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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. White-out in | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
north-eastern America. A state of emergency is declared in New York | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
and New Jersey, as temperatures plunge below minus 30 degrees | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Celsius. They've fled the violence in South Sudan, now they await word | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
of a ceasefire deal. Direct talks between the feuding factions is set | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
to start on Saturday in Ethiopia. Also coming up: A monumental drugs | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
raid in China. Dozens of villagers are arrested, accused of producing | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
one third of China's entire supply of crystal meth. And the new film on | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
slavery in America's South. Could artist-come movie director Steve | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
McQueen become the first person ever to win a Turner Prize and an Oscar? | :00:50. | :01:09. | |
Hello and welcome. A giant winter storm is causing chaos in | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
north-eastern areas of the United States. More than half a metre of | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
snow has fallen in many parts, but what's biting is the cold. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Temperatures have plummeted to minus 25 degrees Celsius. At least nine | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
deaths have been blamed on the storms so far. Flights have been | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
cancelled A state of emergency is in force in New York and New Jersey, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
with authorities urging residents to stay in their homes. . If you do not | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
need to travel today, please stay home. I say again, if you do not | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
need to travel today, please stay home. If you do have to travel, take | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
mass transit. Yes, there will be some delays, but it will be safe and | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
it will help us to get the city 100% back in full running order. Just | :02:06. | :02:20. | |
before we came on air I spoke to Marci Gonzalez from ABC News. She is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
in the coastal town of Cohasset just outside Boston, Massachusetts. Well, | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
we had quite a bit of snowfall. There is frozen water here, this is | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
a vast improvement to what we saw earlier. This morning it was | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
completely frozen. But at high tide the water rose up and spilled into | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
some of the neighbourhoods. Creating more of a mess for people to clean | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
up. Tell me, what is the weather forecast? Well now the concern is | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
that the temperatures are dropping even more. So that is the concern. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
There is not more snow in the forecast tonight, but people are | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
being advised to stay indoors, because it is so cold. What is the | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
state of preparedness that you have there, are the authorities taking | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
this into their stride, they must have a well practiced drill one | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
would imagine? Yes, this region is very used to snow storms and | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
blizzards. People know thousand prepare. But what was different was | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
we experienced such low temperatures, combined with so much | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
snow. So that is why people were advised to stay indoors and off the | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
roads until they were cleared. Thank you. The winter storm hitting the | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
north-west was caused by extreme temperatures. There's cold air | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
pushing in from the north, and this is clashing with warmer temperatures | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
in the south. The extreme weather pattern has also spawned a powerful | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
jet stream which spans the Atlantic. That's pushed a secondary storm into | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
the UK. High tides and strong winds have brought flooding to Wales, | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Scotland and western England and more flooding is expected at high | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
tide in the coming hours. Emergency services have urged the public to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
stay away from coastal areas. Jon Kay has the latest. Cornwall's early | :04:22. | :04:34. | |
morning wake up call. This was New Quay at high tide. The morning's | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
high tide came and went quickly. But it certainly left its mark. Around | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
south-west England, coastal communities were flooded like here | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
in Looe. It was a similar story in Perrin Port. Three days ago they | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
were celebrating the new year in this pub, now they wish 2014 had | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
stayed away. The dangers of the tide are all too evident. This young | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
family were drenched by a sudden wave. In Wales, Aberystwyth has been | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
battered by the Irish Sea. And this coastal road partially collapsed. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Here more than four people had to be rescued from a flooded farm. Parts | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
of Scotland have also taken a pasting. This was North Ayrshire and | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
County Down at midday, was no time to take a snapshot. In Cornwall, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
with another tidal surging approaching, the people here came on | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
to the beach. 100 volunteers filling bags with sand. This morning it was | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
lashing up well over the wall and went into the car park. There is a | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
sense of anticipation of what is going to happen. We are doing all we | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
can. It could be anyone of us and any help we will give. How many bags | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
have you done? I have done about ten. But together, they did | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
hundreds. Tonight they will find out if that is enough. To other news now | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
and direct talks aimed at ending weeks of violence in South Sudan are | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
due to begin in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Delegations from the warring parties have been holding preliminary talks | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
with East African mediators but on the ground the violence is still | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
terrorising communities from rival groups leading to tens of thousands | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
being displaced as they flee quite literally for their lives. South | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Sudan's government says its soldiers are trying to recapture the key | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
cities of Bor and Bentiu. While rebel forces say they are advancing | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
on the capital, Juba. Alistair Leithead is in South Sudan. Those | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
who ran from violence now must wait for help. Across the Nile, they fled | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the fighting, cramming into these boats. They have no food, clean | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
water, or shelter. But at least now they're safe. They're almost all | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
from the Dinka tribe. Fearing ethnic violence they had suffered once | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
before in Bor, the town now controlled by rebel forces, and then | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Nuer, tribal militia. The human effects of a tribal row that sparked | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
tribal violence. Some aid has reached the camp. Food and some oil | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
for 30,000 people from the Red Cross. A drop in the ocean, but | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
much, much more is on the way. We are giving the people what they | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
need, when they are displaced. For them it was spontaneous. Some of | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
them are displaced several times, so in the process they have lost their | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
food, so they come here and you come at look at them, you can see their | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
needs are huge. Well over 200,000 people have been displaced by the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
fighting. Thousands sought refuge in UN compounds. This one in the | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
capital Juba. Those trapped in towns held by the rebels are scared of | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
what will happen when the army tries to retake them. Many believe more | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
fighting is imminent. It's hard to know the full extent of crisis. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
There are still great unknowns. There are parts of country in unity | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
and in the upper Nile state, where there has been considerable fighting | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
in the past couple of weeks. And increasingly we are trying to move | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
around by air and we will try also by road to reach as many people and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
as many sites as possible to get a clearer picture of what is | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
happening. That's led the US Embassy here to evacuate more staff, because | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
of deteriorating security. Delegates have finally started to arrive for | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
peace talks in Ethiopia, but those representing the former vice- | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
president, who is accused of starting the crisis by trying to | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
snatch power, have a list of seven things to agree on and a ceasefire | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
is last on the list. Without any progress to bring peace back to | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
South Sudan, it seems likely for now that these people won't be able to | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
return to their homes across the river in Bor. They still have no | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
clean water, they have little food, it is a major humanitarian crisis. | :09:26. | :09:38. | |
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza is in Addis Ababa following developments | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
and he joins us now. Yes, good news is that news coming is the talks, | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
the face to face talks, will start tomorrow morning after what they | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
have called the prepare trimeetings between the two parties. Those talks | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
are expected to start afresh on Saturday. That is tomorrow. Today, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
due to the sensitivity of the talks, the press were asked to stay out of | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
the talks and it was only the delegates who were meeting | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
separately with the two mediators who were appointed by the African | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Union. We have heard they have not had contact, but just having initial | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
meetings with the mediators, preparing for the talks that will | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
start on Saturday. Thank you. In China police in the southern | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
province of Guangdong say they've smashed a massive drugs ring | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
conducted at dawn by 3,000 armed policemen with sniffer dogs. They've | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
arrested almost 200 people and confiscated nearly three tonnes of | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
crystal meth. Officials say that more than a third of China's entire | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
supply of crystal meth comes from this one village and that 20% of all | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
of its residents were involved in its production. From Hong Kong, | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
Juliana Liu reports. 3,000 heavily armed police officers swept into | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
this province in Guangdong at dawn. Their mission was to eliminate what | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
they call the region's number one drug village. And that is what the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
village has become known for. Methamphetamine, a highly addictive | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
stimulant, commonly called crystal meth. It is easy and cheap to create | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
with the right tools. Police say more than one third of China's total | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
crystal meth supply comes from this one village. Known as ice in China, | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
this drug has become an incredibly lucrative source of income for | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
villagers officials say. TRANSLATION: 20% of the households | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
in the village were directly involved or had a stake in drug | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
production. Drug production was run by families, brothers, sisters, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
relatives and friends and had been industrialised in the village. Worse | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
still, they were under the protection of local officials, local | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
and village cadres and local police. Officers involved in the raid were | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
recruited from outside the village and the area. Local media said it | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
was to avoid the possibility of tipping off villagers. The raid was | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
part of Operation Thunder, an antidrug crackdown launched in July. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
In addition to crystal meth, officers also seized 260 kilograms | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
of ketamine powder and raw materials for making drugs. Officials are now | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
hailing what they call one of China's biggest drug busts. But with | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
drug use on the rise, they say much more work is ahead. Steve Tsang is | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
Director of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
in Central England. So presumably the extent of this operation would | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
suggest this kind of drug activity in the village was known to the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
authorities beforehand. Why is it only now that the action has been | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
taken? I think this has something to do with the fact that China's new | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
leader has made a clear attempt to deal with this. We have a situation | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
where the local party chief was very much behind this particular | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
organised criminal activity. Therefore, he has to be taken down. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
How much is a crackdown on the use of drugs and how much is it a | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
crackdown on institutional corruption? I think it is both. Both | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
problems are serious in China in terms of the drug problem that is a | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
social problem like anywhere else. In terms of the problems of | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
corruption, it is also a matter of discipline of the party. The -- the | :14:06. | :14:17. | |
leader wants to do this in a disciplined way and deal with | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
corruption. The line isn't great, but I want to ask you one question. | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
How extensive is the use of drugs, crystal meth in particular and how | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
important is it to the global market of the drug. Drugs are now a serious | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
problem in the cities and in the coastal provinces. In terms of | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
China's link to the outside world in the drug trade, the drug trade in | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
China is handled by organised crime gangs. And China's organised crime | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
gangs have an international reach and in that sense it is part of the | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
international network for drugs. Thank you. Today is Michael | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
Schumacher's 45th birthday but he has sadly not able to celebrate it. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Friends and family have gathered outside the hospital. He is being | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
treated there after a skiing accident on Sunday. He has been any | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
medical lab and juiced, -- medically induced coma and is described as | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
being any critical condition. It was billed as a silent and | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
dignified show of support for Michael Schumacher and Ferrari fans | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
travelled from all over Europe to mark his 45th birthday. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
He stands at the top of the team's list of greats. The greater sin | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
poured out. We hope that he come back with us. | :16:14. | :16:25. | |
Excuse me. Michael Schumacher is not just if | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
Formula 1 driver. He is an excellent person. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
For now, Michael Schumacher remains in a medically injured, following | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
the skiing accident which has left him fighting for his life. The rally | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
fans hold Michael Schumacher in the highest of regards following the | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
five world titles he delivered for him. To them, he is less of a former | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
driver and more of a part of their family. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Now but they would be complete without presents and members of the | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
four rally fan club left gifts at the hospital door. -- the Friday | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
family. After falling in Meribel - up the | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
French Alps, Michael Schumacher is still under hour buy hour | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
neurological assessment. Those enjoying a winter break on the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
slopes says the accident has given everyone a reminder on the | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
importance of safety. We went in the morning after words | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
and they have completely sold out of helmets. We have been checking our | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
sizes. They are completely cleared out of stock. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Michael Schumacher may have been a divisive figure on the track, | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
winning as many enemies as friends at his win at all costs attitude. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
But the world of Formula 1 is united behind has never before. | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other news stories. Two protesters | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
have been killed in Egypt between classes between the security forces | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
and the middle brotherhood. One was in south-west of Cairo and other | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
near this is Canal. Fighting is continuing between Iraqi | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
forces and militants for control of two cities in the province of Anbar. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
The number of refugees fleeing from Iraq has increased significantly. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
The Italian Navy has rescued more than 1000 migrants of the coastal | :18:42. | :18:53. | |
Lampedusa. A boat was told to Sicily. The rescued migrants were | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
mainly from Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia and Iraq. | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
The number of overweight and obese adults in developing countries has | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
reached almost 1 billion. Researchers based in the UK say that | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
governments around the world are being too timid in their approach to | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
dealing with bad diets and that taxes on fatty foods and drinks | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
should be considered. The overseas development Institute, | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
a think tank, says that in 1881 in five people were overweight or | :19:31. | :19:31. | |
obese. Perhaps most alarming is that in | :19:32. | :19:54. | |
countries like Mexico and Egypt, the numbers have almost quadrupled. | :19:55. | :20:07. | |
Eating to excess. Chances are many of us overdid it over the festive | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
period but there are fresh concerns about our globally expanding | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
waistlines. Researchers say it is politically alarming in the | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
developing world where people are choosing to spend their increasingly | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
disposable income on fatty and sugary foods. The future did report | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
analysed existing data on global obesity rates. | :20:32. | :20:51. | |
In developing countries like Egypt and Mexico, numbers almost | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
quadrupled from 250 million to 904 million. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
The explosion of overweight and obese people in the developing world | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
is largely down to the emerging economies. Those that have gone | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
through a transition from low income to middle income economies in the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
last generation. That has produced a large class of middle-class people | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
who have more disposable income and increasingly sedentary lifestyles. | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
These fatty foods are causing the problem. This class of colour has | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
more than 13 these bins of sugar. Get rid of this regularly and your | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
risk of heart disease, strokes, certain types of cancer and diabetes | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
increases. It is putting a strain on health services around the world. | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Denmark has banned trans fats which are used to extend the life of foods | :21:59. | :22:13. | |
but have no nutritional value. TRANSLATION: I've never worried | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
about my weight because I have always enjoyed eating porridge like | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
this. I never enjoyed fatty foods, I like vegetables and fruit. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
TRANSLATION: Koreans prefer fruit and vegetables and tend to eat less | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
in general. We are quite weight conscious. | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
Much of the food and extend a street isn't keen on taxes on fatty foods | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
and thinks the only thing that will get lighter are people 's wallets. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
The United Nations Refugee Agency says that more than 900,000 people | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
have now been displaced by fighting in the Central African Republic, | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
almost one fifth of the population. They also say that refugees are | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
spilling over borders into the Democratic Republic of Congo and | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Chad and that they are struggling to help people. That figure includes | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
almost half of the entire population of the capital city. There has been | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
no letup in violence despite the presence of French troops. The | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
agency says that the violence has reached a precious new low with at | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
least 16 new children being killed in December. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
The new film 12 Years A Slave is being tapped for success in this | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
year 's awards season. It is based on the true story of Solomon North | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
up, the black musician who was kidnapped and sold into slavery -- | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
Solomon Northup. We met the director. America, 1841. | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
I was born a free man, left with my family in New York to the day I was | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
deceived, kidnapped. You are nothing but a Georgia run | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
away. Bill-mac has been widely plays | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
buyers and sentimental and intends portrayal of the pitiless brutality | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
of the slave trade. I felt in the more physically | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
uncomfortable scenes that I had a moored deeper connection to Solomon | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
and what he went through. Certainly on the plantations you | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
have a real sense that you're dancing with ghosts and everything | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
is still very much alive and present right in the soil. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
This is an American story told by a British director who feels that | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
Hollywood has overlooked the subject. | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
Slavery lasted 400 years. There is more movies made about Spartacus | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
than about slavery. I wanted to address that subject. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
And yet, oddly in the last 24 amongst, seen lots of movies | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
tackling this. Why suddenly is there this engagement with the subject | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
which has been had broadly ignored? Nobody can underestimate the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
influence of President Barack Obama. I think people possibly felt | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
that they had the authority or the possibility of making that kind of | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
story and of course the financiers thought, yes, we could make money | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
out of this. Brad Pitt said it took an Englishman | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
to tell the story. I am an Englishman for sure but I am | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
part of that narrative, I'm part of that diaspora. My parents came from | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the West Indies and the only difference between me and an | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
African-American is that their boat went right and my boat went left. | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
The movie is tipped to do well in the Oscar season. The director Steve | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
McQueen could become the first person ever to win the Turner Prize | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
and an Oscar. Let's remind you of our main story, | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
a huge winter storm which has had the West Coast of the United States. | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
If team centimetres of snow has fallen and 4000 flights have been | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
cancelled. That is all from us. More on the | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
weather coming next. Goodbye. | :26:53. | :26:53. |