and their keepers. hi there, welcome to london zoo. as you mentioned, this is the annual weigh in. it is a very special one this year, it has been 100 years of the london zoo annual weigh in. 14,000 animals will be weighed over the course of this week. we have seen penguins, tigers, and now, we are at the gorilla enclosure. i will bring in the lead primate keeper here to tell is a little bit more about what we are seeing over my shoulder. there is a star attraction today, tell us more about the silverback gorilla. silverback gorilla. came from tenerife. silverback gorilla. came from tenerife, joined silverback gorilla. came from tenerife, joined us silverback gorilla. came from tenerife, joined us as - silverback gorilla. came from tenerife, joined us as part i silverback gorilla. came from tenerife, joined us as part of| silverback gorilla. came from - tenerife, joined us as part of the breeding group, we are so hopeful he will. , ., ., , ., . , will. these animals are critical
koalas are particularly badly affected by fires, because they are up in the trees. they are really, really vulnerable to fires. so climate change could be really bad news for koalas? yeah, i don t think there s much debate about that. it will affect them badly. the question i mean, they re not going to die out in the next five years, but they are seriously at risk. they re probably the fussiest animal that we have. keeping the koalas happy so far from home is a major undertaking. if they don t like it, they will let you know very, very quickly. they only eat eucalyptus, some of which is grown specially for them on site. i can see why it s good on a business level to have a cute baby koala born here. but is there a really good conservation reason for having a breeding group of koalas here in the uk, so far away from australia? koalas are under threat. they re very complex creatures, and not very well understood. it s only recently that
past. u.s. soldiers are here in region, say the u.s. officials, to really stamp out that threat before it becomes a larger threat to here in the region and in the u.s. david, thank you for the reporting. we ll say in touch with you. and to the point that david just made, the u.s. ambassador to the ewe nated nations has a stark warning, the issues in africa could be a breeding group for terrorism. alise spoke with the ambassador during a stop in knshasa, congo. it s very important that we don t not only about the middle eat. you see the action the administration has taken in the middle east is because we want to deal with the situation there so we don t have to deal with it