:00:07. > :00:14.Hello, I am Geeta Guru-Murthy with BBC World News, our top stories: A
:00:15. > :00:18.massive bomb blast in Aleppo has destroyed a hotel being used by
:00:19. > :00:21.government forces. Pro-Russian activists in eastern
:00:22. > :00:26.Ukraine will go ahead with Sunday's referendum on independence despite
:00:27. > :00:30.Vladimir Putin's call to postpone it. The kidnapping of more than 200
:00:31. > :00:33.schoolgirls in Nigeria, could it mark the beginning of the end in
:00:34. > :00:56.terrorism in the country? Hello. Reports from Syria say there
:00:57. > :01:01.has been a huge explosion on the fringes of a government-held area of
:01:02. > :01:05.the northern city of Aleppo. Syrian state television says the explosion
:01:06. > :01:10.has caused widespread damage. Reports suggest it flattened a hotel
:01:11. > :01:16.used by government troops. It is called the Calton Hotel next to the
:01:17. > :01:19.medieval citadel. This picture has been published by opposition
:01:20. > :01:22.activists reportedly showing smoke rising from the old city. Rebels
:01:23. > :01:31.apparently planted explosives in a tunnel underneath the hotel. With me
:01:32. > :01:35.is the BBC's regional editor, Sebastian Usher. What can you tell
:01:36. > :01:41.me about what might have happened here? As you were saying, the
:01:42. > :01:48.reports are from activists and the group who carried out the attack,
:01:49. > :01:53.which gives a sense of the scale of the explosion, if it is accurate.
:01:54. > :01:57.This is an area which would once have been full of tourists, this is
:01:58. > :02:02.a very prestigious Hotel, one of the most beautiful in Aleppo next to the
:02:03. > :02:06.old citadel, which is a World Heritage Site. It shows just how bad
:02:07. > :02:11.the situation has been in Aleppo over the past two years since the
:02:12. > :02:14.stalemate is set in between rebel fighters and government forces. Now,
:02:15. > :02:18.both sides have tried to intensify their attacks in the past few
:02:19. > :02:22.months, trying to break that stalemate. The government has
:02:23. > :02:26.intensified its air strikes with the barrel bombs which it uses, these
:02:27. > :02:31.improvised TNT devices which can cause terrible carnage. There have
:02:32. > :02:36.been suicide bomb attacks, just last week two big suicide bomb attacks by
:02:37. > :02:40.the rebel fighters. The rebel fighters are mostly Islamists,
:02:41. > :02:44.radical Islamists, this Islamist group. Now, it is not the first time
:02:45. > :02:50.that we have heard of tunnels underneath this particular hotel
:02:51. > :02:54.being targeted by rebels. Back in February, the government said it had
:02:55. > :02:59.stopped an attempt to launch a major explosion like this one in exactly
:03:00. > :03:03.the same place. Why would they want to blow this up? Well, they want to
:03:04. > :03:09.show that they are still there, still a force to be reckoned with.
:03:10. > :03:13.They want to show that they can have a propaganda coup, in a sense,
:03:14. > :03:18.because in the past two or three months, the report that we have been
:03:19. > :03:22.getting have given a sense that President Assad's forces are gaining
:03:23. > :03:29.momentum in some of the key areas in the country. Around Homs, Damascus,
:03:30. > :03:32.along the Lebanese border. Aleppo, like I say, has not shown any real
:03:33. > :03:37.movement between the two sides, it is one of the areas which is very
:03:38. > :03:41.much contested between them, where the rebels want to show they are
:03:42. > :03:45.still a major force. It is more that than anything else. But as you were
:03:46. > :03:48.saying, we believe that government forces were potentially... Well, not
:03:49. > :03:55.the government forces, the paramilitary group which is most
:03:56. > :03:58.hated by the rebels. Just in broader terms, it has become so
:03:59. > :04:04.complicated, hasn't it? In terms of which side the West might want to
:04:05. > :04:10.win now. We saw reports several months ago about people going to
:04:11. > :04:13.talk to the Assad government from the British Government's security
:04:14. > :04:19.agency, because the threat from Islamist as cause real concern.
:04:20. > :04:24.Russia's arguments were maybe finding more favour. Who is getting
:04:25. > :04:28.support from where? Well, berries Islamist groups are still getting
:04:29. > :04:32.support from various sources. -- various. The West has stepped back
:04:33. > :04:38.to some extent in direct support for fighters on the ground. They are
:04:39. > :04:41.trying still to back up the exile opposition outside, which emerged
:04:42. > :04:44.from the peaceful opposition is originally, but the problem
:04:45. > :04:46.from the peaceful opposition is that is that they have no real say
:04:47. > :04:47.from the peaceful opposition is on the ground. The West is in a
:04:48. > :04:50.bind, because they completely with the rebels against
:04:51. > :04:56.the government that fractured and completely with the rebels against
:04:57. > :05:01.President Assad hoped that was his only way out, being the only bad
:05:02. > :05:04.guy, and that has made it very difficult for the West. Even
:05:05. > :05:08.countries like Saudi Arabia, which had given some of the strongest
:05:09. > :05:12.support to Islamist rebel fighters, has now pulled back and brought in
:05:13. > :05:15.strong penalties against their nationals to fight in Syria.
:05:16. > :05:19.Sebastian Usher, thank you for joining us.
:05:20. > :05:22.Within the last half an hour, pro-Russian separatists in eastern
:05:23. > :05:26.Ukraine have decided to go ahead with a referendum on independence
:05:27. > :05:31.this weekend. They have been asked to postpone the vote by Vladimir
:05:32. > :05:36.Putin. There are widespread fears that it could set Ukraine on the
:05:37. > :05:42.path to civil war. Sarah Rainsford is in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
:05:43. > :05:48.How surprising is it, Sarah, that the separatists are deciding to go
:05:49. > :05:51.ahead with the referendum? Well, I think not really surprising,
:05:52. > :05:51.ahead with the referendum? Well, I things have developed so far here,
:05:52. > :05:54.ahead with the referendum? Well, I and passions have been inflamed so
:05:55. > :05:55.far, so I think not and passions have been inflamed so
:05:56. > :06:02.many people still want this to go and passions have been inflamed so
:06:03. > :06:02.ahead. The people who are organising it
:06:03. > :06:09.ahead. The people who are organising things here. Again, a point that
:06:10. > :06:14.people are keen to stress, things here. Again, a point that
:06:15. > :06:18.along that this is a local issue, things here. Again, a point that
:06:19. > :06:21.not something things here. Again, a point that
:06:22. > :06:26.Russia. So in a way, boating to continue with the Rendon is proof of
:06:27. > :06:32.that. But yes, a lot of strong feelings here. A lot of activists
:06:33. > :06:35.want the chance to express their anger with Kiev, a government that
:06:36. > :06:38.they say came to power illegitimately and which they say
:06:39. > :06:43.does not represent them. On the other hand, of course, the
:06:44. > :06:51.government in Kiev making the point that is vote is unconstitutional and
:06:52. > :06:54.will not be recognised. So a difficult moment, but among
:06:55. > :06:59.pro-Russian activists, a lot of people saying, look, if we don't
:07:00. > :07:06.have this vote, what have these last few weeks and months of tensions
:07:07. > :07:10.here been for? And yet, Sarah, we have seen an apparent shift from
:07:11. > :07:15.Vladimir Putin, haven't we? Some of what he said and why we think we
:07:16. > :07:17.have had this change in tone. Well, we have, and there are big questions
:07:18. > :07:24.about what that means and we have, and there are big questions
:07:25. > :07:28.was trying to achieve. President Putin called on pro-Russian groups
:07:29. > :07:30.to postpone the referendum, suspecting they might ignore him and
:07:31. > :07:33.to postpone the referendum, showing they are not being
:07:34. > :07:37.controlled by Russia, or was he genuinely trying to postpone it
:07:38. > :07:41.because he thinks it is ratcheting up tensions here in eastern Ukraine.
:07:42. > :07:45.In a way, his motives we will never know, but the result is that the
:07:46. > :07:50.referendum will go ahead, and the situation is extremely tense. There
:07:51. > :07:57.has been fighting around Sloviansk, and in other cities there are armed
:07:58. > :08:02.men, many groups in control of tea buildings in this city. We went to
:08:03. > :08:06.another city in the south of Donetsk yesterday, and there is now a
:08:07. > :08:11.Ukrainian military checkpoint on the main roads into the city. Armoured
:08:12. > :08:14.personnel carriers and Ukrainian military on the leading role into
:08:15. > :08:18.one of the big cities here in this region. So it is a very difficult
:08:19. > :08:24.situation, and nobody really knows where it is going. Also very wet,
:08:25. > :08:28.Sarah, as we can see! The weather looks miserable, as is the mood.
:08:29. > :08:32.Thank you very much. Barclays says it will cut 19,000
:08:33. > :08:35.Thank you very much. jobs over the next three years
:08:36. > :08:39.following a string of disasters, including the LIBOR rate rating
:08:40. > :08:43.scandal. 7000 posts are to go in investment banking as it tries to
:08:44. > :08:48.retreat from more risky areas. Barclays will also set up a
:08:49. > :08:54.so-called bad bank to eventually sell or rundown non-core operations.
:08:55. > :08:58.Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, has told a meeting of the
:08:59. > :09:02.World Economic Forum in Abuja that the kidnapping of more than 200
:09:03. > :09:07.schoolgirls could mark the beginning of the end of terrorism in Nigeria.
:09:08. > :09:09.The United States, Britain and France are sending specialist teams
:09:10. > :09:15.to the north-east of the country to help with the search for the
:09:16. > :09:21.schoolgirls who were abducted last month by Islamist militants in Borno
:09:22. > :09:25.State. Of course, since yesterday, we have been joined by
:09:26. > :09:30.representatives from the government of China, who promised our sisters
:09:31. > :09:35.assistance that will come almost immediately. The government of the
:09:36. > :09:41.United States of America, the United Kingdom and France have also spoken
:09:42. > :09:48.with me, and have expressed their commitment to help us resolve this
:09:49. > :09:54.crisis in Nigeria. I believe that the kidnap of these girls will be
:09:55. > :09:56.the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria.
:09:57. > :10:01.Vice president Goodluck Jonathan. We have also been getting details today
:10:02. > :10:06.of other suspected attacks by Boko Haram. It is now thought that
:10:07. > :10:10.several hundred people have been killed when they stormed a town,
:10:11. > :10:16.Boko Haram, in Borno State near the border last week. Tommy Allan Depo
:10:17. > :10:22.in Abuja knows more about the attack. -- Tommy Oladipo.
:10:23. > :10:26.We are hearing more from residents of the town, as well as a local
:10:27. > :10:31.politician representing the area that gunmen arrived in the town on
:10:32. > :10:35.Monday evening, driving trucks, fully armed, they came in and opened
:10:36. > :10:41.fire on the public, said buildings and cars alight. Many people were
:10:42. > :10:45.able to escape, but hundreds were unlucky and lost their lives.
:10:46. > :10:49.Do we know exactly where this happened and has anyone been able to
:10:50. > :10:54.speak to anyone who was involved or witnessed the attacks? Well, this
:10:55. > :10:58.happened in a border town, close to the border between Nigeria and
:10:59. > :11:03.Cameroon. Now, it is thought that the manner in which this attack was
:11:04. > :11:06.carried out is similar to the way Boko Haram militants to carry out
:11:07. > :11:10.their attacks. Now, there is no confirmation yet as to whether they
:11:11. > :11:15.were the ones involved, but Boko Haram has been carrying out attacks
:11:16. > :11:19.in this area for a long time. Also, you know, the news came at a very
:11:20. > :11:23.late because this place is very remote, and it would usually take a
:11:24. > :11:26.long time not just for the news to filter out, but also for reports to
:11:27. > :11:33.get through to the security forces who should be able to counter
:11:34. > :11:36.whatever attack is going on. Tommy, people will be perhaps quite
:11:37. > :11:40.horrified, obviously, to hear about yet another attack, even when there
:11:41. > :11:45.is a focus in security terms on the area. Do we know exactly who is
:11:46. > :11:50.funding and supporting Boko Haram? Why are they able to carry out these
:11:51. > :11:53.attacks at all? That is a question many people are asking, because
:11:54. > :11:58.these are sustained attacks for the past four or five years now. This
:11:59. > :12:01.year we have seen almost daily attacks across north-eastern
:12:02. > :12:06.Nigeria, and this doesn't appear to be just a regular group, you know,
:12:07. > :12:11.despondent people where they appear to have serious funding. Look at
:12:12. > :12:14.their videos, they have lots and lots of brand-new vehicles, they
:12:15. > :12:20.have armoured personnel carriers, full ammunition on them. So they
:12:21. > :12:24.definitely do have some huge funding coming from somewhere, but you know,
:12:25. > :12:31.so far it is not clear where that is. Tommy Orla Depo in Abuja.
:12:32. > :12:34.Early results from the South African election suggests the ruling ANC has
:12:35. > :12:41.taken the lead with around half of the votes counted. They are running
:12:42. > :12:45.at close to 60%. We will not get the final result until Saturday. Zeinab
:12:46. > :12:49.Badawi is at the national results centre in Pretoria. Lovely to see
:12:50. > :12:55.you, what results do you have for us at the moment? Well, I will tell you
:12:56. > :12:59.very quickly that we have something like 46% of the national vote
:13:00. > :13:06.counted, and the ANC seems to be on 63% of the vote. The official
:13:07. > :13:09.opposition, the democratic alliance, is on 23%. They will be pleased with
:13:10. > :13:17.that, that is what they were hoping for. Last time they had around 70%.
:13:18. > :13:22.But the real surprise has been the success of the Economic Freedom
:13:23. > :13:25.Fighters, on around 4.7%, which could give it around 15 or 20 seats
:13:26. > :13:32.in the National Assembly, the Parliament, which is quite a
:13:33. > :13:38.substantial presence for them. 70% is the turnout, we have 72% in fact,
:13:39. > :13:41.last time it was 77%, so again people worried that people wouldn't
:13:42. > :13:48.show up, register their disaffection by not voting, but they did. Let's
:13:49. > :13:51.cut through the figures, I have got Marie Harris with me from a pollster
:13:52. > :13:56.in the country, I gave a quick rundown of the figures, but in terms
:13:57. > :13:59.of outcome, everyone was saying, look, the ANC, corruption
:14:00. > :14:03.allegations swirling around the leadership and that kind of thing,
:14:04. > :14:08.but what is the headline message in terms of the ANC performance in this
:14:09. > :14:11.election? Over the ANC will not get the two thirds majority they were
:14:12. > :14:17.hoping for. It will be marginally less than they were last time, but
:14:18. > :14:20.they will take eight of the nine provinces in the country. So they
:14:21. > :14:24.will only see a couple of the centage points dropped in the vote,
:14:25. > :14:27.so they going to pronounce themselves quite pleased with that,
:14:28. > :14:32.given the doom and gloom in some of the predictions? I think they will
:14:33. > :14:38.be quite happy with that, although they said that the votes that they
:14:39. > :14:42.were losing to the Economic Freedom Fighters, they were gaining again
:14:43. > :14:47.from one of the other political parties, the new kid on the block in
:14:48. > :14:52.2009. They have largely disappeared in that election. A lot of their
:14:53. > :14:59.representatives actually crossed the floor to the ANC. I should remind
:15:00. > :15:04.everyone, that was standing in 2009, started by disgruntled members
:15:05. > :15:12.of the ANC. So apart from them, what about the EFF, led by Julius Malema?
:15:13. > :15:13.Will they be a substantial force in South African politics, and if so,
:15:14. > :15:21.in what way will it be apparent? South African politics, and if so,
:15:22. > :15:25.my view, I think they will form the nucleus of the Labour Party to the
:15:26. > :15:27.left of the ANC. Not that this will happen tomorrow or next month. This
:15:28. > :15:30.is something which happen tomorrow or next month. This
:15:31. > :15:36.the next few years. So really I think the EFF will deliver a simple
:15:37. > :15:40.the next few years. So really I message and they knew exactly what
:15:41. > :15:42.they wanted to target. They basically had
:15:43. > :15:48.they wanted to target. They targeting in their campaigns. On the
:15:49. > :15:52.one side, people who are unemployed, more urban black people
:15:53. > :15:59.who are unemployed, and on the other side, people who do more manual
:16:00. > :16:03.labour. Regardless of colour they had further appeal there. Very
:16:04. > :16:07.quickly, the picture as we have it now, 46% of the votes counted, is
:16:08. > :16:15.that picture going to change radically by the time we get the
:16:16. > :16:25.full results? I hope not. Because our predictions were 63% for the
:16:26. > :16:30.ANC, 23 for the VA and 4.7 for the EFF. So I will hope this is what the
:16:31. > :16:35.election will be like. Sounds like you got it spot on. I hope so.
:16:36. > :16:38.election will be like. Sounds like you have it. Only half of the votes
:16:39. > :16:42.counted you have it. Only half of the votes
:16:43. > :16:47.experts, they are saying similar things and the picture is not likely
:16:48. > :16:52.to change radically. So the overall idea we are getting now is that the
:16:53. > :16:53.ANC will only see a drop of a couple of percentage points also in its
:16:54. > :16:57.support from the last elections of percentage points also in its
:16:58. > :17:10.2009, when it got of percentage points also in its
:17:11. > :17:17.Staying in South of percentage points also in its
:17:18. > :17:20.Wednesday because of the elections. The defence team has called an
:17:21. > :17:22.expert witness to challenge evidence that
:17:23. > :17:26.expert witness to challenge evidence had eaten shortly before she was
:17:27. > :17:29.killed. Vietnamese naval ships have collided
:17:30. > :17:34.with a Chinese vessel in a disputed part of the South China Sea.
:17:35. > :17:35.with a Chinese vessel in a disputed incident happened as Vietnam was
:17:36. > :17:37.trying to prevent China from establishing an oil rig in an area
:17:38. > :17:45.claimed by both nations. establishing an oil rig in an area
:17:46. > :17:47.officials said their ships had been blasted with water
:17:48. > :17:48.officials said their ships had been deliberately rammed by the Chinese
:17:49. > :18:04.ship. deliberately rammed by the Chinese
:18:05. > :18:06.Stay with us. Much more to come. Six months after the devastating
:18:07. > :18:16.typhoon, we return to Tacloban, to meet survivors trying to rebuild
:18:17. > :18:19.their city and their lives. It's the newest state in the world,
:18:20. > :18:22.but already, Amnesty International is warning that South Sudan is on
:18:23. > :18:25.the brink of humanitarian disaster. The campaigning group says both
:18:26. > :18:27.sides in the country's civil war have carried out atrocities,
:18:28. > :18:30.including ethnically motivated attacks on civilians. Our
:18:31. > :18:33.correspondent, Alastair Leithead, is in the South Sudanese capital Juba,
:18:34. > :18:36.and explains the main points made in the report.
:18:37. > :18:40.What this does is pull together the various reports of massacres, of
:18:41. > :18:45.killings on ethnic lines, on sexual violence committed since the crisis
:18:46. > :18:50.began in the middle of December last year. And for the first three months
:18:51. > :18:53.of this year up to March. We have heard of things that have been
:18:54. > :18:57.happening since then but this is based on more than 100 witnesses and
:18:58. > :19:02.victims who have been interviewed, who, as you say, paint a very grim
:19:03. > :19:07.picture of some of the atrocities that have been carried out. The UN
:19:08. > :19:11.special commission has only been here and said that this constitutes
:19:12. > :19:16.crimes against humanity. -- has already been here. It lists things
:19:17. > :19:21.that happened here in Juba, the day after the crisis began. Mass
:19:22. > :19:26.killings based on who was from which tribe. It goes through a list of
:19:27. > :19:30.churches, mosques, hospitals, UN compounds where people have been
:19:31. > :19:34.killed. And it really goes into detail about this cycle of attacks
:19:35. > :19:38.and revenge killings that we have seen here.
:19:39. > :19:41.Federal police in Brazil have gone on strike over pay and threaten to
:19:42. > :19:45.continue their protest during the football World Cup next month. Many
:19:46. > :19:48.police walked out for 24 hours across the country, including some
:19:49. > :19:52.of the cities that will host tournament matches. Last month,
:19:53. > :19:55.thousands of soldiers were deployed to Bahia to maintain order after
:19:56. > :20:02.police went on strike for two days over pay.
:20:03. > :20:05.Much more on the World Cup preparations in Brazil on the
:20:06. > :20:14.website. Do have a look. This is BBC World News. These are
:20:15. > :20:18.the headlines: A huge bomb blast has destroyed a
:20:19. > :20:22.hotel in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo that was being used by
:20:23. > :20:25.government forces. Pro-Russian activists in eastern
:20:26. > :20:28.Ukraine going ahead with Sunday's referendum on autonomy, ignoring a
:20:29. > :20:40.call by Vladimir Putin to postpone it.
:20:41. > :20:45.It's six months since the biggest typhoon ever to hit land swept
:20:46. > :20:53.across the city of Tacloban in the Philippines. The storm surge
:20:54. > :20:56.destroyed almost everything in its path and killed more than 6,000
:20:57. > :20:59.people. Here's our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. He has been
:21:00. > :21:04.finding out what has happened to the survivors of Tacloban.
:21:05. > :21:11.On the beach to the south of Tacloban city, they have come to
:21:12. > :21:18.remember San Francisco cruise. They were lost when a huge wave smashed
:21:19. > :21:24.into the side of their house. Today would have been her son's 31st
:21:25. > :21:31.birthday. I cannot describe the pain. It's really painful. Sometimes
:21:32. > :21:39.I wake up early in the morning but I pray and pray and I thank God she
:21:40. > :21:48.left my daughter with me. I cannot stand on my own without them. Six
:21:49. > :21:52.months after Typhoon higher and ripped this city apart, I have come
:21:53. > :22:03.back to see what happened and try to see some of those I met. -- Typhoon
:22:04. > :22:08.Haiyan. How are you? Fine! Good to see you. Last time I saw him, this
:22:09. > :22:13.is what it looked like. His wife's body was up under a fallen coconut
:22:14. > :22:17.tree. Close by, a mass grave was being filled with dozens of bodies.
:22:18. > :22:24.Today, the scene is much more peaceful. But he is clearly still
:22:25. > :22:31.struggling. I try not to... Bring back the memory. Because it's very
:22:32. > :22:40.painful. I just forget. Just move forward. You know, if I start to
:22:41. > :22:47.remember her again... I don't know. What will happen. What is ready
:22:48. > :22:51.striking coming back year after six months is seeing how hard it is for
:22:52. > :22:56.people in developing countries like the Philippines to recover after a
:22:57. > :23:00.major disaster like this. Unlike in Britain or America, people here had
:23:01. > :23:04.no insurance, and so they lost their homes, their cars, their fishing
:23:05. > :23:10.boats, and now they have nothing, no means with which to start over
:23:11. > :23:16.again. Getting people back to work and earning money is the key. This
:23:17. > :23:20.scheme is run by Oxfam, with money donated by people from Great
:23:21. > :23:25.Britain. 20,000 fishing boats were destroyed by the typhoon. With help,
:23:26. > :23:35.people here are slowly getting back on their feet. But on our last day,
:23:36. > :23:45.we come across a story almost too painful to tell. It is the story of
:23:46. > :23:49.this little girl. The wave took away her whole family. Mother, father and
:23:50. > :23:53.her five siblings. This man managed to grab her from the raging waters,
:23:54. > :24:00.but in the same moment, he lost his own wife and three children.
:24:01. > :24:04.TRANSLATION: Sometimes, even when I'm drunk I still can't sleep. I see
:24:05. > :24:09.my children's faces calling out to me for help. In my nightmares, they
:24:10. > :24:20.are asking, why was I not able to save them? I was able to save
:24:21. > :24:25.others. Why not them? Without her parents, she faces a precarious
:24:26. > :24:38.future. Without his wife and children, he says he has no future.
:24:39. > :24:44.Before we go, they are the sort of viewing figures the producers of The
:24:45. > :24:53.Voice, or America's got talent could only dream of. Millions and millions
:24:54. > :25:00.are expected to watch the final of Eurovision this Saturday. We have
:25:01. > :25:04.been to meet one fan who -- to find out why he books tickets year after
:25:05. > :25:11.year. My name is Simon and I work in the
:25:12. > :25:17.City. I've been involved in internal audit and control for the last 28
:25:18. > :25:26.years. And there's a dark side to me, yes I'm Eurovision fan! The
:25:27. > :25:32.first time I went was 98, which was in Birmingham. 2000, Stockholm,
:25:33. > :25:38.Sweden, Tallinn, Riga, Athens, Helsinki, Belgrade, Moscow, Oslo,
:25:39. > :25:43.Dusseldorf, Malmo in Sweden and then this year, Copenhagen. I think it's
:25:44. > :25:46.just fun. It's a competition and it's fun. It's like sport but
:25:47. > :25:53.without the sport. Borderline obsession, yes! Time to pack,
:25:54. > :25:55.really. Got to put the essential Eurovision equipment in the case.
:25:56. > :26:13.The main thing is loads Finally, we have arrived in
:26:14. > :26:17.Copenhagen. All through the centre of the city there are stages that
:26:18. > :26:21.have been set up and through the day the acts performing for the public.
:26:22. > :26:32.Just creating the great Eurovision atmosphere that always comes to town
:26:33. > :26:34.in a host city. Everybody sing! We are in the Euro cafe, which is set
:26:35. > :26:39.up every year by the fan club. are in the Euro cafe, which is set
:26:40. > :26:45.year, we meet up with the same people. I've made friendships across
:26:46. > :26:51.Europe from Eurovision. Oh, no, when it's over, we all go through post
:26:52. > :26:55.Eurovision depression. You can let me know by tweeting me
:26:56. > :27:06.whether you are a fan or not! Thank you for watching today.
:27:07. > :27:08.Sorry, what? I gotta get off the show.
:27:09. > :27:21...galling things you have done in the short time that we have known you...!