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You're watching BBC World News.

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I'm Sharanjit Leyl.

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Our top stories:

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Former international footballer

George Weah weeps with joy,

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after winning Liberia's

presidential election.

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41 people are dead and many others

wounded in a Kabul suicide bombing.

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The Islamic State group said it

carried out the attack.

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Our reporter has been at the scene.

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This is the building

where the explosion happened,

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and you can see that the building

has been almost completely

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destroyed.

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After confirming that the company

deliberately slows down old iPhones,

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Apple now apologises for what it

calls "a misunderstanding".

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And the e-mail scandal that's

rocking the Miss America contest.

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We hear from a former winner

on where the organisation

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is heading.

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Hello and welcome to BBC World News.

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The next President of Liberia

will be the former international

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football star, George Weah.

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He wept with joy as he waved

to jubilant supporters in Monrovia,

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after winning more

than 60% of the vote.

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With him was his running mate,

Jewel Howard-Taylor,

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the ex-wife of the disgraced former

President, Charles Taylor.

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George Weah

was the first and only player

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from Africa to win the coveted

Ballon d'or award and he made his

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name playing for AC Milan.

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For the last three years,

he's served as a Liberian Senator.

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When he becomes President next

month, it will be Liberia's first

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democratic transition

in more than 70 years.

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The BBC's Umaru Fofana

is in Monrovia.

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It has been wild celebrations,

literally just about two minutes

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after the Electoral Commission

chairman announced the results,

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hundreds of people were in front of

the elections building in

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jubilation. From then on, across the

city, you could hear the

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reverberating sound of jubilation,

the honking of car horns. It has

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been 12 years of waiting for George

Weah and his supporters. I would bet

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my life will go on right until

tomorrow morning.

This is Liberia's

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first democratic transition in more

than 70 years, tell us just how

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groundbreaking is that in itself?

Very groundbreaking, this is the

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oldest republic in sub Saharan

Africa and it is the first time

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since 1934 that there will be a

democratic transition, even then

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there was not universal suffrage.

Strictly speaking, in terms of

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universal adult suffrage, some

people argue it is the first time it

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is happening in this country. This

summer, they have voted for the

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first exit football on the continent

to become the head of state, it is

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something which Liberians are very

proud of.

That is right, are there

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any concerns at all about him being

a full all to leadership?

--

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footballer. Just two years after he

had retired from football, he

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announced that he wanted to run for

president. The question was whether

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he lacks the academic wherewithal to

transition himself into being a head

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of state, then he lost the ballots,

that was won by the female

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president. He has become a senator

for the last three years, and he has

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served in that position. His

supporters believe that he will make

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that transition and that he will be

able to do that.

What is interesting

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about him is that his running mate

is Jewel Howard-Taylor, it shares

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the wife of the former president,

Charles Taylor, who was serving time

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in prison for war crimes. How will

the international community see him?

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There was a lot of talk in

international community about the

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fact that Jewel Howard-Taylor, the

wife of a convicted war criminal,

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was his running mate, and there was

a phone call put through from

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England to Mr George Weah, but he

denied that that was a deliberate

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call to him and denied that he was

going to be influenced in any way.

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Mrs Jewel Howard-Taylor has argued

that she is an independent woman,

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her supporters have argued that she

is intelligent, she is intellectual,

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she is independent and she will be

able to do the job not just because

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she is the wife of the ex-president,

Charles Taylor.

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Earlier the President-elect

took to Twitter.

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A suicide bombing in the Afghan

capital, Kabul, has claimed

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the lives of at least 40 people

and injured more than 80 others,

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with women and children

among the casualties.

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The Islamic State group says it

carried out the attack,

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which targeted a cultural

organisation and news agency

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in the west of the capital.

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Our correspondent in Kabul,

Zia Shahreya, has sent this report.

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The force of the explosion

is clear to see.

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Among the rubble, relatives

desperately search for

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their loved ones.

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But there was little left behind.

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The bomb went off inside this

building, a cultural centre and also

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home to an Afghan news agency.

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Students had been marking the 38th

anniversary of the Soviet

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invasion of Afghanistan.

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The suicide bomber apparently has

entered through that way,

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inside this hall, where the seminar

was happening, and the hall was full

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of people, students,

female students, male students,

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from different

universities in Kabul.

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TRANSLATION: I saw many dead

in the area, I was looking

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for my cousin but I

could not find his body.

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I'm not sure what happened to him.

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The number of dead

people has increased.

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After the explosion,

ambulances took the injured

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to the hospitals nearby.

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This man, one of dozens badly

hurt in the explosion.

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Some of the wounded

were taken in for surgery.

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TRANSLATION: A total of 35

dead were registered

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here and 20 others wounded.

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There are men, women,

and children among the injured.

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For some waiting outside for news,

it was all too much.

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Back in the area, to the west

of the capital, where the bomb went

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off, armed guards patrol.

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The initial blast was followed

by two other explosions,

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but no-one

was hurt in those.

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So who was behind the attack?

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So-called Islamic State has

claimed responsibility,

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saying it targeted the centre

with a suicide bomber

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and other bombs.

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It's been behind a number of other

attacks on Shia targets

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across the country in recent months.

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The President's spokesman called

the attack "an unpardonable crime

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against humanity" and pledged

to destroy terrorist groups.

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Zia Shahreya, BBC, Kabul.

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Let's take a look now at some

of the other stories making

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the news...

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Officials in Alabama have formally

certified Democrat Doug Jones

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as the winner of the state's US

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Senate race, after a judge

denied a legal challenge

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by his Republican opponent.

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Roy Moore, whose campaign had been

plagued by allegations of sexual

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misconduct, he had lost narrowly

and had claimed voter fraud.

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His lawyers said there'd been

a higher than expected turnout.

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India's lower house of Parliament

has approved legislation to outlaw

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the Muslim tradition

of instant divorce.

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A Supreme Court ruling has banned

the right of Muslim men

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to divorce their wives

by simply speaking the word

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"talaq" three times.

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It means divorce in Arabic.

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Italy's President Sergio Mattarella

has dissolved Parliament ahead

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of an election scheduled

for March the fourth.

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Immigration is likely

to be a key issue,

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with the anti-establishment

Five Star movement currently leading

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in opinion polls.

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Tech giant Apple has issued a rare

apology to iPhone users

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after admitting it deliberately

slowed down their older model phones

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to help deal with weaker batteries.

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The company has also announced it

will drop the price of replacement

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batteries for older iPhones that

are out of warranty.

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Apple expert Philip Elmer-Dewitt

says it's a major embarrassment

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for the firm.

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This was a PR disaster because it

was one of the great conspiracy

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theories that Apple, just before it

was about to come out with a new

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phone, it would do something to make

the old phones just unbearable and

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some people would then swap their

old phone for a new one, and the

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joke is that it turned out to be

true but not for the reason that,

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according to Apple, not for the

reason people thought. Some Geeks2U

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the benchmark test and they are

actually able to show on a graph the

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performance of the iPhone slowing

down and what Apple says is that

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they did it because the batteries in

these iPhones just naturally, the

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chemistry means that they get old,

they can't carry as much, they can

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handle as much processor speed, so

Apple will throttle them rather than

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have the phone crash in the middle

of a phone call or while you are

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trying to take a picture, they would

throttle it down.

Yeah, and of

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course there have been a lot of

allegations against Apple for their

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lack of transparency around this.

There had been speculation for weeks

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now that is iPhones were being

slowed down, why do you think they

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have come out now?

There was

apparently some change in the latest

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update to the operating system that

made worse and bought the problem to

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the service, and that is what

inspired these people to do the

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benchmark test. What happened is

Apple explained that a couple of

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weeks ago that he did not talk to

people on the street, and they said

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yeah, it turned out to be true that

Apple is slowing down the batteries,

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so then Apple had to take the next

step and explain in more detail and

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then give people something more

Ford, which is basically a $50 break

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on the replacement of a new battery,

and if you replace your old battery

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in your iPhone, it will be just as

fast as when you first started.

You

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think this will change the way that

Apple deals with its iPhones, to

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make sure that they do not

constantly crash? They a Tech firm

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after all, there must be some

solution?

They cannot fix battery

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technology any faster than it is

being fixed. That is the problem.

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You have to bring in the battery and

EU is to have to pay $79 to replace

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it. What should change but probably

won't is Apple's transparency, the

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extent to which they let people know

what is going on. -- you have to.

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Your performance may deteriorate,

one possibility is to change the

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battery, if they had let people know

that, this never would have

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happened. Unfortunately, Apple loves

secrecy and I don't think that is

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going to change

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secrecy and I don't think that is

going to change.

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The dissident filmmaker has been

released in China. He was jailed for

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six years in 2008 after making a

documentary in which ordinary

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Tibetans expressed reservations

about the Olympics and praise their

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spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Let me bring you a little bit of

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that film.

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The group Filming for Tibet

has long campaigned

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for Dhondup Wangchen's freedom.

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Dechen Pemba is a member

of the group and has been in contact

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with him:

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I have been in touch with Dhondup

Wangchen on the fine and he's very

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relieved to be safe, he said that

since being released from prison in

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2014, he has not felt safe or free

and so all he could do, or the Inc

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was to escape and be reunited with

his family, so it is a really moment

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that he has been reunited with his

family. It is such a long journey, a

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risky one to get his.

That's right,

you say it is risky and in fact, it

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was an arduous and risky one from

China. What more do you think about

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what he went to to get out?

To have

been through detention, to have been

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detained, to have been tortured, to

have an escape from prison, it is

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very risky, especially from

somewhere like the People's Republic

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of China, with lower political

prisoner, you were deprived of your

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political rights, constantly

monitored under political

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surveillance, it was a very risky

endeavour and he does not want to

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reveal too many of the details, as I

can as I am sure you can understand.

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In fact, you are one of the last

people to see it Dhondup Wangchen

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before he was jailed in the past on

the use of the details that allowed

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this film to be seen worldwide, can

you tell me a little about the risk

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you and others in your group have

taken?

That is right, I was the last

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person from a group to see him on

the 10th of March, 2008. That turned

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out to be a historic day because

that was the start of the historic

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uprising in Tibet, he was able to

pass me his tapes and I was able to

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co-ordinate in Tibet, from where the

film was recently released. It has

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been a big undertaking all these

years.

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Stay with us on BBC

World News, still to come:

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The story of a welder, a pub,

a lost wage packet and the immense

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power of social media.

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That's in a few minutes.

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The most ambitious financial

and political change ever attempted

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has gotten under way

with the introduction of the euro.

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Tomorrow in Holland we will use

money we picked up in Belgium today

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and we will use the same

money in France.

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It has got to be the way to go.

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George Harrison, the former Beatle

is recovering in hospital

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after being stabbed

at his Oxfordshire home.

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A 33-year-old man from Liverpool

is being interviewed by police

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on suspicion of attempted murder.

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I think it was good.

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Just good?

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No, fantastic!

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That's better.

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This is BBC World News.

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The latest headlines:

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The former footballer George Weah

has won Liberia's presidential

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election with 61% of the vote,

easily defeating his main rival,

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Vice President Joseph Bokai.

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A bomb attack in the Afghan capital,

Kabul, has left 41 people dead

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and more than 80 others wounded.

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Islamic State says it was behind it.

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In just four months,

650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled

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persecution in Myanmar

for the safety of Bangladesh.

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But partly because a deal has been

reached for the refugees to return,

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the Bangladeshi government has been

reluctant to let the refugees settle

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- keeping them in

refugee camps instead.

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But some Bangladeshis are welcoming

the new arrivals into their lives.

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The many Bangladeshis welcoming the

Rohingyan into their lives.

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The iconic Miss America beauty

pageant is in turmoil over an e-mail

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scandal that's forced it's most

senior board members to step down.

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The Huffington Post has published

e-mails, which allegedly show

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pageant officials making vulgar

comments on contestants weight,

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sex lives, intellect -

even wishing one was dead.

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Miss America Executive Director Sam

Haskell has resigned,

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as well as President Josh Randle,

and some other board members.

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An online petition with

tens-of-thousands of signatures

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is gaining traction -

it's calling for everyone

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on the board to be sacked.

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Mallory Hagan, who was Miss America

2013, was one of the women targeted

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in those e-mails.

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She is leading the charge

for everyone on the board

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to stand down.

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I spoke with Mallory earlier.

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If you look at this, these are the

people who have demonstrated

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categorically that they do not

understand how to lead an

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organisation like the Miss America

Organisation by being complicit in

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these things were happening. For

them to handpick more people to the

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leadership, essentially they are

just choosing new leaders. And I

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don't trust their judgement at this

point. I have to say I do not

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believe they will put the interests

of the women of Miss America at the

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forefront of what they're doing.

What you think needs to be done?

I

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personally think that the right

solution, and many others, I think

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we are up to about 45, have signed

up to an interim chairman of the

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board, Gretchen Carlson. Many people

might recognise her from being a

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television news anchor, she also has

a book out right now. People are

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looking to the fore this leadership

in this time, looking to lead this

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organisation of women's empowerment.

We are looking for Gretchen Carlson

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to be the interim chairman and to

bring on other former Miss America

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winners on board. We want other

people to step away.

In the current

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movement, with the me to movement,

the current context of a lot of

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accusations against very high

profile men in Hollywood and

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elsewhere, do you think this is

helping your course, how do you feel

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about it?

Absolutely. What they

think is different about this is

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that in those in areas we have not

seen too many men stand up for

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women, it is women coming forward

and other women contributing to the

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conversation. What is different

about this scenario is that the

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person who stood up for us was a

man. Rent Adams was an employee of

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the Miss America Organisation and he

realised something was wrong. It

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took a while to figure out how to

come forward with information and

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you try to do behind the scenes in

Italy and was not successful,

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because they refused to walk away

from the programme, those people in

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those e-mails and who were talking

negatively about Miss America, but

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he is the one who came forward with

this to the press and maybe as a

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conversation. I think he deserves

credit in this scenario for being a

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man standing up for women and saying

this is not right, this type of

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conversation is not right and I will

not stand for it.

And that was

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Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013.

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The immense power of social media

was once again in evidence this

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Christmas time, when a welder

from south-west London

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left his Christmas wage

packet in a local pub -

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the Alexandra in Wimbledon.

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More than a million people responded

to an online appeal and identified

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Mariusz so that the pay packet

could be returned yesterday,

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six days after he lost it.

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Our correspondent Chi Chi Izundu

takes up the story.

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This is the story of a welder,

a pub, and lost wage packet.

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Last Thursday, after a few

hundred people had been

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here at The Alexandra pub

celebrating their Christmas parties,

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at the end of the night a small

brown envelopes stuffed with cash

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was spotted on the floor.

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The only reason I realised

it was a wage packet

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was because I used to get paid

in a similar packet when I first

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came to the country.

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All they had was the name

Mariusz and £600.

0:23:560:23:58

The landlord and his wife posted

a picture on social media

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which is reposted by author JK

Rowling and then hundreds

0:24:010:24:04

of thousands around the world

joined in the search.

0:24:040:24:11

We did not find him straightaway

and a couple of celebrities

0:24:110:24:14

retweeted it and it went bonkers.

0:24:140:24:16

My phone was like a fridge buzzing!

0:24:160:24:18

We were getting messages

from all over the world,

0:24:180:24:20

so much interest trying to find this

guy, people contacting asking

0:24:200:24:23

if we found them?

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From Canada and America

and Australia, everywhere.

0:24:240:24:31

And then what happened?

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Lo and behold, yesterday,

he walked in the door and said

0:24:320:24:35

hello, I'm Mariusz and I believe

you've got my money!

0:24:350:24:39

It was like the biggest

anti-climax in history,

0:24:390:24:41

he just wandered in!

0:24:410:24:42

He said, I think

you've got my money.

0:24:420:24:46

Mariusz explained he took

out his phone to take pictures

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of his Christmas party

and that is probably when his wage

0:24:490:24:52

slip fell from his pocket

and under this chair,

0:24:520:24:54

and he did not notice

until about a day later.

0:24:540:24:57

He had not seen the social media

posts, it was his son

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who alerted him to them and he may

have kept the loss quiet

0:25:000:25:04

from his wife to have,

as he called it, a stress-free

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Christmas!

0:25:070:25:07

He came in yesterday and got it.

0:25:070:25:09

In a show of gratitude,

he gave Nobby a generous tip.

0:25:090:25:30

How about this for an alternative

Christmas tree? It is in Macedonia.

0:25:300:25:37

The decoration of an underwater tree

has become a tradition among local

0:25:370:25:41

divers dressed as Santa Claus and

has become quite the tourist

0:25:410:25:44

attraction. This year it raised

money for children with rare

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diseases. One thing the tree had to

do without was very lights. That is

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it for this edition of the bulletin.

Thank you so much for watching.

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