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The man who had admitted killing seven people into loses shot dead | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
after a long stand-off. A round of gunfire, the sign French police are | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
storming Mohammed Merah's hideout. The gunman fires first, and is then | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
killed by commandos. The Blair asking how the government claimed | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
to have links with Belgrade or was not stopped before the killing | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
spree. An army coup in Mali, why have troops have a friend of | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
President due to stand down and a few weeks. Growing anger about the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
shooting of the 17-year-old from Florida unarmed when he died, why | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
has the men who shot him a month ago not been arrested? -- the Man. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
The worst of the debt crisis is over according to the head of the | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
European Central Bank. But try telling that to Portugal where | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
there has been a general strike in protest at the country's austerity | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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And the hunger for the next big film franchise. Will it pick up | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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were twilight left off? -- Twilight. An intense exchange of gunfire, and | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Mohammed Merah, the gunman suspected of killing seven people | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
in southern France, was dead. Holed up in his apartment in Toulouse for | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
more than thirty hours, French police were told to take Merah | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
alive but ended up shooting him in the head as he tried to escape. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
There are now questions about whether Merah worked alone and | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
whether the intelligence services could have caught him sooner. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Christian Fraser reports from the scene in Toulouse. Will act of the | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
dramatic siege. It was thought Mohammed Merah had taken his own | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
life in the early hours this morning but as police moved in to | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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clear the apartment they came the most intense round of gunfire. This | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
is Mohammed Merah flailing about in his car, he was a 23 rd criminal | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
with a string of convictions for robbery and violence. A French | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
citizen trained in Afghanistan who claimed he had orders from Al-Qaeda. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Four hours he had negotiated with police but late last night he told | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
police it was against his conscience to surrender and | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
communication stopped. There were attempts to break his resolve. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Several times flash grenades were thrown at the apartment but with no | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
response through the night the decision was taken to send in the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
elite commandos. They entered through the front, blowing off the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
door, and using specialist fibre optic cameras they picked their way | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
through the apartment, trying to locate Mohammed Merah. Until they | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
reach the balcony. Suddenly he appeared, armed with a Colt 45 | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
handgun and opening fire. Two policemen were injured. He advanced | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
out of the bathroom and jump from the window wearing a bullet-proof | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
vest and still firing wildly. But waiting for him was a police | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
marksman who shot him dead. Mohammed Merah had died exactly as | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
he wanted, in a ferocious stand-off with police, armed with a pistol. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
In three separate and brutal attack Mohammed Merah killed seven people. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Three soldiers from a parachute regiment and a Monday three | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
children and a rabbi at the Jewish school. -- on Monday. Police said | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
he confessed in negotiations and that his only regret was not | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
killing more. He had filmed as a tax, revelling in the gruesome way | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
in which he had executed each victim. -- of his attacks. He told | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
us he had been radicalisation prison, said the prosecutor, and it | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
started reading the Koran, but he showed no sign of fundamentalism, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
although he was violent with other prisoners and had attempted suicide. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
He had also travelled to Afghanistan alone and later | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
immersed himself in extremist website. He burgled houses to raise | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
enough money to buy an extraordinary arsenal of weapons | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
that were found in the boot of his Today Nicolas Sarkozy told the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
nation an inquiry is underway to find a gunman's compasses and every | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
person who goes on website which glorify terrorism, he said, will be | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
punished by law. Fourie president facing a battle for re-election it | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
is a successful conclusion. Throughout the week he has been | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
centre stage in this crisis, overseeing the biggest manhunt | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
France has ever known. But questions have been asked today by | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
his own Foreign Minister. How did the domestic intelligence agencies | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
lose track of such a violent criminal who had travelled to | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Afghanistan and was already on their radar as a dangerous | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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Joining us now is Thomas Withington, a defence analyst and editor of the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
G three defence magazine who also lives near by the scene of the | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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How did the police and intelligence services allow this to happen when | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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We need to bear in mind that possibly hundreds of thousands of | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
people are known to the intelligence services. The hard | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
thing is predicting those people who may be odd, bizarre, may hold | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
strange political beliefs would then be so motivated to go and | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
carry out these kind of acts of appalling violence. That is an | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
incredibly difficult thing to anticipate. To be fair to French | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
will Dorothy's it is still early days but in my own personal opinion | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
I feel they have acquitted themselves rather well today. This | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
was always going to be a very difficult operation. By their | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
nature anything involving commander special forces are complex and I | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
think they did a very good job and a difficult job. Over the next few | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
days and weeks I think that will be analysed in much more detail. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Campaigning in the presidential election has been suspended but | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
nevertheless we know and President Sarkozy has taken centre stage. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
What about the language used, he said this was the work of a monster, | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
a fanatic, how was that playing into the presidential campaign? | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
is interesting because the campaign prior to these terrible events had | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
been characterised by discussions of race, national identity, | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
religious practices. I tend to feel there is every chance this could | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
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now continue or increase. Marine Le Pen, for instance, has wasted no | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
time in capitalising on this. She said she had predicted these kind | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
of offence would take place. -- events. But in the political | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
landscape has changed for Sarkozy, he has to walk a tightrope. -- I | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
think the political landscape. He needs to be careful not to be | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
accused of capitalising on it for his own political ends. Let's not | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
forget there are still several weeks to run in this campaign yet | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
they say a week is a long time in politics, anything can happen. His | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
fortunes could be reversed and it is very difficult to predict. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
this case tell us anything about French society and howitzer | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
minorities are integrating -- how the minorities are integrating? | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
There has been questions regarding that. My feeling is it does not. We | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
have had the attacks in Madrid, London, Norway. It wasn't an | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Islamic Mick -- Islamic extremist. Most famously we had them in the US | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
in 2001. They multicultural societies and for me it does not | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
saving Dickie about the domestic landscape -- say anything about the | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
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domestic landscape in France but the dangers of extremism. Troops in | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Mali say they've overthrown the government of President Amadou | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Toumani Toure. The rebels have suspended the constitution and | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
closed all borders. The president is reported to be in an army | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
barracks in the capital, Bamako, protected by loyal troops. The coup | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
leaders have arrested a number of ministers and generals. Land-locked | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Mali is considered a relatively peaceful country, so there's been | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
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some surprise at developments there, This is the group of mutinous | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
soldiers who say they have ended the rule of the President and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
suspended the constitution. At 4:30pm local time this group of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
renegade soldiers appeared on state television to announce the end of | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
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what they called an incompetent In the name of the Armed Forces and | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
defence of Mali, in all its parts, we have decided to resume | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
responsibilities by putting an end to the incompetent and discredited | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
regime of Amadou Tory. This is the dramatic culmination of a traumatic | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
24 hours in Bamako. It started when soldiers took to the streets and | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
started exchanging fire. Translation macro we heard gunfire, | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
people started to run. We had no idea what was happening. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
President himself has fled the presidential palace and his | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
whereabouts are unclear. A8 read from his official accounts said | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
there is no coup in Mali, but it's just a mutiny. If he succeeds this | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
will add a new layer of insecurity to Mali, the spread of support for | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Al-Qaeda and a flood of weapons traffic from Libya since Mohammed | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Gaddafi. For weeks the army has appealed to the government for | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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better weapons to fight the event - This is the reason the soldiers | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
have given for the ecu... -- their coup. The President had already | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
agreed to stand down and the presidential election was due in | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
just under any month. The Borders have been closed, the soldiers say | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
they have arrested several ministers and top military officers. | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
A curfew has been declared and for the people of Mali, the big | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
question is who is in charge? The soldiers say they will hand power | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
to a new democratically-elected government. But they have not said | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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Joining the is a veteran journalist and writer who has been covering | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Africa for decades. Nice to see you, Cameron. This is very unexpected to | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
have happened in Mali, normally a trunkful -- tranquil place. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
extremely disturbing. A coup of mutiny is led by captain, they | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
started to call themselves the committee for this and that. This | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
reminds us of what happening -- what happened in Burkina Faso, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
junior officers. They always bring trouble. They are not united | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
themselves, they did not have experience -- do not have | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
experience. The President was not going to stand in those elections | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
anyway, so why try and do this? That is what is causing the biggest | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
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headache to people who want to When he came to power they said | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
what a nice guy, they made him an ambassador. So quite an exemplary | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
man? Absolutely. A so what is puzzling as to why they did it. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
They say he had not managed to stamp out the two month rebellion | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
in the north of Mali and that the situation was getting worse. Is | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
that just an excuse? Yes because the Tuaregs have been demanding | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
their territory for a long time. They are opposed -- they operate in | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
other places. They are getting more arms now? Absolutely. A lot of them | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
went to fight for Gaddafi so they have come back and that is another | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
subtext, we do not know if they have infiltrated the army and are | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
using these chaps as a front so they can set up a state where X | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Gaddafi people could be saved. thought the day of the army coup | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
was almost over in Africa but what you think will happen now in Mali? | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
I weep for Mali. This is the dry season and there is no food there, | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
no water, they already have 200,000 refugees as a result of the war. At | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
the political confusion and you have a catastrophe of immense | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
proportions. The economic Community of West Africa has condemned it, a | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
United Nations and everybody is making noises but they will leave | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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the people of Mali to themselves. Let's take a look at some of it | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
today's other main developments. A former commander of the Turkish | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
armed forces has gone on trial. He is charged with trying to overthrow | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
the government. He is the most senior Turkish military officer to | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
be tried in a civilian court. If found guilty, he could face of a 20 | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
years in jail. The UN Security Council has | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
demanded that troops be withdrawn from Syrian cities, but these | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
latest pictures, that have not been verified, reportedly shall | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
explosions and gunfire in Homs. In Italy, eight more bodies had | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
been found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner which | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
sank in January. The ship remains half submerged. But the latest | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
recovery brings the official death toll to 30. Two passengers remain | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
missing. A rally a dead by the US civil | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
rights campaign that I'll show up in it is due to take place in | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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Florida in a few years' time. -- Al Sharpton. George Zimmerman, who | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has not been arrested. This has | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
sparked a national debate about race relations and the right to | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
defence. A memorial to Trayvon Martin close | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
to the spot where he died. The 17- year-old, carrying a bag of | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
skittles and a drink, was shot here. The gated community take security | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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seriously but what happened here a Emergency calls from residents | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
captured the drama of the evening and left questions hang in the year. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
Who attacked whom and why did George them are often feel the need | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
to shoot? -- George Zimmerman. This town's African-American community | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
thinks it knows enough already and that this church, they have come | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
with stories of police brutality and corruption. It is really | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
getting out of hand. The shooting, they believe, is part of a long and | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
dishonourable tradition. Hannibal Duncan is as angry as the next | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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person and is not impressed with this community's response. At the | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
end of the day, we need a 21st century solution for a 21st century | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
problem. But for now, it is mostly about sound and fury. In a land | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
will on Wednesday, protesters carried out side this office. They | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
want George Zimmerman's licence revoked but feel that Florida's gun | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
laws at fault. An author and the subject believes there will getting | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
it wrong. People were very upset about the situation and | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
understandably so. They have a right to be, but it is not the law | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
that is the problem in this case. It is whether George will -- George | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Zimmerman acted lawfully or unlawfully. For the rally was due | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
to be held in a nearby church but organisers have moved it here | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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because they feel there will be a big turnout. Al Sharpton But | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
emotions are all here and he may wish to tread carefully. | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
I am joined by the Professor of Law at the University of California. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Florida's law is very expansive. It says that someone does not have a | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
duty to treat if they're confronted with danger, but goes further. They | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
are not only allowed to stand their own ground but to protect others, | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
even by using violence forced to prevent a burglary. Is it that | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
badly drafted law? Is it not clear what is allowed in terms of self- | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
defence? No problem is that where it is clear that allows too much | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
self defence. It allows people to be vigilantes not just to defend | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
themselves but other people and even other people's property. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
this go further than other laws governing self-defence in other | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
states in America, in that it encourages vigilantes? It does. | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
Other laws have similarly brought laws but Florida's among the most | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
brought in the nation. Most would require you to retreat from some | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
kind of dangerous threat and do not allow you to try to stop someone | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
from committing a felony. When it comes to this particular case, I | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
suppose you are limited in how far you can pronounce on it because the | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
exact details and circumstances are not yet known. We do not know all | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
the facts of this case but one thing that has become pretty clear | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
is that people are out there on the state with guns more than ever in | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
America. They may not have adequate training to know what the law | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
allows and when they should not be using deadly force. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
The line is a little unstable but we heard nearly all of what he had | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
to say. The president of the European | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Central Bank, Mario Draghi, says the worst of the eurozone debt | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
crisis is over. He acknowledges issues still exist but says it is | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
now up to national governments to deal with further problems. People | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
and Portugal have been holding a general strike today in protest at | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
the austerity measures imposed. The government's programme is having a | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
profound effect on many families and Portugal. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
This is a middle-class suburb on the edges of Lisbon. This woman | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
last with an 84-year-old mother and her a living year-old son. She is a | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
civil servant. In the past few months, have already modest | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
earnings have dropped by one quarter. She now relies on basic | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
food handouts from her son's school. She says public sector workers like | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
her are being hit too hard. A few doors down, we meet a teacher | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
married to another teacher. They're both earning less following | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
government cuts. I do not think it is right because I have less money | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
to spend but I think it is necessary because we have left be | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
on their capacities. Across the road, one of many small plots of | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
land dotted around Lisbon. As tax increases, food is more expensive, | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
and now more people grow their own. At the local school, the head | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
teacher says family's who where not long ago the new rich are now the | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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new poor. He says violent behaviour has risen and more children now | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
arrive in the morning without having eaten breakfast. One obvious | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
effect of the eurozone crisis is that countries like Portugal have a | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
shrinking public sector. While some argue that the scale of the | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
government's cuts are starving the economy of a vital source of growth, | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
others are seeing the crisis as an opportunity for a more efficient | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
form of government. That is the mission of the government which was | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
voted in last summer. Portugal is on track to get its public finances | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
in order. If you look at our economy, we need to get our | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
judicial system quicker, we need to get a tax system less volatile and | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
more consistent. We are working hard to build more companies and | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
that is the secret of economic growth. There is no magic about it. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
There is a new acceptance in Portugal. Many believe a short | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
painful period of adjustment will set the scene for future growth. | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
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One of the most eagerly awaited films of the Year will open in | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
thousands of cinemas around the world on Friday. The Hunger Games | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
is released. It is an adaptation of the best-selling dark, future young | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
adult novel. Hollywood will hope it is a powerful new franchise. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
The Hunger Games is finally about to open in cinemas in some 50 | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
countries around the world. This week, fans had been camping out | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
overnight hoping to see the stars of a film they cannot wait to see. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
It is so exciting and I cannot wait. I bought the tickets the minute | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
they went on sale. I am counting down. The Hunger Games is set in a | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
futuristic, post-apocalyptic vision of North America where children | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
from different districts compete in a fight to the death in a televised | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
spectacle. You're not sitting and wanting these children to fight. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
You are seeing a situation of child abuse were reality television has | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
gone very bad. The Hunger Games as an adaptation of the first volume | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
of a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. More than 26 million The | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
Hunger Games related titles and in a publication in America alone. | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
With the end of the Harry Potter films and their Twilight films, | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
there is a need for a powerful new money-making franchise. It is hoped | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
The Hunger Games will deliver. It is a franchise with the potential | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
to be brought, bringing not just in the target he audience but also | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
adults drawn to the subtext. We are living in a voyeuristic culture | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
where some time people's pain and violence as glorified for under 10 | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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it. Adults to read it can perhaps see these parallels. Fans of the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
book won't go and see this film in droves but what about the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
uninitiated? To some, The Hunger Games is seen more as a triumph of | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
hype and marketing as opposed to the art of cinema. Although it has | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
won some strong reviews, not all critics have been engaged. There | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
was a lot of stuff in the films which seemed like it was just in | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
there because it was in the bricks. Whereas I, and neophyte to this | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
whole world, was left wondering what the point of it all was. | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
Across continents, hordes of fans and you waiting to see the film. In | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
North America, it is expected to draw in as much as $100 million in | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
its first weekend. Looks very exciting. Let's remind | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
you of our menus. The death of the French gunman, Mohammed Merah, has | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
ended the immediate drama into his. The whole affair remains -- of | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
leaves many questions unanswered. - - Toulouse. It is still unclear | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
what the impact of the case will be on the French presidential campaign. | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Tensions remain high and the Mali capital of a Mackle after a good of | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
rebels say they seized power overnight in a military coup. That | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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is often the programme. Next is a Today in the sunshine temperatures | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
climb to 19 Celsius. Overnight, more clout and a repeat performance | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
tomorrow, turning warm when they get that sunshine. High pressure | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
dominates to the east but we will see some scattered showers here. | :27:49. | :27:58. | |
First thing on Friday, a fairly cloudy start. That will break-up | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
and through the afternoon, sunshine and temperatures bouncing back. | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
There is still the risk of the gentle easterly breeze bringing in | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
some cloud but where it doesn't, as in London, we could hit 20 Celsius | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
on Friday afternoon thanks to the sunshine. In the south-west, a much | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
dire day. Wales gets off to a cracking the and stays that way | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
throughout, but through the West Midlands there is the chance of | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
some showers. Cloudy in sherry to start for Northern Ireland, died in | :28:36. | :28:39. |