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This is BBC World News Today with me Karin Giannone. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The headlines: Europe's migrant crisis turns violent as security | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Now on the Greek-Macedonian border, police fire tear gas on a group | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
of migrants, including children, as they try to break | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
They don't open the borders, Macedonia, they don't open | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
the borders and the people are coming more and more. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Clashes in Calais as French demolition teams move | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
in to dismantle parts of the migrant camp known as the Jungle. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Also coming up: Day three of a fragile truce in Syria | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
and the UN begins a major aid operation to get into towns | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio! CHEERING | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
. 20 years after his first nomination, | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio finally We start with violent clashes | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
at opposite ends of the European continent, as it wrestles | :01:03. | :01:16. | |
with the mass influx of migrants. Macedonian police fired tear gas | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
as a crowd tried to crash through a barbed wire fence | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
on the border with Greece. Tear gas has also been used by riot | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
police in the French port of Calais, as rock-throwing protesters tried | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
to disrupt the demolition of part We'll hear from our correspondent | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
in Calais shortly. But first, let's turn | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
to the Greek town of Idomeni, on the border with Macedonia, | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
where about 7,000 people have been stuck for days | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
in squalid conditions. This is how it looks on Greece's | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
border with Macedonia. After a night out in the open, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
children join a long line with their parents, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
waiting for food. At the end of the line they get | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
a bag of bread to last the day. Babies bottles are held up, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
hoping to be filled. Macedonia only allows a handful | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
to cross the border every day, so the numbers keep | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
building. You have to wait for a long | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
time for food, toilets, Hundreds of them have decided | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
to force open the gate. This is the result of | :02:22. | :02:33. | |
the tension that has been As they push at the border, | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
the crush begins This is how it looked | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
on the Macedonian side Suddenly, the border is breached, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
triggering panic among the police. A guard fires tear gas | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
directly at the migrants. On the other side of the fence, | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the man in the blue jacket is hit Cue panic, as tear gas | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
explodes all around them. Men, women, and children, | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
run for safety. A boy staggers from the crush, | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
retching from the gas. Others are too dazed to stand, | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
their eyes and lungs burning. Today, on a European border, | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
children were tear-gassed. It is quite a while since the tear | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
gas was fired but you can still smell it and taste | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
it in the air as well. As this stand-off continues, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
with several hundred people still here | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
at the border gate. The violence will continue as well | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
if the numbers here keep growing and people keep | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
getting frustrated. Those who have worked | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
here for months say it has never They are worried the border | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
will not open at all. They saw how quickly restrictions | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
were implemented for the Afghanis. There is a real sense among Syrians | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
and Iraqis that at any time it Late this afternoon, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
where tear-gassed wafted earlier, There is growing desperation | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
on this European frontier. Now to clashes in the French port | :04:14. | :04:28. | |
of Calais where demolition teams are trying to clear parts | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
of the migrant camp known The authorities want to move people | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
to converted shipping containers They came in at breakfast time, | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
a soft invasion of the state One by one, migrants still clinging | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
to this southern part of the camp were told they had an hour | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
to pack their things and leave. Some heeded the warning, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
heading north into the Jungle's The police just gave | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
a fire, we are out. A fire at one of the empty shelters | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
sent riot police against those Among them, activists, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
who have been urging residents What was meant to be a gentle | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
eviction through encouragement and information became a blunt | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
exchange of tear gas and rocks Just a few hours in, | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
and already the plan for eviction The question here is | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
who the police are fighting - the migrants themselves | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
or the activists who say By dusk, the battle was underway | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
again, a second fire in the place The water cannon was brought in this | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
time, not for the fire, but for the arsonists and anyone | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
else still standing nearby. TRANSLATION: The north border | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
activists set fire to the tents That is not acceptable | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
and it is normal that we have 18 months ago, migrants were moved | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
here from their old makeshift Now the ring around this one | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
is being pulled tighter as pressure But many people here have spent | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
years moving from place to place in a bid to reach England | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
and that will not change, they say, just because "one more | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
time we have to go". Leonard Doyle's Head | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
of Communications at the International | :06:35. | :06:58. | |
Organisation for Migration. He told me what he made | :06:59. | :06:59. | |
of today scenes. These images show children being hit | :07:00. | :07:13. | |
with tear gas. It is very disturbing. Plans have been made to | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
try and ensure that the refugees and the migrants are looked after, but | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
unfortunately, political disunity is at the heart of the problems. There | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
is a huge pressure on governments, but there is a lack of stability in | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
dealing with the pressure. Part of that problem is countries | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
putting up their own border controls. We have heard of Anglo | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
America will speak idea of the European solution, is that dead in | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the water, is there any hope at all? The Germans have shown great courage | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
in the face of a lacklustre support from other member states, but it is | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
very difficult because the burden is being cheered disproportionately. We | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
have seen that even when there is not great work is in the case of | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Calais, we are talking about 20,000 people, the reactions have been | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
disproportionate. Whereas the Germans have taken over one million | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
and the Swedes have taken very large numbers as well. But what is needed | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
is some Hard Talk between either be member states and resolve this | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
problem before their own reputation as further damaged. There are | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
obligations under various new entreaties, humanitarian obligations | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
to look after, let us not forget, refugees and asylum seekers. They | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
might be migrants but in the large they are coming from refugee | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
producing countries like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. There | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
is an obligation to support them, not to hit them with water cannons. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
This does not reflect well upon the European Union and will cause | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
problems for the EU as it tries to project a broader aspect and asked | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
other countries to behave any certain way. People can say to them, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
but at how you behave. Everybody at the British government, | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
they would say that they would rather take people from the source | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
of the problem, from the Middle East's refugees camps rather than | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
accept people who have made a perilous journey through Europe and | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
potentially encourage others to do the same? | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
That is very high-minded and a noble approach, and it should be welcomed, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
unfortunately however, the numbers taking have been very small indeed. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
We have over 1 million people that have fled for the most part | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
persecution, although there will be people gaining in the system and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
they have to be filtered out. But the numbers are very high and to | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
simply say that we will only take people from the refugee camps | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
because otherwise that would involve some moral hazard in taking those | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
people who have made a life-threatening journey, it is | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
probably a touch unfair on those who have made that choice, because they | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
have had to do that because they have been attacked by Islamic State | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
or any other persecution. A woman has been arrested in Moscow, | :09:55. | :10:10. | |
near a metro station, She's thought to come | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
from Central Asia and She's suspected of killing the child | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
and setting fire to its parents' The headless body of a four-year-old | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
child has been found there. Lech Walesa - who played a leading | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
role in overthrowing communism in Poland - has denied | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
being an informant for the Communist The former Polish president | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
and leader of the Solidarity Union said the files on which | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
the allegations were based were forgeries designed | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
to destroy his reputation. Malaysia's former Prime Minister, | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Dr Mahatir Mohamad, has resigned from the ruling Umno Party, | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
in protest against what he says Dr Mahatir said he could not be | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
associated with a party that backed the actions of the current | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Prime Minister Najib Razak who's been embroiled | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
in a financial scandal. In January, Mr Najib | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
was cleared of corruption. In the United States the clock | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
is ticking down for a flood of primaries crammed | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
into a single day. Super Tuesday can be a day | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
of reckoning for Democrats and Republicans hoping | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
to become President. Billionaire businessman Donald Trump | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
leads the Republican race. One of his policies is to build | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
a wall along the US-Mexico border, We will have an older is nice and | :11:11. | :11:28. | |
strong. We will build a wall. I am going to build a wall and Mexico | :11:29. | :11:29. | |
will pay for it, OK? TRANSLATION: The Mexican president | :11:30. | :11:45. | |
said they would not pay for the wall, I said that the Walter Scott | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
ten foot higher. -- I said the wall just got ten foot | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
higher. We have a tremendous deficit, we | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
have a trade deficit with me to pay for the wall. They will be happy | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
with that, believe me, I will talk to them. | :12:10. | :12:21. | |
This is going to be a wall, this is not one of those deals where the | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
bike rider and jump over it. This is a Donald Trump what! -- bye | :12:29. | :12:47. | |
ladder-- buy a ladder. We need a wall, drugs are coming | :12:48. | :13:02. | |
across. They will be thrilled to pay for the wall. | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
Of course it's not just the Republican candidates battling | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will also compete across some 11 | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
states for the Democratic nomination. | :13:11. | :13:11. | |
And you can watch full coverage here on BBC World News and online | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
This year's Oscars ceremony was as glittering as ever | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
but unlike any in living memory it was dominated by protests over | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the lack of black and ethnic nominees. | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
The comedian Chris Rock - who was hosting the event - | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
As for the awards, Leonardo DiCaprio was finally named | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Best Actor, while Spotlight was voted Best Film. | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
Lizo Mzimba reports from Los Angeles. | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
Serious issues being talked about as much | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards. | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards! | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
You realise if they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job! | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
A barbed attack from host Chris Rock was inevitable, | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
as was the winner of Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
The film's director, Alejandro Inarritu, also won | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
and continued the theme of substantial subjects | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
Make sure, for once and forever, that the colour of our skin becomes | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
as irrelevant as the length of our hair. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
To the surprise of a few, Best Film was won by... | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
The Academy honouring the story of the Boston Globe's uncovering | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Brie Larson was named Best Actress for her performance | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
in the heavyweight abduction drama Room. | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Thank you to the fans, thank you to the moviegoers, | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
thank you for going to the theatre and seeing our film. | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
British successes included Mark Rylance. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
The actor, who made his name on the stage, has now added | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Bridge of Spies to his Olivier | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
As an actor, to win an Academy Award is something very unusual, | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
And multiple Brit and Grammy award winner Sam Smith now has | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
a Best Song Oscar too for his Bond theme, Writing's on the Wall. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
I stand here tonight as a proud gay man and I hope we can all stand | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
While Lady Gaga spoke out musically against sexual abuse, | :15:39. | :16:03. | |
at an Oscars where so many took the opportunity to make a statement | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
to a global audience in the tens of millions. | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
The fragile truce in Syria - brokered by the US and Russia - | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
is in its third day and despite accusations | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
of violations, appears to be holding. | :16:14. | :16:14. | |
The United Nations is now taking advantage of the cessation | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
of hostilities to help starving people by sending food, | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
water and medicine to several besieged towns. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
It's hoped aid will reach around 150,000 Syrians over | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Amid the destruction of Syria's long civil war, | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
there is now something new and different in some | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
And that is a sense of calm and even just a little normality. | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
Just last week, before the truce came into effect, | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
the people in the besieged city of Douma were under heavy bombardment. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
But now with the truce in place in many parts of Syria, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
the UN is hoping to deliver emergency supplies of food | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
and medicine to 1.7 billion people by the end of March. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
And it has a clear plan starting from today to reach some | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
of the worst affected areas this week, where people have been under | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
We have to test the limits of this ceasefire over the coming days | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
and weeks to see how far we can go as a humanitarian community. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
There are about 18 cities besieged in Syria. | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
And around half a million people living there. | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
So we have to get food rapidly into those people. | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
So difficult has it been until now to get aid to the besieged areas, | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
the UN resorted to a high altitude airdrop of food supplies that went | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
But if the truce does hold, and it is a big if, the aim will be | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
to get convoys of trucks like these to deliver supplies to those | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Many people are known to have starved to death already | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
There is no doubt that fighting does continue in some parts of Syria, | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
But there are now allegations that the Russian planes have | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
targeted moderate opposition forces which would be in breach | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
There is to be an urgent meeting about this later today. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
And for now, the UN remains hopeful the truce, which has brought some | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
respite to the people of Syria since Saturday, will hold. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
And that means those who have been under siege for so long will finally | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
One of the most powerful figures in the Vatican, | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
Cardinal George Pell, is to give a second day of testimony | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
to an Australian commission on child abuse. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
The cardinal, who is too frail to travel to Australia, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
is testifying via video link from Rome, from where | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
These are the last few steps of a 10,000 mile journey. The survivors | :18:50. | :19:01. | |
of child abuse in Australia raised money to come to this hotel in Rome | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
to watch the cardinal testify in person. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
For more than three hours, the Cardinals gave evidence to the | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
commission via video link. The church has made enormous | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
mistakes and it is working to remedy those. The church in many places, | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
certainly in Australia, has made a mess of things and let people down. | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
I am not here to defend the indefensible. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
The cardinal told the commission that he had heard rumours of sexual | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
abuse by fellow Australian priests in the 1970s but had no direct | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
knowledge of their crimes. Victims and survivors will come back here to | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
listen to at least two more nights of Cardinal George Pell's testimony. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Victims of abuse in other countries will listen as well. The Catholic | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Church to take greater action. Peter Saunders from the duty was himself | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
abused as a teenager. In 2014, Pope Francis made him a member of a | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Vatican commission designed to protect children from abuse. But | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
earlier this month the commission suspended him from speaking out. | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
The Vatican could take action now to protect children now. There are a | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
lot of things going around in the world that the Pope could actually | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
do something about in terms of children who are being raped and | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
abused and I do not see any evidence that that is happening. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Pope Francis seen here meeting children one week ago has made the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
protection of minors a priority. His BBC might be judged on whether or | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
not he's a false this promise. James Reynolds, BBC News, Rome. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Now, as I'm sure you've noticed, it's the twenty-ninth of February. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Most of the time, a year is made up of 365 days. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
But this year, just like 2012, and four years before | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
And that vital extra day, a leap day, is what keeps our calendars | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
Well, I am joined by Carole Mundell, Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
and Head of Astrophysics at the University of Bath, | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
Thank you for joining us. Perhaps an issue closer to home than you are | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
used to dealing with. Tell us the science behind it, why? | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
They are almost takes 305 and a quarter days to make one full | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
circuit around the sun and that circuit is what we call easier. Of | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
course, the extra almost quarter of a day is a little tricky to handle | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
in the calendar so each year we have a calendar that is the older than 65 | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
days long, but we have to account for that extra piece and we do that | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
by adding an extra week here every four years. If we did not do that, | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
then our seasons would slip by about 300 days every century and that | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
would be noticeable. -- 300 as if they fight. This was | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
what was noticeable about the time of Julius Caesar, the state started | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
to move around? That is correct, that was the Roman | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
calendar any time of Julius Caesar. It was decreed then that the BP | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
should be added. That extra quarter is an exact number, it is 11 minute | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
short of that, in the middle ages, Pope Gregory realise that actually | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
we had been over estimating the length of the day by adding those | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
repairs every four years. A correction had to be made. We now | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
make that correction every century, so that ABP falls on a century year, | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
we do not add the victory that they unless the year is the visible by | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
four. So the last time we did that was | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
when? The year 2000, it was a special one, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
in 1900 we would have added ABP. The Gregorian calendar is what lasts | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
to this very day. That is an imprecise science as you have | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
mentioned, how much longer can we continue with the current system? | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
The Gregorian calendar is pretty good. Every year that we have to | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
divide by 400, we have to correct, so correcting for those 11 minutes, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
it really is a good job for us, I think that the extra correction was | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
not really noticed until the millennium and a half after Caesar. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
I think we are in good shape for a while. | :23:39. | :23:39. | |
Do you do that same interview every four years? | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
I have not done it before, but we will see in four years' time, we | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
will know then. Thank you very much for joining us. | :23:50. | :24:20. | |
Olle Ahnstrom, who's 96, has taken to the track once again | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
at the national championship in Sweden. | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
He started back in the 1940s, describing himself as a lover | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
He competed when he was 47. This time he said he would go more | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
slowly. Not that 100 mph! He built his first bike in his own repair | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
shop and has never looked back. Even bringing his wife along as the | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
mechanic. He said it is all about speed. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
TRANSLATION: I started in about 1947 on bikes I had booked myself. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
I have always been interested. I have driven on grass tracks and Hill | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
tracts and nice. I think that Israel is the most fun. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
The sport uses steel wheels with reader -- razor sharp spikes. He | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
described the ride is very enjoyable. He says he has no plans | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
to quit the sport and hopes to still be driving when he reaches 100. | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
In a Slovenian cave visited by a million tourists every year, | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
a bizarre and rare amphibian is guarding a significant clutch | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
of eggs that could become baby dragons. | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
It's called an olm, it's a blind salamander found in cave rivers | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
in the Balkans, and it's thought to live for more than a hundred | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
years but reproduces just once or twice a decade. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
A female in an aquarium has laid 50-60 eggs - | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
and three of them are now showing signs of growth. | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
You can get in touch with me and some of the team via Twitter - | :25:53. | :26:05. | |
But for now, from me Karin and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :26:06. | :26:07. |