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Warnings of the latest global terror threat. David Cameron | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
pledges support to help tackle Islamist militants in North Africa. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Algeria's Prime Ministers says 37 foreign hostages were killed at a | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
gas plant in the Sahara. Six are believed to be British. This attack | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
underlines the threat that terrorist groups pose to the | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
countries and peoples of that region and to our citizens, our | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
companies and interests as well. will be asking how involved British | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
forces may become. More than 5000 schools are forced | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
to close as much of Britain endures a 4th snow and ice. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Barack Obama has sworn in for his second term as President. Hundreds | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
of thousands of Americans watch as he urges them to seize the moment | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
after a decade of war and economic woes. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Heading home tonight, Prince Harry talks about his five-month tour in | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Afghanistan and targeting the Taliban. If people are trying to do | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
bad stuff to our guys, we will take them out of the game, I suppose. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
In sport, Murray stays on course for his second Grand Slam in a row. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
He beats Gilles Simon to make it to the quarter-finals of the | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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Good evening. David Cameron says Britain will help to track down and | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
dismantle the terror network responsible for the hostage crisis | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
at a remote gas plant in Algeria. At least 37 foreigners are known to | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
have died during the attack. Six British workers are feared to be | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
amongst them. David Cameron told the Commons that the world was | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
involved in a generational struggle against Al-Qaeda inspired terrorism | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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Their language is eerily familiar. A promise to hunt down and destroy | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Al-Qaeda or's a terrorist network. The location, though, is not. North | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Africa is fast becoming home, David Cameron says, to a threat none of | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
us can ignore. Not since the war in Afghanistan began as the House of | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Commons echoed to a warning quite like this. We must frustrate the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
terrorists with our security. We must beat them militarily. We must | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
address the poisonous narrative they feed on. We must close down | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
the ungoverned space in which they thrive and we must deal with the | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
grievances they used to garner support. Today in Algeria, in this | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
hospital, a reminder that there hostage crisis may be over but all | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
too many, 37 foreigners and one Algerian, will leave here in | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
coffins. One by one, the names of the British victims are emerging. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Carson bills and was a technician at the gas plant. Paul Morgan was | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
in charge of security. The 46-year- old was from Liverpool. As was 49- | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
year-old Garry Barlow, married with two children. Kenneth Whiteside was | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
59 and came originally from Glenrothes in Fife. He leaves a | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
wife and Tim daughters who, along with his brother, learned their | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
terrible news from an online They informed us that basically | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
what was on Facebook was true, that Kenny was executed. It is a fate | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
many others know they were very lucky to avoid. Alan Wright is only | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
back with his family in Aberdeenshire because he listened | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
to Algerian colleagues who told him to stop hiding and escape through a | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
fence. As soon as they cut the first weather, it changed my mind | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
completely. I thought, we are going. -- wire. The Algerian hostage | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
crisis has not, David Cameron's has -- advisers insist, has turned his | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Prime Minister into another version of Tony Blair. He has no intention | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
of sending British troops to North Africa, let alone raining bombs | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
from tens of thousands of feet. Some fear we have been here before | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
in another part of North Africa. They remember how David Cameron | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
became persuaded for the need for military action in Libya. Can he | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
give a guarantee that his crusading zeal in the event of not being able | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
to get many West African troops will not lead him to the use of | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
British troops in the future? I would say to the Honourable | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Gentleman... No such guarantee was forthcoming. This is what the Prime | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Minister says he will deploy. will contribute British | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
intelligence and counter-terrorism assets to an international effort | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
to find and dismantle the network that planned and ordered this | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
brutal support for staff Labour's sounded supportive, but their | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
leader's rhetoric is lower key. Countering terrorism begins with | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
understanding it and dealing with it in the right way. The work will | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
be painstaking, diplomatic and political as much as military. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Collaborative and multilateral, not unilateral. What became plain is | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
that while a hostage crisis may be over, British involvement in North | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Africa is set to grow. The Prime Minister insists that we simply | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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cannot any longer ignore what is So, just how much of a threat is | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
posed by terrorists in North Africa and what are the options for | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
The attack and Algeria caught the whole world off guard when the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
militants stormed and, suddenly a threat only a few experts had been | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
warning of was real. Tackling extremism across an entire, very | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
fragile region is the new imperative. All because Islamists | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
involving grave witnesses in Mali I able to cause mayhem in the country | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
next door, Algeria. The Algerian government is clear. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
The attackers came across the desert from Mali. Certainly, they | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
would have been able to exploit the desert terrain. Experts point out | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
that borders in this region, and the airlines on a map, have little | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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They used to wandering around as nomads. It is a vast, vast area | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
with a very small population. There is nothing, apparently, there. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
There is very little there. Of course, it is an area that is, to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
all intents and purposes, impossible to police. This is the | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
man accused of leading the attack. It seems he found safe haven to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
plot in the north of Mali, a huge area under the control of rebels | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
backed by Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups. The French are | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
fighting in Mali precisely because they fear the whole country could | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
fall to extremists. Today, French troops report taking a town and | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
driving the rebels back. Now, David Cameron is talking about more of | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
this. British support, delivering French troops and equipment to Mali. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Britain also wants far greater international an African effort to | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
strengthen good government and the entire economy of the region to | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
squeeze out extremists. The foreign forces have come in, whether they | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
are French or African. They are going to drive out the jihadists, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
but what then? How is the situation going to be stabilised if we have | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
essentially moved from eight position of jihadists controlling | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
urban centres in Mali to some sort of running insurgency? That is the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
awful prospect Mali faces if there is not a credible strategy to | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
consolidate peace. So, a huge range of challenges for | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Britain and international allies. Not just helping to rescue Mali, | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
but also supporting solutions led by Africa's and regional powers, | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
like Nigeria. Otherwise, tackling extremism could just look like | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
former colonial powers imposing their way. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Or than 5000 schools were forced to close today as snow and icy | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
conditions caused disruption across huge swathes of the UK for a 4th | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
day. Road, rail and air services were also affected. The snow has | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
been heaviest in the north-east of England. Danny Savage is in | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Northumberland. Well, Sophie, after many hours the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
snow is starting to use. If you measure it, it would be a foot deep. | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
Not all that has fallen today. Most of it has. Where it has, it has | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
been very difficult for many people. In north-east England tonight, | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
driving conditions have been terrible. Blizzards have been | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
raging all day, leaving lorries unable to get traction and standard | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
at the bottom of hills. It has been bad elsewhere as well. This was | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
this evening's rush-hour in Belfast. People struggling in the conditions. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Kim East Yorkshire, a bit of creativity was needed to get this a | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
van moving again. The gritters were out, but, in some places, it did | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
not make a difference. There was a bigger effect on schools. Nearly | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
5000 were closed. I got a text message last night saying that the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
school would be closed. I had to get my grandparents to look after | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
him. I had to cancel two jobs today, I'm self-employed so I need to | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
arrange them for another day. snow hit areas, a few did remain | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
open. The head of this academy was clear about his reasons. They have | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
played in the snow wall weekend, it's a school day. We are ready, we | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
are back at work, the roads are open, transport is running and I | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
want children here working. Most schools closed because teachers | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
could not get in or they could not offer meals. Some sceptics also | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
suggested they may have closed because opening and finding that | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
many pupils did not turn up could have damaged absence records and | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
potentially league table places. don't know any head teacher that | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
would close a school on the basis of it causing problems for absence | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
records. All head teachers I know close on the basis of health and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
safety alone. School grounds were mainly used instead for sledging | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
and more creative activities. To the obvious delight of pupils, | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
given the day off. It is good fun, sledging. It is good fun being off | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
school. I love the snow, it is just great. I love our weather in the | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
north-east. In Consett, ambulance staff were deployed on mast to keep | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
clearing the snow. Emergency calls were to be answered, they had to | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
get their vehicles out. Spare a thought for this lorry driver, | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
scram did for two days on the A66 in County Durham, one of the flee | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
when routes closed by snow drifts, despite the best efforts of snow | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
plough drivers and the emergency services. Durham police say that | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
particular route, D A66, will probably not open until tomorrow | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
because conditions are still bad. If you want to know if you're | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
children's schools are open tomorrow, the advice is to listen | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
to your local radio stations or the BBC News website. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
President Obama has been sworn in for his second term as President of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the United States. He took his oath of office on the steps of Congress | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
in Washington in front of hundreds of thousands of people. He said | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
America was bound together by a allegiance to its founding | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
principles, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He said a | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
decade of war was ending and If the roaring from the crowd | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
packing the capital is anything to go by, the President has arrival in | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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Beyonce sang the national anthem, alongside pop there was traditional | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
pomp as past presidents took to the stage. The crowd here strained to | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
see the First Lady. Her new haircut is the talk of the media. But all | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the marching bands and the 21 gun salute are for one man. I do | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
solemnly swear... This is pageant with a political purpose. A choir | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
sang the Battle Hill of the Republic, the President linked to | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the founding principles of America, life, liberty, the pursuit of | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
happiness, to his vision of America. A little girl born into poverty | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else because | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
she is an American, she is free, she is equal, not only in the eyes | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
of God but in our own. everybody appeared enthralled, but | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
he went out of his way to mention the big issues which enrage his | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
opponents, gun-control, immigration, climate change and gay rights. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
journey is not complete and tell our gay brothers and sisters are | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
as well. The clearly-defined his mission for the next four years. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
That is our generation's task. To make these words, these rights, | :14:02. | :14:10. | |
these values, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, real for | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
every American. He will face plenty of opposition to his plans. But not | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
here, not today. This was a celebration of Obama's America and | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the people that re-elected him. had the world on his shoulders in | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
the beginning and he continues still. I think he will be fine, he | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
will be good. All Americans will be represented by this man. This is | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
America coming out, and a lot of people didn't think it would happen | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the second time. After a break for lunch and more speeches, the Big | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Parade to mark the beginning of this President's second term in | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
Four years ago, the inauguration made history with the first black | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
President of the USA. Today he set out how he plans to shake history | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
with an uncompromising speech that tells of battles still ahead. But | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
now it is a time for broad smiles, basking in the adulation of | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
supporters who believe in a promise of hope and change. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Coming up on the programme: Tributes are paid to the film | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
director and restaurant critic Prince Harry is on his way back to | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Britain from Afghanistan after completing a five-month tour of | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
duty as an Apache helicopter co- pilot. In a series of interviews | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
during his time there, which can only be broadcast now, he has | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
spoken about firing at Taliban fighters and house serving his | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
country always comes first. He was also highly critical of the British | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
press. For the past 20 weeks, he has disappeared from public view. | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
Deployed to Afghanistan, flying an Apache attack helicopter. My father | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
is always reminding me who I am but it is very easy to completely | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
forget about who I am when I am in the army. As co-pilot gun on the | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Apache, Harry has had to be prepared to use lethal force | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
against the Taliban. Take a life to save a life. That is what we | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
revolve around, I suppose. If there are people trying to do bad stuff | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
to our guys, we will take that in the game, I suppose. It is not the | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
reason I decided to do this job. The reason I did this was to get | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
back out here and to carry on with a job. He deployed to Afghanistan | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
under something of a cloud. Shortly before he left, on a private visit | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
to Las Vegas, he made what he accepts it as a serious mistake. He | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
was photographed naked playing strip billiards and a naked woman | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
was with him. I have probably done what other people have done. But it | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
was in a private area and there should be privacy that people | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
should expect. It was too much army and not enough prints. This is my | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
bed and I do not make it when I come down here. He was in | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Afghanistan over Christmas. One of the guys, part of the gang, as he | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
puts it. He was also there when the news of the Duchess of Cambridge's | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
pregnancy was made public. I had a chat to them. I did not send a | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
letter of congratulations, like most of the newspaper's... Of how | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
they think they know my relationship between myself and my | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
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sister and -- sister-in-law his bizarre but they are wrong as usual. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Prince Harry has a deep antipathy towards the British press. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
father always says don't read it, everyone says don't read it, | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
because it is rubbish. I'm surprised how many people in the UK | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
read it. It just upset me and angers me that people can get away | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
with writing the stuff that they do, not just about me but everybody. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Active service in Afghanistan has been imported to Prince Harry. He | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
says William would love to be given the same opportunity. His tour of | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
duty is complete and unlike the last time, he has not had to come | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
home early because the media reported that he was there. For me, | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
that heard, being pulled out at that point. Being dragged away from | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
my guys. It was not done in the wrong way, but it was... For five | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
months, he has seen action, being scrambled to take on the Taliban. A | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
young Prince, with a point to prove, doing his duty alongside his | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
comrades. There is a special programme | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
showing more of Prince Harry's tour in Afghanistan on the BBC News | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Channel at 10:30pm tonight. The Government has seen off an | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
attempt tonight to block its plans to introduce a 1% cap on many | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
working age benefits and tax credits. During an earlier debate | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
in the Commons, the shadow employment minister Stephen Timms | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
hinted that Labour would restore the link between benefits and | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
inflation. James Landale is at Westminster for us now. What | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
exactly did he say? In the last few minutes, MPs have now voted to | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
increase that array of working age benefits and tax credits by just 1%. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
That is less than inflation, and effective real terms cut. The | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
Government says it has to happen to cut the deficit and Labour says it | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
is unfairly targeting the less well-off in society. Labour has | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
never said what it would do instead. Today in the House of Commons, the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
shadow Welfare Minister, Stephen Timms, gave a pretty clear answer. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
He was asked by a Conservative MP if it was now Labour's division to | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
increase the benefits in line with inflation. Is that a commitment, he | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
asked. He replied, indeed. Operating should be in line with | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
inflation, as it always has been. But within minutes Labour said that | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
was not a commitment. The bottom line is that cutting benefits is | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
politically difficult and Labour will have to face those difficult | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
choices. The question is how long they will be able to sustain the | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
position of opposing cuts on the one hand and on the other, not | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
saying what they would do instead. At 24 year-old woman remains in a | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
critical stage in hospital following the avalanche that killed | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
four walkers in Glencoe on Saturday. Police have named the 4th person | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
who died as 29 year-old Rachel Majumdar, a hospital doctor in | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
Harrogate. The three others that died were Una Finnegan, also a | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
doctor, and PhD students Christopher Bell and Tom Chesters. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Israelis go to the polls tomorrow and the country is braced for a | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
swing to the right that could put Israel on a collision course with | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
its allies overseas. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, is | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
under pressure at prom lustreless and religious parties, and has | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
adopted tougher more controversial policies about building in illegal | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
Jewish settlements. -- under pressure from nationalist and | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
religious parties. He is taking a selection by storm. Naftali Bennett | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
is a dot com millionaire whose forthright views have drain support | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
from the ruling Conservative Likud party. Almost unstoppable on | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
election trail, he does not duck controversial issues and he says | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
what many on the Israeli right privately think. Do you support the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank? If not, how do you | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
resolve the national ambitions of millions of Palestinians? If a | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Palestinian state would be founded, it would ensure eternal strife and | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
miserable life for the next 200 years between us and the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Palestinians. They want a full- blown state. I believe that we | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
cannot give a full-blown estate. But Binyamin Netanyahu is expected | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
to be returned as Prime Minister. Campaign adverts claim that only he | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
has the strength to deal with Israel's enemies, Iran and | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
Hezbollah. In recent months, Binyamin Netanyahu has tried to | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
establish his right-wing credentials by supporting More | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
building in Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Settlements that are seen as illegal under international law. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Even that is not enough to appease some of his critics and former | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
supporters on the right. One recent report said there had been a record | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
a surge in settlement expansion. Not enough for those on the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
religious right, who say that he is still not tough enough on the | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Palestinians. I think Israel has to be strong in negotiations. By being | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
weak in negotiations, that is detrimental to our security. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
others are worried that Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to form an | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
alliance with the ultra-nationalist Avigdor Lieberman could hit Israel | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
overseas. Israel is going to be under the brand of increased | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
international criticism and what is most dangerous, it is criticism | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
coming from its friends, Europe and the United States, not from the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
people that we know do not like us already. Binyamin Netanyahu and | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Barack Obama have never been close. Reports from Washington say that | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
the US President is already resigned to a difficult | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
relationship with an even more right wing Binyamin Netanyahu | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Government in Israel. Administrators say the troubled | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
music chain HMV will start accepting gift vouchers again from | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
tomorrow. They had previously angered many customers by stating | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
that gift cards could not be redeemed in stores after the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
company went into administration last week. 4000 jobs in more than | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
200 stores are at risk. The film director and restaurant | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
critic Michael Winner has died at the age of 77. He had been | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
suffering from cancer. He made more than 30 films, including the | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
successful Death Wish films starring Charles Bronson. He was | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
also famous for his restaurant, and win and dinners in the Sunday Times. | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
-- restaurant column Winner's Dinners. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
In later life, Michael Winner became famous for a TV commercial | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
catchphrase. Calm down, dear. It is a commercial. The phrase became so | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
popular that even the Prime Minister used it. But once he had | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
been known mainly as a film director. Their violence made his | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
films controversial. The star of this one summed up the contrasting | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
sides of his character. Michael is an absolute monster but he has a | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
wicked sense of humour and I like that, I really like to laugh. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
started making films in the 1960s, many starring Oliver Reed and many | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
praised by the critics. The Jokers was one. I am not rich. I am just | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
on a conveyor belt. I will set my brother on you. He can be extremely | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
violent. I am going to kill you, son. The film that made him | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
notorious was Death Wish, about a middle-class vigilante played by | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
Charles Bronson. I said to Charley, I have got this script, about a man | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
whose wife is marred and goes out and shoot them. He said he would | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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like to do it. I said issued a movie? And he said, no, get muggers. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
He was also a bombastic restaurant critic who paved the way for others | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
like him. He would like to be remembered as a great film director | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
but that will not happen. Almost everybody who made a film with him, | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
that is their worst film, except Charles Bronson. He will be | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
remembered by me as an entertaining restaurant critic and by the world | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
as the man in the insurance adverts. I don't think he would care. Later | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
he founded the Police Memorial Trust for offices killed in a line | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
of duty. He met his wife in 1997 and beforehand he had many younger | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
girlfriends, like Jenny Seagrove. The man himself was rude, | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
outrageous, entertaining and quite able to take the mickey out of | :26:39. | :26:43. |