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it wants further clarification. -- Taleban. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
A trial begins in France of Rwanda's former intelligence chief. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine remain on the barricades as | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
parliament convenes for a new term. And very intimidating, but become | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
far from perfect. A world-record beating server under that enormous | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
wave. -- surfer. Hello, it should have been an | :00:46. | :01:06. | |
historic moment for Pakistan, the day when talks began between the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
government and the Taleban finally getting under way after nearly a | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
decade of conflict, but now the talks are on hold and there is no | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
clear indication of when they might begin. They were due to start two | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
hours ago, but the Pakistan delegation failed to show up. As | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
soon as talks were suspended, Aleem Maqbool went to the building where | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the talks were due to happen. He told me what he found. The Taleban | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
negotiators were sitting waiting for the government negotiators to | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
arrive, and they never arrived. There was a chaotic press | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
conference, the Taleban negotiators very angry that they got a phone | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
call to say that the government negotiators were not coming, and | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
they said there was very little reason given, and that they were not | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
sure about the negotiating team. But the message we were getting from the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Taleban negotiators is that it could be very dangerous indeed, and one of | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
them said anything can happen now because the government did not turn | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
up. Is this something like a disconnect in the choreography, a | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
misunderstanding, or something more sinister at work here? It was the | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
government that instigated these talks, the governments that as the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Taleban to turn up for these talks. For them to pull out is something | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
that the negotiators were very upset about. They say they expected talks | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
to go ahead. Based think it is a delaying tactic on the point of view | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
of the government, but they were quite threatening in the way they | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
put it. They said, if there is a military operation now, we will know | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
that all of this was a delaying tactic and the government was never | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
serious. Whereas if talks had gone ahead, it was part of the way that | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Nawaz Sharif soldered to the Pakistani people, at least we can | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
try talks, and if they fail, we can carry out a military operation with | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
a clear conscience. -- sold it. They have shaken things up a little bit, | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
we have to see now what they officially say, not just the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
negotiators, but some of those negotiators were indicating that it | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
could be a dangerous time now, and that is something that Pakistanis | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
are tired of. They are sick of the attacks and the bloodshed that there | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
has been. Among some of them at least, there was some hope that | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
while negotiations were going on, there might be some respite. Aleem | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Maqbool in Islamabad. It is almost 20 years and is a brutal conflict | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
erupted in Rwanda. In the space of 100 days, it is estimated around | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
800,000 people died, most of them Tutsis. The former intelligence | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
chief in Rwanda, Pascal Simbikangwa, is accused of | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
complicity in genocide and war crimes. I spoke to our Rwanda | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
correspondent about the significance of the trial. Well, in fact, I am | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
not meant to read that. I am going to go to Paul Adams, who joins me | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
now with the background to what is happening in France, particularly | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
the genocide trial in France which has an historic connection. This is | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
the first time the French have conducted a trial related to the | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
events in row under 20 years ago. France is a country that was accused | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
for a long time failing to prevent the genocide in the first place. -- | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
in Rwanda. It was accused of preventing the extradition of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
suspect in that genocide. So angered was the Rwandan government that it | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
severed relations in 2006 over the issue, restoring them a years later. | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
Mr Simbikangwa was found on a French Indian Ocean island, and so that | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
whole French connection was very important. I think all eyes are on | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
friends as it is, for the first time goes ahead with one of these very | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
high cases. Do we know the level of evidence which has been assembled? | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
That remains a serious issue at the international war crimes tribunal in | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
The Hague, getting the evidence necessary. The initial charges have | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
been downgraded, he faces charges of complicity in the genocide. For | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
example, some of the people who remember his role, his fearsome role | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
at the time, are very disappointed, and one connection that they accused | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
him of with a massacre in April of 1994, in which he is alleged to have | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
been present. He is not being prosecuted for that, simply | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
because, 20 years later, there's too much contradictory evidence about | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
his involvement. What he's being accused of and faces charges of is | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
having organised, incited and supplied the militia men who manned | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
checkpoints looking out for Tutsis who were taken from their vehicles | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
and summarily executed. Pascal Simbikangwa is the man who is | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
believed, more than anybody else, to have organised that whole | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
operation. Thank you very much indeed, Paul Adams. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Other news, and shares in Europe have opened lower as markets | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
continue to react to weaker than expected data from the US and | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Chinese manufacturers. Earlier, Asian markets recorded sharp falls | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
with the Japanese index closing down more than 4%. The Dow Jones in New | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
York for more than 2% yesterday, its worst day in more than seven months. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
The World Health Organisation is warning of a looming tidal wave of | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
cancer with the number of cases worldwide expected to go up 75% in | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
just 20 years. It says half of them could be prevented through | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
vaccinations and healthier lifestyles. Many of the new cases | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
will be in the developing world, where rates of smoking and obesity | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
are rising fast. China has cancelled a contract to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
buy rice from Thailand because of an inquiry into a controversial scheme | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
run by the authorities in Bangkok. The deal would have been the first | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
stage of a much bigger sale of more than 7 million tonnes. The Thai | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
government is paying generous subsidies to farmers, critics say | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
the scheme is costly and vulnerable to corruption. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
A new session of parliament in Ukraine has opened in Kiev against | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the backdrop of continuing protests. MPs had planned to debate limiting | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
President Yanukovych's power and freeing all those who had been | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
detained since the protests began, but the session was adjourned until | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
this afternoon, not long after it started. I asked our Ukraine | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
correspondent, David Stern, is there a noticeable shift in the mood among | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the politicians reflecting public concerns? Well, as you say, I am | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
standing above Independence Square right now, the stand-off continues, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
and the battle has shifted. Parliament, though, a very stormy | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
session, and there doesn't seem to be any meeting of the mines between | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
the opposition and the pro-government deputies. -- meeting | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
of the minds. There were some very fiery beaches, but the leader of the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Parliamentary faction for the... -- fiery speeches. There was no sign of | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
compromise at all, and the deputies from the opposition, who were very | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
critical of the government and called on these constitutional | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
changes, which they hoped would be a way out of the crisis. What about | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
the president himself, back from illness and high temperatures? Do | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
you get a sense that his iron grip remains significantly on the ruling | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
party? Well, it seems to be on the ruling party. Of course, within the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
country as a whole, that is a different question. We have these | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
demonstrations that have been going on for over two months now, | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
occupying the central square in Kiev and also government buildings. He is | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
striking a defined position as well, issuing a statement last night, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
calling the protesters extremists, criticising vandalism of government | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
buildings. So at least at the moment, rhetorically speaking, he | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
doesn't seem to be giving any ground. What about the foreign | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
policy coordinator for the European Union, Catherine Ashton? This | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
started after the summit when the association was not signed up to. Is | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
there a willingness to see her? Well, Catherine Ashton is coming to | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Kiev later today, she will be holding talks with top officials, as | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
she has previously. She was here last week as well. The European | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Union is trying to, first of all, he views this crisis or find a | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
resolution to it, and at the same time with the possibility of | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
bringing Ukraine back to the table over this association agreement. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Viktor Yanukovych cancelled the signing of the agreement in | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
November, sparking these demonstrations, but they have become | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
much more than just about the European Union and drawing closer. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
They are now all about seeing Mr Yanukovych out. The protesters say | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
they are not going to leave the square until Mr Yanukovych resigns, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
and they want that to happen immediately. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
It is more than ten years since George W Bush declared mission | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
accomplished in Iraq, but the number of people being killed there has | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
been steadily rising because of growing tensions between Sunni and | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Shia Muslims. Last year was the most violent year since 2008 according to | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
the United Nations. Some of the fiercest clashes have been in Anbar | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
province, which has a Sunni majority. Our correspondent reports | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
from Baghdad. This remote checkpoint is the only | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
way to cross from Anbar province. It is heavily guarded by the Iraqi | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
army. Most Sunnis escaping the violence are ordered to cross on | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
foot and searched. This woman is heavily pregnant. | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
She needs to get to hospital, to a safe place to have her baby. She has | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
come from Fallujah, a town under militant control. They are allowed | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
to drive through. This checkpoint is where the | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
internal refugees Ahmed and processed. Today it has become the | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
only lifeline for the Sunnis in Anbar province fleeing and seeking | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
refuge towards this area. New arrivals gather here at the local | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
library in the small town to register and receive aid. Some still | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
have relatives in Anbar who would be in danger if it was known that their | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
families were being sheltered here. This woman could speak to us because | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
she was bailed. TRANSLATION: It is difficult to stay in peoples homes, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
we do not have money, so we cannot share the financial burden. We | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
barely fled with our lives. 180 Sunni families have arrived here | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
already. Local officials say there is no difference between Sunni or | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Shia here. Their main aim is to protect these people from militant | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
groups. TRANSLATION: We put a great deal of | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
evidence on security and intelligence. -- we want to stop | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
people from trying to harm them. The authority say these families can | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
stay as long as they need, but without national or international | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
help, their hosts could struggle in the months are. | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
-- ahead. Breaking news before the opening of | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Austria's Olympic Committee has | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
reportedly received a letter threatening to kidnap two of its | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
athletes. The build up to the games has been full of threats, and this | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
letter follows those received by several other countries, including | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the United States, a terrorist threat before the games. Olympic | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
chiefs say they posed no danger. They have so far not commented on | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
this latest warning letter from Austria. You with BBC World News, | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
still come: No more kimchi for you and me, the traditional Korean dish | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
under threat in the modern world. A priest in the Central African | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Republic says at least 75 Christians have been killed in the last week in | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
a town in the south of the country. Thousands of people have been killed | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
in sectarian violence which erupted after a coup last year. | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
French troops tried to restore order in an area of the capital. This is a | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
mainly Muslim neighbourhood. People here are afraid after their homes | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
were looted and burned down. When peacekeepers arrived, they and other | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
residents found themselves caught in the middle of another battle between | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Christian and Muslim militias. TRANSLATION: It is terrible, we are | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
suffering, and there is no peace. We are losing houses and people, we | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
need to bring back peace. In the south of the country, a | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Christian priest says that in the past week alone at least 75 people | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
have been killed in sectarian violence. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
It has prompted another appeal from the new interim president, see here | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
visiting people who have been displaced by months of unrest. She | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
is tasked with steering the country towards elections, but her immediate | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
goal is to stop revenge attacks. TRANSLATION: I am your mother and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
you are my children, whether you do good or bad. I will not reject you | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
but embrace and advise you, please do not allow bad people to divide | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
you. For the time being, the country is divided. | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
French and African troops are struggling to restore order. It has | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
prompted the United Nations to ask for a larger peacekeeping force to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
stop the country heading towards a humanitarian disaster. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
This is BBC World News. The latest headlines. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Long-awaited talks between the Pakistani government and the Taliban | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
have been suspended, before they even started. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Accused of complicity in genocide, the trial begins in France of | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
Rwanda's former intelligence chief, Pascal Simbikangwa. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
He denies the charges against him. We're used to being told to turn off | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
our laptops, mobiles and other gadgets on aircraft. But, now, there | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
are new safety concerns, even when these devices are apparently safely | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
switched off. Many of them use lithium batteries. And, if they | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
develop a fault, they can catch fire or even explode. Our transport | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
correspondent Richard Westcott reports. | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
They might be small but, if they go wrong, they pack a hell of a punch. | :16:42. | :16:56. | |
The average airliner will have hundreds of lithium batteries | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
on-board. In our phones, laptops, cameras, tablets. It is rare for | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
them to end up like this. We forced these to fail by heating them up. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
But Britain's air safety watchdog has told the BBC it is especially | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
concerned about people flying with untested counterfeit batteries | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
bought online. Any fire on an aircraft is a very | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
serious incident. Yes, a fire can result in the loss of an aircraft | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
which is why it is important the stringent international safety | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
standards are adhered to. You saw how dramatic that was. A normal | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
laptop battery. It has completely disintegrated. Imagine that exploded | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
on an aircraft. That trees have already gone long. In April 2012. A | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
flight attendant on a US aircraft described a shooting fire in the | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
aisle from a passenger's burning battery. They managed to put it out | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
using wet towels from the drinks cart. The following September, | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
another flight attendant and two passengers were burnt, dealing with | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
an overheating phone and spare battery. There have been other | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
similar incidents is around the world. The standard response to | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
dealing with a device fire is as follows. | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
This training video is one of several about to go online, to help | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
airlines, airport workers and passengers understand. One testing | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
expert is keen to dampen fears. Most batteries go through an | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
extensive quality control process. Battery manufacturers, although they | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
are putting work into increasing capacity batteries, they will also | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
continue doing work on improving safety mechanisms built into them. | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
If you are flying with lithium batteries, the regulators advise to | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
tape up any exposed metal connectors, or put it in a plastic | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
bag. Always carry them in your hand luggage. 2013 was the safest year in | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
aviation history. But the threat from fire remains as great as ever. | :19:06. | :19:17. | |
South Korea is keen to export it food overseas. There is one dish in | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
particular seem as quintessentially Korean, a spicy fermented vegetable | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
dish of kimchi. It is credited with curing everything from the common | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
cold to cancer. Now it is under threat. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
When a national treasure is at stake, South Korea tend to pull out | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
all the stops. The message of this government sponsored event is that | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
the national dish of kimchi, once eaten by royalty, is under attack | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
from the more modern forces of globalisation. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
TRANSLATION: The kimchi industry in the country is going through an | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
ordeal with a harsh winter weather. People's diets are consuming less | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
kimchi. Because of the increase in imported kimchi there are big | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
difficulties for the local producers. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
The humble fermented cabbage dish has a treasured place in culinary | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
history. A bumper crop in cabbage even made the news during the war. | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
The government is trying hard to market the national dish to a global | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
audience. A task for the kimchi grandmaster. Foreigners, she says, | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
like kimchi less salty and aromatic than domestic consumers. Wherever it | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
is eaten, she believes we'll kimchi can only be made in Korea. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
TRANSLATION: The ingredients are really important, not to mention the | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
water, temperature, humidity. It is this country where those elements | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
exist so the kimchi made in Korea is made from healthy bacteria. In | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
China, the ingredients are different and the environment is different. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
You don't get the same properties. Our kimchi is very different. | :21:26. | :21:37. | |
Consumers here seem to agree. Last year South Korea imported 220,000 | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
tonnes of kimchi from China. But you won't find it here. Supermarket | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
staff say Korean customers would not buy it. Instead, the Chinese produce | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
ends up in the catering industry where it is hidden from view. With | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
some of the longest working hours in the world, few have time to make | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
kimchi themselves. Instead, Mrs Kim holds occasional tutorials for | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
foreign diplomats and tourists. It may not be as cute to look at as a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
pop band but as cultural ambassadors go, kimchi kicks harder. | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
Eastern Europe is counting the cost of some of the worst winter weather. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Households in Slovenia have been left without electricity. The | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
government is appealing for help from neighbouring countries. Other | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
European countries are also affected by heavy snowfall. | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
As picture perfect as it looks, snow has brought havoc to Slovenia. In a | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
country of around 2 million people, one in four homes is without power. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
That is because of this. All people can do is wait until help arrives. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
But that help may take some time. Blizzards have disrupted transport | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
and closed more than 40% of schools. If that wasn't bad enough, people | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
have been asked not to drink the tap water either. | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
TRANSLATION: I can only imagine what it must be like for those over 80, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
or those with small children. There is no electricity, water supply is a | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
problem as well. The winter blast has caused chaos in | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Serbia. Croatia. And Germany as well. More than 1000 people had to | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
be rescued from their cars. When they eventually got home, they were | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
faced with this. Many having to dig their way to their front door. This | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
is Austria, home owners have been shovelling for days. The wintry | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
conditions are also causing problems in Italy where they are suffering | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
from widespread flooding. Torrential rain has caused misery for home | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
owners. Just getting around is a challenge, which is why the tens of | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
thousands who are affected, they will be hoping an end to this | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
extreme weather is inside soon. He described it as intimidating, | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
bumpy, and far from perfect. But there's a chance it may have | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
resulted in a new world record. This is an 80-foot wave being surfed by | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
34-year-old plumber Andrew Cotton along the St Nazare coast in | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Portugal on Sunday. It could be the highest that's ever been ridden. We | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
won't know for sure until May, when surf company Billabong measure it. | :24:40. | :24:56. | |
In this new digital age, it is hard to believe that social media was | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
viewed by many as toys for bored teenagers who didn't get out | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
enough. Today, Facebook is used by nearly one in five people, as it | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
celebrates its 10th birthday. Facebook has turned ten years. Ten | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
years of light, and also procrastination. This is how it | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
looked in 2004. Back then it was only open to Harvard university | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
students. Fast forward a decade later and this is how it looks with | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
its 1.2 billion users. 81% are outside the US and Canada. On | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
average, 757 million people log on each day. In 2013, the top topic of | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
conversation was Pope Francis. The top life event people shed dealt | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
with relationship status. Speaking of relationships, it's not all roses | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
in cyberspace. One study found 80% of US divorce attorneys had seen | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
more cases involving social media. Facebook can be a lonely place. A | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
University of Michelin study found that more young adults used | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Facebook, the worse they felt. Still, other studies found spending | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
time on Facebook can boost self esteem. Either way, these | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
psychological implications of Internet use were not around in | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
2004. Neither was Internet privacy a topic. Over the years, the Internet | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
has been awash with concerns. It can be confusing stuff. What began on | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
college campuses is now big business. One survey found the | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
highest rate of growth is with folks 65 and older. Facebook is losing | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
parts of the youth crowd to other services. Still, Facebook isn't in | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
such a bad position. At the end of 2013, it had $11.5 billion in | :27:02. | :27:02. |