:00:04. > :00:10.Tonight at ten: Anger and recrimination in Egypt in
:00:10. > :00:17.the wake of the latest violence. Demonstrators are on the streets
:00:17. > :00:20.after the deaths of more than 70 football fans in clashes last night.
:00:20. > :00:29.The victims' families say there was a deliberate failure to provide
:00:29. > :00:33.adequate security and they blame the authorities. They stole money
:00:33. > :00:38.from the people for 30 years, and now they are spending the money to
:00:38. > :00:42.make gangsters and corruption in Egypt because they do not want the
:00:42. > :00:43.revolution to succeed. We'll have the latest from Cairo on
:00:43. > :00:46.the continuing unrest. Also tonight:
:00:46. > :00:52.As Prince William arrives in the Falklands for a tour of duty
:00:52. > :00:57.tensions rise in Argentina. Crowds attack British targets as the 30th
:00:57. > :01:00.anniversary of the Falklands conflict approaches.
:01:00. > :01:03.Cabinet minister Chris Huhne will find out tomorrow if he's to be
:01:03. > :01:08.charged over claims that his wife accepted speeding points on his
:01:08. > :01:13.behalf. The big freeze grips much of Europe.
:01:13. > :01:23.Many are trapped in remote villages. And what brain studies tell us
:01:23. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:29.And coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, the FA chairman
:01:29. > :01:39.asks members whether John Terry should stay as England captain
:01:39. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:51.while awaiting trial on racism Good evening.
:01:51. > :01:55.Thousands of Egyptians have been protesting in Cairo following the
:01:55. > :01:58.worst football violence in the country's history. 74 people died
:01:58. > :02:02.in clashes last night prompting angry recriminations on the streets
:02:02. > :02:08.and in parliament. It's underlined the continuing instability in Egypt
:02:08. > :02:11.almost a year after President Mubarak was swept from power. This
:02:11. > :02:20.is the scene live in Tahrir Square in Cairo tonight let's join our
:02:20. > :02:25.correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes who's there.
:02:25. > :02:30.Well, this evening, the centre of Cairo has once again been turned
:02:30. > :02:35.into something of a battlefield. We have seen this evening thousands
:02:35. > :02:41.and thousands of young people come into the centre of Cairo to gather
:02:41. > :02:44.in front of the Interior Ministry. And they have tried repeatedly to
:02:44. > :02:48.try to assault the Interior Ministry. They have been driven
:02:48. > :02:52.back time and again by barrages of tear-gas and rubber bullets. There
:02:52. > :02:57.have been hundreds of injuries tonight. We are not sure exactly
:02:57. > :03:01.how many. The authorities are saying 500 or 600 people have been
:03:01. > :03:07.injured. There has been a constant stream of ambulances taking the
:03:07. > :03:10.injured away. The fury in a Cairo tonight has been caused by the
:03:10. > :03:15.death of 74 people last night in Port Said in that football violence.
:03:15. > :03:19.There is anger, there is consternation, but more than that,
:03:19. > :03:23.there is deep, deep suspicion here from the protesters about who is
:03:23. > :03:28.really behind the violence that caused those deaths last night in
:03:28. > :03:34.Port Said. On the streets of Cairo this
:03:34. > :03:38.afternoon, they already have their own theories. These football fans
:03:38. > :03:48.are convinced the attack was planned and organised by Egypt's
:03:48. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:53.security forces. It is a crime down from the old regime. -- done by the
:03:53. > :03:55.old regime. They stole money from people for 30 years and now they
:03:55. > :04:00.are spending the money to make gangsters and corruption in Egypt
:04:00. > :04:09.because they do not want the revolution to succeed. There is so
:04:09. > :04:13.far no evidence to support that claim. These were the extraordinary
:04:13. > :04:21.scenes at Cairo railway station early this morning, as the train
:04:21. > :04:27.carrying survivors and the dead from Port Said pulled him. -- it
:04:27. > :04:33.pulled in. Thousands crowd the platforms. Justice, or death, they
:04:33. > :04:37.chant. This man immediately blames the head of Egypt's military junta
:04:37. > :04:43.for the deaths. Tantawi opened the doors so that the thugs could
:04:43. > :04:48.attack our friends, he said. As dawn breaks, another train pulls in.
:04:48. > :04:53.Anxious parents wait desperately for news. My son has not answered
:04:53. > :04:59.his phone since yesterday, this mother weeps, please, I beg you,
:04:59. > :05:03.help me find my son. This is how it all happened on live television. As
:05:03. > :05:08.the game ended, fans from the victorious Port Said team flooded
:05:08. > :05:12.the pitch. The Cairo team fled for their lives. But many of the Cairo
:05:12. > :05:17.fans were not so lucky. As they tried to flee, they were overrun,
:05:17. > :05:21.beaten, bludgeoned and stabbed. Today, the blood smeared seats tell
:05:21. > :05:27.of the brutality of the attacks. The piles of shoes show where
:05:27. > :05:31.bodies were crushed against locked gates. The head of each of's
:05:31. > :05:36.military junta met was shaken players from the Cairo team,
:05:36. > :05:39.promising the culprits will be found unpunished.
:05:39. > :05:43.TRANSLATION: With the result of his investigation, each one will take
:05:43. > :05:46.his punishment and we will know why and who caused this tragedy.
:05:46. > :05:50.with so many young people dead, nothing will stop some hear from
:05:50. > :06:00.believing that the old men who have ruled Egypt for so long are somehow
:06:00. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:12.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes with the latest on the unrest in Cairo.
:06:12. > :06:17.One of the other main stories: Prince William has arrived in the
:06:17. > :06:21.Falkland Islands to start a six- week tour of duty as an RAF search-
:06:21. > :06:26.and-rescue pilot. Britain says it is a routine deployment. Argentina
:06:26. > :06:29.says it is provocative, as tensions grow between the countries. With
:06:29. > :06:34.the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict approaching,
:06:34. > :06:38.Allan Little sent this report from the capital, Stanley.
:06:38. > :06:41.Argentina's rhetoric does not panic this place. The part-time soldiers
:06:41. > :06:49.of the Falkland Islands Defence Force patrol their wet and
:06:49. > :06:53.windswept island home. But no one fears another invasion. Officially,
:06:53. > :06:57.he is here as plane Flight Lieutenant Wales, not a senior
:06:57. > :07:01.British royal but a search and rescue helicopter pilot. That is
:07:01. > :07:04.not how the world sees it. The Falkland Islanders are welcome him
:07:04. > :07:09.as a restatement of the bond with Britain. Argentina said he was here
:07:09. > :07:14.in what it called the uniform of the Conqueror. But the Falklands
:07:14. > :07:19.are not spooked by the rhetoric. are in a very different place to 30
:07:19. > :07:23.years ago. The but my mission is to deter any military aggression to
:07:23. > :07:28.these islands, or to the other South Atlantic overseas territories.
:07:28. > :07:33.And it is only if that fails, should I need to defend this. And I
:07:33. > :07:38.have got the capabilities to do that. The islanders, even so, are
:07:38. > :07:42.glad of this, HMS dawn plus, one of the newest and most powerful
:07:42. > :07:46.warships in the fleet, equipped to repel attack from the air.
:07:46. > :07:50.Argentina says this has militarised the dispute, but Britain says it is
:07:50. > :07:55.a routine deployment, not an escalation.
:07:55. > :07:59.In Buenos Aires, a few dozen left- wing protesters Ed their fury at a
:07:59. > :08:08.city landmark once known as the English clock tower. -- they aired
:08:08. > :08:12.their fury. This protester condemned the presence of what he
:08:12. > :08:22.called the pirate Prince William, and a British bank was pelted with
:08:22. > :08:26.paint. The defiance of the islanders is shaped by memory. For
:08:26. > :08:30.many it is a living, vital thing that men came from 9000 miles away
:08:30. > :08:35.to win back their right for self- determination, and many of them
:08:35. > :08:39.died for it. And that experience underpins Britain's position, that
:08:39. > :08:46.whatever Argentina's claim to these islands, the rights of the people
:08:46. > :08:50.who live here to choose their own destiny remain non-negotiable. Port
:08:50. > :08:53.Stanley is as British as fish and chips, Sussex in the South Atlantic,
:08:53. > :08:58.loyal to the Crown through generations. No one here shares the
:08:58. > :09:03.view that Prince William's arrival is just another deployment. To the
:09:03. > :09:06.islanders, it is a restatement of their bond with Britain. He is a
:09:06. > :09:10.very important member of the Royal Family so it means a lot to the
:09:10. > :09:14.islanders that Britain believe that he should be here in the Falklands
:09:14. > :09:18.serving in our defence. Falklands are forging ahead with
:09:18. > :09:23.oil exploration, to the fury of Argentina. But no one here cares
:09:23. > :09:27.much Argentine sensibilities. they feel it is a provocation to
:09:27. > :09:31.them, that is their view. The UK Government has no doubt about the
:09:31. > :09:33.Falklands sovereignty, being British, and no doubt about the
:09:33. > :09:39.right of the Falklands government to explore for offshore mineral
:09:39. > :09:42.resources. 1982 casts its shadow, for what happened here made this
:09:42. > :09:49.distant, difficult place still more steadfast in its enduring
:09:49. > :09:52.Britishness. Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary,
:09:52. > :09:56.will find out tomorrow morning if he is to be charged over claims
:09:56. > :09:59.that his former wife accepted speeding penalty points on his
:09:59. > :10:04.behalf. The Director of Public Prosecutions will make a statement
:10:04. > :10:09.on the decision. Chris Huhne has consistently denied the accusations.
:10:09. > :10:12.Essex police have been examine the allegations dating back to 2003 for
:10:12. > :10:15.several months. Let's get the latest from Vicki Young at
:10:15. > :10:19.Westminster. How do you see the potential impact of what happens
:10:19. > :10:25.tomorrow? It could be very damaging for the coalition. These
:10:25. > :10:28.allegations have been hanging over Chris Huhne for several months. The
:10:28. > :10:32.Director of Public Prosecutions has called in the TV cameras tomorrow
:10:32. > :10:36.morning at 10am to explain the decision. It is unusual but not
:10:36. > :10:42.unprecedented for him to do this. It does not give much of a clue as
:10:42. > :10:44.to which way the decision has gone. I think the brown cock -- the Crown
:10:44. > :10:49.Prosecution Service will be keen to explain their decision, whichever
:10:49. > :10:52.way it has gone, because it is such a high-profile figure. The dilemma
:10:52. > :10:55.for the coalition if charges are brought against Chris Huhne is
:10:55. > :10:58.whether he remains in the Cabinet will stop me claim has hinted there
:10:58. > :11:02.have been discussions with civil servants and the Prime Minister
:11:02. > :11:07.about all of this. If he has to stand down it will be a blow for
:11:07. > :11:10.the Liberal Democrats. He is a senior figure and highly regarded
:11:10. > :11:13.among grassroots Liberal Democrats as someone who is willing to stand
:11:13. > :11:17.up to the Conservatives. He has always denied he has done anything
:11:17. > :11:23.wrong and has been confident he will not be prosecuted. Tomorrow at
:11:23. > :11:27.9am he will find out whether he was right or not.
:11:27. > :11:31.A pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced it is to cut 7300
:11:31. > :11:36.jobs worldwide. The firm employs 8000 people in the UK and unions
:11:36. > :11:41.claim up to 350 jobs are expected to go at the company's Alderley
:11:41. > :11:45.Park site in Cheshire. William Hague has called for more
:11:45. > :11:48.action to tackle the terrorist threat from Somalia, as he became
:11:48. > :11:52.the first British Foreign Secretary to visit there in 20 years. His
:11:53. > :11:56.arrival in the capital, Mogadishu, signals the start of a major
:11:56. > :12:01.diplomatic push to restore stability in the country. He
:12:01. > :12:04.described Somalia as the world's most failed state.
:12:04. > :12:07.The football manager Harry Redknapp has angrily denied telling lies at
:12:07. > :12:11.his trial for tax evasion, but he did admit misleading a journalist
:12:11. > :12:15.who had asked him about money paid into an offshore bank account when
:12:15. > :12:20.he was manager at Portsmouth. Mr Redknapp and his former chairman at
:12:20. > :12:26.the club, Milan Mandaric, both deny the charges against them. This
:12:26. > :12:30.report contains flash photography. Accused of setting up an offshore
:12:30. > :12:34.bank account to avoid paying tax, Harry Redknapp arrived for a second
:12:34. > :12:40.day in the witness box. He denies that a payment in Monaco was a
:12:40. > :12:45.bonus for the transfer of Peter Crouch. Evidence has been utterly
:12:45. > :12:48.misleading, said the prosecution. Absolutely not, replied Redknapp.
:12:48. > :12:51.The court heard that Harry Redknapp had first found out about the
:12:51. > :12:54.allegations when he received a phone call from a reporter at the
:12:54. > :13:04.News of the World. He claims that in the recorded conversation which
:13:04. > :13:26.
:13:26. > :13:32.Harry Redknapp was asked about his dog. "I like Rosie. I don't like
:13:32. > :13:37.calling her a dog. She was better than that.". As the cross-
:13:37. > :13:43.examination grew to a close, the at atmosphere became heated. Harry
:13:43. > :13:48.Redknapp was accused of telling a pack of lies. The Tottenham manager
:13:48. > :13:51.said, "You think I would put my hand on the Bible and tell lies.
:13:51. > :13:56.Everything I have told you is the truth, the whole truth and nothing
:13:56. > :14:01.but the truth, so help me God.". The prosecution continued, "Mr
:14:01. > :14:06.Redknapp you have come to this court and twisted your account to
:14:06. > :14:11.get and Mr Mandaric off the hook., "Absolutely Not." Harry Redknapp
:14:11. > :14:14.went on to say, "Give me the Bible back and I will put my hand on it.".
:14:14. > :14:17.The jurors were told they would be sent out to consider their verdicts
:14:17. > :14:25.on Tuesday. Tomorrow the prosecution will give their closing
:14:26. > :14:28.Coming up on tonight's programme: 200 years after the birth of
:14:28. > :14:38.Charles Dickens, new research on how he created the characters in
:14:38. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:41.Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become
:14:41. > :14:47.drug addicts according to scientists at the University of
:14:47. > :14:50.Cambridge. Experts have been unsure whether drugs changed the wiring of
:14:50. > :14:54.the brain or if drug addicts' brains were wired differently in
:14:54. > :15:03.the first place. But the new study suggests that conditions can be
:15:03. > :15:07.inherited which make addiction more It is one of the great scurges of
:15:07. > :15:12.the modern world, addiction to drugs. But what determines who gets
:15:12. > :15:17.hooked? New research offers an answer. The study focused on
:15:17. > :15:21.addicts and their siblings like Sophia and Teresa. Brought up
:15:21. > :15:27.together in the same troubled family, they describe how one
:15:27. > :15:34.stayed clean and the other didn't. I was about 19 and it was the
:15:34. > :15:38.people I was hanging around with, the influences so, but it wasn't, I
:15:38. > :15:43.didn't get into the crack until I was 30.
:15:43. > :15:47.I'm not holier than thou, but I think I just already knew early on
:15:47. > :15:53.in my life that there were certain things I wanted to do and wanted to
:15:53. > :16:00.achieve. The study involved scanning 50 addicts and their
:16:00. > :16:04.siblings. Teresa took part for her sister's sake. The aim to see, if
:16:04. > :16:09.there are clue to say addiction in the brain and the results are
:16:09. > :16:14.surprising. What is revealed by the research is potentially useful. The
:16:14. > :16:18.siblings of addicts and the addicts themselves share a similar pattern
:16:18. > :16:24.of abnormalities in their brains. Physical evidence that you can
:16:24. > :16:29.inherit, conditions that put you at risk. The scans show how this works
:16:29. > :16:33.inside the brain. The area governing emotion is bigger than
:16:33. > :16:38.normal in addicts than their siblings. Another part involved in
:16:38. > :16:43.habit forming is also larger than usual. The connections that manage
:16:43. > :16:46.self-control are relatively inefficient. So how do the siblings
:16:46. > :16:50.avoid addiction? These brothers and sisters who
:16:50. > :16:56.don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they
:16:56. > :17:00.managed to overcome these problems. What they do in their daily life,
:17:00. > :17:05.how they manage self-control in a a daily life.
:17:05. > :17:11.Sophia and Teresa were tested for self-control, they share
:17:11. > :17:15.abnormalities in their brains, but turned out different differently.
:17:15. > :17:19.The long-term goal is to prevent addiction.
:17:19. > :17:22.This study is one step along the way of identifying people who are
:17:22. > :17:28.at risk and at this stage though, it doesn't give us any answers as
:17:28. > :17:34.to how we can intervene. So emeetate benefits reason likely,
:17:34. > :17:44.but having a clearer idea of who is most vulnerable to help steer them
:17:44. > :17:47.An inquiry has been ordered into the tax affairs of top civil
:17:47. > :17:50.servants. It comes after an investigation by BBC Newsnight
:17:50. > :17:52.which revealed that the chief executive of the Student Loans
:17:52. > :18:00.Company was paid through his private company which meant he
:18:00. > :18:04.could avoid normal tax deductions. Civil servants in Whitehall get
:18:04. > :18:07.paid by the taxpayer. How how much tax should they have to pay
:18:07. > :18:13.themselves? Over the last two years, this official, Ed Lester, has been
:18:13. > :18:18.able to avoid paying tens of thousands of pounds in tax legally.
:18:18. > :18:23.In 2010 he was appointed by David Willetts to head up the Student
:18:23. > :18:28.Loans Company. But It has emerged that ministers and officials agreed
:18:28. > :18:35.to pay Mr Leicester �182,000 for his work in Glasgow, but the salary
:18:35. > :18:39.was paid into a company based in London. A move that meant he could
:18:39. > :18:43.pay less tax. Today, the minister who signed off the salary was
:18:43. > :18:46.forced to the Commons to eat humble pie.
:18:46. > :18:50.He said Mr Leicester will pay income tax and national insurance
:18:50. > :18:52.like the rest of us and accountants will scour Whitehall to make sure
:18:52. > :18:56.no other officials were paid this way.
:18:56. > :18:59.At a time when we have to pull in the same direction to tackle the
:18:59. > :19:03.country's financial problems, it is essential we pay our full and fair
:19:03. > :19:06.share, that is why I have taken this action to make sure Government
:19:06. > :19:09.departments don't support tax avoidance schemes.
:19:09. > :19:14.For MPs on all sides, that wasn't good enough.
:19:14. > :19:17.Those working at the front-line in the public sector will find these
:19:18. > :19:21.revelations obscene. At a time when the economy is flat
:19:21. > :19:26.lining and students are facing a tripling of of student fees the
:19:26. > :19:32.news that ministers approved the contract of a senior official shows
:19:32. > :19:36.just how out-of-touch they are. It is not clear who approved Mr
:19:36. > :19:39.Leicester's tax deal. Documents obtained by the BBC appear to show
:19:39. > :19:43.Mr Willetts, the universe minister, was aware of the deal and he
:19:43. > :19:47.claimed that Mr Alexander at the Treasury had approved it.
:19:47. > :19:52.Mr Alexander says he wasn't aware of the tax benefits. Either way,
:19:52. > :19:55.students were not impressed. The idea that the Government are
:19:56. > :20:00.telling us they can't afford Education Maintenance Allowance and
:20:00. > :20:03.can't afford to fund our universities, but they can come to
:20:03. > :20:07.arrangements with senior public servants to avoid tax. That's a
:20:07. > :20:11.kick in the teeth for us. The inquiry will fin out how many
:20:11. > :20:15.more officials in Westminster will have similar tax deals, deals that
:20:15. > :20:21.are embarrassing for a Government that is trying to tackle tax
:20:21. > :20:24.avoidance, a Government that claims The editor of the Times, James
:20:24. > :20:31.Harding, is to be recalled to the Leveson Inquiry to answer questions
:20:31. > :20:34.about alleged hacking of emails at the paper. The inquiry has been
:20:34. > :20:37.told that a Times journalist accessed the emails of a police
:20:37. > :20:39.internet blogger. The editor of the Sun, Dominic Mohan, has also been
:20:39. > :20:42.recalled to answer further questions.
:20:42. > :20:45.In Serbia rescue services are trying to reach thousands of people
:20:45. > :20:49.trapped in remote villages by the snow. The authorities are using
:20:49. > :20:53.helicopters and sledges to try to supply food. Much of Europe is
:20:53. > :21:00.still in the grip of the extreme cold weather and temperatures have
:21:00. > :21:04.fallen as low as minus 30 Celsius as Luisa Baldini tells us.
:21:04. > :21:08.When it is as cold as in Romania, a walk by the sea becomes a walk on
:21:08. > :21:14.the sea and in the port, forget boats, bobbing about, here they are
:21:14. > :21:20.stuck fast in the frozen waters. Where the sea is moving, it does so
:21:20. > :21:27.with one big slushy swell. It may look pretty in places, but these
:21:27. > :21:32.Arctic conditions are causing misery and deaths across Europe.
:21:32. > :21:37.Temperatures have plunged to below minus 20 Celsius and the snow is up
:21:37. > :21:44.to five meters deep. 11,000 people in rural areas are cut off. The
:21:44. > :21:53.most desperate are rescued by helicopter.
:21:53. > :21:58.Or if they can get access, by snow mobile.
:21:58. > :22:04.Workers at a fish farm cut holes in the ice, to allow oxygen into the
:22:04. > :22:08.water. The blast of icy water has been feeding in from Siberia and
:22:08. > :22:11.enveloped much of Europe. We are on the edge of this cold
:22:11. > :22:15.weather across Europe at the moment, but our temperatures are struggling
:22:15. > :22:20.and the problem for the week we have milder air trying to come in
:22:20. > :22:23.from the Atlantic as that bumps up against the cold air, we are likely
:22:24. > :22:27.to see snow. The Pennines was covered today.
:22:27. > :22:32.This is high ground so it is not unusual, but other parts of the
:22:32. > :22:37.country where it has been mild may see similar scenes come the weekend.
:22:37. > :22:47.Warmer climes than our own have succumbed to the snow. This was
:22:47. > :22:49.
:22:50. > :22:52.Marseille today, the French Riviera New historical research on the
:22:52. > :22:55.novelist Charles Dickens suggests he based some of the characters in
:22:55. > :22:58.his books on people living around him in London. It's claimed that
:22:58. > :23:01.Oliver Twist was based on the residents of one particular street
:23:01. > :23:03.and that other stories were based on those living nearby. Will
:23:04. > :23:06.Gompertz has been looking at the new research and Dickens' enduring
:23:06. > :23:09.appeal. Charles Dickens is one of the great writers. The academics
:23:10. > :23:13.are convinced so are the public. His books have never been out of
:23:13. > :23:18.print. There are many reasons to admire his work. The style, the
:23:18. > :23:21.characters, and the subject matter. Few authors documented their time
:23:21. > :23:26.more incisively than Charles Dickens. Now a a new book claims to
:23:26. > :23:31.reveal the extent to which he was influenced by by his surroundings.
:23:31. > :23:37.This is a street in Central London which the new book claims was
:23:37. > :23:40.Dickens inspiration for when he was writing Oliver Twist, he did once
:23:40. > :23:44.live here at the top and he would have walked up and down this road
:23:44. > :23:49.doing his favourite thing, which was observing every day life with
:23:49. > :23:52.his attuned ear for dialogue and his eye for detail. This building,
:23:52. > :23:58.for example, was a workhouse when he lived in the street, not unlike
:23:58. > :24:01.the one he writes about in Oliver Twist. The historian who wrote and
:24:01. > :24:07.researched the book, took me on a tour of the area, pointing out more
:24:07. > :24:13.of the people and places on which Dickens drew.
:24:13. > :24:17.I found Dan Weller, like Sam Weller and I found William sciction and
:24:17. > :24:24.that's the -- Sykes and that's the villain in Oliver Twist.
:24:24. > :24:27.This series is set on a fictional council estate in Manchester. It
:24:27. > :24:32.has socialal real -- social realism at its heart.
:24:32. > :24:40.No surprise then that its writer is a Dickens fan.
:24:40. > :24:47.He was making the world want to read about the state of the British
:24:47. > :24:52.under class. That's what he did. That's an act of genius. You compel
:24:52. > :24:55.somebody to read what they most don't want to read about. It stole
:24:55. > :25:00.the nation's heart through fiction and I think fiction is one of the
:25:00. > :25:06.finest ways of telling the truth. Please sir, I want some more.
:25:06. > :25:08.The author of a recent Dickens biography reveals that was his
:25:08. > :25:16.great skill. He was a great reporter. He began
:25:16. > :25:21.as a reporter so he combines, I think, the acute perceptive eye of
:25:21. > :25:27.a reporter with a poetic imagination. So he embroiders upon
:25:27. > :25:32.reality through language. And that is absolutely marvellous.
:25:32. > :25:37.And it is that gift which has given Dickens his enduring appeal to
:25:37. > :25:42.readers and writers alike. He exposed the universal appeals of
:25:42. > :25:46.life still as true today as they were 200 years ago when he was born.
:25:46. > :25:50.Newsnight is starting in a few minutes on BBC Two and they will be