0:00:10 > 0:00:12You're watching BBC World News.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13I'm Sharanjit Leyl.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Our top stories:
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Former international footballer George Weah weeps with joy,
0:00:17 > 0:00:22after winning Liberia's presidential election.
0:00:22 > 0:00:2741 people are dead and many others wounded in a Kabul suicide bombing.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30The Islamic State group said it carried out the attack.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Our reporter has been at the scene.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37This is the building where the explosion happened,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40and you can see that the building has been almost completely
0:00:40 > 0:00:41destroyed.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43After confirming that the company deliberately slows down old iPhones,
0:00:43 > 0:00:48Apple now apologises for what it calls "a misunderstanding".
0:00:48 > 0:00:52And the e-mail scandal that's rocking the Miss America contest.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55We hear from a former winner on where the organisation
0:00:55 > 0:00:56is heading.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Hello and welcome to BBC World News.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19The next President of Liberia will be the former international
0:01:19 > 0:01:23football star, George Weah.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27He wept with joy as he waved to jubilant supporters in Monrovia,
0:01:27 > 0:01:33after winning more than 60% of the vote.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35With him was his running mate, Jewel Howard-Taylor,
0:01:35 > 0:01:38the ex-wife of the disgraced former President, Charles Taylor.
0:01:38 > 0:01:45George Weah was the first and only player
0:01:45 > 0:01:49from Africa to win the coveted Ballon d'or award and he made his
0:01:49 > 0:01:51name playing for AC Milan.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54For the last three years, he's served as a Liberian Senator.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57When he becomes President next month, it will be Liberia's first
0:01:57 > 0:01:58democratic transition in more than 70 years.
0:01:59 > 0:02:06The BBC's Umaru Fofana is in Monrovia.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10It has been wild celebrations, literally just about two minutes
0:02:10 > 0:02:14after the Electoral Commission chairman announced the results,
0:02:14 > 0:02:19hundreds of people were in front of the elections building in
0:02:19 > 0:02:24jubilation. From then on, across the city, you could hear the
0:02:24 > 0:02:27reverberating sound of jubilation, the honking of car horns. It has
0:02:27 > 0:02:33been 12 years of waiting for George Weah and his supporters. I would bet
0:02:33 > 0:02:38my life will go on right until tomorrow morning.This is Liberia's
0:02:38 > 0:02:43first democratic transition in more than 70 years, tell us just how
0:02:43 > 0:02:51groundbreaking is that in itself? Very groundbreaking, this is the
0:02:51 > 0:02:58oldest republic in sub Saharan Africa and it is the first time
0:02:58 > 0:03:01since 1934 that there will be a democratic transition, even then
0:03:01 > 0:03:06there was not universal suffrage. Strictly speaking, in terms of
0:03:06 > 0:03:09universal adult suffrage, some people argue it is the first time it
0:03:09 > 0:03:18is happening in this country. This summer, they have voted for the
0:03:18 > 0:03:22first exit football on the continent to become the head of state, it is
0:03:22 > 0:03:25something which Liberians are very proud of.That is right, are there
0:03:25 > 0:03:32any concerns at all about him being a full all to leadership?--
0:03:32 > 0:03:38footballer. Just two years after he had retired from football, he
0:03:38 > 0:03:43announced that he wanted to run for president. The question was whether
0:03:43 > 0:03:47he lacks the academic wherewithal to transition himself into being a head
0:03:47 > 0:03:58of state, then he lost the ballots, that was won by the female
0:03:58 > 0:04:07president. He has become a senator for the last three years, and he has
0:04:07 > 0:04:13served in that position. His supporters believe that he will make
0:04:13 > 0:04:17that transition and that he will be able to do that.What is interesting
0:04:17 > 0:04:23about him is that his running mate is Jewel Howard-Taylor, it shares
0:04:23 > 0:04:27the wife of the former president, Charles Taylor, who was serving time
0:04:27 > 0:04:31in prison for war crimes. How will the international community see him?
0:04:31 > 0:04:36There was a lot of talk in international community about the
0:04:36 > 0:04:39fact that Jewel Howard-Taylor, the wife of a convicted war criminal,
0:04:39 > 0:04:45was his running mate, and there was a phone call put through from
0:04:45 > 0:04:50England to Mr George Weah, but he denied that that was a deliberate
0:04:50 > 0:04:54call to him and denied that he was going to be influenced in any way.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Mrs Jewel Howard-Taylor has argued that she is an independent woman,
0:04:57 > 0:05:02her supporters have argued that she is intelligent, she is intellectual,
0:05:02 > 0:05:06she is independent and she will be able to do the job not just because
0:05:06 > 0:05:10she is the wife of the ex-president, Charles Taylor.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Earlier the President-elect took to Twitter.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has claimed
0:05:23 > 0:05:27the lives of at least 40 people and injured more than 80 others,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30with women and children among the casualties.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack,
0:05:32 > 0:05:35which targeted a cultural organisation and news agency
0:05:35 > 0:05:38in the west of the capital.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Our correspondent in Kabul, Zia Shahreya, has sent this report.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44The force of the explosion is clear to see.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Among the rubble, relatives desperately search for
0:05:46 > 0:05:59their loved ones.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01But there was little left behind.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04The bomb went off inside this building, a cultural centre and also
0:06:04 > 0:06:06home to an Afghan news agency.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Students had been marking the 38th anniversary of the Soviet
0:06:09 > 0:06:11invasion of Afghanistan.
0:06:11 > 0:06:17The suicide bomber apparently has entered through that way,
0:06:17 > 0:06:28inside this hall, where the seminar was happening, and the hall was full
0:06:28 > 0:06:30of people, students, female students, male students,
0:06:30 > 0:06:31from different universities in Kabul.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34TRANSLATION: I saw many dead in the area, I was looking
0:06:34 > 0:06:37for my cousin but I could not find his body.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39I'm not sure what happened to him.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41The number of dead people has increased.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43After the explosion, ambulances took the injured
0:06:43 > 0:06:46to the hospitals nearby.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49This man, one of dozens badly hurt in the explosion.
0:06:49 > 0:06:55Some of the wounded were taken in for surgery.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58TRANSLATION: A total of 35 dead were registered
0:06:58 > 0:06:59here and 20 others wounded.
0:06:59 > 0:07:05There are men, women, and children among the injured.
0:07:05 > 0:07:12For some waiting outside for news, it was all too much.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Back in the area, to the west of the capital, where the bomb went
0:07:16 > 0:07:19off, armed guards patrol.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22The initial blast was followed by two other explosions,
0:07:22 > 0:07:23but no-one was hurt in those.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27So who was behind the attack?
0:07:27 > 0:07:28So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31saying it targeted the centre with a suicide bomber
0:07:31 > 0:07:33and other bombs.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36It's been behind a number of other attacks on Shia targets
0:07:36 > 0:07:38across the country in recent months.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40The President's spokesman called the attack "an unpardonable crime
0:07:40 > 0:07:46against humanity" and pledged to destroy terrorist groups.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Zia Shahreya, BBC, Kabul.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Let's take a look now at some of the other stories making
0:07:56 > 0:07:57the news...
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Officials in Alabama have formally certified Democrat Doug Jones
0:08:00 > 0:08:02as the winner of the state's US
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Senate race, after a judge denied a legal challenge
0:08:04 > 0:08:08by his Republican opponent.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Roy Moore, whose campaign had been plagued by allegations of sexual
0:08:11 > 0:08:16misconduct, he had lost narrowly and had claimed voter fraud.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19His lawyers said there'd been a higher than expected turnout.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22India's lower house of Parliament has approved legislation to outlaw
0:08:22 > 0:08:24the Muslim tradition of instant divorce.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27A Supreme Court ruling has banned the right of Muslim men
0:08:27 > 0:08:29to divorce their wives by simply speaking the word
0:08:29 > 0:08:30"talaq" three times.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34It means divorce in Arabic.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Italy's President Sergio Mattarella has dissolved Parliament ahead
0:08:37 > 0:08:40of an election scheduled for March the fourth.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Immigration is likely to be a key issue,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44with the anti-establishment Five Star movement currently leading
0:08:44 > 0:08:47in opinion polls.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Tech giant Apple has issued a rare apology to iPhone users
0:08:50 > 0:08:52after admitting it deliberately slowed down their older model phones
0:08:52 > 0:08:58to help deal with weaker batteries.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01The company has also announced it will drop the price of replacement
0:09:01 > 0:09:04batteries for older iPhones that are out of warranty.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Apple expert Philip Elmer-Dewitt says it's a major embarrassment
0:09:07 > 0:09:11for the firm.
0:09:11 > 0:09:19This was a PR disaster because it was one of the great conspiracy
0:09:19 > 0:09:23theories that Apple, just before it was about to come out with a new
0:09:23 > 0:09:26phone, it would do something to make the old phones just unbearable and
0:09:26 > 0:09:30some people would then swap their old phone for a new one, and the
0:09:30 > 0:09:35joke is that it turned out to be true but not for the reason that,
0:09:35 > 0:09:39according to Apple, not for the reason people thought. Some Geeks2U
0:09:39 > 0:09:45the benchmark test and they are actually able to show on a graph the
0:09:45 > 0:09:49performance of the iPhone slowing down and what Apple says is that
0:09:49 > 0:09:56they did it because the batteries in these iPhones just naturally, the
0:09:56 > 0:10:01chemistry means that they get old, they can't carry as much, they can
0:10:01 > 0:10:06handle as much processor speed, so Apple will throttle them rather than
0:10:06 > 0:10:10have the phone crash in the middle of a phone call or while you are
0:10:10 > 0:10:14trying to take a picture, they would throttle it down.Yeah, and of
0:10:14 > 0:10:19course there have been a lot of allegations against Apple for their
0:10:19 > 0:10:22lack of transparency around this. There had been speculation for weeks
0:10:22 > 0:10:27now that is iPhones were being slowed down, why do you think they
0:10:27 > 0:10:31have come out now?There was apparently some change in the latest
0:10:31 > 0:10:35update to the operating system that made worse and bought the problem to
0:10:35 > 0:10:38the service, and that is what inspired these people to do the
0:10:38 > 0:10:43benchmark test. What happened is Apple explained that a couple of
0:10:43 > 0:10:49weeks ago that he did not talk to people on the street, and they said
0:10:49 > 0:10:53yeah, it turned out to be true that Apple is slowing down the batteries,
0:10:53 > 0:10:57so then Apple had to take the next step and explain in more detail and
0:10:57 > 0:11:02then give people something more Ford, which is basically a $50 break
0:11:02 > 0:11:08on the replacement of a new battery, and if you replace your old battery
0:11:08 > 0:11:12in your iPhone, it will be just as fast as when you first started.You
0:11:12 > 0:11:18think this will change the way that Apple deals with its iPhones, to
0:11:18 > 0:11:23make sure that they do not constantly crash? They a Tech firm
0:11:23 > 0:11:30after all, there must be some solution?They cannot fix battery
0:11:30 > 0:11:34technology any faster than it is being fixed. That is the problem.
0:11:34 > 0:11:41You have to bring in the battery and EU is to have to pay $79 to replace
0:11:41 > 0:11:46it. What should change but probably won't is Apple's transparency, the
0:11:46 > 0:11:55extent to which they let people know what is going on. -- you have to.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Your performance may deteriorate, one possibility is to change the
0:11:59 > 0:12:04battery, if they had let people know that, this never would have
0:12:04 > 0:12:08happened. Unfortunately, Apple loves secrecy and I don't think that is
0:12:08 > 0:12:11going to change
0:12:11 > 0:12:14secrecy and I don't think that is going to change.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30The dissident filmmaker has been released in China. He was jailed for
0:12:30 > 0:12:35six years in 2008 after making a documentary in which ordinary
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Tibetans expressed reservations about the Olympics and praise their
0:12:38 > 0:12:42spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Let me bring you a little bit of
0:12:42 > 0:12:44that film.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55The group Filming for Tibet has long campaigned
0:13:55 > 0:13:56for Dhondup Wangchen's freedom.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Dechen Pemba is a member of the group and has been in contact
0:14:00 > 0:14:03with him:
0:14:03 > 0:14:08I have been in touch with Dhondup Wangchen on the fine and he's very
0:14:08 > 0:14:11relieved to be safe, he said that since being released from prison in
0:14:11 > 0:14:172014, he has not felt safe or free and so all he could do, or the Inc
0:14:17 > 0:14:21was to escape and be reunited with his family, so it is a really moment
0:14:21 > 0:14:25that he has been reunited with his family. It is such a long journey, a
0:14:25 > 0:14:30risky one to get his.That's right, you say it is risky and in fact, it
0:14:30 > 0:14:35was an arduous and risky one from China. What more do you think about
0:14:35 > 0:14:41what he went to to get out?To have been through detention, to have been
0:14:41 > 0:14:47detained, to have been tortured, to have an escape from prison, it is
0:14:47 > 0:14:50very risky, especially from somewhere like the People's Republic
0:14:50 > 0:14:54of China, with lower political prisoner, you were deprived of your
0:14:54 > 0:14:57political rights, constantly monitored under political
0:14:57 > 0:15:00surveillance, it was a very risky endeavour and he does not want to
0:15:00 > 0:15:07reveal too many of the details, as I can as I am sure you can understand.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11In fact, you are one of the last people to see it Dhondup Wangchen
0:15:11 > 0:15:15before he was jailed in the past on the use of the details that allowed
0:15:15 > 0:15:19this film to be seen worldwide, can you tell me a little about the risk
0:15:19 > 0:15:24you and others in your group have taken?That is right, I was the last
0:15:24 > 0:15:28person from a group to see him on the 10th of March, 2008. That turned
0:15:28 > 0:15:33out to be a historic day because that was the start of the historic
0:15:33 > 0:15:43uprising in Tibet, he was able to pass me his tapes and I was able to
0:15:43 > 0:15:48co-ordinate in Tibet, from where the film was recently released. It has
0:15:48 > 0:15:52been a big undertaking all these years.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come:
0:15:55 > 0:15:58The story of a welder, a pub, a lost wage packet and the immense
0:15:59 > 0:16:00power of social media.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03That's in a few minutes.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09The most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted
0:16:09 > 0:16:12has gotten under way with the introduction of the euro.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Tomorrow in Holland we will use money we picked up in Belgium today
0:16:15 > 0:16:18and we will use the same money in France.
0:16:18 > 0:16:29It has got to be the way to go.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31George Harrison, the former Beatle is recovering in hospital
0:16:31 > 0:16:33after being stabbed at his Oxfordshire home.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36A 33-year-old man from Liverpool is being interviewed by police
0:16:36 > 0:16:42on suspicion of attempted murder.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44I think it was good.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Just good?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47No, fantastic!
0:16:47 > 0:17:00That's better.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11This is BBC World News.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13The latest headlines:
0:17:13 > 0:17:15The former footballer George Weah has won Liberia's presidential
0:17:15 > 0:17:18election with 61% of the vote, easily defeating his main rival,
0:17:18 > 0:17:23Vice President Joseph Bokai.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27A bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has left 41 people dead
0:17:27 > 0:17:28and more than 80 others wounded.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34Islamic State says it was behind it.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38In just four months, 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled
0:17:38 > 0:17:41persecution in Myanmar for the safety of Bangladesh.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45But partly because a deal has been reached for the refugees to return,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48the Bangladeshi government has been reluctant to let the refugees settle
0:17:48 > 0:17:52- keeping them in refugee camps instead.
0:17:52 > 0:17:58But some Bangladeshis are welcoming the new arrivals into their lives.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17The many Bangladeshis welcoming the Rohingyan into their lives.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20The iconic Miss America beauty pageant is in turmoil over an e-mail
0:20:20 > 0:20:23scandal that's forced it's most senior board members to step down.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26The Huffington Post has published e-mails, which allegedly show
0:20:26 > 0:20:28pageant officials making vulgar comments on contestants weight,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31sex lives, intellect - even wishing one was dead.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Miss America Executive Director Sam Haskell has resigned,
0:20:33 > 0:20:36as well as President Josh Randle, and some other board members.
0:20:36 > 0:20:43An online petition with tens-of-thousands of signatures
0:20:43 > 0:20:45is gaining traction - it's calling for everyone
0:20:45 > 0:20:47on the board to be sacked.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Mallory Hagan, who was Miss America 2013, was one of the women targeted
0:20:50 > 0:20:51in those e-mails.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54She is leading the charge for everyone on the board
0:20:54 > 0:20:55to stand down.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59I spoke with Mallory earlier.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03If you look at this, these are the people who have demonstrated
0:21:03 > 0:21:07categorically that they do not understand how to lead an
0:21:07 > 0:21:10organisation like the Miss America Organisation by being complicit in
0:21:10 > 0:21:14these things were happening. For them to handpick more people to the
0:21:14 > 0:21:17leadership, essentially they are just choosing new leaders. And I
0:21:17 > 0:21:21don't trust their judgement at this point. I have to say I do not
0:21:21 > 0:21:25believe they will put the interests of the women of Miss America at the
0:21:25 > 0:21:28forefront of what they're doing. What you think needs to be done?I
0:21:28 > 0:21:31personally think that the right solution, and many others, I think
0:21:31 > 0:21:37we are up to about 45, have signed up to an interim chairman of the
0:21:37 > 0:21:42board, Gretchen Carlson. Many people might recognise her from being a
0:21:42 > 0:21:45television news anchor, she also has a book out right now. People are
0:21:45 > 0:21:50looking to the fore this leadership in this time, looking to lead this
0:21:50 > 0:21:55organisation of women's empowerment. We are looking for Gretchen Carlson
0:21:55 > 0:21:59to be the interim chairman and to bring on other former Miss America
0:21:59 > 0:22:06winners on board. We want other people to step away.In the current
0:22:06 > 0:22:10movement, with the me to movement, the current context of a lot of
0:22:10 > 0:22:13accusations against very high profile men in Hollywood and
0:22:13 > 0:22:18elsewhere, do you think this is helping your course, how do you feel
0:22:18 > 0:22:21about it?Absolutely. What they think is different about this is
0:22:21 > 0:22:28that in those in areas we have not seen too many men stand up for
0:22:28 > 0:22:31women, it is women coming forward and other women contributing to the
0:22:31 > 0:22:34conversation. What is different about this scenario is that the
0:22:34 > 0:22:39person who stood up for us was a man. Rent Adams was an employee of
0:22:39 > 0:22:42the Miss America Organisation and he realised something was wrong. It
0:22:42 > 0:22:46took a while to figure out how to come forward with information and
0:22:46 > 0:22:50you try to do behind the scenes in Italy and was not successful,
0:22:50 > 0:22:53because they refused to walk away from the programme, those people in
0:22:53 > 0:22:56those e-mails and who were talking negatively about Miss America, but
0:22:56 > 0:23:00he is the one who came forward with this to the press and maybe as a
0:23:00 > 0:23:04conversation. I think he deserves credit in this scenario for being a
0:23:04 > 0:23:07man standing up for women and saying this is not right, this type of
0:23:07 > 0:23:12conversation is not right and I will not stand for it.And that was
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16The immense power of social media was once again in evidence this
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Christmas time, when a welder from south-west London
0:23:18 > 0:23:21left his Christmas wage packet in a local pub -
0:23:21 > 0:23:22the Alexandra in Wimbledon.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25More than a million people responded to an online appeal and identified
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Mariusz so that the pay packet could be returned yesterday,
0:23:28 > 0:23:30six days after he lost it.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Our correspondent Chi Chi Izundu takes up the story.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37This is the story of a welder, a pub, and lost wage packet.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Last Thursday, after a few hundred people had been
0:23:40 > 0:23:42here at The Alexandra pub celebrating their Christmas parties,
0:23:42 > 0:23:46at the end of the night a small brown envelopes stuffed with cash
0:23:46 > 0:23:48was spotted on the floor.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51The only reason I realised it was a wage packet
0:23:51 > 0:23:54was because I used to get paid in a similar packet when I first
0:23:54 > 0:23:56came to the country.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58All they had was the name Mariusz and £600.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01The landlord and his wife posted a picture on social media
0:24:01 > 0:24:04which is reposted by author JK Rowling and then hundreds
0:24:04 > 0:24:11of thousands around the world joined in the search.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14We did not find him straightaway and a couple of celebrities
0:24:14 > 0:24:16retweeted it and it went bonkers.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18My phone was like a fridge buzzing!
0:24:18 > 0:24:20We were getting messages from all over the world,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23so much interest trying to find this guy, people contacting asking
0:24:23 > 0:24:24if we found them?
0:24:24 > 0:24:31From Canada and America and Australia, everywhere.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32And then what happened?
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Lo and behold, yesterday, he walked in the door and said
0:24:35 > 0:24:39hello, I'm Mariusz and I believe you've got my money!
0:24:39 > 0:24:41It was like the biggest anti-climax in history,
0:24:41 > 0:24:42he just wandered in!
0:24:42 > 0:24:46He said, I think you've got my money.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Mariusz explained he took out his phone to take pictures
0:24:49 > 0:24:52of his Christmas party and that is probably when his wage
0:24:52 > 0:24:54slip fell from his pocket and under this chair,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57and he did not notice until about a day later.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00He had not seen the social media posts, it was his son
0:25:00 > 0:25:04who alerted him to them and he may have kept the loss quiet
0:25:04 > 0:25:07from his wife to have, as he called it, a stress-free
0:25:07 > 0:25:07Christmas!
0:25:07 > 0:25:09He came in yesterday and got it.
0:25:09 > 0:25:30In a show of gratitude, he gave Nobby a generous tip.
0:25:30 > 0:25:37How about this for an alternative Christmas tree? It is in Macedonia.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41The decoration of an underwater tree has become a tradition among local
0:25:41 > 0:25:44divers dressed as Santa Claus and has become quite the tourist
0:25:44 > 0:25:49attraction. This year it raised money for children with rare
0:25:49 > 0:25:55diseases. One thing the tree had to do without was very lights. That is
0:25:55 > 0:26:04it for this edition of the bulletin. Thank you so much for watching.