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his strongest backing yet to the shale gas industry. Despite the | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
controversial process of fracking he says the economic gains can't be | :00:11. | :00:23. | |
ignored. Shale gas is important for our country. It could bring over ?3 | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
billion of investment, give us cheaper energy for the future and | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
increase energy security. But protesters claim that dangers are | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
being ignored and vast areas of the countryside could be ruined. The | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
risks are far too great. They far outweigh any benefits we might get. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
We'll have more on the Government's plan to give local authorities | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
financial rewards for allowing development of shale gas. Also | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
tonight: How the debate about the UK's national debt - all ?1.4 | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
trillion - of it is affecting the arguments about Scottish | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
independence. The biggest-ever inquiry into child | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
abuse opens in Northern Ireland, considering allegations spanning 70 | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
years. Francois Acra first lady could be in hospital for another | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
week, recovering from reports that the President is having an affair. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Do you have a name, pirate captain? And why some family films containing | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
strong language could be given to the ratings in future. And coming up | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
in Sportsday on BBC News. An emotional Cristiano Ronaldo beats | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Lionel Messi and Frank Riberey to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or. It's | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
second time the Portugal captain has won the award. | :01:35. | :01:50. | |
Good evening. David Cameron has given his strongest backing yet for | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
shale gas and the controversial process of fracking, saying the new | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
industry could create tens of thousands of jobs and provide | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
cheaper energy. The Prime Minister unveiled financial incentives | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
allowing those councils in England which approve new shale projects to | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
keep millions of pounds in tax receipts. Critics said the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
incentives amounted to bribes. An unlikely front line in the battle | :02:13. | :02:27. | |
over fracking. Today, protesters climbed on tankers heading for a | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
drilling site, leading to a stand-off with police. Fracking is a | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
danger to human health and the environment. The risks are far too | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
great. They far outweigh any benefits we may get. We don't | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
believe we will get any benefits. The Prime Minister disagrees. He was | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
visiting an onshore production site in Lincolnshire, near to where the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
French oil giant Total plans to invest ?30 million looking for shale | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
gas. Shale is important for our country, it could bring ?3 billion | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
of investment, give us cheaper energy for the future and increase | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
our energy security. I want us to get on board this change that is | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
doing so much good and bringing some which benefit to North America. I | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
want others to benefit here as well. Large swathes of the UK have already | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
been opened up for energy exploration. It is these blocks that | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
are shaded in red. The government is considering significantly expanding | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
the search to, potentially, more than half of the UK. To get local | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
councils on board, they will be offered 100% of the business rates | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
from a fracking site, potentially worth up to ?1.7 million a year. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Communities will also get ?100,000 for every well and 1% of the revenue | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
when a site goes into full production. But we'll all of that be | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
enough? We need to see a fair share. The Treasury is going to make | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
about 53% in tax out of future oil operations. They are already giving | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
big incentives to fracking operators. That's all fine. But | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
local communities, not local councils, have to see a fair share. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Fracking takes place thousands of metres underground. Water, sand and | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
chemicals are injected in two shale rock, unlocking gas trapped for | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
millions of years. It has revolutionised the market in the US, | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
causing prices to plummet. The Government says the same could | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
happen here. Some in the fracking industry are unconvinced. It would | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
have to be an enormous amount of gas production, the only way to get | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
lower gas prices, all other things being equal, gas has to compete with | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
gas. That means there has to be a surplus. It would be possible, not | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
something I'm planning on at the moment. What the Government is | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
planning on is that 20-40 wells will be drilled over the next couple of | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
years. But whether this latest incentive, or, as some have called | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
it, a bride, will kick-start fracking is far from clear. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Nick Robinson is with me. It's quite clear that plenty of people have | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
real concerns about this technology and what it entails. What is the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Prime Minister's thinking? I think he's decided to go through the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
political pain barrier, to resist the local campaigners, who now | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
include the Council in the Chancellor's -- and Mr's own | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
constituency. They have decided they don't want fracking. The Prime | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Minister also resist the green campaigners saying, why are you | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
turning your back on wind and solar? Why, the cause they think the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
attentional gains dwarfed the political downsides. There is that | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
potential big gain in terms of jobs, potentially cheap energy. But also, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
really, the security of supply, the certainty that we have our own | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
energy supplies. Above all, this is part of the political battle over | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the economy. The Prime Minister, at the beginning of every week, once to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
say I have a long-term plan for the economy. Ed Miliband will try to | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
answer that with his own long-term plan on Thursday. In the Telegraph | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
he says the middle-class is getting poorer and smaller, and he wants to | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
reverse both. By the way, BBC News online has a lot more for you, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
background analysis. The Treasury has declared that it | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
will, in all circumstances, take responsibility for all UK Government | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
debt should Scotland vote for independence in September. The move | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
was aimed at removing the risk of default resulting from any dispute | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
about Scotland's share of the debt and giving reassurance to the | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
financial markets. Supporters of Scottish independence say their | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
campaign has been boosted by the Treasury's promise, as our business | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
editor Robert Peston reports. The United Kingdom - in the red, or | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
at least our Government is, to the tune of ?1.4 trillion. But what | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
would happen to that debt if Scotland vote for independence? | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Well, the Treasury said today that Scotland would be under no legal | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
obligation to take on any of the huge debt. So, why has the Treasury | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
said it will continue to stand behind all of the UK's enormous | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
debts, even if Scotland were to break away? Well, it's because | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
investors were uncertain who would be truly liable and there was a | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
danger that, in the absence of certainty, the British Government | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
could end up paying a higher rate of interest. The last thing we want is | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
uncertainty to cause taxpayers in every part of the Unitied kingdom to | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
have to pay a kind of separation surcharge on our debt in advance of | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
this referendum. But here's the funny thing. The Scottish National | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Party, and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, insist Scotland will | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
take on some of those British liabilities. Despite the fact we've | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
no legal obligation, because they claim they're the continuing state, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
we're prepared to take a share of liability, to pay a share of the | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
debt that has been built up by Alistair Darling and George Osborne | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
in terms of the financing of it. In return, of course, for the proper | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
share of the assets to the countries. The assets Alex Salmond | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
is talking about include this, North Sea oil, which he wants for | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Scotland. And, because he wants a separate Scotland to keep the pound, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
he also wants to negotiate some influence over how the Bank of | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
England said the price of money - interest rates. So, how much of the | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
UK's debt might Scotland take on? Well, an amount equal to 55% of | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Scotland's income, or GDP, says a Scottish Government White Paper if | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
it's determined by Scotland's contribution to public finances. And | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
it would be 75% of Scottish GDP of the calculation were made on | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
Scotland's share of the UK's population. But, in both cases, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Scotland's debts would be lower than the 80% of GDP which is the official | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
forecast for the UK's debt. And, of course, a separate Scotland would | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
have to borrow new money from managers of huge funds, like this | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
bloke, to pay for public services. Do you think a Scottish Government | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
could borrow at the same low interest rates as the British | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
government currently pays? Well, there's a lot of uncertainty around | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
that because we don't know what assets they'd get. But, broadly | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
speaking, I think we should expect them to pay a higher rate of | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
interest on their borrowing than the UK Government, simply because | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
they're a new borrower and the market would demand a higher | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
interest rate for the uncertainty of the new borrower. That question, | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
what price investors would charge Scotland for funds, will be red-hot | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
in the referendum campaigns, since it'll also have a strong bearing on | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
what Scottish businesses and people would pay to borrow. Robert Preston, | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
BBC News. The United Kingdom's biggest ever | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
inquiry into child abuse has opened in Northern Ireland. Its goal is to | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
decide whether there was institutional abuse at homes run by | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
the state, church or voluntary organisations. The inquiry is | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
looking into allegations of abuse over a period of 70 years, from 1922 | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
to 1995. More than 300 people are expected to give evidence over the | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
coming two years. In all, 13 institutions are under | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
investigation. Nick Higham reports from Banbridge in County Down, where | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
the hearing is taking place. Happy children, welfare and cared | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
for in a wholesome environment. That was the public image children's | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
homes across Britain and Ireland sought to project. The reality will | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
sometimes very different. This one, filmed in the UK in the 1950s, was, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
like many, run by a religious order, in this case The Sisters of | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
Nazareth. Kate Walmsley was taken into care. In this care home, she | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
wet the bed and was publicly punished for it. At confession, she | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
was singled out for sexual abuse by a priest. When she reacted, she was | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
branded a delinquent. I was an abused child. I was not a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
delinquent. I was a child, crying for help. I was a hurt a child, you | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
know? I just needed someone to ask me, why was I not happy? Today, the | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
inquiry chairman said some victims of abuse had waited years to tell | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
their stories. The inquiry's council quoted Nelson Mandela. There can be | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
no keener dedication of a society's cell and the way that it treats its | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
children. By examining vulnerable children living in children's homes | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1985 were treated, this inquiry will | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
essentially examine the soul of Northern Irish society over that | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
period. Over the next 18 months, the inquiry team sitting at this former | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
courthouse in the small town of Banbridge will hear often harrowing | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
accounts of childhood is a raft of affection and scarred by cruelty, | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
physical and psychological abuse, and sometimes sexual abuse as well. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
At the inquiry today, Margaret McGuckin, one of the campaigners who | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
fought to set it up. She was a victim herself, taken into care when | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
she was three, separated from her brothers and sisters. She described | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
a childhood of sadness and ill-treatment. Bath-time was an | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
awful ritual, to be scrubbed, roasting, scolding, hot water over | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
your head, ducked down into a steel basin, screaming out for help and | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
shivering. The inquiry will look at abuse and institutions run by the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Church, charities and the state. Campaigners want official | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
recognition of what they suffered and for those still living who | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
committed the abuse to face criminal charges. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
In France it's being reported that Valerie Trierweiler, the partner of | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
President Hollande, may stay in hospital for at least a week. She | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
was admitted on Friday after being told of allegations that the | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
President was having an affair with an actress. Mr Hollande, who's | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
already the most unpopular President in the history of the Fifth | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Republic, is due to make a major speech tomorrow. But he is | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
struggling to contain the crisis around his private life. This report | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
does contain flash photography. President Hol hall's partner, first | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
-- President Hollande's partner, Valerie Trierweiler, remains in | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
hospital and may stay there for several days. She went for treatment | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
after a French magazine indicated the president had a new girlfriend. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Still a majority of French people see this as a private matter. I | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
personally don't care if he has a wife or if he has two or three | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
wives. That's not my problem. Every president has a life and love | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
affairs. So no matter for me. The president has deplored the invasion | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
of his privacy but has not clarified the nature of his relationship, | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
neither has Julie Gayet, the actress he visited. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
TRANSLATION: I think the private life is a private affair. It is | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
something we have preserved in France. But questions are mounting. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
The apartment which the president visited was rented by a friend of | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
the actress with reported links to criminals. As regards the First | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Lady, even the president's allies say his relationship will have to be | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
clarified. If something has to be announced on the life of the family | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
of Mr Hollande, I'm sure that there will be some information given in | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
the next days. Amidst all of this, President Hollande tomorrow is due | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
to hold his first press conference of the new year. Many saw that as an | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
opportunity to relaunch his troubled presidency and to do that, he has to | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
address the problems of the economy - low growth, high unemployment. To | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
achieve progress there, much depends upon his credibility. There have | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
been frequent protests about the economy. It was the turn of taxi | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
drivers to block roads today, among their complaints - higher taxes. And | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
when we asked what they thought of the president, we got this response: | :15:30. | :15:39. | |
LAUGHTER The president's task tomorrow is to | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
explain how he will revive the economy to a sceptical and | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
frustrated public. It will be a decisive moment for his presidency. | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
Tonight, he is preparing inside the Elysee Palace. The risk is that few | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
will listen to him on the economy until he clarifies his personal | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
life. The interim president of the Central | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
African Republic has called for an end to the sectarian violence that's | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
claimed at least a thousand lives over the past month. The Republic's | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
first Muslim president resigned last week and fled the country. In the | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
days that followed, there's been less violence between Muslim and | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
Christian groups, but both accuse each other of carrying out | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
reprisals. Paul wood has spoken to a man accused of carrying out one of | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
the worst attacks, an act of cannibalism. There are graphic and | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
disturbing images and details in Paul's report. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
The winners in this conflict, delirious with victory. The | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Christians were victims, now they're on top. It's a dangerous time to be | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Muslim. A charred and dismembered body is dragged through the streets. | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
Christians have just killed a Muslim passer-by. This man was at the head | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
of the mob. He was in a blind fury that day. Muslims killed his | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
pregnant wife, his sister-in-law, her baby, he tells me. They broke | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
down the door and cut the baby in half. I promised I'd get my revenge. | :17:17. | :17:34. | |
Revenge was an act of cannibalism. TRANSLATION: First he stabbed his | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
victim. You are Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, he said. I poured petrol | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
over him. I burned him. I ate his leg right down to the white bone. | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
The victim was just passing through on a bus. Most Christians are | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
horrified, but resigned. "No-one tried to help him" say these | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
eyewitnesses. "Everyone's so angry with the Muslims. No way anyone was | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
going to intervene." This happened at 2pm, when the | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
streets were crowded with people just like you see today. Everyone | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
we've spoken to is still at a loss to know what to make of it. Was it | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the act of a madman, was it somebody who'd been pushed by sectarian | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
hatred? Was this explained, perhaps, by traditional beliefs in magic and | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
sorcery? These fighters are Christians, but they also believe in | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
magic. Their amulets contain soil from their ancestors' graves. Some | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
carry the flesh of enemies they've killed. These charms are a delicate | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
subject, not often discussed with outsiders. "We are bullet-proof", | :18:59. | :19:11. | |
says the commander. He went further, perhaps his crime resulted from his | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
own demons, but to some Christians, he's a hero. That doesn't bode well | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
for this country's future. In Jerusalem hundreds of foreign | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
ignitaries, including Tony Blair and the US vice-president, Joe Biden, | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
have attended a national memorial service for Ariel Sharon, the former | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Israeli Prime Minister. He died on Saturday, at the age of 85, having | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
been in a coma for the past eight years. Mr Sharon was purried at his | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
family farm, close to the Gaza Strip. Our Middle East editor, | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Jermey Bowen, sent this report. With prayers and tributes outside | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
its Parliament, Israel and its friends, said a final farewell to | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Ariel Sharon, eight years to the month after a stroke removed him | :20:03. | :20:14. | |
from power. Net Benjamin Netaiyahu said he would go down in history as | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
one of their great military leaders. To Ariel Sharon's sons and | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
grandchildren, Joe Biden, the US vice-president, said Sharon's | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
passing also felt like a death in the family to many Americans, even | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
though, at times, he'd had profound differences with American leaders. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
From my observation, he was a complex man, but to understand him | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
better, I think it's important history will judge, he also lived in | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
complex times. In a very complex neighbourhood. The coffin was taken | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
away to be buried at the Sharon family farm in southern Israel. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Ariel Sharon is as controversial in death as he was in life. For many | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Israelis it was his military qualities, his strength and his | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
capacity for ruthlessness which made him a desirable Prime Minister at | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
the time that he was elected. Ariel Sharon owned a house in the old city | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
of Jerusalem, where most residents are Palestinians. For many years he | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
led the drive to settle Jews in the occupied territories. Jewish | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
settlers who live in the Muslim quarter have armed security guards. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
A prominent Palestinian, who believes in nonviolent resistance to | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Israel, said Israelis should move on from Sharon's legacy. He thought he | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
can deal with Palestinians and Arabs and the rest of the world only | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
through force. What Israel needs is a different kind of political | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
generation, people who understand that they themselves will not be | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
free as Israel is from occupation unless we, the Palestinians, are | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
free. As a soldier Ariel Sharon ignored | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
orders if he thought his plan was more effective. Off the continue | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
was. Many Palestinians and some human rights campaigners think he | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
should have been put on trial as a war criminal. But he goes to his | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
grave mourned by Israelis who felt safer when he was alive. | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
You can see more on Ariel Sharon's life in a special programme: | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
Israel's Iron Man at 11. 20pm tonight on BBC Two. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Cristiano Ronaldo has won FIFA's Ballon d'Or award after being named | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
the best footballer in the world 2013. He received his award this | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
evening from the great Brazilian player pele. Cristiano Ronaldo. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
It's the second time the Barcelona and former Manchester United player | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
has won the award. He'd been runner up in three of the past four years | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
to Lionel Messi. He was clearly overcome at regaining the title. | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
There was success for the British film, 12 Years A Slave, at the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Golden Globes last night in Los Angeles and it's now being tipped | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
for success at the os karsz -- Oscars. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
The Golden Globe award goes to... 12 Years A Slave. | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
Director Steve McQueen said he'd been taken aback by the award but | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
said he was pleased that a film which tells the true story of a man | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
sold into slavery had been so warmly embraced by cinema audiences. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Now films meant for family audiences, which contain some strong | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
language, will be given tougher ratings in future by the British | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Board of Film Classification. The board has published new guidelines | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
to give more weight to the theme and tone of a film. In response to a | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
public consultation, the board also said it would consider the | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
psychological impact of films as well as the visual detail. | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
Do you have a name Pirate Captain? They call me the Pirate Captain. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Order man animations The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists was | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
given a U rating by the British Board of Film Classification, so | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
it's suitable for four years. But it contained the word "crap". Which | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
caused some parents to complain and the BBFC to take a new approach to | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
language. Hence forth there will be pretty much a zero tolerance when it | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
comes to U rated films and rude words. Children cop yip a lot of | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
what they learn, so they copy the bad language. That can be | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
embarrassing to the parents if they repeat the language to the vicar or | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
something like that. The BBFC also will pay more attention to how films | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
containing films of horror, gore, sex and self-harming are treated. It | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
gave Black Swan, for example, a 15 rating, but might take a different | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
approach to such a film in the future, instead allocating 18 | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
classification to signal that it's not a sweet film about ballet, but a | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
dark and graphic tale of paranoia. Strong visual detail of violence or | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
its aftermath is a cause for parental concern. A change the | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
producers of the hunger games discovered recently. It had to drop | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
some screens in order to receive a 12 A rating. They're looking at the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
context. Film, the wider meaning of the film, the horror in the film, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
the creepiness, the disturbing sexualisation. They are looking at | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
that as a whole. That's very important to see the film as a whole | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
and not a set of buzz words or swear words. Film isn't the only area | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
where changes are happening. The Government is poised to alter the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
regulations governing music DVDs, requiring, for the first time, those | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
aimed at 12 to 15-year-olds to apply for BBFC rating. Online videos such | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
as Miley Cyrus' controversial Wrecking Ball, which has been | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
watched by around half a billion people, will not be affected. At | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
least not yet. However, a pilot project is being discussed that | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
could see the BBFC's ratings system introduced at some point on Google's | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
YouTube website. That's all from us. First look at the papers on the BBC | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
News channel. Now we join our news teams | :26:31. | :26:31. |