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Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: An opposition leader in | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Ukraine has called for a truce in the confrontation between protesters | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
and police while talks take place. Tens of thousands of platinum miners | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
in South Africa go on strike in their biggest action since 34 | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
workers were shot dead by police in 2012. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
13 men in India are arrested after a young woman was gang-raped | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
apparently as a punishment for being in a relationship with a man from a | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
different community. And President Rouhani tries to bring | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Iran in from the cold as he woos foreign investors at the World | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Economic Forum. A warm welcome to you. Police and | :00:48. | :01:08. | |
protesters in the Ukranian capital Kiev are still in a tense standoff. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
This is the scene there live in temperatures of ten degrees below | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
zero. A barricade of burning tyres marks the frontline between riot | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
police and demonstrators. And within just the last few minutes we have | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
heard that the opposition leader has called for a truce to allow talks to | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
go ahead this afternoon with the Government. These are live pictures | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
that we are looking at right now of the streets of key Eve in Ukraine. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
Earl -- Kiev. Earlier I spoke to our correspondent there for us. It's | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
interesting, because yesterday evening Vitaly Klitschko says the | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
Government needs to make concessions otherwise people would go on attack. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Today he has been about ten minutes' walk from here on the road up to | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
parliament which has been the heart of the violent clashes we have seen | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
between riot police and protesters and he addressed the people there | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
calling for calm, saying that they should not use violence, at least | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
for the moment because more talks are set to take place between | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
opposition leaders and the Government. He also called for riot | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
police to have restraint and not engage in violence, as well. Those | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
talks are set to take place this afternoon with Government officials. | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
What comes out of them, we will have to wait and see. No one wanting to | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
see a repeat of the violence that we saw on the streets of Kiev | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
yesterday. You talked about talks lined up for the day with the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Government. What have we heard so far from the administration on this? | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
The Prime Minister spoke earlier where he said that the Government | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
would be willing to make concessions but that opposition leaders | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
shouldn't make ultimatums. The Prime Minister has described the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
demonstrators who have been violent as radicals, as extremists. They pin | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
much of the blame on far-right group, one nationalist group | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
fighting against the Government, certainly some protesters have | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
blamed them for the violence, as well. It looks like the Government | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
are keen to hold talks to try and find some sort of negotiated | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
settlement. What solution that might be which satisfies all the sides | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
involved is difficult to say? We have been speaking to Ukraine's | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
Prime Minister. He asked whether talks will end the violence? | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
I guess that this meeting was quite fruitful and useful and as far as I | :04:04. | :04:15. | |
know some agreements can be made after this meeting with the | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
President. I would like leaders of the opposition not to use language | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
of ultimatums because we know very well there is also the sociology and | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
we know to what extent opposition leaders supported by society of | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Ukraine. We have a President who was democratically elected at elections | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
and who is supported by a great amount of the Ukranian populations. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
I would like to say that we are ready for the compromise. We are | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
ready for dialogue but the opposition should understand that | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
they also bear responsibility for those events which are happening in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Kiev so that the Government, but it is absolutely wrong to put all the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
responsibility on the Government because together now we have to find | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
a road to peace in Kiev. That was Ukraine's Prime Minister there. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
Tens of thousands of plat mum miners have gone on strike -- platinum | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
miners have gone on strike in South Africa. | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
The AMCU trade union says 70,000 of its members at the three top | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
platinum producers are walking out indefinitely in the row over pay. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Many more may refuse to cross picket lines. South Africa has up to 80% of | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
the world's platinum reserves and the dispute is expected to cripple | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
the global industry - cutting production by half. Our South Africa | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
correspondent is at the site of the mine. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
We are in the north-west of South Africa, deep in the platinum belt. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
These workers, hundreds of them, who are surrounding us here are here on | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
an indefinite strike. They are demanding what they call is a living | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
wage. They want to be paid an amount of 12,500 rands a month, just over | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
$1,000 per month. This means it will be double their current salaries. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
They say that the CEOs of the biggest platinum companies, earn | :06:24. | :06:38. | |
millions, so they say they can afford to pay them. The mining | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
houses saying they cannot afford to pay salary increases because of the | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
global slump in the economy which has dropped the demand but also the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
rising costs of production. President Zuma is facing a crucial | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
election this year and this sort of labour dispute trend which has been | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
going on for months, remember in 2012 here there was a massacre of 34 | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
miners who were still demanding the amount they're demanding here today. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
This won't do him any good when he is trying to get a second term in to | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
office. The Finance Minister is in Davos trying to trump up South | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Africa's economy, but with all of these disputes going on, not just in | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
the platinum sector, but also in the gold sector, the gold sector is not | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
on strike but they are hoping to go on strike as soon as a court case | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
has been resolved. These strikes are not doing the South African economy | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
growth prospects any good. A woman has been gang-raped by 12 men, | :07:52. | :08:09. | |
apparently on the order of local village elders in the Indian state | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
of West Bengal. It happened on Monday through to Tuesday morning | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
but apparently it was only yesterday that the woman and her family | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
summoned up the courage to go to the police to report what they say | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
happened. It's really starting to go out across the Indian media today. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
As you say, I think it is particularly shock shocking. There | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
are, though, many cases, particularly in village areas where | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
couples who are seen to transgress certain codes are punished. It's | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
very common for these so-called honour killings to happen. But we | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
haven't heard in recent memory of a situation where two lovers are | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
punished in this way. What happened, we understand, is that this man came | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
proposing marriage. The village head man was informed. He didn't like it. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
The man was not from this tribe. They were then detained. They were | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
ordered to pay a fine. The man could pay the fine. The woman and her | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
family couldn't. As punishment, she was then gang-raped by other members | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
of this village. Of course many of them people she knew, we understand. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
And now this shocking news is getting out. Of course yet again it | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
highlights the issue of rape, how women are treated and how the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
country responds to that. Of course ever since that gang-rape of a Delhi | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
teenager in 2012 made international headlines we have seen this real | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
growth in public anger about violence against women across India. | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
How staunchly would you say that this discrimination against women in | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
India's rural parts of the country, how deeply is that still entrenched? | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
I think it's still very deeply entrenched. We can see that in the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
way that politicians and many figures across the country in some | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
of these village councils, as well, one that was involved in this case, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
where they have pushed back against pressure for greater rights for | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
women. So in the cities you see the protests and so on, of course Delhi | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
after the gang-rape, young people joining that particularly. Some | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
politicians supporting them. But still a lot of resistance. A lot of | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
sense, you hear a lot of men complaining their rights are being | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
infringed by this movement and so I think there's - it's going to take a | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
long time before things change for women. Stay with us here on BBC | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
World News. Diplomats in Geneva are trying to persuade the warring | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
parties in Syria to meet face-to-face after an acrimonious | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
first day at the peace conference. Standing on the shoulders of Christ | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
The Redeemer, workers repair the famous statue after it's damaged by | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
several lightning strikes. Text has executed a Mexican man, in | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
spite of objections from the US and Mexican governments -- Texas. A | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Mexican living illegally in Texas was convicted of murdering a | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
policeman. His lawyers say he wasn't told he could get legal help from | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
the consulate. The diplomatic tussle could, John Kerry warns, affect the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
way US citizens are treated overseas. He took the unusual step | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
of intervening and asking Texas to review this case after the Mexican | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Government said that failing to do so would be a clear violation of | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
international law. What the Mexican Government argue is when Tamayo was | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
arrested for killing a police officer he wasn't informed of his | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
right under international law to seek consular assistance. So they | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
argue if he had that legal assistance he perhaps would have | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
been able to uncover evidence that would have kept him off death row in | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the first place. Texan officials refused to reveal the case. They | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
said if you commit a crime in Texas you are subject to states laws and | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
have gone ahead with the execution. The state department warns that | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
failing to comply with international laws could make it more difficult if | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
American citizens get into legal trouble in the future when they're | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
abroad. The mayor of Toronto is back in trouble again. A few months ago a | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
video emerged of Rob Ford apparently smoking crack crow cane -- cocaine. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Now he has admitted to drinking after being caught on camera | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
swearing and slurring his words. In a press conference he called the | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
events of a Monday night a minor setback but suffer r offered no | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
apology. Monday was unfortunate. I had a minor setback. We all | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
experience these difficult bumps in life. I am telling residents that I | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
am still working hard every day to improve my health and my well-being. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
But again this is completely a private matter. There are some who | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
claim that my personal life is somehow impacting their work. Folks, | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
that is absolute nonsense. This is BBC World News. The latest | :13:47. | :14:07. | |
headlines: One of the u vain opposition leaders -- Ukraine | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
opposition leaders has called for a halt to protests while negotiations | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
continue with the Government. Tens of thousands of platinum miners | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
in South Africa go on strike in their biggest action since 34 | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
workers were shot dead by police in 2012. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
On the second day of the Syrian peace talks diplomats are now in | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Geneva for a series of intensive behind the scenes negotiations. It's | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
still not clear whether the Syrian Government and opposition leaders | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
will get as far as face-to-face talks. And the first day was sound | :14:48. | :15:05. | |
and furious. Syria's government and the opposition in the same room, but | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
these were angry speeches and not negotiations. In between, the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
world's most senior diplomats tried to remind them that the point of | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
these talks is to try to end the war and not trade accusations about who | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
started it. The time has come to negotiate. Syrians must come | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
together to save their country, protect their children and find a | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
peaceful path to a better future. Today, the talks transferred to the | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
United Nations in Geneva, where each side will have separate, private | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
talks with UN officials. On the agenda, not an immediate peace deal, | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
not a transitional government, not the removal of President Assad, but | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
instead, better access for aid agencies. Perhaps some local | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
cease-fires. Anything to bring some small relief to the millions of | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Syrians who have suffered so much. If any of that is agreed, it will be | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
a positive beginning. But it is still not clear whether the two | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
sides will negotiate face-to-face as planned on Friday. These talks were | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
never going to be quick or easy. This week is just the start of a | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
very long process. Could this be the moment when Iran | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
finally comes in from the cold? Iran's newly elected president | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Hassan Rouhani has been addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
It's a first for an Iranian president and it marks a milestone | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
along the road to Iran's rehabilitation with the West. Let's | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
get all the latest from my colleague, Nik Gowing who's live for | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
us in Davos. Welcome to Davos. Hassan Rouhani | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
made a big impact, very low-key but it is what he said and how he said | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
it which was important. He emphasised constructive engagement. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Not just with the West, but the whole world. He said, I announced | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
that one of my priorities of the government is that constructive | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
engagement. That includes with the United States. He laid out the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
possibility of a significant change because of what has happened in the | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
last few weeks, and the negotiations with Iran's nuclear capability with | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
the reduction of 5% enrichment. This is how he put the prospects with the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
United States. TRANSLATION: the engagement between | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Iran and the United States also entered a new phase during the past | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
month. For the first time politicians from both countries have | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
negotiated, exchanged views, made decisions to resolve differences in | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
relation to the nuclear issue. This is a major development since the | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
Iran Islamic revolution. But the Islamic revolution and the | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
foundation of the Islamic Republic will result in more than a century | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
of freedom seeking from the Iranians nation. It is necessary that the | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
ruling bodies in the United states accept Iran's historical realities, | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
not only in words but in action as well. What we got was no | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
understanding of any impression of any conservative pressure on him. He | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
made it clear that what he was trying to do as president, was set a | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
very clear ground work for strategic change in Iran's relationship with | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
the world. Seeing Iran as maybe the 10th biggest economy in the world | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
and maybe in a decade if sanctions are lifted things could move in a | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
different direction, depending on what happens with nuclear | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
enrichment. But what about internally? His winning of the | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
election last year was extraordinary. After a lot of | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
manoeuvring by the Guardian Council trying to make sure more | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
conservative councillors went forward and somebody like Hassan | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
Rouhani did not get elected. But he has laid out a new relationship | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
between the traditional powers of the Islamic and Muslim state of | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Iran, and also the people and how they would now inject a form of | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
democracy. TRANSLATION: we have to pave the way | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
for the opposition to sit around a table with the government. The best | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
solution is to organise a free and fair election inside Syria. No | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
outside party or power can decide for the Syrian people and Syria as a | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
country. So the Islamic Republic of Iran making it clear it is moving in | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
a different direction. He is also here to speak to those in the oil | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
industry. They could start building relations with the economy in Iran | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
once actions are lifted. He did speak to three of the big oil | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
corporations today. Iran is a big oil producer. And the three leaders | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
of those big oil corporations said, it had been an impressive | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
presentation given by both the president and the oil minister. We | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
have Hassan Rouhani speaking here and shortly we will be speaking from | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. You never know who you | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
will bump into, it seems extraordinary they are in the same | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
place at the same time. But sitting at Zurich airport is an Iranian | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
plane, and an Israeli plane sitting alongside each other. Some things | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
extraordinary things do happen. But the message from Iran is | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
constructive engagement with the rest of the world. Thank you very | :21:16. | :21:26. | |
much. In South Sudan, government troops say they have captured all | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
the major towns from rebel control. The president accused his former | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
deputy of trying to stage a coup. Our correspondent Mark Lowen managed | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
to travel to the small settlement and rebel stronghold of Lankien, in | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
the north-east of the country. The rebels are determined to regroup and | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
fight back. Although the government says it has the major towns in this | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
country, there are pockets of control like this one here in | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
Lankien. It is under the control of a rebel movement that is made up | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
from defectors from the National Army but also a local youth militia | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
called the White Army. It was formed to stave off cattle raids, but now | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
it has loftier ambitions. I was out with them yesterday as they came | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
into town. Young and draped in ammunition belts around their necks. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
They have the spoils of War, one said he had his AK-47, bullets and | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
pick-up trucks from Army soldiers they had killed on the way. They | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
want to overthrow the president. But the likelihood of that happening is | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
slim. They don't have the conventional firepower of the | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
government army and for five weeks they have been on the back foot. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Now, they have lost the control of all the major cities in this | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
country. But no sign of wanting to back down from those rebels you have | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
been talking to their in Lankien. Have you spoken to any of them about | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
these accusations from the president to the UN peacekeeping missions in | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
South Sudan, of hiding rebels and guns in some UN camps? Have any of | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
the rebels you have been speaking to mentioned that to you? They deny | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
that entirely. They believe this is a propaganda stunt on behalf of the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
government. They believe it is a conflict on which there has been | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
wild claims on both sides. It is hard to verify this information on | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
the ground because areas like this have been too dangerous to travel | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
to. We are the first road cast team allowed into rebel territory and we | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
have had rare access to see what life is like here. Also, Medecins | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Sans Frontieres has set up an emergency clinic. It is the lifeline | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
in this area. It is receiving wounded from all over the country, | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
mainly people with gunshot wounds. Many of the patients have had to | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
walk two or three days to come here. I have been speaking to soldiers who | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
have been injured. One man took six bullets in his leg, one severed his | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
leg off. Also civilians are caught up in this fighting and that is the | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
real tragedy. Up to 10,000 people have been killed in this war and | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
half a million displaced. The humanitarian display shin is | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
catastrophic and there is no sign yet of any peace settlement to come. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Some other news now. The Moroccan parliament has voted unanimously to | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
amend part of the penal code which allowed men who rape underage girls | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims. The vote comes nearly | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
two years after a 16-year-old, Amina al-Filali, killed herself after | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
being forced to marry her rapist. Her parents and a judge had | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
permitted the marriage to protect the family honour. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
The Argentine president has made her first public speech in six weeks, | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
ending a long silence that led to questions about her health following | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
brain surgery. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was welcomed by hundreds of | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
supporters outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. She | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
dismissed speculation about her health and criticised the country's | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
media. Work has begun to repair the famous | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
statue of Christ the Redeemer which stands above the city of Rio de | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Janeiro. It's been damaged by several recent lightning strikes, | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
two on the right hand and one on the back of the head. Bruno Garcez has | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
more. Standing on the shoulders of giants. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
This view may be breathtaking but these repairmen have a job to do. | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
They are here to fix the damage caused to the right thumb when it | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
was struck while lightning last week. It's right middle finger and | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
part of its head when it last month. It is thought it is struck by | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
lightning on average between three and five times a year. So workers | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
who had to climb inside the 39 metre statue will place more lightening | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
rod is on the structure to prevent further damage. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
TRANSLATION: we are going to augment the lightening rods. The crown of | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the head is a lightning rod that is not reaching all the way to the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
middle finger where the clouds generally reach when they come from | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
the East and the sea. We will extend the lightening rods into the middle | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
finger. The work has been approved and the structure is very sturdy. | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
Officials said it would take about four months to repair, but the | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
statue will remain open throughout the work. | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
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