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This is BBC World News Today with me, Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Turkey finds itself at the centre of a crisis stemming from Syria. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Thousands of Syrian refugees are receiving aid at the border - | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
but Turkey has yet to let them cross. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Britain's Prime Minister warns an exit from the European Union | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
could lead to camps full of migrants in southern England - | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
his opponents accuse him of scaremongering. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
An eight-year-old girl is pulled alive from the rubble of a building | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
in Taiwan - it's almost three days since the earthquake hit, | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
but the search for survivors goes on. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Storm Imogen brings winter chaos to southern Britain. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
The waves are actually trundling in here at speeds of 90 miles | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
an hour, the winds are knocking us over, it's hard to stand up. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
And terrifying scenes at a school in Bangalore - | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
when this leopard leapt out on campus - six people were injured. | :00:57. | :01:15. | |
Yet more misery at sea for the people risking everything | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Turkish state media is reporting that 24 people, including 11 | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
children, have drowned trying to reach Greece - | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
seen by many as the gateway to mainland Europe. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
The victims died when their boat capsized close to the Greek island | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
of Lesbos - the search for survivors continued into the evening. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
These are the latest pictures from the Aegean Sea - | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
they show the Greek coast guard bringing those they've | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Thousands of people try to cross the Mediterranean from Syria, | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
The German chancellor says she's horrified by Russia's air | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
campaign over the city, saying Moscow is defying | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Mark Lowen reports from Gaziantep, on the Turkey Syria border. | :01:55. | :02:08. | |
Refugees in their own country. Thousands of Syrians given shelter | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
and food on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, unable to cross. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Turkey is providing aid, but the gate remains closed. There is no | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
more capacity to absorb refugees, it is sad, but if they have no other | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
option, they could be allowed in. They are escaping the nightmare of | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Aleppo. Assad forces backed by Russian air strikes are pounding | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
opposition held areas, cutting off supply lines and closing in fast. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
350,000 civilians could soon be tracked and the rebels could be | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
dealt a fatal blow. The heavily injured have been allowed into | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Turkey, cared for at the local hospital. They talk of disaster. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
TRANSLATION: I was sitting down when a mortar landed and I got shrapnel | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
in my eye. I am in such pain, I can barely even speak. We want to show | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
everyone how disabled we are, Russia is hitting us and the entire world | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
is just watching. Turkey is caught between the humanitarian crisis in | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Syria and the refugee crisis in Europe. Sheltering those in need | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
while being told to stem the migration flow to the EU. But Turkey | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
could also be using this exodus from Aleppo as a bargaining chip to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
demand more help from Europe for the refugees and real action to halt the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Russian air strikes. It could mean testy talks with Germany's | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Chancellor visiting Turkey today. The EU says it has given Turkey 3 | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
billion euros is precisely to help refugees like those from Aleppo. But | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Ankara says it must spend the money improving conditions for the 2.5 | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
million already here. Resources are not limitless. Those waiting at the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
border are caught up in a bigger, more conjugated debate. Until Europe | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
coordinates its refugee policy, until a solution for Syria is found, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
their fate will be unknown and thousands more will follow. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
For more from inside Syria we got through to Yaseen Abu-Raed - | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
a journalist in the media office of the Syrian opposition coalition. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
He gave this update from Northern Aleppo. | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
Russian air forces continue to carry out air strikes on villages in | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
northern Aleppo. Over the last seven days, Russian war craft have | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
conducted more than 1000 sorties. Those strikes push thousands of | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
people to flee their homes. 30,000 are now stranded near the Turkey | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Syria border. Close to the town, another 30,000 fled to the west of | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Aleppo, close to another border crossing with Turkey. Let me tell | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
you this story. Yesterday, one family in their village were trapped | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
under heavy air strikes. Their son was killed. They went the next day | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
to another nearby village, to bury their child. But they were hit by | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
another Russian hour strike, which killed almost the entire family. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Only the mother survived, with severe injuries. At night, families | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
try to flee Russian air strikes and government forces' bombardment. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Families stranded near the Turkish border are still without a shelter. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
The situation is slightly better at the moment, because there is some | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
aid coming into people near the border. But the aid being delivered | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
is not enough. If this situation continues like this in Aleppo, we | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
will witness a huge surge in the numbers of refugees in the next | :05:54. | :05:54. | |
hours and days. The BBC's Selin Girit | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
is in the city of Gaziantep - about an hour from | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
the border with Syria. In Turkey, it is quiet. The border | :05:59. | :06:10. | |
crossing is still closed and, while there are thousands of Syrians on | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
the other side, on the Syrian side of the border, there is not a sign | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of one single one of them coming illegally across the border. Turkish | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
government is determined to keep the border closed, at least for the time | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
being. Although the Turkish president and today the Turkish | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Prime Minister, have given signals that the policy could change. The | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Turkish Pinellas -- Turkish by Minister said, if necessary, we will | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
consider opening the Borders, which was something the Turkish president | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
had said yesterday. The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday said Turkey has | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
actually fulfilled its capacity to absorb refugees. Bear might Turkey | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
already hosts over 2.5 million Syrian refugees at the moment and | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
the cost has been on Turkey. $10 billion. Turkey is trying to deal | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
with this burden that it already has and it wasn't really prepared for | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
this certain influx. Today, the Prime Minister held talks with | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
America and said this is not something that Turkey can do alone, | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
it cannot carry this burden alone. There is a certain feeling in the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Turkish public opinion. It is divided. Certain people think the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
border should be opened immediately due to humanitarian reasons, but | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
others are concerned that there might be foreign jihadists coming in | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
and there is a certain feeling, they feel the EU is in an act of | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
hypocrisy. On one hand, they are saying open the borders, and on the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
other, they are saying sent the flow to Europe. They ask, how will Turkey | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
do that alone? Now a look at some of | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
the day's other news. President Obama has asked | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Congress for more than 1.8 billion dollars in emergency funding | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
to tackle the Zika virus. The money will help control | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
mosquito populations, develop a vaccine, and improve | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
support for pregnant women The illness - that's | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
spread by mosquitos - has surged through Latin America, | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
and it's feared it will spread The government in Somalia has | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
released CCTV footage which it claims shows two men handing over | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
a package to a man suspected of carrying out | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
a bombing on a plane. In the video, a man in a blue shirt | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
is seen holding what appears to be He is with a man in an orange shirt | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
with the computer then passed The blast ripped a large | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
hole in the fuselage A prominent former banker says | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
central banks should stop using high-denomination notes | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
to help prevent financial Peter Sands, who was chief executive | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
of Standard Chartered, says banning notes wouldn't stop | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
crime, but would make it harder Illegal money flows now account | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
for nearly two billion dollars. Rescuers searching through | :08:58. | :09:10. | |
the rubble of a collapsed tower block in Taiwan have found more | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
three more people alive - The building was brought down more | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
than two days ago by an earthquake. 37 people are known | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to have died as a result of the quake and more | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
than 100 are unaccounted Out of the darkness, | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
some kind of miracle. After 60 hours trapped in the rubble | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
an eight-year-old girl is pulled Many of those inside this 17-storey | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
block never had a chance. It just fell into itself | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
when the earthquake struck in the small hours | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
of Saturday morning. More than 120 people | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
are still missing. Why did it fall when other | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
buildings remained standing? Perhaps because empty cooking oil | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
containers were used as part of its construction, | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
revealed by the force In the local hospital, | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
Taiwan's president elect visited some of those who | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
escaped the collapse. Taiwan's thoughts were | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
with the city, she said, but the hospital's senior doctor | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
said time was running out There is still a chance of rescue, | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
he said, but without warm clothes, without food and water, | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
with the cloud and the cold, they are stuck and after | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
a while they will die from cold And the search for | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
survivors goes on. But it is three days now | :10:42. | :10:57. | |
since the block tumbled And in the ruins, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
time is running out. The British Prime Minister has been | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
accused of scaremongering, after suggesting that refugee camps | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
could appear in the UK it Britain David Cameron warned the French | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
could tear up an agreement which lets British border guards | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
check passports at the French port of Calais, where many | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
migrants have set up camp. It is called the jungle, a makeshift | :11:26. | :11:40. | |
camp in northern France with its own shops and library. Mode and squalor. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Home to some 6000 refugees and migrants, many of whom David Cameron | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
says could end up in Britain if we vote to leave the European Union, | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
and France sends UK border staff home. There are any number of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
opposition politicians in France who would love to terror up the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
excellent agreement we have with France to make sure we have our | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
borders on their side of the channel. I don't think we should | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
give those politicians any excuse to do that. The deal he is talking | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
about was agreed by Tony Blair in 2003. It allows British border | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
officials to check and block asylum seekers on French soil. But instead | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
of deterring refugees from Calais, as was the hope, they continued to | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
come. Now French politicians are warning they could tear up the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
treaty if Britain left the EU. The Prime Minister is right to say that | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
France would probably break the treaty and we would go back to the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
types of numbers that we had, 80,000 plus, before that treaty was made in | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
2003. But instead of gathering in plus, before that treaty was made in | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
one camp, as here in Calais, officials claim that many of the | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
migrant will probably spread out across the south of England, with | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
only some held in detention centres. David Cameron is making this morning | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
because he wants people to be aware of what he sees as one of the risks | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
of leaving the EU. The danger is the strategy backfires and people think | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
he is being alarmist and exaggerating the threat and are no | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
longer making the positive case for staying in. In Calais this week, | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
there were yet more protests against migration. In London today, the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Prime Minister's critics dismissed what they called his sad and | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
disappointing tactics. Not only is it irresponsible scaremongering, it | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
is plain wrong. First of all, it is a treaty between Britain and France | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
adds nothing to do with the EU. Secondly, the French government have | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
said, were they to have an open border with the UK, it would be a | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
humanitarian disaster in Calais and it is not of course they will | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
pursue. The real risk for us is there is nothing in the | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
renegotiation that restricts the free movement of people from Europe. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
So a referendum many thought would focus on the economic risks of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
leaving remaining in the EU will also involve a debate about | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
immigration and the future of camps like these. | :14:03. | :14:03. | |
The BBC's James Landale reporting there. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
There's ongoing reaction online to the news that a Chicago police | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
officer is suing the estate of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier, | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
a black college student who was fatally shot after he called | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
police during a domestic dispute on Christmas day. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
In a counterclaim against a wrongful-death suit filed | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
by LeGrier's family, Officer Robert Rialmo is claiming | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
10 million dollars in damages, arguing the shooting was caused | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
by the teenager and caused him emotional trauma. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Rialmo claims LeGrier was threatening him with a baseball | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
The teenager was shot six times and a neighbour was killed by one | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
On social media, there's been thousands of retweets | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
of the family's lawyer saying "First you shoot them, | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
then you sue them" and "this is a new low for Chicago police". | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
Anthony Hopkins wrote on Facebook "You can't sue for trauma, | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
And Benjamin Kunkel tweated: "serve and protect or murder and sue". | :14:55. | :15:06. | |
When you think of US election memorabilia, | :15:07. | :15:07. | |
The badge, the bumper sticker, even playing cards - | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
A refrigerator at the offices of a New Hampshire newspaper is fast | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
gaining a reputation as the most famous fridge in the state as it | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
carries the signatures of presidential hopefuls, | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
The staff call it "Ice Box One" - and here's how it came to be. | :15:22. | :15:33. | |
The refrigerator is actually our office refrigerator and it was | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
brought in by a local retailer ten years ago because the staff needed a | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
refrigerator. It is quirky, somebody has a nice fancy lunch counter, a | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
country store, then the candidates go to the same places. I said, we | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
have to do something. What we can do is basically a stick. We have this | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
officer of the dredger which is basically a white plane refrigerator | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
that everyone keeps their luncheon. I said, how about that? We will have | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
the candidates sign about. We've had 31 people sign that | :16:14. | :16:27. | |
fridge. 32 timers, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. Signing | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
twice doesn't necessarily guarantee you will win the election. Everyone | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
except Donald Trump. Regretfully, we don't have him, but he told us the | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
reason he can't come this far north is there isn't a place for his 757 | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
to land. We have to do well in New Hampshire and Iowa, that is how the | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
system works. It is that classic retail politicking. When they meet | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
the public one-on-one, it is sort of like a joke that if they don't see | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
their candidate three times, they haven't seen them enough yet. The | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
refrigerator now, because we have used three sides, three election | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
cycles, we would like to place it somewhere. It really is Americana | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
memorabilia and it is an incredible experience for a small tile like us. | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
For the latest on the presidential campaign, you can go to our website. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Voters in New Hampshire will pick presidential candidates on Tuesday | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
and we've set up a live page to bring you the latest twists | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
United Nations human rights investigators have accused | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
the Syrian government of carrying out a policy of extermination | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
They have accused President Assad's regime of crimes against humanity | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
in their report for the UN Human Rights Council. | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
They say both loyalist and anti-government forces have | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
The finding concerning the crime against humanity extermination was | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
reached after long examination of verified information that the | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
commission has been gathering now the last 4.5 years. Killings and | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
deaths described in this report occurred with high frequency. | :18:26. | :18:26. | |
Our correspondent in Geneva, Imogen Foulkes, gave this analysis. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
We've had many reports from the commission of enquiry on Syria and | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
many already alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity in the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
conduct of this war. This is the first to focus specifically on | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
conditions in detention and it really does make for horrific | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
reading. Particularly on the government's side. What this report | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
alleges is that anyone thought to be loyal to the opposition or not loyal | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
enough to the government is at risk of being detained. Once detained, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
they can be tortured, regularly tortured, people beaten to death, | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
there is evidence of that, eyewitness evidence. And then just | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
simply being held in conditions that will kill them. And that this is not | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
just excess, is what the investigator has told me, this is a | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
policy, known and approved by the highest levels of the Syrian | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
military and the Syrian government. And that this is why, because this | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
is a strategy widespread that has been going on, it is claimed, since | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
the start of this conflict, this is why for the very first time the UN | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
investigators have used this incredibly serious term of a policy | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
of extermination. Well, here in Britain, | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
winds of almost 150 kilometres an hour have battered parts | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
of southern England and Wales - more than 15,000 homes have | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
been left without power. Road, train and ferry services | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
have been disrupted. Coastal areas have borne | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
the brunt of the bad weather. Duncan Kennedy is in Lymington | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
on the Britain's south coast. From Devon to Dartford, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
the southern part of Britain has felt its most powerful | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
storm of the winter. This was the Cornish coast, | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
sees drenching everything that came -- This was the Cornish coast, | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
seas drenching everything that came close, just like in Aberystwyth | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
where mountainous waves churned This is Barton on Sea, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
near Bournemouth. As you can see, the waves | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
are trundling in here, at speeds of 90 mph, | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
the winds are knocking us over, In some places waves have | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
been 14 metres high. It's been going on like | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
this for several hours. That did not stop people coming | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
to experience it for themselves. We've just come down for a couple | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
of days to see the weather. I can't open my car door, | :20:56. | :21:09. | |
the wind is too strong! In Worcestershire this wall | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
collapsed on two children, seriously injuring a boy of four | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
and a girl of seven. It follows concerns raised | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
about the wall two weeks ago. Basically it hit two children | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
in the process of collapsing. They were quickly removed from under | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
the initial rubble and were treated on the scene by Ambulance | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Service personnel. Transport networks have been | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
disrupted everywhere, with submerged tracks in Wales | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
to blocked ones at Bodmin in Cornwall with passengers having | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
to climb onto the track We had to wait here all the time, | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
we had a few classes 15,000 homes also had | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
their electricity cut in this storm. After a mild, uneventful winter | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
of weather so far in the South, storm Imogen has been a reminder | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
of the season's power. Millions of people across Brazil | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
have joined the first day of the annual carnival festivities | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
despite concerns about the outbreak Julia Carneiro watched the parade | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
at a samba school in Rio. This is what happens when you | :22:25. | :22:39. | |
combine Carnival and the Olympics. This summer school chose the Olympic | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
games as its theme this year and they are starting off bringing the | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Greek gods to Rio. This massive sculpture represents Zeus and the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
other gods are arriving from Olympus. Characters from Greek | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
mythology and Olympic sports are depicted. The float this year | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
represent icons of the city, presenting Rio to the visitors | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
arriving. These green outfits represent the forest. There is also | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
the famous pattern on Copacabana beach and Christ the Redeemer. Here | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
is a group of prominent athletes taking part in the parade. I spoke | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
to them about what it means to be here. | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
TRANSLATION: I think we are already feeling the atmosphere of the | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
Olympic Games. The party has started and we hope it will not only be a | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
great Carnival, but also a great party for the Olympics. The Carnival | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
is one thing that is very important to show people we can do everything. | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Seca or no Zeke. The Olympic Games will be great here. This is one of | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
the groups taking part this year. Everyone has lots of energy and lots | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
of money to try to win this year's title. | :24:09. | :24:09. | |
Now the extraordinary story of a leopard on the loose | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
in a school near the Indian city of Bangalore. | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
And I should warn you, some of the pictures in his report | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
It is not what you expect to see every day and certainly not | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
It apparently entered the school early in the morning. | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
Luckily there were no children around. | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
This forestry official came close to being very seriously mauled, | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
He sustained arm injuries, but incredibly, was able to walk | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
away and no-one else was seriously injured. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
It took the authorities ten hours to capture the animal. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
The male leopard, thought to be five or six years | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
They are known to be shy animals, but there have been a few incidents | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
of them straying into urban areas, especially as India's forests | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
are being increasingly encroached on to build new settlements | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been | :25:22. | :25:33. | |
A huge fireworks display in Beijing marked the first day of the Year | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
of the Monkey, one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Celebrations for the lunar new year include feasting, | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
spring cleaning and spending time with family and of course, | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
But for now, from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:51. | :26:06. | |
Hello. As storm image and begins to fade away, the winds will continue | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
to ease down a little bit but it will still be a blustery day | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
tomorrow and most of us will see some showers. | :26:18. | :26:18. |