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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I'm Alpa Patel, here are the headlines: | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A fresh controversy at football's world governing body - | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
as one of it's top anti-corruption officials resigns. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Domenico Scala says reforms are bing undermined. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The United Nations expresses alarm at the growing links | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
between Boko Haram and the so-called Islamic State. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says Sunni extremists | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Let the Eurovision Song Contest begin! CHEERING | :00:33. | :00:45. | |
And the entertainment extravaganza that is the Grand Final | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
of the Eurovision Song contest - it's underway in Sweden, | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
The governing body of world football, FIFA, has been hit | :00:54. | :01:10. | |
by fresh turmoil after one of its leading anti-corruption | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
It's in protest at changes - he says will undermine | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Domenico Scala said his resignation was a "wake-up call" | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
FIFA says he has misinterpreted the situation. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Domenico Scala was one of those tasked with rescuing football's | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
world governing body after the biggest | :01:34. | :01:34. | |
But his resignation has simply plunged it into fresh turmoil. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Scala claims new powers could mean those responsible for the ethics | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
of the organisation may be appointed and fired | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
by the Fifa council themselves, and that's something he claims | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
So what he's saying is, if he can now be sacked | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
by this small committee, then actually these people | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
He is meant to be overseeing their behaviour, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
in fact what they're doing is they are neutering his power. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Domenico Scala had been central to the anti-corruption | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
In November 2014, he was tasked with examining a key report | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
on corruption in the bidding process for the World Cup. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Within seven months, Fifa President Sepp Blatter | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
Scala was then appointed to chair the taskforce in charge | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Now he is gone, with a claim that all the reforms to the sport's most | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
powerful organisation are in danger of being destroyed. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
An accusation the Fifa Council strongly deny. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
It insists that Domenico Scala has misinterpreted the purpose | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
of the decision and that it fully respects their independence. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
For a president only three months into his job, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
this is perhaps the last thing that Gianni Infantino needs. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
With US prosecutors continuing their investigations | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
and watching on with interest, this week's congress was hoped | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
to mark a fresh start, but already the integrity of this | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
new-look Fifa has been questioned by one of those meant | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Mark Palios is the former Chief Executive of the English | :03:07. | :03:25. | |
Football Association and he joins me now. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
What is your take on the resignation and the motives behind it? It is | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
disappointing, Diva has been mired in corruption scandals for many | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
years now, and to me it seems it is more of a clumsily handled attempt | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
to put in pragmatic changes rather than a real concerted effort to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
subvert the reform process -- Fifa. The disappointing thing that has to | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
be answered as a man of Scala's stature, who's been instrumental in | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
laying out reforms, it has looked good to outsiders can he has decided | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
to go. You spoke about Scala's stature, he has been an important | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
figure as far as anti-corruption, where does it leave this effort? I | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
think they've got the damage and had to explain what they mean by what | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
their motives were, for putting this change in place. It is interesting | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
to see that one of the joint chairs of the ethics committee, he has not | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
taken the stance of Scala and has decided to stay, as has the other | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
joint chair. I would not be surprised if Fifa come out and say | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
this is an attempt to be practical and put in interim appointments if | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
we need to, to wait a year for change in Congress, it is too long | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
to wait. At the end of the day, they will still go forward with reforms, | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
I believe that is what they will do. How does it look for the new | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
president only three months into the job and trying to win back trust | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
after damaging scandals? I'm surprised, if I'm right, and it is | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
really more of a clumsily handled situation, they should have | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
consulted with Scala and made sure he was comfortable with what is | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
being said, I'm sure there would have been ground capable of being | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
achieved and compromise, nothing has happened like that, it seemed it was | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
rushed through in the Mexican Congress, now Scala has gone. Is | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
disappointing for a man who is supposed to be experience, having | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
been top of Uefa, the largest Congress. He should be an | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
experienced guy who should not make mistakes like this. Thank you. | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
The French President, Francois Hollande, has told a summit | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
in Nigeria that Boko Haram militants remain a threat despite "impressive" | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
Speaking at the international gathering in Abuja, he said | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
the militants had been "diminished and forced to retreat". | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
The UN Security Council has spoken of its alarm at growing ties | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
between Boko Haram militants from Nigeria and the so-called | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
African and Western leaders have gathered for talks | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. | :06:14. | :06:14. | |
The aim - create a more co-ordinated regional military | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
With increased Western assistance, too. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
And to do more to help those affected by the conflict. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
There is concern about growing links between Boko Haram | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
and the Islamic State group, or Daesh. | :06:29. | :06:40. | |
Boko Haram is the world's deadliest terrorist group. France is very | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
alert and knows very well about their actions in Iraq and Syria. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Boko Haram hit world headlines two years ago when more than 200 girls | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
But millions of others have lost their homes, been | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
The Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, promised to defeat | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
the Islamists before the end of his first year in office. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
That year runs out in two weeks' time. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
Boko Haram has grown in regional capabilities. They have taken large | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
territories of sovereign countries, and put into flight millions of | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
people. It will take far more than a summit | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
to see them defeated. Reports from Syria say | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
that IS fighters are attacking a hospital complex in the eastern | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
city of Deir al-Zour. Activists say that IS has | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
killed some 20 members of pro-government forces around | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
the Al Assad Hospital and have taken The group controls half | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
the city, and has beseiged districts for two | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
years - trapping some Islamic State is believed to control | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
more than half the city but the objective is to seize it completely. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
The Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah says | :08:11. | :08:36. | |
at least three people have been killed at one of Russia's largest | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
cemeteries. 200 people were said to have been involved in the fighting | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
Russian news agencies Russian news say - | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
from the northern Caucasus region and migrants from central Asia | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
A pioneering Italian fertility doctor has been arrested, | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
after a woman alleged that he'd forcibly removed eggs | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Severino Antinori, who's helped women in their 60s to conceive, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
has been placed under house arrest and banned for a year | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
The complaint is rejected by his lawyers. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Police in Bangladesh say a Buddhist monk in his seventies has been | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
hacked to death in the south-eastern district of Bandarban. | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
It's the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
and secular activists over the last three years. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Many Bangladeshis have accused the government of not doing enough | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come: | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
giant Pfizer takes action to stop its drugs being used | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Here in the UK, the two camps in the EU referendum battle | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
have staged new events to try to rally support. | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron said the country would take an "immediate | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
and sustained hit" if it decides to leave. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
But former London mayor Boris Johnson, who wants to leave, | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
said the UK could "prosper, thrive and flourish" | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
it is in our national interest, it is in our economic interest to stay | :10:03. | :10:16. | |
inside a reformed European union. If we vote to leave, on the 23rd of | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
June, we will be voting for higher prices, we will be voting for fewer | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
jobs, lower growth, potentially for a recession. This is your chance to | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
vote for freedom for this country. Vote for democracy against | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
bureaucracy, to give our great country the chance to reclaim | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
democratic control over huge sums of money, over our borders, and over | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
our lawmaking system. One of Fifa's top anti-corruption | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
officials resigns saying reforms at football's world governing body | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
are being undermined. The United Nations has expressed | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
alarm at the growing links between Boko Haram and the so-called | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Islamic State. The pharmaceutical giant | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
Pfizer has taken steps to stop its products from being used | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
in lethal injections in America. The US company said its products | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
were meant to save lives and strongly objects to their use | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
in carrying out the death penalty. The death penalty is law in more | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
than 30 states in the US and lethal injections are used regularly | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
as the means of execution. But the states have been finding it | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
increasingly difficult to get use of the drugs | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
they use as American and European pharmaceutical companies ban the use | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of their products to carry out death Pfizer is one of the biggest drug | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
manufacturers in the world and seven of its drugs have | :11:47. | :12:00. | |
now been used in lethal Pfizer is the second largest global | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and also makes drugs used in every | :12:04. | :12:16. | |
execution protocol across the US. So they are putting | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
in these rigorous controls and that will make a huge | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
difference to the landscape in terms of lethal injections | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
that can be carried out. It is concerned about | :12:24. | :12:33. | |
this that has driven companies to object | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
to the In 2014, Clayton Lockett | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
took 43 minutes to die. Other such cases have led to | :12:41. | :12:54. | |
repeated court cases and delays. The number of executions has been | :12:55. | :12:55. | |
falling. Since 1976, there have been more | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
than 1400 death sentences carried The most was in 1999, | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
when 98 were performed. But last year there | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
were While the US Supreme Court has | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
beaten back challenges to the drugs used for a lethal injections, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
the states are still finding it Some are now turning | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
their minds to other forms of execution, such | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
as gassing and firing squad. Maya Foa joins me in the studio now | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
- we saw her in that report - she is from the human rights group | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Reprieve. You've just got off a plane from the | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
USA and have been speaking to Pfizer, is it about ethics or | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
reputation for the company? It is both, Pfizer makes medicines to save | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
and improve lives, that is absolutely what their mission | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
statement is. Of course, it is part of their brand, no pharmaceutical | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
company wants to be associated with death, is the opposite of the PR | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
they would want. More importantly, the people who go into the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
pharmaceutical industry and develop these drugs, there's the Hippocratic | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
oath which is the bedrock of medicine, they are making medicines | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
for the service of improving lives of patients. Botched executions that | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
we have seen using those medicines is an aberration and something no | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
one wants to be involved in. What happens when a lethal injection is | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
administered? Let's take the original lethal injection design, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
three drugs, the first is an anaesthetic, second a paralytic | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
agent, the third is potassium chloride, a very potent acidic | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
chemical. The first is supposed to put you to sleep, but these are not | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
medical people administering it, sometimes the drugs have come from a | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
reputable sources, maybe the drugs are problematic. You have a warden | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
trying to find a vein which is not easy. If they miss it, or if the | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
prisoner is not anaesthetised properly, they are awake. They are | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
paralysed, then the administration of the third Reich, the Supreme | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Court described it as the chemical equivalent of being burned alive at | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
the stake, we cannot see if execution has gone wrong. If the | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
prisoner has remained awake and conscious during the third drug, it | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
is a very painful acid through the veins, you can see how it can | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
potentially be torturous and how the design is not in order to make it | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
the least painful or most humane, it is the most cosmetically palatable. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
It is there specifically so we don't see what is really going on so we | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
cannot see the suffering, but that very element that means we don't see | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
it is one that means the prisoner can see it the most. Advocates would | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
say it is more humane than the electric chair or firing squad, what | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
would you say? I don't know, in terms of lethal injection, there | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
have been so many botched, I've spoken with doctors, so many say | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
that they would not pick to be executed by lethal injection. We | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
occasionally have this debate, it is hard to wake up which is the most | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
humane but I can say that this myth of a humane lethal injection is that | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
it is a myth and has to be debunked -- it is hard to way up. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
We need to get behind the curtains, so to speak. Thank you. | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
Time for a round-up of the sport. Saracens have lifted Rugby Union 's | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
Champions Cup, beating Racing 92 to become the first English club to | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
conquer Europe in nine years. They beat the parasite 29- -- 21-9, Owen | :16:41. | :16:54. | |
Farrell kicked seven penalties. Not since Wasps in 2007 has an English | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
club won the Rugby 's premier competition. Arsenal ladies have | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
claimed the women's FA Cup beating Chelsea 1-0, a record crowd for this | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
match at Wembley to see Danielle Carter score a fine individual goal | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
in the London sunshine. It was the 14th time that the Arsenal ladies | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
have lifted the trophy. Yarde this is the cup we want to be involved in | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
and playing on an occasion like this. We were playing in front of | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
all of these fans, and at Wembley, it is unreal, and experience I | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
will cherish for the rest of my life. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
The race for the title in Spain's La Liga went | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
down to the final day with Lionel Messi's Barcelona | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
holding a slender 1 point adantage over Cristiano Ronaldo over Real | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
And it was Barcelona who sealed a 6th title in the last 8 years. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Uruguay's Luis Suarez took his tally to 40 league goals with a hat-trick | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
Real Madrid won 2-0 at home to Deportivo with | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Lewis Hamilton will be hopeful of picking up his first race win | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
this season after claiming pole for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
The world champion trails Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg by 43 | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
He had problems in qualifying for the last two races, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
but was back on form in Barcelona claiming pole by more than quarter | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Red Bull's newly-appointed 18 year old driver - | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Max Verstappen - qualified an impressive fourth. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
I am pretty happy. I did not get to compete in the last two qualifying | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
sessions, I'm very happy and grateful. The car was great. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
It was a difficult day yesterday, so to start on the right foot today is | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
good. Britain's Andy Murray has | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
reached his second clay court final in a week, | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
as he took his semi-final against unseeded Frenchman Lucas | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Pouille in total comfort 6-1, 6-2. Murray will face either | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
World Number 1 Novak Djokovic or Japan's Kei Nishikori | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
in Sunday's final. The Serbian has struggled | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
with a foot injury though, losing the first set 6-2 - | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
he did recover to take He currently leads 3-1 | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
in the deciding set. He is still top of the leaderboard | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
but... Australia's Jason Day has dropped | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
4 shots in his third round Rory McIlory in his 3rd | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
round at the Players' Championship. He started the round on 15 and, but | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
a double bogey at the eighth has contributed to a slip. Rory?McIlroy | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
is levelled today, after ten holes, eight under overall. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Imagine zooming from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a tube | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
at supersonic speed in just 30 minutes instead of a six-hour drive. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Well, the Hyperloop project, conceived by Elon Musk, | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
is aiming to do just that by replacing short-haul air travel | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
by whooshing people using magnets and pockets of air. | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
Our North America Technology Reporter Dave Lee has been in Boston | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
checking out the first version of a pod. | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
The race to create hyper loop has begun. | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
week showed how such a pod could get up to speed, so next on this | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
particular team's agenda is to work out how to slow down again. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Several companies and research teams are | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
working on realising this vision of a new type | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
One of them is MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
The team here has made a scaled-down version of a pod that | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
may someday carry people along at superhigh speed. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
So back here we have the propulsion interface. | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
This is where the launch vehicle will | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
push on the pod and accelerate up to 250 miles an hour. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
It uses magnets to lift the pod into the | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
The pod is probably about a third to half scale | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
of the real sized system, so we cannot | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
fit a full-sized human, but | :20:57. | :20:57. | |
in a real system the idea would be to carry multiple people inside. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Imagine you are at the front sat just here. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
You are in a pod that is | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
levitating, you are travelling at hundreds of miles an hour in an | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
The ride is extremely comfortable because you | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
are levitating, so you have very little vibration. | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
I think the goal is to try to keep that acceleration | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
and deceleration within the same kind of regime that you have on an | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
Plaudits of hyperloops say these pods could be in public | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
But doubters say it will never happen, not | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
because of technology, but because it will be too | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
The MIT team wants to test out their pod on a real stretch of | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
She is one of Hollywood's greats, Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster | :21:42. | :21:59. | |
has been in the business since she was five, much of it in front of the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
camera. Recently she has turned to directing, her fourth feature film | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
has just premiered in Cannes. Our arts editor has been talking to her. | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
Had you seen Ron? Just point the camera in my direction. George | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
Clooney is an edict -- egotistical financial journalist, Julia Roberts | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
is his long-suffering producer who takes control when this happens. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
What do you want me to do? Turn it off! The director, Oscar-winning | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
actress Jodie Foster, could explore cynicism in the world of finance and | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
media. Our news journalism has changed a lot with the technology | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
advent, and with the advent of the Facebook culture. Social media, | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
where the news is trying to compete with ratings and trying to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
entertain. I think it is ready quite dangerous for news. It has lost its | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
ability to ask the questions? Yes, and I think it is complicit. You are | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
saying journalism is complicit and therefore corrupt? Corrupted by, | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
yes, I think if you are trying to entertain, you're going to be | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
corrupted by the needs of the audience. She also spoke of a | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
continuing male bias in the film business, particularly she said when | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
it comes to directing. I think it is like race psychology, a gender | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
psychology, when you are about to hire... Let's say you are a producer | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
and you are going to hire a director, you want to find someone | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
you perceive as the least risky. The least risky scenario. Most often | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
that someone looks like you. A middle-class, middle-aged white guy? | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Yes. Because it is a middle-class, middle-aged white guy handing over | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
the money? No, sadly, very often, a good percentage of the time, it is | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
also a lovely Ivy League woman who runs the studio. So, tell me this, | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
you had two big stars in the movie, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
did you pay them the same? Firstly, I would never tell you. I wouldn't | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
tell you how much allowance I got, my mother told me that is not | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
something you ever do. You know how much they got paid, right? Of | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
course. Why would you tell me? I would never tell you that, but I | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
will tell you about the movie. We are talking about the movie, we are | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
talking about themes in the movie and it is journalists interrogating | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
their subject properly. You are not helping me here. No, I'm not helping | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
you. I'm not, you are right. Why? I choose not to. That exchange was | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
like the movie itself. Tents, interesting, and revealing. But | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
ultimately a bit disappointing. Will compose, BBC News. | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
The final for the 61st Eurovision Song Contest - | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
Europe's biggest pop song contest - is under way in Sweden's | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
It's got kitsch, international intrigue and an array of eclectic | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
musical performances from 25 European countries and, oddly, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Australia which is a special entry for the second year. | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
Steve Holden is from Newsbeat that airs on BBC's pop music | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
How was it all going? It is going well. You can currently here in the | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
background the Russian entry, they are the favourite. They have thrown | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
everything at it this year to win the competition, coming up, later on | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
committee Ukraine, the second favourites. They have sent a very | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
political and controversial song. We are 19 songs down, five songs to go, | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
stick with us and we will have a winner in a couple of hours. Steve | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Holden, thank you for being with us and thank you to you for being with | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
the programme. | :26:01. | :26:01. |