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GLOBALink | Zoo welcomes panda twins in southwest China Xinhua 26 Jun 2021, 18:55 GMT+10 CHONGQING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A giant panda has given birth to twin male cubs at a zoo in southwest Chinas Chongqing Municipality. The first cub was born at 1:13 a.m. on June 10, weighing 161 grams, and the other arrived at 1:49 a.m., weighing 151 grams, said Chongqing Zoo. They are the first panda twins to be born in captivity this year, said Yin Yanqiang, who works at the zoo. The mother, Mangzai, was bo...

>> out of the blue you get this facebook message from adam. it mustve been shocking. >> it was a total shock. it was kind of terrifying, too, because it just felt like it was right in my space again. >> adam taunted lorinda. he said he was reaching out because he had journals amanda had written in captivity deeply personal writing that had helped her get through it all. >> what were you thinking when you saw that? >> i was hoping that i could get him to send amandas journals. >> but if lorinda w...

Followed were among the very, very worst because suddenly im alone with my own thoughts and my mind. >> amandas mind ran wild. she feared she would be raped. one day a captor entered her room. it turns out your fears were justified? >> he did cross that line, and my worst fears were realized. and my whole experience in captivity really changed. >> somehow she held on and then one night amanda was jostled awake and driven out into the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. >> they broug...

And its not clear when theyll be available for visitors to see. giant pandas are notoriously difficult to breed both in the wild and in captivity. conservationists class them as vulnerable. youre watching bbc news. now its time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. today weve got a bit of a north—west, south—east split with the weather across the uk. in the north and west there is more cloud. we have patchy rain and some hill fog and coastal mist, courtesy of this weath...

Of this election campaign - is that the incumbent authorities are not talking about what theyve done. we reject the authorities that gave up our lands to the enemy, brought disaster upon us and cause discord in society. security remains a national priority. tensions are at breaking point in border areas between armed azeri and armenian troops. and then there is an unresolved issue with armenian prisoners of war. some of them went on trial in baku this month. for armenia, it is still a state of w...

It was pretty clear to us the impacts for threatened species on the island was going to be pretty massive. if you see just the fire ripping through the habitat and taking everything away, its like a massive habitat loss, just like that, the click of a — heartbeat, really. the dunnart is pretty distinctive. it runs along here, in front of this camera trap, and the camera will detect the movement and then take a series of photos. and this was what worried him the most. the fate of the endangered...

Multiple _ asked within species and we compared multiple different primate species, 30 different primate populations, 17 in the _ 30 different primate populations, 17 in the wild _ 30 different primate populations, 17 in the wild and 13 in captivity and nine _ in the wild and 13 in captivity and nine historic human populations. we ask went _ nine historic human populations. we ask went lives mans extent, when populations do live longer how is that longer life achieve? as it achieved _ that longe...

On mainland australia, not on any other islands, not in captivity, and they only live in this really small location — if you have a fire that comes through and takes them all out, takes out the habitat, you dont really know how that species is going to respond. so, we were obviously pretty concerned that there was going to be some pretty major impacts for that species. with predators on the prowl, teams worked quickly to create a safe havens for any remaining ground species, setting up simple ...

Doctors, thats why he needs to be in prison. well, yeah, if you were poisoned by the russian state, you are probably not going to want to rely on russian state doctors. im glad that president biden did speak his name and raised this issue as well as the captivity of americans as well as russian interference in our election, russian malign activities in ukraine and and, of course, the very important cyber issues. >> he certainly did. he even compared -- putin even compared navalny to the rioters ...

And this was what worried him the most. the fate of the endangered kangaroo island dunnart, a tiny marsupial. when you have species like the kangaroo island dunnart, thats only found here, there are none on mainland australia, none on any other islands, none in captivity, and they only live in this really small location — if you have a fire that comes through and takes them all out, takes out the habitat, you dont really know how that species is going to respond. so we were obviously pretty co...