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$:/STARTFEED. Hello, this is BBC World News. Our top stories: | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Rescuers in Mexico City search through the night after an | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
explosion that's killed 25 people with more than 100 injured. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
A motorway bridge collapses in China when a lorry packed with | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
fireworks explodes, sending other vehicles plunging into the valley | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
below. Francois Hollande will visit Mali after a three-week military | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
campaign to oust Islamist rebels. And Hillary Clinton waves goodbye | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
to her job as US Secretary of State but what will it be next, the White | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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Before all that, we are just getting in news from Turkey, from | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
the capital Ankara, as reported by Reuters, of an explosion in front | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
of the US Embassy in Ankara. Reuters is quoting the Turkish news | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
agency and says that several ambulances have been sent to the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
area and also it's reporting several people have been wounded. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
We will bring you more on that as soon as that news comes in, but | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
reports of an explosion in front of the American Embassy in Ankara in | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Turkey. Our other main news: The search for | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
survivors of an explosion at an office complex in Mexico City | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
continues through the night. Rescue workers with sniffer dogs are | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
hunting through the debris left by the blast at the headquarters of | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
the state oil company Pemex. More than 100 people were injured and 20 | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
died. It happened in a building next to a skyscraper. The area was | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
busy when it happened due to a shift changeover. The Mexican | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
President warned people not to listen to rumours about what might | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
have caused the explosion. TRANSLATION: I don't have a | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
conclusionive -- conclusive report so I suggest we do not succumb to | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
speculation. We should wait for the investigations to be carried out. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
The Director of The Interior Ministry is leading this | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
coordination. They don't interrupt relief efforts. All the support | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
staff should be deployed to rescue those who could be under the rubble. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
A truck carrying fireworks for the Chinese New Year has exploded in a | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
highway in central China. There are reports of many deaths there. Cars | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
were swept off the road by the blast that ripped apart an elevated | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
section in he nan province. More vehicles were sent plunging 30 | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
metres to the ground as the carriageway collapsed under them. | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
Henan. Rescue efforts continue. Initially reports on China national | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
radio were putting the death toll as high as 26. There appears now to | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
be a rowing back from that initial early account and the official | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
statistics on the state news agency puts the death toll at the moment | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
at six. But it looks as if some very unfortunate timing has added | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
to the very serious consequences here. It looks as though the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
explosion took place just as the truck, laden with fireworks, was | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
crossing a high elevated stretch of carriageway and a large section of | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the highway has been brought down. Eyewitnesses suggesting the force | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
of the blast itself lifted some cars clear of the road and other | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
vehicles coming down as the road collapsed. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
How difficult a time is this year anyway with fireworks, accidents? I | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
was reading that people have been asked to set off fewer fireworks at | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
the moment because of the whole environmental problems there? | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
That's right. There has in recent days been a debate about where the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
people should set off less fireworks because of the pollution | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
that they cause. Of course, what we have here is a very different type | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
of consideration completely, but it's a very serious one. This isn't | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the first time in which there has been a number of deaths caused by | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
fireworks, either transported or often stored in poor conditions. In | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
the same province, in China's central Henan province in 2006, 36 | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
people were killed when a store room of fireworks exploded. Of | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
course, at this time of year in the run-up to lunar New Year, that | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
danger is always present. On this accident, any questions about the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
safety of that infrastructure, obviously also a very difficult | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
place to get for the rescue services, I imagine? | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
It's close to a main city in the province of Henan and it looks as | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
if fire crews were on the scene fairly quickly. The rescue being | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
made more difficult by the fact that the section of road which | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
collapsed was some 30 metres above the valley below and the pictures | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
from the scene make it look likely that people may have been trapped | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
in their vehicles. We understand that the rescue efforts are still | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
ongoing. John Sudworth there. France's | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
President, Francois Hollande, is to fly to Mali for a meeting with the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
interim president. French forces have been engaged in three weeks of | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
military action to drive out Islamist rebels from the town. Mr | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Hollande will be accompanied by his ministers for defence and Foreign | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Affairs. With Timbuktu and Kidal out of militant hands, France says | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
a turning point has been reached but the fighting may not be over. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Our correspondent in the capital there says France is likely to be | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
happy with the operation so far. The main urban centres of the north | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
are now being taken. Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao. The French | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
intervention seems pretty successful. Now there is ongoing | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
debate because the French forces entered Kiddal with African troops | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
from Niger and Chad, but the Malian Army wasn't involved there and the | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
reason why is that the fighters that had been occupying the city | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
said they would cooperate with the French and the African forces but | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
not with the Mali Army. The Ain Amenas has asked for a political | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
solution of the conflict. That option was approved yesterday to | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
the it is may of many. For part of the population, Ain Amenas was part | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
of the problem and is still part of the problem because its alliance on | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Islamists that actually caused this. There is a debate on whether the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
government should negotiate with Ain Amenas or not, but of course, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
the French are encouraging that dialogue so there's really ongoing | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
debate about that. Can I ask you about the suggestions that the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
French President is due to be flying into Mali tonight? Any idea | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
at all about what that might mean? Well, we do not have any | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
information about what this visit is going to be about, but I'm | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
guessing that this visit of French President, Francois Hollande, is | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
probably going to be about encouraging and congratulating the | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
troops about their great advance in the north and also consolidating | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
dialogue between the mannian government and some of the rebels, | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
like I said most probably Ain Amenas rebels of the north. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Just back to the top story, the reports of an explosion in the | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
Turkish capital Ankara outside the US embassy there. We have a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
correspondent in Ankara for us. What do you know? I'm outside the | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
embassy. Approximately 20 minutes ago, I heard the explosion | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
extremely loudly from my flat ten minutes walking distance from the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
embassy. The embassy building is a massive compound situated on one of | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
the main roads to Ankara, also home to lots of ministerial buildings. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Right now, it's too soon to know whether anyone's been hurt and | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
whether there are any casualties or fatalities. Can you describe what | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
you are seeing there? The place is swarmed with police. I'm directly | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
in front of a police cordon. They've barricaded the part of the | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
road, the area of the street, the entrance to the embassy where the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
explosion happened. There are ambulances here, there are a huge | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
amount of cameras. There is a fire truck as well and there are police | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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running about all over the place. It's chaotic. This is, I believe, | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
the first blast in Ankara for I think just over a year. I know you | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
said it's too soon to assess whether there are any injuries but | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
there have been reports of a number of people wounded. Is this a very | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
busy part of town? It is quite a busy part of town. It's quite a | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
central part ofen Kara. It's a busy part of town, but this road in | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
particular comes from a main highway where the US embassy sits, | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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it's situated in a busy area simply because the embassy is a busy area | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
-- Ankara. The US embassy is obviously usually massively secure | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
isn't it? I haven't had any confirmation by officials, but | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
speaking to people here, it seems it was a bomb. As I said, I haven't | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
managed to confirm that and it's very soon, it happened about 20 | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
minutes ago, but it doesn't appear to be something like a gas | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
explosion, for example. Thank you very much. We'll come | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
back to you if there's any more that you can help us with. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Police in Pakistan say 20 people there have been killed and more | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
than 30 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the close to the border | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
with Afghanistan. It happened outside a Shia mosque but it was | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
close to a Sunni one and exploded as people were leaving after Friday | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
prayers. It's close to Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
base for the tall band and other militant groups. No groups have | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
said it's responsible for that. I spoke to Orla Gearin in Islamabad. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
We have been told the death toll's risen to 20. One of the dead is a | :11:40. | :11:49. | |
police officer and more than 30 people have been wounded. The | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
attack was timed to coincide with Friday prayers. The bomber struck | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
in a laneway which combined two mosques, a Sunni mosque and a Shia | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
mosque. Police say Shias were the kargt this time and most of the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
victims are from the Shia minority -- target. There are also Sunni | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Muslims among the victims according to the local police chief because | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
their place of worship was so nearby. Last month, more than 90 | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
Shias were killed in a double bombing in Quetta. Last year, more | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
than 400 were killed in attacks around the country, sectarian | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
attacks like this are increasing. This latest attack in Hangu comes | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
as the Human Rights Watch based in New York has accused the Government | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
of failing to provect this vulnerable minority, of effectively | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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turning a blindy -- protect. It says -- turning a blind eye. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Very difficult presumably to bring any kind of security to these sorts | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
of areas? There is a double risk in places | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
like Hangu. It's close to the tribal areas along the Afghan | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
border. That's an area where the Pakistan, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
are known to have strongholds, it's easy for them to pass from the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
tribal area into the settled areas and to carry out bombings. This is | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
a pattern we have seen here over the past four to five years. In | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
addition, we have this element of sectarian groups who're increasing | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
their violence and targeting the vulnerable minorities. Shias are | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
complaining that the Government's not done enough to protect them. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Human rights campaigners are urging the government to show some | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
backbone, that's the phrase being used by Human Rights Watch, and to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
use protection. Some believe the government's afraid to tackle the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
groups, that they are too powerful, threatening and sinister. An | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
analyst told us ministers are afraid to say the word "Shia" in | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
case they would be taken as sympathisers or in case they might | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
be charged. Now, could the great barrier reef | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
be stripped of its world heritage status? Find out more in the next | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
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The deadly hostage crisis at the gas plant in Algeria raised many | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
questions about how to tackle the rise of Islamist extremism in north | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
Africa. The BBC's Richard Galpin, is one of the first reporters to | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
visit the remote facility in the Sahara. | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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The funeral in Scotland of Kenneth Whiteside, one of the men murdered | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
at the gas plant in Algeria. Today, we travelled to the south east of | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Algeria to see the planned for ourselves. There's now a heavy | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
military presence here. Soldiers demonstrating they are in control, | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
and like two weeks ago. When the Islamist militants broke into this | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
accommodation area with ease. Searching for senior foreign | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
managers. We were told many more hostages died here at the gas | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
processing centre. The blackened towers evidence of a bomb detonated | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
next to a group of foreigners chained to the metal work. And yet | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
some employees are now back, looking at how to repair the plant. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
The goal is to get this whole complex up and running as soon as | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
possible, with all the employees returning - including the | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
expatriates. All the foreigners in particular, they will want | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
reassurances that security here has been improved and they will | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
therefore feel safer. The general manager says what is needed is a | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
permanent military presence here. personally ask the military and my | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
company to keep a military presence here. I officially asked for this. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
The decision whether these soldiers will stay on guard you will be | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
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taken by the government in the We want to show you these pictures | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
taken from a NASA spacecraft. It shows a giant plume of super hot | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
plasma erupting from the San's surface. Scientists nicknamed the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
erection as Dragon's tail, as it showed a 10 role of solar plasma | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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extending across the north-eastern The latest headlines. A reminder of | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
our main story. Reuters is reporting an explosion. Our | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
correspondent has confirmed that there has been some sort of | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
incident. It looks like a blast in Ankara in Turkey. Reports are that | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
ambulances have been seen in the area outside the US embassy. | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Reports coming in to us that several people are wounded, but we | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
cannot as yet confirm that for you. Smoke seen coming out of the side | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
entrance from the US embassy. This is the first picture coming into | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
was from Ankara. You can see some sort of damage there. It looks like | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
some sort of a bomb has gripped the side of that war. Not clear at all | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
who might be behind that. These are the first pictures coming into was | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
Now we move on to another piece of news coming into was from the US. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
It is Hillary Clinton. It is her last day in post as Secretary of | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
State. She was once seen as a very divisive and polarising figure in | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
American politics. Now she is one of the most recognised and | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
respected women in the world. After four years she leaves with high | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
approval ratings and almost 1 million air miles under her belt. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
But what is her legacy as America's diplomatic teeth and what to have | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
plans for her future? -- diplomatic chiefs. It is incredible how her | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
image has changed. If we go back to the political scandal around her | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
and her husband when he first came to power, his behaviour towards her, | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
the divisiveness over the election and now she goes out with these | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
huge approval ratings. One of the things in this media saturated age | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
is sometimes you just have a chunk of time where you can actually do a | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
job, instead of being commented on constantly from the sidelines. But | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
it is a remarkable transformation. If you look back to 2008 and think | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
about the events that led up to Barack Obama's election. Hillary | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Clinton pretty much thought she was going to be the nominee. Then this | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
insurgent from nowhere, Barack Obama, seized the ground at the | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
last minute. The bitterness between the two Camp's cannot be overstated. | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
And yet the President said, I will bring you in and you can the | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Secretary of State, because she campaigned for him. From that | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
moment on they formed a remarkable double act. I want to emphasise | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
that I do think it has been a double act because, as we know, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
President Obama has a very tight inner circle that helps him make | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
decisions. Hillary Clinton isn't part of that, but she's been the | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
most visible face of his presidency to the world at large. But people | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
are saying, what has she actually achieved? The Middle East peace | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
process, she's given the impression of being everywhere. She says she's | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
had to combat the Republican legacy of American politics, which wasn't | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
great. It depends on how you look at legacy. The Washington Post had | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
an article saying, unlike George Mitchell, she did and oversee the | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Good Friday Agreement or Henry Kissinger that the open into China. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
I think that is spurious. These achievements often the real work of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
other people, then somebody comes in and get the glory. She and her | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
husband, obviously the power politics couple. A of the world. Is | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
she really going to stop now? All things being equal, that means | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
her health being good, she will be 69 in 2016. I fully expected to be | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
running for President. What are the signs she is doing that, is she | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
fund-raising? No, she's going to take time off. She should. She | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
worked herself to exhaustion, she had a blood clot on the side of her | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
head. Let's say she gets past all that. The idea of recharging. What | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
we know of her from her youth is a year of recharging will drive a | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
crazy and she'll be back in the mix. Two years from now, she will be | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
forming... We will see the signs. Again, her being a team player, | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
which is what came out in this first Obama term. Obama has this | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
two you window to do something. I think she will step back from the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
headlines. 18 months from now you will see for stories about fund- | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
raising. She will be appearing here round there. Her husband has this | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
huge network through the Clinton global initiative, she will be part | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
of that. You will see that the money starts coming in and the work | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
will start. In America, you start running for President seriously two | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
years before the election, and I expect her to be there. It will be | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
fascinating to watch her. An iconic woman. The Australian government is | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
increasing its protection of the Great Barrier Reef, to prevent the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
United Nations from stripping it of its World Heritage status. Some | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
green groups say it is not doing enough. During protests in Sydney | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
and Brisbane, they demanded greater protection from proposed coal and | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
gas developments. The staggering spectacle of the Great Barrier Reef. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
It is one of the natural wonders that makes Australia so beautiful. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
But it is threatened, according to UNESCO, by one of the things that | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
makes Australia Bridge, its resources sector. The reef was | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
granted world heritage status in the early 1980s. But UNESCO has | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
expressed concerned about the impact on its delicate ecosystem of | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
expanding coal ports and the increased shipping they will bring. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
After making a monitoring visit to the Queensland coast last year, it | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
had given the Australian government a February deadline to respond to | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
its concerns. But the when warning came with a threat. That the status | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
of the reef could be downgraded to a World Heritage area in danger. | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Calling it an iconic Australian environmental asset, the Girard | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
government has delivered its response and pledged to stop | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
development that would cause unacceptable damage to the reef. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most precious places on earth. | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Australia and Australian government has a clear commitment to | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
protecting it. People should be on notice that it doesn't matter | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
whether you are a business, say a mining company, or whether you are | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
the premier of Queensland. Anyone who wants this government to cut | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
corners on the Great Barrier Reef will be sorely disappointed. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
development of the port of Gladstone is amongst the projects | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
that is raising environmental concerns. Green groups believe the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
expansion of the resources sector, fuelled by the rise in China, will | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
bring thousands more ships to the reef. And they claim the government | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
has not done anywhere near enough to curb pollution. Protecting the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
environment at the same time as boosting the economy is a tricky | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
balancing act for the Australian government. The preservation of the | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
Great Barrier Reef most vividly highlights its dilemma. Some news | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
coming into this. The Crown Prosecution Service in London has | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
decided not to bring charges over the hoax telephone calls to the | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
King Edward VII hospital, against Mel Greig and Christian, both radio | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
presenters in Australia. They made back phone call to the hospital | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
when the Duchess of Cambridge was having treatment for her pregnancy. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
They pretended to be members of the Royal Family. Subsequently, a nurse | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
at the hospital who took that phone call, Jacintha Saldanha, she had | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
put that phone-call through. She tragedy took her own life. The CPS | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
have said that, however misguided the telephone call was, it was | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
intended as a harmless prank. It is not possible to extradite | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
individuals from Australia in these cases. But the case is still very | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
sad. Did she or didn't she? Yes, she did. The singer Beyonce admits | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
she indeed mind the words to the Star-Spangled Banner at President | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Obama's inauguration. She has another high-profile gig coming up | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
this weekend at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. This time she says she | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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It was the show-stopping moment on a day of political theatre. But it | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
wasn't what it seemed. Yes, that was Beyonce's boys all right, but | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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he now admits it had been pre- recorded. -- voice. Take two was | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
live. An attempt by the singer to make amends and to explain. I did | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. It was a live television | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
show and a very important emotional show for me, one of my proudest | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
moments. Due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
check, I did not feel comfortable taking the risk. A multiple choice | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
of explanations, and she insisted he had at least sung along to the | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
backing track. Then the burning question - would Beyonce be singing | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
live at Sunday's Super Bowl? I will absolutely be singing live. I am | :26:38. | :26:41. |