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This is BBC World News today with me, Zeinab Badawi. Crisis talks on | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Syria deliver a stern warning to the Government to implement a | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
ceasefire or face sanctions. Despite the absence of Russia and | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
China, Britain says progress has been made. A real determination to | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
tighten a diplomatic and economic stranglehold on the regime. The is | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
the Syrian government beginning to listen? The Red Cross says it is | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
negotiating in the City of Homs to evacuate the wounded. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
More protests in Afghanistan and Pakistan against the burning of the | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Koran at a US military base in Afghanistan. Will the anger | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
subside? The UN's nuclear watchdog says Iran | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
is increasing its Iranian -- uranium enrichment programme. Also | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
coming up, it is that time of year again. Hollywood's big weekend | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
starts now. We take a look at the foreign films that might be taking | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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home an Oscar. And how this South African music | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
legend boosted school attendance by returning at 60 years of age to | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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finish is studying. -- finish his studying. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Urgent talks aimed at stopping the violence in Syria have been taking | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
place in Tunisia. The International Conference has called on the Syrian | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
government forces to introduce a ceasefire immediately and allow aid | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
in or face a range of new sanctions. A official declaration is expected | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
shortly. -- an official declaration. In the last half-hour it has been | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
said that the Red Cross has been associating with the authorities | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
and opposition to evacuate those of urgent need of assistance in Homs. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
There are reports that the evacuation has begun. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Baba Amr in Homs today where Syrians are being shelled by their | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
own government. On one street, people gather to send a message to | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the conference in Tunisia to intervene. "Help us, militarily or | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
not a tall,'s says one banner. And more footage. Jubilant opposition | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
fighters with remnants of an armoured vehicle they say they | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
destroy it. They won the outside world to arm them. At the | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
conference in Tunis, the array of foreign ministers opposed to | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
President Assad is impressive yet even powerful countries like the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
United States have to admit that they are helpless to stop the | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
violence. The problem is, who is not in the Conference Room. Russia | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
and China refused to come, and without any allies of President | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
Assad, there is no way to getting to agree to a ceasefire. Outside, a | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
small, noisy protest of pro President Assad demonstrators | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
briefly disrupted proceedings, a reminder that not everyone is | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
against the Syrian President. Ever since Russia and China blocked a UN | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
presence -- UN resolution criticising Syria, the outside | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
world has been split. Until that changes, giving authority to do | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
anything in Syria will be very difficult. We have now reached the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
point where this is clearly a criminal regime. Yes, of course, | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
all our efforts so far, but the Security Council, trying to agree a | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
resolution, based on the Arab League plan, involving a cessation | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
of violence, those efforts have been frustrated by Russia and China. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
To tackle the violence in Syria there are no easy options. Any | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
ceasefire would need President Assad's consent, calling for | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
humanitarian corridor as is also tricky. They would need armed | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
protection. On the opposition could also be dangerous. It might just | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
make the bloodshed worse. -- arming of the opposition. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Meanwhile, it is a waiting game. As far as humanitarian aid goes, all | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
the conference can do is prepare for a future when Syria's Borders | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
will not be closed, by stockpiling a day in neighbouring countries and | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
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keeping up the diplomatic pressure. -- stockpiling aid. | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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A spokesman for the Syrian National Council joins us now. The SNC chief | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
has said that the conference does not meet the aspirations of the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
serene people. Why? We are looking for military support for the Syrian | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
people. We are calling for the international community to impose a | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
safe zone and a humanitarian corridor. There is no action, there | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
is no implementation, and there is no mechanism to put this idea on | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
the ground. This is why the Saudi minister of foreign affairs even | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
was upset by the outcome of the conference. This is the first time | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
you see that the Arab League is in advance of the international | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
community, in advance of the United States and Europe. The Arab League | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
is appealing for the international community to intervene and help us | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
here. You can see... If I can get some clarification from year, to | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
intervene and help the Syrian people. What kind of intervention | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
are you talking about? -- clarification from you. We are very | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
clear. We need to impose a limited no-fly zone above the designated | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
safe zone areas. At the same time, if the situation continues, the | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
international community has the right to create a humanitarian | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
corridor as and seek assistance for the cities in need. Light in Lech - | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
- Homs and other areas. We need to prevent civilians by all necessary | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
means. This is something the international community asked to | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
respond to. Can I ask you, have you been calling at the conference for | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
the Syrian National Council, before the opposition forces to be armed? | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
We are calling on the international community to help and support for | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Free Syrian Army. The only forces on the ground to were helping the | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
Syrians and protecting against them -- against the militia is the Free | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Syrian Army. But they have become the heroes of the Syrian people. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
This is why we have to help them and support them by arming them and | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
helping them by communication, to help them to organise themselves to | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
be in better shape. We see photographs coming from Baba Amr, | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
and other areas, where we are right side and we cannot help our | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
brothers. The only force is the Free Syrian Army and this is why we | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
need to support them and are on them. A thank you for joining us. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
We are also joined by Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow at the | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Royal United Services Institute. On the matter of the Syrian National | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
Council, William Hague says that it is time for them to be officially | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
recognised as one of the main representatives of the Syrian | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
people. Will that happen soon? think it will. There is immense | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
fear or that the fragmentation in the opposition groups will sabotage | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
any chance of a political transition. In a way, it legitimate | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
its President Assad's claimed that he has done so much to advance that | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
there is no alternative to the dictatorship. One of the urgent | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
demands is that the SNC not only solidify is its own internal | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
divisions but that it also settles once-and-for-all the issue of who | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
is the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The SNC has | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
competitors. Inside Syria, there are those who think that the SNC is | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
detached from the ground realities and any Western efforts to push the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
SNC above other groups as the only legitimate organisation is quite | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
risky. Within ACAS also described the regime as a criminal one. We | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
have also seen Hillary Clinton talking about the Syrian National | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
Council, asking them what they stand for. -- William Hague has | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
also described. Could you legitimately describe them with | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
farms? There is more scepticism here. There is more scepticism | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
about the SNC then there was about the transitional council in Libya | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
last year. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood is dormant in the SNC | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
and it is more or conservative and opaque than its counterpart in | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
Egypt, for example. There is concern over Sunni fundamentalists | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
to name be part of the general -- who may be part of the uprising. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Western governments are terrified that weapons provided will end up | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
in the arms of groups like Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Briefly, humanitarian | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
corridors. Apparently there are talks between the Red Cross and Red | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Crescent, is that a sign that the regime is softening? It is a sign | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
that it is making tactical concessions to avoid pressure. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
That you for talking to us. At least 12 people have been killed as | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
anti-American protests continue in Afghanistan over the burning of | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Korans at a US base. That means that 80 Afghans and two American | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
soldiers have died in four days of process. There have been anti-US | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
demonstrations in Lahore, Karachi, the Shala and Islamabad in Pakistan. | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
Earlier, NATO's top commander appealed for calm and restraint. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
As feared, protesters took to the streets after Friday prayers. | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
Denting their fury for a 4th day in a row. -- venting their fury. In | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
the city of Herat, religious leaders are accused of fanning the | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
flames and directing the violence. Police fired above four at | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
demonstrators who attacked a local Reconstruction Office, and tried to | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
reach the US consulate. There were protests around the country. In the | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
south-east, a NATO convoy went up in flames. That will please the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Taliban, who have been exploiting the Koran controversy, urging | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
Afghans to target NATO forces. General John Allen, NATO's taught | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
military commander, is trying to limit the fall-out. -- top military | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
commander. He made an emotional visit to a base where two US | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
visitors were killed by an Afghan colleague who sided with the | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
protesters. These other moments when you reach down inside and grip | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
the discipline that makes you a United States soldier. And you get | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
through the pain, and you get through the anger and you remember | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
why we're here. We're here for our friends. We're here for our | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
partners. We're here for the Afghan people. Among the Afghan people, | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
and the Afghan security forces, many are demanding tougher action | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
against the troops who burned their holy book. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
I asked this army commander on duty in Kabul what should happen to | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
those responsible. The TRANSLATION: Hang them. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Trouble flared in the capital, too, with protests in several districts. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Security forces struggled to control their own streets. Then the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
police did some burning of their own, taking down a white Taliban | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
flak and setting it alight. By nightfall, the death toll had risen | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
to a dozen. Having asked for forgiveness, NATO say they want to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
move on. This has been another day of protest and another day of | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
bloodshed. Tonight, security forces around the country remain on alert. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
So far, the angle on the streets has not been cooled by the | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
apologies from senior American military officials. Or from | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
President Obama himself. I've been talking to Martine Von | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Balart from the Afghanistan analyst network based in Kabul, and she | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
told us she did not believe that the protests would gain momentum. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Today was probably going to be the worst day of all because it is a | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Friday and it is the easiest to mobilise people, to get angry | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
crowds together. There was violence but there was also a lot of | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
restraint. The violence was limited to a few areas, and it actually | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
seems like it is somehow waning. If it continues like this, it will go | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
on for a few more days but it will probably not get much worse. NATO | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
is appealing for calm and saying to people, let's see what the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
investigation yields. If anybody is found guilty of misconduct, it is | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
highly unlikely that any punitive action will be taken against them. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
That is a problem. At the moment, people are letting themselves be | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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calmed down. By their leaders, by the Milans and by the Government. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
People do expect punishment, because they think that some huge | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
mistake has been made and an insult has been done. That will strut the | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
motions, but it will probably not be as he did and will not have the | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
same spark when it comes together. On the whole, you do not believe | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
that this incident is really going to have a long lasting impact on | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
military operations by foreign forces in Afghanistan, it's not | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
going to intensify opposition to their presence? It will not be like | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
that directly but it is very much part of a gradual decline in trust. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
People are really not sure why they are here and what their intentions | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
are. People find it difficult to believe that this was unintentional. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Are you surprised that after more than a decade of foreign troops in | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Afghanistan, that they are not better attuned to the cultural and | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
religious sensibilities of the people there? You would have hoped | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
it would have been better after 10 years but watching how the | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
international community functions, I can understand how it happened. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
The international community has been here for 10 years but they | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
have not accumulated the knowledge of 10 years. They seem to be | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
learning things over and over again. Or not learning it at all. It | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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The United Nations says the number of people displaced by fighting in | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
Mali has risen by almost 120,000. The fighting started last month | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
when it Tuareg fighters joined a group of rebels and attacked towns | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
and army bases. Doctors treating a member of the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Dutch royal family, Prince Johan Friso, say that she may never | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
regain consciousness following a skiing accident. He suffered | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
massive brain damage after being trapped in an avalanche last week. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
He is the second son of Queen Beatrix. | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
A retired British businessman, Christopher Tappin, has been | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
extradited to the United States following a long legal battle. He | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
is accused of conspiring to sell missile parts to our land. He has | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
always insisted she was the victim of an American sting operation. -- | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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And Iran has dramatically stepped up its efforts to produce higher | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
grade uranium enriched -- enriched uranium and has denied | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
investigators access to facilities. The conclusion will be seen | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
inevitably by many in the West as a defined move by Tehran and could | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
also increase alarm surrounding and an's nuclear ambitions. Joining me | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
now as a former or arms inspector who headed the United States search | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Charles, this report says | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
around has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium which will fuel | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
worries it has a weapons programme in the making. This is bad news and | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
frankly surprising because they would have thought and Iran would | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
want to drag out the negotiations progress. What the IAEA is | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
reporting is that is not only boosting its programme to develop | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
enriched uranium but it has refused to answer any questions surrounding | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
alleged Westernisation programmes, that is, activities specifically | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
designed for weapons. By not allowing the agency access to the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
facilities, the greatly add to the suspicion that in fact they have | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
taken the decision to build a nuclear weapon. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
The IAEA report says it has increased the number of centrifuges | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
and is prepared to expand at uranium enrichment. It will be | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
harder for and now it to deny that it is trying to develop nuclear | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
weapons. That is correct. It also contributes to the problem of | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
timing. The amount of time between when Tehran it takes an unambiguous | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
action that shows it can build a nuclear weapon to the time where | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
they can actually build a nuclear weapon is getting very short. It is | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
called the breakout time. As a result of this, the Israelis and | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
the Americans are becoming more pressurised to do something before | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
it is too late. This news from that IAEA, is that likely to intensify | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
calls for a tougher stand on an? From an Israeli perspective, | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
certainly. The Israelis believe, and I would not they have | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
experience in building clandestine nuclear weapons, but they are and | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
have called for the United Nations to speak on this on 5th March. Are | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
they going to allow more time to see what happens with sanctions? | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Apparently, the Iranians do not seem to be swayed by the sanctions | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
so far. Thank you for talking to us. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
A high school in the South African township of Soweto has seen a 20% | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
rise in attendance since a famous jazz musician return to school. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuse Plans to set his secondary school Certificate in | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
the coming months. He hopes to encourage youngsters from deprived | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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backgrounds not to abandon Among the biggest names in the | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
music business, Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuse. One of South Africa's | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
proudest exports and the international jazz scene. For him | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
even now, practises a priority, but so too is making up for lost time. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Not everyone gets a welcome like this but still a novelty, he is | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
returning to the classroom and a country where 50% of youngsters do | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
about the school before the 18th. Many of the kids here are his | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
neighbours. There frequently were the way -- he was lured away by | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
jazz, at a time when education was second at -- segregated along | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
racial lines. If they were not out of bounds, they were deliberately | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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ensure that schools only teacher and Afrikaans. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Now back and spared the uniform along with other mature students, | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
exams are just around the corner. What has inspired this musician to | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
return? The answer? The sight of barefoot children taking themselves | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
to school. When I went to families of these children, I found that | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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they were so impoverished it was It was just one of those | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
experiences that I could not believe people could live like that. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
The children were willing to go to school and that was encouraging. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
you think that was an experience that made you think I am going to | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
do something? Absolutely. This 60- year-old may be an inspiration as | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
his school has seen a 20% increase in attendance since he arrived, but | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
there are still 1 million youngsters and South Africa who | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
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have turned their backs and secondary education. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Education is one of the biggest hurdles in the new South Africa. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Despite a second chance for people like this, there is a younger | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
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He is a good skipper at 60! In Los Angeles, preparations are under way | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony. They principally on the English- | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
language pictures but one category is reserved for foreign language | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
films. A Belgian film is in the running. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
It is a dark crime drama setting is the backdrop of the illegal animal | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
growth hormone crate. Israel's entry into the Foreign Language | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Film category comes with a Footnote. It is a tale of father and son | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
scholars. For many foreign-language films, the nomination alone gives a | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
tremendous publicity boost to films which may have otherwise been | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
ignored. It creates more awareness and curiosity. It gives these were | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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the films a chance to stand out. The Holocaust has often been | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
nominated in the Oscars ceremony. Based on a real-life story, this | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
film chronicles the plight of a group of Jews in World War II: to | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
escape the Nazi is by a hiding in the sewers. Canada is up for an | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
Oscar with the French-language film set in a Montreal classroom, which | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
tells of an Algerian immigrant teacher whose children have been | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
nominated -- traumatised by the suicide of his predecessor. Los | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Angeles is the home to the largest Iranian population in North America, | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
more than 600,000 according to one estimate. Oscars night is turning | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
into a very big event indeed for many in this community because for | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
the first time in 40 years, an Iranian film is up for an Oscar. It | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
is called a separation and it may well win. It explores the clash | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
between social classes and the religious and non-religious -- the | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
non-religious and conflict resolution in Tehran. An Oscar | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
trophy would be viewed as a reward that could really help the | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
country's besieged film-making community. I cannot make any | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
predictions. Whatever happens to this film will make the cinematic | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
community very happy. A separation is viewed as the dumb to beat and | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
is seen as the favourite to win the Academy Award. -- film. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
Before we go, while we have been on air, the Red Cross in Syria say at | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
first Group of seven when the people have been evacuated from | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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Homs. That is all from us. Next, The last of our very mild air is | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
holding on across southern areas but it will slowly get squeezed | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
away as this cold front continues to move southwards. High pressure | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
builds from the West keeping most of our weather fronts at bay. | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
Saturday looks mostly nice. Some decent sunshine, particularly for | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
central and eastern areas. First Saturday morning, cloud comes in | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
from the south-west but we have the sunshine though it will be if | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
chilly start to the day. Temperatures recovering in the | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
sunshine. The winds will be lighter. Here, it is actually still feeling | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
pretty pleasant. South-eastern areas, highs of 13 Celsius, still | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
mild for the time of year. South- west England and parts of South | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
Wales will see the westerly wind continuing to feed in. Misty and | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
foggy conditions through Bristol and the Channel. Temperatures | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
slowly climbing into a high single digits. In Northern Ireland, after | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
a bright start, sky slowly cloud over from the West. Scotland are | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
still win the although perhaps not this promise today but it will | :28:11. | :28:16. |