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New fears of a double-dip recession, as American job figures are worse | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
than expected. The markets around the world take fright, as for the | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
first time since 1945, the US fails to create a single job. Kick it is | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
very bad news for President Obama. It administrate -- indicates that | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
attempts to turn the economy around have failed. The US economy has | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
stalled and maybe in a recession already. We will be looking at what | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
more, if anything, President Obama can do to kick-start the US economy. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Also tonight: Libya's new leader's call for the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
guns to come off the streets of Tripoli and set out a new | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
democratic framework. Charges are dropped against the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
nurse accused of contaminating saline drips, but police say they | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
are now investigating up to 40 unexplained deaths at Stepping Hill | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
Hospital. A diplomatic row after the UN | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
condemns Israel's excessive use of force in a raid on an aid flotilla | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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to Gaza. I will be due most despised woman in the world. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
The press can't get enough of Madonna, even if the critics are | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
less enthusiastic about her new film. Once you become a public | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
figure or a celebrity, it is hard for people to give you more than | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
one dimension to live in. And heads you win - two goals for | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Wayne Rooney as England beat Bulgaria. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
In Sportsday, we will have news of Britain's Andy Murray as he plays | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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the second round match of the US Good evening. Fears of a double-dip | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
recession have increased after the worst US job figures for a year, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
causing share prices to tumble on Wall Street and stock markets | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
around the world. The unemployment rate in America stands at just over | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
9%, with 14 million people out of work. Last month, zero new net jobs | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
were created, the first time that has happened since 1945. It's bad | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
news for President Obama, who is already under pressure over his | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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handling of the economy. Obama is the first president since | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
the Second World War to witness a month where overall, no new jobs | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
were created. No President since then has ever been re-elected with | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
unemployment so high. 14 million Americans are now looking for work. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
In August, private companies did create 70,000 new jobs, but that | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
was wiped out by the public sector getting rid of exactly the same | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
number of people. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones fell 253 points. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
fact of zero jobs in August may be a statistical freak, but it is also | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
a symbol of an economy that feels stalled. Something America is | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
teetering on the edge of another recession. It is bad news for | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
President Obama and indicates that the administration's attempts to | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
turn the economy around have failed. The US economy is stalling and may | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
be in a recession already. By an employment was about 10% in 2009. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Since then, it has come down. But the rate has hovered around 9% all | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
of this year and the White House predicts that it will stay that | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
high next year as well. The president and his daughter Sasha | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
are off on a holiday weekend. On Monday, it is Labour Day. He turned | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
his back on the camera today, but next week, he has a big speech to | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
the whole Congress. He will unveil a new plan to create jobs. But | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Republicans, who control the House, are likely to kill it. If they do | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
not support his plan, the president has made clear that he will go out | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
to the public and take the message to them directly. Jobs centres are | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
filled with people looking for work, but there are not enough vacancies. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
The left say now is the moment for the president to do something | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
really radical. He is under a lot of pressure. By calling a joint | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
session of Congress, that is unusual. He is saying, I have | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
something big. So if he does not have something that Sam's big and | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
plausible, he will walk away with egg on his face. The president is | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
in charge. He gets the blame. So the purpose of his big speech is as | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
much political as economic. Ahead of next year's election, he has | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
tried to pin the Republicans in Congress as those who really | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
blocked America's recovery. Mark is in Washington. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
How much is the US economy in danger of taking President Obama | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
down with it? He does seem to be suffering the most. The polls are | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
down to 40%. The job approval rating is 40% for President Obama | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
and it has been like that for the last three weeks. A lot of people | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
do still accept the argument that this was not his mess. He did not | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
create it. It has been a struggle try to put it right. That is what | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
he constantly says. But the longer people feel in pain about the | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
economy, the more they will say it is not his fault for creating it, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
but it will be his fault for not putting it right. So it will be | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
interesting to see if he comes up with some concrete new plans next | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
week. Most people think if there is not something eye-catching he can | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
do, there may just be smaller measures which may not do the trick. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
So his fate is tied to that of the economy. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Rebels in Libya are claiming that a number of Colonel Gaddafi's sons, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
including his former heir apparent Saif al-Islam, are hiding out in | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
the town of Bani Walid, south-east of the capital Tripoli. Tonight | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
talks are being held with commanders loyal to the Gaddafi | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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regime about a ceasefire there. This is where the weight of the New | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
rabble Government starts to run out. There are no wild celebrations here. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
It is a ghost town and maybe in rebel hands, but there are a few | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
who remain loyal to Colonel Gaddafi here. It is unwise to explore too | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
far off the main road, where some neighbourhoods still fly the green | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
flag. There is a green flag on top of that building. As we were | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
driving past, a group of men shouted at us. When we went back, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
one of them threw a rock and a car. The atmosphere in the town is very | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
tense. When Tripoli fell, some of the Gaddafi family fled this way. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
One son is thought to have been killed here. Two others are | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
believed to be in hiding in the nearby town of Bani Walid. Who do | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
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you think is in Bani Walid of the Gaddafi family? Saif al-Islam. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
his brother Mutassim, you think they are both in Bani Walid? How | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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sure are you? TRANSLATION: 90% sure. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
We left the rebel frontline behind and drove on towards Bani Walid. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
For now, this is effectively no man's land. We found a steady | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
stream of families leaving the town. They have been ordered to get out | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
in case there is an attack. Hello, BBC. I wanted to find out what the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
situation is in Bani Walid? Too afraid to appear on camera, few | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
even dared to mention Saif al- Islam's name. But some told us the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Gaddafi family left the area two days ago, that people were being | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
armed and troops and mercenaries were preparing for battle. Yet most | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
hope a fight can be avoided. The town of Bani Walid is about 40 | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
miles in that direction, but it is unsafe to go further down this road | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
because much of it is still in the hands of the old regime. The rebel | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
military do not plan to head that way soon, because they have agreed | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
to stand to one side and allowed the people of Bani Walid to talk to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Colonel Gaddafi's military. The hope is that they can bring a | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
peaceful end into one of the last stand offs of this revolution. But | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
the Libyan desert is a vast, wild country, with many ways to escape | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
and places to hide. If the Gaddafi family have been here, finding them | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
will be hard. Libya's National Transitional | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Council claims that most of the country is now secure and safe, and | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
it's just a matter of time before Colonel Gaddafi is caught or killed. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Libya's new leaders have set out a timetable for democratic change in | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
the country, saying elections could take place by 2013. They have also | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
called for the guns to be taken off the streets of Tripoli and for any | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
rebels who are not from the capital to return home. Our Middle East | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
editor Jeremy Bowen is in Tripoli, and has been speaking to senior | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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members of the new government. A lot of a further and a lot of | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
Tripoli is in its revolutionary honeymoon, even though Colonel | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Gaddafi is at large and parts of the country are controlled by his | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
men. For those caught up in it, everything seems possible. We will | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
have to educate people about democracy. We have to let them know | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
their rights, so nobody else can come back and take their rights | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
from them. Never again. Young fighters are still control the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
streets, filling the power vacuum left by Colonel Gaddafi. They | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
believe they delivered the people's revolution, and the fact that the | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
prototype civilian government has not even arrived in Tripoli does | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
not bother them. Ali is the national transitional council's | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
senior minister here, trying delicately to persuade the men with | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
guns that soon, they should go home. We are not too concerned about guns | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
right now. We need the guns to hunt this killer. But my concern is that | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
when we talk about democracy and civil society and peaceful | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
discourse, you do not do that with anti-aircraft guns. His colleagues | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
might arrive in time to get blamed for the grind of daily life, days | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
in a colossal petrol queues are just part of it. And they will have | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
to compete for popularity with the war heroes. The commander whose men | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
captured Gaddafi's compound was once arrested, and he says tortured | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
by the CIA. He is Abdul, in the '90s a leader of the Libyan Islamic | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
fighting group. He denies America's allegation that it was a terrorist | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
organisation with links to Al-Qaeda. He says he just wanted to overthrow | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
the regime. He says they have a good idea where Colonel Gaddafi is, | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that he will get a fair trial if he surrenders and that if he will not | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
surrender, they will kill him. The huge Gaddafi compound has become a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
place to take the children. It was the nerve centre of the Gaddafi | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
regime. Now she can write rude messages in nail varnish. Assuming | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
they can kill or capture Colonel Gaddafi, this would become the most | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
complete Arab Revolution so far. He created a quirky and unique system | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
of government that has already dissolved. That means Libya's new | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
leaders have to find a new way to run this country, starting from | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
scratch. And they have to take the people with them. If they can do it, | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
it will be a huge achievement. The European Union has agreed to | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
ban imports of oil from Syria in an effort to increase pressure on the | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
government of President Assad. Up to 2000 civilians have been killed | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
in the five-month crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators, | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
according to the United Nations. David Cameron today voiced his | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
frustration that the Arab League is failing to back tough action in | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Syria as it did for Libya. News Corporation boss James Murdoch | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
has announced that he has declined a bonus offered to him by the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
company of �3.7 million. Mr Murdoch said he had made the decision "in | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the light of the current controversy surrounding the News Of | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
The World". His father Rupert is still set to receive a bonus of | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
nearly �8 million. Charges have been dropped against a | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
nurse accused of contaminating saline drip that a hospital in | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Stockport. Rebecca Leighton tonight said she had been "living in hell" | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
after being held by police for more than six weeks. Tonight, the police | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
said they are investigating up to 40 unexplained deaths at Stepping | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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Hill Hospital. Nurse Rebecca Leighton was arrested | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
in July, accused of tampering with saline products and endangering the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
lives of patients. Today she was told that she no longer faces the | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
charges, and was allowed to walk free from prison. Tonight, her | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
parents watched as their solicitor spoke on her behalf. It is so | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
frustrating for me, knowing that the person who carried out these | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
terrible acts is still out there. My life has been turned upside down. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
All I wanted to do was pursue a professional nursing and care for | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
my patients. It is unbelievable that anyone in the medical | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
profession would ever put their patients' lives at risk. Police | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
started investigating activities at Stepping Hill after becoming aware | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
of patients with unexplained low blood sugar levels. It is now | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
believed that seven people died and as many as 40 were affected when | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
ampoules and bags of saline were contaminated. Tonight, security at | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Stepping Hill remains high, with hospital managers say they will | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
continue to work with greater Manchester Police. Detectives have | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
said that with such a busy hospital and so many lines of inquiry, they | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
are now dealing with one of the most complex and challenging | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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Tonight as Rebecca Leighton's parents appealed for privacy, the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Crown Prosecution Service said she had been charged on the basis that | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
enough evidence against I would emerge in time for a successful | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
prosecution, but that that had not Coming up: if people walk away | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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thinking, wow, Wallis Simpson was Can Madonna's new film rise above | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
its rather mediocre reviews? It is millions of pounds over | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
budget and several years late, and until a few hours ago, spiralling | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
costs meant Edinburgh's new tram network was not even going to run | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
into the city centre. After this that his government threatened to | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
withhold millions of pounds from the project, councillors reversed | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
that decision and the route has finally been agreed. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
This is what it should have been. And 11 mile tramline, easing | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
congestion in Scotland's capital city. But a contractual dispute led | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
to cost overruns and long delays. The price tag has doubled, the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
route is now two-thirds of the original length. The project has | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
lurched from crisis to crisis. The most recent has seen a reversal of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
last week's contentious decision to further shorten the route, to a | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
level which was not financially viable. Last Thursday's decision | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
did the City's reputation people could not understand why we would | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
want to have a tramline that went to when nobody wanted to go, and | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
would always run at a loss. trams have juddered from one | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
controversy to the next. It was scaled back to the city centre, and | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
revised again to terminate at revised again to terminate at | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Haymarket. Costs have soared. The price tag has ballooned. It is now | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
estimated at more than �770 million. estimated at more than �770 million. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
By the time the bill is paid off, that will have reached �1 billion. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Many along the proposed route say that although business is now | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
getting better, they have still been left counting the cost. I feel | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
very strongly about the tram project being totally mismanaged, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
it has cost me in excess of �100,000 and many people their | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
livelihoods. Having had an open chequebook could be disastrous for | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
the City. It is like a gambler who has lost his car and is now betting | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
his house on the outcome. What of the city's reputation? This whole | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
saga has been so sad. It has done a credit for the City whatsoever. It | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
could have and should have been handled so much differently. There | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
are still many potential problems ahead. Even though the trams are | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
not yet operational, the track's, still unused, are already in need | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
of repair. There are also no apparent guarantees that the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
overall bill to the City won't rise still further, even if we now know | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
where the end of the line will be. A UN human rights group has | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
appealed to councillors in Essex to suspend plans to evict 86 families | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
from a travellers' camp. The anti- racism committee urged Basildon | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
committee -- council to provide culturally or prep -- appropriate | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
alternative accommodation, before moving them on. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Turkey has expelled Israel's ambassador and severed military | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
ties with the country in response to a United Nations report which | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
says Israel used excessive force when it raided an aid flotilla to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Gaza last year. Nine Turkish people were killed. Turkey was formally | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Israel's most important Muslim alike and it risks increasing | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Israel's isolation in the region. In the middle of the night, in | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
international waters, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the Mavi | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Marmara last May. The ship had been trying to beat the blockade of the | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Gaza Strip. By the end of the raid, nine activists were dead, and | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Israel was being condemned around the world. But it release these | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
pictures, saying the special forces only fired when the lights were in | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
danger. It said the raid to had not, as turkey insisted, been against | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
international law -- lives were endangered. The report found at -- | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
found that the blockade was legal and a legitimate security measure | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
to prevent air -- weapons entering the area by sea. It said the way | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Israeli forces boarded the vessel was excessive and unreasonable. It | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
found they face significant, organised resistance which required | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
them to use force for their own protection. It said the loss of | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
life and injuries were unacceptable, and Israel had provided no | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
satisfactory explanation for any of the nine deaths. The Israelis did | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
help treat the injured, but the report found other passengers had | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
been physically mistreated and intimidated. At the funerals of the | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
dead, strong emotions. The report said forensic evidence showed most | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
of them had been shot multiple times, including in the back, or at | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
close range. Turkey is still demanding a formal apology. Some | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
may still not understand the extent of our determination. The measures | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
being taken now are the beginning. These include the suspension of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
military co-operation. Turkey and Israel are powerful regional | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
players who once conducted military exercises together. Now Israel's | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
ambassador has been expelled from what was once his closes Muslim | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
ally. The relationships with Turkey did not start deteriorating just | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
with this issue. It is part of a larger strategic shift that Turkey | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
is making towards the east, towards Islam. Fortunately one of the ways | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
of establishing your credentials in the Arab and Muslim world is by | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
going against Israel. The UN's report was help -- hopes to help | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
mend relations but has deepened the rift between the two countries at a | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
time of turmoil across the Middle East. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Her career in music has been a long and successful one. But Madonna's | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
film career has been rather less glittering. Now the material girl's | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
second outing as a director has had its premiere at the Venice film | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
festival. It tells the story of Wallis Simpson, whose affair with | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Edward VII led to his abdication. Madonna has been talking to our | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
arts editor, Will Gompertz, about what he hoped to achieve. The | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
report contains - photography. -- flash photography. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Enter Madonna, performing for the cameras. She is promoting her new | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
film. Though this time, she is not the start, but the director. It is | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
not usual for this much faster be made about a rookie film director. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
But Madonna is hardly typical of your mid-life career change it. She | :22:02. | :22:12. | |
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is very famous and gets treated rather differently. What is wrong? | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
The subject of celebrity is a central theme running through her | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
new film, W.E.. It tells the story of Wallis Simpson's affair with | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Henry VIII. This talk about marriage frightens me and I can't | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
see any good coming out of it. considers what the future just just | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
a Windsor lost by becoming a public figure -- future Duchess of Windsor. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
I will be the most despised woman in the world. The price of fame is | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
an issue close to the director's heart. Once you become a public | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
figure, or a celebrity, it is very hard for people to give you more | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
than one dimension to live in. You are reduced to a sound bite. It can | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
often be frustrating, because you spend most of your time saying, | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
that is not me, that is not what I said, that is not what I did. I am | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
sure that Wallis Simpson felt the same way. The Wallis Simpson story | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
is well known. It featured in the Oscar-winning King's Speech. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Madonna has added another element, a parallel story of a Wallis | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Simpson obsessed woman from Manhattan who also has a | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
complicated love life. To mix two stories and two time friends would | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
be a challenge for an experienced director. For a relatively new one, | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
it is a huge undertaking. A bloody nightmare. The details of all the | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
stories, the world they lived in, the luxury, the objects, I don't | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
know what I was thinking when I was writing this script. Have you | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
looked at the reviews yet? No. I am afraid to. She is right to be | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
nervous. The reviews ranged from the nice and warm, to pure scorn. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
What is it that you want to bring to the genre? What was missing that | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
you think you can add? Certainly a female point of view. That is a big | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
one. Exploring, investigating and expressing the inner life of a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
woman. At the end of the press conference, | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
there was this bizarre scene. Hardened hacks turned into diehard | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
fans, desperate for an autograph. An ironic absurd, given that the | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
movie questions the cult of In football, it has been a busy | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
night of qualifiers for the European Championships. England | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
swept aside Bulgaria in Sofia by our three -- by three goals to nil. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Wayne Rooney grabbed two goals. Young, and England are trying to do | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
exactly what it says on the show. One familiar in blue, youthful in | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
selection. Frank Lampard was dropped -- and familiar. Barry | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Cahill is 25, eight defender by trade. He took this sounds like a | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
centre-forward. Nine minutes later, it was a striker's finish. Rooney, | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
easy, 2-0 and barely a hair out of place. A lovely move for the next | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
goal, Theo Walcott had options, he picked Ashley Young, he could have | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
gone for goal but he spotted Rooney. Inch-perfect, 3-0 before half-time. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
There was a reminder of Bulgaria's abilities in the second half, Joe | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
Hart was alert in goal, but the game was done. Reports of racist | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
chanting ended England's black players heard inside the ground, | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
now or wait a response from UEFA. Huge encouragement in Cardiff as | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
well stick a two call on lead against Montenegro. -- as it Wales | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
took a two goal lead. Steve Morison scored the first goal and Gareth | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Bale set up Aaron Ramsey for the second. It finished 2-1, a first | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
win for Wales in the group, timely ahead of their visit to Wembley | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
next week. Northern Ireland are usually a match for anyone at home, | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
but they help Serbia to a heartbreaking goal, which may well | :26:10. | :26:14. |