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Tonight at 10, on the rise again, the rate of unemployment is the | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
highest for 16 years. It rose by 48,000 at the end of last year to | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
reach 2.67 million, affecting people right across the UK. I feel | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
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humiliated. I feel like it is... I feel like it's my fault. Amid the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
gloom, the Bank of England insists there are glimmers of hope. With | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
falling inflation and the prospect of an end to the squeeze in real | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
incomes, leading to a recovery in growth, we are moving in the right | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
direction. We will be looking at the latest prospects for the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
British economy. Also tonight: Blaming the Germans, | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
anger in Greece at the latest delay any bail-out deal. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
In rural Gloucestershire, a man is arrested after a vicar is found | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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The Iranians delight in the latest advances in their nuclear programme. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
And directing her first film, set in the Bosnian conflict, we talk to | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Angelina Jolie. Some people want to deny that it even happened. And | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
those people will be angry. And coming up in Sportsday at | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
10:30pm on the BBC News Channel, or the latest sports news, including a | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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tough night for Arsenal in Milan in Good evening. The number of people | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
out of work has risen again to the highest rate for 16 years as a | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
record number of young people is out of work and there has been a | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
big increase in the number of people working part-time. But the | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Governor of the Bank of England says the economy is moving in the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
right direction in his view, with falling inflation and the prospect | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
of stronger growth. Economics editor Stephanie Flanders has more | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
details. Britain's road to economic recovery | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
is going to be slow and difficult, that much we already knew, but the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
latest signs are that it is not getting a lot worse. Take | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
unemployment. Today's figures show the broadest measure of joblessness | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
rising to 2.67 million, or 8.4%. That is nearly 180,000 higher than | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
a year ago, but the smallest increase since June. The number in | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
work was also up by 60,000. The figures raised hopes that | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
unemployment might be levelling out, but youth unemployment back row is | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
still heading up, and the bulk of the new jobs being created work | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
part-time. Before we move on to another contributor... At a special | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
debate for Radio 5 Live in Salford, Maik Taylor had this to say about | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
the experience of being out of work. I feel humiliated. I feel... Like | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
it is... I feel like it's my fault. Getting emotional, sorry! Speaking | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
on a hospital visit, the Prime Minister was suitably cautious. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
course, it is disappointing that unemployment has risen again in the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
last quarter, but the number of people in work, the number of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
people in employment has increased, too, and the number of vacancies in | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
our economy is up as well. What we need to do is to get the economy | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
growing faster so that we create more jobs and therefore get on top | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
of unemployment. For the Labour leader, that was not cautious, it | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
was complacent. I think it is a tragedy that so many young people | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
are out of work in this country. We should be offering them real hope. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
We say tax the bankers' bonuses and use that money to create real jobs | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
for young people. The Bank of England offered his view on the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
future today in its latest quarterly report. The bank still | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
expects inflation to tumble this year, and for the first time in a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
while it did not slashed its growth forecast for the next year or so. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
The Governor does not want anyone to think this is don't you be easy. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
There is a limit to what monetary policy can achieve when real | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
adjustments are required. But with falling inflation and the prospect | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
of an end to the squeeze in real incomes, leading to a recovery of | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
growth, we are moving in the right direction. The bank is actually | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
more upbeat about growth next year than many in the City and also | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
thinks we have more room to grow without triggering inflation than | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
the Office for Budget Responsibility has been telling the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Chancellor. Everyone agrees that the longer it takes for us to | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
recover from the crisis, the more costly it is likely to be. Simon | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Kearney finished a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer in | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
2008, but he never got the chance to turn those skills into a full- | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
time job. He is on the dole now and feels like all the training has | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
gone to waste. There is not as much work going on, you do not see it | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
happening. I have sort of given up on it now until it blows over. And | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
not applying for anything. Anything and everything. The road to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
recovery looks a bit clearer than it did a few weeks ago, but there | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
are still plenty of bums that could take as of course, the eurozone, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
say, or a spike in the price of oil. What we cannot see that are any | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
short cuts. As we have heard, the threat to the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
economy posed by the crisis in the eurozone has again been underlined | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
by the Bank of England. Those tensions are still evident tonight | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
as Greece struggles to convince the EU and the IMF that it has met all | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the conditions to qualify for a new bail-out fund. A decision is now | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
set for Monday, but the Greek President said this evening that | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
the persistent doubts were an insult to his country. Matthew | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Price reports. Above the streets of Athens today, | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
a gesture of desperation from a woman threatening to jump. She | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
cannot repay her debts, she cannot afford to care for her child. They | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
pulled her back from the edge, but Greece is on the brink. Next, a | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
gesture of empathy from a man who can afford it, the President gave | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
up his salary. Even he is feeling the pressure, lashing out at | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Germany's finance minister, who has accused Greece of becoming a | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
bottomless pit. TRANSLATION: We all have an obligation to put our backs | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
into it to overcome the crisis. I cannot accept that as a Greek. Been | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
busy that he can insult Greece? the street, too, the Germans are | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
figures of eight. In Berlin, many feel support and Hutton's may no | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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longer be the best course of action. -- support in Athens. Greece will | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
still be heavily in debt after the restructuring. They will have a | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
debt ratio of more than 120% in the year 2020, so this is not really | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
sustainable. Brussels, and not a euro finance minister inside. Their | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
meeting to discuss the crisis was downgraded to a Tanni conference. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
The finance ministers should have been here this evening, finalising | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
the terms of the second bail-out for Greece. Instead, following | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
their phone conversation, they have said that they hope to do it next | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
week. This is now a question of trusts, and many of Europe's | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
countries simply do not believe that Athens can implement the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
needed reforms. The growing sense is of European this union. -- this | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
union. Italy's Prime Minister today warned that the debt crisis is | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
dividing Europe. It is certainly shattering Greece. 150,000 public | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
sector workers will lose their jobs, the minimum wage is being slashed, | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
there is endless austerity. For now, Europe's leaders will pay the bills, | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
but only for as long as having Greece in the euro is less painful | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
than booting it out. With me here is economics editor | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Stephanie Flanders. Again tonight we are talking about the impact of | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
this crisis on our economy, and there is more uncertainty tonight. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Yes, we have had a contrast, really. In the last few weeks we had been | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
feeling a little bit optimistic about the eurozone crisis as a | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
whole, and a bit more upbeat about the European economy, but these | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
mounting doubts and the mounting stand-off over the second bailout | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
for Greece, and I think you have heard tonight and in the last few | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
days, this battle of words between the European negotiators and the | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Greeks. The Europeans have lost patience with the crease. They are | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
imposing tough conditions and using nasty red tricks', which is making | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
harder for the Greek politician to come onside. -- nasty rhetoric. I | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
think it has the whiff, Huw, of a bit of an endgame, and things may | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
change, but it has the feel to many that it is heading to something | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
messy for Greece, a messy divorce. A lot of European ministers and | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
officials think that it would not necessarily be the catastrophe for | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the system and would not produce the contagion that we might have | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
feared a year or two ago. The system is now stronger. If they are | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
right, we should feel worried about the implications for Greece but not | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
worried about the implications for us. If they are wrong, and some | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
people think they are, they are understating the costs, we could be | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
in for a bumpy time. Thank you very much, Stephanie Flanders. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Police have been giving more time to question a 43-year-old man | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
arrested on suspicion of murder after a clergyman was found dead at | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
a vicarage in Gloucestershire. The Reverend John Suddards suffered | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
multiple stab wounds at his home in Thornbury. The alarm was raised by | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
workmen who arrived at the building yesterday morning and found it | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
locked. Jon Kay reports. The Reverend John Suddards moved to | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
this rural parish last summer in search of a quiet life. His death | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
has been anything but. His body was found inside the vicarage by | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
builders who were due to start work. He had suffered multiple stab | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
wounds. This is now a murder investigation... The police, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
flanked by senior members of the clergy, this afternoon revealed | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
that a three-year-old man had been arrested. They asked for | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
information about the vicars were and about his personal life. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
visited him? Who were the people that the associated with? In | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
particular, I am keen to speak to anybody who saw the Reverend after | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
12:30pm on Monday. The police say they do not know much about the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
reverent because he only moved here a few months ago. Until then, he | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
had worked in Essex, where he was filmed by the BBC. His career was | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
unusual. Originally a barrister, he decided to join the clergy after a | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
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Today, members of his new congregation gathered to express | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
their sadness. Cornbury is a small Gloucestershire market town with | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
very little crime. -- Thornbury. Parishioners were clearly shocked | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
by what has happened to a man they said was a much-loved member of | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
their community. Very, very sad. Lots of prayers. Such a nice man, I | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
shook his hand on Sunday morning. The Bishop of Gloucester came here | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
tonight to reassure the community. He said this case was a reminder of | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
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just how vulnerable members of the A woman has been charged tonight | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
with the murder of a 13-year-old girl was found with stab wounds in | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
a park in Doncaster. Casey-Lyanne Kearney managed to call 999 after | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
being attacked but died later in hospital. A 26-year-old woman will | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
appear in court tomorrow. An extensive fire swept through a | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
prison in the Central American country of Honduras and the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
authorities say that more than 300 prisoners may have died, many more | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
injured. It started late last night at the jail in Comayagua. Officials | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
have blamed an electrical fault, but press reports say there had | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Iran has announced new developments in its nuclear weapons programme. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
State television reported that for the first time, Iranian-made | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
nuclear fuel rods have been loaded into a research reactor in Tehran. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
The event was attended by President Ahmadinejad. But the Americans | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
claim the announcement had more to do with distracting attention from | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the damage being done by international sanctions, as James | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a PhD in traffic management. But he often | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
likes to play the part of a nuclear physicist. This afternoon Iran's | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
President inspected new home-made fuel rods for a research reactor in | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
Tehran. All made without any help from the West. TRANSLATION: They | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
restricted scientific achievement to themselves. They have used it to | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
fight humanity. Science should be invested in people's well-being and | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
to organise international relations based on friendship, respect and | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
justice. The most important of the President's announcements on state | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
TV may be the installation of 3,000 new centrifuges for uranium | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
enrichment. In itself, this move does not prove that Iran is | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
pursuing nuclear weapons, but it puts the country in a better | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
position to do so if it chooses. it's true that Iran is introducing | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
3,000 more centrifuges and they are more efficient, that is significant. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
It means the timeline for Iran being able to produce a nuclear | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
weapon, if they decided to do so, is significantly shorter. Exactly | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
how much shorter is some think that negotiators will try to work out. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
The last time that world powers and around sat down for nuclear talks a | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
year ago, they achieved nothing. But Iran has now told the West that | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
it is ready to have another go. And this is what makes things all the | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
more urgent. Only this week, Israel accused Iran of carrying out | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
assassination attempts against Israeli diplomats in India, George | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
and Thailand. It is a charge denied by Iran, adding to the sense that | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
Iran must be stopped. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
As police crack down on illegal moneylenders, we hear about the | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
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These things have happened. You always get your money in the end. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Give them a slap and you get your With just two months to go to the | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
first round of the French presidential elections, President | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
Sarkozy has formally declared his intention to run for a second term. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
He described himself as a "ship's captain in a storm" and promised to | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
protect voters from the effects of the world's economic problems. But | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
as our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt reports from Paris, Mr Sarkozy is | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
trailing behind his Socialist opponent in the polls. There's some | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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Nicolas Sarkozy, impulsive, hyperactive, the President still | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
bubbling with ambition. Yet facing an immense challenge if he is to | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
win a second term. Tonight he chose a TV programme to announce his bid | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
for re-election. His pitch to the French people was that he was a | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
tough realist in a period of unprecedented crisis. TRANSLATION: | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Can you imagine a captain leaving his boat in the heart of the storm, | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
saying I'm tired, I'm quitting? no candidate has been so far behind | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
in the polls so close to an election and won, and many of those | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
who voted for him last time are disillusioned. In France it is | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
shocking to see him in a luxury boat, to see him in a fancy | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
restaurant on the night of his election. For people in France it | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
is shocking. I am quite OK with his view of the function of the economy. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
He is creating so much division between people. To get to the | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Elysee, President Sarkozy sold himself as an outsider, a leader | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
determined to modernise the French economy, open it up and make it | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
more like that of Britain and the United States. But the reforms have | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
turned out to be modest. Yes, pensions were reformed, but the | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
economy stalled, businesses closed, unemployment rose and France lost | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
its treasured AAA credit rating. And then there was image. He | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
married a supermodel, Carla Bruni, but the French people saw a leader | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
who they thought enjoyed too much the lifestyle of the rich and | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
famous. He doesn't behave in the classical wave. He is way too | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
flashy, two bling-bling. Some people would say too vulgar. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
the moment, the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, is significantly | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
ahead in the polls and the President faces a strong challenge | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
from Marine Le Pen from the far right. President Sarkozy has | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
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acknowledged that in 10 weeks, he could be out of power. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service and the Met Police have paid a family | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
half-a-million pounds in compensation after a child witness | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
was identified to a gang. The details only came to light after | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
the BBC appealed to the information commissioner. The 16-year-old boy | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
had been promised anonymity to give evidence about a violent gang | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
attack, but his name and address were inadvertently passed to gang | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
members. As the economy falters and | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
households face more pressure on their finances, there is growing | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
evidence that more people are turning to loan sharks. The numbers | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
affected have more than doubled over the past five years, but | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
taking money from illegal money lenders is usually the start of a | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
much more serious and more dangerous problem. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Life is getting harder on Britain's estates. It is the cost of the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
basic things, food and fuel, tipping many families into poverty. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
And with so little room for manoeuvre, more people than ever | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
before are turning to illegal loan sharks. This victim would only | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
speak anonymously. She had to borrow �200 after her husband lost | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
his job. She ended up paying more than �3,000 back. On one particular | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
day, he found me coming through the front door and he followed me in to | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
my house. He started threatening me. He had another big guy with him. | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
This big guy got hold of my hand and took my wedding ring. And my | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
engagement ring. That is payment for today. I will be back on | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
Wednesday for some cash. He got me by the throat and told me if I | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
wasn't in on Wednesday, he was going to kill my dogs. He was | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
jailed for four years. We persuaded another loan shark in south-east | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
London to talk to us. He loaned out more than �80,000 last year and | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
says he has more than doubled his money. These loans are a legal so | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
he has insisted on a hiding his face. Most times it doesn't come to | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
violence, they know to pay up. if it has to resort to violence? | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Well, these things have happened. You always get your money in the | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
end. A little slap and they come up with the money. People here say | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
these are desperate times, their daily life is getting harder and | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
harder. And almost everybody knows someone who has had to use a loan | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
shark. If you live on an estate like this, it might be your only | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
option. More than 300,000 families in England are in debt to illegal | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
lenders. Police are now taking a hard line. This is one of four, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
ordinated raids across Salford. have seen examples where loan | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
sharks have appeared with children, they have walked them home from | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
school. That must be so frightening for young single mum to see the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
loan shark walking young children back from school. Other instances | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
where people have been kidnapped off the street and then tortured. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
This raid resulted in three arrests in Salford, but where legal credit | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
is so hard to come by, the loan sharks will continue to fill the | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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void. Football now, and Arsenal have lost | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
heavily in the Champions League. They were beaten 4-0 by AC Milan in | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Italy in the first leg of their last-16 match. The first goal was | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
this special strike by Kevin-Prince Boateng. Robinho scored two goals | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
more before Zlatan Ibrahimovic finished the scoring with a penalty. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
The atrocities committed in the Bosnian war must not be forgotten, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
says Angelina Jolie, who has directed her first film based on | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
the conflict in the 1990s. It is called In The Land Of Blood And | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Honey. It was unveiled in Sarajevo last night. Alan Little returned to | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the city to talk to Angelina Jolie about her work. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
For 14 months the streets were deceived -- besieged and bombarded. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
The memory is ever present. 20 years on, Sarajevo's still wants it | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
story told. It has found an unlikely champion. The demand for | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
tickets was enormous so they moved the screening to a former Olympic | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
sports stadium. The warmth of the welcome was spontaneous, | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
momentarily overpowering. But this is not been easy film. It depicts | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
in bleak and chilling detail the brutal forced removals of non-Serbs | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
for ethnic cleansing. At its heart there is a doomed love story across | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
the ethnic divide. Many left feeling the Bosnian story had been | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
told at last in unsparing honesty. Everybody who was here in Sarajevo | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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knows what happened. I was here during this war. I feel this movie | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
went deep. It was very good. I am very glad that she made it. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Angelina Jolie and wrote the script herself. She had been nervous about | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
how Bosnians would react. You know these people sitting here will be | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
reminded of the most painful time of their lives. Will they feel | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
comfortable will this? Will they be upset? I don't know. I was | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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terrified. When they stood up, I just wanted to cry. But the | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
divisions impose remain. Go to the Serb half of the country and you | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
enter a parallel universe. Angelina Jolie is not welcome here. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
TRANSLATION: Serves have never denied crimes were committed. But | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
by individuals, not by the whole Serb nation. This film yet again | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
demonises the Serbs. Yet again the Serbs are the bad guys. She rejects | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
the charge that the film is not balanced. The war was not balanced, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
she says. People that are looking to save it should be fifty-fifty, I | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
don't understand that the wall wasn't that way. They are looking | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
for balance that did not exist. They don't want to see these | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
atrocities, they don't want to be reminded of these atrocities. Some | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
people want to deny it even happened. Those people will be | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
angry. Outside the stadium, there's a starkly poignant place. 20 years | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
ago it was a playing field. In 1992 it became a cemetery. We came to a | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
lot of funerals here during the war. They happened every day. But the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
cemetery itself was exposed to shell and sniper fire from the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
hills around so families would come and bury their dead quickly and say | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
a prayer and then hurry off to find safety. By the time the war ended, | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
this place was full on -- and 12,500 Sarajevans were dead. | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
Bosnia's wombs have not healed. This film, for all its searing | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
honesty, reveals a country still divided, and reconciled to its own | :26:11. | :26:18. |