:00:07. > :00:11.Another torrid day on the world stock markets amid continuing fears
:00:11. > :00:18.of a new recession. It is a downward slide, with investors
:00:18. > :00:22.nervous about the euros own debts. The EU says they should not panic.
:00:22. > :00:29.I would encourage everybody to stay calm and breathe deeply and see
:00:29. > :00:35.that the economy recovery is going The end of the worst week on the US
:00:35. > :00:38.markets for two years. President Obama urges for calm. What I want
:00:38. > :00:43.the American people and our partners around the world to know
:00:43. > :00:47.is this: We are going to get through this. Things will get
:00:47. > :00:52.better and we will get there to get a. We will be assessing if Europe's
:00:52. > :00:56.leaders can take decisive action to reassure the markets.
:00:56. > :01:01.Also tonight: The British teenager killed by a polar bear in the
:01:01. > :01:05.Arctic. The there is shot dead after four others on the same
:01:05. > :01:10.expedition are injured. The Polar Bear attacked him with his right
:01:10. > :01:15.paw across his face and his head and his arm.
:01:15. > :01:20.A special report on Syria's uprising. How activists are
:01:20. > :01:24.defining five months of a brutal government crackdown.
:01:24. > :01:30.And an international theme at Edinburgh. How Chinese productions
:01:30. > :01:34.are attracting attention at this year's festival.
:01:34. > :01:39.Later in Sportsday: Black poor kick of the new English football season
:01:39. > :01:49.fresh from their Premier League adventure. They take on Hull in the
:01:49. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:04.Good evening. Markets around the world have endured another day of
:02:04. > :02:08.turmoil triggered by near-panic at the possibility of a new US
:02:08. > :02:12.recession and of Europe's debt crisis spreading. New York's
:02:12. > :02:17.markets have closed in the last half an hour after their worst week
:02:17. > :02:22.for two years, despite jobs data that was better than expected. In a
:02:22. > :02:27.moment will be exploring the cause of all the instability but first,
:02:27. > :02:32.here is Robert Peston. 24 hours of turmoil on markets.
:02:32. > :02:36.Share prices plunged yesterday in Germany and the rest of Europe,
:02:36. > :02:42.infecting the Americas, including Brazil. Overnight, it spread to
:02:42. > :02:46.Asia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and back to Europe, with
:02:46. > :02:50.almost three trillion pounds wiped off for shares worldwide. The
:02:50. > :02:54.crisis was triggered by growing fears that Italy and Spain would be
:02:54. > :02:59.unable to repay their debt, which led to a rise in their borrowing
:03:00. > :03:05.costs. That was stamped on 21st July when the governments said they
:03:05. > :03:09.would agree a new support package but the fears came back and Italy
:03:09. > :03:14.and Spain's borrowing costs continued their rise at dangerously
:03:14. > :03:18.high levels. I would encourage everybody to stay calm and breathe
:03:18. > :03:24.deeply and see that the economy recovery is going on. It is
:03:24. > :03:29.important that people see that this work is indeed going on day and
:03:29. > :03:33.night. It may be tempting to see falls in share prices as having
:03:33. > :03:36.very little relevance to us but they directly affect the value of
:03:36. > :03:41.pensions and they may say a good deal about the province of
:03:41. > :03:44.companies to invest and create jobs -- the confidence of companies. And
:03:44. > :03:49.when bank shares fall, it can tell you something about their ability
:03:49. > :03:54.to borrow and when the banks cannot borrow, they find it hard to lend
:03:54. > :03:58.and when they cannot lend, the economy can weaken. This afternoon
:03:58. > :04:01.there was a brief recovery in share prices, after US unemployment
:04:01. > :04:06.figures turned out better than feared, but the respite was short-
:04:06. > :04:10.lived. What I want our American people to know is this: We are
:04:10. > :04:14.going to get through this. Things will get better and we are going to
:04:14. > :04:21.get there together. If the problem is the excessive indebtedness of a
:04:21. > :04:25.number of rich, Western countries, is there a painless solution?
:04:25. > :04:29.I'm afraid. It amounts to the fact that people will have to accept
:04:29. > :04:32.that governments will have to be smaller and spend less so there
:04:32. > :04:36.will be left public sector employment, fewer jobs and the
:04:36. > :04:41.public sector and if expenditure on things like health care and
:04:41. > :04:51.pensions and education -- less expenditure. Bank shares have been
:04:51. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:55.Today, a loyal band of Scotland announced it was back in the red to
:04:55. > :05:00.the tune of �1.4 billion for the first six months of the year, in
:05:00. > :05:05.part because of losses to its loans to Greece. How bad can it get?
:05:05. > :05:10.would be stupid not to be cautious and alert to the significant risks
:05:10. > :05:13.that can turn bad but I think the probabilities are that the world
:05:14. > :05:19.doesn't turn overnight from a place that is slowly recovering to a
:05:19. > :05:23.place that is a disaster area. Commodities markets, forcing the
:05:23. > :05:27.price of copper, lead, zinc and tin are saying that the global economic
:05:27. > :05:33.recovery is threatened and that we all risk been burned in the white
:05:33. > :05:37.heat of markets. There is continuing concern over
:05:37. > :05:40.the health of the US economy and we are just getting used of
:05:40. > :05:46.developments on that front. Let's go live to Mark Mardell in
:05:46. > :05:49.Washington. ABC is reporting that a government official has told them
:05:49. > :05:55.that the White House is expecting and preparing for a downgrade of
:05:55. > :05:59.its triple-A status by the rating agency. We haven't got independent
:05:59. > :06:04.confirmation of that and I stress that no other networks are
:06:04. > :06:07.reporting that but ABC are usually pretty reliable. This is the news
:06:07. > :06:11.that people one week ago were braced for, they thought it would
:06:11. > :06:15.be a terrible catastrophe, an appalling thing to happen to
:06:15. > :06:19.America's reputation. I just wonder whether if it is true, the markets
:06:19. > :06:24.have perhaps discounted it and the rating agency is a player in the
:06:24. > :06:28.game. It perhaps has been backed into a corner by some of its
:06:28. > :06:34.previous tough talking. But clearly, if it is true, it is not great news
:06:34. > :06:38.for America. Let's turn to Europe now. Much of the fear has been
:06:38. > :06:43.centred on Spain and Italy. Silvio Berlusconi said tonight he would
:06:43. > :06:46.speed up a package of austerity measures. There are concerns that
:06:47. > :06:51.the European leaders are not acting decisively enough and need to do
:06:51. > :06:58.more to reassure investors. Stephanie Flanders has this
:06:58. > :07:03.assessment of the growing financial fears.
:07:03. > :07:06.You might wonder what way the markets are panicking right now.
:07:06. > :07:10.Didn't the week begin with be good news that America would not
:07:10. > :07:14.default? But investors are worried about growth as well as debt.
:07:14. > :07:18.fact that it is in the private sector, corporate sector or the
:07:18. > :07:22.public sector, everybody is trying to repay their debts, trying to
:07:22. > :07:27.atone for the sins of the past and the consequences of that his lack
:07:27. > :07:30.of demand and lack of growth. the eurozone, fear of slow growth
:07:30. > :07:34.has fuelled fears about the level of government debt. Investors
:07:34. > :07:37.worried that if countries like Italy and Spain cannot grow, they
:07:37. > :07:41.will not be able to control their borrowing and because they are all
:07:41. > :07:44.tied together by think will currency, the problems of
:07:44. > :07:49.individual countries have turned into a problem for all of Europe.
:07:49. > :07:53.So what can leaders do to stem the panic? They might want to rethink
:07:53. > :07:57.their holiday plans for a start. The leaders of France, Germany and
:07:58. > :08:02.Italy are all away from their desk, although David Cameron interrupted
:08:02. > :08:07.his Brit today to chat with the Governor of the Bank of England. --
:08:07. > :08:11.interrupted his break. If the panic continues, the central banks may
:08:11. > :08:15.act. The European Central Bank is under pressure to support countries
:08:15. > :08:20.by buying more of their debt. If the US recovery stumbles, you may
:08:20. > :08:24.see their central bank pumping more money into the economy. What can
:08:24. > :08:28.governments in the eurozone do? Well, we could see them offer more
:08:28. > :08:31.budget cuts. That may happen in Italy. But what investors really
:08:32. > :08:37.want to see is all of the country's acting together to create a bigger
:08:37. > :08:41.bail-out fund perhaps, or may be guaranteeing troubled countries''
:08:41. > :08:46.debts. Those last two are steps that Germany refused to take two
:08:46. > :08:49.weeks ago. The Italian Prime Minister said tonight that the G7
:08:49. > :08:54.finance ministers would meet in the next few days and he would try to
:08:54. > :09:00.balance Italy's budget one year early. You might wonder what this
:09:00. > :09:04.all means for us in Britain. After all, we didn't sign up for the euro.
:09:04. > :09:07.But we are fully paid-up members of the global economy. We in Britain
:09:07. > :09:11.are not in the firing line of these problems because of the difficult
:09:11. > :09:17.decisions that we have taken of the last year to bring spending under
:09:17. > :09:20.control, to bring down borrowing, to control debt. Britain is able to
:09:20. > :09:24.borrow at low rates of interest because the financial markets have
:09:24. > :09:29.confidence in what we are doing. is true. The market are not so
:09:29. > :09:33.worried about Britain's debts but another reason our borrowing is
:09:33. > :09:37.lobe is because investors are worried about growth here as well.
:09:37. > :09:40.Our recovery hopes are pinned on bank lending more and companies
:09:40. > :09:46.exporting more and none of that will happen if the worries of the
:09:46. > :09:53.last few days get out of hand. Let's go live to Brussels. What
:09:53. > :09:57.other signs about how EU leaders are responding to the crisis?
:09:57. > :10:01.Well, an indication of the anxiety felt here of a flurry of phone
:10:01. > :10:05.calls that have been taking place, particularly this evening.
:10:05. > :10:09.President Sarkozy speaking to the German Chancellor, the German
:10:09. > :10:13.Chancellor is due to call President Obama, David Cameron has been
:10:13. > :10:19.speaking to Angela Merkel, all indications of anxiety. The
:10:19. > :10:24.Italians have been pushing for an emergency meeting of the G7
:10:24. > :10:28.countries, although that perhaps may not take place. Italy remains
:10:28. > :10:33.the focus of all this and tonight Silvio Berlusconi said he would
:10:33. > :10:37.bring forward austerity measures and social reforms. He would also
:10:37. > :10:41.balance the budget one yet barely and he has one eye on the European
:10:41. > :10:45.Central Bank, which he hopes might intervene next week and make things
:10:45. > :10:51.easier for Italy, but the message from the European Central Bank is,
:10:51. > :10:54.it has to be convinced that Italy is truly serious about putting its
:10:54. > :10:58.house in order. As regards to European leaders, I believe they
:10:58. > :11:03.are struggling to come up with answers. There is the sense of
:11:03. > :11:07.drift, policy differences over this, and of course, the key question
:11:07. > :11:11.remains unanswered. What if a big country like Italy needs help, it
:11:11. > :11:18.needs rescuing? Where is the mechanism to do that? They have not
:11:18. > :11:23.been able to provide the answer and that is still troubling the markets.
:11:23. > :11:26.Our Europe editor there. Let's take stock of what we have seen.
:11:26. > :11:30.So, financial markets across the globe have seen dramatic losses
:11:30. > :11:34.over the past five days. In the last hour on Wall Street, the Dow
:11:34. > :11:37.Jones ended up slightly on the day but was down nearly 6% for the week.
:11:37. > :11:45.Earlier, Germany's main share index, the DAX, plummeted nearly 13% over
:11:45. > :11:49.And here, the FTSE 100 closed down 2.7% on the day. That's close to a
:11:49. > :11:58.10% fall over the week. Nearly �150 billion were wiped off the value of
:11:58. > :12:02.Robert Peston is with me. What people want to know is, is this so
:12:02. > :12:07.the? Anybody who tells you they know precisely what will happen to
:12:07. > :12:11.the markets is a school or a liar. But we are living through times of
:12:11. > :12:18.profound uncertainty and much of that uncertainty stems from the
:12:18. > :12:25.vast amounts of debt on many Western major economies, the UK,
:12:25. > :12:29.the USA, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece. I am not just talking about
:12:29. > :12:35.government debt, the some of it, financial debt, household debt,
:12:35. > :12:39.government debt. If we manage that dead in the best case and reduce it
:12:39. > :12:45.in a rational way, the Bank of England says we can expect years of
:12:46. > :12:51.relatively low growth and if we make mistakes, there will be crisis.
:12:51. > :12:55.The question is, will we manage the debts down in a sensible way? We
:12:55. > :13:00.are hearing out of America denied that the ratings agency may remove
:13:00. > :13:03.the cherished triple-A credit rating from America, which would
:13:03. > :13:09.commit if that did happen, caused all sorts of uncertainty for
:13:09. > :13:13.vendors to America. Why? Because the perception is that the US
:13:14. > :13:17.decision on how to reduce the deficit was made in any rational
:13:17. > :13:21.way and the big problem of the eurozone is that the perception of
:13:21. > :13:24.investors is that the multiplicity of governments that need to make
:13:24. > :13:27.decisions means that when they get a crisis of the thought they had
:13:27. > :13:31.been experiencing in terms of investors' lack of confidence and
:13:31. > :13:36.the inability of certain countries to repay, the Government's just do
:13:36. > :13:41.not act fast enough or rationally enough.
:13:41. > :13:49.There is more on the card crisis in a special section of the BBC
:13:49. > :13:53.The Ministry of Defence has this evening announced the death of a
:13:53. > :13:59.Royal Marine from 42 Commando Royal Marines in Afghanistan. He died
:13:59. > :14:02.today in the Nad-e Ali District of The Royal Marine was mortally
:14:02. > :14:12.wounded by a grenade that landed inside his check-point. His next of
:14:12. > :14:12.
:14:12. > :14:16.A British teenager has been mauled to death by a polar bear in the
:14:16. > :14:20.Norwegian Arctic. 17 year on Horatio Chapple from Wiltshire was
:14:20. > :14:25.on a camping expedition in the Svalbard Islands in northern Norway.
:14:25. > :14:31.Four others who were injured in the attack have been flown by air
:14:31. > :14:35.ambulance to Tromsoe. The isolated spot on an Arctic
:14:35. > :14:41.glacier where this morning's can go to tack -- tragic attack took place.
:14:41. > :14:45.A remote and vulnerable campsite, and the polar bear shot dead, but
:14:45. > :14:50.not before he had killed one young British man and viciously malt four
:14:50. > :14:54.others. A helicopter was rushed into airlift them to hospital. The
:14:54. > :14:59.alarm had been raised by satellite phone. What had been the adventure
:14:59. > :15:06.holiday of a lifetime had abruptly turned into a disaster. The 17-
:15:06. > :15:13.year-old schoolboy who was killed was named this afternoon. The young
:15:13. > :15:18.explorer who died on our expedition this morning is Horatio Chapple.
:15:18. > :15:23.Horacio was a fine young man, hoping to go on to read medicine
:15:23. > :15:27.after school. The injured include a trip leaders Andrew ruck and Mike
:15:27. > :15:32.Read as well as two teenagers. Terry Flinders is the one of them.
:15:32. > :15:40.The organisers told him what had happened. The Polar Bear attacked
:15:40. > :15:44.him with his right paw, crashed his face, head and arm. Then the leader
:15:44. > :15:49.came along and tried to get the polar bear away. He got mauled
:15:49. > :15:57.badly, according to the television. But they managed to shoot the polar
:15:57. > :16:04.bear. The British Schools exploring Society is based in London and they
:16:04. > :16:09.organise expeditions for people in their late teens and early twenties
:16:09. > :16:13.to experience the world and us. It is the chance of seeing polar bears
:16:13. > :16:17.in their natural habitat that is one of the top attractions of trips
:16:17. > :16:20.to Svalbard. It is thought there are nearly 3000 bears roaming wild
:16:21. > :16:25.amidst the stunning landscape. Blogs posted on the expedition
:16:25. > :16:29.website a week ago talk of an Arctic adventure of sea ice and the
:16:29. > :16:33.polar bears they were dreaming of seeing. But adventure holidays like
:16:34. > :16:38.these are never risk free. Although this group did have training and
:16:38. > :16:44.took precautions, according to one teenager who flew home early
:16:44. > :16:48.because of frostbite. Every night, we were supposed to set off their
:16:48. > :16:53.flowers around your separate camp. You were supposed to have wires
:16:53. > :16:57.along it. If a polar bear trips into it, an empty shotgun round
:16:57. > :17:01.makes a loud bang. That is supposed to scare away the polar bear.
:17:01. > :17:06.went wrong this morning is still not clear. An investigation has
:17:06. > :17:14.been ordered by the Norwegian authorities.
:17:14. > :17:19.Coming up: Shakespeare goes east, with a Chinese version of Romeo and
:17:19. > :17:22.Juliet at the Edinburgh Festival. Reports from Syria say that at
:17:22. > :17:30.least 11 people were killed today in the latest clashes between the
:17:31. > :17:35.security forces and anti-government protesters.
:17:35. > :17:38.It is five months since the uprising in Syria began, and
:17:38. > :17:42.foreign journalists remain restricted in their access to the
:17:42. > :17:45.country. John Simpson is in Lebanon, where he has been speaking to
:17:45. > :17:50.Syrian refugees and those who still support the president.
:17:50. > :17:55.The view across the valley in the direction of Syria, now a closed
:17:55. > :17:59.country. Across the border, some of the worst fighting has been going
:17:59. > :18:04.on in the city of Hama. Syrian television, government controlled,
:18:04. > :18:07.showed these pictures of the city today, claiming that things were
:18:07. > :18:12.now quiet there. The commentary tells the viewers that the
:18:12. > :18:16.demonstrators are armed and violent. The Syrian government line is that
:18:16. > :18:21.the demonstrators are basically terrorists, supported by hostile
:18:21. > :18:31.foreign forces. But tonight, an opposition supporter in Hama denied
:18:31. > :18:39.
:18:39. > :18:47.Thousands have been demonstrating across Syria today, including in a
:18:47. > :18:54.city just a few miles from Damascus. The BBC has verified these pictures.
:18:54. > :19:00.From Lebanon, I got through to the satellite phone of the man who sent
:19:00. > :19:10.them. What will happen in the long run? Do you really think that the
:19:10. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:23.government of President Assad will This country, Lebanon, knows all
:19:23. > :19:27.about civil war. Syria has often been deeply involved. There's a lot
:19:27. > :19:31.of nervousness hear about any spillover from the Syrian troubles.
:19:31. > :19:37.Today in Beirut, there was a small demo by supporters of the Assad
:19:37. > :19:43.regime. Some Lebanese politicians take a strongly pro-Syrian line,
:19:43. > :19:48.including the former government minister. It must be difficult and
:19:48. > :19:56.embarrassing for somebody like you to have to defend a government
:19:56. > :20:00.which shoots down its own citizens? TRANSLATION: Internal forces are
:20:00. > :20:05.working against Bashar al-Assad and want to bring him down.
:20:05. > :20:09.He does not want war. If Syria falls, it will be totally
:20:09. > :20:13.fragmented and would destabilise the whole region. It is beginning
:20:13. > :20:18.to look as though things over there have gone too far for a compromise
:20:18. > :20:23.solution. The Government cannot back down without looking as though
:20:23. > :20:26.they are surrendering completely. If the demonstrators were going to
:20:26. > :20:30.stop, surely they would have stopped already. People on both
:20:30. > :20:34.sides are now starting to warn about the possibility of civil war,
:20:34. > :20:37.but no one seems to know how to stop it.
:20:37. > :20:40.The energy company E.ON has announced that it will increase its
:20:40. > :20:45.gas and electricity prices. Gas will go up by 18%, while
:20:45. > :20:50.electricity is set to rise by 11% from next month. E.ON is the fourth
:20:50. > :20:53.of the big six suppliers to raise prices. It blamed problems in the
:20:53. > :20:59.Middle East for the hike. But the campaign group Consumer Focus
:20:59. > :21:02.claims wholesale prices are a third lower than they were in 2008.
:21:02. > :21:05.Police are warning that a section of the M25 in Surrey is likely to
:21:05. > :21:09.be closed until the early hours of tomorrow morning after an accident
:21:09. > :21:19.during rush-hour. Four people were injured, two of them airlifted to
:21:19. > :21:24.hospital, after a lorry crashed over the central reservation.
:21:24. > :21:27.At one stage, there was a tailback of almost 30 miles to junction 10.
:21:27. > :21:31.The Libyan government has denied reports that one of Colonel
:21:31. > :21:34.Gaddafi's sons has been killed in a NATO airstrike. It is the second
:21:34. > :21:38.time this year that Khamis Gaddafi has been reported killed. In
:21:38. > :21:42.western Libya, rebel forces say they are running short of
:21:42. > :21:50.ammunition. Despite this, they have managed to take new ground and
:21:50. > :21:55.advanced from the port city of Misrata to the outskirts of Zlitan.
:21:55. > :22:00.Coming to bury a mother and her two young children, victims of a NATO
:22:00. > :22:04.airstrike, the regime claims. It brought journalists to Zlitan to
:22:04. > :22:10.witness their funerals. NATO says it hit a command and control centre,
:22:10. > :22:18.but it is looking for more details. In the town centre, there was quiet.
:22:18. > :22:23.It is still under government control. But the rebels are
:22:23. > :22:30.battling to change that. The two months, they have been advancing on
:22:30. > :22:34.Zlitan. The furthest they have got is the suburbs. And they have
:22:34. > :22:39.needed plenty of help from above. This is one of the latest air
:22:39. > :22:44.strikes by the RAF, which has been pounding targets in and around the
:22:44. > :22:48.town, destroying some of the regime's concealed weapons. At the
:22:48. > :22:54.frontline, we found this rebel Brigade resting during air lull in
:22:54. > :22:58.the fighting. A source told us that the rebels cannot advance much
:22:58. > :23:04.further because they are dangerously low on ammunition. This
:23:04. > :23:08.amateur army is running on empty. The fighters here said they still
:23:08. > :23:13.have to rely on a lot of home made improvised weapons, like this anti-
:23:13. > :23:17.tank gun which has been bolted to a pick-up truck. They have managed to
:23:17. > :23:21.capture some arms from Colonel Gaddafi's forces. They took this
:23:21. > :23:26.anti-aircraft gun a week ago. But they say they often run short of
:23:26. > :23:31.ammunition. Sometimes, they have to wait for days to be resupplied. At
:23:31. > :23:36.times, they have been down to their last box of bullets.
:23:36. > :23:45.TRANSLATION: What can I say? Our ammunition could run out any
:23:45. > :23:50.time now. I have maybe enough for one or two days. The commander took
:23:50. > :23:55.me to a lookout post to get a rare glimpse of Colonel Gaddafi's men.
:23:55. > :24:00.They were across the sand dunes, about two kilometres away, visible
:24:00. > :24:07.with binoculars and perhaps watching us as well. The rebels
:24:07. > :24:10.want to flush them out so that they can push on towards Tripoli. The
:24:10. > :24:16.capital is just an hour and a half's drive away, a tantalising
:24:16. > :24:22.prospect. But the fighters say that to get there, the least they need
:24:22. > :24:27.is bullets. The curtain has tonight gone up on
:24:27. > :24:30.the world's largest arts festival. Among the dozens of shows at
:24:30. > :24:35.Edinburgh this year are a Chinese King Lear, a Chinese Hamlet and a
:24:35. > :24:39.Chinese Romeo and Juliet. Both the main and the Fringe Festival are
:24:39. > :24:49.reflecting what is being described as a new and extraordinary cultural
:24:49. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :25:02.flowering. A opening tonight, a little window
:25:02. > :25:05.into the mind of China, a tattooist Romeo and Juliet. It is certainly a
:25:05. > :25:11.spectacle, pure entertainment, but there is another question behind
:25:11. > :25:15.all of this. What do we really know about China and the East? In the
:25:15. > :25:20.days of China's cultural revolution in the '60s and '70s, this show
:25:20. > :25:27.would have been unthinkable. But today, China is on a very different
:25:27. > :25:35.cultural mission. He has been working on the idea of making a pea
:25:35. > :25:38.and -- musical production for two years. The idea of presenting this
:25:38. > :25:41.philosophy is to allow people to know what the essence of it is.
:25:41. > :25:45.festival will also offer a Chinese interpretations of King Lear,
:25:45. > :25:50.Hamlet and the Tempest. It is extraordinary what is coming out of
:25:50. > :25:54.China, but not only China. There is a genuine cultural flowering
:25:54. > :26:01.happening in Asia. For the festival director, if we are to understand
:26:01. > :26:04.the future, we need to understand the east. Unless you really
:26:04. > :26:11.understand and take the time to delve underneath what these
:26:11. > :26:18.cultures are about, you do not fully understand where they come
:26:18. > :26:23.from, what motivates them. instance, laughter. Stand-up was
:26:23. > :26:27.almost unknown in Korea. But Korean shows will high-rate comedy doctor
:26:27. > :26:34.to help them navigate Britain's odd sense of humour.
:26:34. > :26:39.Do you think Britain knows anything about Korea? I have to say not
:26:39. > :26:44.really. It is a pity. That is why I keep bringing Korean shows here, so
:26:44. > :26:49.we can introduce our culture. Meanwhile, this Chinese Swan Lake