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Tonight at Ten: Turmoil in Greece as the Prime Minister pleads for | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
support to rescue the economy. Inside the Greek Parliament tonight, | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
demands for the Prime Minister to resign and call elections, but | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
Papua New Guinea offers -- George Papandreou offers the coalition | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
government to help see the country through the crisis. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
TRANSLATION: We should appreciate a different national position. It | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
should be the beginning of a new political culture, a political | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
stance that is new for all of us. Leaders try to foe kiss on the | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
world economy, but Greece is never far away. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
The most important aspect of our task over the next two days is to | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
resolve the financial crisis here in Europe. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
We have the latest from Athens and from Cannes after a day of tension | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
and drama. Also tonight: In prison, three Pakistan cricket stars, | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
starting their sentences for taking part in a betting scam. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The priceless heritage of Libya. Museums reveal what was stolen | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
during the uprising. And Bond is back, despite the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
delays and difficulties, Skyfall is now in production. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
We had to make a Bond movie that stood up there as one of the best. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
That's the starting point. You have to aim for the stars on this one. | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Later in the hour on the BBC News Channel, I'm hear with Sportsdayen | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
a busy night in the Europa League, but mixed fortunes for are the | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
:01:49. | :01:58. | ||
British sides involved. Good evening. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
After a day of endless twists and turns, Greece could be moving | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
towards a new coalition government to see it through the bail out | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
crisis. That is the word from the Prime Minister's office within the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
past 30 minutes. George Papandreou will start talks | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
with the opposition parties tomorrow when he also faces a vote | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
of confidence in Parliament. It seems that his controversial | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
plan for a referendum has been dropped. For the latest from Athens, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
here is our correspondent, Matthew Price. At the Greek Parliament this | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
evening, they are waiting and watching. Fearful about where this | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
country is heading. You don't know what will happen | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
from one time to another. From one moment to another. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Inside the Prime Minister is clinging on to power. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
His call to hold a referendum on the next Greek bail out package | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
provokes the crisis. Today he suggested it was just a political | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
employ. TRANSLATION: Opening a debate on | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the referendum revived people it created a positive shock and | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
brought positive results to politics in this country. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
I think we should appreciate a different national position. I hope | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
it can be the beginning of a new political culture, a new political | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
stance for all of us. Some suggest a deal is being | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
discussed. In return for dropping the referendum, a new government of | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
national unity will be formed followed by fresh elections, but | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the opposition leader is still guning for the Prime Minister. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
TRANSLATION: I am wondering, George Papandreou almost destroyed Greece | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
and Europe, the Euro, the international stock markets, his | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
own party, in order to ensure what? So he could blackmail me and the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Greek public? Earlier, rumours persisted that the Prime Minister | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
was about to step down. Damage by the prospects of asking | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
the public if they wanted more cuts, whether they wanted more austerity. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
A write-down of 50 billion in Greek debt. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
It was very difficult for him, seeing the reactions of members of | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
his parliamentary group and also key ministers that have expressed | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
their views today for him to remains the Prime Minister. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
This country's already on its knees. The legal system paralysed, court | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
officials are on a go-slow, ferries are going nowhere, businesses are | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
shut down. What is happening inside the Greek Parliament right now is | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
taking Europe and the Euro to the brink. Nobody here in Athens | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
tonight knows who is going to be running this country in the next 24 | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
hours, let alone the coming months. While there is political | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
uncertainty in Athens, there can be no solution to Greece's economic | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
problems. That in turn, means that the Europe debt crisis cannot be | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
contained. Time seems to be running out for | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
George Papandreou. He's told Parliament he's not tied to his | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
post. There's a confidence vote in his government tomorrow. Elsewhere, | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
they've already lost confidence in Greece. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Live to Athens tonight, we have our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt is. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
ThereGavin, events are moving at remarkable speed today. How do you | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
things -- see things there tonight? It's been a day of power struggles. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
George Papandreou realised he was not to be able to count on the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
support of his party, to get the referendum through on the EU bail | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
out package. In fact he was facing defeat tomorrow over this | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
confidence vote. Now in the last half an hour, we've been talking to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
the Prime Minister's office, they say that George Papandreou has | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
decided to scrap the referendum in the hope of holding his party | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
together. Now, whether it comes to, when it comes to this vote tomorrow, | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
whether he will succeed on it, it is difficult to know. It will be on | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
a knife-edge. Something else, where he wins or loses, the negotiations | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
are going to start on putting together a government of national | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
unity. What the result of that will be we don't know. It is very messy | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
here in Greece tonight. That provides little comfort to | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy who only yesterday | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
were saying to Greek that they had to decide whether they wanted to | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
stay in the eurozone or not. Gavin, thank you very much. | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
Well, today's development in Athens has rather overshadowed a meeting | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
of the world's richest nations, the G20 in the south of France. They've | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
been trying to find a way to ease the debt crisis throughout the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
eurozone. Apart from that, there is the growing alarm of the situation | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
in Italy, where the size of the debt is bigger. | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy saying that if theow explodes, so does Europe. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
You have seen this picture before, the leaders of the world's largest | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
economies getting together for a chinwag. What we have not seen | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
before is a G20 summit hi-jacked by a tiny country that isn't even in | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
the club. This is not how President Sarkozy | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
planned hits summit, but thin very little in the global economy has | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
been going to plan. I think it's not surprise that we | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
spent most of our conversation focused on strengthening the global | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
economic recovery so that we are creating jobs for our people and | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
stabilising the financial markets around the world. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
The most important aspect of our task over the next two day is to | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
resolve the financial crisis here in Europe. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
The extraordinary tep-change came late last night when the French and | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the German leaders suggested for the first time that Greece could | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
leave the Euro. The new line was: We want you in, but you have to | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
want it to. -- too. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
TRANSLATION: We wish to continue building Europe and the Euro with | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
our Greek friends. We have done everything that we could to achieve | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
that, but there are a number of rules that are the bedrock of the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
solidarity pact. It is up to the Greeks to decide if they wish to | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
continue on this road together with us or not. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Today, the French President said: If the Euro explodes, then Europe | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
explodes. There were lots of weighty issues | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
that the leaders were meant to be talking about today, but they kept | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
getting interup theed by the latest news from Greece. The leaders here | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
still think would be disastrous for Greece ever to leave theow, but | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Greece in theow, all of this never ending drama and political | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
uncertainty, that is starting to feel disastrous as well. The focus | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
has shifted from trying to control what happens in athns to trying to | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
contain it. -- Athens. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
The Europeans had hoped that China would help to beef up the rescue | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
fund for countries caught in the fall-out, but Chinese officials say | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
that Europe has to sort itself out first. The British say that new | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
money from the IMF is likely, but it can't just be for the eurozone. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
No Government ever lost money by lending money to the IMF, it | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
supports countries right around the world. What we would not support | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
the -- is the IMF directle insome Euro bail out fund. That would not | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
be right, we would not back it. The International Monetary Fund did | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
offer some help to Europe's faltering recovery with a modest | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
recovery in interest rates, but there was little time for theied | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
that the ECB might save the Euro by pledging unlimited resources to | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
governments or the possibility that a country could quit. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
It's not in the treaty. I have nothing to add to that. It is not | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
in the treaty. On the second question, the, | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
actually, I have a question for you, really, what makes you think that | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
to become the learned of last results for garments is the thing | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
that you need to keep the eurozone together Maybe this summit will go | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
down in history as the first time the Europeans publicly contempt | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
plated a country leaving the Euro. Something tells me it will not be | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
the last. Well let's go live to Cannes | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
tonight. Nick Robinson is there. Do you think that they have made any | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
meaningful progress thereed to has been an extraordinary summit. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
There is no sign yet of that progress. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Remember that it is just six weeks ago we were told there was six | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
weeks to save theow. The deadline was the meeting. Yet you had the | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
leaders of the 20 most powerful economies around the world sitting, | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
studying the smart phones to discover what on earth was | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
happening in Athens. Would there be a referendum? Would the Prime | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Minister fall? Would the Greeks come out of the Euro? Tonight after | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
the formal dinner we have another mini summit of eurozone countries | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and intreesingly, President Obama is there too. Our Prime Minister | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
has had meetings with Angela Merkel and President Obama. The signs are | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
that there is an attempt to get a twin track strategy. To ensure if | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
at all possible that the Greeks don't lee the Euro and in addition | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
that the Italians are bolstered in it. To pursue the idea that we were | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
discussing last night of getting more money into the International | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Monetary Fund to try to send a message to global markets that yes, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
the world is ready to stand behind the eurozone if it really needs to | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
do it. Now, of course, the countries that would give that | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
money don't want to do that unless they think that the eurozone is | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
really tackling its problems. The final problem is this for that | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
meeting, it is that even when they leave this summit here in Cannes, | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
they still won't know what is happening in Athens, who is in | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
government. So, as one official put it to me, we have lost the period | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
where one meeting and one big fat number will solve the problem. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
We will be returning to Cannes later on in the programme. There is | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
more explanation and lots of analysis for you on the crisis on | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
the BBC website at bbc.co.uk/news. /Euro crisis. Lots of information | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
for you there. Here at home thousands of health | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
service workers, teaching assistants and other public sector | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
work verse voted to strike on November the 30th over proposed | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
changes to the pension rights. Members of Unison voted by more | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
than 3-1 in favour of a strike. Less than the third of the members | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
took part in the voting. Now, the police have said that the | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
number of possible victims stands at almost 5,800, nearly 2,000 more | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
than previously thought. The police say that the number is likely to be | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
revised again as a result of further analysis. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Three of Pakistan's most high- profile cricketers and their agent | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
are in prison tonight. They were sentenced for cheating during a | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Test Match against England at Lord's. Salman Butt, and Mohammad | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Amir, Mohammad Asif and the agent, Mazhar Majeed were all convicted | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
yesterday. It is the first case in Britain in half a century of | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
:13:51. | :13:53. | ||
sportsmen being jailed for cheating. The first of a series of three no- | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
balls that have landed three cricketers in jail. Rarely, if ever, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
has a bowler put his foot so far over the line. Today, the players | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
paid the price for their corruption. The captain, Salman Butt, given to | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
0.5 years in prison. The judge said he was the orchestrator of the plot. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
-- given 2.5 years. Mohammad Asif, one of the world's best fast | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
bowlers, got one year. And then 19- year-old Mohammad Amir, the young | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
star of international cricket - only six months for him, because he | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
had pleaded guilty, described by the judge as impressionable and | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
the judge as impressionable and uneducated. Brought down by their | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
agent, Mazhar Majeed, who told an undercover reporter when the no- | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
balls would be bold. Sixth ball of the tenth over. He admitted during | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
sentencing that he had passed on half of the money given to him by | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
the News Of The World to his players for their involvement in | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
the plot. Of all the places for it to happen, it was here at Lord's, | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
the home of cricket, the venue where the noble traditions of the | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
game are held most dear. But it is in Pakistan where the greatest | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
ramifications will be. Nowhere were the sentences being watched more | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
closely than in Mohammad Amir's home. His mother wept as she tried | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
to get more details of new was brought to her by television. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Little more than a year ago, her son looked to have a golden future. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
He's now heading to jail. TRANSLATION: He was innocent. What | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
has happened to him is very wrong. He did not do it for the sake of | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
money, he was forced to do the no- ball. Meanwhile, Pakistan were | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
playing today. Members of the current squad were named in the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
court case. Many within the game believe that the governing body of | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the sport needs to do more. fact that a newspaper has provided | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
the main body of the evidence leading to these convictions leads | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
to the question, can the ICC leave it to newspapers and the media to | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
do what they probably need to be doing themselves?. The judge said | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
that prison sentences were a necessary deterrent. Sports people | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
watching these pictures now know what can happen if you cheat. | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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Coming up tonight - half-a-century and 22 films later, James Bond will | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
In Libya, the damage done to the nation's cultural heritage during | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
this year's unrest is becoming clear. Thousands of priceless items | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
have gone missing, most of them apparently stolen during the | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
conflict to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. One of the biggest losses | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
is the so-called "Treasure of Benghazi", an ancient collection of | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
coins, jewellery and statues. Our correspondent Caroline Hawley has | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
:17:13. | :17:13. | ||
been investigating. It houses one of the best collections of | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
antiquities in the region. But for now, Tripoli's museum is firmly | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
closed. Inside, the display cases are still empty. The head of the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
country's National Department of Archaeology says that special | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
precautions had been taken following what happened in Iraq. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
decided to hide most of these things are in many places. To give | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
you an example, sometimes we decide to put these things in a home, then | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
we build a wall, and we paint the wall the same colour as the room. | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
But in Benghazi, in the chaos of the conflict, this fix ceiling in a | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
bank vault was no deterrent to what has been called one of the largest | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
thefts of archaeological material in history. This saved was emptied, | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
and another chest like this one was stolen. Thousands of priceless | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
coins and other artifacts from the Islamic past have gone. This | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
archaeologist showed us pictures of the kind of coins that are missing. | :18:21. | :18:31. | |
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They may be difficult to trace. items that were stolen represents | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
quite a segment of human history, it is a huge loss for Libya and the | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
world. In Tripoli's museum, there was some revolutionary vandalism. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
This is the proclamation of Colonel Gaddafi's revolution, and this is | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
the GP he used when he came to power, its headlights now smashed. | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
So, too, the windows of the car he drove in the 1960s. But the fine | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Roman statues are still standing proud, and there is relief here | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
that so much of Libya's huge archaeological wealth escaped the | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
conflict unscathed. Staff say it will be a while before they can | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
reopen these galleries to the public. In these uncertain times, | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
they do not want to take any risks with taking precious heritage. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
Until the new authorities are sure that Libya's borders are secure, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
officials will play it safe, and the remains of this country's | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
extraordinary ancient past will The Ministry of Defence has | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
announced that a British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
The soldier, from 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment, was part of a | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
patrol which was attacked by insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
:19:56. | :20:01. | ||
district of Helmand province. His Bob diamond, the Barclays boss who | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
said earlier this year that it was time for bankers to stop | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
apologising, has struck a rather different note. Our chief economics | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
correspondent has more details. He is one of Britain's leading bankers, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
and Bob diamond has generated plenty of headlines, not least | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
about his pay packet. He has helped turn Barclays into a major global | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
player, and when the financial crisis hit, it did not need a | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
government bail out. This evening he gave the inaugural Today | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
Programme Business Lecture, and said banks needed to rebuild trust. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
First, we have to build a better understanding of how businesses and | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
banks work together to generate economic growth. Second, we have to | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
accept responsibility for what has gone wrong. Finally, and most | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
importantly, we have to use the lessons learned to become better | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
and more effective citizens. comments come at a time of | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
increasing criticism of banks, with protesters gathering around the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
world arguing that the financial system is bust. He told me banks | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
needed to do better at explaining their role in society. We need to | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
recognise that we have not done a very good job of being clear as to | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
how we contribute to jobs and economic growth. We have done a | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
very poor job of explaining how we contribute to society. Equally, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
people want to hear that not only do we accept our part of | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
responsibility, but that we get it. Is there an acceptance that you did | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
get some things wrong? Absolutely. I think the industry got some | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
things wrong. I think I got some things wrong. All of us have to | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
accept responsibility. So, how did it go down? We asked one leading | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
financial commentator. Nine months ago, he said something completely | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
different. We have got to welcome what he says now. But we need to | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
see the colour of his money, we have to hold him to account, let's | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
see how Barclays changes. The role of the banks in the economy is the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
subject of intense debate. The boss of Barclays clearly feels the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
industry should get involved, rather than shying away. You can | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
hear an extended interview with Bob Diamond on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
morning. James Bond will return to our screens despite the doubts and | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
delays. Shooting has now started on the latest film, called Skyfall, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
due for release next year. It maintains a British film franchise | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
which is nearly 50 years old. Production had been held up when | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
MGM studios ran into financial difficulties last year. Lizo Mzimba | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
reports. Three years after his last outing, Daniel Craig is once more | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
preparing to immerse himself in a world of extravagant explosions and | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
exotic locations. The film was put on hold for a year because of the | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
financial problems of the studio, MGM, but that has resulted in a new | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
scheduled release date to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
first film, Dr No. It is a great challenge. We have got something to | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
celebrate, that it is 50 years old. We have also got a great script, so | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
it is up to us now to make something which is fitting for the | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
50th year. The movies have often shaken audiences but not stirred | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
award's judges. But that could change. The new cast has gathered | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
10 acting nominations between them. And some Mendes's previous films | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
have won six Oscars. Might they be hoping for some golden statuettes? | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
I do not think in those terms about anything. For me, James Bond is for | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
the audience and only for the audience. The rest of it is just | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
what happens afterwards, like any good movie. From Sean Connery threw | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
to Daniel Craig, the franchise has become the longest-running | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
continuous film series ever. Bond films have gone on for such a | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
long time partly because they respond to changes in the world at | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
large, but also I think because they have negotiated a change in | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
the film industry and in the popular tastes of film audiences. | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
Bond, James Bond. 50 years after 007 first said those famous words, | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
fans will be expecting Skyfall to be a fitting tribute to a film | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
series which is almost half as old as cinema itself. More on the main | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
story now, that eurozone crisis, the political turmoil in Greece. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Our economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, is in Cannes. Given the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
fact that this is looking to be unresolved still tonight, how much | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
damage is it causing the eurozone? I think it is the continuing damage, | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
the drip-drip effect of not being able to get a handle on it. It does | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
not help that you're watching the situation spiral out of control in | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Greece. The financial markets were actually pretty upbeat today. The | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
stock markets rose significantly in America, Germany, France and the UK. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
But crucially, they did not give any benefit to the Italians, | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
there's still enormous pressure on the cost of borrowing for the | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Italian government and the Spanish government. That interest rate cut | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
from the European Central Bank was only one piece of the puzzle today. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
The ECB president has said he is not going to come to the rescue of | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
the eurozone. That's leaving other countries, especially the likes of | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
China and Russia, but also America, very frustrated, resigned to the | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
idea that the Europeans cannot fix this by themselves, probably having | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
to put more money into the IMF as a result. They're not happy about it, | :26:15. | :26:18. |