:00:13. > :00:17.Tonight at 10 owe clokpm: a major - - 10.00pm: a major hostage crisis
:00:17. > :00:21.in Algeria. Several British nationals are told.
:00:21. > :00:25.Dozens of workers to be held. The group claiming responsibility has
:00:25. > :00:29.links to Al-Qaeda and the Government says it's monitoring
:00:29. > :00:33.events closely. The safety of those involved and their co-workers is
:00:33. > :00:37.our absolute priority. And we will work around the clock to resolve
:00:37. > :00:42.this crisis. But some reports suggest that one
:00:42. > :00:46.British worker may have been killed in the attack. Also tonight:
:00:46. > :00:51.Mate, your car is on fire. Get out of the car. A helicopter crash in
:00:51. > :00:54.central London. Two people have died. Many others had a narrow
:00:54. > :00:59.escape. I just saw smoke building up. Loads of fires. Three cars on
:00:59. > :01:04.fire. People just running and screaming everywhere. We saw it
:01:04. > :01:09.coming out of the sky it. Came down. It went behind the block of flats
:01:09. > :01:13.and hit the road. We heard a massive explosion. President Obama
:01:13. > :01:16.unveils sweeping new proposals to introduce gun controls. More bad
:01:16. > :01:22.news from the high street as blockbuster goes into
:01:22. > :01:25.administration. When was the last time you saw Bin
:01:25. > :01:32.Laden? And why the Hollywood take on the search for Bin Laden is
:01:32. > :01:38.proving so controversial. In Sportsday, Wayne Rooney scores
:01:38. > :01:48.on his return from injury, but is it enough to see Manchester United
:01:48. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:03.through to the fourth round of the Good evening. British workers are
:02:03. > :02:06.among those being held by Islamist militants at a gas facility in
:02:07. > :02:10.Algeria. The crisis is being monitored by the Cabinet emergency
:02:10. > :02:13.committee but Downing Street says it's too early to speculate on
:02:13. > :02:17.whether the attack is linked to the French military operations in
:02:17. > :02:27.neighbouring Mali. The facility, which is partly run
:02:27. > :02:31.by BP, is near the town of In Amenas.
:02:31. > :02:36.At a remote BP gas plant in the deserts of Algeria, a well-planned
:02:36. > :02:41.raid took place early this morning. Jihadist militants arrived in jeeps,
:02:41. > :02:46.seized the complex and kidnapped dozen of foreign workers, including
:02:46. > :02:51.several Britons. Two people are reported to have been killed.
:02:51. > :02:56.The lead kidnapper is believed to be this man, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a
:02:56. > :03:01.veteran Algerian jihadist who's made millions from hostage randsoms
:03:01. > :03:06.and cigarette smuggling across is a haryan borders.
:03:06. > :03:11.It's strigered a series of crisis meetings in London -- it's
:03:11. > :03:14.triggered a series of meetings, where COBRA has been convened three
:03:14. > :03:19.times today. The number of British hostages is thought to be in single
:03:19. > :03:23.digits. The incident took place in an eastern part of aljeer. A
:03:23. > :03:27.terrorist attack on an oil compound with oil workers. A number of
:03:27. > :03:31.people are held hostage there. This does include a number of British
:03:31. > :03:34.nationals. This is, therefore, an extremely dangerous situation.
:03:34. > :03:39.evening the US State Department confirmed Americans are amongst the
:03:39. > :03:43.hostages. We are obviously closely monitoring the situation. We are in
:03:43. > :03:48.contact with Algerian authorities and our diplomatic counterparts in
:03:48. > :03:52.Algiers, as well as with BP's security office in London. This
:03:52. > :03:57.Algeria hostage crisis is focusing minds right across Whitehall.
:03:57. > :04:02.What's not yet clear is what exactly are the kidnapper's real
:04:02. > :04:06.motives? Ultimately this boils down to two possibilities: is it about
:04:06. > :04:09.money? Previous kidnapping by kidnappers in the area have
:04:09. > :04:13.generated millions in randsoms. Or is it about politics, like the
:04:13. > :04:18.release of jihadist prisoners from jail or more toppically, the
:04:18. > :04:23.current conflict in Mali? The French military's actions there to
:04:23. > :04:26.push back rebels linked to Al-Qaeda has led to threats of retaliation
:04:26. > :04:30.against Western interests this. Could be part of that retaliation,
:04:30. > :04:34.or it could have been planned weeks ago. Either way, Algeria and
:04:34. > :04:41.several other countries are now faced with an unexpected hostage
:04:41. > :04:45.stand-off they will's be trying desperately to resolve without
:04:45. > :04:50.bloodshed. Frank is with me. These people facial first night in
:04:50. > :04:53.cappivity. What is your reading of things now -- people facing. It is
:04:53. > :04:56.a stand-off. The Algerian government has deployed forces
:04:56. > :05:00.which have surrounded the whole facility. My understand something
:05:01. > :05:03.that the militants are controlling only a part of the facility. They
:05:04. > :05:10.have released nearly all the Algerian hostages, but they are
:05:10. > :05:14.keeping the foreigners. The non- Algerians, who number a few dozen,
:05:14. > :05:16.probably less than 41 as has been claimed. The Algerian authorities
:05:17. > :05:20.are telling them, through negotiations - there is no way out.
:05:20. > :05:24.You are not going to be able it get these people out of the country to
:05:24. > :05:28.Mali, as you want, and take dozen of Western hostages to Mali. That's
:05:28. > :05:32.not going to happen. They are trying to persuade them to put down
:05:32. > :05:35.their weapons to find a formula to resolve this without bloodshed.
:05:35. > :05:39.David Cameron had a conversation with his opposite number, the Prime
:05:39. > :05:45.Minister in Algeria today. My understand something that probably
:05:45. > :05:49.no bloodshed was asked for, but we don't know exactly. And a lot of
:05:49. > :05:53.nationalities involved. The Americans, probably the French. An
:05:53. > :05:56.Irishman, Japanese and so on. So there is a lot of pressure on
:05:56. > :06:00.Algeria to resolve this. They haven't had to deal with something
:06:00. > :06:03.on this scale for a very long time. We should expect to see a lot of
:06:03. > :06:06.statements coming out, connecting it with Mali it. Maybe connected
:06:06. > :06:10.with mally. There is one already saying - we have succeeded, we have
:06:11. > :06:15.taken this, we have stopped the French offensive in Mali. I think
:06:15. > :06:18.that's optimistic. It may be really all about money-making and ransom
:06:18. > :06:22.demands. A helicopter crash in central
:06:22. > :06:26.London has claimed the lives of two people. 12 people were injured when
:06:26. > :06:31.the helicopter crashed into a crane in very foggy weather. Peter Barnes,
:06:31. > :06:34.described by colleagues as a highly-experienced pilot, had asked
:06:34. > :06:38.to be diverted mid-flight because of bad weather. Today police have
:06:38. > :06:41.named the other victim as Matthew Wood, 39 from Sutton in south
:06:41. > :06:45.London. Richard Bilton has this report.
:06:45. > :06:55.Mate, your car is on fire. Get out of the car. In the heart of London,
:06:55. > :07:00.at the height of the rush-hour, a street full of flames.
:07:00. > :07:05.This is burning fuel and wreckage from a helicopter that plunged on
:07:05. > :07:10.to a busy road. It seemed like it was being to miss but then the
:07:10. > :07:15.rotor seemed to hit it. It then dipped a bit. It then smashed right
:07:15. > :07:19.into the crane and cut the cab in half. I turned the corner and heard
:07:19. > :07:23.a massive bang of an explosion. I looked to my left-handside. I saw
:07:23. > :07:26.smoke building up. Loads of fires. Three cars on fire. People running
:07:27. > :07:31.and screaming everywhere. helicopter has come down on the
:07:31. > :07:36.route I was about to walk to work. And it wasn't just those on the
:07:36. > :07:41.streets that were scared. The helicopter crashed within metres of
:07:41. > :07:44.Vauxhall Station, packed with commuters. As it was coming down,
:07:44. > :07:49.the train went past and the helicopter driver must have steered
:07:49. > :07:53.out of the way from the tracks. think that? Yeah, as it came down,
:07:53. > :07:59.a train was coming across. Within minutes, an enormous emergency
:07:59. > :08:02.operation had begun. The fires were quickly extinguished, but the
:08:02. > :08:06.wreckage remained. This is as near as we have been allowed to get. But
:08:06. > :08:11.you can get a real sense of the chaos that was created here when
:08:11. > :08:16.the helicopter hit the crane up there and debris came crashing down.
:08:16. > :08:19.Two people died here. The helicopter pilot, and a passerby.
:08:19. > :08:24.Others were injured but senior officers say the consequences could
:08:24. > :08:27.have been even more severe. Given the time of day in London and what
:08:27. > :08:30.has happened, this is an absolute tragedy for the people involved,
:08:30. > :08:34.and certainly for the families of the two people killed, but it is
:08:34. > :08:37.probably miraculous that it wasn't much worse.
:08:38. > :08:42.One escape was the crane driver. Colleagues say he would normally
:08:42. > :08:46.have been in his cab. The best thing about it was the crane driver
:08:46. > :08:52.is late for the first time in years, otherwise he would have been in the
:08:52. > :08:56.crane. So, he had some luck. what exactly happened in the skies
:08:56. > :09:03.above London. The helicopter, a twin-engineed AugustWestland took
:09:03. > :09:06.off from Redhill Airport in Surrey. It was going to Elstree in
:09:06. > :09:11.Hertfordshire, north of the capital. At some point close to the Thames,
:09:11. > :09:19.the pilot made a request to divert and land at Battersea helicopter
:09:19. > :09:26.port because of dense mist. At 8.00am it struck a crane on top of
:09:26. > :09:29.one of the Europe's tallest skyscrapers, St George Wharf. It
:09:29. > :09:33.crashed nearby a few hundred metres from the headquarters of MI6 and
:09:33. > :09:38.about half a mile from the Houses of Parliament. The helicopter pilot
:09:38. > :09:42.was Pete Barnes. He was hugely experienced, as a passenger and air
:09:42. > :09:47.ambulance pilot. He is a member of the team. He had
:09:47. > :09:53.a laugh with us, you know. He was very, very careful. Just a general
:09:53. > :09:58.really nice, capable guy. This is the first helicopter crash fatality
:09:58. > :10:02.in London since records began in 1976. Weather seems likely to be a
:10:02. > :10:07.factor. Pilots still largely rely on what they can see and this
:10:07. > :10:15.morning mist was in the air. But it is what happened on the ground that
:10:15. > :10:19.London will remember. Fire and fear in the morning rush-hour.
:10:19. > :10:22.President Obama has explained his plans for major changes to gun
:10:23. > :10:26.control in the United States, including a been on assault rifles.
:10:26. > :10:30.His announcement was made in the wake of the shooting of 20 children
:10:30. > :10:35.and six teachers at a school last month but Mr Obama needs the
:10:35. > :10:37.support of Congress to make his plans a reality and to withstand
:10:37. > :10:44.the opposition of the National Rifle Association.
:10:44. > :10:47.Mark Mardel reports. The massacre of these 26 innocents
:10:48. > :10:50.in Newtown, slaughtered with an assault rifle has changed the mood
:10:50. > :10:53.of the nation accord together President. He pulled out all the
:10:53. > :10:58.stops for this. On the stage, youngsters who've urged him to
:10:58. > :11:03.change the law. In the audience, parents of murdered children. He
:11:03. > :11:08.needs to wring the heart strings of his country to challenge its gun
:11:08. > :11:12.culture. For Americans of every background it stand up and say -
:11:12. > :11:16.enough, we suffered too much pain and care too much about our
:11:16. > :11:21.children to allow this to continue, then change will come.
:11:21. > :11:24.Immediately, he signed 23 orders, mostly smallscale, mainly
:11:24. > :11:28.tightening existing legislation. Real change will need new laws
:11:28. > :11:32.which many in Congress will oppose. The new gun controls the President
:11:32. > :11:36.wants would mean a ban on semi- automatic assault weapons, a limit
:11:36. > :11:41.to the number of bullets a magazine can hold, and background checks for
:11:41. > :11:45.everyone buying a gun. Are the President's kids more important
:11:45. > :11:51.than yours? The powerful National Rifle Association has already put
:11:51. > :11:54.out a hard-hitting advert. He is just another elitist hypocrite.
:11:54. > :11:58.White House has called this repugnant and cowardly. But it is
:11:58. > :12:02.the sort of sentiment you will hear at gun shows like this one in
:12:02. > :12:09.independent ania. This is the type of gun used at Sandy Hook. People
:12:09. > :12:15.told me they are good for killing vermin, fun to shoot. They believe
:12:15. > :12:19.banning them would be against their constitution. We feel we are being
:12:19. > :12:23.penalised for the mistakes of the view. The second amendment has
:12:23. > :12:28.given us the right to keep and bear arms. We feel we are under attack
:12:28. > :12:33.by the politicians in Washington who have that 24-hour, seven day a
:12:33. > :12:38.week security and protection, that we don't.
:12:38. > :12:42.They would say Chicago, just over 100 miles away, proves their point.
:12:42. > :12:47.Some tough laws don't stop the nightly killings. The sheer horror
:12:47. > :12:51.of Newtown focused the eyes of the world on America and its gun laws,
:12:51. > :12:57.but this is the nightly reality. Last year alone 506 people were
:12:57. > :13:00.shot dead in this city. This father of two was one of last
:13:00. > :13:07.year's victims. No-one knows why he was killed. His mother has a plea
:13:07. > :13:14.for the politicians. To come out here and help us. I don't have
:13:14. > :13:19.peace. It's been eight months for me. Why is this happening? Help us.
:13:19. > :13:28.The President says new laws would help, but he's taken on a fight
:13:28. > :13:33.that goes to the heart of America's A British soldier, who was injured
:13:33. > :13:39.in Afghanistan on Monday has died in hospital in Birmingham. The
:13:39. > :13:49.serviceman from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster Regiment was
:13:49. > :13:49.
:13:49. > :13:53.injured in the Lashkar Gah province. The Government of Pakistan has
:13:53. > :13:56.threatened action to end a protest near the Parliament building in the
:13:56. > :13:59.capital Islamabad. Thousands of protesters have taken to the
:13:59. > :14:02.streets demanding the resignation of the government following the
:14:02. > :14:08.warrant issued yesterday by the Supreme Court for the arrest of the
:14:08. > :14:12.Prime Minister on corruption charges.
:14:12. > :14:16.Now Blockbuster has become the latest High Street store to go into
:14:16. > :14:21.administration putting more than 4,000 jobs at risk of the the DVD
:14:21. > :14:25.and video rental business is another victim of competition with
:14:25. > :14:28.online retailers and digital down loads. It's the third major High
:14:28. > :14:32.Street chain to collapse in a fortnight.
:14:32. > :14:37.It's the latest in a string of retail casualties, the business of
:14:37. > :14:41.renting DVDs and games has got tougher and tougher, so Blockbuster
:14:41. > :14:46.has called in administrators to salvage something and stave off the
:14:46. > :14:50.possibility of going bust. Blockbuster used to get along
:14:50. > :14:55.nicely renting what seemed hi-tech at the time videos. But so much has
:14:55. > :14:58.changed since the online revolution. The recent history has been
:14:59. > :15:02.troubled but somehow Blockbuster has soldiered on, though for
:15:02. > :15:07.shoppers today's news didn't seem a great shock. It was always nice to
:15:07. > :15:11.go and have a look at blockbuster or HMV to find something to watch
:15:11. > :15:15.or listen to. But times are changing. We do everything on the
:15:15. > :15:18.internet, on the computer. I don't know when the last time was I came
:15:18. > :15:24.out to physically get a film or anything like. That I think it's
:15:24. > :15:29.very sad because they provide a good service. I have been a client
:15:29. > :15:34.for something like 20 years. this is yet another example of a
:15:34. > :15:38.High Street chain buckling in the face of intense online competition.
:15:38. > :15:42.In Blockbuster's case video streaming ah, available through
:15:42. > :15:47.internet based subscription services. The rivals include mail-
:15:47. > :15:50.order rental operations. The last few months have seen high profile
:15:50. > :15:54.closures. Comet went into administration in November with
:15:54. > :15:59.more than 6,500 jobs going. Jessops threw in the towel last week with
:15:59. > :16:05.nearly 1400 jobs lost so far. HMV is in administration, still trading,
:16:05. > :16:09.but with more than 4,300 jobs at risk. So why have three, including
:16:09. > :16:15.Blockbuster, hit the buffers since the new year? In the Autumn there's
:16:15. > :16:18.hope, Christmas is ahead. In January, the reality strikes - bad
:16:19. > :16:22.Christmas, a long time until next Christmas and will the lenders and
:16:22. > :16:26.suppliers support them through that very long time? The answer in these
:16:26. > :16:30.three cases is no. Tonight Blockbuster stores were still
:16:30. > :16:33.trading, over half are said to be making money. Administrators are
:16:33. > :16:41.looking for a buyer and more than 4,000 staff can only hope the door
:16:41. > :16:46.stays open for a rescue. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:16:46. > :16:52.More trouble for Boeing's flagship Dreamliner as Japan's biggest
:16:52. > :16:57.airlines ground the fleet for safety checks.
:16:57. > :17:02.A group of Conservative MPs has backed calls for Britain to
:17:02. > :17:05.renegotiate links with the European Union and to reclaim powers over
:17:05. > :17:10.social and employment law. Fresh Start, which claims it has the
:17:10. > :17:14.support of more than 100 Tory MPs, says it wants the UK to stay in the
:17:14. > :17:19.UK. The manifesto is published as David Cameron prepares to deliver
:17:19. > :17:25.his statement on European policy on Friday. Any new settlement will
:17:25. > :17:29.depend on the response of the other EU member states.
:17:29. > :17:34.A home furnishings fair in Frankfurt, this is the single
:17:34. > :17:38.market and what many British people value most from the EU.
:17:38. > :17:43.products we offer, the quality of the products we offer, we need the
:17:43. > :17:49.European market. But the EU is changing, heading for much closer
:17:49. > :17:53.union and David Cameron is looking for a new relationship with Europe.
:17:53. > :18:03.Come to Finland, the frozen north to see how difficult the Prime
:18:03. > :18:07.Minister's task will be. Finland is an ally of the UK. It too has its
:18:07. > :18:12.sceptics, but its Europe minister cannot see Britain seizing back
:18:12. > :18:16.wide powers from Brussels. I think some crumbs can be brought back,
:18:16. > :18:19.but the bulk of European integration, the internal market,
:18:19. > :18:25.will always remain the same. I don't think there'll be any
:18:25. > :18:29.concessions on that. Take Germany, it wants Britain to stay in the
:18:29. > :18:33.club. The two countries share a similar economic outlook. But read
:18:34. > :18:40.the papers and you sense the frustration with Britain demanding
:18:40. > :18:44.to be a special case. At least German people would like to see
:18:44. > :18:48.Britain make up their mind, whether they want to stay in, with not such
:18:48. > :18:54.a long list of opt-outs and special deals or whatever. To say well,
:18:54. > :18:58.we're part of the deal or we're not. Germany is signalling it might work
:18:58. > :19:05.with Britain in reducing some relations from Brussels, but it's
:19:05. > :19:09.unlikely to support Britain opting out of legislation. Come to the
:19:10. > :19:14.Netherlands, another close ally. The government here wants to bring
:19:14. > :19:20.back some powers from Brussels too. What it won't do is support Britain
:19:20. > :19:23.if it acts alone. We are in favour of repatrioting a few powers from
:19:23. > :19:28.Brussels to the member states, but not just for one country, not just
:19:28. > :19:32.for the British, not just for the UK, but for all 27 member states.
:19:32. > :19:35.If even here there are doubts about Britain being able to win back
:19:35. > :19:42.significant powers, then head down the road to Brussels or Paris and
:19:42. > :19:47.you'll hear a much harder line. No to cherry-picking they say, no to
:19:47. > :19:53.Europe a la carte, no to Britain being regarded as a special case.
:19:53. > :19:56.So when the Prime Minister speaks here on Friday about forging a new
:19:56. > :20:02.relationship with Europe, it will mark the start of a long, tough
:20:02. > :20:05.negotiation. What does that mean for David
:20:06. > :20:11.Cameron, the kind of pressure that there is on him to bring back some
:20:11. > :20:15.kind of settlement for some of his own Conservative colleagues? Let's
:20:15. > :20:18.talk to James Landale at Westminster. James, how do you see
:20:18. > :20:23.the position for Mr Cameron now as he approaches this speech? It's not
:20:23. > :20:26.the fact that he's under pressure that matters. It's the fact that
:20:26. > :20:30.he's under pressure from so many different quarters. Some want a
:20:30. > :20:34.referendum to stay in or pull out of the European Union. Others are
:20:34. > :20:38.keen on changing the relationships, like these who published this today
:20:38. > :20:42.saying we need to repatriot employment law, pull out of
:20:42. > :20:45.cooperation on policing and a greater veto over financial
:20:45. > :20:50.regulations. Other more pro- European Conservatives tomorrow, in
:20:50. > :20:54.a letter to the Prime Minister, warned that talk of referendums and
:20:54. > :20:57.renegotiation could damage the single market. Labour, for its part,
:20:57. > :21:03.says that the promise of a referendum would condemn Britain to
:21:03. > :21:07.five years of economic uncertainty. Ed Miliband the Labour leader
:21:07. > :21:11.tomorrow will say that Mr Cameron is taking the UK to the edge of an
:21:11. > :21:14.economic cliff. As we've just seen from that report, the Prime
:21:14. > :21:19.Minister faces a pretty uphill task coming up with something that's
:21:19. > :21:25.sellable to the rest of Europe. His speech on Friday has many audiences.
:21:25. > :21:29.It's unlikely that he will satisfy them all. David Cameron has a track
:21:29. > :21:32.record as a good finisher, of extricating himself from tricky
:21:32. > :21:39.positions and this is just the start of a very long debate.
:21:39. > :21:43.James, thanks very much. The aircraft manufacturer Boeing
:21:43. > :21:48.has been warned by experts to move urgentsly to deal with concerns
:21:48. > :21:52.about its flagship airline the 787 Dreamliner. Japan's two biggest
:21:52. > :21:56.airlines have grounded their fleets of 787 after one of the planes was
:21:56. > :22:01.forced to make an emergency landing. It's the latest in series of
:22:01. > :22:05.problems. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes explains. This
:22:05. > :22:11.picture is the last thing Boeing's bosses wanted to wake up to this
:22:11. > :22:16.morning. One of their shiny new Dreamliner aircraft stranded beside
:22:16. > :22:21.a runway in western Japan. Passengers scrambling to evacuate
:22:21. > :22:26.down emergency slides. No-one was hurt. They were clearly shaken.
:22:26. > :22:30.TRANSLATION: As we were going down for the emergency landing, the
:22:30. > :22:35.cabin attendant's voice was shaking. I realised this was pretty bad news.
:22:35. > :22:41.It's certainly bad news for Boeing. The 787 Dreamliner was launched
:22:41. > :22:45.last year with huge fanfare. It was a revolution in the skies. An
:22:45. > :22:52.aircraft woven from carbon fibre, lighter, stronger and more
:22:52. > :22:58.efficient than any before. And it sold like nothing before too, more
:22:58. > :23:01.than 800 orders, including British Airways and Virgin. The 787 has
:23:01. > :23:08.been beset by problems. Six incidents in the last ten days
:23:08. > :23:12.alone. First, an electrical fire, then two fuel leaks, brake problems,
:23:12. > :23:19.a cracked windscreen and finally, today's emergency landing. Despite
:23:19. > :23:23.all this, experts say the plane is still fundamentally safe. Boeing
:23:23. > :23:27.obviously, to them, it's a very big investment. I think they will be
:23:27. > :23:30.concerned but not overduly concerned. To put things in
:23:30. > :23:35.perspective, the aircraft hasn't been grounded globally. The type is
:23:35. > :23:39.still flying with passengers. If it wasn't safe to operate, then this
:23:39. > :23:42.would stop. The experts in the airline -- and the airlines may say
:23:42. > :23:47.these are just teething problems, but it's the public that buy the
:23:47. > :23:52.tickets. They want to be 100% certain that a plane is safe before
:23:52. > :24:01.they get on board. Right now, here in Japan, public confidence in the
:24:01. > :24:06.787 has been badly shaken. Investigations have started to find
:24:06. > :24:10.out how some supermarket beefburgers in the UK and Ireland
:24:10. > :24:15.contained horse meat. Tesco has cleared shelves of products from
:24:15. > :24:20.one supplier, Silvercrest, after a batch of beefburgers contained 29%
:24:20. > :24:22.horse meat. Iceland, Aldi and Lidl have also withdrawn some products.
:24:22. > :24:28.The Prime Minister said the situation had been completely
:24:28. > :24:31.unacceptable. Zero Dark Thirty, the Hollywood
:24:31. > :24:35.dramatisation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden has drawn controversy and
:24:35. > :24:39.acclaim in equal measure. The film has been nominated for five Oscars,
:24:39. > :24:42.but some US politicians have criticised the hint that torture
:24:42. > :24:44.may have played a part in discovering Bin Laden's location.
:24:44. > :24:53.Our arts editor Will Gompertz spoke to the film's director, Kathryn
:24:53. > :24:58.Bigelow. Third floor, north-east corner. This is Maya played by
:24:58. > :25:01.Jessica Chastain the hero of Zero Dark Thirty. She's' young, head-
:25:01. > :25:05.strong CIA operative obsessed with hunting down Osama Bin Laden.
:25:05. > :25:08.can't run a global network of interconnected cells...
:25:08. > :25:12.director and script writer say their story is informed by
:25:12. > :25:18.journalistic research and based on first-hand accounts of actual
:25:18. > :25:24.events. I think we both look at it as a first draft of history. This
:25:24. > :25:31.is a story that certainly is debated and I say hopefully will
:25:31. > :25:38.continue to be debated. I am bad news. I'm not your friend. I'm not
:25:38. > :25:43.going to help you. I'm going to break you. Some have criticised the
:25:43. > :25:47.film's depiction of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques
:25:47. > :25:51.saying it sends a clear message that torture yields results. Others,
:25:52. > :25:56.that the torture shown was never perpetrated. You've got people in
:25:56. > :25:59.the CIA saying that that stuff just didn't happen. There's no
:25:59. > :26:04.discounting Abu Ghraib. Those images are out there. That was
:26:04. > :26:10.people in the military behaving badly, it wasn't the CIA.
:26:10. > :26:18.question. But obviously, this is a kind of, you know, a very, it's a
:26:19. > :26:26.very complex and unfortunately, people are anxious for, all right I
:26:26. > :26:32.get the impression for a black and white rendering of those events.
:26:32. > :26:38.The black sides existed. There's very little information about them.
:26:38. > :26:42.So, you know, as, I mean, that's a part of that story. That's a part
:26:42. > :26:47.of that history and again to have eliminated it or owe mitt today
:26:47. > :26:53.would have been rewriting that history. You know there's been all
:26:53. > :26:58.this heat around the movie. To hear sensible people expressing deeply-
:26:58. > :27:02.held concerns, in hindsight do you wish a couple of lines or nuances...
:27:02. > :27:07.I wouldn't change the film at all. I stand by it totally. I'm very
:27:07. > :27:10.proud of it. Zero Dark Thirty is an early telling of the story of the