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This is BBC News. Me. A deal in principle on the US debt America's | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
political leaders finally agree prevent the Government running out | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
of cash. At what price? Are all politicians onboard? Neither side | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
got what they wanted. But it is the essence of compromise. A second day | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
of violence in Syria, tanks have continued to target protestors in | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
the city of Hama. Norway remembers the 77 people killed in last | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
month's attacks. The Prime Minister warns against a witch hunt. And | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
they are the flowers which have captivated millions. Now the | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
inspiration for Monet's famous masterpieces are getting a new | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Welcome. There have been weeks of uncertainty but now politicians in | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
the US are poised to vote on a deal to avert an unprecedented debt | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
default. The plan thrashed out between Republican and democratic | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
leaders would raise the country's debt ceiling. Also includes the | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
same amount in spending cuts. There are still objections on both sides | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
and the plan still needs approval in the US Congress. From Washington | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
our correspondent has the latest and this piece contains flash | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
photography. Another day of frenetic activity on Capitol Hill. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Law makers gathering to hear ha their leaders have agreed to and | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
give their verdict. Last night after weeks of uncertainty the | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
President said the talking was over. I want to announce ta the leaders | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
of both parties have reached an agreement, that will reduce the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
deficit, and avoid default. The default that would have had a | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
devastating effect on the economy. So what do we know about the deal | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
on the table? First of all, it sets a new debt ceiling of $16.7 | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
trillion. It says future Government spending should be cut by $1 | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
trillion and establishes a con Greggsal committee to come up with | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
deeper cuts. Joe Biden is in Congress to help seal the deal | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
unwilling to sound too confident. There is plenty for everyone to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
dislike about the plan. The top Democrat in the Senate is holding | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
his nose. Even as he sells it. one got what they wanted. Even had | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
to give something up. People on the right are upset, people on the left | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
are upset. People in the middle are upset. It was a compromise. On Wall | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Street, which never really doubted that a deal would be done, markets | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
rose this morning. The latest dismal US manufacturing news then | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
sent them down again. This has been a bruising ugly fight. Further | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
eroding public faith in Congress. The deal if it passes helps to stop | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
the rot. But underlying debates about the size and function of | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
Government rage on. To discuss this I am joined by journalist, author | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Geoff mad rick for the New York Times. Good to see you. What do you | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
think we have seen on Capitol Hill? Has it been a political debate | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
about what is best for the American economy or a political debate about | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
what is best for Republicans or Democrats? Well it has ban | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
political debate about Republicans and Democrats. Certainly it is not | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
what is best for the economy. We averted perhaps and we don't know | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
yet, an iceberg but we are still in rough seas, and there maybe more | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
out there. Maybe that is not the best metaphor because cutting | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
spending now, in an economy that is so weak, will probably weaken this | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
economy further, meaning higher unemployment. Less investment. Less | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
consumer spending and no wage increases. I can't see how the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
American people will enjoy that, in a way they have been conned into | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
thinking an answer is cutting the size of Government right now, and | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
it isn't. But the Republicans and Democrats are both trying to score | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
political points and I think what is guiding President Obama most is | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
a re-election campaign. This is to longer about the best economic | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
policy for America but how to position yourself for November 2012. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Wet President Obama has more tweet followers when he appealed for | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
people to tweet him and other politicians on Capitol Hill. How do | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
you think he has come across in this situation? I think he is | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
probably given what I have said, done pretty well. I think he has | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
portrayed himself as a mild mannered sensible person, in this | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
debate, and I think for a while, people will respect that, so in | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
that sense n I think he has come accomplished his political goal. | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
The problem is the economy may not accommodate that goal. That has | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
been his problem since the bad loss in 2010. His White House has | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
interpreted that loss as a message that they have to cut Government | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
spending, that the Government's too big, that spending is hurting, the | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
deficits are enormous and promise to be enormous. In my view at least, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
and your viewers should t "no" know a lot of people agree with that, in | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
my view and the much more correct view and many economists believe | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
this, jobs were the issue, the lack of jobs, and this agreement will | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
not create jobs in America and get the growth path back to 3-4% a year | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
that is necessary to get the unemployment rate down to any kind | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
of reasonable level. OK. We must leave it there. Than you for | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
speaking to us. For the second day in a row, Government forces in | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Syria have opened fire on protestors. On Sunday, more than | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
one hundred people were killed in attacks across the country. Today | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the European Union announced further sanctions on Syria, and the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
UN Security Council is preparing to hold an emergency meeting to | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
discuss the situation. Foreign journalists are restricted from | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
reporting freely within Syria, so Jim Muir sent this report from | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Beirut. It was army day in Syria. A chance for the President to thank | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
his military for all it is doing, to protect the nation from the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
plots he says are being woven against the country. And the army | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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is paying a price.. Almost every day there are military funerals. | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
Today at least half a dozen killed in yesterday's clashes. Up in Hama | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
the army's role is not seen as so heroic. These are some of the tanks | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
the Government says never went into the city. Tank shells machine guns | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
and sniping claimed score of civilian lives according to | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
activists. It was one of the bloodiest days since the up rising | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
began more than four months ago. It stirred widespread international | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
condemnation.. We were very shocked by what happened yesterday. There | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
has never within any justification for what has been going on. You | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
can't justify attacking civilians who are exercising their right to | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
democratic protest. You can't send in the tanks and attack them like | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
that. We have condemned in it in the strongest possibly terms. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
of Hama seems to be against the regime. It has had the biggest | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
protest rallies anywhere. For the past month, the city has been | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
virtually taken over by its own people. That is why the regime felt | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
it had to three to take it back and will surely try again. Civilians | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
are in danger but they say they don't want outside intervention. | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
no, no, not at all. We refuse all military interference, just we need | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
political support for our opinions, we don't want, we will continue our | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
peaceful up rising without weapons, even if they shoot us, kill us we | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
won't use weapons. It is in the International Arena that part of | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
the battle is being waged. Syrian nationals have been stages for and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
against the Government. The European Union's preparing to | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
announce more punitive economic sanctions. And there is growing | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
pressure for a UN Security Council meeting to condemn the Syrian | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
regime. China, Russia and others are against, though Moscow has said | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
the violence against civilians must stop. They are put off by the messy | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
NATO operation in Libya. The Syrian people are paying the price for | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
what is perreceived -- perceived as an endless intervention in Libya. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
So China and Russia are saying we are not signing up again, but the | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
problem is, that by refusing to act, they are allowing the massacres to | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
continue, so the Syrian people are paying for the mistakes being made | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
in Libya. The up shot is that the President does not have to worry | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
about international intervention. The diplomatic and economic | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
pressures might have a cumulative effect, but that is in the long run. | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Four-and-a-half months on the up rising shows no sign of petering | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
out but this ruthless regime is far from sure and clearly it isn't | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
imminent. Protestors and troops have clashed in Egypt's Tahrir | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Square, hundreds of protestors have been camped out for the past three | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
weeks. Trouble started as military police moved in to dismantle their | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
tents for Ramadan. They had been calling for fast erreforms | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
following the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last February. The BBC's | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
correspondent is in Cairo and joins me now on the phone from Tahrir | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Square. What is the scene there now at the moment? Well, let me | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
describe what I am seeing at the moment. Opposite me are two | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
armoured vehicles, and to my left, a police vehicle, in the main round | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
about normally where the tents are supposed to be, they are now | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
completely gone. None whatsoever, no protestors whatsoever, instead | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
the ring is filled with military police, almost to the brink really. | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
To my left, police is everywhere and they are cordoning off the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
complex, the big building. Not a protestor to be found and this of | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
course follows from when the army have gone in, earlier today, taken | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
down all the tents, arrested a dozen people, and they were | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
reporting clashes between the army and protestors. How stable is Egypt | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
at the moment? Sorry I didn't catch that. Just how stable is Egypt at | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the moment? It appears that tensions continue to rise? | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Absolutely. It is a very very tense situation at the moment and it was | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
promising to be a tense Ramadan from the beginning. I mean, you | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
know, there were clashes between shop owners and protestors | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
yesterday, the atmosphere is very tense, some people are very | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
sceptical, saying this is a display on the council's part to address | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
people nothing is going to happen, and the ex-President Hosni Mubarak | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
is not going to be brought to justice according to some. We have | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
yet to hear from the protestors about their next movement, whether | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
or not they are going to return to the square at any point. Many | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
thanks. Now, a look at some of the day's other news stories. Aid | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
agencies have launched a vaccination campaign against polio | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
and measles in Dadaab area. A refugee camps in the Wajir district, | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
aid agencies fear an outbreak of disease. The huge number of | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
refugees fleeing smar ya make it a mammoth task. According to the UN | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
there are 380,000 registered refugees and mow authorise on the | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
fringes of the camps. The Italian authorities say they have found the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
bodies of 25 people in the hold of -- hold of a boat crossing the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Mediterranean to Lampedusa. According to survivors, the 15 | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
metre boat was carrying nearly 300 people and set sail from Libya two | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
days ago. BBC News programmes on radio and television have been | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
affected by a 24-hour strike by journalists, the second in two | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
weeks. Members of the National Union of Journalists, the NUJ have | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
walked out to protest that 400 people in The World Service and BBC | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
monitoring have been made redundant against their will. The Cuban | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
President Raul Castro will address the nation at the National Assembly | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
today, to push through economic reforms. The plan will allow people | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
to buy property and set up small businesses, it would involve | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
eliminating a million public Seb for jobs. The singer Amy | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Winehouse's father has today pleaded with the Government to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
reform drug rehabilitation centres for youngster, his daughter's | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
battles with drink and drugs before her death led Mitch wine house to | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
make a plea to politicians for better services for addicts. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Norwegian police say the man accused of the killings in Norway | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
ten days ago was seen with another man in the days before the attacks. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Anders Behring Breivik was reportedly seen buying fertiliser | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
with a man outside a depot in Oslo and spotted w on a boat. The | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
Norwegian Royal Family joined politicians to remember the 77 | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
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A shrine to the fallen. So many flowers and candles now surround | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Oslo's cathedral that other impromptu memorials have sprung up | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
around Norway's capital. Today, at the country's parliament, the | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Storting, politics was put aside as the King and Crown Prince led a | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
memorial for each of Anders Behring Breivik's 77 victims. As relatives | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
of some of those who died watched on, the Prime Minister said all of | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
Norway had lessons to learn. Translation I ask, from this podium, | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
that we do not start a witch-hunt. The unity we have shown calls for | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
continued generosity. We all have something to learn from the tragedy. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
It was, perhaps, the most unusual meeting in the parliament's 197 | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
year history. The music of Norwegian violinists are very | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
jealous and replacing political debate. -- and Norwegian violinist | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Arve Tellefsen. Some victims still lie in hospital. At the scene of | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
the bomb attack, 9,000 workers and able to return to their offices. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
They have been told to extend their summer holidays until the key Repp | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
is complete. Turkey must improve its border | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
controls before it is allowed to join the European Union. That is | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
the assessment from a group of British parliamentarians concerned | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
about both people and drugs being smuggled into Europe. They have | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
also called for an assessment of how many Turks would youth -- moved | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
to the UK if they were part of the On the map, Turkey seems physically | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
distanced from its EU member neighbours. The country shows only | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
a tiny fraction of its border with Bulgaria and Greece. The greatest | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
book of his boundary lies in the East, leading to Iran, Iraq and | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Syria. And that is what is worrying the Home Affairs Committee, turning | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
their attention away from the phone hacking scandal for the time being. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Keith Vaz and his colleagues are concerned the spread of the EU to | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
incorporate Recep Tayyip Erdogan would leave Britain full report, | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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thanks to Turkey's vulnerable -- Turkey's neighbours. Already up to | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
80% of heroin traffic from Afghanistan into the EU comes via | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Turkey. On top of that, they say, the border between Turkey and | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Greece is currently the biggest live coal from illegal immigrants. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
People who come illegally from Turkey, not Turkish people but | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Afghans and Syrians and Moroccans and from every nationality in the | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
world, they want to come and settle in London. Or they want to go to | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Western Europe. They do not want to stay in Turkey. So our border | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
actually at the moment is the border between Greece and Turkey. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
That is why it is so vital for our security. The home affairs | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
committee is calling on Britain and other EU countries to help Turkey | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
strengthen its border against unwanted attention from its | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
troubled neighbours before it can hope to join the EU. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
A key meeting has begun to elect the new military top brass for | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Turkey after the country's chief of staff resigned in protest last week. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
The four-day military Security Council, meeting in Ankara, began | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
with a visit to Ataturk's memorial. The commander stepped down after | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
ongoing tension and the arrest of dozens of generals in alleged coup | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
plot. To discuss that we are joined by | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Fadi Hakura, from the London-based think-tank at Chatham House. A lot | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
of focus on Turkey at the moment. We just saw there that it has been | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
put under more pressure to improve its have human rights record, its | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
border controls, as it comes into the YE. And yet we have these | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
admirals who have kind of pushed Turkey back decades. What is going | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
on? Essentially, the civilian authorities have taken over control | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
of the military. This caused the resignation of the military is | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
senior command. It was a manifest of their weakness now, in the | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
ongoing tensions between the military and the Government. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
yet the European Union and NATO is looking at Turkey as a very | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
important ally in the war against terrorism and to control the move | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
of terrorism around the country. Do you think this would not that kind | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
of confidence in the country? not think so can stop it has been a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
long time coming. It has been a process where the power of the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
senior military commanders has been diluting in favour of the civilian | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Government and what has really happened in the last few days is a | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
full consolidation of the Government's control over the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
military branch of Government. do you think will happen now over | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
the coming weeks? The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Erdogan, now enjoys unparalleled power in modern Turkish history. He | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
will seek to appoint military commanders that are very closely | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
aligned to the Government. Thank you. Fadi Hakura from Chatham House. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
The Indian Government is due to introduce a new anti-corruption | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
bill in the monsoon session of Parliament which gets under way on | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Monday. It's big issue in India after the mortar billion-dollar | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Telecom scandal. -- it is a big issue. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
For India's billion strong population, corruption is part of | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
daily life. Paying bribes is a matter of course. But now it has | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
taken on new proportions. Creating underground economies of | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
unaccounted many, valued at anywhere between $500 billion and | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
one trillion dollars. Over the years, Indians have come to accept | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
corruption as something they have to live with. But there are signs | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
of this attitude changing. There are no longer willing to take it | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
lying down. Part of this is because as India has got richer, the scale | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
of corruption has reached incredible heights, involving | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
millions and millions of dollars. And over the past couple of years, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
we have had a number of high- profile cases involving senior | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Government officials, scandals that have gripped the country and | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
disgusted ordinary Indians. In February, a former Cabinet minister | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
was arrested in connection with a Telecom scandal. It is estimated to | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
have cost India $40 billion in lost revenue. It marched the head of | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
India's corruption -- anti- corruption watchdog had to resign | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
as he faced corruption charges. And an official in last year's | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Commonwealth Games was arrested for alleged financial irregularities. | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
Many believe big businesses or equally culpable. The big | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
businesses wishing to India were very much part of the corruption. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
It is not about petty corruption. It is at the height levels. It is | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
white-collar crime. The pressure is on to pass an anti-corruption law, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
first introduced 40 years ago. But it has been ignored by successive | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
governments. Many now realise that India's growing culture of | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
corruption could undermine its ambition to become the next global | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
superpower. It is a garden immortalised in | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
paint which inspired one of the great artists. Monet lived at | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Giverny near Paris for more than 40 years and his paintings of the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
gardens there have been applied by millions. The gardens still attract | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
thousands of visitors each year and are kept as Monet designed them. | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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And there is a new head gardener, It is not a French garden. | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
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Certainly not an English garden. It is, of course, a painter's garden. | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
Claude Monet spent 53 years and his bra home in his Giverny, | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
immortalising on canvas the garden he had created. Today it is the | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
responsibility of James Priest, the new English head gardener. It is | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
his job to bring the impressionist's masterpieces back | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
to life. It has a special place in everybody's parts. Everyone who | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
knows a Monet picture comes back to this garden and can recognise what | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
they have seen. There is something beautiful, romantic, familiar about | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
this garden that any body with a little bit of sensitivity, poetry | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
in them, can find when they come and visit. Monet did not like | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
organised or constrained gardens. He married flowers according to | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
their colours and left them to grow freely. He planted his garden, or | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
part of it, a here just to get flowers to paint and a Rayleigh day. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
And little by little, he was caught by the fever of gardening. It made | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
the garden more intense and interesting. He had seven Gardens | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
in the end, so he became a real garden at the end, as I might one | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
day become a little bit of a painter. Before long, Monet had | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
diverted a river to create this pond, which he would paint | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
repeatedly as part of the famed Waterlilies series. So obsessed was | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
he by this image, he sent his gardeners out daily to collect the | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
algae and wipe the lily pads clean. He even had the road walkers tar | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the adjacent chalk roads on which motorcars were kicking up dust | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
which settled on the border. The algae scooping continues to this | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
day. In the end, Monet dedicated himself blessed to the flowers, | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
more to the light and reflections in his pond. Today should only | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
receives half a million visitors a year who try to do the same. -- | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
Giverny. Never have -- never before had a Cardion Ab shaped his garden | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
as Monet had done. Soft lines, gentle lines. Putting the touches | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
of colour ink. So looking at his paintings, trying to analyse his | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
paintings. In other words, he must put down the trial and start to see | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
it with a brush. -- put down the spade. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Before we go, a bit of sport. England have beaten India by 319 | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
runs, taking out the second Test with more than a day to spare. The | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
game finished around an hour ago at Trent Bridge here in England, here | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
with the home side having a 2-0 lead in the four match series. What | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
went wrong for the ICC Test champions? Here is a legend and | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
I do not know if they were complacent or under-prepared. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
England have been a far better side in the first Test and this Test as | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
well. What is their explanation or what can be blamed? I do not know. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
They hide -- they have some great coaches and they should be asked | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
that question. I do not understand. England in England are a very, very | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
good side. They perhaps underestimated the opposition. | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
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It is a rather cloudy day across western parts of the United Kingdom. | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Sunshine in the South East. Tomorrow it will beak every week | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
bit as warm too hot, but still there is unit. There is a weather | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
front straddling the UK. Bringing cloud and patchy rain in the West | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
today and tonight and tomorrow morning the rain turns heavier | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
across northern England and eastern San southern Scotland. It will be a | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
By 4pm in the afternoon, there will still be one or two showers around | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
four balls and England into the Midlands. Stilt shatters, though. - | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
- still shattered, though. Variable cloud, some chap, but noticeably | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
very humid. Still very warm. For south-west England, Wales and | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
north-west England, where you have had a lot of cloud through the day | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
today and patchy rain, tomorrow it will be brighter. The cloud will be | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
trying to break in the afternoon and it will feel warmer. Also | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
warmer in Belfast despite there being a good deal of cloud across | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
Northern Ireland. A warm day in Glasgow. Still a lot of cloud in | :28:21. | :28:23. |