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You're watching BBC World News. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
I'm Sharanjit Leyl. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:13 | |
Our top stories: | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
Former international footballer
George Weah weeps with joy, | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
after winning Liberia's
presidential election. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:22 | |
41 people are dead and many others
wounded in a Kabul suicide bombing. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:27 | |
The Islamic State group said it
carried out the attack. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
Our reporter has been at the scene. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
This is the building
where the explosion happened, | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
and you can see that the building
has been almost completely | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
destroyed. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:41 | |
After confirming that the company
deliberately slows down old iPhones, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
Apple now apologises for what it
calls "a misunderstanding". | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
And the e-mail scandal that's
rocking the Miss America contest. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
We hear from a former winner
on where the organisation | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
is heading. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:56 | |
Hello and welcome to BBC World News. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
The next President of Liberia
will be the former international | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
football star, George Weah. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
He wept with joy as he waved
to jubilant supporters in Monrovia, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
after winning more
than 60% of the vote. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:33 | |
With him was his running mate,
Jewel Howard-Taylor, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
the ex-wife of the disgraced former
President, Charles Taylor. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
George Weah
was the first and only player | 0:01:38 | 0:01:45 | |
from Africa to win the coveted
Ballon d'or award and he made his | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
name playing for AC Milan. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
For the last three years,
he's served as a Liberian Senator. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
When he becomes President next
month, it will be Liberia's first | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
democratic transition
in more than 70 years. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:58 | |
The BBC's Umaru Fofana
is in Monrovia. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:06 | |
It has been wild celebrations,
literally just about two minutes | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
after the Electoral Commission
chairman announced the results, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
hundreds of people were in front of
the elections building in | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
jubilation. From then on, across the
city, you could hear the | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
reverberating sound of jubilation,
the honking of car horns. It has | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
been 12 years of waiting for George
Weah and his supporters. I would bet | 0:02:27 | 0:02:33 | |
my life will go on right until
tomorrow morning. This is Liberia's | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
first democratic transition in more
than 70 years, tell us just how | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
groundbreaking is that in itself?
Very groundbreaking, this is the | 0:02:43 | 0:02:51 | |
oldest republic in sub Saharan
Africa and it is the first time | 0:02:51 | 0:02:58 | |
since 1934 that there will be a
democratic transition, even then | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
there was not universal suffrage.
Strictly speaking, in terms of | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
universal adult suffrage, some
people argue it is the first time it | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
is happening in this country. This
summer, they have voted for the | 0:03:09 | 0:03:18 | |
first exit football on the continent
to become the head of state, it is | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
something which Liberians are very
proud of. That is right, are there | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
any concerns at all about him being
a full all to leadership? -- | 0:03:25 | 0:03:32 | |
footballer. Just two years after he
had retired from football, he | 0:03:32 | 0:03:38 | |
announced that he wanted to run for
president. The question was whether | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
he lacks the academic wherewithal to
transition himself into being a head | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
of state, then he lost the ballots,
that was won by the female | 0:03:47 | 0:03:58 | |
president. He has become a senator
for the last three years, and he has | 0:03:58 | 0:04:07 | |
served in that position. His
supporters believe that he will make | 0:04:07 | 0:04:13 | |
that transition and that he will be
able to do that. What is interesting | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
about him is that his running mate
is Jewel Howard-Taylor, it shares | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
the wife of the former president,
Charles Taylor, who was serving time | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
in prison for war crimes. How will
the international community see him? | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
There was a lot of talk in
international community about the | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
fact that Jewel Howard-Taylor, the
wife of a convicted war criminal, | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
was his running mate, and there was
a phone call put through from | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
England to Mr George Weah, but he
denied that that was a deliberate | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
call to him and denied that he was
going to be influenced in any way. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
Mrs Jewel Howard-Taylor has argued
that she is an independent woman, | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
her supporters have argued that she
is intelligent, she is intellectual, | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
she is independent and she will be
able to do the job not just because | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
she is the wife of the ex-president,
Charles Taylor. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
Earlier the President-elect
took to Twitter. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
A suicide bombing in the Afghan
capital, Kabul, has claimed | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
the lives of at least 40 people
and injured more than 80 others, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
with women and children
among the casualties. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
The Islamic State group says it
carried out the attack, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
which targeted a cultural
organisation and news agency | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
in the west of the capital. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
Our correspondent in Kabul,
Zia Shahreya, has sent this report. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
The force of the explosion
is clear to see. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
Among the rubble, relatives
desperately search for | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
their loved ones. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:59 | |
But there was little left behind. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
The bomb went off inside this
building, a cultural centre and also | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
home to an Afghan news agency. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
Students had been marking the 38th
anniversary of the Soviet | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
invasion of Afghanistan. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
The suicide bomber apparently has
entered through that way, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:17 | |
inside this hall, where the seminar
was happening, and the hall was full | 0:06:17 | 0:06:28 | |
of people, students,
female students, male students, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
from different
universities in Kabul. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:31 | |
TRANSLATION: I saw many dead
in the area, I was looking | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
for my cousin but I
could not find his body. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
I'm not sure what happened to him. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
The number of dead
people has increased. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
After the explosion,
ambulances took the injured | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
to the hospitals nearby. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
This man, one of dozens badly
hurt in the explosion. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Some of the wounded
were taken in for surgery. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:55 | |
TRANSLATION: A total of 35
dead were registered | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
here and 20 others wounded. | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
There are men, women,
and children among the injured. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:05 | |
For some waiting outside for news,
it was all too much. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:12 | |
Back in the area, to the west
of the capital, where the bomb went | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
off, armed guards patrol. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
The initial blast was followed
by two other explosions, | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
but no-one
was hurt in those. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:23 | |
So who was behind the attack? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
So-called Islamic State has
claimed responsibility, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:28 | |
saying it targeted the centre
with a suicide bomber | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
and other bombs. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
It's been behind a number of other
attacks on Shia targets | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
across the country in recent months. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
The President's spokesman called
the attack "an unpardonable crime | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
against humanity" and pledged
to destroy terrorist groups. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:46 | |
Zia Shahreya, BBC, Kabul. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Let's take a look now at some
of the other stories making | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
the news... | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
Officials in Alabama have formally
certified Democrat Doug Jones | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
as the winner of the state's US | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
Senate race, after a judge
denied a legal challenge | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
by his Republican opponent. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
Roy Moore, whose campaign had been
plagued by allegations of sexual | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
misconduct, he had lost narrowly
and had claimed voter fraud. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
His lawyers said there'd been
a higher than expected turnout. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
India's lower house of Parliament
has approved legislation to outlaw | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
the Muslim tradition
of instant divorce. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
A Supreme Court ruling has banned
the right of Muslim men | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
to divorce their wives
by simply speaking the word | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
"talaq" three times. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:30 | |
It means divorce in Arabic. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella
has dissolved Parliament ahead | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
of an election scheduled
for March the fourth. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
Immigration is likely
to be a key issue, | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
with the anti-establishment
Five Star movement currently leading | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
in opinion polls. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
Tech giant Apple has issued a rare
apology to iPhone users | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
after admitting it deliberately
slowed down their older model phones | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
to help deal with weaker batteries. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:58 | |
The company has also announced it
will drop the price of replacement | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
batteries for older iPhones that
are out of warranty. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Apple expert Philip Elmer-Dewitt
says it's a major embarrassment | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
for the firm. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
This was a PR disaster because it
was one of the great conspiracy | 0:09:11 | 0:09:19 | |
theories that Apple, just before it
was about to come out with a new | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
phone, it would do something to make
the old phones just unbearable and | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
some people would then swap their
old phone for a new one, and the | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
joke is that it turned out to be
true but not for the reason that, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
according to Apple, not for the
reason people thought. Some Geeks2U | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
the benchmark test and they are
actually able to show on a graph the | 0:09:39 | 0:09:45 | |
performance of the iPhone slowing
down and what Apple says is that | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
they did it because the batteries in
these iPhones just naturally, the | 0:09:49 | 0:09:56 | |
chemistry means that they get old,
they can't carry as much, they can | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
handle as much processor speed, so
Apple will throttle them rather than | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
have the phone crash in the middle
of a phone call or while you are | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
trying to take a picture, they would
throttle it down. Yeah, and of | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
course there have been a lot of
allegations against Apple for their | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
lack of transparency around this.
There had been speculation for weeks | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
now that is iPhones were being
slowed down, why do you think they | 0:10:22 | 0:10:27 | |
have come out now? There was
apparently some change in the latest | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
update to the operating system that
made worse and bought the problem to | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
the service, and that is what
inspired these people to do the | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
benchmark test. What happened is
Apple explained that a couple of | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
weeks ago that he did not talk to
people on the street, and they said | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
yeah, it turned out to be true that
Apple is slowing down the batteries, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
so then Apple had to take the next
step and explain in more detail and | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
then give people something more
Ford, which is basically a $50 break | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
on the replacement of a new battery,
and if you replace your old battery | 0:11:02 | 0:11:08 | |
in your iPhone, it will be just as
fast as when you first started. You | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
think this will change the way that
Apple deals with its iPhones, to | 0:11:12 | 0:11:18 | |
make sure that they do not
constantly crash? They a Tech firm | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
after all, there must be some
solution? They cannot fix battery | 0:11:23 | 0:11:30 | |
technology any faster than it is
being fixed. That is the problem. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
You have to bring in the battery and
EU is to have to pay $79 to replace | 0:11:34 | 0:11:41 | |
it. What should change but probably
won't is Apple's transparency, the | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
extent to which they let people know
what is going on. -- you have to. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:55 | |
Your performance may deteriorate,
one possibility is to change the | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
battery, if they had let people know
that, this never would have | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
happened. Unfortunately, Apple loves
secrecy and I don't think that is | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
going to change | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
secrecy and I don't think that is
going to change. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
The dissident filmmaker has been
released in China. He was jailed for | 0:12:25 | 0:12:30 | |
six years in 2008 after making a
documentary in which ordinary | 0:12:30 | 0:12:35 | |
Tibetans expressed reservations
about the Olympics and praise their | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Let me bring you a little bit of | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
that film. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
The group Filming for Tibet
has long campaigned | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
for Dhondup Wangchen's freedom. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:56 | |
Dechen Pemba is a member
of the group and has been in contact | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
with him: | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
I have been in touch with Dhondup
Wangchen on the fine and he's very | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
relieved to be safe, he said that
since being released from prison in | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
2014, he has not felt safe or free
and so all he could do, or the Inc | 0:14:11 | 0:14:17 | |
was to escape and be reunited with
his family, so it is a really moment | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
that he has been reunited with his
family. It is such a long journey, a | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
risky one to get his. That's right,
you say it is risky and in fact, it | 0:14:25 | 0:14:30 | |
was an arduous and risky one from
China. What more do you think about | 0:14:30 | 0:14:35 | |
what he went to to get out? To have
been through detention, to have been | 0:14:35 | 0:14:41 | |
detained, to have been tortured, to
have an escape from prison, it is | 0:14:41 | 0:14:47 | |
very risky, especially from
somewhere like the People's Republic | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
of China, with lower political
prisoner, you were deprived of your | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
political rights, constantly
monitored under political | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
surveillance, it was a very risky
endeavour and he does not want to | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
reveal too many of the details, as I
can as I am sure you can understand. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:07 | |
In fact, you are one of the last
people to see it Dhondup Wangchen | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
before he was jailed in the past on
the use of the details that allowed | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
this film to be seen worldwide, can
you tell me a little about the risk | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
you and others in your group have
taken? That is right, I was the last | 0:15:19 | 0:15:24 | |
person from a group to see him on
the 10th of March, 2008. That turned | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
out to be a historic day because
that was the start of the historic | 0:15:28 | 0:15:33 | |
uprising in Tibet, he was able to
pass me his tapes and I was able to | 0:15:33 | 0:15:43 | |
co-ordinate in Tibet, from where the
film was recently released. It has | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
been a big undertaking all these
years. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
Stay with us on BBC
World News, still to come: | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
The story of a welder, a pub,
a lost wage packet and the immense | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
power of social media. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:00 | |
That's in a few minutes. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
The most ambitious financial
and political change ever attempted | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
has gotten under way
with the introduction of the euro. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
Tomorrow in Holland we will use
money we picked up in Belgium today | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
and we will use the same
money in France. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
It has got to be the way to go. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:29 | |
George Harrison, the former Beatle
is recovering in hospital | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
after being stabbed
at his Oxfordshire home. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
A 33-year-old man from Liverpool
is being interviewed by police | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
on suspicion of attempted murder. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:42 | |
I think it was good. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
Just good? | 0:16:44 | 0:16:45 | |
No, fantastic! | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
That's better. | 0:16:47 | 0:17:00 | |
This is BBC World News. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
The latest headlines: | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
The former footballer George Weah
has won Liberia's presidential | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
election with 61% of the vote,
easily defeating his main rival, | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
Vice President Joseph Bokai. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:23 | |
A bomb attack in the Afghan capital,
Kabul, has left 41 people dead | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
and more than 80 others wounded. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:28 | |
Islamic State says it was behind it. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:34 | |
In just four months,
650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
persecution in Myanmar
for the safety of Bangladesh. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
But partly because a deal has been
reached for the refugees to return, | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
the Bangladeshi government has been
reluctant to let the refugees settle | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
- keeping them in
refugee camps instead. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
But some Bangladeshis are welcoming
the new arrivals into their lives. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:58 | |
The many Bangladeshis welcoming the
Rohingyan into their lives. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
The iconic Miss America beauty
pageant is in turmoil over an e-mail | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
scandal that's forced it's most
senior board members to step down. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
The Huffington Post has published
e-mails, which allegedly show | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
pageant officials making vulgar
comments on contestants weight, | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
sex lives, intellect -
even wishing one was dead. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
Miss America Executive Director Sam
Haskell has resigned, | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
as well as President Josh Randle,
and some other board members. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
An online petition with
tens-of-thousands of signatures | 0:20:36 | 0:20:43 | |
is gaining traction -
it's calling for everyone | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
on the board to be sacked. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
Mallory Hagan, who was Miss America
2013, was one of the women targeted | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
in those e-mails. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:51 | |
She is leading the charge
for everyone on the board | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
to stand down. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:55 | |
I spoke with Mallory earlier. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
If you look at this, these are the
people who have demonstrated | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
categorically that they do not
understand how to lead an | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
organisation like the Miss America
Organisation by being complicit in | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
these things were happening. For
them to handpick more people to the | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
leadership, essentially they are
just choosing new leaders. And I | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
don't trust their judgement at this
point. I have to say I do not | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
believe they will put the interests
of the women of Miss America at the | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
forefront of what they're doing.
What you think needs to be done? I | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
personally think that the right
solution, and many others, I think | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
we are up to about 45, have signed
up to an interim chairman of the | 0:21:31 | 0:21:37 | |
board, Gretchen Carlson. Many people
might recognise her from being a | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
television news anchor, she also has
a book out right now. People are | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
looking to the fore this leadership
in this time, looking to lead this | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
organisation of women's empowerment.
We are looking for Gretchen Carlson | 0:21:50 | 0:21:55 | |
to be the interim chairman and to
bring on other former Miss America | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
winners on board. We want other
people to step away. In the current | 0:21:59 | 0:22:06 | |
movement, with the me to movement,
the current context of a lot of | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
accusations against very high
profile men in Hollywood and | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
elsewhere, do you think this is
helping your course, how do you feel | 0:22:13 | 0:22:18 | |
about it? Absolutely. What they
think is different about this is | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
that in those in areas we have not
seen too many men stand up for | 0:22:21 | 0:22:28 | |
women, it is women coming forward
and other women contributing to the | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
conversation. What is different
about this scenario is that the | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
person who stood up for us was a
man. Rent Adams was an employee of | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
the Miss America Organisation and he
realised something was wrong. It | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
took a while to figure out how to
come forward with information and | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
you try to do behind the scenes in
Italy and was not successful, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
because they refused to walk away
from the programme, those people in | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
those e-mails and who were talking
negatively about Miss America, but | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
he is the one who came forward with
this to the press and maybe as a | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
conversation. I think he deserves
credit in this scenario for being a | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
man standing up for women and saying
this is not right, this type of | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
conversation is not right and I will
not stand for it. And that was | 0:23:07 | 0:23:12 | |
Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:13 | |
The immense power of social media
was once again in evidence this | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
Christmas time, when a welder
from south-west London | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
left his Christmas wage
packet in a local pub - | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
the Alexandra in Wimbledon. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:22 | |
More than a million people responded
to an online appeal and identified | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
Mariusz so that the pay packet
could be returned yesterday, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
six days after he lost it. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
Our correspondent Chi Chi Izundu
takes up the story. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
This is the story of a welder,
a pub, and lost wage packet. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
Last Thursday, after a few
hundred people had been | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
here at The Alexandra pub
celebrating their Christmas parties, | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
at the end of the night a small
brown envelopes stuffed with cash | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
was spotted on the floor. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
The only reason I realised
it was a wage packet | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
was because I used to get paid
in a similar packet when I first | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
came to the country. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
All they had was the name
Mariusz and £600. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
The landlord and his wife posted
a picture on social media | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
which is reposted by author JK
Rowling and then hundreds | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
of thousands around the world
joined in the search. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:11 | |
We did not find him straightaway
and a couple of celebrities | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
retweeted it and it went bonkers. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
My phone was like a fridge buzzing! | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
We were getting messages
from all over the world, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
so much interest trying to find this
guy, people contacting asking | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
if we found them? | 0:24:23 | 0:24:24 | |
From Canada and America
and Australia, everywhere. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:31 | |
And then what happened? | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
Lo and behold, yesterday,
he walked in the door and said | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
hello, I'm Mariusz and I believe
you've got my money! | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
It was like the biggest
anti-climax in history, | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
he just wandered in! | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
He said, I think
you've got my money. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
Mariusz explained he took
out his phone to take pictures | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
of his Christmas party
and that is probably when his wage | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
slip fell from his pocket
and under this chair, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
and he did not notice
until about a day later. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
He had not seen the social media
posts, it was his son | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
who alerted him to them and he may
have kept the loss quiet | 0:25:00 | 0:25:04 | |
from his wife to have,
as he called it, a stress-free | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
Christmas! | 0:25:07 | 0:25:07 | |
He came in yesterday and got it. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
In a show of gratitude,
he gave Nobby a generous tip. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:30 | |
How about this for an alternative
Christmas tree? It is in Macedonia. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:37 | |
The decoration of an underwater tree
has become a tradition among local | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
divers dressed as Santa Claus and
has become quite the tourist | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
attraction. This year it raised
money for children with rare | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 | |
diseases. One thing the tree had to
do without was very lights. That is | 0:25:49 | 0:25:55 | |
it for this edition of the bulletin.
Thank you so much for watching. | 0:25:55 | 0:26:04 |