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This is BBC World News Today. At ban on short selling calms European | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
markets as a turbulent week comes to a close, but is it just short | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
lived relief? Protest and killings escalate in | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Syria, the US Secretary of State says time is running out for its | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
leader. President Assad has lost the legitimacy to lead and it is | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
clear that Syria would be better off without him. Police in England | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
hit back at criticism of their response to this week's riots, | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
insisting that tactics that were to wear theirs. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
When is a reptile not a reptile? Scientists discover a prehistoric | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
ocean giant may have given birth to live young. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
And retake a look behind the scenes of their Marinsky Ballet Company, | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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celebrating 50 years since its Hello and welcome. It has been a | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
torrid, turbulent week on the financial markets. Today, after | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
days of falls and rises, there were signs of tentative recovery on the | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
European exchanges, after a temporary ban was introduced on an | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
aggressive form of speculation. The practice known as a short selling | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
allows traders to profit by gambling that up stock will fall. | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
The ban was enforced in France, Italy and Belgium comes after falls | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
in the prices of European banks. A Business correspondent is on the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Financial Week That Was. Monday on the markets and some | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
short lived optimism. For the first time, the European central bank was | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
buying European and Spanish bonds. It did not ease the minds of | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
investors on both sides of the Atlantic. North America's credit | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
was downgraded and politicians were squabbling over the deficit, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
traders were pushing them buttons again. There were wild swings in | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
London with the FTSE 100 large ring up and down. It was mainly as | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
investors lost and regained confidence in banks. They index was | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
up again by the close. Events in Italy did not reassure the | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
country's lenders, the economy Minister went to the Rome | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
parliament and insisted on reforms. A leading ally of the Prime | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, said that such cuts were politically | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
motivated and implied they could bring down the government. The | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, into jute -- interrupted his | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
holiday, his finance minister had to deny rumours about the Bank and | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
the future of the sovereign debt rating. Then, today, traders in | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
France, Italy, Spain and Belgium walk up to a new street a jacket, a | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
15 day ban on short selling. This was introduced by countries at a | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
most rest of a sovereign debt crisis. The message to European | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
leaders from the markets is that restricting how the trade does not | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
change the fundamental problem. Without more rescue funds behind it, | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
a single currency may be near the end of the line in its present form. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Joining me now is financial trader Simon Cawkwell, a veteran of | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
trading. Less temporary ban is supposed to give pause for breath | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
and to calm things down. Is the wisdom in that? I doubt it. Why? | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
The problems that are now being faced by the markets are or nothing | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
to do with short selling. What would you identify as the key | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
problems? It is the failure to organise the you properly -- EU | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
properly. These problems are now coming over to roost. The short | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
seller is really a convenient a villain. I can assure you, we short | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
sellers are sweet this and light! am sure you are! The case has been | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
made that short selling increases volatility, turbulence in the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
markets and what is needed is stability. I do not think there is | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
any evidence that short selling increases volatility. It is just | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
that when things are moving quickly, people seek an explanation, unable | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
to devise their own answers, they try to vilify others. There could | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
be a case that if you're identifying the weakness of the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
bank's by banning short selling, you increase the vulnerability. | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
is against the law to tell an untruth. That is about a bank or | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
any stock market. Anybody who lies runs to risks, one is you might be | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
prosecuted, and the other problem he would face is that you would | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
probably lose money on the position. Short selling is a vicious game if | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
you are so stupid as to just invent arguments. You're talking to us | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
about your views of politicians, not up to the complexities of the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
market, do you think there is a problem with the political class | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
not getting it? I think there is little doubt that the EU has been | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
developed for decades as an allusion. I am sure the motives of | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
those who developed the illusion where beyond reproach. I am afraid | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
their methods, many of them extremely underhand, are now | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
officially seen for what they are. What, as a financial insider, would | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
be your advice if you were to give them your best advice on making the | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
Euro-zone more efficient? I would be rather more modest about the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
reasonable aspirations for the Euro-zone, and I would also make | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
clear, when it my position to do so, that the time has come for people | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
to be rather more sensible, more practical, less high-flown. Just | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
dealing with basic matters economic cliff. That is the political task | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
and it is going to take a long time, that is only way these matters will | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
be resolved in the longer term. am sorry we have got to keep his | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
brief, thank you for coming in. A US Secretary of State, Hillary | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Clinton, has are urged other countries to get on the right side | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
of history as she put it, by cutting ties with the government of | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Syria. Demonstrations against President Assad took part in many | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
parts of the country following Friday prayers. Security forces are | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
alleged to have killed 10 people. Despite a five months in the firing | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
line, the Serie up -- Syrians still pour onto the streets demanding vet | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
regime must go. This appears to be from today. Live a fire can be | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
heard. Report of protests across the country. Other snatched | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
pictures show plainclothes security forces killing civilians. This has | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
prompted the United States to step up the pressure to increase | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
sanctions against President Assad. Washington is tiptoeing around the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
question should it caught directly on President Assad to go? So far it | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
has short just sort of that. The United States is are urging India, | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
China and Russia to stop arms and other sales to Serie up and are | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
urging Europe to stop buying their energy. We are just those countries | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
still buying Syrian oil and gas, those countries still sending | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
President Assad weapons, those countries whose political and end | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
up -- economic support give him, but in his brutality to get on the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
right -- right side of history. President Assad has a lot -- lost | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the legitimacy to lead and it is clear its area would be better off | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
without him. The European view is that refusing to by Syrian oil and | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
gas would hit ordinary Syrians are harder than the regime. Some | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
supporters of Syrian opposition seek tougher sanctions other way | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
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forward. Perhaps if the EU gets on board, with the sanctions, that | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
might concentrate the mind of President Assad to stop killing | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
people and perhaps a reach some kind of settlement. For now at the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Syrian regime it shows no sign of changing course. It is still | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
relying on force against largely peaceful protest and judging | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
violence to be the only way to hold on to power. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Let us look at some of the day's other news. Hundreds of thousands | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
of demonstrators have been out on the street in many cities in Yemen. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Tens of thousands rallied in the capital Sanaa, calling for | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Presdient Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Supporters of the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
President called out for a counter- demonstration. Anti-government | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
protests he plays and other cities. Presdient Ali Abdullah Saleh has | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
been in Saudi Arabia since June when he was wounded in an attack. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
A quarter and then Netherlands has sent his 25 Sonali price at -- | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Priory is to jail. The men were arrested in 2010 by a Dutch navy | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
patrol in the Gulf of Aden. They had been involved in the hijacking | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
of a South African yacht of the Tanzanian crop -- yacht -- coast. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
A state owned company in China says it is recalling all high-speed | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
trains for safety check. This follows a collision area the month | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
in which 40 people were killed. The Chinese government has ordered a | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
temporary halt to the approval of new highs to beat we were projects. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
The father President of the Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, has failed to | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
secure her release. She is on trial for an abuse of power. She was | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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arrested last week after she disrupted court. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Thousands of Rangers and volunteers and Sri Lankan are carrying out the | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
first at Phil senses of its dwindling wild elephant population. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Sri Lankan has closed dollars National Party to his for the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
three-day senses and has sent thousands of wildlife workers, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
farmers and villagers to more than 1000 locations across the country | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
to count their elephants. Police officers have hit back at | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
suggestions that it was their intervention of politicians that | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
proved decisive in their handling of the riots and looting around | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
England earlier this week. After criticism of their tactics, senior | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
officers today is said they had faced a unique situation and that | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
they alone had been responsible for a shift to more robust policing. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
1,600 people have been arrested so far, half of those having appeared | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
in court already. Our Home Editor looks at the political and police | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
response to the right. A week after the riots began, there | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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has been a public row as they seek who was to blame. Their acting head | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
of Scotland Yard made a remark about the criticism of their police. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
I think after any event of this, people always make common... It is | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
clear that many senior officers are furious at suggestions that police | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
only got their act together when politicians bang the table. Let us | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
be clear on one thing, there is a vital distinction between policing | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
and politician -- politics. The police will make their decisions, | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
we must be held to account. Yesterday, government ministers | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
accused police of putting too few officers on the street, being too | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
slow to respond and too timid in dealing with the looters. Today, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
the Home Secretary had nothing but praise for the police response. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
What I except was that the people who got the rights under control | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
with a policemen and women who were out there on the front line, | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
dealing with the riots as they were happening. The troubling site of | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
law and order this week means that for politicians and police alike, | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
the stakes in this affair remain very high. The politics of the | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
riots has shifted from condemnation and measures to restore public | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
order and confidence to broader questions about our culture, | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
society and our values. The leaders of the three main political parties | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
in England were all talking about learning the lessons of the riots | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
today. In the early hours of Monday, police in Brixton were pursuing | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
looters, today Labour's leader found himself pursued by his | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
supporters. These people have nothing to lose! They have no | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
social mobility. We need the Labour Party... The criticism is that | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
politicians have been too quick to condemn and too slow to try to | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
understand. Take care. Are the social reasons for this? Of course. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Should you not discuss this? we're not just talking about | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
criminality. We have got to restore disorder and make clear we will | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
never do excuse what happened. Excusing is not the same as | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
explaining. We have now got to try and explain what happened. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Tuesday, police station in Nottingham was firebombed. Today, | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
the Lib Dem leader paid a visit and suggested it pose important | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
questions. We have got to ask ourselves why an 11-year-old girl | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
or young teenagers feel that they have got so little stake in their | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
own neighbourhood and community, so little sense of belonging, that | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
they go around trashing it. central Manchester was the scene of | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
widespread looting on Tuesday night. Tonight the Prime Minister was in | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
the city to meet emergency services before appearing on the BBC. David | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Cameron was asked whether will there was a different city greedy | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
looters and greedy bankers and People who cheat in banking should | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
be punished. MPs who cheat on their expenses should be punished. There | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
are MPs who are in prison and rightly so. Responsibility is the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
most important word in politics. It cannot be used as an excuse. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
huge extra police presence will remain this weekend. No one would | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
dare suggest that this crisis is over. The questions are just | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
beginning. The police watchdog for England and | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
whales, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has admitted | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
tonight it may have misled journalists into believing the man | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
who shot dead by police last Thursday night fired shots at | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
police. Mark Duggan, who was 29, or shot by officers in Tottenham in | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
north London. His death sparked the initial riots. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
The Prime Minister is looking at Los Angeles, among other places, | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
for lessons in how to tackle gang culture. The city reinvented its | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
approach to policing following the riots then nearly 20 years ago. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Alex Leithead has been to South Central Los Angeles to find out how | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
police tactics have changed -- Alastair Leithead. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
A regular afternoon police patrol in gangland, South Central Los | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
Angeles. This one, no safety, just pull the trigger, something happens. | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
If I am dead on the ground, feel free to defend yourself. There is | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
still a lot of tension and violence here, but it is much calmer than it | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
was nearly 20 years ago when the rioting began at this crossroads | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
and spread across the city. The fires burned for six days. There | :17:07. | :17:16. | |
were battles with police, looting and arson. It was sparked by race | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
after the white police officers who beat a young black man, Rodney King, | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
were convicted of brutality. But in the chaos, gangs, criminals and | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
opportunists from all ethnic groups and backgrounds joined in. This man | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
was a gang member. He regrets what he did but blames the bigger issues. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
You have to address down-the-line systematic causes of people's | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
frustration, where three at his lack of employment, police abuse, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
lack of a dip -- adequate healthcare, educational facilities. | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
This is me in the riots. On the other side of the lines in 1992 was | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Commander Andrew Smith. The Los Angeles police made a lot of | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
changes after the riots. We have made a lot of changes where we work | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
hand-in-hand with the community. We develop partnerships with everybody | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
who will work with us from religious organisations to any | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
member of the public who wants to solve problems. The former LAPD | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
chief, Bill Bratton, was credited with sorting it out, cutting crime | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
to an historic low. David Cameron has a keen interest in US law | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
enforcement and has Met Police in Los Angeles. He is now billing -- | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
bringing Bill Bratton to London as an adviser. Police in Los Angeles | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
have learnt a lot since the riots almost 20 years ago but there are | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
still a lot of crime, high unemployment and anger among young | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
people. The police warned a spark could set it off here again, as it | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
could in many big cities around the world. | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
Now, it could be a milestone in dinosaur research. Scientists in | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
the United States have revealed fossil evidence of a pregnant | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
plesiosaur which they say proves that the extinct reptile gave birth | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
to live young, rather than laying eggs. Joining me from Los Angeles | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
his opponent apologist, one of the researchers who made the plesiosaur | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
discovery. How excited are you? very excited. It is a truly amazing | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
fossil. You do not get many chances in Your Career to work on fossils | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
we try this important scientifically and which are as | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
beautiful. I understand it was found in a basement. It was sitting | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
waiting to be excavated, as there were. There are a lot of stories | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
about fossils like this. I think the public has an idea that we go | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
out, we get the fossils, take them to the lab. But that is only the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
beginning of a long process of preparing the bones, taking them | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
out, preserving them and getting them ready for display and | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
scientific study. There was not a lot of impetus to prepare this | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
fossil and get it ready for a steady until somebody at the museum | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
decided the future of this fossil was in a new exhibit. This was a | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
couple of years ago. Just briefly give us an idea about why this | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
matters for our wider understanding and white is a breakthrough for | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
you? We have never had a pregnant plesiosaur before. We have known | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
about them for about 200 years. There has been a great mystery | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
about how they gave birth, where three it was on land. Finally, we | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
have an answer to this mystery in the form of this fossil. It solves | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
a 200 year mystery. How often does this happen? Is it a once in a year | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
or a once in a decade Discovery, the kind of discovery you have just | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
made? This discovery is a one in 200 year discovery. We have been | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
looking at dinosaur fossils and also plesiosaur fossils and I have | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
seen many Plessey's of fossils and we have never seen a pregnant one | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
until now. Is the first one. This fossil is unique. That is the core | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
of its scientific relevance. There is only one of these in the entire | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
world and this is the only one in Los Angeles. Ute say it it gave | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
birth to a single offspring, rather than a litter, as it were, are | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
there any parallels with the whales? Scientifically, that was | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
the thing which drove the science paper. Lots of other reptiles in | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
the age of dinosaurs, gave birth to live young, but the Plessey a sore | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
seems to have done it differently. They gave birth to one large | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
offspring instead of several. They are more similar to mammals than | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
the other reptiles. Thank you very much and congratulations. Thank you. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
For many, they are the finest ballet company in the world and now | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
the Marinsky company from St Petersburg is celebrating its 50th | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
anniversary of performing at London's Covent Garden. Anastasia | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Uspensky from the BBC Russian Service was given access to | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
rehearsals and she went backstage where she met prima ballerinas from | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
across the generations. Stravinsky's Firebird, one of the | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
great works in the repertoire of the Marinsky Ballet. This season, | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Covent Garden is sold out, just as it was for the Russian company 50 | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
years ago. But for the Marinsky itself under KGB scrutiny, they | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
were very different days. TRANSLATION: It was a very | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
difficult year. Rudolf Nureyev sought asylum in Paris. It was | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
shocking for everyone. Many changes were made. Other people danced his | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
parts. New people were urgently brought in. A tough negotiations to | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
bring the Marinsky Ballet, then the Kirov, to London, was the work of | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
impresarios Lilian Hochhauser and her husband. They had already | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
brought over Russian musical stars like Shostakovich. The public was | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
completely wild. Crowds were so in love with them and they still are | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
today, as you can see what is going on 50 years later. They saw dancing, | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the lyricism of the like that they had never seen before. It was | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
simply wonderful. Russian ballet and Marinsky in particular, has | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
been amazingly popular in the West since the Diaghilev Seasons more | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
than 100 years ago. TRANSLATION: We have to stick to our unique style | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
which the Marinsky is famous for. The style is pier, classical | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
choreography. Today, no one dances better than the Marinsky. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
special beauty of the Marinsky on stage but backstage can tell a | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
tougher tail. These ballet shoes are very tough on your feet and the | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
tutus can be very scratchy on the skin. Performer with the Russian | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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Ballet comes at a price. Viktoria Tereshkina is the start of today's | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Marinsky in the Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade. TRANSLATION: It was | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
always my dream. I have danced the whole ballet repertoire but not | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
this particular dance. And now finally, the beauty of this | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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choreography is that I do not dance on my toes. Nothing hurts. So many | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
changes in the past 50 years. Leningrad is now St Petersburg once | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
again, Kirov is once again Marinsky. Only the success of Russian ballet | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
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Beautiful. Let's remind you of our main news: At the end of a volatile | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
week on a global stock exchanges, shares in Europe have ended the day | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
higher, making up much of the loss since Monday. But shares remain | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
well below their high of last month. European Bank shares halted their | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
slide after regulators in France, Italy, Belgium and Spain | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
temporarily banned some short selling, that is a practice that | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
allows traders to profit by gambling that the stock price will | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
fall. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has urged other | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
countries to get on the right side of history by cutting ties with the | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
government of Syria. That is all from our programme. | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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Thank you for joining us. For now, Hello, a slow improvement in the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
weather through the weekend. It gets better -- wetter before it | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
gets better. A good deal of cloud tomorrow. This is the area of low | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
pressure pursue more weather fronts across the UK. Once they're gone | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
into early Saturday, not many remaining. Plenty of dry weather to | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
come. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon for Saturday, we start across | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
north-east England where there will be some breaks in the cloud for the | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
afternoon. There will be some bursts of sunshine from time to | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
time. It will be a breezy day. Less humid than it has been across | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
southern areas. Still blustery for the sailors at Cowes. Some breaks | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
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in the cloud in the south-west and Some light drizzle in north-west | :28:09. | :28:13. |