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There is no safe level of drinking alcohol - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
according to the first new official guidance in 20 years. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Today's tough new message recommends for the first time the same weekly | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
maximum level of 14 units for both women and men. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
14 units or up to 14 units over two, three, | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Over 25% of the population in Britain think more than these | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
guidelines, so we want those people to know what level of risk they are | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
taking. The advice has been greeted | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
with a mixed response from drinkers. It is helpful, but people | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
wouldn't take any notice. They will drink whatever | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
they want to drink. I'm fine, two or three | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
pints is nothing - We'll be looking at just what | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the risks are in drinking regularly. Also tonight: A tourist hotel | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
in Egypt has come under attack by armed men - leaving three foreign | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
holiday-makers injured. A police officer in Philadelphia | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
is repeatedly shot in his patrol car - by a man pledging | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
allegiance to Islamic State. Inside the young offenders' centre, | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
where seven staff have been suspended following a BBC | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
investigation into claims And a Bafta nomination | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
for Eddie Redmayne - but the judges shun some big | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
box-office blockbusters. Later on BBC London: Two convicted | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
terrorists from east London are jailed for breaking restrictions | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
on them travelling abroad. And what did pupils in St Albans ask | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
British astronaut Tim Peake That's according to new guidelines | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
on alcohol issued by the government The latest recommended limits apply | :01:40. | :02:06. | |
to both women and men equally - People should drink no more | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
than the equivalent of seven pints of average strength beer a week - | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
or seven standard glasses of wine. And people should also have several | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
drink-free days a week. Pregnant women | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
shouldn't drink at all. That advice now brings England, | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland Critics say the advice smacks | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
of "the nanny state", as our health editor | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Hugh Pym reports. It has certainly stirred up a big | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
debate over how much it is sensible to drink and whether people need | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
to be told to cut back on the alcohol they order at the bar | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
or buy in the shops. The official line now | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
is that there is no such thing The risk is significant | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
of over-drinking to people's health We are advising a low risk amount, | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
which is up to 14 units in one week, A key question for most drinkers - | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
how much is it reasonable to consume There will no longer be any | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
difference between the recommended maximum amount which men and women | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
might drink in a single week. The new guidelines for everyone | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
will be no more than 14 units Well, it's equivalent to about seven | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
pints of beer or lager, or about seven medium-sized | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
glasses of wine. But if you drink higher strength | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
brands, in both cases, that will mean fewer | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
drinks over the week. On this basis, for beer | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
towards the lower end of the strength range, | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
it's three fewer pints a week Lucy Rocca often drank | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
a bottle of wine a day, but after drinking three one night, | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
she ended up in hospital and quit She believes drinking has been | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
glamorised and tougher I came of age in the 1990s, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
so I was subject to the Bridget Women of my generation have been | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
told or sold this myth that wine is a treat, it's good for you, | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
a nice convivial thing to do with your friends, and the health | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
harms have been played down, even to the extent of promoting red | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
wine as being good for us. The guidelines will | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
apply across the UK. We asked drinkers in | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
Swansea for their views and whether they thought | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
the government was going too far. It is helpful but people | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
won't take any notice. They will drink what | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
they want to drink. It is up to the individual | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
what they drink. People tend to drink more, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
thinking they are fine, two or three drinks is nothing, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
but in actual fact it's not. It will be some time before | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
there's any firm evidence as to whether these new, | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
tighter guidelines make any difference to people's | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
behaviour or their health. So, the guidelines say there's no | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
safe limit for drinking alcohol and many people will be asking | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
whether this ends the idea that moderate drinking can | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
be good for the heart. Our medical correspondent | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Fergus Walsh has been weighing For those who drink 14 units | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
of alcohol per week, the guidelines showed that carries | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
a lifetime risk of death of one in 100, higher than the one in 240 | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
lifetime risk of dying But it is tiny compared to the one | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
in two risk of smokers dying Perhaps an hour of TV a night, | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
a bad diet, a couple of bacon sandwiches a week and being | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
a few kilos overweight. All of those have a greater risk | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
to your long-term health than these It is the increasing evidence | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
strongly linking alcohol with cancer 110 in every 1000 women | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
will get breast cancer. If you drink up to 14 units, | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
that number goes up to 130 per 1000. Drink double the recommended amount, | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
it goes up to 150 per 1000. For men, 64 in every 1000 | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
will get bowel cancer, whether they drink nothing or stay | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
within the 14-unit limit, but if they drink 21 units, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
the old limits, that number goes up Seven types of cancer are associated | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
with alcohol consumption and there are 13,000 cases of cancer | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
per year that are due to alcohol, so the evidence is clear and we need | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
to communicate it to people The guidance shows drinking up | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
to seven units per week, half a small glass of wine daily, | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
does have a tiny protective effect, probably lowering the risk of heart | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
disease, but it is really only a significant benefit | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
for women over the age of 55. So, for those opening a bottle | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of wine or down the pub tonight, the key message is, the more | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
you drink, the greater your overall health risk, especially from cancer, | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
but smaller amounts of booze spaced over the week will be, | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
for many of us, a health risk In Egypt, at least two foreign | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
tourists have been injured in an attack at a resort hotel | :07:23. | :07:36. | |
on the Red Sea coast. Egyptian state TV says local | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
security forces repelled the attack in the town of Hurghada and that one | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
assailant has been killed. I'm joined now by our security | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
correspondent Frank Gardner. Tell us about what has happened. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
This was basically an unsuccessful attack. It appears to have been an | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
attempt to kidnap foreign tourists, which was repelled by the Egyptian | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
authorities. Two attackers approached a popular Forte star | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
hotel. They went into the outside restaurant. They were not as was | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
initially reported armed with guns. It appears they did not have normal | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
firearms. They had knives and one report said they had pellet guns. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
They stabbed three people. The latest report says it was two | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Austrians and once we'd. Not fatally, I'm glad to say, and after | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
that the Egyptian authorities opened fire, killing one and the other one | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
was wounded. One report says he has died. They have named one of the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
attackers as a 21-year-old student from Giza. This is a holiday | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
destination. What are the applications for tourism there now? | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Egypt's tourism industry, which it desperately needs, was already | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
staggering after the crash of the Russian jet which Britain and Russia | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Singh was caused by an terrorist bomb, but Egypt insists was not. It | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
has had a bad effect. Hurghada is one of those very popular Red Sea | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
coastal resorts that has been largely immune from terrorism, so | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
the fact that it didn't succeed doesn't take away from the fact that | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
there is now a risk. That will put some people off going. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
A police officer in the American city of Philadelphia has been shot | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
and wounded as he sat in his patrol car. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Despite been hit the officer was able to give chase, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
and the man - who has pledged allegiance to the so-called | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
This report from our North America editor Jon Sopel contains images | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
The terrifying moment an armed man opened fire on a police patrolman | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
last night in Philadelphia and keeps on firing, | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Remarkably, although hit three times, Jesse Hartnett is able | :09:46. | :09:59. | |
to give chase to his assailant and to return fire. | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
30-year-old Edward Archer suffered gunshot wounds | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
It is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
This guy tried to execute a police officer. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
At a news conference, police revealed Archer's motive. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Right away, he didn't have anything to say but then he stated | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
that he pledges his allegiance to Islamic State and follows Allah. | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
Nobody in this room believes that Islam or the teaching of Islam has | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
anything to do with what you have seen on that screen. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
It is terrible and it does not represent it in any way, | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
In a separate incident, two Iraqi born men who came | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
to the US as refugees have been arrested today on terrorism charges | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
by federal authorities in Texas and California. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
All of this comes a month after the so-called Islamic State | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
inspired attack in San Bernardino, which claimed the lives | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
What was discussed abstractly as the terror threat suddenly | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Whether in California or Pennsylvania, or any other state | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
for that matter, it is causing deep unease. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
As a response to all these incidents, the White House has | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
announced it is setting up a counterterrorism task force. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
This is part of an overhaul of the way the administration | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
is tackling online the threat posed by Islamic State. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
It is also a sign of the frustration felt at the White House at how | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
effective the extremists are at inciting violence | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
The private security company G4S has suspended seven members of staff | :11:42. | :11:53. | |
at a secure training centre for young offenders | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
It follows allegations - uncovered by Panorama - | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
of staff using unnecessary force and foul language, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
and of a cover-up at the Medway Centre in Kent. | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Our Social Affairs correspondent Alison Holt has more. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
This is the Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
At the moment, home to more than 50 young people aged between 14 and 17. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
This centre, run by the security firm G4S, is meant to offer | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
teenagers sent here by the courts the support they need | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
But behind the high fences, a BBC Panorama investigation has | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
uncovered disturbing allegations about the way some children | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
An undercover reporter was able to secretly film the reality | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
The footage, to be broadcast next Monday, reveals a number of staff | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
bullying, goading, even slapping trainees. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
One 14-year-old is shown struggling to breathe as he's being restrained. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Dr Andrew McDonell, an expert in behaviour management, | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
says it's shocking to see staff acting in this way. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
These people are role models, so what they are doing almost makes | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
it legitimate for those young people to also be violent and aggressive. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
From its headquarters here in central London, | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
G4S says once it was told the allegations, it moved quickly | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
to suspend seven staff and to work with the police | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
The head of the security firm's children's services maintains | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
they'll do all that they can to ensure a thorough investigation. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
These are shocking allegations, they shouldn't happen. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Staff who behave in that way have no place in our business or working | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Are you going to apologise to these children? | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Whatever they have done, they were in your care | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
They need to be treated properly and fairly, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
If we have fallen down in that, clearly that is not acceptable | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
and quite obviously we would apologise for that. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
There is currently a government review of the youth justice system | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
Whilst the number of young people being locked up in England has | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
fallen significantly in recent years, the majority who spent time | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Campaigners say we are failing these troubled children. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
The training is insufficient, there's not enough education, | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
and the results are appalling, both in terms of incidents | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
like this, but also in terms of the fact that the children leave | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
The Panorama investigation will feed into this wider debate. | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
At Medway, it raises serious questions about the failure | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
to identify and prevent this sort of behaviour among staff | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
You can see that story in full on Panorama: | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed on BBC One on Monday at 8.30pm. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
A coroner has ruled that the senior Army officers failed to prevent | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
the use of unofficial punishments - known as "beastings" - | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
leading to the death of a young recruit in Wiltshire. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Private Gavin Williams, who was 22 and from Hengoed in south | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Wales, suffered heatstroke after being forced to do intensive | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
exercise on one of the hottest days of 2006. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Three soldiers who carried out the punishment were cleared | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
In Germany, Cologne's police chief has been sacked as more details | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
emerge about the sexual assaults and other violence in the city | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Among the 32 suspects identified as linked to the crimes | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
The attacks have sparked a big debate about Germany's open-door | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
policy towards migrants and refugees. | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
Our correspondent Jenny Hill is in Cologne for us now. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Good evening. This city is still on alert. We have seen dozens of police | :15:45. | :16:00. | |
officers in and around this squared this evening. This is where, just | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
over a week ago, hundreds of men assaulted dozens of women. These | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
attacks have raised fundamental questions about the way this country | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
handles immigration. Germany is confronting | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
a new reality. On New Year's Eve in Cologne, nearly | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
100 women were sexually assaulted. The authorities now admit that some | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
of the men who attacked them may Today, Cologne's police chief | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
was sacked amid allegations TRANSLATION: There are suggestions | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
that the wording of a police report was changed for political reasons | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
so it didn't mention refugees. What happened here may yet have | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
profound consequences for this country, and that is | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
because the New Year's Eve attacks cut right to the heart of a question | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
which has troubled Germany Was this country right | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
to open its doors so freely? No wonder, perhaps, that Adil, | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
a Yazidi from Iraq, fears reprisals. Anti-refugee violence | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
was already on the rise here. TRANSLATION: I believe these | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
were new refugees because people who have been here a long | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
time wouldn't do this. It is really sad that people come | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
to Germany and commit these acts. It may also, this criminologist | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
tells me, be part of a wider, TRANSLATION: We know asylum seekers | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
who come to Germany for legitimate reasons are being recruited | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
by existing criminal gangs. They are trained, taught to steal, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
they are involved in the criminal infrastructure, which is something | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
which really concerns us. TRANSLATION: I don't feel that safe | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
after what happened at New Year. I know there is a large influx | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
of immigrants but I think, if you go about it with a trusting | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
heart and make sure you regard these as single incidences, | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
it should be OK. Today in Cologne, the authorities | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
pledged to rebuild trust in the police, but officers have yet | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
to charge anyone over the attacks and many wonder what it will cost | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
to keep Germany's doors open. Despite sub-zero temperatures | :18:19. | :18:34. | |
in the Balkans, large numbers of refugees are continuing to make | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
the overland journey to Europe. Around 20,000 people have crossed | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
into the EU in the past week alone, and medics working at refugee aid | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
points say their health is at increasing risk | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
in the freezing weather. Our Europe Correspondent Damian | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Grammaticas has spent the past two days on the border | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
between Serbia and Croatia. He sent this report | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
from the town of Sid. Along Europe's refugee trail, | :18:52. | :19:05. | |
temperatures have plummeted, but still they keep coming, 2000-3000 | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
per day, children without shoes. And growing numbers of families. It had | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
been thought that winter would slow the arrival but, here at the gates | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
of the European Union, they are still queueing. It was -11 two days | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
ago. Now it is -2-macro. This is very cold for us and for them. And | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
that means more and more are falling sick. Croatian police are selecting | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
who to let into the EU and who to turn back. They are ill-equipped for | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the task. This secret family were stopped but appear to be genuine | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
refugees fleeing Afghanistan. -- this Sikh family. Mistakes are | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
common. Despite the Balkan chill, we found these Kurds in a motorway | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
lay-by. Vlad, they said, to be out of Syria and able to sing and dance | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
without fearing for their lives. After experiencing a group like | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
Isil, we couldn't do anything. No dancing. If anyone danced, you were | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
put in prison or may be killed. For those fleeing in fear, the winter | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
weather is no deterrent. Mahmoud worked as an interpreter for | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
American troops in Afghanistan and he says the Taliban were threatening | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
him. If I see you again with him, I will kill you and kill your family, | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
kill your children. So the snow is blanketing Serbia are not putting | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
off many, even those fleeing conflicts. This group made it into | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Croatia but Phil and how they were forced to walk back down the railway | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
by police. -- but they filmed. They were Pakistani 's. Their expulsion | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
from Croatia may not have been legal but now they are stuck. Putted it | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
was ten kilometres. It was very cold? It was too cold. Through the | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
night, the buses and trains keep running. Despite the cold and the | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
snow, the refugee flow hasn't let up. Europe's refugee crisis is going | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
to last for some time yet. So the UN is now drawing up contingency plans | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
for up to 1 million more refugees coming to Europe this year. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other news now. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Mexico's most notorious druglord, Joaquim Guzman, known as El Chapo, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Six months ago, Guzman escaped from a high-security prison | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
through a mile-long tunnel dug in the showers. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
He was apprehended following a shoot-out with Mexican marines | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
A strike by junior doctors is to go ahead on Tuesday after talks | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
at the conciliation service Acas ended without agreement. | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Acas said the discussions with NHS employers had been constructive | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
but had failed to resolve differences over new contracts. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
The strike could affect thousands of patients as junior doctors | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Singer-songwriter Jack Garratt has won the BBC's Sound Of 2016, | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
the annual list which highlights the most exciting new artists | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
The 24-year-old from Buckinghamshire said | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
he was "unbelievably, overwhelmingly grateful". | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
The list was compiled using tips from a panel of 144 DJs, | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
journalists, festival bookers, bloggers and critics. | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
The Sound Of list has become a good predictor of success - | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
previous winners include Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
The movie awards season got under way today with the announcement | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Leading the pack was Steven Spielberg's Cold War | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
drama Bridge Of Spies, starring Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks, | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
The British-produced romance Carol also got nine, | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
with the film's lead Cate Blanchett up against Dame Maggie Smith | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
But two big blockbusters were overlooked. | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
Spectre - the highly successful Bond movie - | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
And the biggest film of the year, Star Wars, was only nominated | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz asks why. | :23:46. | :24:00. | |
Spectre, the latest in the James Bond franchise, had the critics | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
purring like a cat when it was released in November. While the | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
critics dished out their 5-star reviews, audiences flocked en masse | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
to the cinema to see the film and broke box office records. When it | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
came to be Bafta nominations this morning, the Sam Mendes is directed | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
film scored a very not glamorous 000, without a single nod in its | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
direction. And James Bond was not the only one firing blanks today. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Star Wars The Force Awakens picked up the few technical and craft | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
nominations but it was overlooked in the main categories, despite being a | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
huge commercial and critical success. We are home. So why have | :24:49. | :25:01. | |
Bafta's 6500 members decided to overlook the films? Could it be a | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
bit of snobbery? I don't think it is snobbery. I think there is also a | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
tendency with both comedies and action films for wards, generally | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
speaking, to overlook them. When it comes to the awards season, people | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
tend to look at what they consider to be serious dramas. I have a | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
question. What is that? So Daniel Craig and his piles -- Hills Powells | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
from Star Wars can sit at home and have a vodka martini. Eddie Rick | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Mein can't. I need to hold my husband. Can you at least try? I'm | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
sorry. He will be at the ceremony hoping to pick up the leading actor | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
gong for his appearance in the transgender film The Danish Girl. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Maggie Smith will be there, too, 50 years after her first Bafta | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
nomination. Don't sweetheart me, I am a sick woman, dying possibly. She | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
will be fighting it out with Cate Blanchett, among others, for her | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
performance in Carol. Neither actress is likely to be shaken, but | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
they might be stirred. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I like | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
your | :26:27. | :26:27. |