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A packed commuter train crashes outside Paris, killing at least six | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
people. Dozens of others were injured, both | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
on the train and at the station where it derailed. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
We'll be live at the scene with the latest on France's worst rail | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
accident for over 20 years. Also tonight: New concerns over the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Dreamliner after a fire on board an Ethiopian Airlines jet at Heathrow. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Boeing says it's investigating. Remembering Lee Rigby, the soldier | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
stabbed to death outside his barracks in Woolwich, is laid to | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
rest. A call to arms in the struggle to go | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
to school. The Pakistani teenager nearly killed by the Taliban speaks | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
out at the UN. And the veteran broadcaster and | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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one pair and can change the world. And veteran broadcaster and | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
globetrotter Alan Wicker has died. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
News, more umpiring controversy in the opening Ashes test. This time in | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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England's favour, as they lead Good evening. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
A huge emergency operation is underway in France after an | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
intercity train derailed at high speed in a Paris suburb, killing at | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
least six people. The packed train came off the rails as it approached | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
the station of Bretigny-sur-Orge. President Francois Hollande said it | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
was too early to know the cause and that now was a time to think of | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
those killed or injured. Hugh Schofield is at the scene. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
Good evening. This is a small commuter town, about 20 kilometres | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
south of Paris. It is idle to say that tonight the atmosphere is one | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
of shock, horror and utter sadness. This is as close as we can get to | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the scene. About 100 yards in that direction as the railway line. Up | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
there, the rescue teams are still working, sifting through the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
debris, and we think still looking for victims at the end of what we | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
now know is the worst French rail accident since 1988. | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
A commuter town south of Paris, 5:15pm. An InterCity train leaves | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
its track and careers across the platform onto another line. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
scene at the station, one of appalling devastation. The crashed | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
train was full. For many it was the start of the summer holiday and at | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
rush hour the platform was also crowded. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
TRANSLATION: I felt the coach was coming off the rails. Suitcases fell | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
on top of people. People started screaming and completely panicked. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
We were on the platform. We heard a big explosion, saw a lot of smoke | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
and then everybody was screaming. major emergency plan has been | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
activated, with hundreds of rescue workers at the scene and the injured | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
very to hospital, some by her. Heavy machinery has been called in to cut | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
into the worst hit of the coaches, which was mangled in the crash, and | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
where it is fear there may be more victims. As the horrifying details | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
emerged, the president cuts short his scheduled to come and express an | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
nation's solidarity. TRANSLATION: Let's think about the | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
victims, the families and the injured. Let's thank the emergency | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
services. The focus is on helping victims, but already questions are | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
being asked. How could a train simply jumped the tracks? Experts | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
say it is an extremely rare kind of accident. Some have spoken of the | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
train almost bucking as it entered the station, before ploughing out of | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
control. It is far too early to talk about causes, but one focus will be | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the news that in the last weeks there has been work on the line just | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
north of here, where the train would have just passed through. It is far | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
too early to know whether that is anything to do with it but it will | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
be a focus of the investigation which has opened. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
There were dramatic scenes at Heathrow Airport today after a fire | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
broke out on board a Boeing Dreamliner. The Ethiopian Airlines | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
jet was parked on a stand at the time and no passengers were on | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
board. The airport was closed for over an hour. The incident's renewed | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
concerns about the safety of the Dreamliner fleet, which was grounded | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
worldwide earlier this year because of fires caused by faulty batteries. | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
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Richard Westcott reports. The world's most advanced airliner, | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
on fire again. You can clearly see the damage just in front of the tail | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
after this Boeing Dreamliner caught fire on the ground at Heathrow. No | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
one was on board at the time. It sparks memories of this. Six months | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
ago a Dreamliner battery caught fire in Boston. And barely a week later, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
we had another Dreamliner forced into an emergency landing in Japan, | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
again battery problems. The whole fleet was grounded for three months, | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
while Boeing struggled to fix their battery. In the end, they sealed it | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
in a steel box, designed to withstand an explosion. We are | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
currently 15,000 feet above Ethiopian. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Back in April, I flew on the very same plane that caught fire today. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
It was full of Boeing executives, telling me they were proud their | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
star performer was back in the skies. We enclosed the battery in a | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
stainless steel case to ensure that if there is a problem it is isolated | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
and we can continue safe operation. Boeing's shares have fallen sharply | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
to Mike, wiping billions of the value but one industry expert says | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
it should not affect orders. Airlines have wanted this plane and | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
have waited years because of delays in production. The plane has | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
extremely good fuel economics, good comfort for passengers. There is | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
nothing else available to compare. Because of the focus on high fuel | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
prices, they need that plane now. There is nowhere else to go and I do | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
not think they will cancel orders. This was not the only Dreamliner to | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
have a problem today. A UK airline diverted one plane back home after | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
what it called a technical issue, although it does not seem connected. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Boeing has a lot riding on the Dreamliner, but it has been riddled | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
with problems. We still do not know what caused today's fire. The plane | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
was sitting empty, not due to far -- fly for another six hours. But if it | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
was caused by the battery, Boeing's flagship, state-of-the-art airliner | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
could be grounded once again. Thousands of people lined the | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
streets of Bury today to pay their respects at the funeral of Fusilier | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
Lee Rigby, the 25-year-old soldier killed outside his barracks in May. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
His family were joined by hundreds of comrades from his regiment. | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
This was a military funeral. A Fusiliers remembered by the soldiers | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
he fought alongside, and the Prime Minister. But for the's family, | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
thoughts of a brother, a husband and a father. -- be's family. The | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
youngest mourner was his two-year-old son, Jack. The message | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
on his T-shirt, my daddy, my hero. Today, the family were not alone. In | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
the July heat, strangers standing side-by-side. No cameras were | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
allowed inside the church. But outside, people listened to stories | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
of pride relayed to the crowd. we, his regimental family, salute a | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
form -- fallen comrades, a talented soldier and musician, a | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
larger-than-life character. That pride was not just felt by fellow | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
soldiers, but also his family. was always so proud to put on his | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
uniform and take part. It was something he always wanted to do. He | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
said that when Jack got older, he would want to take him back down so | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
that Jack could experience it as well. And in Woolwich, the place | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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where he was murdered, colleagues stopped to show their respect. | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
has become a hero. Whatever the intention was, it has backfired. The | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
closet has made him into the hero and the martyr. We have had letters | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
and cards from all over the world. We believe this will unite the | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
country. And their hero was taken away for a private burial, for his | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
family to remember not only the soldier, but the boy they called | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
Riggers, and the father who was always smiling. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
West Midlands police say they are treating an explosion near a mosque | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
in Tipton as a suspected act of terrorism. Homes were evacuated and | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
streets sealed off following the blast. Jeremy Cooke reports. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
It is a quiet suburban neighbourhood, but this feels like a | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
major incident. A loud explosion near to the mosque at 1pm, and with | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
nails scattered across the area, it looks like a deliberate attack. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
People are terrified, very scared and shaken. I heard it about a mile | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
away. So people could even hear that. I had a lot of friends | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
telephoning me that there was a big blast. With streets cordoned off, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
bomb disposal teams moved in, sniffer dogs and anti-terrorist | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
police. No casualties, not much damage, but police say it is gravely | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
serious. Someone looked to cause serious arm or injury to people or | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
property. -- harm. That leads us to have a working assumption at the | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
moment, based on what we know now, that this is possibly an act of | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
terrorism. It comes three weeks and five miles after a similar explosion | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
at a mosque in Walsall. They are also treating that as a terrorist | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
incident. Some have made the connection between this incident and | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
today's funeral of Drummer Lee Rigby. The local MP thinks there may | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
be a link. It is strange that it has happened on the same day as the | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
funeral. A couple of weeks after the Walsall bombing. And the timing of | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
it, at Ramadan, when people would normally be at prayer, there is a | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
lot of links there. There is calm here tonight, but still plenty of | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
questions, and a major police investigation already underway. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
There has been violence in parts of Belfast tonight following the annual | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
12th of July parade. Water cannon was used on rioters in North Belfast | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
after police were attacked with bricks and bottles. The Democratic | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
Unionist party MP, Nigel Dodds, has been injured, according to a party | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
spokesman. The police had made clear that they | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
would not allow this parade to go any further, that they would enforce | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
a ruling preventing it from passing a nationalist area in north Belfast. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
But many were determined to test that with violence. They attacked | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
police lines and police officers. Several were injured and had to be | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
carried away by colleagues, as rioters tried to force their way up | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the road. Last year, when the parade was allowed to go through, there was | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
trouble involving Republicans. This year, it is lawyer lists responsible | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
for the rioting. -- lawyer lists. There will be some people who have | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
said that violence has stopped this road and we think violence will open | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
it again. Let me finish. That does not excuse the violence here. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the body that rules on contentious marching restricted the parade, the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Orange Order said they had created a crisis. Police knew there was | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
frustration and anger at the decision but they said violence was | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
not inevitable. But it is very clear tonight, as bricks and bottles | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
rained down, that some have arrived determined to cause trouble. Water | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
cannon was used to try to disperse rioters, and officers also used | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
batons rounds. My niece was hit with a ballistic bullet. Standing doing | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
nothing. We were told we could stand here. The Orange order called for | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
multiple protests and there has been trouble in other parts of Belfast as | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
well. The 12th of July commemorates a battle. Tonight, any celebrations | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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have been scarred serious trouble. Nine months ago, a Pakistani | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot by the Taliban. She was | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
targeted for being an outspoken campaigner for girls' education. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Today, she addressed 500 people at the United Nations in New York, | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
calling for better education around the world. In her own country, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
almost 5.5 million children are not in school. Locally, 57 million | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
children have no access to education. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
It is a teenage takeover of the United Nations. Not the usual | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
diplomats, but young people from across the globe, here to demand | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
education for every child. Their inspiration is Malala Yousafzai, who | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
celebrated her 60th birthday with a speech the Taliban never wanted her | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
to make. -- 60 birthday. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
same. My hopes are the same. And my dreams are the same. The Taliban | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
tried to kill Malala in Pakistan because she was campaigning for | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
girls to have an education. Incredibly, she survived and was | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
flown to Britain for treatment. Now her campaign has gone global. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
is the only solution. Education first. Thank you. For Malala's | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
family, this was a proud day. conveyed her message in a very | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
powerful way, in powerful words. I think it should be heard by the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
communities where women and children's lives are violated. | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
teenagers gathered at the UN were energised by her words. She was not | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
just telling her story, she was conveying the dreams of many | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
children around the world. It makes me want to stand up for myself. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Every word she said was powerful. Malala and the other teenagers here | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
are two remind world leaders of their pledge to have every child in | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
education by 2015. But there are 57 million children who are not in | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
school. How will that goal be achieved? As children are in charge | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
today, the BBC's School Report team questioned Gordon Brown. How do we | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
help other Malalas out there? happy to go to Pakistan, India, | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Afghanistan and other places and say this is not good enough that so many | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
girls and boys are not at school. What began as Malala's drive for | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
education has become a global Reilly and cry. This teenager is a leader | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
on the world stage. Two major proposals designed to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
improve public health have been shelved by the government. Plans to | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
introduce standardised plain packaging for cigarettes have been | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
postponed. It has also emerged that ministers are abandoning plans for a | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
minimum price for alcohol in England and Wales. Campaigners have reacted | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
with fury and disappointment. For decades, the government's | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
message on smoking has been clear. When you smoke, the chemicals you | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
inhale cause mutations in your body. Millions have been spent on | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
campaigns encouraging us to quit. How far are ministers planning to | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
go? The plan was to follow Australia where six months ago shocking images | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
replaced company logos on all cigarette packages. The aim, to | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
prevent young people from getting hooked in the first place. But here | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
ministers postponed plans indefinitely. When we consulted the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
public, there were a huge number of responses but they were split down | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
the middle. I think it is right that we take our time and get the right | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
decision. But health campaigners are disappointed. They say the new rules | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
on how cigarettes are displayed and the ban on smoking in public faces | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
have saved lives. One campaigner said it was a day of shame for the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
government. Who would want to go back to smoking in restaurants? At | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
the time there is a bit of an outcry but afterwards everyone says that is | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
the right thing to do. It is about leadership and making a difference | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
to people's lives. With less than two years until the next election, | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
it seems conservative ministers have taken on board messages from David | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
Cameron's key adviser. He says they should be concentrating on core | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
issues which matter to voters, not things which could prove unpopular. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Campaigners say in the process they have ditched public health. It has | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
also emerged that a plan for a minimum price on alcohol has been | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
dropped. Even though David Cameron previously backed the move. I said | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
we need to get to grip 's with the problem that is fuelling violence on | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
our street. I think minimum pricing is the answer. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Labour have accused the Prime Minister of putting the interests of | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
supermarkets and tobacco companies first. What we are seeing with this | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
government is a series of flagship health policies height the dust. | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
They are giving in to the interests of big business. Health groups say | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
politicians have wasted an ideal opportunity and it will be years | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
before these proposals are back on the agenda. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
The fugitive American intelligence worker Edward Snowden has decided to | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
request political asylum in Russia. He has been stuck for three weeks at | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
an airport in Moscow after fleeing Hong Kong where he revealed US | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
surveillance secrets. Moscow Airport today looked more like Moscow | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Circus. They had been invited here by Edward | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
Snowden, writers, activists, lawyers and an MP. In Russia, Mr Snowden has | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
been dubbed the invisible man. Where his guests sure they were going to | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
find him? I do not know. I got the e-mail signed by Edward Snowden | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
inviting me to come and have a meeting. Pursued by the media, the | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
delegation was led through the airport to the transit zone, which | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
the fugitive intelligence analyst has made his own. For nearly three | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
weeks there has been a media frenzy around Edward Snowden. Journalists | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
have been scouring Moscow Airport for the slightest sign of him. Now | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
we are led to believe he is behind this door but we are not allowed | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
through. I had a family, a home in Paradise... This amateur video from | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
the meeting is the first image of Edward Snowden since he fled to | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
Russia, prove that he is still stuck at Moscow Airport. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Meeting over, Mr Snowden's guests were back in the spotlight, to | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
announce that the 30-year-old American was requesting asylum in | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Russia, but only temporarily. Eventually, he wants to travel to | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Latin America. Did he say which country? He kept saying Latin | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
America. He is serious about Venezuela was my impression. | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
Washington is unimpressed. Providing a platform to Edward Snowden runs | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
counter to Russia's produced declarations of neutrality and that | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
they have no control over his presence at the airport. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
The Kremlin knows that America wants him back but Russia has made it | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
clear, it won't be handing Edward Snowden over. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Cricket, and it was a good day for England in the first Ashes test at | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
Trent Ridge. -- Trent Bridge. They had a leader of the Australians at | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
the close but there is controversy over Stuart Broad as Joe Wilson | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
reports. Friday night at Trent Bridge and this is Stuart broad | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
walking. You can see that, obvious. It was | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
not two hours earlier. Sometimes a dismissal is obvious. Australia kept | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
making breakthroughs. They were held at primarily by Ian Bell. Stuart | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
Broad was giving crucial support until he edged the ball to | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Australia's captain Michael Clarke. Except the umpire did not give him | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
out and Stuart Broad stayed put. Australia have chances to ask for TV | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
replays but they had already used them so while we watched images | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
clearly showing broad was out, he stayed put. Australia were furious. | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
Should a batsmen be honest and walk? They have two weight for the | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
decision the umpire makes and you respect the umpire's decision. But | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
there are issues about the spirit of the game. We played hard and fair. | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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You make a judgement and wait for the umpire's position. With or | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
without the spirit of cricket, this test match will continue but what | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
about technology? TV replays were brought into cricket specifically to | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
reduce the mistakes, howlers. Here, at a crucial stage, we have seen one | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
of the biggest howlers anyone can remember. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
One of television's best-known figures, the veteran broadcaster | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
Alan worker has died. He was 87. He travelled the world to report on the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
unusual and bizarre for his Whicker's World series, interviewing | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
all sorts of people from the beautiful to be brutal dictator. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
David Sillitoe looks back at his life. In an age where the jet set | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
really was an exclusive club, if you wanted to travel the world, you went | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
:24:57. | :24:58. | ||
with Alan worker. We are in tropical Australia, halfway up Cape York. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
brash, air-conditioned nightmare where we wait forever under neon for | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
a jackpot that never turns up. style was debonair, the words, judge | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
for yourself. Hello. They are charming, aren't they? If they are | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
not, they jolly well ought to be because they are students at a | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
London charm school. If it is a police -- place where the police | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
have refused to come, I am not sure why I am here. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
The blazer, the easy charm, the son of an army officer lured his craft | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
in an army film unit in the Second World War. That led to Fleet Street | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
and in the 50s, the BBC Tonight programme. Whicker's World | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
introduced us to to how dictators treat their generals. The president | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
knows the form, knows how to keep them worried and at a distance. | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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There goes his promotion. And when it came to fame, the Monty | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
Python sendup was all the proof you needed. And Python and TV | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
globetrotter Michael Palin today paid tribute along with Michael | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Parkinson, Stephen Fry and the TV executive Michael Grade who said he | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
had a style often imitated but never equalled. It has been a lot of fun. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
The excitement, the unexpected characters, the occasional glass of | :26:35. | :26:40. |