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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. The end of the | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Arab League mission in Syria? Where Saudi Arabia led other gulf states | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
follow. Damascus brands it a mounting | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
foreign conspiracy claiming the pull out will have no effect on the | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
security crackdown. They are free to go to New York or | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
the moon. As long as Syria doesn't pay for their ticket. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Choppy times ahead - the IMF slashes its growth forecast for the | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
world's economies most of the blame it says lies with the eurozone. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Nigerian security forces carry out raids in the northern city of Kano, | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
hunting suspected supporters of the Islamist group Boko Haram. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Also coming up in the programme - the race for the White House moves | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
up a gear. President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
address telling voters why he deserves a second term as the | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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Republican candidates slug it out And Hugo leads the field for the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Oscars, with eleven nominations. We look at the contenders for | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Hello and welcome. The Arab League peace mission to Syria looks on the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
verge of collapse today as more countries decided to pull out. The | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
five remaining members of the Gulf Co-operation Council followed the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
lead of Saudi Arabia, which withdrew on Sunday, saying Syria | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
wasn't respecting any agreements. The Syrian response was defiant - | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the country's foreign minister claiming there was a conspiracy | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
against his country. From Beirut, Jim Muir reports. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Isolated and under pressure but still defiant. For the Syrian | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
foreign minister, what is happening at the Arab League are part of a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
plan. He said it was not surprised some of the Arab states ignored the | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
report of the Arab observers because they did not like what it | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
said. I criticise the report in advance that we would not accept | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
because it is a blatant resolution that harms Syria's sovereignty and | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
it's an interference in internal affairs. The Arab observers have | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
been on the ground in different parts of Syria since late December. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Their report to the Arab League has not been published but the League | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
voted to extend it for another month and give it more money. The | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
commander of the observer mission so the violence was reduced after | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the monitors arrived and blamed armed rebels for opening fire on | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
checkpoints prompting them to shoot back. Actor this dispute that a | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
version of events saying in many places security forces are still | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
shooting at demonstrations at funerals and hundreds have died. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
With the other Gulf states following the Saudi Arabia lead and | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
pulling out of the mission, the trend seems to be towards the UN. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
The Arab League has asked for a meeting with the Secretary-General | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
but like the Arab League the Security Council is currently | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
divided with Russia and China opposed to veto any moves against | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Syria. It all adds up to mounting pressure on Damascus but the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
foreign minister appeared confident it can ride out the storm. Syria, | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
he said, does not tremble in the wind. Joining me now from | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Washington is Ali Al-ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
Affairs. Does this mean this peace mission is doomed? | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
I think the peace mission will continue but without the most | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
important factor in the Arab League which is the Gulf block that has | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
been the driving force behind initiating action against Syria. | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
The Gulf countries see this as part of a war and I underline the word | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
which has been used by a Saudi mouthpiece, the Gulf countries | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
including Saudi Arabia, war with the Iranian regime, so is a front | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
in the war. They would like to wrestle away the -- Syria away from | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the Iranian alliance or access in the region which has been very good | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
for the Iranians in terms of them are projecting their influence in | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
Arab countries like Lebanon and the Palestinian issues. So such a | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
raider would like to make this International, that will not be | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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accepted by Damascus -- Saudi Arabia. There is an irony, the GCC | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
are leading a counter revolution in Bahrain and in Yemen while | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
simultaneously supporting revolution in Syria. It's not about | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
democracy, it's about realigning the political ground in the Middle | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
East in favour of the GCC Alliance and its other Arab allies by | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
weakening and toppling the regime in Syria which has been a strong | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
ally of Iran. Syria is a battle front with Iran. It is not the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
target but Iran is the target. Where do you see things developing | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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now? I think there will be a great amount of pressure on the Russians | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
to stop all not to veto any UN Security Council action against | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
Syria. China apparently has received some type of a bright last | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
week, the Chinese president was in Riyadh and he was given assurances | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
of supply of oil to China and I think there is also today we had an | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
announcement of a 9 billion dollar refinery which will be built in | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
China, funded by Kuwait. There are incentives for China from the GCC, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Russia has yet to receive such incentives and the price is not yet | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
right for Russia to stop supporting the Syrian government. On the | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
question of arms, Russian arms are pouring into Syria, what other Gulf | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
states doing behind the scenes with the Syrian Free Army? From the | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
beginning Saudi Arabia has supported the Syrian opposition, | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
dedicated a leading television channels to support the revolution | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
in Syria, they are armed groups in Syria which have been supported | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
directly with weapons and communications, tools and equipment, | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
from Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. This is a war, really. | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
It is a proxy war between Iran and the GCC. This is basically... It | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
should be called a war because people are dying, both sides have | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
weapons. We must leave it there. Thank you | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
for joining us. Now a look at some of the day's other news. Egypt's | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
military ruler has announced a partial lifting of the country's | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
decades-old state of emergency from Wednesday. Field Marshal Tantawi | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
said it would still apply in dealing with crimes committed by | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
"thugs", the label the military has often given to the organisers of | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
anti-government protests. The move came on the first anniversary of | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
the popular uprising which ousted President Hosni Mubarak. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Turkey has condemned as discriminatory and racist a bill | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
passed by the French Senate which makes denial of the Armenian | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
genocide a crime. It has vowed to punish Paris with retaliatory | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
measures if French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose right-wing | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
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UMP party initiated the bill, signs it into law. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Russia has announced that its peacekeeping troops and helicopters | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
are to be withdrawn from South Sudan by April 1st. It's a severe | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
blow to the United Nations' operation in the area, since it | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
relies on the helicopters to move personnel and supplies around the | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
country. The IMF has slashed its growth | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
forecast for most major countries downgrading world growth by 0.8%. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
The main reason is because of the crisis in the year resign but the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
IMF is predicting a recession in Italy and Spain. The IMF urged | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
governments to encourage growth and are just what it described as the | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
rhythm of austerity. More bad news for the eurozone from | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
the IMF. Global economic recovery is under threat because of strains | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
in the euro area. The eurozone economy is forecast to shrink by | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
0.5% in 2012. Food for thought for ministers and officials meeting in | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
Brussels. They cannot argue with the figures. The economic slowdown | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
continues and several factors point towards a moderate recession in the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
first half of this year. Which makes it all the more important to | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
get some kind of good news out of Greece. Another Herculean task. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Talks between the Greek government and banks which agreed to write off | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
50% of the Greek debt they hold are stuck on the issue of how much | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
interest Greece will pay on the debt which remains. The European | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
ministers say there's no point in a deal unless agreed payments come | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
down to a sustainable level in the long term. That also means Greece | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
itself needs to push through a more austerity. It's quite clear the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
implementation increase has failed. When it comes to structural reforms, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
fiscal reform, they have not delivered. The ministers have been | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
discussing the new fiscal treaty for the eurozone which Britain | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
refused to be part of. The text is due to be finalised at the European | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
summit next Monday. When the EU leaders meet they want to talk | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
about growth and employment across the Union. Today's figures show | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
just how important that is. With a much greater economic growth, the | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
eurozone cannot escape from the crisis. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Nigerian security forces claimed to have arrested 160 members of an | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Islamist sect during dawn raids incarnate. According to residents, | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
a man and his wife were killed in a gun battle after forces surrounded | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
a suspected hideout. The group has claimed responsibility for last | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
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week's attacks that killed at least Nigeria is in trouble. Soldiers on | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
the streets and communities torn apart by violence. These are | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Christians who have fled their homes in the Muslim-dominated north | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
of the country. A militant Islamist group Boko Haram gave them three | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
days to leave or else. Two days after the deadline they started | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
killing and shooting and bombing and that is what the left. You're | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
scared? Yes. We are scared and that's what the left. Who do you | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
blame? The government. They cannot protect us. Boko Haram is not just | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
targeting Christians. The ruins of a police station in the northern | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
city. At the weekend militants killed almost 200 people here. It | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
amounts to a declaration of war against Nigeria's secular | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
government. This was an extremely well planned, well orchestrated | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
assault with devastating results. The evidence suggests Boko Haram is | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
fast evolving from what was a fairly local menace into a full- | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
scale insurgency. So far, the Government's response has been a to | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
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flounder and plain Al-Qaeda. These attacks are quite new. It is an | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
ugly face. The violence has horrified most Muslims. But in the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
impoverished North people do feel let down by leaders and | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
marginalised. Boko Haram is exploiting it. Most of the | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
unemployed on the streets, no jobs, it is a sad situation. Boko Haram | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
is a symptom of the neglect? Yes. A vast increasingly polarised country | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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braces itself for more violence. President Obama is giving his | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
annual State of the Union address in Washington as the pitches for a | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
second term in office. In this crucial election year the heat is | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
on for President Obama and Republican candidates hoping to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
stand against him. In a row over a transparency, mitt Romney has | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
revealed his tax records, will the details of his vast wealth help or | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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hinder his chances for the The years is a healthy salary. But | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
with the economic equality playing such a big part, how bad will that | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
affect him? Generally, in America, people don't mind other people | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
making large sums of money, and that is certainly particularly true | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
of the Republican Party. There have been lots of wealthy Republican | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
candidates. What Mitt Romney has got in trouble for is not so much | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
the amount of money has, but how his campaign has handled the issue | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
of his wealth, particularly on his tax returns. It has been a tricky | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
day for Mitt Romney in his race to challenge President Obama. That is | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
after those tax records were released. They show he received $45 | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
million in income over the last two years. He paid $6.2 million in tax, | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
an effective tax rate of 13.9 % in 2010. His tax rate is below most | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Americans, who pay up to 35 % of their income in tax because much of | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
his income comes from capital gains on investments. His records also | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
show that over the past three years he gave $7 million to charity, | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
about half of that to the Mormon Church. Republicans have been quick | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
to defend Mitt Romney on his tax issues and say he did nothing | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
illegal with his tax returns and they are above board. And that | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
American support the idea that investment income should be at a | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
low tax rate because then it is reinvested in the economy and | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
stimulate growth. On the other hand, Democrats have leapt upon this to | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
say it is another sign of unfairness and you cannot have | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
people this wealthy paying less tax than the average American. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
President Dibaba's state of the Union address tonight. -- President | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
Obama. How ambitious can he be? will reiterate this, on the idea of | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
fairness, that there is a need for greater fairness in the American | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
economy and for wealth to be more evenly distributed. He is going to | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
mention the idea that some people have large sums of money, the top | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
1%, and the idea of inequality and the Occupied movement we have heard | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
of. There will be a populist appeal to the American voters to say I am | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
on your side and that he will stand up for the middle class of America, | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
implicitly drawing comparison with the Republicans, who the Democrats | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
say stand up for the wealthy in America. In conversations I've had | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
in the last couple of days with senior White House officials, the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
one thing they have said is that the President does not want to make | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
any explicit reference to the Republican race. As one official | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
said, they do not want to put Barack Obama as on the same planet | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
as the Republicans who are running for the nomination because they do | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
not want him to be wading into that fight. And we will be covering the | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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state of the Union address later. The Spanish Judge who indicted the | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, has gone on trial. Judge | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Baltasar Garzon is accused of breaking an amnesty law by | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
attempting to investigate alleged human rights abuses committed | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
during Spain's civil war and during the dictatorship of Franco that | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
followed. From Madrid, Tom Burridge reports. | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
Today, hundreds gathered outside the Spanish Supreme Court. Many | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
held pictures of loved ones who had gone missing. And Spain's dictator | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
-- when it Spain's dictator Franco was in charge. They were here to | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
support the judge she was now on trial. One woman says her parents | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
were killed by fascists after the Spanish Civil War. She told me the | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
judges her only hope -- is her only hope. His trial is a disgrace as | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Spain has not resolve its problems from the past. He is being tried | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
for investigating alleged human rights abuses carried out under the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
regime of General Franco. The case will focus on the Spanish amnesty | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
law set up after Franco died so that Spain could move on. And the | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
outcome will determine whether crimes of the past could be | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
investigated in the future. But there are many others like this man | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
who was strongly opposed to investigating crimes from Spain's | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
pass. His organisation launched a prosecution against the judge. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Undoubtedly he has opened old wounds which people of all | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
political colours in Spain had overcome and moved on from in the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Franco regime. You have to take into account that the judge is from | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
the left. The case is putting the international spotlight on Spain. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Human rights lawyers came here to attend a trial, which they say is a | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
blow to democracy and human rights. Courts around the world has said | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
you cannot use amnesty laws to prevent the investigation of the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
crimes of previous dictatorships. And yet, when he says in Spain that | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
he is not going to apply amnesty to the crimes, he is being prosecuted. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Some in Spain will never agree to forget. In many ways, the country | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
has moved on. But there is still an underlying political tension here. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
That is over what has happened in the past. And this trial of the | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
country's best-known judge has The story of a 12-year-old orphan | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
in Paris has topped the nominations for this year's Oscars. Hugo, the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
3D adventure film by Martin Scorsese, is up for 11 awards | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
including Best Picture and Director. Hot on its heels is the French | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
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silent film the Artist, with ten This morning we will share the news | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
we have all been waiting for. seems nothing more matters in | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Hollywood than this. The Oscars have always been the most formal | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
awards ceremony as well as the most prestigious. And in the melee of | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
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names, if you stood out. Hugo. The Descendants. The Artist. In all, | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
The Artist picked up 10 nominations including best picture, director | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
and actor. Descendants took five and is a favourite for best picture, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
as is Hugo, nominated in 11 categories, most of them technical. | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
For best actor, George Clooney goes up against Brad Pitt. And the best | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
British hope lies with Gary Oldman for his role in Tinker, tailor, | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
soldier, Spy. Meryl Streep's portrayal of Margaret Thatcher is a | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
favourite for Best actress. She is up against Michelle Williams and | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
viola Davies in The Help. The entertainment reporters managed to | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
rev up their excitement. Rye now it is all about Hugo. Despite the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
announcement being made before dawn in LA. That was so it would hit the | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
American breakfast shows. If The Artist wins Best Film it will only | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
be the second time a silent movie has won the top prize since Wings | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
won the first ever best picture award in 1929. It is the No. 1 | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
contender right now because everybody has a crush on it. They | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
are delighted with it. But there are big reservations about whether | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
it is really an Oscar-winner for best picture. George Clooney has | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
never won an Oscar for best leading actor. His Golden Globe has tipped | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
the odds in his favour for The Descendants. And it would be Brad | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Pitt's first asked if he won as well. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
was ignored by the Golden Globes. But the film gives Gary Oldman and | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
his first ticket to the awards which will be held on the last | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
Sunday in February. Joining me now is film critic Jason Solomons. Hugo | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
and The Artist, there is a big theme of nostalgia. In the age of 3 | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
D, and all that technology, but you go to the cinema and these are | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
about the beginnings of cinema, silent cinema and what she could do | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
in the old days without technology. Strange that the academy who kind | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
of push forward the arts and motion picture science is are going back | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
to other eras when blockbusters are what is dominating the cinemas. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
blackout is intentional, there is not a problem with the club. This | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
is you go, and it is up for a lot of technical awards. It is | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
nominated his -- in almost every technical category. It is | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
extraordinary, and that is where it will find its victories. The | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
cinematographer he is also superb. Interestingly it is about lo-fi | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
technology and the beginning of the silent era. But it is pushing | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
forward 3D and is probably the best one ever made. The is has gone in | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
as the leading contender, but just be kind it with 10 nominations is | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
The Artist, which I saw at the weekend, and it is charmingly | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
brilliant. I think it is clever, charming, funny. Ultimately it is | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
very moving. It is a love story and I think it reminds us why we fell | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
in love with films in the first place. It is beautifully shot and | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
has a great knowing wink. He knows what it is doing but it is not | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
gimmicky or a sketch of a pastiche of those built. It tips a wink, but | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
it knows it is doing it now. These are French and nones are worth -- | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
have crept into Hollywood -- French unknowns. He was in a children's TV | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
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series. Unknown in France, but like the comedian here. In France they | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
find it a bit strange. We have been kinder to the film because it stars | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
him. They are now embracing it. I think that is the one that will | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
come out the winner. I think it will be the first silent winner | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
since 1927 and the first French winner of Best Picture ever. That | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
was nearly 100 years ago. It is a difficult trick to pull off, but it | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
does it beautifully. Not a great deal of time, but The Descendants, | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
how many is that up for? BT's five, and I think it will win for George | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Clooney is performance. He has been nominated three or four times and I | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
think this is the one that will win it. A lovely performance that | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
balances laughter and tears. But Dad coming to terms with his wife | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
being in a coma and he finds that she has been unfaithful. P rains | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the performance in. It is quite subdued for a comic performance and | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
he does it very well. Wall -- warhorse, huge promotion, dating | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
back to the First World War. Yes, a period piece and an old-fashioned | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
movie harking back in National Velvet and those John Ford westerns. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Lyrical passages. I think it is very well done. I don't think he | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
has magic in it which is what people take from the stage show, | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
but the war scenes are excellent. Spielberg is clearly a fantastic | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
film maker and he deserves six nominations. We need a popular film | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
at the top should -- Oscars. Jason, we are out of time. We will see | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
what happens in Fairbridge. That is it from us. From me and the team. | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
It was a cold day across the country with plenty of cloud and | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
rain through the night and we keep the cloud and it is another cloudy | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
story for tomorrow. But it will be quite mild and also fairly breezy. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
We are beginning to see a weather front moving in off the Atlantic | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
bringing with it another band of rain to the north and the West. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Ahead of that we have damp and drizzly conditions and mist and fog | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
first thing in the morning. By the time we get to the afternoon we | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
might see glimmers of brightness across the North-East. But it will | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
be fairly overcast and at least temperatures into double figures | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
through the afternoon. The top temperature in London of 11 degrees | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
and for many it should be dry and another cloudy affair. Across | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
south-west England week should see patchy and light rain with a top | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
temperature of 10 degrees. A bit of a breeze in the south-west, | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
especially around the coast and for Wales we have like rain on and off | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
through the afternoon. Some heavy rain moving into Northern Ireland | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
accompanied by strong and gusty winds. It is also wet and we speak | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
-- windy for western Scotland. We might see some brakes and a cloud | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
in the morning giving some brighter spells. Through the evening the | :28:13. | :28:17. |