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This is BBC World News Today with me, Lebo Diseko. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The Headlines: Breakthrough in the European Union's on-off free | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Leaders of the Walloon region of Belgium finally approve it | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
We are extremely happy that our requests have been accommodated. We | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
always vote for treaties would support our way of life, our | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
environment, and support our public services. | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
calls it "miraculous" no one was seriously hurt. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
With just 12 days to go before the US chooses its next president, | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Hillary Clinton is joined by Michelle Obama - | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
The world could lose more than two thirds of mammals, | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
fish and other species with a backbone, by 2020 | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
You can feel the relief in Brussels and across the Atlantic in Ottawa. | :00:54. | :01:21. | |
The European Union and Canada have now finally agreed | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
The Belgian region of Wallonia - who'd blocked the agreement | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
with objections - has finally come on board. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Belgium's Prime Minister said the text now has guarantees for | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
farmers, and on the controversial dispute settlement system. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
But as protesters gather outside the European Commission, it's clear | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
that free trade is a difficult issue, and future deals - | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
including with the UK - may be very hard to achieve. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Behind the doors of the official residence of Belgium's federal Prime | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Minister, a moment of relief after a week of embarrassment. | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
The Prime Minister says he now has a deal with the regional | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
assemblies, without whose agreement Belgium and therefore the whole EU | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
was unable to sign up to free trade with Canada. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
TRANSLATION: The consultation committee just reached | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
an agreement about the text that reflected the Belton position and | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
an agreement about the text that reflected the Belgian position and | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
that is immediately being addressed to the European Commission and the | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
In the coming minutes, I'll be talking to commission president | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Jean Claude Junker and Council President Donald Tusk. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also scheduled for today. | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
French speaking Wallonia led the rebellion. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Critics say its leaders are playing politics | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
to raise their profile in | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
They say there are sticking up for European consumers. | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
Translation: We in Wallonia are extremely happy that our requests | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
We've always voted for treaties that would support our way | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
of life, our environment, and which protect our public services. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
So nothing is set up purely to benefit | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
individuals, but rather it is overseen by accountable public | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
bodies, which legally guarantee equal treatment. | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
Well, the economic and trade agreement aims to eliminate 98% | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
of tariffs between Canada and the EU. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
That could save European Union exporters more than half a | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Supporters say the deal would increase trade by 20% | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
and would especially help small businesses. | :03:43. | :03:43. | |
But critics say it gives too much power to big business. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
They're worried that EU regulations on product standards could be | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
And that multinationals would be able to sue governments to | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Belgium's internal deal came finally on the day when | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was due | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
It is still not clear when the deal will finally be signed. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
But after a difficult week for Belgium's national | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Government and frustration for Canada and the rest of the EU, CETA | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Although there will be no celebrating until it is finally | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
With me is our business correspondent Tanya Beckett. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
It is not a done deal yet, is it? No. The area is in the south. It is | :04:37. | :04:49. | |
a French-speaking area and is far less affluent than the Flemish | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
north. Much of this deal is based on the idea of food products going back | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
and forth between Canada and the EU, so that is why they felt themselves | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
particularly exposed. They were also feeling that some of the regulations | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
that they had in place, as far as they were concerned were a | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
democratic matter, would really end up in the hands of multinationals | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
and that Canada would end up as a gateway for big US companies. There | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
are these type of concerns about other free-trade deals with the US, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
for example, as well. Yes. Neither side looks well out of this. Canada | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
looks rather inept and naive and rather inexperienced when it comes | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
to diplomacy and the EU really doesn't look in any way unified in | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
this does not bode well for the UK, which of course is leaving the EU | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
and have to negotiate its trade relationship once again. I would say | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
there is an important distinction, though, that what we are talking | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
about here is a change in the lower product between Canada and the EU | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
and that is what will ultimately happen, whereas with Brexit what we | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
are talking about is the EU trying to be establish what it already has, | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
so nobody feels ridiculous under threat because of the EU gets it | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
right then things would not particularly change. So with the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Brexit negotiations and the Brexit deal, are there other countries that | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
may, like Wallonia, scupper those negotiations? They are unique in the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
way that the parliament works is that you have to have all three | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
parts of it agreeing and then it has to be agreed centrally. In this type | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
of deal was described as a mixed deal. Meaning that it requires the | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
individual approval of all of the EU member state and therefore in the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
case of Belgium it is also its constituent states. That is not | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
always the case with a trade deal. Sometimes you can get you to agree | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
directly. It depends what it is and whether it contains this mixed | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
factor which means it would include services to, but underlying this is | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
a very portion trend and that is a suspicion that trade deals do not | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
bring uniform wealth. The big figures might suggest that but there | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
are always those who lose out. Fantastic you with us. Very | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
interesting. Thank you very much. There's been severe damage | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
in central Italy, after two strong Hundreds of people have had | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
to leave their homes. And many historic buildings | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
have been damaged. Rescue teams have been struggling | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
to reach some areas but officials say the situation | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
is not "catastrophic". The centre of these latest | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
earthquakes is about 70 kilometers from Amatrice, where | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
an earthquake in August killed James Reynolds is in the region, | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
and sent this report. The people of Central Italy have | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
always known that they live in But the last two months have | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
proven just what that Wednesday night's quakes have | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
damaged roads and buildings. Rescue workers have | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
helped people from We have a lot of fear and we don't | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
know what to do right now because this is a place | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
that is about tourism. I don't know how | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
we will start again. The church of Saint Salvatore | :07:57. | :08:12. | |
is on the tourist It was hit in previous quakes | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
and it has now come down. The effects of the two earthquakes | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
could have This church collapsed, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
but no one was hurt. And across this region, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
many people have They've also had to get | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
through a series of Rescue workers will now have | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
to check every road, bridge and One of this country's most beautiful | :08:29. | :08:43. | |
regions is also one of its The United Nation's children's | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
agency UNICEF has said if the air strikes on a school | :08:48. | :09:02. | |
in Syria on Wednesday were deliberate | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
they are a war crime. More than 20 children and six | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
teachers are reported to have been killed in the strikes | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
in a rebel-held village A residential area around the school | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
complex was also hit. Russia has insisted it had nothing | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
to do with the airstrikes. The UN's humanitarian chief said | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
it was up to member states to act. This is not inevitable, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
it's not an accident. It is the deliberate actions of one | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
set of powerful human beings on another set | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
of impotent human beings. And it can be stopped | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
but you the security council have The former British Prime Minister | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
and UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
is at the United Nations Thank you for joining us. You are | :09:49. | :10:01. | |
saying that if this is deliberate, it is a warm crime and it should be | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
prosecuted mother and how does that actually help people on the ground | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
today? The International criminal Court should be brought in. We | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
should find out what has been happening. There have been 98 school | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
attacks in the last year and a half and we have 30 children at least, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
perhaps more, who have been mutilated, who have died and two | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
were the victims of what is an education atrocity, which is the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
worst one that has happened. If we do not investigate and we do not | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
hold people responsible and if we do not prosecute, then this will | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
continue to happen. It is time that the United Nations security council | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
said that we are putting this to the International criminal Court. I will | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
come back to that in a moment, but those prosecutions take a long time. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
What does that differ people in Syria on the ground today? Because | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
whoever is responsible is put on notice that they are going to be | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
investigated. They cannot do with impunity for too long as Stephen | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
O'Brien has said, the international community has stood by and innocent | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
children in their thousands have lost their lives as a result of or | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
failure to act. Now what has prevented the Security Council | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
acting in the last two years is Russia and it vetoed an | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
investigation into atrocities two years ago. Today, the Russian | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Foreign Ministry said that they would welcome an independent | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
investigation, so in theory, all the security council is now in favour of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
investigating this crime. The security Council should now meet, it | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
should agree that the International criminal Court be brought in. If it | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
can't agree on the International criminal Court was that prosecution | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
authority, it should agree on a separate security Council | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
investigation. You cannot have people bombing children in this way | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
with impunity. You have got to show that they are going to be held | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
accountable if possible, prosecuted by the International criminal Court | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
at a later date. Is that the core issue within the Security Council | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
that Russia itself says that it has been threatened by Nato and that | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
some people might argue that the West has mishandled its relationship | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
with President Putin and with Russian? But hold on. This is | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
international law. It is a war crime, agreed when we said of the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
International criminal Court that any attack on a school that is | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
deliberately seen as something that is a violation of human rights and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
has got to be both investigated and where people are accountable, they | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
have got to be prosecuted. Do you think that is adequate? This is a | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
clear-cut case that if there is a war crime, then people should be | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
held responsible. Now whether it is the Syrian army or the Russian air | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
force or whoever has been responsible for this, the means | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
exist now that Russia has said it wants an investigation for the | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
Security Council to agree on this. We should call the Russian bluff on | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
this and hold the Security Council meeting, agree if we can get | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
everybody together on this, now that Russia has said it wants an | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
investigation that it should happen. We have been waiting for years now | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
to have the sort of investigations that would deter people from doing | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
this in the future. If people are bombing hospitals, civilians, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
children, is the possibility of a prosecution and adequate deterrent? | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
No, of course not. It is only one of the measures that we should be | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
taking. But we have a year of fear because children have become the | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
innocent victims of so many of the wars in the middle East and of | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
course in Africa. We have stood by and the international community has | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
done so little when schools have been militarised, when young people | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
have been recruited into militias, and when schools themselves had been | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
bombed. And it is time to say that this is enough and we are going to | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
do something about it. And if we do not seize this opportunity when | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Russia has admitted there is a need for an investigation, to call their | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
bluff or to force an internal investigation, then we will be | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
failing all of the children who were put in danger in future. You talk | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
about Russia and having to put Russia on notice and called their | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
bluff. President Putin is saying that he is holding restraint at the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
moment and actually he intends to continue bombing Syria, rooting out | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
what he has called a nest of terrorists, despite the fact that | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
they are our civilians there. There is not a great deal of sway that you | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
have over Russian actions. I think you're missing the point. There is a | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
clear-cut case for a war crime that has been committed. The | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
international legislation we have all approved says that if that does | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
happen, it should go to the International criminal Court. If we | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
stand by when these atrocities are happening and allow children to be | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the innocent and the vulnerable victims of wars that are being | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
conducted in this region then we are failing the next generation of | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
children. If you try to sidestep the issue and say Russia did this or | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
someone else did that or someone else is to blame, you have got to | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
investigate a crime when it is committed. We believe was | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
intentional. Isn't the real issue the fact that the Security Council | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
has essentially been paralysed because of this breakdown in the | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
relationship with Russia and many people would argue that the West has | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
failed in that relationship? Hold on. I am does pointing out that | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Russia stood out against the security council resolution in 2014. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
It did not support an investigation into atrocities. Now they have said | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
and perhaps they will regret saying this but they have said that they | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
would welcome and have called upon the international authorities to | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
have an independent investigation. If we do not then follow-up and have | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
that independent investigation and we are failing the children who have | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
died, but failing also those children and those adults who are at | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
risk in the future. Now, there are 6 million displaced children in Syria. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
There are two Melbourne refugees children who are now outside of | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Syria. They are a lost generation and if we continue to do nothing and | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
stand-by when atrocities are committed and there is a clear-cut | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
case for an investigation, then we are responsible, but this is the | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
moment when the Security Council could act. OK. Former British by | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Minister and UN special envoy for education, Gordon Brown, thank you. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Japanese carmaker, Nissan, has decided to build new versions | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
of two of its leading models in Britain, in what is the first | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
major deal for the industry since the UK voted to leave the EU. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Nissan's decision will secure at least seven thousand jobs. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
The firm said it has been given assurances that its UK-based plant | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
Twitter has announced major cutbacks after reporting a sharp slowdown | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
The social media giant has confirmed it will shut down its short-form | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
video sharing service, Vine, and axe 9% | :16:52. | :16:52. | |
Two Yazidi women who fled the Islamic State group in Iraq have | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar were among thousands | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
of Yazidi girls and women abducted by IS militants and forced | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Both survived and now campaign for the Yazidi community. | :17:09. | :17:23. | |
With just 12 days to go until the US Presidential election, | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
the candidates are blitzing the key swing states that could | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Hillary Clinton's in North Carolina, while her rival Donald Trump | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
He's been facing criticism for taking time out of his | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
campaign to open one of his new luxury hotels - | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
I built one of the great hotels of the world. | :17:45. | :17:58. | |
I'm going to North Carolina right after this and am going back | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
But I can't take one hour off to cut a ribbon at one of the great hotels | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
She goes, she does one stop because she has no energy. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
She does one stop and nobody complained about that. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Adele concert all night long, while I'm making two | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
speeches and rallies with | :18:27. | :18:27. | |
The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher is in Washington. | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
Michelle Obama turning out to be the star of the show, right? Yes, she is | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
passionate, she is seen as authentic. She is not a politician | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
so she does not have that baggage but she does carry a parity. In the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
speeches she has made already, she is really resonated widely, so she | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
is a heavy hitter for Mrs Clinton. They will be campaigning together | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
for the first time and she in particular appeals to the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
constituencies like Mullany, like African-Americans, like women, and | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
she has been brought with Mrs Clinton to a battle ground state | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
like North Carolina where the race is very tight to renew this effort | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
to get out the early voters. It all depends on who actually comes to the | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
ballot box, so the Clinton campaign is really pushing this to lock it in | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
as soon as possible. And issue managing to connect with those | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
millennial 's, who may have supported Bernie Sanders before. It | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
is interesting because Bernie Sanders really happy millennial 's | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
support. They were not keen to switch their support to Mrs Clinton. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
They thought she was establishment and not radical enough and morally | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
compromised. They had been flirting with independence. But the latest | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
poll seems to show a reversing that trend. Now it looks like Mrs Clinton | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
will get as much support from Mullany is as Barack Obama did in | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
2012 and the reasons for that word because these people were beginning | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
to really realise what was at stake in this election and also to realise | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
that the independent candidates would not be able to help them out | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
with the issues that they wanted help on so it looks as if she is | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
stronger on that then she has been. OK, so for the two candidates, less | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
than two weeks to go, but what are the key issues they are going to | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
want to hone in on? Well, it is really all about getting the vote | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
out now so it is going to be the question of closing arguments. They | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
will make their statements. Not much different than what they had before. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Making the case about why they are better to lead the country. Pounding | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
their candidate, as such. The focus will be on the ground game, making | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
sure that the voters get out. You have these rallies with the heavy | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
hitters in the battle ground states. Mrs Clinton had much better | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
grounding than Donald Trump does and she will really try to capitalise on | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
that. Both of them do still pass to the White House. Donald Trump is | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
definitely not out of the race but she has more parts than he does so | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
she will be trying to exploit that as well. So that will be the focus | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
of the next two weeks. All right. I am pretty sure it is going to be an | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
exciting 12 days, if nothing else. Thank you very much. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
The world is facing the biggest extinction of animal life | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Seven in 10 mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and other vertebrate | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
species will be wiped out in just 50 years. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
It found that human behaviour was eating, crowding and poisoning | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
The Living Planet Report has been published jointly | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
by the environmental group, WWF, and the Zoological Society | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
The world's wildlife is under threat. | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
From African elephants, whose numbers are | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
plummeting because of poaching, to Europe's killer whales, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
The Living Planet report looked at 3700 different | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
species and it has found that since 1970 | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
populations have fallen by | :21:59. | :21:59. | |
That's a decline of about 2% every year. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
process but we are seeing higher levels of extinction than is | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
So we are already seeing extinctions, but yes, | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
we would expect those extinctions only to increase if we don't stop | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
The researchers say that humans are to | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
blame, from overfishing to deforestation and climate change. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
They warn if nothing is done wildlife populations could fall by | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
two thirds by 2020, but some conservationists say there is not | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
enough data to draw firm conclusions. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
The researchers say that humans are to blame. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
They warn if nothing is done wildlife populations could fall by | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
two thirds by 2020, but some conservationists say there is not | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
enough data to draw firm conclusions. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
It is true that the overall index is declining. Very markedly. But of | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
course it is an overall measure. That is aggregated up from many | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
different cases and it hides some really important differences. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Between species, between different parts of the world, and between | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
different habitats. But amid the declines, there have been some | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
successes. Wild tiger numbers have now risen for the first time in a | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
century. And giant pandas are now no longer classified as endangered. But | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
it will be a challenge to reverse a problem that is on such a large | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
scale. The president of Venezuela has | :23:36. | :23:45. | |
offered a 40% rise in the minimum wage. It is the fourth increment in | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the year. This comes up day after 100,000 people took to the streets | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
to protest against the Government. The oil-rich country is facing | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
widespread food shortages and spiralling inflation. The mass | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
demonstrations came after a recall referendum process, and attempt to | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
remove the prime Minster from power was suspended. | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
More than a million people in China have signed a petition demanding | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
that a captive polar bear be relocated. | :24:14. | :24:14. | |
The animal which is kept in a small enclosure in a shopping | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
mall, has been described as the world's saddest bear. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Animal rights groups have released video of the creature, | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
They say it's displaying signs of agitation. | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
The shopping mall is refusing to give up the bear, | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
saying it's not breaking Chinese law. | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
Belgian officials say they've reached a breakthrough | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
on a European Union free trade deal with Canada. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
The Belgian prime minister said the heads of his country's regional | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
and linguistic communities had now agreed a revised text. | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
The agreement was due to have been signed today, | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
but was delayed by opposition from the region of Wallonia. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
of the team on Twitter - I'm at Lebo Diseko. | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
And you can see what we are working on via Facebook too. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
Lots there to look at about our programmes coming up | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:20. | :26:03. | |
There is a weak weather front making its way across the country | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
as we speak but it is not going to bring that much | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Some of it heavy and persistent across north-west Scotland but as it | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
sinks further south, it will weaken off substantially. | :26:18. | :26:20. |