:00:11. > :00:14.Kenyan police say at least 39 people have been killed in what is
:00:14. > :00:20.believed to have been politically motivated violence. With 10 days to
:00:20. > :00:25.go, another failure to avoid the fiscal clef heightens fears of
:00:25. > :00:29.recession. The British Government will not have to reveal whether it
:00:29. > :00:36.aided US Strone strikes in Pakistan, following a ruling at the High
:00:36. > :00:42.Court. Welcome to BBC World News. Also coming up - EU rules force up
:00:42. > :00:47.the price of women's car insurance, in the name of gender equality. You
:00:47. > :00:57.cannot keep your hat on - this Eurovision entry is told it could
:00:57. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:11.be banned if the performers do not The Red Cross says at least 30
:01:11. > :01:17.people have been killed, and dozens more wounded, in violence in
:01:17. > :01:20.southern Kenya. Police say a village was attacked at dawn by
:01:20. > :01:25.people with machetes and houses were set on fire. Many of the
:01:25. > :01:29.victims are said to be from the Orma tribe, which has had frequent
:01:29. > :01:31.clashes with Pakomo farmers over access to land and water. Our
:01:32. > :01:36.correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse has been following developments from
:01:36. > :01:41.Nairobi. We understand this attack happened at about 4 o'clock in the
:01:41. > :01:45.morning. They came in brandishing spears, machetes, other sharp
:01:45. > :01:49.objects, and they started setting fire to people's homes, and then
:01:49. > :01:53.setting upon some of the villagers. The Red Cross tells us that five
:01:53. > :01:56.children and five women were amongst the dead. This is a very
:01:56. > :02:02.similar attack to some of those that took place in August and
:02:02. > :02:06.September. Back then, the Kenyan authorities sent up a contingent of
:02:06. > :02:10.around 1,000 fresh police recruits, but on this occasion, those people
:02:10. > :02:16.seem to have been unable to have stopped another attack. There have
:02:16. > :02:20.been suspicions of a political hand in all of this, with elections
:02:20. > :02:26.coming up? That's right. There have been historic tensions between
:02:26. > :02:31.these two people. One community is a farming community, largely, and
:02:31. > :02:34.the others are largely cattle herders. The former have complained
:02:34. > :02:39.that the latter are allowing their cows to trample over their crops,
:02:39. > :02:42.as they go to the river for drinking. The thing is, this
:02:42. > :02:46.violence is on a much larger scale than we have seen in recent years.
:02:46. > :02:50.Coupled with that, we have had reasonably good rain in Kenya this
:02:50. > :02:54.year. So I think some people are looking at this and thinking there
:02:54. > :03:00.has got to be another motive behind it, with elections coming up, as
:03:00. > :03:04.you say. Land in the Tana Delta is very valuable. Whoever is in power,
:03:04. > :03:09.politically, has access to some potentially lucrative deals. Some
:03:09. > :03:13.people have said they think what is going on here is effectively
:03:13. > :03:16.gerrymandering by violence, trying to get some people off the land
:03:16. > :03:20.before the election, so they cannot cast their ballot. American
:03:20. > :03:25.politicians have put back until after Christmas their attempts to
:03:25. > :03:28.avoid what is known as the fiscal clef. Proposals in the House of
:03:28. > :03:33.Representatives have been dropped to limit tax rises for people
:03:33. > :03:37.earning more than $1 million a year. The incremental package of spending
:03:37. > :03:44.cuts and tax hikes will kick in automatically in the new year,
:03:44. > :03:47.unless a compromise is reached, however. From Washington, Ben
:03:47. > :03:53.Wright reports. Republicans and Democrats both know what is at
:03:53. > :03:57.stake. On the 1st January, half a trillion dollars of tax rises and
:03:57. > :04:01.spending cuts are set to kick in. It is the so-called fiscal cliff,
:04:01. > :04:05.which could tip the country into recession. There are just days to
:04:05. > :04:13.do a deal. But the Republican Congress and President Obama are
:04:13. > :04:18.still far apart. Mr Obama has been negotiating with the Speaker, John
:04:18. > :04:21.Boehner, but it is the tax question which his toughest. On Thursday,
:04:21. > :04:25.John Boehner had to pull a vote which he had hoped would strengthen
:04:25. > :04:29.his bargaining hand in the White House. His bill proposed raising
:04:29. > :04:34.taxes only on people earning more than $1 million a year. But even
:04:34. > :04:42.that was a tax rise too far for many of his fellow Republicans.
:04:42. > :04:46.just happen to disagree that raising taxes is the right message.
:04:46. > :04:51.The right message is cutting spending, that is what the problem
:04:51. > :04:55.is. And this backlash is a blow to the authority of Mr Boehner in his
:04:55. > :04:59.party. President Obama wants people earning more than $400,000 a year
:04:59. > :05:03.to pay more tax. The White House will now be urging John Boehner to
:05:03. > :05:06.agree on a deal which can get the support of the Democrats, too. It
:05:06. > :05:12.will be a very short Christmas holiday for Congress and for the
:05:12. > :05:15.President. The brinkmanship goes on. John Boehner and President Obama
:05:15. > :05:22.are running out of time to agree a tax and spending package which can
:05:22. > :05:27.get through Congress and pull the US back from the cliff-edge. Jamie
:05:27. > :05:31.has been following the latest on this story. This is causing jitters,
:05:31. > :05:36.isn't it? Yes, it is a shaky time for the stock markets in Europe and
:05:36. > :05:43.Asia, as well as in the United States. Investors have been
:05:43. > :05:47.unsettled by this growing political crisis in the US. They are trying
:05:47. > :05:57.to reach that deal over spending cuts and tax increases. Without a
:05:57. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:02.deal, there is a danger that the US could head into recession. A
:06:02. > :06:06.foreign exchange strategist at Rabobank, Jane Foley, explained
:06:06. > :06:10.that it was not just income tax which was causing the problems.
:06:10. > :06:15.is various parts of legislation, not just one thing, it is not just
:06:15. > :06:19.income tax hikes. That is the biggest part of it, something which
:06:19. > :06:23.will automatically go up on the 1st January. But there are also
:06:23. > :06:28.different kind of taxes which will go up, including welfare cuts. A
:06:28. > :06:34.lot of welfare payments, such as emergency unemployment benefits,
:06:34. > :06:37.are due to come out of the system also on the 1st January. But the
:06:37. > :06:41.income tax hike was the biggest element, which is why this is the
:06:41. > :06:48.headline number. But as we have mentioned, there are various
:06:48. > :06:51.different types of registration here. The lack of than minds is
:06:51. > :07:00.leading to the possibility that at least part of the fiscal cliff will
:07:00. > :07:04.be hit on the 1st January. -- the lack of compromise. A new EU rule
:07:04. > :07:09.on gender discrimination comes into force today. Young women drivers
:07:09. > :07:13.will be amongst those particularly effective -- affected. They could
:07:13. > :07:18.see their car insurance costs jumping by as much as 40 coffee. It
:07:18. > :07:21.is enough to put you off your driving lesson. If this 17-year-old
:07:21. > :07:26.passes her test next month, she will be faced with a sudden extra
:07:26. > :07:30.cost, a big price rise for young women striding insurance, bringing
:07:30. > :07:36.them in line with men, who until today have paid more because they
:07:36. > :07:45.have far more accidents. It is not fair that females should now have
:07:45. > :07:50.to pay more for insurance. The lady will just take her time, generally..
:07:50. > :07:56.Because of a EU court ruling, young women's car cover is now as much as
:07:56. > :07:59.38% more expensive. Others are also affected. Some women will pay 30%
:07:59. > :08:04.more for life assurance, and men will suffer when they apply a
:08:04. > :08:09.pension annuity. They could get as much as 10% less in retirement
:08:09. > :08:13.income. Insurers say the ban on different prices for men and women
:08:13. > :08:21.is a backwards step, because by giving women discounts, they could
:08:21. > :08:25.encourage them to drive well. more insurance premiums can
:08:25. > :08:30.incentivise safe driving, the better. This means there will be
:08:30. > :08:35.less of an incentive for them to drive more safely. It is not much
:08:35. > :08:39.southern to this young lady, that men could see a cost in the cost of
:08:39. > :08:46.cover. For many young people, car insurance is almost impossible to
:08:46. > :08:49.afford already. ArcelorMittal has written down the value of its
:08:49. > :08:53.European business by $4.3 billion. Its business has suffered from a
:08:53. > :09:03.downturn in Europe, where demand for steel has dropped by 8% this
:09:03. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:07.year. And the British defence firm BAE Systems has won a contract to
:09:07. > :09:13.supply 12 Typhoon combat jets and eight trainer jets to Oman. The
:09:13. > :09:18.deal is worth more than $4 million. Deliveries are due to start in 2017.
:09:18. > :09:25.Finally, shares in the maker of BlackBerry, Research in Motion,
:09:25. > :09:30.plunged 10% in the United States today. The company admitted its
:09:30. > :09:33.subscriber base has fallen for the first time in its history.
:09:34. > :09:40.Investors are pinning their hopes on the launch of the BlackBerry 10
:09:40. > :09:43.in January. That is almost the business. We just have a chance to
:09:44. > :09:47.look at the markets, and a lot of them are down, due to worries about
:09:47. > :09:50.what is happening in the United States. I think up until now there
:09:50. > :09:58.has been a further bout of optimism about that debate about the
:09:58. > :10:07.physical cliff in America, however, doubt has begun to spread. -- a
:10:07. > :10:13.Fareham out of optimism. -- a fair amount of optimism. That's the
:10:13. > :10:17.business news for now. Here in the UK, the High Court has rejected an
:10:17. > :10:23.attempt by a Pakistani man to force the Government to reveal whether it
:10:23. > :10:27.is providing intelligence for US drone strikes. The case was brought
:10:27. > :10:31.by a person whose father was killed by a missile fired from a US drone
:10:31. > :10:36.last year. Joining us from a studio in central London is our security
:10:36. > :10:41.correspondent, Frank Gardner. What reasons were given for this ruling?
:10:41. > :10:45.Simply that it was blocked. This was a case brought by the man whose
:10:45. > :10:51.son was killed, actually, in a drone strike. He was alleging that
:10:51. > :10:56.the UK Government, and specifically the Foreign Secretary, who is
:10:56. > :11:01.responsible for British overseas intelligence, that the UK
:11:01. > :11:07.Government is complicit in the murder or manslaughter of civilians
:11:07. > :11:09.inside Pakistan, by providing what is known as location will
:11:09. > :11:14.intelligence to the Government's listening station. In other words,
:11:14. > :11:20.he is alleging that British intelligence is helping to pinpoint
:11:20. > :11:25.where in Pakistan's tribal areas militants, Al-Qaeda, Taliban and
:11:25. > :11:28.others, are, opposing this information to the CIA, who then
:11:28. > :11:36.launched Rome strikes. This action has been blocked in the court. I
:11:36. > :11:41.have not yet seen the reason for it. -- who are then launching drone
:11:41. > :11:46.strikes. I don't think this issue will go away, because the drones
:11:46. > :11:49.are a major part of the CIA's war against militants in these areas.
:11:49. > :11:54.It is done with the connivance, I would say, of the Pakistan
:11:54. > :11:58.government. They do not like it, it is very unpopular, but they have
:11:58. > :12:02.not so far moved to stop it. The drones used to be launched from air
:12:02. > :12:07.bases inside Pakistan, but as well as I know, they have closed or of
:12:07. > :12:11.those down, and they are launched from Afghanistan. There is no
:12:11. > :12:14.question that drone strikes have had what would be called a chilling
:12:14. > :12:18.effect on the operations of Al- Qaeda's operations in the tribal
:12:18. > :12:23.territories, but they have killed civilians as well. In the last
:12:23. > :12:30.eight years, 176 children have been reported killed in these drone
:12:30. > :12:34.strikes. They hit a compound, and let's say they kill for militants,
:12:34. > :12:41.well, nearly always, there is a family nearby, or innocent people.
:12:41. > :12:45.So, they are very controversial, something which the US defence, and
:12:45. > :12:48.Britain says it is not a part of this, but this action today in the
:12:48. > :12:53.High Court was trying to bring us tonight. Police in India say they
:12:53. > :12:58.have arrested a fifth person in connection with the gang rape on a
:12:58. > :13:06.bus on a young woman. The four men already in custody include the
:13:06. > :13:09.driver. The attack took place in Delhi last weekend. The victim, a
:13:09. > :13:14.23-year-old medical student, remains in a critical condition.
:13:14. > :13:17.The Russian parliament has voted by a huge majority to approve
:13:17. > :13:23.legislation which prevents Americans from adopting Russian
:13:23. > :13:27.children. The proposal is being supported by President Putin. It is
:13:27. > :13:31.widely seen as retaliation for a new US law which freezes the assets
:13:31. > :13:35.of Russian citizens alleged to have violated human rights. The Libyan
:13:35. > :13:40.government could be about to agree to open all files relating to the
:13:40. > :13:44.Lockerbie bombing, which took place 24 years ago today. 270 people were
:13:44. > :13:48.killed after an American 747 was dealt a blow for Scotland. The
:13:48. > :13:52.Libyan ambassador to Britain so the government was ready to resolve the
:13:52. > :13:57.case, although it would take at least another year before Tripoli
:13:57. > :14:01.was able to release any information. You're watching BBC World News.
:14:01. > :14:06.Still to come - nearly five years since a cyclone killed 140,000
:14:06. > :14:12.people in Burma, we have a special report on one region's painful
:14:12. > :14:16.recovery. Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, says that British
:14:16. > :14:21.troops have paid a high price in Afghanistan, but that their efforts
:14:21. > :14:25.have been a success. Mr Cameron is currently on a pre-Christmas visit
:14:25. > :14:35.to UK bases in the country. Almost 4,000 British service personnel
:14:35. > :14:37.
:14:37. > :14:41.would be with -- will be withdrawn The Prime Minister came it to tell
:14:41. > :14:45.them that the draw down, based on the success they had had been
:14:45. > :14:52.building up the Afghan army and police. After 11 years of conflict,
:14:52. > :14:57.at what price? 438 dead, many more gravely injured. Has it been worth
:14:57. > :15:00.it? It's still a difficult and dangerous place. When I sit in
:15:00. > :15:04.Downing Street and look at where the plots that we faced in terms of
:15:04. > :15:08.terror, where they come from, far fewer come from this part of the
:15:08. > :15:12.world than used to be the case when we first came to Afghanistan, so we
:15:12. > :15:19.have made real progress but it is tough and difficult. We paid a high
:15:19. > :15:25.price. At this base, servicemen and women enjoyed the distraction of
:15:25. > :15:28.sharing a meal and a game with the Prime Minister. The what please
:15:28. > :15:32.them most was the idea of going home of. Their boss, who commands
:15:32. > :15:36.more than half of British troops, insisted Afghan forces were now
:15:36. > :15:41.ready to take their place. insurgency is still there. It has
:15:41. > :15:45.not gone, but it does not dictate things. The Afghan security forces
:15:45. > :15:48.are in control. The people enjoy their protection and it's
:15:48. > :15:53.appropriate we now hand more and more of that control over to the
:15:53. > :15:58.Afghans. Mr Cameron is getting a clear message from his commanders.
:15:59. > :16:03.It is right to withdraw the Afghan army's growing in confidence, but
:16:03. > :16:08.the insurgency has not gone away and could come back in the summer.
:16:08. > :16:11.This conflict is not over yet. Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure
:16:11. > :16:15.has been named the African player of the year, winning the award for
:16:15. > :16:19.the second consecutive time. The 29-year-old Manchester City player
:16:19. > :16:25.was a member of the side beaten in the 2012 Cup of Nations final by
:16:25. > :16:28.Zambia. He also helped his club side win the English Premier League
:16:28. > :16:31.title for the first time in 44 years beating close rivals
:16:31. > :16:34.Manchester United on goal difference. He accepted the award
:16:34. > :16:44.at a ceremony in the Ghananian capital, Accra, and pipped his
:16:44. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:51.Ivory Coast team mate and former This is BBC World News. The
:16:51. > :16:54.headlines. Kenyan police say at least 39 people have been killed in
:16:54. > :16:59.what's believed to be politically- motivated violence, in an area
:16:59. > :17:03.where rival tribes frequently clash over water and grazing rights.
:17:03. > :17:06.Attempts to avoid America's fiscal cliff suffer another set-back.
:17:07. > :17:10.Politicians will try again to reach a deal after Christmas. Fears are
:17:11. > :17:14.growing that if they don't do so by the end of the month there could be
:17:15. > :17:18.a new recession. It's more than four decades since
:17:18. > :17:22.the end of the civil war in Nigeria which saw the army fighting to stop
:17:22. > :17:26.the East of the country, known as Biafra, from breaking away. The war
:17:26. > :17:30.left more than a million people dead. But even today there are
:17:30. > :17:40.still many in the east who would like their part of the country to
:17:40. > :17:43.secede. Will Ross reports. A colourful festive, full on the
:17:43. > :17:46.streets complete with plenty of Nigerian father Christmases and
:17:47. > :17:51.young helpers getting people in the mood. At the same time, in a
:17:51. > :17:55.secluded part of the city is a far more low-key, almost secretive
:17:55. > :18:00.event. Complaining that they are marginalised by a corrupt political
:18:00. > :18:07.elite, these people risk arrest by calling for the Eastern Nigeria to
:18:08. > :18:15.break away and form Biafra. There is no amount of threat and the rest
:18:15. > :18:19.which will stop us from pursuing our freedom. We are forced into
:18:19. > :18:25.this unholy marriage. We don't have the same culture with the
:18:25. > :18:30.northerners. For more than 18 months, Nigeria and the breakaway
:18:30. > :18:35.region of Biafra have been at war. This is what happened the oil rich
:18:35. > :18:39.East to try to succeed in the Sixties. The Nigerian Ministry
:18:39. > :18:45.defeated them and it took almost three years and this was the cost,
:18:45. > :18:49.more than one million people died, most from famine. Today, violence
:18:49. > :18:56.is putting a great strain on Nigeria's unity. This traditional
:18:56. > :19:05.leader says lessons should be learned from the civil war.
:19:05. > :19:15.whole experience should be infused into our system. What is the danger
:19:15. > :19:16.
:19:16. > :19:20.of not doing that? It's what we are now facing. Living under the threat
:19:20. > :19:24.of disintegration. It would seem, realistically, there's no chance of
:19:24. > :19:28.this part of the country breaking away to form a new nation but there
:19:28. > :19:33.is still a huge feeling of pride here. And that is fuelled by the
:19:33. > :19:37.fact that people feel let down by successive governments of Nigeria
:19:37. > :19:40.so there were still a desire to break away. Like in other parts of
:19:40. > :19:44.the country, it's a struggle for the younger generation to find it
:19:44. > :19:51.for more jobs. Even after getting an education. Their frustration is
:19:51. > :19:57.palpable. This present government doesn't have the solution. To make
:19:57. > :20:01.things better for the upcoming youth like us here. I would prefer
:20:01. > :20:05.the nation's two separate. The this is a religiously and ethnically
:20:05. > :20:10.diverse nation. It seems a healthy dose of good governance would go a
:20:10. > :20:13.long way to improve the prospects of peace and unity.
:20:13. > :20:19.Four and a half years ago, a cyclone swept through the Irrawaddy
:20:19. > :20:22.Delta in Burma. 140,000 people were killed. Three million more were
:20:22. > :20:24.left in dire need of help. But many towns were given no assistance,
:20:24. > :20:28.after the military government blocked visas for international aid
:20:28. > :20:31.workers, and arrested Burmese activists. Our correspondent
:20:31. > :20:36.Jonathan Head was one of a group of journalists allowed to visit the
:20:36. > :20:46.area recently. His report starts from the town of Bogale, near the
:20:46. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:53.A Buddhist ceremony led by children in Bogale, one of the largest
:20:53. > :20:59.townships in the Irrawaddy De. But this is a poignant sight for the
:20:59. > :21:07.people of the town. Of the 10,000 who died here, nearly half were
:21:07. > :21:12.children. Outside the town, the rice harvest is being taken in it.
:21:12. > :21:16.The delta has historically been seen as the rice bowl not just for
:21:17. > :21:22.Burma but for surrounding countries, too. Chronic neglect, though, by
:21:22. > :21:25.successive military governments and a cyclone have left this region in
:21:25. > :21:31.dire need. The looks can be deceiving, especially now, it's
:21:31. > :21:36.very green and lots of rice ready, but 70% of people don't own any
:21:36. > :21:44.land here. They are very reliant on wage labour in the farming and
:21:44. > :21:49.fishing industries. A great deal of them live below the poverty line.
:21:49. > :21:53.The worst-hit areas, at the mouth of the Irrawaddy De, were kept off-
:21:53. > :21:58.limits to journalists after the cyclone. Even now, they are hard to
:21:58. > :22:02.reach. I was among a group of journalists taken to see the
:22:02. > :22:06.development projects funded by the EU, which the military government
:22:06. > :22:10.permitted once the scale of the disaster became clear. The great
:22:10. > :22:14.rivers that cut through Diss Delta lie right alongside the villages
:22:14. > :22:19.where most of its inhabitants live at the wall of water simply surged
:22:19. > :22:27.over here, smashing his side the houses and the people living in
:22:27. > :22:32.them up. Even at 4 1/2 years later, they are still recovering. A simple
:22:32. > :22:37.clay stove. But now they have been taught to improve its design so it
:22:37. > :22:42.uses much less fuel. And they can make money selling them to other
:22:42. > :22:47.villages. It cuts the cost of firewood, a big chunk of household
:22:47. > :22:53.budgets here, and reduces the felling of mangrove trees which can
:22:53. > :22:59.help to protect against cyclones. These farmers are both widowed by
:22:59. > :23:03.the cyclone. One third of this village is population died. And it
:23:03. > :23:13.is still proving a hard road back, even to the basic lives they had
:23:13. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:19.before. I lost everything. I lost all my seeds. I had to hire
:23:19. > :23:26.machines to work my field. We were given seeds by the government but
:23:26. > :23:29.the quality was not always good. one of the projects funded by the
:23:29. > :23:35.EU is trying different strains of rice to see which will produce
:23:35. > :23:39.better crops on the salty soil. It's the kind of help other
:23:39. > :23:49.countries have been getting for decades. Now the Burmese people
:23:49. > :23:49.
:23:50. > :23:52.have a chance to catch up. A Swiss Christian music group
:23:52. > :23:55.chosen to represent the country in next year's Eurovision Song Contest
:23:56. > :23:58.has been told it may be refused permission to take part unless it
:23:58. > :24:00.changes what it wears or changes its name. Organisers, the European
:24:01. > :24:04.Broadcasting Union, say the Heilsarmee or Salvation Army risk
:24:04. > :24:08.breaching their rules if they turn up at the contest in Malmo, Sweden,
:24:08. > :24:13.wearing their traditional uniforms. The band's rock anthem You And Me
:24:13. > :24:16.won a contest last weekend featuring five national finalists.
:24:16. > :24:20.Well, joining me now on the line from Berne in Switzerland is Lt
:24:20. > :24:22.Colonel Massimo Tursi. He is second in command of the Salvation Army in
:24:22. > :24:30.central Europe. He told me they never expected the song to be so
:24:31. > :24:39.well received. We were surprised by the success of our song. And by the
:24:39. > :24:44.reaction of the people. So, I would say, we were surprised by the
:24:44. > :24:47.reaction but we have received support from people in the streets
:24:47. > :24:52.and we've had telephone calls and everybody encouraging us to go on
:24:52. > :24:57.with his project. But will you go on wearing a different uniform
:24:57. > :25:04.under a different name, as they have requested? We haven't had a
:25:04. > :25:11.direct contact with the EBU. We hear they will not allow us to use
:25:11. > :25:17.our name, Heilsarmee, the Salvation Army, and they don't want us to
:25:17. > :25:21.where our uniform but we have not had any direct contact us, so we
:25:21. > :25:26.will see what room there is therefore no decision. What we know
:25:26. > :25:30.is that Swiss television supports our participation and they want to
:25:30. > :25:36.supporters to the end. We are seeing pictures of the group. Apart
:25:36. > :25:43.from anything else, you have a pretty unique entrant, and 94-year-
:25:43. > :25:52.old member of the band! The that's right. He is a faithful salvation
:25:52. > :25:59.must for many years. We want to give a picture of our reality. We
:25:59. > :26:04.have young people. Middle-aged. Older people. He is a good
:26:04. > :26:09.representative of the difference. There you go. The Swiss Army band
:26:09. > :26:13.hoping to make it to next year's Eurovision Song contest final. We
:26:13. > :26:16.used to people saying that the end of the world is nigh. Well, we can
:26:16. > :26:22.now tell you that the end was nigh. But nothing happened because people
:26:22. > :26:26.across the globe, including at this ruined temple in Guatemala, have
:26:26. > :26:31.been waiting to see whether the world would end half-an-hour ago.
:26:31. > :26:36.It seems the calculations are based on an interpretation of the Mayan
:26:36. > :26:41.calendar, were wrong, because we're all still here. Experts explained
:26:41. > :26:46.the Callander actually predicted the start of a new era and the