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In BBC London News: The former Met bosses who quit over the phone- | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
hacking scandal are cleared of misconduct. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
And a boost from the Mayor - �20 million for parts of London worst- | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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the economic recovery is underlined by the latest unemployment figures | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
heading for 2.5 million. Young people are among the worst affected. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
The number of women out of work is The number of women out of work is | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
the highest for 23 years. Ministers admit that the figures are | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
disappointing. Labour wants the Chancellor to think again about his | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
Economic headlines haven't brought much cheer recently. Sluggish | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
growth was reported for April, May and June. The eurozone crisis saw | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
shares plunge and today we've learned unemployment is up. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Different backgrounds... For young people finding work is challenging. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Yudge unemployment has increased. This group is hearing how to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
prepare for job interviews, part of the Work Programme for the long- | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
term unemployed. Perry has been signed on for two years. Getting a | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
break hasn't happened yet. I've applied for loads of jobs. I've | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
lost count to be honest. I apply online. What response do you get? | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
They tell me to go online. When I go online there's no work. How do | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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you feel about that? Frustrated. I The claimant count rose by 37,000 | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
last month, the biggest increase since 2009. The number of women | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
have who are unemployed has gone up to more than a million. Should not | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
be in a position where the momentum for growth has so clearly run out | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
as it has done. The Government is making matters worse. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Chancellor says there is growth in the economy, and today he was | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
taking a closer look. He was launching a batch of new enterprise | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
zones designed to boost business expansion and employment. The day's | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
unemployment figures are, of course, disappointing. With what is going | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
on in the world at the moment and in the world markets, they are not | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
entirely unexpected. There is some good news that employment is still | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
going up. We are creating jobs in this economy. The at is borne out | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
by companies like Morrisons, which is creating 6000 jobs this year and | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
more next year. Even so, the boss has reservations about the economy. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Costs are increasing faster than wages, and people are feeling the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
squeeze in their household budgets. So we are very worried about the UK | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
economy. We are also investing for the future, because we believe that | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
long-term, the Bank of England and the Government are pursuing the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
right strategies. That bank's strategy seems to be changing. Two | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
members of the key policy-making committee have changed their minds | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
and instead of voting to increase interest rates, have opted to leave | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
them on hold so that the committee is now unanimous. There is a very | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
good chance that we will not see an interest-rate hike right through | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the whole of next year. This economy does not need us to slow | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
things down. The key question now - where will growth come from? There | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
may yet be some gloomy headlines to come. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
So is there any Saturday of a change of approach either within | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
government or at the Bank of England? Hugh Pym is at the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Treasury. How do you see things? There is no sign here at the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Treasury of any change of tack. The argument being made is that growth | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
in the UK was not outstanding in the second quarter of this year, | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
but it was stronger than France or Germany's performance. The UK has a | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
more ambitious deficit-reduction programme that either of those two. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
But critics will continue to argue that deficit reduction may have a | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
bigger impact next year. At the Bank of England, I sense that there | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
is a plan B on the table. Until recently, the concern there was | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
high inflation and when to start raising interest rates. But in the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
last couple of weeks, there has been a change and the worry is now | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
a slowdown in the euro or the US hitting the UK. Two members of the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Monetary Policy Committee have changed their minds and voted to | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
hold interest rates, not raise them. We have also learnt that more than | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
one member was considering this programme of money creation, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
pumping more money into the economy, starting back up again. So there is | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
a sobering message from everyone at the Bank of England that low growth | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
is seen as the biggest risk. David Cameron has praised the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
courts for handing out tough sentences to some of those involved | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
in last week's riot. There has been criticism from some campaigners, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
charities and Liberal Democrats but the courts have shown a lack of | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
consistency and sometimes a lack of balance. The debate intensified | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
after the prison sentences given yesterday to two men for inciting | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
disorder by using Facebook. So far, the official figures show that 2770 | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
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What punishment fits the crime? That is a thorny question in the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
aftermath of the riots, with some sentences proving controversial. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
Nicholas Robinson stole bottled water, valued at �3.50, during the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
disorder. It cost him his freedom. He was jailed for six months. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Compare that to David, who admitted stealing two T-shirts. He was | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
released by magistrates. Then there are those who tried to start | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
trouble. Paris circuit Keenan and Jordan Blackshaw used Facebook to | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
incite violence. The riots did not happen, yet they were given four | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
year prison sentences. Blackshaw is appealing that decision. In | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Northwich, the town he threatened to smash down, his friends said the | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
court had been too harsh. He was having a laugh on Facebook. It was | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
only a little group. People have got big sentences without getting | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
caught. The Government says there needs to be a deterrent stop scenes | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
like this happening again. Not only was this man pulled off his | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
skittering Croydon, it was then stolen. This is just the latest | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
footage to emerge from the days of disturbances in London. What | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
happened on our streets was appalling behaviour, and to send a | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
message that it is wrong is what our criminal justice system should | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
be doing. Some solicitors claimed the usual way it is not being given | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
to mitigating factors such as having a clean record, showing | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
remorse or pleading guilty at an early stage in court proceedings. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Judges here have made clear that there will be longer sentences | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
because of the aggravating factor that the offences were committed | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
during widespread disturbances. A senior lawyer and Liberal Democrat | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
peer says many sentences could be appealed, and has warned that what | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
happens inside the courtroom needs to be decided by judges, not | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
politicians. It is always preferable for ministers to keep | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
out of the courts. I do not think ministers distinguish themselves by | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
appearing to tell judges what to do. And the focus remains on the courts, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
with the number of people charged continuing to grow. Audrey reported | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
her own child to the police. Today her daughter Chelsea, a former | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Olympic ambassador, denied several offences and was remanded in | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
custody. There are parents are very worried about the sentences being | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
handed down. This mother's 14-year- old son is being held in remand for | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
stealing a baseball cap. The people who instigated the whole thing, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
they should be treated harshly. But not people who got caught up in it | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
all. In the City -- cities damaged by riots, there are families | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
shocked at the harsh swift justice that had been promised by the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
government, and they are questioning if it is fair. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
During the day, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
areas of London affected by the unrest. In Tottenham, Hackney and | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Croydon, they met residents who had lost their homes and business | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
owners who had lost their stock. The Prince said it was time to | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
tackle gang culture, and announced that his charity, the Prince's | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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Trust, would spend more money on youth projects. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
They had broken off from the Royal Family's holiday in Scotland for | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
the day to see for themselves what the riots had done to London. In | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Croydon, the soul remains of small businesses, mostly shops run by | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
families, destroyed by the rioters. His much striking impression? | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
sheer terror the people experienced. The unease is still there. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Wondering what might happen. Tottenham in north London, where | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
the spark had first been ignited, they met some of the 45 families in | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
the borough who lost their homes. you lost everything? Or your | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
clothes. All my clothes, my jewellery. They met members of the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
mergers of services, the policemen and women who had done their best | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
against what had often been impossible odds. And the ambulance | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
and fire crews that also found themselves on the frontline. And | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
then in Hackney, the Prince sat down with youth leaders to discuss | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
what had gone wrong. First, the problem of gangs. Half the problem | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
is that people have joined gangs because it is a cry for help. They | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
are looking for a framework, a sense of belonging. Too many young | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
people had too much and directed energy and aggression, he said. The | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
challenge was to use it positively. I have been trying for the last did | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
years to suggest that we should have a national community service. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
People should have a series of options to do all sorts of things | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
depending on their own skills and abilities and talents. The Prince | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
said it was time to get to the heart of the problem. We have spent | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
only been tinkering with the symptoms for a long time, and not | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
getting to the root causes. Make no mistake, these are matters the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Prince of Wales cares deeply about, and on which he is not afraid to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
intervene. The problems of the inner cities, the problems of | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
disadvantaged young people, are precisely what the Prince's | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
charities were set up to tackle in the first place. The Prince's Trust | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
in particular is responding to what happened last week. The response to | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
the riots of the Prince's Trust is to double its spending on projects | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
in London, Birmingham and Manchester. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
As many as 400,000 children could starve to death in Somalia unless | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
urgent action is taken to tackle the famine. The warning was | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
delivered by Andrew Mitchell, the first British minister to visit the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
capital for 18 years. It's thought that 1.5 million people have been | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
forced from their homes, displaced within Somalia by war and famine. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Half a million of the victims are in camps around the capital, where | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
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aid supplies have been regularly Mogadishu, the most dangerous city | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
in the world, and the hungryest place on earth. Ministerial visits | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
don't come any more dangerous than this. First British minister here | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
in nearly two decades, we advance in an armed convoy. You can see why | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
they're so nervous. This was Mogadishu less than a fortnight ago, | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
a last exchange of fire before Al- Shabab fighters fled the city. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
African Union peacekeepers and the UN-backed government regained | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
control, but half of the country still remained in the hands of the | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
militants. These are the victims of violence, failed governments and | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
now severe drought, a lethal combination has throd famine on an | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
alarming scale. So with the fear of suicide attacks, we're allowed just | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
a few minutes on the ground. How long did it take her? Ten days. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
walked with her six children? People have risked life and limb to | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
walk to these camps. Britain's promised more help, an extra �29 | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
million, investment in the future. Somalia is an example of a failed | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
state, which quite apart from the threats it poses to its own people, | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
poses a threat to the wider world and indeed, to Britain. There are | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
more foreign British nationals here engaged in terrorism, of one sort | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
of another now, than in Pakistan. This country is potentially a | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
threat to the United Kingdom. priority number one is to save | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
lives. In the coming weeks, we can expect to see fewer people dying of | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
starvation, more dying of disease. Cholera and measles are already | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
reported. The aftershocks of famine, so the clear message is, things are | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
likely to get worse before they improve. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Ministerial moments like these may help to keep Somalia in the | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
spotlight, but many are now questioning how long will the | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
attention last. There were 13 separate warnings over the years | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
about conditions at Winterbourne View, a residential home for people | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
with learning disabilities near Bristol. The home was closed in | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
June, following a BBC investigation into standards of care and abuse of | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
patients. The regulator announced today that another home, ar den | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Vale, in Solihull, is to be shut within a week. The home is run by | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Castlebeck, the company that operated Winterbourne View. Alison | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
Holt has the story. The shocking treatment of the most | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
vulnerable of people. It took an undercover Panorama camera to | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
expose the abuse at Winterbourne View, a home for people with | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
learning disabilities. After the programme, the regulator, the Care | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Quality Commission, closed the home. Details released under Freedom of | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Information shows how much it and local safe guarding authorities | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
already knew about Winterbourne View. Last year alone the CQC | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
received nine reports about incidents and complaints compared | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
to four in the two years before. Most of the incidents detailed in | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
this document are official notification that something has | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
happened here at Winterbourne View. That means they were investigated | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
locally. What's striking is that time and again concerns are being | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
raised about the way in which patients are restrained. Reports | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
include this complaint made by a patient. It was alleged that the | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
support worker had squeezed the patient's neck during restraint and | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
that the patient found it difficult to swallow following this incident. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
The worker was disciplined. A man also rang the CQC directly saying | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
he was concerned about the use of restraint and staffing levels. It | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
took three months for someone to call him back. We showed the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
details to a former care homes inspector. She's asked to remain | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
anonymous, as she's still involved in the field. She believes further | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
investigation should have been triggered. It's the level of the | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
violence seeing the abuse within the incidents and the use of | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
restraints and techniques, which are not common practice for an | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
organisation which is not high secure. The CQC says incidents were | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
reported and investigated appropriately. In a statement, it | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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appropriately. In a statement, it The issue at Winterbourne View was | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
not what known and reported but what was concealed. The last time | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
there was a scandal about a learning disability home Rob Gregg | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
advised the incidents. Since then there's been lighter touch in | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
regulation. He thinks lessons need regulation. He thinks lessons need | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
learning again. The key is having to ask the question, what is life | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
like for the people receiving these services. Am I listening to their | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
voices? If you have that as a starting point, as opposed to is a | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
particular policy being followed, you're more likely to get to the | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
root of the issues. The role played by all organisations is being | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
examined as part of a Serious Case Review. | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: Some say he's the modern Gandhi. We | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
report on campaigner fighting corruption in India. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Officials in the Seychelles have enforced a partial swimming and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
diving ban, after a man from Lancashire was killed by a shark | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
while on honey hoon. Ian Redmond is the second tour toist die in a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
shark attack in two weeks. The government is facing questions | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
about the failure to warn tourists. The smiles of Ian and Gemma Redmond | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
said it all. Friends say their perfect wedding day was meant to be | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
followed by the perfect honeymoon, here on the Seychelles island. As | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
Ian swam 20 yards from shore, he was attacked by a shark, while his | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
wife could hear his screams. He was viciously attacked to the arms and | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
the leg. There were two people on a cat marar close by. They did remove | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
him from the sea. But later on he passed away. Tonight, Ian Redmond's | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
father said the whole father had been left traumatised by his death. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Only 11 days ago, they were celebrating his marriage. This is | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
the church where the couple were married. It's St Michaels near | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Wigan. Tonight Gemma Redmond has pedestrian this tribute to her | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
husband. She said, "He was strong and brave, a remarkable man. He | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
will be deeply missed." couple... Friends too have been | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
left devastated. Barbara has the order of service from the wedding. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Service was beautiful. We all wished them the very best of luck | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
in their lives together. This is 11 days afterwards. 11 days after. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
are you feeling now? Very empty. Very shocked. It's believed this, a | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
tiger shark, killed Ian Redmond and despite a French diver, also being | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
killed in the same waters 16 days ago, there were no warning signs on | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
the beach. But now the Seychelles government has issued a swimming | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
ban. Too late though for Ian and Gemma Redmond. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Four senior police officers, criticised for their handling of | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
the inquiry into phone hacking at the News Of The World, have been | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation. They | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
include the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
Stephenson. The IPCC said Sir Paul had not committed any criminal acts. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
The former assistant commissioner, John Yates, was also cleared. Mr | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Yates is still being investigated following claims he helped to find | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
a job for the daughter of a former News International executive. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
In India, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Delhi to support the anti- corruption campaigner Anna Hazare. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
There's been a vigil outside the jail where he was taken yesterday, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
after threatening to go on hunger strike. He's calling for tougher | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
anti-corruption measures, following a string of high profile scandals, | :21:42. | :21:52. | |
:21:52. | :21:52. | ||
one of them involving last year's A passionate outburst of support | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
for India's top crusader. Indians from every section of society | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
united in protest in nationwide rallies that are rattling the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
government. Anna Hazare's anti- corruption campaign has hit home. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
In India, it is so bad that if you want to do anything, if you want to | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
get anything done, any work you want to get done, you have to bribe. | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
He's not fighting for himself. He's already 75 nearly. He's fighting | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
for me and my next generation. Hazare has struck a chord with | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
millions of Indians with the spectacles and white cap he's often | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
compared to Gandhi. Like him, Hazare uses fasting and non-violent | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
protests. But the Indian government says he's a threat to democracy. | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
TRANSLATION: It's do or die now. Just like the independence struggle. | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
Either we succeed or we sacrifice our lives. India's been hit by a | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
string of high profile corruption scandals. The biggest is the | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
misselling of telecom licenses. Auditors say it cost India �24.5 | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
billion in lost revenue. Last year's Commonwealth Games were | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
vastly overspent. The estimated cost was �166 million. It | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
eventually cost �2.5 billion because of alleged kick backs. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Several top government officials, including a former minister, have | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
been arrested and are facing criminal charges. Tonight Anna | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Hazare remains inside this high security prison. Anna Hazare's | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
supporters have laid seeds outside the prison where he's been kept for | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the past two days. They're hoping to mount enough pressure on the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
government not to just have him released but to let him have his | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
way. This is now a movement that's gaining momentum. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
The artist and performers at the Edinburgh Festival, the biggest of | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
its kind in the world, have drawn heavily on the global events of the | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
past year, including the Japanese tsunami and the uprisings in ar be | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
countries and also the phone hacking scandal. Will Gompertz has | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
been studying the results and he sent this report. | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
Edinburgh Festival's 2011, hundreds of performances make for quite a | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
show in what has been quite a year. It's been a year of major news | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
stories. There's been the earthquake in Japan, turmoil in the | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
eurozone. We've had an Arab Spring and summer of riots. Meanwhile here | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
in Edinburgh, the world's largest arts festival, many of the 20,000 | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
performers are having a bit of a laugh. But does that mean that they | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
are oblivious to and have nothing to say about the state of the world | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
we live in? That's all we know. Since the pie, there's only one | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
thing around the world we know about you. It's not that you are a | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
billionaire or innovator, or the fact you've had Democratically | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
elected people on at your beck and call for the last 40 years. No | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Rupert, there's only one thing we know about you. You've got a ninja | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
wife! He has plenty to say about current affairs. The phone hacking | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
thing was huge. The Royal Wedding was huge. Things that stick right | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
in people's minds. There's been a lot of big stuff this year. I think | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
people are more talking about the news this year at the Edinburgh | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
fringe than in previous years. German stand up Henning Wehn is | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
taking an interest in what's going on. If you are serious about | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
helping Greece, you must go on holidays to Germany, because the | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
German hotels, restaurants and tour operators, they do pay their taxed, | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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which Berlin can then give to Athens. Rehearsals for 1,001 nights. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
It features actors from Egypt and Tunisia. The play is not about the | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
Arab Spring, but the build up has been. It's affected the spirit with | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
which we are creating this work, the emotional turbulence of what is | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
happening at home has been brought to the room and brought into the | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
production. Yes, hello, Helen, me. Diana Quick is in town with a show | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
exploring modern relationships. She feels like many, in troubled times | :26:53. | :27:01. |