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Concern mounts over Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
ahead of a crucial summit in Brussels tomorrow. With less than | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
24 hours to go, it is feared that European leaders may fall short of | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
a comprehensive plan to save the euro-zone's struggling economies | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
and return confidence to world markets. One key sticking point, | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Italy. It is coming under increasing pressure to cut its | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
massive deficit. We will be assessing if a deal can be done by | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
tomorrow. Also: Buried in secret in the Libyan desert. An inglorious | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
end for Colonel Gaddafi, five days after he was killed. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Allah! Eight two week-old baby pulled from the rubble in Turkey, | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
to hope as rescues try to find more survivors after the devastating | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
earthquake. Prince Charles says he is | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
determined to do his bit during the economic downturn for deprived | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
areas. Just to see if there is a way to help generate new hopes and | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
aspirations. Bollywood turns to a superhero to take on Hollywood as | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
it premieres in London what is billed as its most expensive film | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
to date. Coming up in Sportsday: All of the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Carling Cup action, including Manchester United's bid to bounce | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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back from their humiliating defeat Good evening. Concern is mounting | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
that European leaders will fail to reach agreement on a comprehensive | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
solution for the euro-zone crisis at a summit tomorrow. The | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
discussions in Brussels may now only agreed broad principles. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
Tonight, attention is focused on Italy, which is during the day, the | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, added to the gloom by | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
saying that any deal reached by European leaders would create only | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
a breathing space of up to two years. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Tomorrow's summit has been billed as one of the most important | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
meetings in the European Union's history. However, as yet, there is | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
no clear agreement on how to sort out the euro-zone crisis and the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
clock is ticking. And new problems keep emerging. Today, the focus was | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
on Italy. Silvio Berlusconi may be all smiles, but he is in trouble. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
France and Germany have demanded he draw up a detailed plan of how he | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
intends to slash spending and to deliver it no later than tomorrow's | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
summit. Silvio Berlusconi bitterly resents being told what to do. But | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
France and Germany both know that for any deal to be convincing, it | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
has to explain what would happen to a bigger economy like Italy if it | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
ran into difficulty. Sure, the main bail out fund may be increased to | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
as much as one trillion Euros, but even that would not be enough. That | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
is why Italy is being told to make radical reforms. This is the | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
Italian problem. It has debts of 1.8 trillion Euros. Its debt, as a | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
percentage of GDP, is over 118%. And its growth is flat. But the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
papers in Italy are full of the bad blood between the Italian leader | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
and his French and German counterparts. It stems from this | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
moment at the weekend, when the two leaders were asked whether they | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
felt reassured by having met Mr Berlusconi. The glances and | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
smirking insulted many Italians. Even the Italian President has | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
complained. It led to this Brussels official having to insist that no | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
insult was intended towards Italy. TRANSLATION: People using the word | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
demand, requirement, humiliation. But there is no humiliation | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
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involved. When Silvio Berlusconi suggested raising the retirement | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
age to 6767, they said it was impossible. Tomorrow, the German | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
parliament will vote on increasing the firepower of the main bail out | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
fund. Even here, there are concerns that it could lead to pressure on | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
the European Central Bank. TRANSLATION: We mustn't allow an | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
understanding to develop where politicians come to expect | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
something from the ECB. Even if the EU get so all of these hurdles by | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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tomorrow, the question is whether any deal will work in the long term. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
The aim is to create a year or two's breathing space, but the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
other problems need to be resolved. Not only are new difficulties | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
emerging, but officials are struggling to reach agreement on | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
the most basic questions, how to reduce group debt and how to boost | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
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the firepower of the main bail out So, what sort of deal our European | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
leaders hoping to reach? And will it restore confidence, even if it | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
is reached? The eurozone economy and European | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
markets, a configuration in the making that threatens to score | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
chance Gardaworld. How to put it out? Well, with a bold and | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
expensive rescue package for the eurozone, which has been promised, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
although delivery is proving fraught. One thing European leaders | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
have already agreed is how to strengthen banks. They will be | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
forced to raise around 110 billion euros of capital in total, as | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
protection against losses on their loans to countries like Greece, | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
which had enormous debts. Germany's Deutsche Bank, a giant global bank | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
which runs investment banking from the City of London, is one of those | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
expected to raise billions in new capital against the risk that the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
likes of Greece and Italy do not repay all that they owe. But what | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
about Britain's big banks? Well, they are perceived to be strong | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
enough. Good news for taxpayers. To save the euro-zone, an emergency | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
bail out fund needs a big boost. The European financial stability | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
facility's 440 billion euros are being depleted by the rescues of | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Greece, Portugal and Ireland and by finance it may have to provide two | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
bands. There are only 250 billion euros left in the kitty. That is a | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
worry, because the Italian government on its own could need to | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
borrow all of that 250 billion euros next year, in the not | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
impossible event that lenders refuse to lend any more. There is a | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
complicated plan to give emergency fund more bang for its bark. But it | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
is a long way from being nailed down. The outstanding debt of Italy | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
and Spain, it is about to 0.2 trillion. This is what markets are | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
looking out for. It's the size we would need. But even with the most | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
likely outcome tomorrow, we will not reach that size. That is why | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
financial markets will most likely be disappointed. The need to cut | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Greek debts has become more urgent. Its economy, beset by more should - | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
- strikes, is its shrinking fast under the weight of debts. The | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
answer, according to euro-zone leaders, is for banks to write off | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
60% of what they are owed by the Greek government. But banks are | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
resisting. So, what will happen if euro-zone leaders fail to announce | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
a boulder bath rescue package? it becomes impossible to reach | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
agreement on key measures, and all we get is a series of platitudes | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
and complex, unwieldy, difficult to understand proposals, I think the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
implication is that the markets will take that quite badly. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
financial markets, panic spreads like a forest fire. Eurozone | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
leaders need to douse this one before it consumes all in its path. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
In a moment, we will be talking to our political editor Nick Robinson. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
First, let's speak to Gavin Hewitt in Brussels. Less than 24 hours to | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
go, what hope of a deal? Well, there is a working group of | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
officials still working now. There is no agreement yet. In this town, | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
hopes are fading of a Big Bang, a comprehensive solution. There are | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
still sticking points. Chief amongst them is how to reduce group | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
debt and how to get banks to take losses, agree to losses of up to | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
60%. That has not been resolved. The most at the moment we will get | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
tomorrow, I think, is an agreement in principle. What we probably will | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
not get are the hard numbers. We've got all that key detail that the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
markets will be looking for. At the moment, that looks pretty elusive. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
David Cameron was determined to be at this summit tomorrow. What does | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
he hope to achieve? One thing he is not going to achieve is to be we | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
put this at some new deal. -- to be witnessed at some new deal. That | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
has already been written off. There will be movement, but not a deal | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
tomorrow night. The Prime Minister sees his role as from the sidelines. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
That is where Britain finds itself on this eurozone crisis. It is | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
saying, you have to sort this out, you have to take big enough | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
measures, including trillions of pounds, to avoid this problem | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
happening again. He is there for a third reason, to say, I am here and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
I should be here. In other words, those leaders of countries that are | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
not in the eurozone have a right to be consulted because they are in | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
the EU. That is what led to his fight at the last summit with | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
President Sarkozy of France. David Cameron was ready to cancel a | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
foreign trip, simply to be there tomorrow night. Just 24 hours ago | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
he faced the rebellion in the Commons over Europe. How will that | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
affect his position tomorrow? Tomorrow, I don't doubt there will | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
have their mind on that. He was not helped in the morning after their | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
night before in the house of Commons, when Nick Clegg warned | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Tories that he would not tolerate what he called a smash-and-grab | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
raid across the Channel to get powers back from Brussels towards | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
Westminster. That has poured salt in David Cameron's wounds. At risk | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
of mixing my metaphors, the Prime Minister talked about the eurozone | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
having a chilling effect on the British economy. What we are also | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
seeing is that Europe is heating up British politics. Thank you both | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
very much. Five days after he was killed, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Libya's National Transitional Council says that Colonel Gaddafi | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
has been buried with his son, Mutassim, at a secret location in | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
the Libyan desert. Their bodies had been on public display at a meat | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
storage facility in his rata since they were killed last week. | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
These pictures, broadcast by the Dubai-based TV channel, report to | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
show the bodies of Colonel Gaddafi and his son being prepared for | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
burial. It is the only footage that has so far emerged, claiming to | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
show elements of the former dictator's secret funeral. A convoy | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
of cars arrived at night, at the complex where his corpse had been | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
on grisly display. Then they left, for an unknown destination in the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
desert. After days of disagreement over when and where to bury the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
body, the spectacle in the refrigerated meat container was now | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
finally over. Symbols are potent bargaining chips in the new Libya. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
This giant fist once did in Colonel Gaddafi's Tripoli compound. Now it | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
has been brought back here to Misrata, where the fighters who | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
mooted it show it as a sign of their achievement. Colonel | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Gaddafi's body was the ultimate war trophy. The five days of wrangling | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
over its burial were signs of the intensive political positioning | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
that is now going on behind the scenes. As the victors argue over | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
the spoils, defeated loyalists are getting used to a new reality. This | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
man was a trusted cleric under the deposed regime. Now a prisoner, he | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
was amongst those who prepared the body for burial. Colonel Gaddafi's | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
followers have only one option now, he says. They want to live good. It | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
has to change. Everything is clear now. The end of Gaddafi, it means a | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
new life. But it is not going to be easy. In Misrata, very slowly, life | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
is beginning to get back to normal as people change from their | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
military fatigues, back into civilian clothes. The real | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
revolution starts here, this man told me, after the death of Colonel | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Gaddafi. This is the peaceful revolution that we started back in | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
February. But the scale of the task is daunting. Reconstruction, | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
reconciliation and that rebuilding of a plural political system from | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
scratch. The road ahead will be a Two people have died in the Irish | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Republic after flooding caused by torrential downpours. A woman's | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
body was found in a flooded basement and a policeman was swept | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
away as a river burst its banks in County Wicklow. In Dublin, one of | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the main shopping centres was flooded after a month's rain fell | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
in 24 hours. Prince Charles says he's determined | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
to do his bit to help some of the most deprived parts of the country | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
during the economic downturn. During a visit to Burnley in | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Lancashire, he told the BBC that he will do what he can to boost | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
regeneration in some of England's most deprived towns. Mark Easton | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
has been to find out what help and support the Prince can offer. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
No one could accuse Prince Charles of choosing an easy place to try to | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
turn around. Burnley were struggling even in the boom years, | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
with thousands moving away to look for work, whole streets boarded-up, | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
windows and doors decorated to disguise the desolation. The heir | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
to the throne will today make sure and the inevitable supermarket | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
trolley, from the old mill town's canals. This is the Prince's fourth | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
visit to Burnley in just six years. When he first came, he was so | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
shocked by the social deprivation he encountered that he effectively | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
decided to adopt the town. 12 of his charities are now working in | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Burnley together, a model the Prince believes could be used | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
across the country. I realise people are suffering a terribly | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
difficult time but some of us are trying to do something and the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
point of what we are trying to do here is to see if there is a way of | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
tackling many of the issues that have led to sometimes a sense of | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
hopelessness and despair that it will always be like this. It is a | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
sense that is commonplace in Burnley, even among some of the | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
young people at a club set up by the Prince's charity. It will be a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
big challenge to turn it around, trying to get the people who don't | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
want to do good for themselves to get them to come to places like | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
this and get motivated for work. 19-year-old Sam is an example of | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
what is possible. After leaving school, he was homeless and | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
virtually unemployable. Now come up with help from the Prince's Trust, | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
he is a trained boiler engineer at today he shook hands with the | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
future king. Confidence. Rebuild myself. That is what they did for | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
me. Help me along the way. That mixture of business, charity, local | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
entrepreneurs, some people call that the "big society", but do you | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
think that is the way to get community...? Yes, I have been | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
trying to do that for 30 years. It is the most powerful way of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
ensuring you get something more sustainable and lasting. This felt | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
making workshop, another of his initiatives, echoes the traditions | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
of the cotton mills of Burnley's heyday. The Prince believes the | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
answers to the future are to be found in the past. | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
Is it about self-confidence? That is the point. You can use the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
existing identity of a place to build that confidence and hope. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
There is optimism in the Prince's tone, not merit in the mood of many | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
of Burnley's residents. -- not repeated. There is work to do. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: Celebrating change, but what now | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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for Tunisia the first Arab Spring nation to hold elections? | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Two days after the massive earthquake that hit Turkey killing | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
at least 432 people, its government has changed its mind and decided to | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
accept foreign aid to cope with the aftermath. -- At least 459 people. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Thousands of people in the east of the country are in desperate need | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
of shelter after their homes. Today rescuers managed to save a two- | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
week-old baby who was trapped with her family for two days beneath | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
tons of rubble. Daniel Sandford reports from the city of Ercis, one | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
of the worst hit areas. A third day of this rescue | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
operation began in the best possible way. A 16 day-old baby was | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
gently brought out through a tiny hole in the broken concrete. | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
APPLAUSE. Azra Karaduman was premature. She had been born a | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
month early. Two weeks into her life, she had only just escaped | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
death. With the tiny baby now safely on its way to hospital, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
rescue was a working hard to bring out through the same small gap its | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
mother and its grand mother. Both are still alive. In the crowd, | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
sheltering from the cold and rain, we found the baby's grandfather, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
Ahmet Karaduman, nervously waiting for news of his wife and daughter. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
TRANSLATION: At the moment it struck, my wife and daughter were | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
with me but the baby was in another room. We ran to leave the building | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
but the other two rushed back to get the baby. For two days, I have | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
been waiting for a miracle. For the next two hours, the rescue team | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
slowly expanded a hole in the rubble, working their way towards | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
the trapped women. They can't move down there, the man | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
who brought the baby out told me, and they have been there for almost | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
two days. Then, the breakthrough. Azra's | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
mother, Semiha Karaduman, was brought up and carefully carried | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
down to safety. 10 minutes later, the baby's grandmother followed. | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
She was also alive. Azra Karaduman is now safely in incubator and has | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
been taken away for treatment to a specialist hospital. Doctors say | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
she is doing well, better-than- expected, but her family isn't | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
complete. Her father has not been heard from since the earthquake | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
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struck. Like hundreds of others, he is still under the rubble. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
The Football Association has launched an investigation into | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
allegations that John Terry made racist remarks in a Premier League | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
match on Sunday. The Chelsea captain denies racially abusing | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand. He says he is looking | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
forward to the FA clearing his name. Manchester City have fined Carlos | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Tevez four weeks' wages for misconduct. The club say the | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Argentinean striker refused to warm up as a substitute during a | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Champions League match against Bayern Munich last month. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
In Tunisia, the country's main Islamist party has taken the lead | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
after the country's first ever democratic election. It follows the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Arab Spring revolts that swept the Middle East and North Africa at the | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
start of this year. Allan Little reports from the capital, Tunis, on | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
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how the moderate Islamists will It was, they claim, reward for | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
years of illegal resistance to dictatorship. Ennahda was banned | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
under the old regime and it is now the leading voice in the shaping of | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Tunisia's future. They insist they don't want an Islamic state, but an | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
open, secular, democratic republic. We are a political party, not a | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
religious party, just like the Christian Democrats in Germany. The | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
inspiration for our values and principles is our faith, Islam, but | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
we are very much concerned to address the modern, daily concerns | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
of the Tunisians. Religion and secularity, tradition and modernity | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
walk side by side. Ennahda say there are no plans to force women | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
to dress conservatively. On the contrary, gender equality in the | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
workplace is one of their policies. What then is his limits and here? - | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
- Islamism? When you ask people why they voted for Ennahda, they talk | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
about honesty in public life, the need for a government that will not | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
steal from the people. That is the reputation Ennahda built up | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
underground. They've voted for them not because they want an Islamic | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
state, they voted for them because they wanted a clean break from the | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
corruption of the old dictatorship. In the wealthier more secular | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
quarters of Tunis, there is no great alarm but behind the smiles, | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
some wonder whether Ennahda is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Will make | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
use power to subvert democracy? are kind of afraid of them. In | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
Tunis we are optimistic people. We are educated and it is going to | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
be... All right. The defeated sickest parties say there -- the | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
defeated secular parties say their job is to now a POS. If we leave | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
Ennahda alone, I think that the secular basis of our debate will | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
quickly changed. To what? To the debate of religious vision of the | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
state. And it will be very, very big catastrophe. But something new | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
is being born here. A democracy in the Arab world. There is much | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
promise in that and great optimism. It is being billed as the most | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
expensive film ever made by Bollywood. Ra. One is India's | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
answer to Hollywood's superhero films and draws heavily on American | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
style and marketing tactics. It was partly shot in Britain and | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
premiered in London tonight. But David Sillito asks whether | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Bollywood can really take on Hollywood when it comes to | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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Standing on the red carpet, with Shah Rukh Khan, you really can feel | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
the love. An Indian megastar, the king of Bollywood, and I must the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
fans, devotees from Belgium, Morocco... He kissed me! Oh my | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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Bollywood has long sought to expand its audience abroad but Ra.One, a | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
movie laden with effects, it is an area which has until now been pure | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
Hollywood. And despite all the noise and adulation, there are | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
nerves. I think it is the genre, the first time we are doing a genre | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
which is a little superior kind of genre because it has not been done | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
before. This is quite a shift for the Indian film industry? Yes, I | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
think so, and it is very scary and nerve-racking. You can't argue with | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
such star power, so why are they meddling with the formula? Ra.One | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
may be a reference to a figure in Hindu mythology but there is a very | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
different look and feel to this Bollywood product. There Arkley | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
commercial reasons why Indian films are trying to be more like American | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
films. A lot of people are watching Indian films from a number world | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
and the danger is the more you try to compete against Hollywood, the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
more you start to lose the very thing people love about Indian | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
films in the first place. British location, science-fiction, it is | :25:48. | :25:53. |