a petition to spare geronimo has received around 100,000 signatures. a warrant from the courts means officials still have four weeks to put geronimo down. helen and a team of volunteers say they ll do everything they can to stop that from happening. andrew plant, bbc news. it is 17 minutes to six p:m.. much more coming up on today s stories in the 6pm news. earlier, you sent in questions on the climate change report to my colleague shaun ley. my my calling has more on your questions answered. we certainly need to be considering all and every measure. we need to have everything on the table in order to try to bring our carbon emissions down as quickly as we can,
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sensitive or 100% specific. so defra have to work on the big numbers, and they make policy based on the big numbers, and decisions based on those big numbers, whereas, for the individual, of course, you are always hoping that your animal is one of the one or 2%, maybe a little bit more, where it is a false positive result. a petition to spare geronimo has received around 100,000 signatures. a warrant from the courts means officials still have four weeks to put geronimo down. helen and a team of volunteers say they will do everything they can to stop that from happening. andrew plant, bbc news. a baby, thought to be the world s smallest at birth, has been discharged from a singapore hospital, after 13 months of intensive treatment. kwek yu xuan was just 212 grams the weight of an apple when she was born, and measured 24 centimetres long. her mother gave birth to her by emergency c section,
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what are you going to do if people turn up at your gates? i m not going to break the law, but i won t be making it easy. i m not going to be helping them to kill an animal that doesn t need to be killed. bovine tb is a common issue for uk farmers. around a0,000 cows are killed after positive tests each year. helen thinks geronimo s tests were flawed and is calling on the government to take another look. the environment secretary, george eustice, has said geronimo s tests were reliable. downing street also expressed its sympathy, but said everything possible needed to be done to fight bovine tb. no test is absolutely perfect. no test is absolutely 100% sensitive or 100% specific. so, defra have to work on the big numbers, and they make policy based on the big numbers, and decisions based on those big numbers, whereas, for the individual, of course, you re always hoping that your animal is one of the 1 2%,