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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Justifying his veto, David Cameron tells Parliament why he refused to | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
sign a pact to salvage the euro. He insists Britain is still committed | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
member of the EU. I am a apps but it clear that it is possible to be | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
both a full, commission -- committed member of the EU, but to | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
stay at the range is when they do not protect our interests. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Local elections in Syria - turnout is low as clashes continued between | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
the army and opposition forces. Another demonstration in Russia, | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
but this time apparently in support of Vladimir Putin. The excerpts | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
voting irregularities but will not call fresh elections. | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Also coming up, the voice of the young and unemployed. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
We will report from Italy where unemployment is leaving young | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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people facing a very uncertain Hello and welcome. David Cameron is | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
continuing to face huge criticism that he has given up a seat at the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
EU top table and got nothing in return. Today he told MPs that he | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
had acted in the UK's best interests last week by opting out | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
of any potential treaty changes, to establish a new agreement to help | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
save the UK law. But he insisted that Britain was still a fully | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
committed member of the EU. David Cameron must be counting down | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
the days until the Christmas break. His decision to veto an EU treaty | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
last week has left him with a painful reminder of the tensions | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
within his own coalition. As he took his place in the House | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
of Commons, there were taunts of, where his clay it? A reference to | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the very notable absence of the Deputy Prime Minister. But Cameron | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
was adamant he had had no choice in Brussels, because his calls for | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
extra safeguards for the financial sector were not heeded by other | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
countries. I wish those safeguards had been accepted, but frankly the | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
choice was a treaty without proper safeguards, or no treaty. And the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
right answer was no treaty. Nevertheless the Prime Minister | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
went on to argue that Britain was still very much part of Europe. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
am asked to be clear that it is possible to be bought a four, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
committed an influential member of the EU, but to stay out of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
arrangements with the do not affect our interests. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
The opposition leader argued that Britain had been dangerous the | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
isolated. We will no rue the day Britain -- This Prime Minister has | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
left Britain alone, without influence. He it is bad for Britain. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Last time David Cameron appeared in the House of Commons, Euro-sceptics | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
in his own party and told him to show some bulldog spirit. Since the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
summit may have been praising him for his stance, and there was | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
plenty more of that today. He has stood up for democracy, and for | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
free markets. This is to be wonderfully commended. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
But as the Prime Minister fielded questions from friend and foe alike, | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the fall-out from last week continued across the Channel. And | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
there was still shaking of heads at Britain's decision to go it alone. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
I regret that the United Kingdom was not willing to join the new | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
fiscal compact. I regret it as much for the sake of Europe and its | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
crisis response, and -- as much as for British citizens. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
The bigger question remains whether enough was done in Brussels to say | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the euro. If the answer is No, the row over Britain's relationship | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
with the EU may seem a bit of a sideshow. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
As we have been reporting, David Cameron justified his veto by | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
saying he was acting to protect Britain's financial sector, but | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
business opinion in the City is divided. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Whether it is UK banking, insurance or other financial services, the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
outcome of the summit could redefine the landscape. So has the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
clash with the eurozone's leadership generated short term | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
gains because of David Cameron's stands, or other long-term losses | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
because UK influence is reduced. The Prime Minister said he wanted | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
to safeguard the City of London from further European regulations. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
He could not get firm commitments so he would not sign the treaty. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Some say he was right. He played his hand as well as he could. The | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
UK was never going to be part of a fiscal compact of 26 countries all | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
tying together their budgetary discipline. Given that, he had to | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
do his best to try to protect British financial interests from a | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
slew of regulations. But there was a warning from a | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
senior European official that the city was not immune from further | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
restrictions even under the existing rule book. If this move | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
was intended to protect bankers and financial corporations in the city | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
from being regulated, that will not happen. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
It is a crucial issue because financial services makes up 9% of | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
the UK's annual economic output. Manufacturing makes up just over | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
10%. When it comes to employment, financial services with just over | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
one million people lags well behind manufacturing with 2.3 million. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
There is no doubting the importance of financial services, but there | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
are many other sectors across the UK economy, some with very | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
different perspectives, including longer term views on whether their | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
best interests have been served by the outcome of last week's summit. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
The Japanese carmaker Honda is a major investor in the UK. The | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
company says its operations were not affected by Britain's political | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
relationships in Europe, but other industry leaders are more concerned. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
It is better to be inside, working... A Sir Martin Sorrell, | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
told the BBC that the UK's image had suffered. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
A I was talking to an Indian businessman this morning about | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
where he would placate his plant given the last 72 hours. The | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
perception would be that the UK is outside Western Europe... | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Looking into the future, the big concern is the possible break-up on | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
the euro, and fears about that cent share price -- share prices lower. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Do get a clearer idea of whether the veto wielded by David Cameron | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
will help protect the financial sector here, we are joined by | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Damian Chalmers, professor of EU law at the London School of | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Economics. This Beatle, or will it jeopardise the City or help it? - | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
Mac this veto. The City is already subject to financial services law. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
There is a large amount of EU regulation that applies to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
financial services, most of us decided by a qualified majority of | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
voting. So nothing in the last week has changed that. But surely if | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
there are moves to, for instance, introduce a tax on financial | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
transactions, Britain would be protected from that? No, that is | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
already being proposed under the existing treaty. The commission has | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
already made a proposal for the financial transactions tax, and | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
nothing in relation to changing the treaty, any amendments, will affect | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
whether that gets adopted or not. Would it cost the UK billions of | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
pounds, as George Osborne says it would? A tax on financial | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
transactions, which Britain says would cost it billions and would be | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
a waste of time if only introduced by the European Union, it has got | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
to be global? There are many arguments for or against it, many | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
estimates are a bit speculative, and at the moment it is just a | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
proposal so we would have to wait and see the eventual form. There is | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
of course a particular problem with that tax, which is that financial | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
services are concentrated in the United Kingdom and this would be | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
decided by a body where the United Kingdom accounts for about eight to | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
9% of the votes. But by and David Cameron's concerns legitimate, when | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
he says our financial sector accounts for a bigger chunk of GDP | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
than other countries, and he wants to make sure it is not jeopardised? | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
I agree they are completely ginger tonight, -- completely legitimate, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
but there are no new safeguards added in the last week to protect | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
them. Whether there will be in the negotiations around the tax | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
regarding financial services regulation, we will wait to see. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Some of the Day's other main news. And President Barack Obama has said | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
that US troops are leaving Iraq with their heads held high. After | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
talks with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Mr Obama said the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
US would remain an enduring part the two mack even after the troops | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
have pulled out at the end of this month. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Panama's former strongman Manuel Noriega has returned home more than | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
two decades after United States forced him from power. He has | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
served sentences for drug offences in the UK -- US and money | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
laundering in France. He returns to Panama to serve 328 year terms for | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the murder of political opponents in the 1980s. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Jonny Wilkinson has announced his retirement from international rugby. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
He won 91 caps in a 30 year career, and memorably clinched a 2003 World | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Cup for England with a drop goal in extra time. He leaves the | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
international stage second on the all-time scoring list. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
It is almost 100 years since Roald Amundsen became the first person to | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
reach the South Pole. Today in Norway's Prime Minister Jens | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Stoltenberg made the same journey by a rather easier means, an | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
American Hercules plane. He schedule to welcome around one | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
dozen expeditions marking the event. Opposition activists in Syria have | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
been boycotting the local elections in the country, saying they are | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
just irrelevant. The Government claims that large numbers of people | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
are going to the polls, but the boycott is especially in opposition | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
strongholds like Homs is believed to be high, suggesting that civil | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
disobedience is taking hold in Syria. As voting began, security | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
forces battled pro-opposition army defectors in clashes. Jonathan | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Haynes reports from neighbouring Turkey. | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
Syria is a country divided. Today, between those who voted, and those | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
who are still fighting. And then there were those who chose to | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
protest. These opponents of President Assad mocked his | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
elections by holding one of their own. In Hammer, they protested in a | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
more conventional way. The general strike is in force in many | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
opposition strongholds. Here, almost everything is shot. The | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
likelihood of any voting taking place in neighbourhoods like this | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
is not high. These pictures are said to be from the contested city | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
of Homs. Ten people are reported to have been killed in the last 24 | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
hours. A local election has little | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
relevance here. But in Government strongholds like Damascus, people | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
did come out of court. These elections are, says the Government, | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
the first step in its own reform programme. It says they are freer | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
than before and will give more power to local administrations, but | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
insists President Assad is the only figure who can do never bought | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
reform and stability. But, with perhaps half the country racked by | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
violence and no independent monitors, the value of this | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
exercise, if any, is impossible to judge. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
For the millions who have turned against President Assad, reform | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
under his leadership is now an impossibility. Their protests have | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
cost perhaps 5,000 lives, but they will not stop. Once the voting is | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
over, the struggle for power in this country will resume. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Staying in the Middle East, the situation in Bahrain. David Cameron | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
has been meeting King Hamad and he urged him to bring in concrete | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
reforms after his Government suppression of pro-democracy | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
protests. After their meeting, King Hamad told the BBC he was looking | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
to Britain to help reform by rain's police and judiciary. Frank Gardner | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
reports. A controversial visit by the king | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
of a country racked this year by violence. By rain. -- King Hamad is | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
seeking Britain's help in implementing reforms. David Cameron | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
has urged him to act swiftly to prevent abuses. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
What we are looking for to move from dictatorship to democracy, to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
move forwards from a Prime Minister being in power for 40 years, to a | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
Prime Minister to being elected. That is what we are really willing | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
now to, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to discuss this | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
issue with that the king. In Bahrain, the protests and the | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
clashes with police and villages continue. Many protesters want an | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
end to the Sunni monarchy, but large parts of the population do | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
not. Ahead of the main opposition party -- the head of the main | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
opposition party, says he is ready for dialogue with the king. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
King Hamad, seen here receiving a damning report into human rights | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
abuses, tells the BBC he plans to invite in personal advisers from | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
all political parties, but most remain sceptical. Bahrain's | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Government was hoping that report would draw a line under the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
violence that has claimed around 40 lives, but political grievances | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
remain. This gulf state is now deeply divided between the Shia | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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opposition and those who support Thousands of Russians have taken to | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
the streets of Moscow in support of Vladimir Putin, facing calls to go. | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
The President, Dmitri Medvedev, announced on Facebook an | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
investigation into fraud allegations in the vote. But a | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
spokesman for Vladimir Putin said the allegations about the elections | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
eight days ago do not undermine the legitimacy of the vote or the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
result. Over the weekend, huge demonstrations were held in demand | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
or fresh elections and the opposition was planning another big | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
protest on 24th December. Meanwhile, one of Russia's richest businessmen, | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
Mikhail Prokhorov, has said he will challenge Mr Putin next March. We | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
are joined by G blogger -- a blogger who was in protest last | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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week. Fair to say that the protests are an urban phenomenon. Yes, it is | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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a natural phenomenon. People go to the streets, naturally. The point I | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
was making is that these are young people, for the large part, who are | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
on the internet, and not perhaps typical representative of the | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
Russian population at large. Yes, of course, because in Russian | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
protests, usually, they consist of pensioners. Young people do not | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
like politics. That is the common thing for the Russian population. | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
But now, when big things happen, old people have friends in the | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
social networks, or they subscribe to the main leaders' opinions. They | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
can read that something is happening and something is wrong. | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
And they are interested in politics, and involved. Vladimir Putin has | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
said there may have been some fraud, some irregularities, but he will | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
not accept calls for a fresh election. What happens from here? | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
To protests continued? Yes, I think protests will continue. -- do | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
protests continue. We're waiting for her the Communist Party, to see | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
if they will use the amendments, and then we can have free elections. | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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But I do not believe that they will refuse their deputy in the States | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
demands. Thank you for joining us. Unemployment has joined corruption | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
and poverty as the most talked- about topics across the world. In a | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
new BBC opinion poll, almost a 5th of the 11,000 respondents said that | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
they had discussed job losses with friends and family over the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
previous month. This week on BBC World used, we are looking at how | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
on employment has affected young people around the world, starting | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
in Italy where Ben Thomson has travelled from Tuscany in the north | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
to Naples in the South meeting young people facing a pretty | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
uncertain future. The city of Prato in northern Italy | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
is dominated by factories making textiles. They once employed | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
thousands of people. But the recession has not been kind. In | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
recent months, many factories like this one had been forced to close. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Italy, like Greece, Spain and Portugal, is in serious financial | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
difficulty. During the boom years of the 1980s, the government here | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
spent too much money, and now it has to pay that money back. For | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
students at the local college, that means jobs are hard to come by. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
think that when I finish my studies, I will have problems in finding | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
jobs because for young people, it is more difficult to find a job. | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
am going to go abroad because in Italy, there are not many jobs for | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
young people like us. The school's Head Teachers says the future looks | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
bleak. TRANSLATION: I am not worried only for my students, I | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
worried for the whole generation. I am a father, so why am very worried. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Travel south to the rural areas and the problem is much worse. This is | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Pompeii, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, an area traditionally | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
known for farming and agriculture. Unemployment here has always been | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
high but over the last few years, it has jumped, particularly among | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
young people between 16 and 24. The rate of employment is now the | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
lowest in Italy. Here, instead of protesting about the problems, they | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
are making music. They say it gives them a voice. TRANSLATION: I think | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
the economic crisis is really huge. But we have a weapon against the | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
economic crisis. It is music. Sometimes I do cash-in-hand jobs to | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
get money, but it is so difficult. It is all about who you know. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
want to leave Italy, but the crisis now engulfing Europe means that | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
finding a golf -- finding a job elsewhere could be as difficult as | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
finding one here. In our Paris studio, is a | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
representative from the European Youth Forum. His youth unemployment | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
any different from my general unemployment. -- his youth | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
unemployment any different from a general unemployment? Good evening. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
Youth unemployment has always been higher than regular unemployment. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
We have seen that since 1945. Since to designate, youth unemployment | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
has been accelerating at an alarming scale. -- since 2008. The | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
differences in be access to the labour market. The market is more | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
volatile and insecure in comparison to the previous times. Young people | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
today are much more mobile. They are better educated, they are more | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
driven and have more ideas that they want to put into new jobs, but | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
there are simply no jobs available, so there is a big difference | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
between winning young person wants to enter the labour market and | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
another regular person who is already in the market or has had | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
experience. It is the first job that is the main cause of problems. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
It is a difficult problem. It is a hard one to Salford. All the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
talking Europe is of extending the retirement age, and so on, so | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
people are obviously hanging on to their jobs. What does that mean for | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
young people? It is a major problem. As representatives of youth | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
organisations in Europe, we are more concerned about only focusing | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
on austerity measures. And not focusing on investing. You might | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
call me delusional, to call for investment in a time of crisis but | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
it is important for us that we do not focus on cutting in the wrong | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
places. If you invest in youth organisations and young people, | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
offering possibilities for young people to develop their talents, to | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
improve skills and capabilities, that will serve them on the labour | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
market, providing for them a quality internship, for them to | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
guarantee that within four months of leaving school they have the | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
possibility of training or a first job. That would very much of young | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
people on the path of becoming part of the labour market. We do not | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
believe that just because some people are going to have to work | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
more and harder in their late years, that that means that this means | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
that there will be no jobs for young people. There is not this | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
dichotomy. We are in favour of inter-generational solidarity. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
How is this for parental pressure? Especially for those of you with | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the challenge of getting children to school in the mornings, prepared | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
with a healthy packed lunch. Imagine if you tried to achieve the | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
very high standards of cuisine, but you also have to make it look good. | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
In Japan, it is not just about being healthy. The ancient Japanese | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
skills of food presentation had been brought to the humble school | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
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lunchbox. It is lunchtime at this | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
kindergarten in Japan. The children are eager to see what their parents | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
have made for them. In this country, a sandwich wrapped in tinfoil just | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
will not do. The packed lunch has been elevated to something nearer | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
an art form. At his table, there is some great ones. This is a teddy | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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bear and hollow Kitty. Next to this, there is a piano. This woman is an | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
acknowledged master of making character into boxes. -- dental | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
boxes. She gives lessons to other mothers. Is the competition among | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
others? -- is their competition among mothers. I feel that it is | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Sportsday, and the expectations are getting high. You know, you have to | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
sit next to other mothers, so I feel pressured. What else have you | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
done? The teacher has kept photographs of her best designs. | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
Who are these portraits? Michael Jackson. Harrison Ford. As Indiana | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
Jones, with the hat and stubble. How did you draw the stubble? | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
Little seaweed. And do you do this kind of character box every day | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
queue meant yes. That is very devoted. -- every day? Yes. I enjoy | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
doing it and the children enjoy it. Back in the kindergarten, lunch is | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
coming to a noisy end. It did not last very long, the colourful | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
characters, that took eight hours to make have been gobbled in a | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
matter of minutes. -- that took hours to make. | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
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More a work of art than a lunchbox. Yes, you have been hearing it, the | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
rumours are true. We are in for a stormy week of weather. Stormy | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
conditions starting tonight with heavy rain and strong winds. Later | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
this week, torrential Wayne -- torrential rain is forecast. This | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
weather front is moving through tonight, bringing heavy rain to | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
most places. It will be a wet start for the south-east. Windy for all | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
of us. Tomorrow, some of the strongest gusts are around exposed | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
coasts. Across the Pennines, we could see up to five centimetres of | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
snow. Further south, it is a windy afternoon with frequent showers. | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
There could be slush and sleet across the moors. Gusty winds in | :28:07. | :28:16. | |
exposed areas. Snow falling across the tops of Snowdonia and maybe the | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
Brecon Beacons. Across Northern Ireland, we are in the firing line | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
for strong winds. Blustery conditions starting to develop | :28:24. | :28:29. |