. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
French anti-terror police have raided properties of suspected | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
Islamist militants. Prosecutors have confirmed they are charging 13 | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
people who were detained last week. Hundreds of demonstrators have | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
crowded around a court in Ankara for the opening of a trial of two | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
retired generals who allegedly staged a coup in 1980. | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
Yahoo! Has confirmed it is to cut 2000 staff, 14 % of the workforce. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
They say this is to make the company's smaller and more | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
profitable. It was saved them around $375 million. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
It is a month since Vladimir Putin was re-elected Russia's President. | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Since his victory, this huge anti- government street protests which | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
have dominated live in the Russian capital seem to have petered out. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Russians' interest in politics has not disappeared, and Muscovites | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
have been finding other ways to put pressure on the authorities, as | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Steve Rose and Beck reports. A boxing hall might seem an odd | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
place for municipal council meeting. Then again, this is about to become | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
a bit of a battle ground. First, they argue over who gets to be the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
chair man. The man with the microphone represents the old guard. | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
He says he is in charge. His opponents do not agree. They are | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
part of a new wave of opposition activists who were getting elected | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
in Moscow at municipal level, and trying to change the way politics | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
is done. The party of power is about to back -- is about to bite | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
back, quite literally. This is fat to be again a trip's first | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
experience of local politics -- this is Vladimir Garnachuk's first | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
experience of local politics. He did not expect to be bitten! | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
District councils like this one have few powers, but it appears | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Russians are getting interested in politics on their doorstep. A few | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
months ago, local government meetings in the share attracted | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
little attention and few visitors. Now, this is people power at the | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
grassroots level. Away from the council chamber, Vladimir Garnachuk | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
campaigns on local issues. Opposite says school, which the authorities | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
plan to turn into a centre for drug addicts. Vladimir is trying to stop | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
it, but he never planned to go into politics. TRANSLATION: I had never | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
heard of municipal councils, but when the street protests began | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
after that rigged parliamentary election, I read on face but that | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
new people should run for office. - - I read on Facebook. It is not | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
only by becoming councillors that the Russians are trying to change | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
their country. In Zhukovsky, near Moscow copyboy have been protesting | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
about the destruction of the local forest. Trees are being cut down to | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
make way for a road. This issue has brought big crowds onto the streets | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
of a small town. It is a sign that Russians are determined to make | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
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their voices heard. The Greek Athletics Federation says | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
it has suspended all domestic sporting activities because there | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
is no money. There are fears that unless budget cuts are reversed, | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
participation in the London Olympics could be at risk. We can | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
speak to Mark Lowen in Athens. A humiliation for any country, let | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
alone Greece! Yes. This was where it all began. The Olympics began | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
here in the eighth century BC. This was also where the first modern | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Games was held. Just imagine if the Greek Athletics Federation were to | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
pull out of this summer's London Olympics whatever humiliation that | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
would be, a sign of how deep the country has fallen. The sign is | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
that they are suspending domestic sporting activities because of the | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
budget a source at the federation said if the government does not | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
intervene to resolve the budget crisis, pulling out of the London | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Olympics would still be an option. How much of a Gambetta is this? Is | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
there any suggestion the Greek government will say, OK, we will | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
make an exception, because of national pride? Absolutely. It | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
could be a game of hide States. -- high-stakes. We will have to wait | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
and see. The board of the federation will meet in a few weeks. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
They have appealed to the Minister of Culture. We will have to see | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
what the government says. They want to avoid any further humiliation | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
after the deep financial crisis this country is still going through. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
European championships are coming up, and the London Olympics in July. | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
I think they would do anything they can to avoid having to pull out of | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
their games. The prospect of that shows just how deep this financial | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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crisis is affecting all aspects of Greek society. The team going to | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
London is half the size of that in Beijing. Mark Lowen, thank you very | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
much. A discovery on frozen place near | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
the Arctic sea in northern Siberia has provided scientists with an | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
incredibly well-preserved specimen of a 10,000-year-old mammoth. There | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
are signs that the juvenile animal was attacked by lions and butchered | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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by humans. After thousands of years lying | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
frozen in the grand, it is twisted and contorted. Now lie in on its | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
back, its head has flopped to one side and its legs stick a pin the | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
air. Its stake strawberry blonde hair is exquisitely preserved. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Extraordinary. Professor Daniel Fischer is at the Museum of | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Palaeontology at the University of Michigan. Tell it us how important | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
this says. -- tell us how important this is. It is an extremely | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
important specimen. In part, because of the quality of tissue | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
preservation. Even a part of the animal are missing, what is there | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
is extremely well-preserved. It is also important for the story it | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
tells, the story you can reconstruct from the evidence of | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
what remains. The cuts that our human ancestors appeared to have | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
been interested in consist of meat and bones from the main core of the | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
body. There have been removed. That part of the animal has been | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
butchered. We see evidence of this in terms of the entry incisions | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
into the hide, and some cut marks on some of the bones. That humans | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
were waiting, I think, for Lyons, or they sued these Lions away that | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
had killed this mammoth. Is that something may perhaps did | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
frequently? They relied on more ferocious animals to kill food and | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
then butchered them afterwards? That is one possibility. This is | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
all inference at the moment, based on the patterns of damage that we | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
see on the carcass of this animal and on some things we do not see | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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that we would expect. Lyons typically enter a carcass in the | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
region of the Bailey, the aim has all the neck, but these regions are | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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not blemished. There are incisions at a very different replaced. -- | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
There are incisions that are very differently placed. This mammoth | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
was only about two-and-a-half years old. Is there any suggestion that | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
there was some sort of ritual involved here by our ancestors when | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
it came to butchering an animal than eating it? I suppose this is a | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
matter of opinion and inference. I actually think there is probably a | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
utilitarian explanation for most of what we see. I do not see the need | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
to call on ritual aspects of it. The inference we have generated is | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
lions were responsible for the initial pursued to, that is based | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
on singing deep scratch marks -- seeing deep scratch marks. They can | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
only really have been produced by the claws of a large cat-like | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
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animal. I am sorry, Professor, we are told time. Remarkable images. | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Viewers in the UK can see the full programme on BBC Two at 9 o'clock | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
tonight. Viewers around the world can find out more on the BBC | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
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website. That is it from me and the Hello. Finally, the weather front | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
we have had slipping southwards been the snow and disruption across | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
the UK is clearing away. A dry day to come tomorrow. Even the chance | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
of decent sunshine. Through the night, the weather front will clear | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
away from the south, taking with it the strong winds. First thing on | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
Thursday, cloudy through the southern half of the UK. Further | :28:12. | :28:20. | |
north, a week weather front also been ploughed and some outbreaks of | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
rain. -- bringing cloud. Through the southern counties of England, a | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
largely cloudy start to the day. That will break up and allow | :28:32. | :28:42. | |
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sunshine to break through. Sunny skies developing through northern | :28:44. | :28:50. |