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Royal Marines. The Government is accused of | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
fuelling a crisis as the demand for petrol soars. People form long | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
queues to buy fuel after ministers advise motorists to top up their | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
tanks. It is ridiculous at this point. The | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
strike has not been officially declared. There are no dates. Why | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
everyone panic now? David Cameron should have kept his trap shut! | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Some petrol owners have run out of fuel. Labour blames the Government. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
They have presided over chaos. The people of Britain to queue over | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
petrol stations, there was no strike date set! The Government has | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
a responsibility to everyone to take sensible contingency plans. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The trade union has a responsibility to call off the | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
threat of strike action. We are asking if the Government's | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
attempt to avoid queues at the pump as caused exactly that. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Also: Doubt about plan plans to develop a | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
new generation of power stations after two companies pull out. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Concerns of contamination of fluid used to transfer donor organs. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Violence flares in Spain ahead of an austerity budget that cuts tens | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
of billions of spending. And Robert Redford speaks out about | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
what is wrong with US politics. It is all about winning. It is all | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
about the ego attached to winning, what people will do and say, just | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
to win. Coming up in Sportsday: | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
Stuart Lancaster sets his sights on the 2015 rugby World Cup after | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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being confirmed as the England head Good evening. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
The Government is accused of causing panic at the pumps as | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
queues have continued to form at petrol stations after ministers | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
advise motorists to stock up on fuel. Sales at the pump soared by | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
80%. Some petrol stations ran out all together. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Labour is blaming the Government, the Government are blaming the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
unions. It is everything that the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Government was desperate to avoid. Scenes of panic buying and queues | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
in petrol stations up and down the country. All of this without even a | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
date for a tanker's strike. No certainty that there will even be | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
one. In the morning the ministers were urging drivers to fill up when | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
they can so they are ready for a possible strike, but in the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
afternoon the Dorset Police were asking the petrol stations to shut | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
as the queues were disrupting traffic. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
There are no dates, why is everyone panicking now? David Cameron should | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
have kept his trap shut. newspaper headquarters, no news is | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
good news, isn't it? For those who need petrol to get to work, a | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
strike would mean that is impossible. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
This is forcing panic buying. Petrol retailers said there had | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
been a surge in sales with demand for unleaded up 81% on last week. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
There were reports of prices rising and jerry cans flying off the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
shelves. This is really a self-inflicted | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
crisis if drivers followed the normal buying patterns, there would | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
be no shortage. The advice has been bad advice about topping up. It he | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
is led to panic buying. Unite is in contact with the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Conciliation Service, ACAS, but the leader of the party that Unite | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
bankrolls, says it is the Government to get a grip. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
This they have presided over shambles and chaos. The people of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Britain are queuing at petrol stations, there was no strike date | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
set, as the Prime Minister conceded yesterday. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
But the Chancellor said it was the union's threat of a strike causing | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
concern about the supplies. The Government has a responsibility | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
to all in the country to take sensible contingency plans and the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
trade union has a responsibility to call off the threat of strike | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
action. It is the last thing that the British economy needs at a time | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
like this. What is so toxic for the Government is the accusation of | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
independence, that the mixed messages of jerry cans and filling | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
tanks is making the situation worse. If people don't trust the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Government to handle this, how will they handle other things like the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
economy? On a week when the taxes for the rich were kilt and the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Tories under fire for having dinners in Downing Street and a row | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
on slapping VAT on pasties, it led to accusations that the ministers | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
don't understand what the families are going through. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Many families are not running out of money at the end of the month | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
but the start. A Government not going the extra mile to help them | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
will suffer. So while the demand for the fuel is | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
going up, the Tories' poll ratings are going down. The last thing they | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
need weeks away from local elections. | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Now, let's join Nick Robinson outside a service station in | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Suffolk. The Government strategy of urging people to stock up seems to | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
have back fired? It has. There are so many stories that affect the | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Westminster village, but not the real world. Here in the real world, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
the garage there is fulling cars and filling. This garage here, has | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
now a car, but no petrol to sell. In the last half an hour they | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
emptied all of the pumps. The petrol has gone. The curious thing | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
is there therefore, that there are the queues, the frustrated | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
motorists, the panic buying but there is not actually a strike. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
That is the bizarre nature of what has happened. Even mo so, that this | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
was part of a Government plan. Not this precisely, of course, but they | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
were so concerned about the repeat of what happened in the year 2000 | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
when Tony Blair was the Prime Minister, when the hospitals lost | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
the fuel that they needed, there was a real fear that the economy | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
would grind to a halt, a fear in Tony Blair's mind he would be | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
driven out of office by the crisis, they decided to try and induce slow, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
steady controlled panic buying. You will see the problem of that phrase, | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Fiona, it is pretty hard to have a panic that is slow, steady and | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
controlled, that is what we are discovering here. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
As we saw in the report, this is the latest in a series of difficult | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
moments for the Government this week? Yes, it has been an | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
extraordinary week for the Government. The back lash on the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Budget over the granny tax, the pasty tax. The funding scandal as | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
well, now we have what is happening on petrol. Now, governments go | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
through moments like this, but the reason this is one that is so | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
significant is this: So far the austerity programme has met | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
remarkably little resistance in the electorate. Yet, if people come to | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
the view that austerity is something that is imposed on them | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
by a group of people who are, frankly, out of touch, people who | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
talk about garages, and Jerry cans and going to a quarter of a million | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
pound dinner, then that would have real political impact. The | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Government's hope, of course, is that will not be the case. They are | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
nothing the downside, putting on tax on a pasty for example, to try | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
to give people an income tax cut, the joke around Downing Street is | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
you would have to eat 900 pasties in order to pay as much tax as the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Chancellor was actually saving you from the increase in the personal | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
allowance. What they are discovering as so many governments | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
do, is that people notice the pain, they never thank you for the gain. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Thank you very much. Plans to develop a new generation | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
of nuclear power station in the UK have been dealt a blow. Two major | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
companies have pulled out of the developments in Anglesey and | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Gloucester. The companies, RWE and E.ON, says | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
that the decision was made on global factors. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
On many levels, the decision to pull out of building a nuclear | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
plant near to the existing one on Anglesey has come as a blow. It | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
undermines the Government's energy policy, involving nuclear | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
facilities and has thrown into doubt the creations of thousands of | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
local jobs. This was a shock not just to | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Anglesey, but to the whole of the Welsh economy and the British | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
nuclear industry. Two German companies, RWE and E.ON | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
have hospitaled -- omented not to go ahead with the project. Also | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
another in Gloucester. The decision was due to Germany's move to phase | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
out nuclear power after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
The UK has impending power gap. Around a quarter of our generating | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
capacity is set to be lost by 2023 as it is too old. Unless lots of | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
new power plants are built, the Government warned that power cuts | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
could be a regular occurrence towards the end of the decade. With | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
the announcement, a �15 billion scheme being put on hold it would | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
have provided a third of the new generating power capacity required. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
There is an argument developing. It may be difficult to attract | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
investors because of the cost of building nuclear stations and the | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
period before a profit is made. Nuclear power is expensive to | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
blrbgs and cheap to run. Gas turbines are cheap to build, but | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
expensive to run. But another energy company | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
investing in UK nuclear power is committed. In the energy mix | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
nuclear is an important role to play in the future for the security | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
of the supply, for the affordability, for climate change | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
and for the jobs and the growth agenda. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
The viability of nuclear power has been questioned by many. They argue | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
that the Government should be persuing green technology. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
We have a Government policy dedicated to delivering nuclear | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
power that is coming unstuck, but we are losing the opportunity to do | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
the clean energy approaches like efficiency and renewables where the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
UK skran a competitive advantage. Ministers said that the nuclear | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
policy was on track, but even they conceded that the decision by the | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
German companies was a setback. Concerns have emerged over the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
possible contamination of a fluied used to transport donor organs. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Production of the solution, Viaspan is being stopped while the tests | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
are carried out. The Department of Health insists that there is no | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
evidence that anyone has suffered adverse effects. The transports are | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
to continue as normal. -- transplants. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Viaspan is a fluied used to preserve organs after they are | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
removed from the donor before being transplanted. Hospitals were warned | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
that bacterial contamination was found in the solution used to check | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the donors. Tests are under way to see if the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
product has the bacteria. A bug which is a common cause of food | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
poisoning and can lead to diarrhoea and vomiting. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
I do not think that any patients who had transplants should be | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
worried. If there was infection of the product used during that | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
transplant, the patients are on a lot of antibiotics, for at least | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
ten days after the operation. Any bacteria would have been killed any | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
way by that antibiotic. The batches of the Viaspan involved | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
date back to July of last year. It is used to transport several types | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
of organ. The most common is liver. There are 700 to 800 transplants a | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
year. Pancreas, 250 and up to 40 bowl transplants. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
There are no reports of any patient being sick. Viaspan has not been | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
recalled. It can be used for transplants until alternative | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
products can be found. Without a transplant the patients | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
can die. So every decision has to be taken on clinical need by the | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
transplant surgeon with input from the patient, but we can see no | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
reason to stop transplanting. Yesterday, MPs criticised the | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Department of Health and medical regulators for not doing more to | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
alert patients to another potential contamination. That of PIP breast | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
implants. Today's alert is purely a Spanish police have fired rubber | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
bullets to disperse a crowd in Barcelona during demonstrations | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
backing today's general strike. Tomorrow budget reforms will be | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
announced which will axe tens of billions of euros of spending, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
adding to cuts that have already squeezed public services. Spain is | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
in its second recession and has the highest level of unemployment in | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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the EU. Our Europe editor Gavin The cry, "Join the general strike" | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
- Spanish unions are angry over plans making it easier to hire and | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
fire workers, angry too with austerity cuts. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Protesters burnt bins to block roads. In Barcelona, rioters threw | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
rocks at banks and started fires. The police responded with rubber | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
bullets. Support for the strike was patchy, but hundreds of thousands | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
joined the demonstration in Madrid tonight. Spain is currently the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
country causing the most concern in the Eurozone. The EU insists it | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
must cut its deficit, but the economy is shrinking. We got an | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
economy in recession with unemployment going up from the 24%. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
And at the same time, we have to implement spending cuts. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Here are the problems - there is still a hangover from the housing | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
crash. On average, there are around 140 evictions every day. Protesters | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
regularly try and stop them. Teresa Cabererro lost her home this week. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
House prices are is still falling, deepening concerns about the debt | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
held by Spanish banks. Then there is unemployment. Eduardo and Maria | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
Jose are brother and sister, both out of work. Unemployment is at 24% | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
and still rising. In my last interview, there were about 40 or | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
50 candidates trying to get the job. A further problem is the debt of | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the regions. Valencia has the highest debt, a region struggling | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
with the legacy of having backed prestigious projects. Valencia | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
splashed out on a dazzling city of arts and sciences. The only problem | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
- debt, still around 600 million euros. This airport glimmers in the | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
sun. The cost, 150 million euros of public money, but there was know | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
demand, and no plane has ever landed here. Those who support the | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
Government say there is no alternative to austerity. The risk | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
is not taking the decision in favour of the austerity because | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
austerity - for me, austerity is to put order at home. The crowds on | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
the streets this evening know there will be a Budget tomorrow which the | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
government says will be very, very austere. The fear is that this | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
country, already in recession, is being locked into a downward spiral. | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: The murder of two British friends | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
in Florida last year. In court, the teenager found guilty of shooting | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
them hears this emotional testimony from a friend of the victims. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
night you go to sleep. Every morning you wake up. I want you to | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
think of my friend who you murdered. Their images will be impresented on | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
your con-- imprinted on your conscience up until your very last | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
breath in life. The bodies of three British | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
servicemen killed in Afghanistan have been flown back home. Two of | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
them were shot dead by an Afghan soldier on Monday. The Defence | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Secretary Philip Hammond, who's in the capital Kabul, has insisted | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
that the strategy of British forces serving alongside and training | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Afghan soldiers is still working. Our defence correspondent, Jonathan | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
Beale reports from Afghanistan. The Defence Secretary flew into | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Helmand province to the very same base where the two British | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
servicemen have been killed by an Afghan soldier earlier this week. | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
Lashkar Gah, still in mourning. Despite that tragedy, there has | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
been no change in strategy. Mr Hammond witnessed soldiers from | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
both nations on a joint patrol. You've got to put it in a context. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
There are thousands and thousands of contacts between A and and A and | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
British troops every day. Once in a blue moon, something tragic like | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
this happens. We can't let that derail the mission. But British and | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Afghan troops are continuing to work side by side even if, | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
inevitably, they are more wary, but this is the only strategy that'll | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
eventually allow British troops to leave. Already this year across the | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
country 15 international troops have been killed by men wearing | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
either police or Afghan Army uniform. Overall, there have been | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
more than 70 so-called green-on- blue killings since the war began, | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
so do they trust the men they're training? I trust the guys I work | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
with 100% definitely. It is bad, but there is nothing you can do | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
about it. It's the job we have to do, and we have to get on with it, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
so... The Defence Secretary may have confidence in the strategy, | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
but this is a security force being built from scratch. With thousands | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
of Afghan troops and police being trained every month and a fledgling | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
government working with limited data to check their backgrounds. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Such checks did not save the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
repatriated today. Sergeant Luke Taylor of the Royal Marines was 33 | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
and had just become a father, and 25-year-old Lance Corporal Michael | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Foley of the Adjutant General's Corps had three children. Captain | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
Rupert Bowers was killed by a roadside bomb. The pain of the loss | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
shared in Afghanistan. Today the Defence Secretary signed | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
an agreement to set up a British- run military academy run in | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Afghanistan that'll guarantee the UK's long-term commitment to the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
country, but there can be no assurances that there won't be | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
other rogue Afghan soldiers and police. | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
APPLAUSE Travellers at Stansted Airport | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
faced disruption after baggage handlers diverted to a strike next | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
week over a row over pay. It will begin on April 6 and continue on | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
Easter Saturday and Easter Monday. A friend of the two British | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
tourists shot on holiday last year in Florida have come face to face | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
with their killer. Shawn Tyson was sentenced to life without parole | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
for murdering James Kouzaris and James Cooper. Their friends read | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
out emotional impact statements as Steve Kingston reports from | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Sarasota. TRANSLATION: I sentence you to life | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
in prison. 17 years old, and Shawn Tyson will spend the rest of his | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
life behind bars. During sentencing he was shown a tribute to his | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
British victims, James Kouzaris, a keen rugby player who worked in | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
local Government, and James Cooper, a tennis coach, whose mother sent a | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
message which was read out by prosecutors. When he was a child I | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
said to him every night, "If you carry on the way you have started, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
you'll be the greatest man who ever lived." He proved me right. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
friend of the victims spoke directly to the convicted murderer. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
A Every night you go to sleep, every morning you wake up, I want | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
you to think of my friend who you murdered. Their images will be | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
imprinted on your conscience until your very last breath. On the night | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
of their deaths, the two friends had been out drinking. Security | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
cameras in a bar showed them chatting to other customers. At | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
closing time they set out on foot ending up 20 blocks away at this | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
low-income housing project. At 3.00am, residents heard gunfire. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
We just rode through the old projects. We seen a white dude | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
laying there, blood everywhere. He's just laid out. He's just | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
laying on the ground. I think he's dead now. The bodies of the two | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Britons were found lying on either side of this street. James Kouzaris | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
had been shot twice, James Cooper, four times. Both men were still | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
carrying their wallets and their mobile phones, but the police | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
believe this had at least started out as an attempted robbery. That's | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
because the victims' trousers were pulled down, apparently to stop | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
them running away. Witnesses testified Shawn Tyson boasted about | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
the killings. He had been in custody after an earlier arrest. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Hours before the shootings, he was freed by a judge. Outside the court, | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
the victim's friends said that was a fatal mistake. We'd like to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
stress our horror which led to the premature release of Shawn Tyson. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Indeed, the events of April 16 wouldn't come to fruition without | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
his wrongful release. So in this most inviting of place, justice is | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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tinged with recrimination over the end of two young lives. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Stuart Lancaster has been appointed as the head coach of England's | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Rugby Union team following his successful spell as interim manager | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
during the Six Nations campaign. He said he was honoured to be taking | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
on the role full time - his first task will be to prepare England for | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
a tough summer tour to South Africa. He's a Hollywood superstar, an | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
outspoken critic of US politics and the founder of the respected | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Sundance film Festival. Robert Redford is bringing his festival to | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
London at the end of April to showcase the best of American | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
independent film. Our arts editor Will Gompertz went to New York for | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
an exclusive interview with a man not afraid to speak his mind about | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
his country. America, unmistakable, and in the | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
eyes of millions, beautiful. You could say the same about him - | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Robert Redford, movie star, political activist and the man | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
behind the Sundance Film Festival, which he's bringing to London next | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
month. I asked him why when I met him in New York. Independent film | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
reflects the value of change, and - including the consequences, and I | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
think it's just a different view of our country that I'm very proud of | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
because it is a legitimate view, but it's different from the one | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
that's being sold on air or with a great deal of money to market. It's | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
a little bit askew of that, but it's real. The festival is based | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
around his home in Utah, a place that gives him space to think - | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
about the American way. It's a country determined on winning, as | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
you can see in our current political climate. It's all about | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
winning, and it's all about the ego attached to winning and what people | :24:34. | :24:43. | |
will do and say just to win! All a man can say is, here I am. In 1972 | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Robert Redford starred in The Candidate playing a once idealistic | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
man who lets his standards slip in the pursuit of power, a fiction he | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
thinks that's now become fact in American political life. | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
I think our Congress is not the best and the brightest. I think | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
that it's obvious to the world that we're a polarised nation now | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
politically. It's very depressing to me to see the quality of | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
discussion, the quality of intellectual exchange so damaged by | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the behaviour of a lot of the people that are running for office. | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
It's embarrassing. Why didn't you become a politician? You see Reagan | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
did. Are you kidding? That would be - first of all, it's too narrow. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
You have to behave - you can't be your total natural self, as you can | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
see on television. Is there any one of these people that you feel is | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
really, really natural - unless they're so crazy, they're natural? | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Hi, I'm Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. Redford revisited | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
the dark side of American politics in All the President's Men. He had | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
a high regard for journalism when it was made, less so now. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Well, I didn't know it at the time, but I just happened to tie into a | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
moment in history that was a high point. I think I came in when | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
journalism had reached an apex of morality and professionalism and so | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
forth, and I was very lucky. I think it's sad to say it's pretty | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
obvious that it's declined since then. Redford found fame starring | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
next thing I say let's go someplace like bowl I'veia, let's go. Today | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
the Sundance Kid is an old man. I asked him how he thinks life has | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
changed over the years. I guess there is an obsession with youth. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Now you have all of these methods of reconstructing yourselves to | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
look younger and younger. I don't buy that. I like to see an older | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
woman who has carried her age and her experience with her. I find | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
that very attractive. Robert Redford is an actor who chose to | :26:59. | :27:03. |