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Concerns from Russia, over the US deployment of Patriot defence | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
missiles to Turkey. Susan Rice pulls out of the running | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
to be the next US Secretary of State. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Talks on a global Internet treaty break down. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
Welcome to BBC World News. Also in this programme: A study reveals | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
that globally obesity is killing three times as many people as | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
malnutrition. Le Grand Depart. Le Tour de | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Yorkshire. The Tour de France does what it has done before, starts in | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Hello. The Russia Foreign Ministry has | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
criticised the United States' deployment of two patriot missile | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
batteries to protect Turkey from the Syria conflict. A spokesman | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
claims the move "creates extra tension", and doesn't assist the | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
"political solution". United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
signed off on two US Patriot missile batteries, to be used on | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the Turkey-Syria border. 400 American troops will operate them, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
as NATO countries try to boost Turkey's defences against the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
threat of Syrian missiles. Panetta is currently in southern Turkey, | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
meeting American troops stationed at the Incirlik air base. The | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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Patriot missile system is designed to intercept aircraft or missiles. | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Three it is a very important display of alliance with Turkey. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Turkey asked NATO to deploy these weapons, it has been confirmed | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
about the fighting spilling across its own border, mortar fire has | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
come across the border from Syria into Turkey. So, this is an | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
important diplomatic and political signal of solidarity with the Turks. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
NATO is stressing this is not the first step to establishing a no-fly | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
zone over Syria. This is about defending the airspace of a NATO | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
ally. And the reaction in Moscow? | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
The foreign ministry spokesman was holding his weekly briefing this | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
morning. His immediate reaction was this does not help with the | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
political solution in Syria, it increases the tension. Russia is | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
desperate that everyone should get around the table and talk their way | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
out of this, rather than the rebels fighting their way into Damascus. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
They feel every bit of armament which arrives in the region appears | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
to assist the rebels and encourages them to continue fighting rather | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
than talking. If, for some reason, they decide to use these Patriot | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
missiles, that will take the conflict into uncharted territory? | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
As NATO insists, this is a defensive measure. I can only | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
imagine the circumstances in which these weapons would be used, is if | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Syrian aircraft strayed across the border into Turkey. Or, potentially, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
we have seen in recent days, reports from NATO that ground to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
ground at Scud missiles have been used by the Syrian government | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
forces. If one of those weapons were to be seen heading for Turkish | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
airspace, then one imagines the Patriot system would come into play. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
But I am not sure these weapons are likely to be used. They are in | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
themselves something of a deterrent, to discourage the Syrian air force | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
particularly from venturing too close to the border. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Has the Russian government actually changed its position on what it | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
things -- thinks will happen in Syria? | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Their are too macro separate things, what they think might happen in | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
Syria. We did get an idea yesterday what it was at the deputy foreign | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
minister might -- thought might have been in Syria, he believed the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
opposition could now win, they were taking more and more ground. What | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
they have said this morning, that doesn't mean their position has | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
changed, they believe a political solution is needed and the fighting | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
should stop. They have reiterated their position on Syria has not | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
changed, it is just but we got a view yesterday of their prediction | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
of what might happen. The American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
is pulling out of the running to become the next US Secretary of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
State. In a letter to President Obama, she says her confirmation | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
process would be "disruptive and costly". She's became the focus of | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Republican criticism over the way the Obama administration responded | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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to September's fatal attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Susan Rice's decision to rule himself out from the position of | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Secretary of State is big news in America because it is the highest | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
ranking officer in the Cabinet, and presidents almost always get their | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
choice. In an interview with NBC, she said pulling out was the best | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
thing for the country. I did not want to see a confirmation process | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
that was very prolonged, very politicised, very distracting, and | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
very disruptive. Susan Rice became the focus of relentless criticism | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
by senior Republicans for her account of the 11th September | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in Libya which killed a | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
master and three other Americans. Five days later, she gave this | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
explanation. We do not have information at | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
present -- at present that leaves us to believe this was premeditated. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
But Republicans say they already knew this was a pre-planned attack. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
It is clear the information she gave the American people was | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
incorrect. In November, Susan Rice tried to convince her credit she | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
had not been misleading and had merely been repeating the early | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
assessments of the intelligence agencies. But she failed to win | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
them over. I am more disturbed than I was before, that the 16th | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
September explanation about how four arrogance died in Benghazi, by | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
Susan Rice, does not do justice to the reality at the time -- | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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Americans. Barack Obama angrily defended her. John Terry is now the | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
favourite to be Secretary of State. He has been chairman of the silent | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
-- foreign relations committee. If nominated, he is likely to get the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
backing of the Senate which means Barack Obama would have one less | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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political fight on his hands. A major study into health around the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
world says that, for the first time, obesity is killing more people than | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
hunger. The investigation looked at health problems in 2010, and | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
compared them to results from 20 years ago. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
In the earlier study, malnutrition was given as the main cause of | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
illness. But, in 2010, obesity was killing three times as many people | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
as lack of food. Joining me from London is Jane Draper, the BBC's | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
health correspondent. Which countries are we talking about? | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
This is a fascinating report looking at all the countries around | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
the world. The Eid told from a beastie is more pronounced in the | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
developed world as you would expect. What an extraordinary result, 3 | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
million deaths from obesity in 2010, three times more than those caused | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
by Mal nourishment. In some ways, these results showed the huge | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
progress being made in tackling the big killer of infectious diseases, | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
to additional problems of mile nourishment. We may be living | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
longer but in a second state. These studies highlight the rise of | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
chronic diseases such as heart disease and stroke and the problems | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
those are causing. Does the report make any recommendations? The | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
obvious problem is how you get all that high calorific food from the | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
countries that don't need it, to the areas and countries that do? | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
away, this is such a massive projection of data, and the report | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
hasn't reached conclusions on the policy front. They present this | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
data for policy analysts to take forward. Obesity is something that | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the world is increasingly looking at and will have to divert | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
resources to. What comes out of this is, sub-Saharan Africa is | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
still a specific region of the world with its own problems. One of | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
the other diseases which hasn't gone away, HIV-AIDS, causing 1.5 | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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million deaths in 2010. Still, a significant problem. These are | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
diseases one associates with lack of exercise and being overweight, | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
diabetes, heart conditions? That is right. Diabetes. Heart disease and | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
stroke were the leading problems of death in 2010. They caused one in | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
four deaths looked at by researchers. That came to about 13 | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
million deaths. They want people at an individual level to look at how | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
they can live their lives, as they are living longer, but sicker. And | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
diet and exercise, thinking about how they take physical activity. | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
Time now for the business news. A row over who controls the | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
internet. Two weeks of negotiations in Dubai have broken up, with the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
US, the UK and Canada, amongst others, refusing to sign an | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
agreement to decide on how to govern the internet. They argue | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
that the treaty, which has just been signed, limits web commerce, | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
and plays into the hands of authoritarian regimes. | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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Leo Kelion has been working on this story for the BBC website. What did | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
these countries object to in this deal? What they are worried about | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
is this treaty could be used to legitimise the indifference of | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
internet governance, deciding what specifications the internet France | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
Web. And also content, they could somehow be used to further | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
censorship. Some countries felt it was all right and gone ahead and | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
signed up. They must have felt it did achieve something, what do they | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
feel it achieved? The treaty talks about a lot of things. Things like | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
playing transparent remain fees. Coming up with technical | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
specifications to target Spam. There is part of the treaty which | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
is not part of the official regulations, which are non-binding, | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
which talk about governments having an equal role and this was ability | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
for international internet governance. It sets the stage for | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
if further debate over who should really be in control of some of the | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
decisions. Some countries feel anachronistic is that the US get to | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
decide which body should be responsible for the internet | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
address system. That is a legacy of the US helping fund, which gave | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
birth to the internet. There are questions over why the US should be | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
in control of that. As a result, a large part of the world will be | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
governed by this treaty, another part is not. Do you think anyone | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
all -- anything will change? treaty sets the stage for further | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
debate. There is no official mechanism to enforce the | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
regulations in it. But, it sets the stage between the US and some | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
countries on one side, filling their shouldn't be regulations over | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
the internet, it should be allowed to develop with experts. And other | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
governors who feel they should have more say into how it is developed. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
In other business news this Friday. Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
may be fined more than $1 billion, for its role in trying to rig the | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Libor interbank lending rate. That's according to several reports | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
which suggest UBS will settle with confirmed, it would be double the | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
Daily, China's biggest English- language newspaper, has launched an | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
African edition. The state-run weekly, which also comes in digital | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
form, will be based in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, but available | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
across the continent. Its editor says it will explain "the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
relationship between China and the African continent." Earlier this | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
year, China Central Television launched CCTV Africa, also | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
headquartered in Kenya. Xinhua news agency and Chinese radio are also | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
expanding in the continent. Growth in China's manufacturing | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
sector picked up in December, according to a survey by HSBC, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
which comes ahead of official data, with a rise in new orders and | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
employment. The HSBC flash purchasing managers' index for | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
December rose to 50.9, a 14-month high, and the fifth straight | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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The markets are not showing much at all. For Fiscal Cliff, the problem | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
of raising of taxes, cutting taxes in the United States is meant to | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
kick in soon. It could be a disaster for the global economy. We | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
could be going for a renaissance of the economy if they manage to sort | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
it out. It is the feeling if a deal can be done which is dictating how | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
those markets are moving at the You're watching BBC World News. | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
Still to come: Universities in the UK support students studying online. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Venezuela's government has admitted the President suffered bleeding | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
during his latest six-hour cancer operation. It says Hugo Chavez | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
needed corrective measures to deal with the bleeding and will now | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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require time to recover. Prayers for the President. They are | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
gathered in Caracas, shedding tears and lighting candles for Hugo | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Chavez. TRANSLATION: We are praying for his | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
health, praying for him to get better. Venezuela is waiting for | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
him. I wish for him to get better, even | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
though I am from the opposition. I am opposed to his Government, but | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
as a human being he deserves to be healthy. | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Earlier in the week the Government warned the President faced a long | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
and difficult recovery. But now, the vice-president told supporters | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
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his situation is improving. TRANSLATION: In the last few hours, | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
his process of recovery has a ball from stable to favourable. It | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
allows us to continue saying there is a growing recovery in Hugo | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Chavez's situation,. In cue -- Cougar, where he went for his | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
operation, they show solidarity for his recovery. | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
TRANSLATION: Cuban legislators reiterate to Hugo Chavez, we love | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
and admire him very much and are confident in his ability to resist | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
and overcome. The it was only in October he was elected for a 4th | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
term of office. Despite the apparent improvement in his | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
condition, there are questions as to whether he will be well enough | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
to return for his inauguration in January. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
The South African president, Jacob Zuma, says Nelson Mandela is | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
continuing to recuperate in hospital after receiving treatment | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
for a lung infection. Speaking just before he unveiled a statue of Mr | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
Mandela, President Zuma wished the former president a speedy recovery. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
The annual Geminid meteor shower hit its peak a few hours ago. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Stargazers around the world have been looking skywards to see the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
light show. It happens as the Earth passes through the path of an | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
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asteroid. More pictures on the BBC News | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
website. This is BBC World News, the | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
headlines: The US Secretary of Defence has signed an order to send | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
two batteries of Patriot air missiles to Turkey, along with 400 | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
troops. Susan Rice has withdrawn her name | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
from a list of candidates to become the US Secretary of State. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
A coroner has ruled the multi- Merrow s, Eva rousting died as a | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
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result of the... Police discovered her decomposed body in July in | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
London. Her husband was given two suspended sentences after he | :19:14. | :19:23. | |
admitted preventing the unlawful -- pardon me, the unlawful hiding and | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
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preventing his wife's burial. The Tour de France will be starting | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
in Yorkshire. It is great news for Yorkshire and for cycling, what | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
does it mean for France? It does cap the most remarkable year for | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
British cycling. Bradley Wiggins victory in the Tour de France, the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
remarkable Olympic Games, and huge crowds. I think it sealed it for | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Britain. The growth in participation and all of the other | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
signs this country is becoming the Cycling superpower. Yorkshire is | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
very excited. They beat Barcelona. Florins and Edinburgh, to host the | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
Grand Depart of the 2014 the Tour de France. It is the furthest of | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
the country it has been. In 2007, London staged the beginning. It was | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
a real success. It proved Britain got cycling and could stage this | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
kind of event. There will be two stages in Yorkshire, and the third | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
stage travelling down the country on the way back to France, | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
finishing in London. Probably trying to recapture the spirit is | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
so at the Olympic Games. I guess it has got to be on the Mile, come | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
across the River Thames and the tarmac in Box Hill in Surrey is | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
still good to go. That was such a challenge during the Olympics? | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
They're coming from the north. I don't think they will write down | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
the M1. We are speculating, we will get the detail on the three stages | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
in the middle of January in a press conference in Paris, are probably | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
one in Leeds as well. It will be a northern loop for the first phase. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Stage two might bring some West Yorkshire, Sheffield and Wakefield | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
perhaps. I will be amazed if it did not finish on the Mall. A SFA as | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
the organisers are concerned, how much of this is their repair | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
operation? We are looking at Bradley Wiggins pictures now, a | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
completely clean. But we have had a lot in the papers over the past | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
couple of months, talking about Lance Armstrong, talking about | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
doping and Tour titles being stripped. And the organisers | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
obviously want to shunt the event away from all that negativity? | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
Absolutely. The first elements to that is the positive and good news | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
about British cycling. I have spoken to Brian Robinson, who rode | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
the Tour in 1955 and was the first winner of a stage in 1958. I asked | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
him, and said, surely when you challenge the Continent will prize | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
for the first time, you never thought British Cycling would reach | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
these heights? He said, he did. He thought when British Cycling | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
cleaned itself up, British riders would stand a chance. Cycling is | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
trying to broaden its appeal beyond France, Belgium, the Netherlands | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
and Italy. It is a good news story for cycling. 11 universities in the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
UK are supporting a new project which will allow students to study | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
courses online for free. Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and St Andrews are | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
joining the scheme, which is being led by the Open University. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
For many students, university is about moving away into a new life | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
and full-time learning. But that is not for everyone. Since 1969, the | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Open University has offered the chance to study from home | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
relatively cheaply and often alongside a job. American | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
universities have develop new ways of delivering higher education. | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
They have signed up millions of new recruits to online courses. And | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
today, 11 UK universities have responded to the challenge. They | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
are launching a website, headed by the Open University, blinking to | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
the likes of Kings College London, Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and St | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Andrews universities. Using computers, tablets or smartphones, | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
the public can access academic lectures. At first it will mostly | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
be freed. Universities and may decide to stay charge for | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
invigilate it exams or one-to-one mentoring. Government ministers | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
welcome it. It is important Britain stays with the game. It is a way in | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
which we can recruit students from abroad he wants to study in Britain. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
It is a way of ensuring people in Britain and around the world, he | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
just wants to learn by going online, have the opportunity. Universities | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
hope online courses will be a stepping stone to more conventional, | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
full-time degrees. But with the cost of higher education in the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
spotlight, learning on the internet and maybe seen by some, as not so | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
much as a bridge into campus life, but an alternative to it. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Conservationists in Australia is marking the first anniversary of | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
living in a treat. Miranda Gibson has spent the past 12 months in the | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
tree protesting against plans to cut down the Forest of Tasmania. As | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Duncan Kennedy reports, her home is equipped with every kind of | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
technology. Christmas in a eucalyptus. Miranda | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
Gibson is about to spend her second yuletide, topside. She first climb | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
the tree on December 14th, 2011, and has not put her foot on the | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
ground since. Food is taken up, waste is sent down. Power comes | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
from a solar panel, enabling her to do everything from cooking to | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
computing, sending the message that this Forest needs protecting. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
sitting on a platform, 60 metres above the ground. It is in the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
middle of a forest that was promised immediate protection for | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
months ago by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The campaign she is | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
leaving -- leading, says she wants to stop logging in Tasmania's | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
Forest. The Government says it is protecting many areas and the | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
industry provides jobs. Miranda Gibson says it has been worth it. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
It has been an incredible and amazing year to be a peer. I have | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
not set foot on the ground in that whole time. And to win his his | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
Forest every day has been amazing. -- witness this forest. So's I am | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
staying here until Forest get the protection they need. It has been | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
bleak at times. It is snowing. and a birthday alone have tested | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
her resolve. Her colleagues have protested in more of orthodox ways | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
on the grounds, but there is no sign yet they will have -- their | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
demands will be met. Miranda says she is expecting to spend another | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
year on her cannot be taking a stand for conservation. -- platform. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Christmas has come early for some of the inhabitants of London zoo's. | :26:48. | :26:54. |