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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Deadlock at the | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Geneva peace talks that are trying to end the conflict in Syria - the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
warring sides blame each other for the impasse. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
We have a special report from our correspondent, who's just been | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
inside the besieged city of Homs and seen the evacuations first-hand. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The grim reality of cancer for some of the families are worried | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
that when the United Nations leave, there will be issues. We are not | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
leaving. He grim reality of cancer for men - new statistics show that, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
globally, men are twice as likely to die of cancer than women, except in | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
East Africa. ??NELWINE Also coming up... In Indonesia, tens of | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
thousands are evacuated from their homes on the island of Java after a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
volcano eruption. Three people were killed. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Fancy a visit to the Taj Mahal in India without leaving your own | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
living room? The boom in virtual reality experiences and why some | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
believe this kind of technology can transform lives. | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
Hello and welcome. The irony is that the casualties in the Syrian | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
conflict have risen ever since the talks in Geneva began a month ago. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Now it seems that those talks end the week in deadlock over the key | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
issue of a transitional government. Meanwhile, on the humanitarian | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
front, our Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has been | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
in the besieged city of Homs and witnessed the evacuations that have | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
taken place during the temporary cease-fire this week. She's just | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
gone back to the capital, Damascus, and filed this report. The injured, | :01:45. | :01:58. | |
the ill and the elderly. 1400 people in all escaped a punishing siege | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
this week. The mission has been hailed as a ray of light in a | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
devastating war. But millions of Syrians are living in poverty across | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
the country. World powers are failing to agree a resolution to | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
help them. People who are now week, traumatised, have run out of all of | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
their coping mechanisms and are looking to members of the Security | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Council and are looking to us as a world community to do something to | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
stop the horror, to stop the violence. Jarring this temporary | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
truce in a rebel held area of Homs, hundreds of young men also came out. | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
We filmed Syrian soldiers taking pictures of them as they arrived at | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
the reception centre. The governor of Homs intervened. He called in all | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
troops in uniform with weapons to leave this area. There is growing | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
concern about possible reprise oars. All men between the age of 15 and 55 | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
are being questioned. This man told us he feared for his future. Some | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
had been released, some are being held. UN officials say they are | :03:21. | :03:32. | |
keeping an eye on the situation. We need to ensure this situation is | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
seen as not an interrogation and nothing beyond that. This will send | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
a good message and it will build confidence will stop some of the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
family say they are worried that once a United Nations lead, the | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
conditions could be different. The United Nations are not leaving, we | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
are here. Many are concerned about the fate of the young men. The | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
longer the operation here in Homs goes on, the more sensitive it | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
becomes. Even this you man Terry and mission to help civilians can not | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
help escape the conflict in this war. | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
At the talks in Geneva, the Syrian opposition spokesman has said | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
there's no point in continuing to negotiate with the current | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
government delegates. Louay al-Safi says they've proven inflexible over | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
the possibility of creating a transitional governing body. And | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
he's urged the international community to push forward the peace | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
process. I appeal to the international community, those | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
countries and nations who can make a difference can push this process | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
forward. The friends of Syria, these countries can play a very positive | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
role. We hope that they will do that because Syrians have suffered so | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
much, too much. We have to stop it and we have to find peace with the | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
freedom and dignity. Syria's deputy foreign minister, | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Faisal Mekdad, reponded by saying the opposition is backing what he | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
described as "terrorists". But he claimed the Government is still | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
committed to working towards peace for Syria. Those who carry arms | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
against their own people and against their government are terrorists. We | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
are now in a process that will re-establish peace and furnish the | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
way for restoring normality into Syria and in this crisis by peaceful | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
means. This is what we are here for. A video has been posted online | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
showing Abdul Waheed Majeed, the first British suicide bomber to blow | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
himself up in Syria. The 43-minute video clearly shows Mr Majeed | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
dressed in white. Other footage showed the large armoured truck bomb | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
which was driven into the walls of Aleppo prison on February the 6th. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
His family said they believed he was in Syria for humanitarian purposes. | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
We hope to bring you more on that Syria story later in the programme. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
The South African Paralympic sprint champion, Oscar Pistorius, has | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
issued a statement expressing "sorrow" over the shooting of his | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on the first anniversary of her death. In | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
the statement, he calls it a "devastating accident." Oscar | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Pistorius goes on trial in Pretoria next month for her murder. He says | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
he shot her at his home because he mistook her for a burglar. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
Prosecutors say he killed her after a row. | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
One year on and the death of Reeva Steenkamp still stirs up passion in | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
South Africa. The ANC women's league joined many in marking the | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
anniversary of her brutal death. She died here in Oscar Pistorius' home | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. Despite having | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
fatally shot her, the athlete has always maintained that her death was | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
an accident. Oscar Pistorius told police he killed his girlfriend | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
after mistaking her for an intruder. State prosecutors argued that was a | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
premeditated murder that Oscar Pistorius took time to put on his | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
artificial legs and follow his girlfriend from the bedroom before | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
firing multiple shots through the door, killing her. Today, Oscar | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Pistorius spoke out publicly on his girlfriend's death. He released a | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
statement on his website, describing the shooting as a devastating | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
accident. Reeva Steenkamp's family placed newspaper adverts and held a | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
private memorial in her hometown. There are calls for justice. We want | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
them to ensure that the Justice system happens where everyone can | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
see it. Once again, the spotlight will be back on Mr Pistorius when he | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
goes on trial in March will stop if found guilty, he could face a life | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
sentence in prison. Now back to our top story. We had that report from | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Lyse Doucet about the evacuation is taking place this week from the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
besieged city of Homs. We also have reported on how both warring sides | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
at the peace talks are blaming each other for the stalemate, which is | :08:52. | :09:03. | |
over the issue of a governing body. The BBC's Paul Wood has been | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
following developments in Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon. He joins us | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
live. Those talks, it does not inspire much hope that there will be | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
progress. Talking to one senior diplomat on the inside of the talks, | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
he says he is trying to move them from a psychology of war to a | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
psychology of Contra mice. There is a huge gulf between the two sides | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
over who will be the ruler of Syria, whether there will be regime change | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
or not. There is an unbridgeable gulf. The idea was that there would | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
be a series of localised cease-fires within Syria. There are cease-fires | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
in some places. In others, the fighting continues more intensely | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
than ever. That certainly has not been the effect, the hoped-for | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
effect at Geneva. The process is very close to collapse, I think. So | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
no word on whether they are going to go on talking in Geneva? That is the | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
hope of Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN special envoy. He has said all | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
along, " we are facing a disaster." He always manages to bring it back | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
from the brink. The question is do the two parties want to compromise | :10:22. | :10:34. | |
or they pursuing their own aims? The latest battlefront is between Syria | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
and Lebanon, 40,000 people trapped there by all accounts in the middle | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
of an intense artillery bombardment and air. On the humanitarian front, | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the UN are saying it is too little on the too slow and other help for | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
those civilians and trapped civilians in the besieged areas, not | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
only in Homs. The UN's problem is it took 14 months to get aid into | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Homs. They welcome it but it is an obligation on all sides to allow | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
Unitarian aid. It has taken a long time to achieve this. By some | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
estimates, half of the Syrian population needs aid of one form or | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
another and most of them possibly not getting it. Thank you very much. | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news... The Italian president, | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Giorgio Napolitano, has accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
Enrico Letta. Mr Letta formally submitted his resignation a day | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
after his own Democratic Party voted to withdraw its backing for his | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
coalition administration. The party's recently-elected leader, | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Matteo Renzi, is now likely to take his place. President Napolitano is | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
expected to ask Mr Renzi to form a new administration. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
At least 18 people have lost their lives in a heavy snow storm that has | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
swept across the east of the United States. Outside Philadelphia, | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
slippery roads caused several traffic accidents on a highway. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and more than half a | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
million homes and businesses are without power. Here in the UK, there | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
are severe flood warnings across the country as winds of 80 miles an hour | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
batter the south coast. 2,000 members of the armed forces are | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
helping with flood defences - 3,000 more are standing by. More than | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
1,000 homes have been evacuated and high winds are disrupting train | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
services. Pope Francis invited more than | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
10,000 couples from around the world to Rome to celebrate Saint | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Valentine's Day. The Pope answered questions sent in by Roman | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Catholics. He said that there was no such thing as a perfect husband and | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
perfect wife, let alone - he added jokingly - a perfect mother-in-law. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
But he stressed couples should not be afraid to make lasting choices. | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
There is quite a gender gap when it comes to cancer. According to new | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
global statistics, men are 50% more likely to die from cancer than | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
women. Data published by Cancer Research UK shows that more than 4.5 | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
million men die from the disease every year across the world. This | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
compares to around 3.5 million women who die from the disease globally. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
However, there is one exception - in East Africa women, are more likely | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
to die of cancer than men are. With me is Jonathan Waxman, | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London. He has helped | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
develop new treatments for cancer, which are now part of standard | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
practice. Just explain to us, why is it men | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
are more likely to die of cancer than women? It is an old story, and | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
the old stories are always the good ones. It has been known since the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
1960s that men are more likely to die than women. There is nothing new | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
in the statistics? It is an old story and a good one. It focuses on | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
particular problems. It is to do with the fact that men do things | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
that are more likely to give them cancer, they work in awful places, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
down in mind, they smoke more, they drink more and they are, as a | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
result, more likely to get cancer. Is stress also a factor in this? Not | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
even new newsreaders! There has been about one or two studies that have | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
shown a link between psychological state and cancer, breast cancer. The | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
indications are very slim. Are there types of cancer that are responsible | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
for the high death rate in men? There are certain types of cancer | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
that affect men more than women, lung cancer and liver cancer, | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
stomach cancer and bowel cancer as well. The long conscience smoking, | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
the liver from drinking and infections. It is a lifestyle thing. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
What about East African? It seems extraordinary that there is an | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
exception there. You have to be careful about statistics. The BBC | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
runs programmes on statistics and talks about the difficulties of | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
interpreting them. Particularly when it comes to cancer, it is very | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
difficult because you might find cancer statistics for a little bit | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
of Ethiopian or a bit of Somalia applied to the whole country. We | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
have fabulous statistics from the ONS. You'll BSE and it happened in | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
France. We are good at collecting data and people in under | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
industrialised parts of the world have got better things to do then | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
collect information. So it is inadequate information? Can you give | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
us a blast through those treatments you have developed? I developed a | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
treatment for prostate cancer which is now generally applied. Is it | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
actually making a difference? It used to be that men were castrated | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
for prostate cancer, because it is a Elise that is dependent on the male | :16:14. | :16:14. | |
hormones, -- it is a Elise. Professor Jonathan Waxman, thank you | :16:15. | :16:36. | |
very much. In Indonesia, tens of thousands of people have been | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
evacuated from their homes on the heavily populated island of Java | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
after the volcano, Mount Kelud, erupted. Volcanic ash coated towns | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
and villages as far as 500km away, and three main airports were closed | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
because of a lack of visibility. Three people died when their homes | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
collapsed under the weight of volcanic debris. Alice Budisatrio | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
reports. Mount Kelud eruptions sent ash and gravel seven interlopers | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
into the atmosphere when most people were sleeping. They work up to see | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
homes and streets blanketed with thick layers of ash and the air | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
filled with dust. The authorities raised the alert at the highest | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
level, just one hour before the eruptions, giving people very little | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
time to move to safety. We are leaving because the status is on | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
high alert, so we have been told to evacuate from our village. This is | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the Jakarta airport, $300 metres away. Authorities were closed -- | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
forced to close the airport as volcanic ash covered the runway, | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
blocking visibility and threatening to damage aircraft engines. A brief | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
downpour washed away some of the ash, but with the tarmac muddy and | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
slippery. Three other major airports were shut down. In cities and | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
villages across Central and East Java, authorities are calling for | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
volunteers to help clear streets of the debris. Indonesians are | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
resilient in the face of natural disasters, which happen all too | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
often. Many people are out cleaning the streets and sweeping their | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
roost. The authority said the volcanic activity had decreased and | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
that more major eruptions were unlikely. Residents closest to the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
volcano are still kept away as a precaution. It is unclear how long | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
they will be kept in shelters, and when they are allowed to go, many | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
may find their home is not the same way that they left it. It has been | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
quite a week at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, with highs and lows for | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
competitors and their countries. Today was another action-packed day. | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes from the BBC Sports Desk in Salford near | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Manchester has been following events and joins us now to bring us news of | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
a British gold. Still plenty of medal chances to come, but for the | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
second successive Winter Olympics, great written has won the women's | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
skeleton gold medal. Four years ago, any billions did it in Vancouver and | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
inspired by that, Lizzy Yarnold is the Olympic skeleton champion. Noel | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
Papas pace was second for the US. Russia took the bronze, but Lizzy | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Yarnold broke were records during their cracker mac ones they had, and | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
has been hailed as one of the best ever skeleton sliders. She has a | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
great physique for this sport. She held her nerve for a breathtaking | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
fourth run. Everyone watching in Britain was desperate for not | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
limited up, but she won in total time almost one second faster than | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
her nearest rival. Away from the Winter Olympics, the full manager, | :19:45. | :19:57. | |
Rene Meulensteen has been sacked and that Felix Magath of Bayern Munich | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
will be taking over. The Taj Mahal is one of the world's most iconic | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
buildings and probably India's most famous and most visited landmark. | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Well now if you can't afford the air fare, you can pay a visit to it | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
online. India's Ministry of Culture is teaming up with Google to bring | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
the Taj Mahal to Street View. But the technique will remain banned | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
everywhere else in India. Shilpa Kannan reports. Dawn. At one of the | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
rope was my greatest monuments, the Taj Mahal. Set on the banks of a | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
river, the white marble complex is one of the world's most recognisable | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
symbols of love. Now, the 360-year-old Taj Mahal is catching | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
up with 21st-century technology, with the help of this, the Google | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
tracker, an ambitious project to collect footage which will then be | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
available online. This is how it works. It is a camera mounted on a | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
back pack, so you put it on, it weighs about 40 lbs, and there are | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
about 15 lens, pointing in different directions, constantly taking | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
photographs, and then these are fed into a computer, where the images | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
are stored so that the viewer can have a 360 degrees view of this | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
monument. This is not Google's first attempt to bring this technology to | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
India. Three years ago, it sent out its Google Street View cars to map | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
the streets of Bangalore, but that project was called off after the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
police raised security concerns. This time, Google has tied up with | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
the Indian government to fill only heritage sites. It is a visitor | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
record of this monument and those records will live for ever. Not only | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
for this generation but for many generations to come. A good way of | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
capturing the culture of the country. What about the concerns | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
about Google Street View, which is banned in India? This is the same | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
technology. We're working with the Indian authorities to understand | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
their concerns and address them. I am confident that we will be able to | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
resolve them in due course. Not all the areas of the Taj Mahal are open | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
to the public, but that tracker will be able to go where tourists cannot. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
Most visitors have left today, but plenty have memories. Now, with the | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
help of technology, this iconic building will be available to many | :22:50. | :22:50. | |
more people. As people increasingly experience | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
the world in a virtual manner, we are going to discuss now whether | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
this is a good thing with Patrick Tucker, who joins me from | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Washington. He's Editor at The Futurist magazine and author of "The | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Naked Future". Is it a good thing that people can go and visit the Taj | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Mahal online? I think it is absolutely a fantastic thing, that | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
virtual reality, this sort of project, allows so many more people | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
to experience the Taj Mahal for themselves. It is something that is | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
going to be happening more in future. Virtual reality, we think of | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
as being a relatively recent invention. The first virtual reality | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
headset that allow people to experience reality outside of what | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
they were presently experiencing was invented in 1968 by and MIT | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
researcher called Ivan Sutherland. Computing power has enabled the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
project you have described, the collection of lots of visual data, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and the experience of that data, through different headsets, or | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
through laptops and desktop interfaces. We think of it in turns | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
of leisure, if you cannot afford the airfare to India, you can still see | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
the Taj Mahal, but there is a therapeutic use for this kind of | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
thing. For people suffering from trauma, or who have fear of going | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
out or that kind of thing. There are lots of therapeutic uses that we are | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
beginning to discover. In California, Henry Jenkins is one of | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
the co-founders of a project called robots for humanity. He is | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
paraplegic. He steers a drone around his house sometimes and uses this | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
virtual reality headset called the Oculus, to see what the drone seize | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
and experience flying from his bed. There has been lots of research | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
showing the therapeutic benefits of virtual reality for veterans or | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
people suffering from Post a big stress disorder. There is a great | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
book by a man called Robert McLay, called At War With PTSD. In this | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
case, virtual reality headsets allow subjects to re-experience the | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
somatic event in a safe environment in a different way and edit it, so | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
that the brain learns how to recope with the memory. It is cutting edge | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
stuff, and it is only possible now because virtual reality has reached | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
the point where this is available to what's more people. -- lots more. In | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
turns of tourism and leisure, you cannot say that the online | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
experience will be similar to real contact with the building, with the | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
human contact of the people around there, the smells and that kind of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
thing. It is no real substitute, is it? It is not a substitute, I would | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
say, but it allows for a wider experience of a place that you are | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
going to visit. Imagine being in a place like that, live, and | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
interacting with it? You have now got an opportunity to share that | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
with so many more people and such more credible level, and actually, | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
part of the fun is not just experiencing this kind of thing | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
remotely in arrests -- less realistic way, but being part of | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
that budget that you can bring that experience to so many more people. | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
That is part of the appeal. That's all from me and the team. Goodbye. | :26:50. | :26:51. |