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This is BBC World News Today. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
refugees are left exposed and at harm from a harsh Middle East | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
winter. Amnesty criticises Europe's attempt to help the needy as | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
pitiful. We have a special report from one refugee camp in bitterly | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
cold Lebanon. The world's big powers have not been able to stop the war | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
in Syria, perhaps that is not so surprising, but surely sorting out | :00:31. | :00:42. | |
this problem should be much easier. 100,000 people pay their respects to | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Nelson Mandela as he lies in state but now his body is removed from | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
public view, thousands who had missed out are disappointed. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Concerns about stability in North Korea after the country's second | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
most powerful figure is executed. If you can read any of these works, you | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
will know it is Esperanto. We speak to a fluent Esperanto speaker who | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
looks after an impressive collection of its literature. | :01:06. | :01:20. | |
The suffering for Syrian refugees fleeing violence has been bad | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
enough, now nature has heaped even more misery on them. Hundreds of | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
thousands of Syrian refugees are facing an exceptionally harsh winter | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
storm and freezing temperatures in the Middle East with no more than | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
flimsy tents for shelter. Human rights organisation Amnesty | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
International says Europe should hang its head in shame for failing | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
to provide a safe haven. There are 6.5 million people displaced inside | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Syria. This is how the numbers of refugees stacks up. According to the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
UN Refugee Agency, 838,000 have fled to nearby Lebanon, living either in | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
tented camps, unused buildings or with friends and family. More than | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
560,000 Syrians are believed to be in Jordan. 540,000 have sought | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
refuge in neighbouring Turkey. In Iraq, more than 200,000. Our Middle | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
East editor Jeremy Bowen is in Lebanon where he spent the day with | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
refugees in the Bekaa Valley. No working taps, Noel Wells, only | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
snow. And then here collect it to melt it into water. However bad it | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
gets here, their families still have to drink. An extended family of 20 | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
live here in a refugee settlement in the Northern Bekaa Valley. They have | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
a small still but they do not have much would so they were bringing | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
pieces of a plastic rug. The area around the store is quite warm but | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the fumes of burning plastic hang heavy in the air. This is no place | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
to be a child. It is a much worst -- much worse place to be a baby. Two | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
sisters in law and spend their days goes to the small stove with their | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
newborn sons, around one-month-old. The babies have the cold. Their | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
mothers are trying to breast-feed but it is hard because they are | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
undernourished, living each day on one bowl of lentil soup. They mix | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
some baby formula with the melted snow water. This baby was born | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
without a hand and his mother says he was delivered by a midwife and | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
has never been seen by a doctor. She has been told an operation could | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
help them. He could probably have an operation but I don't have any money | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
to take him. The family seem to share a lot of love but they are | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
close to destitute. Because of the cold and lack of water, this is all | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
that a bucket of melted snow mix. They have not watched for around two | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
weeks. Most refugees in the Bekaa Valley live in informal settlements | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
as the government does not allow the huge cans that have been built in | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Jordan. Aid is haphazard. In all the settlements there are children who | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
have no shoes or a winter clothes. They often smiled but they look | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
cold, undernourished and on the edge of the list. The world big powers | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
have not been able to stop the War in Syria and perhaps that is not | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
surprising but surely sorting out this problem should be much easier. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
What it needs most is a mixture of political will and money. The fact | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that these people are still living like this in the third year of this | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
crisis suggests there is not enough of either. Big sums of money have | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
been donated to help refugees but very little has reached here. These | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
are resilient people and local aid workers say the camp is no better | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
and no worse than others in the area. The humanitarian crisis caused | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
by the Syrian war is growing and eventually. A bitter day was | :05:21. | :05:34. | |
becoming another freezing night. The body of Nelson Mandela is no | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
longer lying in state. Officials say an estimated 100,000 mourners filed | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
past his body in the capital, Pretoria, the very place he was | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
sworn in as Africa's first black President in 1994. Not everyone was | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
able to view his body, many were turned away. Final preparations are | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
now being made in his home village of Qunu for his funeral on Sunday. | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
Huge disappointment for those who did not manage to see Nelson Mandela | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
lying in state? That is right. Night has fallen here and you can see the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Union Buildings floodlit behind me. This very imposing centre of | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
government for South Africa and it was here during the day but tens of | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
thousands of ordinary South Africans queued for the third day of this | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
lying in state which is now over, and many thousands had to go home | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
disappointed because they simply would not have reached it before | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
because of the day. Most of the day was very dignified. Singing ebbing | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
way to silence as people approached the point where they could look for | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the last time into the face of Nelson Mandela but that those denied | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
the opportunity, there was of course frustration and sometimes anger. | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
On the last day of lying in state, the patience of some was beginning | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
to wear thin. They feared they would never get to pay their respects to | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
their dead leader. A policeman called for calm. Then a gap was | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
forced. The younger swept through. It was a brief moment of drama, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
could be contained by police. There were no serious injuries but all of | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
this indicative of the powerful feelings evoked by the death of | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Nelson Mandela. APN that here transcends all divides. We wanted to | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
maybe push inside so that we could be able to go and pay our last | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
respects to him. A government minister acknowledged many would not | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
get through. If the numbers are too big, there is nothing we can do | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
about it. We do not have to apologise because that is the way | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
the situation is. 500 miles to the south of his birthplace, the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
military practice their flyover Sunday's funeral. Preparations here | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
are gathering pace. This is the convoy that will carry the body to | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
its final resting place. Away from the formality of the state occasion, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
these ANC members remembering a man who was to them not a global icon | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
but a local hero. There are small impromptu celebrations of Nelson | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Mandela's live in place across South Africa. Here in his home region, the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
sense of anticipation ahead of Sunday's funeral is particularly | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
intense. This is one of the poorest parts of South Africa, the place of | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
deep anger over government corruption, the failure to deliver | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
on the promises of liberation. For people like this widowed mother of | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
five children, Nelson Mandela is exempt from limb. Do you feel proud | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
that he came from here, from this place? I am proud, so proud, she | :09:18. | :09:31. | |
tells me. As the day ended, Nelson Mandela was leaving Pretoria. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Tomorrow, the man who led South Africa to freedom will make the last | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
journey to the place of his birth. Tomorrow, Saturday, but very | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
poignant journey for Nelson Mandela's body will begin here in | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Pretoria when he is taken to be put on board that aircraft to take him | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
from the airbase down to the Eastern Cape, all the way his grandson will | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
be talking to the body of Nelson Mandela, telling him, according to | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
tribal custom, exactly what is happening. He will be telling his | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
grandfather, we are now going on a flight down to the Eastern Cape to | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
begin your journey home to your homeland in Qunu for the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
preparations for the funeral on Sunday. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
There is international concern tonight about the stability of the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
secretive state of North Korea after the execution of the regime's second | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
most powerful figures Jang Song Thaek. He was the uncle by marriage | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
of the country's leader Kim Jong Un. It's reported he was shot by machine | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
gun after being found guilty of treason. South Korea says it is in a | :10:50. | :11:01. | |
heightened state of readiness. This is the man who sought to bring | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
down the North Korean regime, the once powerful uncle of the country | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
's young ruler reinvented as a criminal and a coup leader. Facing | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
this military court before his execution. His crimes of plotting to | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
seize power, the most serious of North Korea could muster. His old | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
influence and proximity to the North Korean ruling dynasty only | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
underlines the message delivered with his death that no wonder, not | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
even family, is immune. The state news agency described him as worse | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
than a dog and a traitor to the nation for all ages. Who was the | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
dead man? Jang Song Thaek was powerfully placed in North Korea's | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
ruling grip. He was married for decades to the sister of the former | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
ruler. He died two years ago, passing control to his young son. He | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
is now a broadly purging all opposition. News of the execution | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
told of a man responsible for all North Korea's ills, its corruption | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
and economic failure. A despicable reformer, too close to China and a | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
warning to all those who hoped for change. Just over 100 miles away | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
here in the South Korean capital there is worry about what North | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
Korea will look like without its elder statesman. Jang Sun Tech was | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
seen as being too close to its leader to colour but there is a new | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
generation of rising and it has just proved it will do whatever it takes | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
to stay in power. He has to realise that once a terrorist stops, he has | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
to bring home the goods. If people don't have jobs or security, who | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
else has he to blame? Jang Sun Tech has already been edited out of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
official documentary is all stop his story rewritten by the countries | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
powerful propaganda machine but many believe that story reveals far more | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
about the fears and floors eating away at the heart of the regime. | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
Tomorrow Egyptian authorities will announce the date of the referendum | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
on the new constitution and after that they will be a period of 30 to | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
90 days for either parliamentary or presidential elections to be held. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Ever since the removable of Mohammed Mercy in July there have been a | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
string of car bombs and attacks. Before we came on air, I spoke to an | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
adviser to Egypt's interim President and I put it to him that a | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
democratically elected President had been replaced by a military backed | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
one. That is not a precise reading of what happens on the 30th of June. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
That was a fully fledged revolution by people who were against the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
fascism represented by the Muslim Brotherhood that came into power | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
probably through the ballot boxes but intended to rule Egypt by | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
confiscating the whole democratic process and that was very clear on | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
November 2012 when we had the constitutional declaration of the | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
Muslim brotherhood. You felt that justified the actions of the | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
military in Egypt to intervene and remove those people from power? What | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
has happened is that we had an impeachment process of a President | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
in a very nonconventional way in a popular way that people came out | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
onto the streets, asking this President to leave office and to | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
have an early presidential election. I will not get into the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
figures with you because opponents say the figures were much smaller | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
but even though we thought there was popular support for his removal, | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
there is popular support in the country for him and the Muslim | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
brotherhood movement. Can you afford to write them out of the script? | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
this is not a precise estimate of their presence in Egypt's. They are | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
one factor of the society and we would not say it goes beyond 5 | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
million of the population. That is a lot, can you ignore that? It is | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
actually the other way round, we want them to not ignore the other 85 | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
million. They are the ones who are not including the Egyptian people. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
What they call anti-government demonstrations, we know they are | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
anti-future demonstrations. The Egyptian people has tried to set | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
clear road map to the future which is very democratic and having a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
constitutional start and having that in the way that the Muslim | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
Brotherhood has tried to deprive the Egyptian people from having the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
dream of the Democratic progressives and state. Do you accent you have a | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
PR problem. Look at the demonstrations we saw in support of | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Mohammed Morsi and in Alexandria we saw women as young as 15 given heavy | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
prison sentences. They have now been allowed to leave prison but they say | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
they were not doing anything wrong. That is not good for you. Let us | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
agree that we have a propaganda machine that is taking typical | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
events that could happen here in London, it happened here at the | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
University of London. We have someone who wrote in chalk on the | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
floor of that university and she was prosecuted for vandalism. If that is | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
the same case that we have young ladies as long as -- as young as | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
this land is -- as young as this youngster at the adversity of London | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
doing vandalism and destroying private property and when they were | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
prosecuted through a legal system that is exactly the same rationale | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
that this young lady at the University of London has been | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
prosecuted, we cannot say that it is an act of tyranny versus attack act | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
of the rule of law and in both cases it was the rule of law. In Egypt's | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
you now how to ask for three days notice if you want to carry out a | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
protest against the government and you might not be given the | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
commission. The demonstration law here in the UK asks you for six days | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
for permission which is pretty much the case. In some cases you would | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
not get permission in the UK. Are we comparing like with like? You have | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
got hundreds of supporters and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
detention and you have human rights organisations say they have been | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
arrested... More precisely we have leaders of that organisation | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
instigating violence and acting violently and it is very clear and | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
it has been declared by the public prosecutors. That was the adviser to | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
Adly Mansour talking to me just before we came on air. Violent | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
protests have erupted in Bangladesh after the execution of the Islamist | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
opposition leader Abdul Kader Mullah on Thursday. At least three people | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
were killed when demonstrators clashed with police and set fire to | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
houses, shops and vehicles. Abdul Kader Mullah was hanged on Thursday, | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of independence | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
from Pakistan in 1971. Despite the violence crowds also took to the | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
streets of Dhaka, to express their support for the execution. Here's | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Andrew North in the capital Dhaka. Bangladesh on the edge. Islamist | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
protesters on the streets of the capital. The police retaliate with | :19:00. | :19:00. | |
massive force, wildly firing handguns and rubber pellets as they | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
try to regain control. The Islamist came and they had sticks and | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
petrol, this man said. They pulled me out of my car and burned it, look | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
that is my car. Police water cannons were used to put out the fires of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
the demonstrators had already disappeared. Pop-up protests like | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
this are a hallmark tactic. It is just after Friday prayers and | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
already the kind of trouble that many feared has begun. Two cars have | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
been set alight here and the police and the fire brigade are trying to | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
put them out. Extra riot police are being brought in now. There is a | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
sense that this could start to spread across the city. Clashes have | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
already spread outside the capital. Several deaths and injuries have | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
been reported. The violence was sparked by the execution of an | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Islamist leader, Abdul Kader Mullah. He was convicted for atrocities | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
during the war of independence but during a much criticised trial the | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Islamist are calling for a strike this weekend. Bangladesh is braced | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
for more violence and there are increasing doubts that elections | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
promised for next month will happen on time. | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
American media outlets are reporting that a former FBI agent who was | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
believed to have been held in Iran for the last six years was working | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
for the CIA on an unapproved mission. The US National Robert | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Leveson went missing during a business trip to Iran in 2007. The | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
associated press foundation suggest that a team of analysts from the CIA | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
with no authority to run spy operations paid him to gather | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
intelligence for them. He has been missing for six years. The CIA has | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
no comment on any claimed links between him and the American | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
government but the report suggests that the CIA paid his family $2.5 | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
million to avoid a public lawsuit and disciplined ten veteran | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
analysts. In 2010 his family was sent a video of him looking frail | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
and asking the United States government for help. I have been | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
held here for three and a half years. I am not in very good health. | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
I am running very quickly out of diabetes medicine. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Within the last our reporters have questions the White House official | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
spokesman about this case and the spokesman stressed that he was not | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
working for the US government at the time that it disappeared. Robert | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
Leveson was not a US employee when he went missing in Iran. There is an | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
ongoing investigation into his disappearance so I will not comment | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
further about what he may or may not be doing in Iran. I will not fact | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
check every reference made in the story that you speak of and we feel | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
it was highly irresponsible to publish it and we urge the outlet is | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
not to publish out of concerns for Robert Leveson's safety. I will also | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
not say anything that will further harm our efforts to bring him home | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
safe, which has been our goal for the years he has been missing. Since | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
he disappeared the US government has vigorously pursued and continues to | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
pursue all investigative leads, as we would with any American citizen | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
missing or detained overseas. We continue to be focused on doing | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
everything we can to bring Bob home safely to his family and this | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
remains a top priority of the US government. | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
If I said to you saluton, it's estimated that up to two million | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
people around the world would know what I was saying. It means hello in | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Esperanto. It sounds a little like Spanish perhaps a touch like German, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
but it was the brainchild of a Polish linguist, Ludwig Zamenhof, | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
who designed Esperanto in the 1870s to be a neutral, international | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
language. This Sunday is Esperanto Book Day. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
So we are joined here to talk about Esperanto by Olga Kerziouk who is | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
Curator for the Esperanto collections at the British library | :23:18. | :23:29. | |
here in London. Hello. Cannes one. Oh, Cannes one, I | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
can say that much! Why did you decide to learn this. I was born in | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
the Ukraine and when I was 15 years old I got very interested in a book | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
about a traveller who was blind and he travelled the world and I was | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
absolutely excited about this and that is how I learnt about | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Esperanto. How easy is it to learn? It is very easy but you still need | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
to put some effort, as with every language. One of the reasons that it | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
is easy is that the words are similar if they denote the same | :24:16. | :24:30. | |
thing. Let us look at this one word. They are all similar whether they | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
mean cottage or house or mansion. It is very easy to learn because | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
grammar is very easy. You learn the roots of words and you learn the | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
system of prefixes and suffixes. How widespread is it? We think only 2 | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
million speak it globally. It is difficult to say because you cannot | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
say, people started and then stop and then continue and we only know | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
about people who are members of these international associations for | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
Esperanto. Be honest, how many people have you sat down and gone to | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
a restaurant or a club or something and started chatting to someone in | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
Esperanto? Yes, well, some people have a star and you can see that | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
they speak Esperanto. It was very popular in previous decades. I used | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
to have a green star. You are not wearing it now! Yes, I forgot. It | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
used to be more popular than now. I wanted to put it to you that | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
basically English is Esperanto, it is the language of aviation and | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
business, do you need Esperanto? Yes we need it because it is beautiful | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
and easy and not everybody can spend years and years learning English. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
People do other jobs in their life and it is also if you care about | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
linguistic justice. What is Esperanto Book Day? We don't have | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
much time. The man who created Esperanto was the first poet and the | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
first translator. So you have lots of books in the British library that | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
have been translated into Esperanto? Yes, this book was originally | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
written in Esperanto. It is translated into English from | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
Esperanto. And just say happy birthday in Esperanto. Hello. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Saluton. the rain is really swamping Scotland | :26:41. | :28:09. | |
through the afternoon. That rain is on the move ended the evening it | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
will push to the south and east and eventually clear the south-east by | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
dawn on Sunday. A reasonable start for many but there is another area | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
of rain are pushing up. It could bring it gusts up into the far north | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
of Scotland. | :28:26. | :28:28. |