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Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: North Korea plans more | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
nuclear tests and long-range rocket launches, in spite of the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
tightening of UN sanctions. The prosecution has begun its case | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
against five men accused of the murder and gang rape of a medical | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
student aboard a bus in Delhi. France cautions the Mali army, | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
after reports of execution-style killings, while David Cameron calls | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
for further action to tackle extremism. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
I believe we are in the midst of a long struggle against murderous | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
terrorists, and a poisonous ideology that supports them. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
And, a miracle survivor, as a baby girl crawled away from this crash | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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China is calling on all sides to show restraint, after North Korea | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
ratcheted up the rhetoric on its nuclear weapons programme. Angered | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
by a UN Security Council resolution earlier this week, the North | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Koreans are threatening to carry out a third nuclear test. Six weeks | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
after it launched a long-range rockets and a day after perceiving | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
extra United Nations sanctions, North Korea has raised the stakes | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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with the news it would carried out a third nuclear test. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
State television made the announcement, saying North Korea | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
was locked in a war of confrontation with its peoples arch | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
enemy, the United States. It rocket launchers and nuclear tests were | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
all carried out with the US in mind. That has given the US envoy | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
something to talk about, he has just arrived in the region to talk | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
to South Korea, Japan and China about relations. Another nuclear | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
test, he said, would be highly provocative. Whether they will test, | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
we hope they will not, we call on them not to do anything. We want to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
try to find a solution to these long-standing problems which have | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
prevented the peninsula from becoming United. I take it is | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
important they do not test. North Korea has proved resistant to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
sanctions and not to run its main ally China has been able to stop | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
its young leader from showcasing his country's military might. This | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
time, the north has described the test as high level, a sign perhaps | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
it is moving forward with a new uranium based nuclear programme | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
which it revealed in 2010. Here in South Korea, officials have been | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
watching the preparations closely. Most analysts believe it hasn't yet | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
been able to make a nuclear device small enough to fit on a wall head, | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
but each successful Test and each successful rocket launch brings it | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
a step closer to its goal. The question is, if sanctions do not | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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work, what its neighbours and allies can do to stop it. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
China is calling on all sides to show restraint after North Korea | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
has ratcheted up the rhetoric on this. I spoke to an expert, Mark | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
Fitzpatrick. It was expected North Korea would | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
respond aggressively to a Security Council action, whatever the | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
council said, North Korea would be expected to do something. I expect | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
they probably will follow through with a third nuclear test. | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
How worried will the United States be about this? We are all worried | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
about a third nuclear test. The second one was a partial fizzle, if | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
they do a third one, they might perfect putting it on top of a | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
missile which could hit South Korea, not the United States yet, but | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
eventually. Neighbours to North Korea will be most concerned. | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
heard about talks continuing, how much pressure can China put on the | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
north? Its influence is limited. North Korea does not want to be | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
beholden to anyone, even though China is the greatest supplier and | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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trader and investor. North Korea is now saying, six party talks, no. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
There is not much prospect of diplomacy in the near future. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
you think this is a physical worry? It is a worried that North Korea is | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
likely to go ahead with a third nuclear test, we have seen | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
preparations from satellite images. Prosecution lawyers have begun | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
their case against the men accused of the gang rape and murder of a | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
23-year-old student in Delhi. Five of the suspects arrived on Thursday | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
under heavy security at the fast- track court. A sixth will be tried | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
as a juvenile. The death of the 23- year-old student has led to | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
protests across India, at the way rape cases are dealt with. An | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
official review on Wednesday recommended wide-ranging reforms of | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the legal system. Our India correspondent Sanjoy | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
Majumder is following the trial and joins us now from Delhi. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
This is one of the most closely watched trials in India, but where | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
so little information is available on what actually takes place in | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
court. This is a closed trial. The men were brought in by a special | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
police banned under tight security, taken into the court room. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Proceedings lasted a couple of hours. The prosecution lawyers | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
began their arguments and we believe the defence will respond on | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
Monday. Tomorrow it is a public holiday in India. Then, the weekend. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
This is especially fast track caught with daily hearings. The | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
media asked the judge to brief them on what it place in the court but | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
the judge is adamant, it cannot be reported by the media. What level | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
of confidence do people have there? We have had ongoing protests. The | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
problem is immense, over a huge geographical area. Different areas | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
of legal jurisprudence. The -- is very real change coming? Yesterday, | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
we had a very comprehensive list of recommendations from a government | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
panel, three members, headed by a former Chief Justice, two other | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
experts. They received 80,000 suggestions from the public, | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
women's groups, people around the world. The list is extensive, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
changes to the law to make sentences far stronger in cases of | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
rape, widening the definition of what constitutes sexual assault. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Two things they did point out, they said the existing laws are strong | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
and work well, but the implementation let people down, the | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
government, police system and judicial system have always let the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
victims down. And changes needed to attitude, a lot of people including | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
police, judges, need to change the way debut women and victims of rape | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
which until now has been heavily loaded against them. A change in | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
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mind set which will take a lot of doing. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
The Palestinians have threatened to take legal action against Israel at | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
the International Criminal Court, if it goes ahead with plans to | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
build new Jewish settlements on occupied areas east of Jerusalem. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told the UN Security Council | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
his government would take legal action, if the newly-elected | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Israeli government goes ahead with a plan approved by the outgoing | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
administration. General John Allen will be | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
nominated as NATO's new supreme commander in Europe, after being | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
cleared of misconduct in exchanging emails with a Florida socialite. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
The flirtatious messages from General Allen, currently the senior | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
American commander in Afghanistan, came to light during a broader | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
scandal which brought down the CIA director David Petraeus. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Two Californian men are suing the disgraced American cyclist, Lance | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Armstrong, and his publishers, for fraud over the marketing of his | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
memoirs as non-fiction. The complaint was filed just a few days | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
after Armstrong admitted on television that he had used | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
performance-enhancing drugs in all seven of his Tour de France wins. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
The lawsuit claims Armstrong deceived readers of his 2001 best | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
seller in which he credited his Tour de France wins to training, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
diet and drive, while denying he ever used banned substances. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
France has warned Mali to rein in its soldiers, after Malian troops | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
were accused of carrying out summary executions during their | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
joint campaign against Islamist rebels. A Paris-based human rights | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
group says Malian government soldiers have carried out at least | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
30 execution-style killings in the past two weeks. France has sent | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
2,000 troops to Mali, to help the fight against the rebels. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
A few hours ago, the British prime minister, David Cameron, reiterated | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
his support for that French force in Mali. He was speaking at the | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
World Economic Forum in Davos. The French are right to act in Mali, | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
and I back that action. Not just with words but with lid is a core | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
support as well. -- logistical. But we need to combine a tough security | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
response with an intelligent political response. We need to | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
address the poisonous narrative these terrorists feed on, close | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
down the ungoverned space in which they thrive. And deal with the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
grievances they use to garner support. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Most of Prime Minister's speech at Davos this morning was about tax, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
and David Cameron has had some very tough things to say about tax | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
evaders and tax avoiders. Speaking to the great and the good at the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
World Economic Forum, he pointedly said multi-nationals need to listen | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
to the public on tax or, as he put it, "wake up and smell the coffee". | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Simon Jack is in Davos to tell us more. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
A really interesting message, he was saying he was business-friendly, | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
and yet his banking colleagues were urging him to clampdown on tax | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
avoidance. He was saying he is a low tax conservative. But the only | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
way you can have lower taxes is if everyone pays them and he had stern | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
words for multinationals using complex structures to drive down | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
their tax bill. He made a thinly veiled reference to Starbucks which | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
was shamed into paying, even though what they did was perfectly legal. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
He said tax avoidance could not be acceptable morally even if it was | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
legal. David Cameron is seen in this | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
country from a privileged background, representing a party to | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
the centre and right. It is a different -- difficult message. | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Difficult to see how he can get international consensus. Everyone | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
wants to lower their own taxes to make them more attractive. He | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
boasted the UK had some of the lowest tax rates in Europe. If you | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
raise your tax rates, it drives away business. He said he would use | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
his presidency of the g eight to tackle this, using a concerted | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
approach. Calling on people at this conference to follow him. Take a | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
look at these remarkable pictures, showing how a baby survived being | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
thrown into the path of an oncoming lorry in Russia. Amateur video | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
propped on a dashboard captured this accident in Novgorod, east of | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Moscow. As the car skidded, it smashed into a lorry, tearing open | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
the back of the vehicle. A baby girl was flung out of the back | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
window and into the oncoming traffic. Another large truck only | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
just managed to swerve out of the way. The girl was trying to crawl | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
onto all fours when her father rushed to her safety. Police say | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the one year old is OK, but that she was not belted into a child car | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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At least three men are charged with creating the world's most | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
financially destructive computer virus. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
And we ask why me of women smoking today are more likely to die of | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
lung cancer than they were decades A French woman sentenced to 60 | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
years in jail in Mexico's on her way home after being set free by | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
the Supreme Court. Her former boyfriend was the member of a | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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They were the words Florence Cassez has been hoping for since 2005. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Given the serious irregularities in the legal process against her, the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Supreme Court judges ruled she should be immediately released from | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
a 60 year prison sentence she received as an alleged member of a | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
kidnapping gang. The case of Florence Cassez was controversial | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
from the start. After being detained in December 2005, she was | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
denied consular assistance before the authorities staged a televised | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
police raid on the ranch where she had been staying with her boyfriend. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Three hostages were found at the site, but Florence Cassez denied | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
being part of a kidnap gang. The Mexican justice system ignored her | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
claims, and sentenced her to almost 100 years in prison, reduced to 60 | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
on appeal. But that television montage and other questions over | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the legal process have led to her release. For her supporters and | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
family back home, it is a moment to savour. | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
TRANSLATION: I am full of joy. I still can't believe it. Until the | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
last moment, I was saying to myself, she will probably get a retrial. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
It will doubtless help ease the strained diplomatic ties between | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
France and Mexico over the case, too. Former French President | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy championed Florence Cassez's case, and clashed | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
repeatedly with the administration of his Mexican counterpart, Filipe | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Calderon. Since then, new governments have been elected in | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Mexico and France, and both sides were keen to put the issue behind | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
them. Her release is not universally welcomed, though. One | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
of the hostages, who testified against Florence Cassez, said she | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
received special treatment as a foreigner, and called the Mexican | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
justice system fell. But as one of Mexico's most high-profile legal | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
disputes draws to a close, the country's are looking forward to it | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
resumed diplomatic relations, and Florence Cassez is looking forward | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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This is BBC World News. The latest headlines: North Korea warns of | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
more nuclear tests and long-range rocket launchers, responding to | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
what it calls its American arch- enemy. And the prosecution has | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
begun its case against five men accused of a murder and gang rape | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
of a medical student on board a bus in Delhi. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Three people have been charged in the United States with creating a | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
computer virus to steal millions of dollars from people's bank accounts. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
The Gozi virus infected a million computers around the world, and it | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
was used to steal people's bank details. Prosecutors are calling it | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
a modern day bank robbery. Dr Thomas Rid, an expert on cyber | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
crime, spoke to me earlier. It was not just one bank robbery. It was | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
many bank robberies at the same time. And they hacked into of which | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
group? They hacked into private customers' bank accounts. And they | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
provided other criminals with the means to do so. And the virus | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
affected millions of computers around the world, including Nasa's | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
computers, too. They broke into bank accounts of private | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
individuals, bank customers. So how do safeguard against this? How many | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
groups could there be doing similar things? They could be more, but we | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
don't know how many. It is important to recognise that they | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
hacked not into the bank itself but actually into your computer at home. | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
That is the weak link. And what do they do? There are many ways for | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
them to hack into your computer, so it is difficult to generalise here. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
But you can do a couple of things to keep your money safe. One is to | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
keep your operating system at home up to date, keep your browser up- | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
to-date, and also you have to have a healthy amount of distrust. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Whenever anybody contacted by phone or e-mail, be very sceptical. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Thomas Rid. You have been told, be very careful, he says, on your bank | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
details. Now to Egypt. News of a collapsed | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
building is all too frequent there. Already this week a 75-year-old | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
woman was among those killed when a house caved in in Old Cairo. Last | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
week, 28 people were killed when an apartment block collapsed. The BBC | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
has been to Alexandria to find out why the problem has got so much | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
worse since the revolution. The clothes may still hang on the | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
bedroom wall, but the building and the people who were inside it are | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
all gone. This eight-storey apartment block collapsed early in | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
the morning, and ours, body after body was pulled out. Men, women, | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
children. But news like this barely has an impact in Egypt any more. | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
Alexandria has a particularly bad record. Every year, engineers say, | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
around 20 buildings collapse in this city alone, and many lives are | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
lost. Muhammad knows all about that. He was made an orphan when a | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
building collapsed last summer. They happened to find him wandering | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
around the site where his home once stood. He told us a huge Tatar was | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
being built illegally next door, and his family had complained. Then | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
he describes how the new building toppled over. It crushed his home | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
and smashed into two other blocks. 21 people died. My family were on | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
the ground floor, he says. It took a day to find the bodies. Now most | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
of the time I am just in the streets. | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
We found out the new building going up where his house was also has no | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
licence. That has become the norm here. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Right across this city, it is easy to find buildings like these that | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
look like they are on the verge of collapse. We have seen some leaning | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
alarmingly. Many have already been condemned, but we are told by | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
locals that when the police come, the building's owner gives them a | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
bribe and they go away. Alexandria is a resort where | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
building taller and taller is something greedy developers can't | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
resist. All the signs are, while things were bad before, there has | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
been more illegal building since the revolution. There is a | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
combination of administrative corruption, greed and ignorance, | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
and the grip of lawn mower is more lose than before. The authorities | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
say that they are dealing with it, but dangerous buildings are not | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
being pulled down. We found four towers, or leaning in different | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
directions, all occupied. The poor, who have little choice, are risking | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
their lives in hundreds of buildings with imminent danger of | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
collapse. Scientists have announced plans to | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
resume controversial research on creating a mutated highly | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
contagious form of the h five m one bird flu virus. There has been a | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
ban on research over fears that the virus could escape or fall into the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
hands of terrorists. But the Dutch and American scientists involved so | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
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that start in the project is vital The bird flu virus has killed 360 | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
people since 2003. They got infected after contact with birds. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
At the moment, the virus cannot pass from human to human, but that | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
is the scenario health officials dread. So the news that scientists | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
had created an airborne version of this pathogen in the laboratory was | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
met with shock. And with concerns over containment, the scientists | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
put the research on hold. But one year on, they say they are ready to | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
resume their work. They claim that the laboratories made the highest | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
safety standards, and finding the mutation is needed to help with | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
surveillance and vaccines. But some other researchers say that these | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
benefits are and weighed by the risks, and want the ban to stay in | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
place. Even though the risk of the virus escaping his tiny, if it did, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
the consequences could be catastrophic. Despite this, the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
researchers say they are ready to return to the lab, and will be | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
starting their work in the next few weeks. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
More science, because women who smoke have a much greater risk of | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
dying from lung cancer, according to new research from America. This | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
is partly because women are starting younger and smoking more | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
than they used to. Dominic Hughes said it was an extensive study. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
There are a number of things going on in this study which looked at | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the health of more than 2 million people in the United States, and | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
covered the period from 1959-2010, so it was looking at a huge number | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
of people over a long period of time, so it is a pretty reliable | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
study. One of the big things going on is that the general health of | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the nation has improved massively over the last 50 years, but the | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
health of smokers has not kept pace with that. What they are saying is | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
that women who started smoking in the 1960s, they roughly ran the | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
risk of about three times compared to their non-smoking counterparts | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
of developing diseases like lung cancer. Fast-forward to the decade | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
between 20021010, and that risk of developing lung cancer for women | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
who smoked had leapt to about 25 times higher than the non-smokers. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
What they think might be happening is that women are starting younger | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
and smoking more heavily, and they also suggest that the marketing of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
low-tar or light a cigarette towards women means that they are | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
smoking at heavier rates, but also taking the smoke in deeper into | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
their lungs to get the same nicotine hit that they always | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
needed, and that is causing increased damage. Any research as | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
to why these behaviour patterns are changing? Why are they smoking | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
more? They are mimicking the way that men have smoked. Women didn't | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
really start smoking in greater numbers until the Fifties and | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
Sixties, but we are seeing now, 50 years later, that the impact of | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
that is coming home to roost. Women who smoke like men will die like | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
men, they say. There has been a cold snap in the | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
US, and in some parts, it is colder than the North Pole. It is actually | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
worse in the US. Have a look at these pictures from the coast of | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
Michigan. The extremely low temperatures have turned this light | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
house into something resembling a massive icicle. Residents are | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
bracing further freezing temperatures to continue for a few | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
more days yet. Amazing pictures. And a reminder of our top stories | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
today. China is calling for restraint after North Korea | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
ratcheted up the tension over its nuclear weapons programme. North | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Korea says it will carry out another nuclear test, and further | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
rocket launches, as a direct response to the tightening of the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
United Nations sanctions. North Korea says it is not seeking to | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
hide the fact that various satellite and long-range rocket | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
tests were being carried out, with Pyongyang's principal enemy, the | :26:43. | :26:49. |