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This is BBC World News. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:08 | |
I'm Sharanjit Leyl. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:09 | |
Our top stories: | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
In Syria, the first evacuations
begin from a rebel-held | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
suburb near Damascus. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:15 | |
But there's no relief
for the hundreds more trapped | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
in Ghouta. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Record snow falls on the US city
of Erie, burying homes and cars | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
under deep drifts. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:31 | |
You know, it is a little ridiculous
but I keep pecking away at it. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:39 | |
Meanwhile in the UK,
snow and ice cause widespread | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
disruption to travel,
on the roads and in the air. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
Barack Obama urges the responsible
use of social media, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
in his first interview
since leaving office. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
He's been speaking to
Prince Harry here on the BBC. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Hello and welcome
to BBC World News. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
Aid workers and Syrian volunteers
have begun to evacuate dozens | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
of critically-ill patients from
a rebel-held suburb near Damascus. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
Last week, international aid
agencies made an appeal | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
to President Assad to allow
the evacuation of seven children | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
with cancer. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
The first of the patients were taken
out of Eastern Ghouta overnight | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
by the Red Cross and
the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
More patients should be evacuated
in the coming days as part of a deal | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
between the government and rebels. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
But hundreds more
are in need of treatment. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
The medical situation for people
living in eastern Ghouta | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
is desperate after four
years under siege. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
Martin Patience reports from Beirut. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:50 | |
Seven-year-old Imjy is preparing
for a short journey, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
and it will almost certainly
end up saving her life. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
She is suffering from haemophilia, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
but last night she was among four
critically-ill patients | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
to be evacuated to Damascus
for life-saving treatment. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:09 | |
This is what she's leaving behind. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
Eastern Ghouta is one of the last
remaining rebel strongholds, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
fighting the government
of Bashar al-Assad. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
It's been bombed and besieged
for four years, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
with fighting intensifing
in recent weeks. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
I think it's a combination
of everybody's efforts, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
that at this really low time
in Syria there is a ray of light, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
and it's the children. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
It's the children who are missing
growing up in Syria - | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
we must sort them out, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
to give Syria a chance
of a prosperous and peaceful future. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
But food is hard to come by. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
Malnutrition is now widespread. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
Human rights groups accuse
the Syrian government | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
of trying to starve
the rebels into submission. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:57 | |
This evacuation may
have the appearances | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
of a humanitarian gesture,
but that's simply not the case. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
We've been told by two sources
that the Syrian government | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
only agreed to it as part
of a prisoner exchange. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
The main rebel faction
in Eastern Ghouta agreed to free | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
29 Syrian government hostages, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
and in return the same number
of critically ill patients | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
are being allowed to receive
urgent medical care. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
But the United Nations says hundreds
of others need to be evacuated. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
Among them, three-month-old Karim, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
who was injured
by government shelling. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
He lost his left eye. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
His mother was killed. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
Despite a prominent social media
campaign, he is not being allowed | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
to leave Eastern Ghouta. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
TRANSLATION: Karim is injured,
he's going to lose his sight. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
Here in the Ghouta
he can't get treated. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:58 | |
The doctor wants to perform
an operation, | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
so that he doesn't
lose the sight in his other eye. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
For some there is now hope, | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
but for most, help is not
coming any time soon. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
Martin Patience, BBC News, Beirut. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
Anastasia Isyuk is the
spokesperson of ICRC. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
Earlier she explained
the situation her colleagues | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
are facing as they evacuate
people from Ghouta. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:27 | |
The situation is very difficult, as
you can imagine. Already it was | 0:04:27 | 0:04:34 | |
clear that the situation was
deteriorating and people were angry. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:40 | |
Mothers who had to look for food for
their children on a daily basis and | 0:04:40 | 0:04:47 | |
now as the weather gets worse, with
the lack of fuel and medical supply, | 0:04:47 | 0:04:53 | |
the situation is practically
impossible the people. The current | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
evacuation taking place, carried out
by the searing Red Crescent and my | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
colleagues, it is in its very early
stages and we fully realise that it | 0:05:03 | 0:05:11 | |
is not something that can resolve
all the issues. We do hope it can | 0:05:11 | 0:05:19 | |
continue but people in eastern
Ghouta need regular at a and an | 0:05:19 | 0:05:26 | |
unimpeded supply of basic items. How
challenging is it to get the patient | 0:05:26 | 0:05:32 | |
is out in terms of getting
ambulances and convoys in Bass well, | 0:05:32 | 0:05:38 | |
you know, last night we started this
operation with colleagues from the | 0:05:38 | 0:05:45 | |
Syrian Red Crescent and it has been
a long process and an agreement has | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
been reached. We do hope that in the
coming hours and days, we are able | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
to evacuate people according to the
agreement that has been reached so | 0:05:55 | 0:06:01 | |
far and we hope that in the coming
weeks we can do more. The evacuation | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
is in its early stages but you
hopeful more patients will be | 0:06:06 | 0:06:14 | |
allowed out and will that entail
more negotiations with the start | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
government and potentially the
rebels. -- Bashar al-Assad | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
government. These are very complex
negotiations. To provide guarantees | 0:06:22 | 0:06:32 | |
to ask, we provide only humanitarian
intermediary and she and we help | 0:06:32 | 0:06:39 | |
people in critical conditions to
reach hospitals in the massacres. We | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
hope that in the coming weeks that
can be more of these and all people | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
in need of medical aid can receive
it and more people who stay and | 0:06:49 | 0:06:55 | |
continue to live in eastern Ghouta
could have access to humanitarian | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
aid. This is certainly a positive
step but more needs to be done in | 0:06:59 | 0:07:05 | |
the coming weeks. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
An arctic cold snap is bringing
sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
to large parts of north-east
America and Canada. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
Temperatures have been reported
as low minus fifteen in Toronto. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
While the US lakeside city of Erie,
in Pennsylvania, has had a record | 0:07:14 | 0:07:23 | |
1.5 metres of snow in 48 hours,
with more on the way. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
DeMarco Morgan from CBS
News has the story. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:33 | |
A snow emergency in Erie after
record 53 inches of snow in less | 0:07:33 | 0:07:40 | |
than 36 hours. You cannot even tell
how bad it is. So is bearing cars | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
and bringing traffic to a halt. All
I could do was a laugh. It is a | 0:07:45 | 0:07:52 | |
little ridiculous but I keep pecking
away at it. As people tried to pick | 0:07:52 | 0:07:57 | |
out, Moris piling up across the
lakes. It will not stop. Emergency | 0:07:57 | 0:08:04 | |
management say plough drivers are
working around the clock to clear | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
the streets. They have been doing a
fantastic job but with the elements | 0:08:08 | 0:08:13 | |
out there, it is hard to keep up
with this amount of snow. It is | 0:08:13 | 0:08:19 | |
making for tough commute. I could
only do 20 miles an hour. More than | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
40 accidents in Missouri on Tuesday.
Three people killed in three | 0:08:23 | 0:08:29 | |
separate caches. -- crashes. It
could reach 40 below zero in some | 0:08:29 | 0:08:36 | |
parts of the region today. The wind
is the hardest part. City officials | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
are not sure when it they will be
out of the state of emergency but | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
are asking everyone to stay inside
until Cruise clear the street. -- | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
streets. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
Ben Rich from BBC Weather's
here with me - and Ben you can tell | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
us why the great Lakes
are particularly badly affected. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
North America is used to cold
winters but they rarely bite quite | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
as hard as it is. Temperatures are
well below average and, some places, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:10 | |
particularly on the eastern shores
of the Great Lakes, have seen the | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
huge amounts of snow courtesy of
Lake effect snow, when cold winds | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
from the ARC pick blow across the
slightly less cold water of the | 0:09:18 | 0:09:24 | |
lakes. The moist air rises forming
clouds which are then blowing into | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
the eastern shores of the great
Lakes and that moisture is released | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
not as rain but as huge amount of
snow. Over the next few days we can | 0:09:32 | 0:09:38 | |
expect more of these because of the
cold air sitting in place is not | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
going anywhere fast and the winds
will still be blowing down across | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
the Great Lakes picking up that
moist and slighter warmer air and | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
delivering it in the form of snow
across the eastern areas. Any | 0:09:51 | 0:10:00 | |
further snow across this part of the
world will not be welcomed. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Let's take a look at some of
the other stories making the news: | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
An improvised explosive device has
gone off in a supermarket | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
in the Russian city
of St Petersburg. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
The city governor's office says ten
people are in hospital, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
one of whom is in
a serious condition. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
They say the incident
is being investigated as attempted | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
murder but that no theories
have been ruled out. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
A court in Bosnia has
sentenced a Croat woman, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
known to her victims
as the "mistress of life and death", | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
to fourteen years in prison
for atrocities committed | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
Azra Basic, a former member
of the Bosnian-Croat forces, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
was found guilty of war crimes,
including murder and the torture | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
of ethnic Serb civilians. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
There's been another day of protests
in the Moroccan city of Jerada | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
following the deaths of two brothers
in a disused coal mine. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
The mine had been closed for years,
but the protesters said many young | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
people have no option but to carry
on working below ground. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
They demanded action
against unemployment and rising | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
living costs. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:06 | |
Snow and ice are causing disruption
in many parts of the UK, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
with thousands of homes
without power and dangerous | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
conditions on the roads. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:13 | |
The runway at Stansted Airport
was closed twice during the day | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
with a number of flights cancelled. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
Phil Mackie reports from Kenilworth,
Warwickshire | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
in the English Midlands. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:24 | |
HORN BLASTS. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
The motorway at a standstill. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
It's always busy here anyway, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
but throw in five centimetres
of snow and you've got chaos. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
On the A14 things were even worse. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
This lorry span out of control,
leaving drivers stranded. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
Good morning. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:42 | |
It's just gone past ten
o'clock in the morning. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
As you can see, we're
stationary here on the A14, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
not going anywhere. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
I've been here for
five hours, and... | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
..so have these! | 0:11:53 | 0:12:03 | |
My name is Tara, I'm
on the A14 trying to go | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
eastbound to Northampton. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
I set off from my house in Hinckley
at 6am this morning, | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
I've been on the A14
for three hours now. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
As you can see, there's nothing
going in the other direction. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
I'm a bit cross, I'm Canadian so I'm
used to this kind of weather. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
I know you guys aren't. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:20 | |
In the end, they were stuck
for seven hours | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
before the road was cleared. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:32 | |
Stansted Airport had to close twice
to clear snow from the runway. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
Birmingham Airport had to do
the same for a short while too. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:44 | |
And the weather kept ground
crews busy, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
as planes had
to be constantly de-iced. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
A swathe of central and southern
England was worst affected, | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
from Gloucestershire,
to Warwickshire, to the Chilterns. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:57 | |
And it didn't just lead
to hazardous driving conditions. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
Thousands of homes lost power, too. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
Obviously the snow came in, it
settles on our overhead conductor. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
Then, with the cold wind chill,
that freezes into ice and therefore | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
that takes the conductors down. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
Likewise, it's the same
with tree branches. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
Normally they would not be
near the line | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
but they've taken
our conductors down. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
As the snow started to melt,
there was a new danger... | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
Flood warnings followed the thaw
as streams became swollen | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
and rivers started to rise. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:28 | |
That meant more hazards
to negotiate, | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
and not everyone made it... | 0:13:30 | 0:13:40 | |
Another warning tonight as
temperatures are falling. Snow and | 0:13:40 | 0:13:45 | |
slush beginning to freeze. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
Stay with us on BBC
World News, still to come: | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
Towering over Tel Aviv - | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
residents of the city hope
this Lego construction | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
will set a new world record. | 0:13:54 | 0:14:08 | |
The most ambitious financial and
political change ever attempted has | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
gotten under way with the
introduction of the euro. Tomorrow | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
will in Holland we will use muggy we
picked up in Belgium today and we | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
will use the same muggy in France.
It has got to be the way to go. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:25 | |
George Harrison, the former Beatle
is recovering in hospital after | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
being stabbed at his Oxfordshire
home. As 33-year-old man from | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
Liverpool is being interviewed by
police on suspicion of murder. I | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
think it was good. Just good? No,
fantastic! That's better. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:54 | |
This is BBC World News. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:07 | |
The latest headlines: | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
Syrian volunteers have evacuated
the first group of critically-ill | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
children from a rebel-held
suburb near Damascus. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:17 | |
Record snow has fallen
on the US city of Erie, | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
burying homes and cars
under deep drifts. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:28 | |
How do you stop poachers
from devastating wildlife in remote | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
parts of Africa? | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
One solution is military-style
training and tactics. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:40 | |
It's being used in the vulnerable
state of Chad, where | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
Zakouma National Park has lost 90%
of it elephants over the past 40 | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
years. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:46 | |
Alastair Leithead travelled
to the remote park where | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
the population is finally recovering
and tourists are now helping fund | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
the conservation work. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
They were the herd
heading for extinction. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
But the elephants of
Zakouma National Park have made | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
a dramatic recovery. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
TRANSLATION: Before,
there used to be elephant | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
carcasses everywhere. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
So what has been the difference,
since African Parks took over? | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
TRANSLATION: Since African Parks
arrived here, we no longer see | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
carcasses of elephants in the park. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:20 | |
Across the continent, a private,
not-for-profit conservation group | 0:16:20 | 0:16:24 | |
called African Parks believes it has
the answer to saving Africa's | 0:16:24 | 0:16:28 | |
disappearing wildlife. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
And it's controversial. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
They are arming rangers and giving
them military-style training. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
In some places, it's become
a war against poachers. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Adoum Allam is a sniper with fast
response unit Mamba Number Two. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:46 | |
His father was killed
by poachers in this park. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
He jumped at the chance to join. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
"It's a very dangerous
job but I love doing | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
it", he said. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
It's a good income. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
But it's also personal. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
This was Zakouma, ten years ago. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
Decades of poaching killed 90%
of the park's elephants | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
and many rangers as well. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
But, today, it's a much
healthier picture. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
They haven't lost an elephant in two
years or a ranger since 2012. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
And last year, the population
started to grow again. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
There were more than 20,000
elephants in this park just | 0:17:25 | 0:17:29 | |
40 years ago, but now
there are just over 500. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
What's encouraging, though,
is that they've now got babies, | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
they're reproducing,
their numbers are starting to go up. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
And if the poachers can be kept
at bay, the population | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
is going to recover. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
This is the best way to counter
raids from the heavily | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
armed Sudanese horsemen. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
The main perpetrators who've been
poaching ivory here for centuries. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
But now, both sides
have automatic weapons. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
And local communities
are a key to success. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:04 | |
Schools are being built, kids
are learning about conservation. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
Villagers now often
tip off the rangers, | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
if poachers are seen nearby. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
African Parks take
on delegated management | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
of protected areas in Africa. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
Normally where public sector has
failed, African Parks will step | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
in and, with donor funding,
will then manage protected areas. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
But eventually it
should pay for itself. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Zakouma is now attracting high-end
adventure tourists who cover one | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
third of the park's budget. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
Other, marginal reserves in Africa
will never make money. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
Animals have to be worth
more alive than dead, | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
not just to rich Westerners,
but to local people as well. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
Alastair Leithead, BBC News,
Zakouma National Park, in Chad. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:54 | |
The former US president Barack Obama
has issued a warning | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
about the irresponsible
use of social media. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
In an interview with the BBC
by Britain's Prince Harry, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
Mr Obama said such actions
were distorting people's | 0:19:02 | 0:19:06 | |
understanding of complex issues. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:07 | |
He did not mention Donald Trump,
his successor, by name. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
But he emphasised that people
in positions of leadership should | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
exercise care when posting messages. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
Our Royal correspondent
Nicholas Witchell has the story. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
Prince Harry, first of all. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
You are very welcome to our studio. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
Good morning. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:24 | |
Joining the Today programme
for the day had been | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
a big learning curve,
Harry said, but he had enjoyed | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
being the interviewer rather
than the interviewed. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
It was quite fun, especially
interviewing President Obama. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
His principal scoop had been
to persuade Barack Obama | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
to give his first interview
since standing down as US president. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:40 | |
The word "Trump" was never mentioned
but may have been in Mr Obama's mind | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
when he warned about
the use of social media. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
All of us in leadership have to find
ways in which we can recreate | 0:19:46 | 0:19:51 | |
a common space on the Internet. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:57 | |
One of the dangers of the Internet
is that people can have entirely | 0:19:57 | 0:20:03 | |
different realities. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
They can be just cocooned
in the information that | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
reinforces their current biases. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
Harry had also
interviewed his father - | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
the main focus had
been on climate change. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
The issue Prince Charles has
championed for decades | 0:20:24 | 0:20:29 | |
and for which he was
sometimes derided. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
Maybe now, some years later,
they are beginning to realise | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
that what I was trying
to say may not | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
have been quite as dotty
as they thought. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
I mean, the issue really that has
to go on being focused on, | 0:20:40 | 0:20:44 | |
big time, I think,
is this one around | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
the whole issue of climate change
which now, whether we like it | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
or not, is the biggest
threat multiplier we face. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
And then, at the end
of the programme, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
it was time to face questions
rather than ask them. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
First about his fiancee,
Meghan Markle, | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
and her first
Christmas at Sandringham. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
She really enjoyed it. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
The family loved having her there. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
And yeah, it's... | 0:21:02 | 0:21:03 | |
There's always that
family part of Christmas. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
There's always that work element
as well and I think, | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
you know, together we
have an amazing time. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
Great fun, staying with my
brother and sister in law. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
Harry's commitment to issues
he cares about like the Armed Forces | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
and mental health had
come through strongly. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
So how does he see his future? | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
Part of my role and part of my job
is to shine a spotlight on issues | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
that need that spotlight,
whether it's people, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
whether its causes,
whether its issues, whatever it is. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
So I will continue to play my part
in society and do my job | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
to the best of my ability,
so I can wake up in the morning | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
and feel energised, and go to bed
hopefully knowing I've done the best | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
that I can. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
Not so long ago, Harry admitted
to having doubts about a royal role. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
Clearly no longer. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:46 | |
Nicholas Witchell, BBC News. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:53 | |
We heard a bit from Prince Harry's
interview with former US president | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
Barack Obama earlier
in the programme. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
They discussed the dangers of social
media and the spread | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
of misinformation. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:01 | |
They also took time to tackle some
of the big questions. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:08 | |
Clips from the interview are proving
popular. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
Clips from the interview are proving
popular. You can watch them | 0:23:13 | 0:23:14 | |
Clips from the interview are proving
popular. You can watch them and read | 0:23:14 | 0:23:15 | |
more at BBC .com slash news. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
A tower made from Lego bricks has
been built in Israel's coastal city | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
of Tel Aviv. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:23 | |
The 36 metre construction
in Rabin Square is designed to set | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
a new world record -
the previous record was set in 2015 | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
when the Italian subsidiary of Lego
built a 35 metre tower | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
for the Milan World Expo. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:33 | |
Faith Orr reports. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:42 | |
Brick by brick this huge Lego tower
is painstakingly assembled. It | 0:23:42 | 0:23:49 | |
stands at 36 metres tall and has
been constructed from over 500,000 | 0:23:49 | 0:23:57 | |
plastic bricks donated by residents
of Tel Aviv. Idiots in memory of an | 0:23:57 | 0:24:03 | |
eight-year-old lawyer who died of
cancer in 2014. He had enjoyed | 0:24:03 | 0:24:08 | |
building Lego towers during his
illness. TRANSLATION: We saw how | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
much Lego was in his house and
decided that we need to do something | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
in order to remember him. For his
family and friends who suddenly had | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
a big hole in their lives. So we
decided to construct a tower. First | 0:24:20 | 0:24:25 | |
we constructed a ten metre high Lego
tower in the kindergarten. The tower | 0:24:25 | 0:24:32 | |
was put together in over 20
community centres around Tel Aviv. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
Everyone from children to senior
citizens took part. TRANSLATION: The | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
most important message from the
tower is unity of all. Arabs, Jews, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
gay, straight, religious, secular,
all are part of this tower and have | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
put a small piece of this tower.
Together we did something people | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
thought was impossible. The project
has taken one year to complete. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
Proving Tel Aviv is not toying
around with this world record | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
attempt. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
Many of the staff working in a
Belgian zoo spend Christmas Day away | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
from their families. It was worth
the wait after one of the zoo's | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
Asian elephant gave birth in full
view of everyone. The zoo estimates | 0:25:13 | 0:25:18 | |
that the baby elephant, yet to be
named, weighed between 85 and 100 | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
kilograms at birth and there may be
more good news to come for the zoo | 0:25:22 | 0:25:27 | |
with two more pregnant elephants. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
A reminder now about top story
before we go. Syrian volunteers have | 0:25:30 | 0:25:35 | |
evacuated the first critically ill
patients from a rebel held suburb | 0:25:35 | 0:25:41 | |
near Damascus. Aid groups had urged
the Syrian President to allow help | 0:25:41 | 0:25:50 | |
for the desperate emergency medical
cases. Be a role in an area that has | 0:25:50 | 0:25:59 | |
been under government siege for
years. -- they | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 |