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Hurricane Sandy hits Cuba, with winds of up to 183km/h. Two British | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
service personnel are killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. Official | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
figures show the UK economy has grown at its fastest pace in five | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
years. Welcome to BBC World News. Also coming up - the winding road | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
to Colombian treasured - hundreds head to the hills after workmen | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
digging up a vein of shining emeralds. Could new lobster farm | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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has made a fortune for fishermen? - Hurricane Sandy has passed through | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Cuba, with winds gusting up to 183km/h, and waves up to nine | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
metres high. Forecasters have downgraded it slightly to category | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
one, but they still expect it to cause significant problems when it | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
tracks over the Bahamas later. Earlier, it swept over Jamaica, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
killing one person. Another person died in Haiti. Mike Wooldridge | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
reports. Cuba, experiencing the first effects of the arrival of | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Hurricane Sandy. While residents of the capital sought cover, it was in | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
the south-eastern part of the island that the storm had had its | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
most effect. The maximum sustained winds were around 183km/h. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
TRANSLATION: The most dangerous phenomenon is not the wind, but the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
brain, because of the intensity. It will be crossing over mountainous | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
territory. Cubans made hasty preparations in the hours preceding | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the arrival of the hurricane. Extensive flooding has already been | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
reported. Before Hurricane Sandy hit Cuba, it had battered Jamaica, | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
causing flash floods and deluges. Many were forced to take emergency | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
shelter. An elderly man is reported to have been killed when a boulder | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
crashed into his house. Yesterday, we went into full emergency mode. | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
We got together and we had a plan of action, including Shelter | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
management, curfews across the island. Yesterday, we deployed big | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
emergency equipment. We still have some concerns lingering for persons | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
who are trapped. These fishermen, who were told to evacuate before | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
and refused to do so, are now trapped. They called for help, but | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
by that time it was too late. Jamaica begins clearing up, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Hurricane Sandy is forecast to pass over the Bahamas, and potentially | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
bring tropical storm conditions to Florida. In Florida, the National | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Hurricane Center has been tracking the progress of the storm. I spoke | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
to Dave Roberts. It took us all by surprise. It was harrowing for many | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Jamaicans, who live in low-lying areas, because this storm was | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
almost stationary, it was moving very, very slowly. And there was a | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
lot of rain on Jamaica. People do not think of rain as being damaging, | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
but when you have it for hours on end, it causes flooding. They have | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
said that people who live in low- lying areas are at risk. So, I | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
think we have had one day, which happened about a mile from here, | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
but there is going to be a lot of displaced people in Jamaica. Those | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
low-lying areas which have been hit hardest - I suppose you will not | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
know the fullest extent of how bad it is until the sun comes up, but | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
what sort of things have been done for those people in the low-lying | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
areas, those displaced people, that you talk about? Obviously, this | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
storm was predicted pretty well in advance? Yes, it was predicted in | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
advance, and so the government had prepared shelters. On Tuesday | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
morning, children were let out of school early. A lot of business | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
places let their employees go home early so that people could prepare. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
What picture do we have of the power cuts across the island? Have | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
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we got people still without power? Yes, we had a figure of 70% of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
people affected, that was the number when I went to bed last | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
night. I still do not have power over here. In a few hours, when the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
charge runs out on the telephone, I will be out of communication. But | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
part of that I think was a precautionary measure. The power | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
company probably turned off electricity. But I think also, | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
there have been a lot of trees and lines come down. Because even | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
though this storm did not pack a lot of wind, as I said, it rained | :05:39. | :05:49. | |
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for hours on end. So, roots and so on have become loose, and a lot of | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
trees have fallen. I think one of the major problems we are | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
experiencing is blocked roads, and getting to people who need help | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
will be a problem. That was a blogger from Kingston, Jamaica. I | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
am joined in the studio by the BBC's weather presenter Sarah | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Keith-Lucas. Tell us about the storm. This storm passed across | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
Jamaica yesterday, then it hit Cuba this morning. It did weaken a bit | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
as it hit land, but it is now pushing in a northerly direction, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
heading up towards the Bahamas. This is the satellite image of the | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
storm, the huge swirler of cloud. A lot of cloud also affecting parts | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
of Haiti for instance as well. It is a very powerful, Category A two | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
hurricane, currently. It will be weakening over the next couple of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
hours, but once it hits the warm waters of the Western Atlantic, it | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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is going to strengthen once again. Seeing it on the graphics, you | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Seeing it on the graphics, you realise how huge this thing is. It | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
is not just the winds and the rain, but also the storm surge, the huge | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
waves... That's absolutely right. We have this huge area of low | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
pressure, combined with high tides and strong winds, which combines to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
create a storm surge, as you say, which gives extensive coastal | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
flooding. We are seeing the water about 8ft above where it should be | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
for this time of the year. For people in low-lying areas, it is | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
very, very serious indeed. Is part of the world is no stranger to | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
hurricanes, but this is the end of the season - what sort of season | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
has it been? This is the 18th Our main story - we have had this year. | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
It is not too dissimilar to average. But the season continues right to | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
the end of November. -- This is the 18th main storm we have had this | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
year. The warm waters of the Caribbean are like a fuel for the | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
storm. It reinvigorate the storm. When it gets over the warm waters, | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
that is when we see an increase in that is when we see an increase in | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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Two British service personnel have been killed while on patrol in | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan. One was a female medic, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
the other was a marine. Their families have been told. It is not | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
yet known if the incident was an in cyber-attack. More details are | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
expected from the Ministry of Defence later. Speaking from Kabul, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Caroline Wyatt told me the inquiry is still going on, with several | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
conflicting reports coming in. -- was an insider attack. We know from | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
the Ministry of Defence in London that one of those killed was a | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Royal Marine from 40 Commando, the other was a medic from 3 Medical | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Regiment. We believe that she is a female soldier from Northern | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
Ireland, which would make it the third British woman soldier to be | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
killed in this conflict here in Afghanistan. The MoD statement is | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
brief, saying they died of wounds sustained while on patrol in the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province. This is a place where | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
there have been quite a few British deaths over the past weeks and | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
months, not least the insider attack in September, which killed | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
two British soldiers, who died at the hands of a man dressed in | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Afghan police uniform. In this case, there are conflicting accounts of | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
what happened within the firefight. One of the dead is an Afghan | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
policeman, but it is not clear whether it could be a green on blow | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
attack, although that is one of the lines of inquiry. -- green on blue. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
British detectives investigating sexual abuse claims relating to | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Jimmy Savile so the number of victims is almost 300. No arrests | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
have been made so far, but police say they are investigating other | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
figures of high standing. Demands are growing for a full, independent | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
inquiry into how Mr Southwell was given easy access to his victims at | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
children's homes, hospitals, as well as at the BBC. -- Mr Savile. | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
The BBC has officially come out of recession. GDP was boosted by the | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Olympics and by a strong performance in the services | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
industry. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has been | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
talking about what the figures tell us about the underlying rate of | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
growth. In Britain, we are dealing with some deep-seated problems, as | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
I say. We are recovering from the banking crisis, we're dealing with | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
very big debts built up in the good years, and we are also in a global | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
race, facing enormous competition from around the world, which is an | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
even bigger challenge for Britain, in some ways. I think the | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Government is addressing those things, dealing with the debts, | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
creating jobs, making the economy more competitive. So, we're | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
addressing those problems. And I think our public finance policy, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
dealing with the debts, enables the Bank of England to run a very loose | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
monetary policy, enabling interest rates to stay very low, which is | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
pretty important at a time like this. Ford is to close its Transit | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
van factory in Southampton, as well as a plant in Essex, ending more | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
than a century of vehicle production in Britain. It will lead | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
to the loss of 1,500 jobs, and leave only engine production and | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
production also other parts at its remaining plants in this country. | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
We are joined now for the business news by Aaron. Everybody is waiting | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
with bated breath for the big launch of Microsoft's Windows 8. It | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
is a big turnaround for a company which has traditionally a software | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
company, which is getting into the hardware, launching this tablet, | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
and highlighting how big the tablet and smart phone market is. It is a | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
new operating system which we will be sealed. We are talking about a | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
company which was one of the most valuable technology companies in | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
the world, although Apple is now worth more than twice as much as | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Microsoft, and Google is fast catching it up. But the one person | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
that can explain this and talk about it is our very own Rory | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Cellan-Jones, who filed this report from Microsoft's headquarters in | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Seattle. Microsoft's founder, bill Gates, and his successor, joined | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
staff to celebrate 30 years of charitable giving. But for the man | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
who is currently in charge, the next few days are crucial. We have | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
re-imagined Windows in Windows 8. The new system is supposed to take | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
Microsoft, rather late, into the brave new world of touch-screen, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
mobile computing. They know what is at stake. It is really an epic | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
thing for Microsoft. It is right up with the top two or three big | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
moments, including Windows 95, and the launch of the IBM PC. It really | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
starts us on this new era of computing. Microsoft remains a | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
giant, employ more than 40,000 people in the Seattle area alone, | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
and still generating big profits from Windows and Office. But what | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the clever people here have not done over the last 10 years is to | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
produce anything which has changed the world. Unlike Apple, which this | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
week launched another i-Pad, and has outpaced its old rival in | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
delivering smart, new products. But Microsoft believes this new tablet | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
computer, powered by Windows 8, will show that it can be even | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
smarter. In a computer industry which is changing rapidly, this | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
firm needs to move fast to stay in touch. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
You have already been talking about the good news, the UK, searching | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
out of recession for the last three months, with growth of 1% in that | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
third quarter. This was better than expected. We have heard from the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
politicians, who are obviously quite pleased about this. But one | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
of the outstanding contributing factors to this growth has been the | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
Olympic Games. We sat down with Hugh Pym, and I asked him to | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
explain more about the Olympic effect. The only problem is, the | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
official statisticians will not give us a precise estimate for what | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
they think the Olympics contributed, but there are quite a few people | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
who thought maybe 0.2% or 0.3% might have come from the Olympic | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
effect. What the effect is is the cost of tickets, even though paid | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
for them -- even the people pay for them last year, and there is also a | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
boost to transport and hotels and so on, although online retailing | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
did not do quite so well. But taking all of that out, you have | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
still got growth. The second quarter look very negative, down | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
0.7%, then it was revised up a bit, with problems concerning bank | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
holidays and so on, and now we have got a figure which looks very | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
positive. But over the two quarters, it looks like there was some growth, | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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Credit Suisse says they have dropped nearly $200 million. It | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
said the steep decline is down to an accounting charge on the bank's | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
own debt and also intends to cut another $1 billion in costs in 2014 | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
and 2015. Staying with the banks, the Eurozone's biggest, Santander, | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
says profits slumped by 866 % as it wrote off 5 billion euros in bad | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
loans -- by 66%. But more encouraging figures from Unilever | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
or which delivered better-than- expected sales despite the slowdown. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Revenue grew by nearly 6%, driven by emerging markets and also demand | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
for laundry and household cleaning products. We may be in recession, | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
some of us, but we like to keep clean. Also some good news at last | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
for the crisis hit airline in India, Kingfisher, as employees have | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
agreed to return to work. They had not been paid for around seven | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
months which prompted the three- week walkout. Kingfisher management | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
have to persuade the aviation regulators that the airline's fit | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
to fly again. Kingfisher has severe financial problems and a debt of | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
around $1.5 billion. It has never made a product -- profit since it | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
launched in 2005. Former Goldman Sachs director has been sent to two | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
years in prison and a 5 million dollar fine. Mr Dr was a former for | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
Matt -- a four-month board member of Proctor and Gamble. He was | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
accused of passing secrets to a hedge fund member, who was | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
currently serving 11 years in prison for his position at the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
centre of the insider trading ring. A warning that the world's biggest | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
advertising group WPP, seen as eight economic global barometer, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
has cut its sales forecasts for the second time this year. The company | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
expects sales growth of around 3%. The chief executive said his | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
company had seen a sharp slowdown in September. That sick with the | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
business news. -- that's it. You're watching BBC World News. Still to | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
Back to Africa as an entire family of gorillas is leaving the English | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
An unofficial ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas appears to | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
be holding after it came into effect at midnight local time. The | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
truce was negotiated with the help of Egypt and comes after a flare up | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
in violence on both sides. Jon Donnison, who is in Gaza City, told | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
me just how serious the escalation in tensions had been. Two or three | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
days of violence, least six militants killed by Israeli air | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
strikes and 70 rockets fired into Israel. There will be damage to | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
homes on the Israeli side. I have spoken to an Israeli military | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
spokesperson and they say it remains quiet and nothing has been | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
fired in either direction since midnight local time, and I think | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
that will be considerable relief on both sides. Schools in Israel go | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
back today, and people are holiday as they are preparing for the | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Muslim festival of eat, so relief on both sides. What was the role of | :19:39. | :19:48. | |
the Egyptians in this? In the past, and on this occasion, Egypt has | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
helped negotiate this deal. Israel and Hamas both say they will not | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
talk directly to each other. Messages are relayed through | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Egyptian intelligence officers. That has happened in the past and | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
happen on this occasion. I should say that these escalations happen | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
every few months and they have a depressingly predictable and to | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
some extent choreograph feel to them. Both sides would say that the | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
other has reasons for a limited escalation. I think in Gaza, Hamas | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
needs to be seen to be asserting its Resistance credentials and in | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Israel they need to be seen to tackling militants in Gaza with | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
elections coming up in January. The underlying fact is that I don't | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
think either side wants another war in Gaza or an escalation. There is | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
more concerned at consolidating power and looking after the economy | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
and getting that to improve. In Israel they have bigger concerns, | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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notably Iran. You can always get in touch with us by Twitter. And | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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plenty that we are working on on This is BBC World News. The | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
headlines: Hurricane Sandy slammed into south-east Cuba with winds of | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
up to 180 kilometres per hour. Two British service personnel, one male | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
and one female, have been killed on patrol in southern Afghanistan. The | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Syrian government is expected to announce if it will accept a | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
proposed four day ceasefire. The UN's special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
has already said that both the government and most rebel groups | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
had agreed to the brief truce from Friday, during the Eid festival. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Our correspondent James Reynolds is on the Turkey-Syria border. I asked | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
him whether he thinks the ceasefire will be observed. It seems pretty | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
difficult to imagine that all the fighting will stop at midnight. I | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
have been reading reports from one journalist in Aleppo and he says | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Artillery continues, and it's difficult for the Syrian war planes | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
to fly at the moment because of the rainy see behind me. He says it | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
would be a miracle that there has to be a ceasefire and to imagine | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
that opinion will be shared by many in the country. I suppose one party | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
will say they will stop only if the other does. That could be a | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
difficult thing to bring in in the first place. That is exactly why | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
previous attempts at ceasefires have fallen. Previous ceasefires | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
have had so many conditions attached, meaning effectively that | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
even if there is an agreement it may break down within a few hours. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
No one is really expecting an end to the violence, and even if there | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
were a ceasefire or a truce for four days, it is not tied to a | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
peace process and it is not monitored. There is no particular | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
piece plant either. So at most the people of Syria may expect a slight | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
decrease in violence but not a formal ceasefire or a formal peace | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
process. He is it possible to give an overview of where the fighting | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
is worst in Syria at the moment? are getting reports from different | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
places. Earlier today there were reports of a Syrian armed forces | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
attack in a suburb north-east of Damascus. That was reported by | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
opposition activists. They suggested five people were killed | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
in shelling and we have been following reports of continuous | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
shelling in Aleppo itself, which is in northern Syria. 11 gorillas - at | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
a wild animal park here in the UK - are to be the first captive family | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
group released into the wild. A conservation charity will release | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the Western Lowland gorillas in Africa early next year. They'll be | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
moved into areas where gorillas have in the past been hunted almost | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
This is a wild boar and western lowland gorilla. He was found tied | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
to a post in an African village 20 years ago. Now he will leave his | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
family back home to the gap on. This is not new to us. But this | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
element is because of the size of the family group, this applies of | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
medication, and we will be helping settle them in -- this applies of | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
modification -- medication. We will take care of them, not desert them. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
More than 50 animals have been released by the Aspen or foundation, | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
mostly young ones who are walked back into the bush. But this is | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
different, and established, cohesive group. The foundation | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
believes that conservation must be fundamental to the existence of any | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
collection of captive animals in the 20th century -- 21st century. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Damian Aspinall forged such a strong bond with the guerrillas | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
that he allowed his daughter to play with them. Back in June, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Prince William led his support to the foundation with the release of | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
three black rhinos to the wild in Tanzania. The foundation is also | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
trying to breed endangered species like Madagascar and the leaner and | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
Barbary lions. Working in conjunction with the Congolese and | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
Gabonese government they will go back to the protected areas. The | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
eight-month-old will be the young distally. It is hoped the whole | :25:35. | :25:44. | |
family will move in January. -- youngest to leave. An emerald-rush | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
is under way in Colombia after a gang of workers stumbled across a | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
hidden seam of the precious stones while repairing a carriageway. This | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
is the road they were working on, in a remote area, known as the | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Devil's Nose, with a 500-metre sheer drop to the side. The team | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
found a rich vein of emeralds while digging with pneumatic drills. They | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
say they recognised the precious stones right away. News of the | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
discovery spread quickly, and police have now cordoned off the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
area - but not before dozens of the gems, worth thousands of dollars, | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
were scooped up by local people. An entirely new work by Beethoven is | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
being premiered today, almost two hundred years after it was written. | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
The music has been pieced together from a series of basic chords. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
Professor Barry Cooper discovered the chords when he was looking | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
through one of the composer's old notebooks. He's completed the piece | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
by adding words and setting it to organ. The whole thing will be | :26:42. | :26:45. |