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I'm Karin Giannone, this is BBC World News. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Still searching for survivors in Ecuador. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
As the number of dead rises significantly after the country's | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
worst earthquake for decades, painful questions from those whose | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
A bus explodes in Jerusalem injuring 21 people - two seriously - | :00:16. | :00:33. | |
Israeli police say a bomb at the back of the bus | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Brazil's president suffers defeat in the lower house. | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
Also coming up: It's revealed that Vladimir Putin's spokesman banked | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
But Dmitry Peskov says it's all down to a family inheritance. | :00:48. | :01:06. | |
It was an earthquake of terrifying intensity - | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
and the affects have stretched right across large sections of Ecuador. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
It lasted about 40 seconds at a magnitude of 7.8. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
350 have died so far, but that toll could rise. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
It's damaged buildings and levelled infrastructure | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
that was hundreds of kilometres away from the epicentre - | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
which was near the towns of Pedernales and Muisne. | :01:27. | :01:38. | |
And here's one of those towns right near the epicentre - Pedernales. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
It's one of the most affected towns, and you can see in these drone | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
The mayor says the entire town had been flattened. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Part of the challenge for authorities is reaching some | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
The BBC has spoken to Ecuador's Ambassador to the UK - | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Carlos Abad Ortiz - who explained the difficulties | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
We have only one airport in the region which is working, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
even though we have some problems in communication of that airport, | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
because the problem is that all the roads that go to the region - | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
around eight different roads - are damaged completely. | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
This is the problem that we cannot go in the region by car. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
So we are trying to do everything by air from this airport. | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
So we think that perhaps in the next 24 or 48 hours we will be able | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
to at least put in good condition two roads, but this | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Let's get more on the situation with this report from Paul Adams. | :02:33. | :02:49. | |
In Pedernales on Ecuador's battered coast, the search for survivors went | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Much of this town of 50,000 people has been reduced to rubble. | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
The death toll is rising, and there are still long | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
Rescue workers call out in the darkness, | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
demanding absolute silence, listening for the faintest | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
In Portoviejo, further south, survivors slept out in the open. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
With so many homes damaged and scores of after-shocks already | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
recorded, people are simply too afraid to go indoors. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Among the dead, Claire Theresa Crockett, a nun from | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Northern Ireland, killed with five others when a stairwell collapsed | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
in the school where she was teaching. | :03:37. | :03:49. | |
This was the moment, late on Saturday, that | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
A supermarket in the capital Quito, 100 miles from the epicentre, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
shaking before being plunged into darkness. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
In the worst-affected areas, whole streets have collapsed. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
TRANSLATION: Actually, it's been horrible, horrible. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
The only thing I can say is that we are alive. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
We are asking passers-by to give us water, so at least we can survive. | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
This was Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades. | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
Enrique Garcia is the Regional Humanitarian coordinator | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
for Oxfam and he joins me now from the captial Quito. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Thank you for talking to us. What reports are you getting from the | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
worst affected areas? We are receiving many information from the | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
field, so the main information is, according to the Red Cross and | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
humanitarian sector, the needs of water, the need of food to | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
distribute to the population living in shelters in bad conditions, and | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
many things. The most important thing is good coordination between | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
the government and local and international people, we need to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
support people. According to Ali many damages, especially in the | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
provinces in the north-west, they need collaboration to ensure support | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
for the people in need. Do we have a complete picture of the damage? Or | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
all the areas that are affected able to be accessed, or why their still | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
places where rescue teams are not able to get to? No, not now. The | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
government is trying to clean the roads in order to coordinate, | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
especially in the small communities, far away from the big cities. The | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
main helpers are going to the cities, but we need to be careful of | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the communities living outside the main cities. How well equipped is | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
Ecuador itself to deal with this? Is Ecuador going to need assistance | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
from other countries? Yes, they are receiving many assistance from | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Venezuela, Spain, many countries are coming at the weekend. We had to | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
collaborate with each other and to cooperate, because we need to be | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
careful in order to avoid duplication of effort. You felt this | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
earthquake in Quito, which is a long way from the epicentre. No, I came | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
in yesterday night, coming from Central America in order to support | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the communities. What's time frame, realistically, is there to get help | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
to people? How urgent is it? Very urgent right now, because we are | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
receiving information from big cities such as Portoviejo, that they | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
need water, to secure water, so we need it as soon as possible. We are | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
flying in tonight or tomorrow because of the needs. We are willing | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
to do that, but we have to do coordinate with the governments, | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
with the provinces, the Red Cross and others. Regional humanitarian | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
coordinator for Oxfam, thank you very much. Thank you. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
In Japan, nearly a quarter of a million people are being told | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
to leave their homes because of fears | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Two have already struck since Thursday. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
At least 42 people have been killed and many more are still missing. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Hundreds of thousands of families remain | :08:06. | :08:06. | |
without running water, and many are also | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
An Indian court has issued an arrest warrant, for liquor | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
tycoon Vijay Mallya, who's believed to be in Britain. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Once known as the King of Good Times, Mallya is the man | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
behind Kingfisher beer - and the failed Kingfisher Airlines. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
He has been accused of fleeing the country | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
China is investigating reports that hundreds of children have become ill | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
after their new school opened next to a former industrial site. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
China's national broadcaster reported that nearly five out of six | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
pupils who underwent medical checks had health problems. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Conditions ranged from coughs and headaches to cancers such | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Police in Jerusalem have confirmed that an explosion on a bus | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
More than 20 people were injured in the explosion, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
What more do we know? Right now, the recovery vehicle behind me is just | :09:00. | :09:16. | |
about to move away the charred remains of this bus. We understand | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
there was an explosive device planted at the back. It was | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
detonated and perhaps it had nails and nuts contained in it. Hospital | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
officials say that some of the people who have been injured have | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
injuries from such things. There was also another bus that was here that | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
caught on fire with this blast, and a car, they have now been removed. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
This comes after Israel not seeing a bus attack for some years. That is | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
correct. There has been a recent upsurge in violence with | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Palestinians attacking Israelis. There has been a series of | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
stabbings, shootings and car running is over the past six months. But at | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
this moment, the Israeli police are being very careful. They are not | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
saying clearly that this is a terrorist attack, they are saying it | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
could possibly be a criminal attack. But for many people here, this will | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
bring back worrying memories of those times just over a decade ago | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
when Palestinian militants would carry out attacks on buses in | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
Jerusalem. We have heard cautious tones from the authority since this | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
news came out. Since October, we have had this wave of violence, but | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
authorities have also been saying in the last few weeks, things have been | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
relatively quiet. In the past few weeks, we have had fewer attacks and | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
then just over one week ago, the Israeli Prime Minister came out | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
saying that this was due to the aggressive and systematic policy of | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
his government. But even in the past few days, there have been some small | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
instance, mainly in the occupied West Bank, but this is going to | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
worry people that there could be a new departure. What has Security | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
been like in Jerusalem? What does it feel like? One thing that has been | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
very visible is a lot more people going around with guns, and | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
increases in the security service on the streets. New security procedures | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
are in place. As soon as this happens, entering into my work | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
building, I was given extra security checks as I came in. Most places yet | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
seem to have extra security precautions. One thing that is | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
really remarkable is how quickly this scene has been cleared. You can | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
see now, traffic is moving through. When I spoke to one security | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
official in a different location a few weeks ago, he said there have | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
been so many attacks that is an expertise in clearing the scene as | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
scene as quickly as possible and is trying to make it less alarming for | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
people. Thank you. Brazil's political crisis has | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
deepened, after members of the country's lower house | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
of parliament voted to impeach the government's accounts to hide | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
a growing budget deficit. She has denied the allegations and | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
described the move as a "coup". A final decision to put her on trial | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
will now have to made by the parliament's upper house next | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
month, and reports suggest most senators will vote | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
against the President. President Rousseff's | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
supporters claim the process is threatening democracy | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
in Latin America's biggest country. When Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
designed this futuristic capital, they deliberately set out | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
and separated the three pillars of power - the Supreme Court, | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
the two Houses of Congress, It might feel right now that | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Congress has the upper hand, having voted in favour | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
of an impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
but she remains in the Presidential Palace pending a full impeachment | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
trial in the country's Senate, There's an economic recession, | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
inflation rates of 10%, and, of course, the country faces | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
a huge corruption scandal. Indeed, many of those congressmen | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
sitting in judgment on the President are accused themselves of far | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
more serious crimes. Brazil feels like a country | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
in hiatus - all the while, the work A week after Russia's President | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Putin declared his assets and income to the public, | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
his spokesman Dmitry Peskov has He explained that the reason | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
HE earned four times more than his boss last year was due | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
to a large inheritance he received Let's have a look at the figures | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
that were released today. Mr Peskov says he earned | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
$544,000 in 2015 - part of this being his salary | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
as well as a family inheritance. This is over four times more than | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Russian president Vladimir Putin - his salary was declared last | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
week as being $126,000. Meanwhile Mr Peskov's wife, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
former Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka, | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
earned over $1.3 million. It is not the first time Mr Peskov's | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
finances spending has At his high-profile wedding last | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
August, he was photographed wearing a watch worth over $620,000 - | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
more than his annual salary. With me is Olga Ivshina | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
from the BBC's Russian service. We have seen lots of controversy | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
here in the UK when figures are revealed about a top politicians' | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
earnings. Does it make waves in Russia? No, I want say that. It is | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
not the first time Peskov was accused of having high incomes. Each | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
time, he finds his way out. He said his wife actually made him a wedding | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
present, even though it is still an enormous sum of money, and he has | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
been photographed wearing a watch. Two weeks before the wedding | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
happened, that was. Why did they take this step of releasing the | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
present's earnings and then Peskov? According to Russian law, they have | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
a certain period of time when they can reveal their incomes and I think | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
it is just Russian law of hierarchy, which is why they first revealed | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Vladimir Putin's salary and then Mr Peskov's. In motion media, this | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
story isn't digitally widespread. If you talk about Russian state medium, | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
no, they haven't reported much. Even though this explanation about him | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
inheriting this money came in Russian state media during a | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
broadcast, and each time they mention such things, they always | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
give Russian officials a chance to show how generous they are, or how | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
law-abiding they are. This was just another chance for them to show that | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
everyone is following law procedure and everyone is honest and open. | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
What we know also is how rich Tatyana Navka is, Mr Peskov's wife, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
a figure skating champion. How did she get that money? It is an | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
interesting question, and I cannot give you a straight answer. She has | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
been involved in various shows, ice-skating shows, which were very | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
popular, and now, according to her official website, she organises | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
various holidays, celebrations, events. Can you earn that much money | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
just organising events in Russia? I don't know. There are people in | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Russia you probably want to celebrate their things with such a | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
scale. $1.3 million last year, just to recap. What sort of figure is | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Dmitry Peskov in Russia? He appears to be a man of unwavering loyalty, | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
you took the blame for his boss making a public error on that phone | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
in. Is very loyal to the president. He always helps Mr Putin to get out, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
in case he makes any mistakes. He just provides the explanations to | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
some strange moves. Also, he is very famous for his moustache and his | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
fake Twitter account. It is tremendously popular, it has | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
thousands and thousands of followers. Thank you very much. | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
Dozens of people who were rescued as they tried to cross | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
the Mediterranean say that at least 500 others died when a boat they | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
The migrants, from various East African countries, say they set | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
They are now being held by the Greek authorities in Kalamata | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
The Greek police are holding the 41 survivors in this | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
We haven't been allowed to interview them on camera, | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
but we have managed to speak to them, and they have | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
told us what is a pretty extraordinary story. | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
They say that last week they set off from the port of Tobruk in Libya | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
and they set off - 240 of them in one boat - | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
But they say, in the middle of the Mediterranean, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
the traffickers transferred them from one boat to another much larger | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
one, another wooden boats, but that was already full of more | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
than 300 people that were trying to make it to Europe. | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
They say, in the middle of the night, that boat | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
capsized and just these 41 managed to survive. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
They believe that 500 other people drowned. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
What happened to these 41 people, who include Ethiopians, Sudanese, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Somalis and Egyptians, they say that a Filipino cargo ship | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
rescued them and then brought them here to Greece, where, apparently, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
they initially were very, very reluctant to get on land. | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
They didn't want to be handed over to the Greek authorities | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
because they were so determined to get to Italy. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Now, I ought to add that no officials have managed give any | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
details about this disaster, which, if true, will | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
to have happened since this entire migrant crisis began. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Signs of Iran coming back in from the cold - | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
it's held its highest level talks with Europe for more than a decade. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
The EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini spent Saturday | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
in the Iranian capital Tehran with seven other top officials. | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
This comes after Iran met its obligations under last | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
year's historic nuclear deal, paving the way for the lifting | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Europe's top diplomat sweeps into Iran's Foreign Ministry, backed | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
There's a warm welcome from Iran's foreign minister Zarif. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
At the press conference, Miss Mogherini hails a new start. | :19:54. | :20:11. | |
And we want, as Europeans, Iranian people to have and to see | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
the benefits of this agreement turning into changes | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Europe's commissioners are here to talk about everything | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
from banking and business to science and student exchanges. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
All possible because financial sanctions were lifted | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
But on the streets of Tehran today, people still don't see much change. | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
Major European banks and businesses are still wary of dealing with Iran. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
A shopkeeper says, we thought business would be booming | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
We hoped prices would come down, but they haven't, she complains. | :20:45. | :20:56. | |
We hope to God change will come soon. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Iran's Foreign Minister tells me, Iranians will only wait so long. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
I believe Iran is very hopeful about the future. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Iranians see the benefits of engagement and they have shown | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
If they do not see change, they will change their mind. | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
But the nuclear deal didn't solve everything. | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
Sanctions linked to human rights and terrorism are still in place. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Most Iranians wanted the nuclear deal to achieve a greater engagement | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
with the outside world, and most of all the West. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Europe's visit is a strong symbol of that, but both sides still wanted | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
to see far greater changes if this new relationship is to have any | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
The Hollywood couple Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have appeared | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
in court in Queensland, Australia, to answer charges | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
concerning their pet dogs being smuggled into the country last year. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
The couple have also appeared in a video made public | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
by Australia's Department of Agriculture - | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
A little bit of Hollywood in Queensland, Australia. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
Amber Heard back down under to defend herself in a case | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
It dates back to May last year, when the couple were staying | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
at this Gold Coast Villa on a break from filming. | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
With them, their two pet Yorkshire terriers, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
The dogs had first been spotted at this local grooming salon. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
It wasn't long before Amber Heard was charged with illegally | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
A crime with a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
And in court today, the couple submitted this somewhat | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Australia is a wonderful island, with a treasure trove of unique | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Australia is free of many pests and diseases that are | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
That is why Australia has to have such strong bio-security laws. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
And Australians are just as unique, both warm and direct. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell you firmly. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
I am truly sorry that Pistol and Boo were not declared. | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Declare everything when you enter Australia. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
In the end, the Hollywood couple left court with Amber Heard having | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
been sentenced to just a month's probation. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
The more serious charges were dropped, after Miss Heard | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
agreed to plead guilty to filling in her customs document wrongly. | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
For Amber Heard, no conviction and no fine, and some people will be | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
wondering whether this case was worth all the fuss and, indeed, | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
When does standing still help you move faster? | :23:45. | :23:56. | |
It may sound counterintuitive, but an experiment by the transport | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
authorities here in London has found congestion is eased when commuters | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
stand on - rather than walk up - escalators. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
And today the theory was put into practice. | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
It's a rule that's been drilled into travellers and commuters | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
on transport networks across the country for | :24:14. | :24:14. | |
When on an escalator, you stand on the right | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Apart from, that is, if you're on this escalator at | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, if you can stand on both sides | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
of this escalator... Here, last November, | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
for one hour a day, commuters were part | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
of an experiment that seemed to go against all traveller logic. | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Standing on both sides of the escalator to speed | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
up the flow of people through the station. | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
The escalators at Holborn are around 24 metres long. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
That is the equivalent of climbing a six-storey building | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
if you choose to walk, and most people don't want to. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
So they queue to stand on the right, creating a bottleneck | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
But if you have standing on both sides, that bottleneck is reduced | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
and the escalator can carry 50% more commuters at peak times. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
However, despite the success of this initial study, | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
From today, and for the next six months, a new Transport for London | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
trial will turn one escalator over to full-time stadnding use, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
but it may take considerably longer to change a century | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
Trying to tell London commuters what to do is not unenviable task. | :25:22. | :25:35. | |
The number of people confirmed dead after Saturday's devastating | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 350. | :25:44. | :25:44. | |
Rescue teams have been flying in from abroad to help | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:48. | :26:07. | |
After the cold snap over the weekend, it looks like spring will | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
make a | :26:11. | :26:12. |