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Tonight at 10: Taliban fighters bring chaos to Kabul, raising new | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
questions about security. The gun battle is still going on after | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
militants target the US embassy and NATO headquarters. The | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
international force hits back and NATO says the plans to handle the | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
security will not be disrupted. Taliban tried to test transition, | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
but are they can't stop it. Transition is on track and it will | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
continue. We will have the latest from Kabul, where at least seven | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
people have died in the violence. On the eve of another strike ballot | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
on pensions, union members reject the advice of the Labour leader. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
do believe it was a mistake for strikes to happen last summer, and | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
I continue to believe that. months after the tsunami and | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
nuclear crisis, we go back to one of the worst affected Japanese | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
towns. I will be reporting from the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
nuclear ghost town of Japan. Radiation levels are surprisingly | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
low but when will it be saved to return? | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
The British man who gave the world papa it has died. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
I will be here with Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, including the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
best of the action in the Champions' League with Chelsea and | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Good evening. There's renewed concern about the stability of | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Afghanistan following a wave of attacks by Taliban fighters in the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
centre of Kabul. The targets include NATO headquarters and the | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
US embassy. The attacks have raised new questions about the ability of | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the Afghan security forces to take over the country's security, but | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
NATO says the strategy will not be disrupted. Our correspondent | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Quentin Sommerville was in the centre of Kabul when the attacks | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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started and he sent this report. Running for cover. Running from the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Taliban were sold in the heart of Kabul's embassy district. The | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
police opened fire on the attackers above them. The Taliban brought an | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
arsenal of weapons with them, here in one of the busy streets in the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
city a rocket lands. There was gunfire or around the area. This is | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
the US embassy over here, and ISAF headquarters. It seems like a | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
significant attack. Gunfire broke out across the neighbourhood, we | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
headed for cover. The target was the US embassy. Guards took up | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
positions on the roof, Inside staff scrambled for cover. NATO soldiers | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
joined the Afghan police. This residential area became a war-zone. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Afghan and international soldiers side-by-side, taking aim at the | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
Taliban hiding inside the building. The gunfire was heavy and sustained. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Attack helicopters were called in to fire on the insurgents. This | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
attack started with a suicide bomber at the Abdul Haq roundabout. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
Militants then fired on the US embassy and the ISAF headquarters. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
They fired from a building which was still under construction. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
Across the city, a police station and the airport were also attacked. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
The Taliban fought on. 10 hours later, at least one fighter is | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
still a live in the building. Afghan security forces needed | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
foreign help. They reacted quickly, they brought helicopters in, which | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
is the first time Afghan security forces used their own helicopters | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
for an operation like this. They responded well. ISAF helped them | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
and it seems as if the situation is under control. The attack would | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
have likely lasted longer without that assistance. ISAF says it has | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
the Taliban on its back but, but in Kabul people feel that assessment | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
seems optimistic. The assault is the latest in a | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
series of attacks that have undermined the fragile sense of | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
security in Kabul. In August militants killed eight people at | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the headquarters of the British Council, and in June suicide | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
bombers managed to get inside the Intercontinental Hotel. This latest | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
assault will prompt questions about how a handful of Taliban fighters | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
managed to launch such a prolonged attack. Here's our security | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
correspondent, Frank Gardner. It has become a familiar sight, a | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
truck bomb exploding last weekend at a NATO base in northern | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
Afghanistan, killing five. This was, until recently, a largely safe area. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
No longer. Taliban have crept ever closer to the capital, Kabul. They | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
can't capture it but they are doing their best to make the transition | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
from NATO to Afghan control look doomed. We are witnessing that the | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Taliban are trying to test transition, but they can't stop it. | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Transition is on track, and it will continue. That is because political | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
decisions have been taken to speed up the training of Afghan troops | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
and handover security to them. NATO says it can't troops performed well | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
today. Afghan troops and their NATO allies were also -- always going to | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
beat back this attack, but this was not about taking territory. The | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
insurgents wanted to prove they could puncture ISAF defences. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Coalition casualties have been rising steadily until this year. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Neither side can win outright so what are the Taliban trying to | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
achieve with these attacks? I think what they tried to do is | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
demonstrate internally in Afghanistan and externally in the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
United States and elsewhere that they still have sufficient | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
capability to maintain not only a presence, but a real threat to the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
government in Afghanistan. Which is why peace talks with the Taliban | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
are inevitable. 10 years ago they were beaten, now they are to be | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
given an office for negotiations. The chairman of News International | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
James Murdoch has agreed to return to Westminster to answer further | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
questions about phone hacking. He has been recalled by MPs on the | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Culture, Media and Sport Committee. It follows his appearance with his | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
father in July when he insisted he was not aware of widespread | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
problems at the News Of The World until earlier this year. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
The Boundary Commission for England has published proposals for the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
biggest redrawing of the electoral map in a generation. The number of | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
MPs at Westminster will be cut to 600. England will lose 31 seats, | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
and Northern Ireland two seats. All seats will now be roughly the same | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
size, with around 76,000 voters in each one. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, has angered some trade union members by | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
criticising the strikes held in June about pension reform. He was | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
heckled in London when he warned unions they have to change or risk | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
being sidelined. Three unions are expected to announce tomorrow they | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
will be asking members to undertake further strikes in November. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
He had not seen nothing yet, that is the message from public sector | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
unions to the government. Tomorrow, Britain's biggest unions look set | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
to announce they are balloting their members for more strikes. The | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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cause - cuts d'etre pensions. -- to their pensions. Ed Miliband came to | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
give his first speech as Labour leader to the TUC conference. He | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
was determined to prove he was his own man. They understand why | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
millions of decent public sector workers are angry, but while | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
negotiations were going on I do believe it was a mistake for | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
strikes to happen last summer. And I continue to believe that. They | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
didn't like that one bit. Negotiations with the government | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
over pensions, they say, are effectively over. No, they are not! | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
There was more to come. There are cuts the Tories will impose which | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
we can't reverse in government, and it is straighter for me to say that | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
to you now. I am very angry that Ed Miliband, who after all is part of | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
the Labour Party, the leader of the Labour Party which is a child of | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the trade unions, will not defend a or right to strike. Labour leaders | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
are not normally heckled here, but Ed Miliband will not mind that. If | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
it conveys the message he wants to get over, that he understands | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
workers' anger but he also knows the public don't want to see their | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
lives disrupted by strike action. Tomorrow this conference will | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
debate pensions. Union leaders whose members have not taken strike | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
action until now are preparing to announce that they do now plan to | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
ballot their members. It is the biggest ballot that will have ever | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
been undertaken in this country for industrial action but we have no | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
choice. I wasn't expecting him to be on the picket line next time we | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
take strike action. He said don't strike while there are negotiations. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
And it will be interesting what his position will be after the | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
negotiations. It strikes follow, there could be more days for Ed | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Miliband which will be much more uncomfortable than today. How did | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
it feel to be heckled by the TUC? came here with some positive | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
messages and tough messages, and frankly that is my job. I tell | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
things as I see them. Tonight in north London, strike has protested | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
against the sell-off of council services and the threat to their | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
pensions. They think the public is on their side. The question is, is | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
Ed Miliband? Let's look ahead and consider what | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
those big unions might be saying tomorrow. Our industry | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
correspondent is that the TUC. What can we expect? It does look | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
increasingly likely tonight that some of those big unions will | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
announce plans to ballot members on strike action tomorrow. The news | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
could come on the big debate in pensions in the morning, or later | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
in the day in a key meeting. By close of play tomorrow, it is | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
likely we will have had this decision. The significance of this | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
moment is it changes the dispute from one that involved hundreds of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
thousands of workers to one that could involve over a million | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
workers. Plans for a strike in November are pretty advanced at the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
moment but a senior union leader has told the BBC there could be | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
several one-day strikes in the future. That raises the prospect of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
some more serious and widespread industrial action that have seen in | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
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Britain for years. Coming up: why giving children what | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
they want may not be the best way to make them happy. | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Higher energy bills and the rising cost of clothing have helped to | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
push up inflation once again. Government's preferred measure, the | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
consumer prices index, increased to 4% last month. Experts are | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
predicting the figure will rise further because of higher gas and | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
Half slowdown? What slowdown? You could not see much consumer boom in | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
East London this morning, when Europe's biggest urban shopping | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
centre opened for business. In a sense, we are spending more, which | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
is not getting -- we are just not getting much more in return. The | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
main measure of inflation rose to 4.5% last month, the highest in | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
nearly three years. The broader RPI measure also rose to 5.2%. The | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
price of clothing has helped push up the figures, up by a record 5.2% | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
in the past year. Almost the only thing that is cheaper now than it | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
was then is Your TV. Prices in the electronics category are down by | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
11.5%. The squeeze on consumers has been good for business at discount | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
stores like this one, but with rising prices, Poundland does not | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
want to become �1.50 land. A good example would be 1.5 kilos of sugar, | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
which we sold for �1. The prize went so high that we could not do | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
that and maintain the value. And we were not prepared to offer a | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
product that was not amazing value, so that has been delisted. There | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
was a lone voice for higher interest rates on the Bank of | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
England's Monetary Policy Committee. He has not changed his mind. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Consumers cannot move forward in their spending or increase the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
amount of things they want to buy in an environment of higher | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
inflation. That is one of the ways in which inflation can be bad for | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
growth in the shorter term. When we look at the weakness of growth in | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
the economy, we need to recognise that the rise in inflation and the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
relatively high rate of inflation is contributing to that. Andrew was | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
inside the bank. He said they were underestimating the risk of high | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
and rising inflation. On that, he has turned out to be right. But | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
others said the true risk was of slow growth. Unfortunately, they | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
have turned out to be right as well. The economy is pretty weak. We are | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
not in a recession, but we are risking at least one quarter of | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
falling output. We think economic growth this year will be only 1%. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
We do not want to see it any worse. Rising gas and electricity prices | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
are likely to push inflation up to 5% by the end of the year. But it | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
is too late for the Bank of England to do anything about that. The | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
debate now is whether it should do more to support the recovery. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
British children are among the least happy in the developed world, | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
and the reason, according to the charity UNICEF UK, is a lack of | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
contact with parents and too much emphasis on material gain. UNICEF | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
published its first findings four years ago, and has now investigated | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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the prime cause of children's unhappiness. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Mariana is 7 1/4. Like most little girls of her age, her world is | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
filled with pink plastic. Our culture of materialism ships the | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
play and the lives of our children. But according to the United Nations | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
children's fund UNICEF, in Britain, it distorts the relationship | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
parents have with their kids. Obviously for her, a trip to | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
toyshops is a big thing. She will say, I want that. I want that one. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
The UNICEF research suggests that British parents want to be good | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
parents, but they are not sure how. They find they are often too busy | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
or too exhausted to engage with their children, so they compensate | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
by buying them toys and gadgets and cloves. -- clothes. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
A Norwich took part in the UNICEF project, which painted a picture of | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
British life in which parents trade quality time with their children | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
for the money to buy cupboards full of expensive toys. Although she has | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
always strived to make time to play with her daughter, the project made | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
her re-evaluate her own priorities. The were times when I was chatting | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
to friends or my mother and saying I feel so guilty that I do not have | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the time to spend with my daughter. That was one big issue for me. I | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
felt awful. I do not feel so bad now. The research team compared | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
British parents with their counterparts in Sweden and Spain, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
and found, in their words, a stark contrast. In other European | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
countries, family time is given greater importance. We need to | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
support families, who are under so much pressure. In Sweden, for | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
example, they try to protect families against commercial | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
pressures by having a ban on advertising aimed at children under | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
12 years old. We could consider that. Four years ago, UNICEF | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
sparked national soul-searching with analysis showing child well- | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
being in the UK at the bottom of a league of developed nations. This | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
year, they recruited 14-year-old Vanessa to an international panel | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
of young people, in the hope of understanding why British | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
children's happiness lags behind. It is great if you spend more time | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
with them. You have got to make a child emotionally happy as well as | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
physically happy, if that makes sense. For this family, happiness | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
is playing together with toys they have made themselves from old | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
cardboard boxes. But today's report says that for many parents, such | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
simple pleasures prove too difficult. Our children want our | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
time, but instead we buy them things. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Six months ago, emergency workers in Japan were launching their | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
desperate fight to control the nuclear power station at Fukushima. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Three of the reactors were overheating and a vast cloud of | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
radioactivity had escaped, following the powerful earthquake | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
and tsunami. More than 100,000 people living within 12 miles of | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
the plant were ordered to leave their homes. Our science | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
correspondent is one of the few journalists to have ventured back | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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to the deserted town of Tomioka. The nuclear ghost town of Tomioka. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
We have arrived in a long street of shops, and there is no one here. We | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
are a few miles inside the exclusion zone. A radioactive cloud | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
blew over here six months ago, but experts have assured us that | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
radiation levels have now fallen. A local farmer has slipped us past | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
security. This is the main street? It is completely empty. He wants us | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
to see how his community has suffered. We find that it was hit | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
by the earthquake and the tsunami, and then by the leap from the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Fukushima power station. This used to be a town of 16,000. This is the | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
main street. But as you can see, it is completely deserted. Motorbikes | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
abandoned, shops completely empty. No traffic at all. Weeds growing up | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
in this forecourt. A shop wrecked in the earthquake still completely | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
untouched. And all the time that we have been here, the radiation level | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
has been surprisingly low. The problem is this. If you get down to | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
ground level, it shoots up. No problem for us on a very quick | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
visit. But what scientists are wrestling with is have dangerous | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
this contamination is and will continue to be in the long term. It | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
was back in March that explosions at the nuclear power plant released | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
radioactive material. The leaks contaminated some areas more | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
severely than others, but everyone within 12 miles of this devastation | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
was ordered out. This man decided to stay on. He does not bother with | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
protective clothing. In the ruins of a farm, spiders have taken over. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Their webs stretch of everything, but he clears a path for us. He | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
wants to show us something. This is a distressing sight. It is a cattle | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
shed. The owners left in such a hurry that they were not able to | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
release their animals. Here are two that have died. In each of these | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
pens, there are two more, making a total of 60. Some animals broke | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
free and are roaming wild. The farmer tries to care for a new | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
generation born in the nuclear zone. He wants to keep his community | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
going. TRANSLATION: There is no | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
electricity, gas or water. But all the people still want to | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
come back. Even my mother and father. Their wish is to die here. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
After three hours here, we check our radiation dose. It is roughly | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
half what you get from a chest X- ray. The farmer refuses to think | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
about radiation. He is determined to stay on. But he lives by | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
candlelight. Most of his food is tinned. A dog is his only companion. | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
He wants his town to return to normal, but it will be a long wait. | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
A team of British detectives has arrived in Kenya to help | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
investigate the murder of the British tourist David Tebbutt and | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the kidnap of his wife. The Foreign Office says it's concerned for the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
safety of Judith Tebbutt, who was taken by armed men reportedly | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
heading towards Somalia. Her husband, a publishing executive | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
from Hertfordshire, was shot dead by the gang. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
In football, the group stage of the Champions League got under way | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
tonight, with both Chelsea and Arsenal taking on German opposition. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
In Germany, Arsene Wenger was seething silently. Banned from | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
communicating with his Arsenal team. Robin Van Persie operated on | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
instinct, having won the ball, he ran forward to receive it. It | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
worked nicely. Hopefully, under UEFA rules, Wenger is still allowed | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
to applaud. 87 minutes gone, Arsenal still winning their fragile | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
confidence rebuilding. Then this, an unstoppable way for Dortmund | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Borussia to draw the game. Chelsea's �15 million failure is | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
the description Fernando Torres is trying to avoid. He is trying too | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
hard against Bayer Leverkusen. Boyish and their Villas-Boas is the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
latest manager to try to meet Roman Abramovich's European expectations. | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
After a goalless hour, he was thankful for the defending of David | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Lewis. The perfect ending might have been a Torres goal. He did all | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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the hard work for the new signing. And the win is what really matters. | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Richard Hamilton, one of the most influential British artists of the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
past century, has died at the age of 89. He is widely regarded as the | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
inventor of pop art. Hamilton produced paintings, prints and | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
sculptures, but will be best remembered as the master of collage. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
The art work that made Richard Hamilton's name. It is a collage he | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
produced in 1956, with cuttings from magazines featuring glamourous | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
images from modern life. The idea was to blur the line between high | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
and low culture. Pop art had arrived. Richard Hamilton might | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
have referenced consumerism in his work, but he was not a frivolous | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
man. He was an intellectual, deeply concerned with the world in which | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
he lived. He was one of the most influential artists of the post-war | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
period, admired by the likes of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. But | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
he was always modest when talking about his own career. When I look | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
back on it now, it has got its ups and downs. But when I look at a | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
retrospective exhibition, I think I did pretty well on the whole. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
work was to become one of the defining images of the 1960s. It is | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
of what Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art dealer, and the singer Mick | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Jagger, handcuffed and shielding their faces from the paparazzi, | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
having been arrested on drugs charges. Like much of his art, it | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
is an entertaining image that packs a powerful political punch. His | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
work has been exhibited internationally and has had a | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
significant impact. contribution was enormous. He has | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
made critical art works, but he has also set an example for how artists | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
go about questioning the world around them. Richard Hamilton, who | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
was working on a new exhibition when he died, will be greatly | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
missed, particularly by the many artists around the world who he | :25:50. | :25:55. |