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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kirsty Lang. A plane crash in | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Russia kills some of the country's best ice hockey players. 43 people | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
die, most of them from one of the country's most successful teams. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Eurozone survives a key test in the German courts, but has Europe's | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
ability to act quickly over the debt crisis been dealt a fatal | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
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blow? The euro it is a guarantee of a unified Europe. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
India on high alert for terror attacks after a bomb explodes | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
outside Dehli's High Court, killing at least ten people. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Making light of Muslim life in the Little Mosque On The Prairie. We | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
find out how why US networks are not keen to run this hit Canadian | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
comedy. And after PJ Harvey's album about | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
war and national identity wins the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, is | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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Hello and Welcome. The world of Russian ice hockey was plunged into | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
mourning today after a plane carrying one of the county's top | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
teams crashed just after take off, killing all but two of the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
passengers and crew. The Russian jet plummeted into a river in the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Western city of Yaroslav. On board was the Lokomotiv ice hockey team | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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on their way to the opening game of the season in Minsk. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
Burning near the river, but remains of a Russian aeroplane that crash | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
with almost an entire hockey's got on board. Another accident in | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
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Russia's terrible history of air disasters. The plane was on its way | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
to Minsk for the first game of the season. Most of the team were on | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
the aircraft. Only one has survived and he is in intensive care. The | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
opening match of the season was abandoned when news of the crash | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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came through. TRANSLATION:. My dear friends, the | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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aeroplane carrying the Lokomotiv team has crashed. The Lokomotiv | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
team was one of the best in Russia. Their coach is Canadian. 11 of the | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
players on board were non-Russians, including the Slovakian forward and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the Swedish goalkeeper. Eyewitnesses who saw the plane come | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
down said it appeared to wobble after take-off before crashing to | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
the ground. Lokomotiv joins the list of other teams who have been | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
devastated by air disasters. Pakistan International Airways say | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
they have found no suspicious items on the British-bound plane forced | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
to make an emergency landing in Istanbul after a bomb alert. A full | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
search of the aircraft, en route from Lahore to Manchester, is being | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
carried out before the flight can resume its journey. Meanwhile, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Pakistan Airlines says a second flight has also received a bomb | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
threat, but it has landed safely in Malaysia. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
It was a tense moment for Mrs Merkel today when the German | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Constitutional Court was asked to rule on whether she had the right | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
to agree to any more bail outs of eurozone countries such as Greece. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
The case was brought by some leading eurosceptics who don't want | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
to see any more German taxpayers money heading south. In the end the | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
court said the German government did have the right to authorise | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
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bail outs, but it must first consult parliament. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Delivering their verdict, the judges and Germany's constitutional | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
court said last year's rescue packages were compatible with | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
German and EU of law. But the judges said that in the future, the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
German parliament would have to give its prior approval to other | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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bale-out. It is a blow to a group of Euro academics. However, for | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Chancellor Merkel, the verdict is an important victory. In fighting | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
mood, she told MPs that Germany was committed to the single currency. | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
TRANSLATION: And if the euro fails, then Europe will fail. With public | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
opinion in Germany strongly against the rescue packages, Chancellor | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Merkel has come under fire for her handling of the debt crisis. And | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
last weekend her party suffered losses at another regional election, | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
this time in her home state. As Europe's biggest economy, Germany | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
is the biggest contributor to the bail-out fund. It gave 20 % of the | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
first Greek bail-out last year. Two weeks later the financial stability | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
facility was approved and Germany contributed $173 billion. This is | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
due to rise to 300 million -- 300 billion. But Germans cannot | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
understand why their tax money should be used to bail out other | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
countries. Can Chancellor Merkel convince them it is money well | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
spent? It is time for political leaders to say why Europe is good, | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
has been cut. Also why it is hard to step back at this point. They | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
should really make the case that Europe is there for their self- | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
interest. Chancellor Merkel will face a crucial vote later this | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
month on the USA and a rescue fund. It is unlikely be critical voices | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
what died down. With the government having to be consulted before other | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
measures are taken, it could leave Chancellor Merkel with less than a | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
four manoeuvre. -- with less room for manoeuvre. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Live now to Berlin where we can speak to Ferdinand Fichtner, the | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Chief Economist at the German Institute for Economic Research. To | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
what extent do you think this ruling ties Mrs Merkel's hands? | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
does not tie them. It frees them because it allows her to do what | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
she thinks makes sense. I think it does not really change the | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
situation we are currently in. I think the ruling makes sense and in | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
this respect, it is probably the right thing to do. But surely the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
fact she has to refer it to Parliament was slow down the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
process? She has already been accused of dithering over this | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
crisis and making the market's nervous because she has not been | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
decisive enough. This can only make it worse? Well, it was always clear | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
that the current rescue packages will have to be decided upon by | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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Parliament. The discussion was always clear. Principally, you are | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
right. The court has ruled that Parliament will have to confirm all | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
rescue packages and this what in turn mean that all rescue packages | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
that will take longer in time. It also means that what is currently | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
done by the European Central Bank, direct measures up to intervene on | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
financial markets, those things will probably not be taken over by | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
the rescue packages which would have made sense because the | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
European central bank cannot rightfully do it. The court also | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
ruled they could be no pooling of European debt. Does that not part | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
pot these coppers on the eurobond idea? Definitely, yes. The eurobond | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
would be perfect a pooling of European debt and in this sense, | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
the court has decided that this is not in line with the German | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
constitution. So it would mean if we wanted something like Euro bonds, | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
we have to change the constitution. From an economic perspective it | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
makes a lot of sense to be careful what this kind of instrument | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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because they can live -- basically, we could lose the market that | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
stabilises debt levels by penalising debt levels. It is good | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
to hear the constitutional Court has decided that also from a legal | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
perspective, it is at least something that should be thought | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
about very carefully. Thank you. The foreign minister of Niger has | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
confirmed that at least three convoys carrying officials from | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Colonel Gaddafi's ousted government has cross the border, but he is not | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
with them. More stories are emerging about the last harrowing | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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days of his regime. Our correspondent sent this report. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
This is where the enemies of Colonel Gaddafi were silent. A | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
place of detention and abuse. Now the new government hold its enemies | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
here. More than 700 men and women suspected of crimes against the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
revolution. We are restricted in what we can film inside the prison, | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
so let me describe the conditions as I walk along one of the main | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
corridors. First of four, the floor is filthy. There is litter, dirt, | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
water. The cells are very grand and very hot. They are probably about | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
seven metres by five metres. In each one there are about 30 | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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prisoners. Five men from Africa, accused have been mercenaries for | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
Gaddafi. They were let out of their cell to talk to us. They say they | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
are labourers who were dragged from their homes because they are black. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
We have been told they will get a fair trial, but the brawl at the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
moment is guilty until proven innocent. Have you ever worked for | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
Colonel Gaddafi? Never. I could not do that. If I wanted to be a | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
military man, I would do it in my country. Three girls. The youngest | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
is 16. They do not want to show their faces because they were part | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
of Gaddafi's National Guard, but just listen to their explanation. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
They claimed they were motivated by fear. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
TRANSLATION: When our family were against the regime, soldiers came | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
to our house. They threw us out and killed my uncle and brother. We | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
thought if we joined them, they would not suspect us or hurt us. | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
teenager accused of executing 11 people. Recruited -- she was | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
recruited to a militia group and claimed she was raped by a group of | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Gaddafi's supporters. She said she was forced to shoot prisoners with | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
a rifle. Unable to watch, she turned her head and pulled the | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
trigger. Five men, three girls and one teenager. In will be for the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
new courts to decide their fate. To decide who is the victim and who is | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
an offender. They need to set the standard for a new justice in Libya, | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
but they need to do it quickly. The judge at the trial of the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
ousted Egyptian President has said that the country's current military | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
leader will give evidence in a closed session next week. It has | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
been a key prosecution demand for him to testify. Other officials | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
will also give evidence. Mubarak is charged with ordering the shooting | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
of protesters earlier this year. India is now on a high security | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
alert after a bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded outside of the | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
High Court in Delhi. And Al-Qaeda linked group has claimed | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
responsibility by e-mail, but government officials say it is too | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
early to name a suspect. It has raised doubts about India's ability | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
to protect its important institutions. | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
The panel for blast took place outside the High Court in the | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
morning. Police say that the bomb was hidden inside a briefcase and | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
placed next to the entrance, creating panic as it went off. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
There was or massive blast and the entire building shock. It is in | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
shambles. The emergency services were quick to arrive, up varying | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
away the windy to local hospitals. Many of the victims were badly | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
wounded. Forensic experts have been gathering evidence. Specialist | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
units were brought in as a security measure. The sight has been | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
cordoned off. Police and special units are in place, not just to | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
carry out the investigation, but to keep a curious public and the media | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
at bay. This is just outside the main gate of the High Court and at | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
the time of the attack, this place was milling with people because | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Wednesday's -- because Wednesday is the day when public interest cases | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
are heard. The sketches of two suspects were released. There are | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
believed to be -- to have been in the vicinity of the attack. The | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Prime Minister had this to say. This is a cowardly act up a | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
terrorist nature. We will deal with it and will not succumb to the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
pressure of terrorism. This is a long war in which all political | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
parties, all the people of India have to stand united so that the | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
scourge of terrorism is crushed. India is not new to attacks of this | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
kind. In the past, they had been blamed on Home Grown terror groups. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
For now, Delhi and other cities had been placed on high alert as the | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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authorities scramble to get their Two suicide bombers have blown | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
themselves in in Pakistan. The explosions killed at least 23 | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
people and injured more than 80. The Government officials said local | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Taliban were responsible. Syrian activists say that thank -- tanks | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
open fire on people in the city of Homs. They claimed security forces | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
killed at least 14. Amateur video posted on the internet said shows | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
deserted streets and shops with their shutters down. The Swedish | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
car maker Saab has filed for bankruptcy protection. They have | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
been plague bids production storm packages and problems play -- | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
paying suppliers. The parent company said a voluntary | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
reorganisation would enable to obtain short-term funding. The top | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
US news anchor Katie Couric says American TV should make a Muslim | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
version of the Cosby show to counter act the anti-Muslim bigotry | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
which has surfaced in some of the more extreme opposition to the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
proposed building at Ground Zero of a mosque. Just across the border in | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Canada such a show exists. It is called Little Mosque On The Prairie. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
We went to see why the show is such a hit and why it has mot got off | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
the ground in the US or Britain. -- not. Little Mosque On The Prairie, | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
is a huge hit in Canada. As well as selling to more than 80 countries | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
worldwide. I shows Muslims and Christians living side by side in | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
small town Canada and isn't afraid to poke fun at everyone. My point | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
is this. Wine gums. Rye bread. Liquorice. Western traps designed | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
to seduce Muslims to drink alcohol. His sermons are going to drive me | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
to drink. Patient, it is his last. On location in Toronto the filming | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
season six. -- they are filming season six. Although in some ways | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
it is ground breaking, one of the stars says its success is due to | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
the mainstream appeal. We don't go out to be an issue-based show. At | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
the end of the day we a come day. So we are not a political comedy. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
We are a comedy that has Islam as a backdrop because some of the | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
character, most of the characters happen to be Muslim. That is really | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
what makes everyone feel more assimilated from both points of | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
view. We had a fan of the show, who said "I love what you do, that is | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
high praise coming from a Jew. That is what this woman said. Did you | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
see what I just saw? Her eyes. Starting to look like the Third | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
World round here. The sitcom had attracted some controversy, causing | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
a diplomatic spat when it became entangled in the Wikileaks saga but | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
it wasn't Muslims who were complaining of being the persecuted | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
minority. Newly released cables contain diplomatic exchanges about | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
CBC television. One cable from the US Embassy to Washington accused | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Little Mosque On The Prairie of what it called insidious negative | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
populous stereotyping of Americans in Canada. It set off alarms by | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
showing an innocent Canadian bullied by US agents. Have you got | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
an appointment? The producers thought the show had been smeared, | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
they sent DVD box sets to Washington to set the record | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
straight. I sat down and drafted a letter to President Obama and to | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Hillary Clinton, and I was surprised to come in and find this | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
letter on my desk. I think Hillary Clinton got it where she says thank | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
you for everything you doing to foster cross cultural unity. I was | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
joking. Muslims round the world are known for their sense of mew -- | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
humour. The US remains a market that Little Mosque On The Prairie | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
has yet to crack. One market acquired the right bus the deal | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
fizzled out. We need that courageous broadcaster to say | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
whatever, we know we are going to get letter, we know we are going to | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
hear from the Christian right, the Muslims who don't think Muslim | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
should be treated as something funny. We will hear from the fringe | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
people and mainstream America will get it. Now, when the British | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
singer-songwriterer PJ Harvey first won the Mercury Music Prize she was | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
in Washington watching the Pentagon burn. The events of 9/11 were the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
inspiration of her second winning album which is about the horrors of | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
war. She is the first artist to win it on two occasion, our | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
entertainment correspondent has more. PJ Harvey. The winner of the | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
year's Mercury Prize. The judges deciding that for the second time, | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
she should take the accolade of Album of the Year. This year's the | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
shortlist included p artists from the unknown like Anna Calvi to | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Adele. Adele's album may have outsold any other in 2011 on both | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
side of the at lack -- Atlantic but in the end PJ Harvey's record Let | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
England Shake was deemed the most deserving. The album was inspired | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
by war and conflict, topics not unrelated to the last time she won | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
ten years ago. Obviously the last time I won this award was September | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
11th, I was in Washington, and there was this Pentagon burning, | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
and I think like anybody else we were gripped, and shocked, and it | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
was a very surreal day. Obviously, a very strange day on which to | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
receive a prize, via the telephone across the Atlantic. Winning before | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
was a landmark event in her career. Winning again tonight underlierns | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
position as one of the music industries most enduring talents. | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
To discuss the Mercury Prize I am joined by Dorian Lynskey. A first | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
of all, do you think PJ Harvey's album fits into the category of Mo | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
protest music. Probably political music. What she set out to do was | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
not to really convey her own point of view. I think what she did for | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
research was look through diary, poetry, artwork, sort of soak in | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
all of these different accounts of war and then present them with many | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
voice, so there isn't an anti-war message in there, which is what | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
makes it is strong, there is never a sense he is saying this the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
message of my record. It is almost as though she is stel -- telling a | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
story. A narrative, a song cycle. Yes. She wrote all the lyrics | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
before the melodies and she had drawings for each song. It is very | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
much the sort of outside the normal way of writing pop songs. So dingle | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
So she is reflecting on current events rather than writing like | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Joan Baez did. Yes, when she did there was value in people coming | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
out and saying war is wrong, what is happening in South East Asia is | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
wrong. Now, as it was recognised, that seems obvious. How do you make | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
an anti-war song that doesn't seem patronising and obvious? And so her | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
way of doing that is to present sort of characters, thoughts, words, | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
she has taken bits of language from her various sources. There are | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
three songs about the First World War battle at Gallipoli. Exactly. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
There is only one I think which takes images from coverage of Iraq. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Her theme is Iraq and Afghanistan, but her broader theme is that war | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
goes on. You know, it is the cycle of war. Saying what we are, enraged | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
or saddens by now is what people have been enraged by for deck aide | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
kaids. Century, folk songs going back centuries. Are there many | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
protest songs round these days, putting PJ Harvey aside? Not so | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
many. It is the, the decline began at the end of the 80s. It's a great | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
artistic challenge. Peep have gout out of the habit of thinking they | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
should do. In the '60s or in the punk and post punk era, people | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
could see examples of it done so well, it felt so natural and | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
exciting and fresh, that lots of people stepped up and did it. Now, | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
I think it has gone out of vogue. Is that because musicians have | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
become depoliticised of music fans don't want to be told what to think | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
or do? There is a lot. There is a resentment of the celebrity | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
activist, telling you what to do. There is definitely that suspicion. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
I mean, I don't know. A couple of years ago I would have said music | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
fans were largely depoliticised. You look at the student protest, a | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
lot of music fans there, and you think, no, they are interested in | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
politic, I just don't see a desperate need on their part to | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
have songs to go with it in the way people did in the civil rights era. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Quick reminder now of the main news story. Most of the players in one | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
of Russia's top ice hockey teams have died in a plane crash North | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
East of Moscow. The aircraft crashed shortly after taking off on | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
its way to Belarus for one of the first games of the season. Almost | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
everyone onboard apart from two people were killed. That is all | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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from me and the rest of the team. Hello. There is brisk winds we have | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
been having to endure ease down a notch during Thursday and there | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
might be a bit of sunshine on offer. A threat of more showers though, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
more general rain returning to the south-west later in the day. The | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
big picture going into Thursday shows weather front, system, lining | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
up in the Atlantic and coming our way, so it stays very unsettled for | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
several more days. We start Thursday damp in southern areas | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
patchy rain, the further north you are the brighter it will be. North | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
East England if particular, but north-west England as well. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Brighter than we have been, still a few showers round, but across | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
southern England we never really shift that cloud during the day and | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
from it there will be bits and pieces of rain. Not amounting to | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
much but the rain gathtoerg the south-west and into Wales again | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
later in the day. With that n the south-west, increasingly poor | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
visibility. More so through Thursday night, and into Friday. | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Here comes the rain again into Wales. Some brightness the further | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
theeft you. In Northern Ireland it will be dry and bright for some | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
time before cloud increases again later in the day. With outbreaks of | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
rain not far away. To the west and north of Scotland we continue with | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
showers. Down the eastern side you avoid most of the showers and see | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
the best of the sunshine. All of this rain has to lift north during | :28:14. | :28:17. |