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President Assad's gunmen open fire on unarmed civilian, the reality of | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
life inside the city of Homs. Shot in the stomach and too scared | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
even to get first aid at one of the country's hospitals, this man | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
reached London last night. He brings a firsthand account of life | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
under attack by a dictator's thugs. Also tonight, the brewing world | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
currency crisis, this was the best the euro's public defender could | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
come up with today. No, there is nothing provided for leaving the | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
eurozone, it is not a cafe, you go in and you go out. That's all right | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
then. I'm pro-choice, I am pro- choice, despite the fact that I am | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
represented as pro-life in every newspaper. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
And the MP who wanted to change the abortion laws is comprehensively | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
defeated in the House of Commons s it time for her to give up. Look | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
here is the deal mi, momdad split up, because my dad decided to stay | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
in Lebanon, even though he's will he be nee, but not a suicide bomber. | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
- will he be knees but not - Lebanese but not a suicide bomber. | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
Can comedy bridge the gap between Islam and the best. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Forces loyal to the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, killed, perhaps, | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
14 more of their countrymen today. As ever the details are very hard | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
to come from, since foreign observers are banned from the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
country. The attack came in Homs, which is Syria's third city, and is | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
under attack for days now. If Assad's thugs think they can get | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
away with their killing completely without witnesses, they are wrong. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
A British citizen of Syrian descent was shot in Homs ten days ago. He | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
and his family fled Syria, arriving in the UK last night. How | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
frequently are these demonstrations taking place? Every day. Every day | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
at night they come out about 5,000, in every area, in Homs. This is | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
despite the fact that people shoot into the crowd? Yeah, of course. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
They shoot us every day. They come in cars, armies come in and tanks | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
sometimes. Without us even knowing. Have you seen tanks? I have seen | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
everything. Have you lost friends? I have lost 14 of my friends. I | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
actually lost one today. Shot? They have all been shot, bombed | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
away, shot. Taken to prison, came out dead. You filmed one of these | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
demonstrations on your mobile phone, we are going to look at the | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
pictures now, and let's run them now and have a look at them. | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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It is quite hard to work out exactly what is happening here. You | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
are running, holding your phone? Yep. And we see just, we saw just | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
at the edge of the frame there a body lying on the ground. Do you | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
recall how many people were shot down in that? There was about two | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
shot in that ground. You got used to bodies. When you are living and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
going out on these protests every day, you get used to seeing bodies | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
every day. You are going to have to drag them off the floor, pick them | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
up or take people to hospital. you see the people doing the | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
shooting? Army. Security, people wearing...In Uniform? And people | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
wearing civilian clothes going out with them. They have mn guns, bomb, | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
everything. - machine guns, bombs, everything. Are they aiming or | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
firing indiscriminatly into the crowds? Three carters of the shots | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
are aimed, one quarter - three quarters of the shots are aimed, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
one quarter just to scare people. After that particular demonstration | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
we just saw there, you yourself were attacked and shot? Yes, of | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
course. What happened? Actually it was about two days after that, I | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
was sitting at night, standing with my friend talking about medication, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
food, we were actually going to take it to Hama. They need a lot of | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
medication and food. That is in another town? That is a another | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
town. We have to smuggle it in there. If the security actually | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
catch medication with us and food, they will actually take it out and | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
burn it. So you were standing around talking with your friend? | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
What happened? Car came by and through a grenade, I actually | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
thought it was a firework. I looked at my friend and said it is not | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
even time for that kind of stuff. It is funny, fireworks and shooting, | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
it is not time for that shooting now. The car parked right behind me, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
two metres behind me and the car, opened the window and started | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
shooting. I didn't feel the bullet in the beginning. Did you see the | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
gun, handgun or a rifle? It was handgun. You felt the bullet? | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
about two seconds. Where did he shoot you? In my waist and it came | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
out my back. If it wasn't for my friend I would be killed. He | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
actually threw me on the floor, stood in front of me, they shot him | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
three times in the stomach, leg and hand. What happened then? The car | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
ran away. As usual. It took the people about five minutes to get to | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
us. I wasn't shouting, and my friend was unconscious. Then I | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
started shouting and everyone saw us, dragged us on the floor. They | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
couldn't pick us up, there was only two. Actually dragged me. Then the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
people, everyone came, started picking us up and took us to | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
hospitals. When you got to the hospital, what happened there? | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
stayed for about 40 minutes the. They had to let me out quickly. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Why? Because the security forces would actually come to the hospital. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
If they find anybody with an injury, even in the leg, you come out with | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
an injury through the head. You get shot in the head. You had a bullet | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
passed through your body, it requires more than one visit to a | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
hospital, did you go back to the hospital? Of course, not, no. I | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
can't go back to the hospital, they will be there waiting for people to | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
come back. I didn't even go in my name, they put a stranger's name | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
there, they wait for people to come back the next day. They shoot at | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
night waith in the morning. They go at night to the hospitals too. We | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
have hospitals in houses. people's houses, where doctors can | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
look after you a little bit? Which they find and destroy and burn. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
did you get out of the country? Really easy actually, I just went | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
to the airport and left. The Government is so stupid, the Syrian | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Government, I have never seen anybody so stupid, they think | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Facebook is a device. They ask people where's Facebook. Where's | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
your Facebook, why haven't you got Facebook with you. They didn't pat | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
you down, frisk you, you presumably were swatheed in bandages? I told | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
them I had an operation a kidney operation, they believed it and let | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
me in. You were carrying a British passport. I had a British passport, | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
that is actually why they wouldn't dare say anything. If I had a | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
British or American or any European passport they let me through didn't | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
say anything. Would you think about going back? Hopefully I will. | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
Hopefully, you want to go back? want to go back. Why? Well, my | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
friend are being killed every single day. I like being there, I | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
like helping people. I have got used to helping people. It has been | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
my life for six months. It has been my life. I haven't got a job, I'm | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
not even studying, that is how everybody is now in Homs, and most | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
of Syria. No jobs, no studying, that is our life. Do you believe | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
eventually you will topple him? yeah, we will. But he has all the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
guns? He can't stop us, he will have to kill millions to stop us. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
People won't stop. If we stop that would be the end of us. He will | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
actually get us one by one, we know. That he has videos of every single | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
protestor going out, he will catch us one by one if we stop. It gets | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
calm for day or two. Thank you very much. You are very | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
welcome. Oh, not to be in Euroland now that | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
autumn is here, but where to be instead. The economic crisis is | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
generating a monetary crisis like some pin ball machine, vast sums of | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
money are going here and there as investors try to find a safe haven. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
The authorities in Switzerland are so alarmed by the in rush, they | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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have tried to set a ceiling on the value of the Swiss franc. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
When back street players shoot craps, they bet against each other. | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
It is case of, I win, you loose. An easy way to get yourself fleeced. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Now the global currency markets are looks like a craps game, the stakes | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
rising, everybody trying to load the dice. Suddenly we are seeing | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
big swings in the currency markets. Some Governments are intervene to | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
go depress the value of their currencies, the euro, to stop it | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
breaking up. Why? It was the Swiss, yesterday, who | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
made the latest move, they fixed a flaw for the Swiss franc against | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
the euro and promised to spend unlimited amounts of money to make | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
it stick. The Swiss themselves have argued that the market is pushing | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
the Swiss franc to a point where it is becoming harmful for Switzerland | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
itself. It is creating disinflationary, deflationry | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
pressures. It is making their exports totally uncompetitive, and | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
they just feel it is a complete misalignment, that the market is | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
not capable, really, of having a fair and free value for the Swiss | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
franc. But there are bigger currencies | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
than the Swiss in play. The dollar, as America gets ready | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
for a third round of quoosing, is having a big im- quantitative | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
easing, is having a big impact. After the Leeming crisis hit, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Governments, above all - Lehman crisis hit, Governments above all | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
started to print money. Money flows to Japan, and Brazil, forcing their | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
currencies to rise, they are fighting back. I don't think we are | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
facing a currency war, we are escalating within the context of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
currency wars. Where this is leaving us is that many countries | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
in the world do not want to have the other side of dollar weakness, | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
but I am afraid, with the situation in the US, with them having zero | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
interest rates, practically exhausted fiscal policy, they have | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
tried QE1, QE-2, there is talk of QE3, the one thing the US has left | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
is a weaker dollar, the world will have to accept stronger currencies. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
It was the man who now runs America's Central Bank, who taught | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
us that in the 1930s, those who devalued first, recovered first. | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Now, as everybody tries to devalue, some think the shadow of the 1930s | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
looms large. Quantitative easing, printing of money, intervention in | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
currency markets, whether it is the Swiss or the Japanese, or anybody | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
else, is really the same thing about trying to steal some sort of | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
competitive advantage against the risk of economic decline and | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
deterioration. What happens when everybody does it? The danger is | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
that if we all do this, in uncontrolled fashion, we will just | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
drive ourselves into a depression where nobody actually wins. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
While some countries devalue against each other, to try to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
compete their way out of the crisis, the irony is, the countries that | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
might like to, can't, southern Europe, stuck within the eurozone, | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
is stagnating, so the tensions within the single currency are | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
rising. Italy tonight voted for a new | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
austerity programme in the teeth of strikes and protests. In Germany, a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
crucial court decision paved the way for the Greek bailout. But | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
economists think the permanent solution is Euro-bonds, effectively | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
pooling the national debts of all the countries in the eurozone. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Today, the President of the European Council was in London, and | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
when asked about how we get out of this mess, he said he wasn't | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
interested in megaphone diplomacy. It is very difficult to hear you | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
refusing to share your proposals to the European people. If, for | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
example, you are in favour of Euro- bonds, surely you state you are in | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
favour of them. That is not megaphone diplomacy, it is just | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
democracy? After refusing to answer my question, he eventually answered | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
it from somebody else. It is not a solution tomorrow to say let's | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
create what we call Euro-bonds and put all the sovereign bonds in one | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
basket, the good ones, the bad one, the weak ones, the strong ones, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
where we do something together. No, we can envisage all this, we have | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
to consider all options, but always, in the framework of fiscal | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
discipline. Some experts believe that Euro-bonds, for legal and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
economic reasons, will never fly. What would happen essentially is | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
the French and Germans would be guarnteeing virtually the entire | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
deficits and debts of Italy and Spain and so on, which would be | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
raising their own funding cost as a consequence. They would essentially | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
end up with a level of indebtedness fairly similar to Italy today, that | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
is completely inconceivable they would agree to that. Another thing | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
to note about this is the German constitutional court's judgment | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
today pretty much, in essence, rules out the possibility of Euro- | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
bonds, it says Euro-bond, in effect, would violate the German | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
constitution. All over the world politicians are trying to remove | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
their currencies from the pressure of the markets. The markets, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
meanwhile believe it can't be done, that the truth will out. Some money, | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
right now is flowing out of the European banks, and investors are | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
fleeing Spain and Italy, and developments like this pose | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
questions you just can't refuse to answer. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
And every day of economic turmoil brings another throw of the dice. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Two wisemen, two wise women. Gillian Tett, the US managing | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
editor of the Financial Times is here, the economist, Vicky Pryce, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Conservative MP and former Deutsche Bank executive, Sajid Javid, and | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
joining us from Brussels is Richard Corbett, a former Labour MEP who | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
now advises the President. Will the euro survive? It is entering very | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
dangerous trry. The eurozone leaders now have been playing for | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
time. They have been kicking the can down the road, that a bit of | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
growth would bail them out. What has changed in the last few weeks | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
is the markets have realised that time isn't going to solve this. The | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
economy economies are far from growing and slowing down, and the | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
markets are getting more panicked. Do either of you think the euro | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
will survive? It will have to, there is no way to let it go, the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
costs for everyone involved would be so huge, it can't be | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
contemplated. The constitution court can say what it likes to | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Merkel, but actually, if they need to lend for more the euro to | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
survive they will. It absolutely will not survive in its current | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
form, it was a project flawed from the beginning, an A-level student | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
could have told you that. It has turned into a bankruptcy machine, | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
it was always destined to. If you look at the countries experiencing | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
the greatest problems, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, the causes might | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
be different, but the trigger is the same, the euro. If apocalypse | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
will be avoided, how can it be avoided for the euro, if anybody | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
cares? The real point is it can't survive in the current form. We all | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
agree we can't have the countries being allowed, if you like, to | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
carry on borrowing without doing anything major about the way they | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
run their economy. We have inevitably have to move towards | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
greater union, a fiscal union doesn't mean all fiscal policies | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
will be the same, actually there will be a lot more co-ordination of | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
policies across. If that is achieved and package developed in | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
the future. Everybody realise that is Greece won't be able to meet the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
austerity plan at the moment. If there is an allowance for countries | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
like Greece and others, to reform their economy, to benefit in the | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
long-term from being in the euro, that is the requirement. Do you | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
that is feasible? It is two appalling choice, the cost of | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
breakup would be huge. UBS, the investment bank, have done a study | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
on the costs, they estimate it would be 10,000 euros per person in | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
the year and for more stronger countries. The cost of staying | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
together will be huge politically as well. Actually, in Germany there | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
is going to be probably extreme tension about the idea of bailing | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
out their neighbours. And whatever choice you take right now it will | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
be very nasty. That is why markets are so concerned. Mr Corbett, this | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
makes your man, Mr Van Rompuy, seem pretty irrelevant, doesn't it? | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
job is to get consensus out of the various Governments involved. But | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
interestingly, the first part of your piece just now was a reminder | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
of the problems of having separate currencies that fluctuate against | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
each other, with potential competitive devaluations, that is | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
why most countries in Europe decided that you are better off | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
having a single currency for the single market. And the euro as a | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
whole, let's remember, remains a strong currency, it has gone up | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
against the dollar and the pound, it has got stable, low inflation, | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
it has a balance of payments, and it is overall lower public debt | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
than the US or Japan. We have a problem of debts in a number of | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
countries across the world, three of which are in the eurozone, and | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
are being helped by their partners, with loo loans, not grants. Loans - | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
loans, not grants, to help them take turn the corner. That | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
sovereign debt is not peculiar to the eurozone. If Europe had | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
separate currencies still today, the problems that Italy, Spain and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Greece is experiencing right now, they would have dealt with it in | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
the old fashioned way, they would allow their currency to depreciate, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
and we wouldn't have the kind of problems we are seeing now. In fact, | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
I would go further, fiscal union cannot work. Let's be clear what | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
fiscal union means, it means a single Treasury, single Finance | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Minister. One Chancellor of the Exchequer for the whole lot? It is | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
hugely undemocratic, it won't work for the same reasons it didn't work | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
in the first place. Is that what it would mean, one central Treasury | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
making rules across the eurozone? Do you really think that is likely, | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
that 17 European countries will hand over their entire Treasury to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
one Treasury. No country would have more power than an English County | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Council, that is what it means. They are going in that direction. | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
don't think you will find most countries in Europe signing up for | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
something in the way you have portrayed it. Yes, you need | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
countries to agree to the common rules that they have all agreed to | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
avoid excessive deficits and debts. That does not mean that the central | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
authorities take over all the Treasury responsibilities for the | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
member states, of course not. will talk about central authorities | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
in a moment or two, is the idea viable? We are tiptoeing towards | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
closer union if there isn't a break-up. There is a piece in the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Financial Times tomorrow from members of the Dutch Government, | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
suggesting there should be closer scrutiny of each other's budgets | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
and the ability to block them where necessary. That is indicating a | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
trend. The choices are appalling now, if there is not going to be | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
tighter union, it will have to be a break up. Loot depends on how you | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
define the union, which is what - a lot depends on how you define the | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
union. You don't need one Chancellor of the Exchequer doing | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
it all, but you do need to have all the countries involved making the | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
decisions. Do you think Mr Van Rompuy is giving political | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
leadership when all the decisions are being made by Angela Merkel and | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy? There is a problem of democratic deficiency here, that | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
is really what the various voters in Germany and elsewhere have been | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
telling Merkel for the first instance, and what is going on in | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
:21:35. | :21:41. | ||
Greece aup to a point in Italy right now. You can visualise a | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
situation happening, otherwise we will end up with the breaking up. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
There was a fascinating speech, where it was point the out, as | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
President of the European Central Bank, that the level of divergance | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
across the eurozone is less than the divergance across the United | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
States. As we have heard from Brussels, the actual level of debt | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
to GDP is lower than the US, and the divergance is less, if it was | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
run on or a closer basis it would work. That is the key point | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
polictically, on paper fiscal union should work, like it works in | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Australia and the United States, but in practice it is impossible. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
You won't get several sovereign national nations with a long | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
history of sovereign Government to agree and pool powers. What is Mr | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Van Rompuy's strategy? Mr Van Rompuy's strategy is to chair | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
meetings of the heads of 17 democracies, all democrat clo | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
accountable through their own system, and to - democratically | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
accountable through their own system and get agreement from them. | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
It is not an easy task, it takes all 17 to reach agreement to the | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
eurozone. Not easy, that is a fair point. Monetary union of 17 | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
different democracies is not easy to run. All of them, however, agree, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
we need a higher level of convergance than we have had up to | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
now. That doesn't mean handing over your sovereignity entirely to some | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
central authority, it means a greater degree of policy | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
consultation than we have had up to now. What would Europe be like | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
without the euro? In the short-term it would be extremely bloody and | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
brutal, and a very nasty run on the banking system. It would be pretty | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
chaotic, in the medium to long-term, I would imagine we would see the | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
stronger countries coming together. The idea of the eurozone breaking | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
up t wouldn't mean the whole eurozone breaking up, there is an | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
interesting in the stronger countries coming together. It would | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
be extremely messy. What do we mean by convergance, we are stuck in | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
definitions, we don't want the countries to be the same, there is | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
no way, it is good to have differences, you don't want them | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
all to come down statement or recovering statement. You wantm - | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
at the same time, or recovering at the same time. We have seen greater | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
divergance in that case, we have seen Germany being very competitive, | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
and Greece moving into the other direction. The divergence in Europe | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
has meant that prices everywhere have gone up, to equate, if you | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
like, with the ones in central and northern Europe, we have ended up | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
with countries like Greece being so prohibitly expensive to do business | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
The controversial plan to change the abortion laws in this country | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
was defeated in the House of Commons this afternoon. The | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Conservative backbencher, Nadine Dorries, had hoped to make it | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
impossible for organisations to carry out terminations to provide | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the counselling beforehand. It was comprehensively defeated, we | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
watched it all. Why did the Dorries amendment fail? The first thing to | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
say is the Government did commit to a review of abortion advice, which | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
depending on your view of Government reviews is either good | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
news or not good news. In terms of the amendment itself, I think one | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
of the big reasons it failed was that Government ministers, | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Government health ministers, although it was technically a free | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
vote, Government health ministers signalled their opposition to it. | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
The offer of this review was enough to see the co-sponsor of the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
amendment to the bill, Frank Field, withdraw his support. The | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
Government ministers took the view today, of all days, being the day | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
that the Health and Social Care Bill went through its final Commons | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
stages. The Dorries amendment was part of it. This was the day they | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
supremely wanted to show a modern, forward-facing Conservative Party, | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
and they didn't want to get into this sort of thing. I think the | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
main reason it failed was that abortion, of course, is a supremely | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
polarising issue. For a lot of Conservative MPs, particularly, who | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
may be very thoughtful about these issues, and are sympathetic to what | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
Nadine Dorries was trying to do. It was just not the quite right time. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Or the right issue. Defeated by 250 votes yet you claim a tremendous | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
result? It was a tremendous result. Four weeks ago there was never any | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
spotlight shone on the abortion industry or counselling. As a | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
result of the amendment the Government have agreed to get a | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
consultation in January, but also to, as the minister said today, in | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
her winding up speech, to take the spirit of this amendment and | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
introduce it via secondary legislation. But they are not going | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
to stop organisations which provide abortions from counselling, are | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
they? If you is that i, you are saying that the consultation has | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
been predetermined. If the Government agreed with you, they | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
could have whipped their MPs and made them vote for the amendment? | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
don't think it was actually that easy. We do know there are a lot of | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
tactic that is are in play by the Liberal Democrats. Who were almost | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
blackmailing the Government. They had this amendment going through, | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
that the Liberal Democrats would vote the bill down in the Lords. | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
That was a very dangerous situation. And the Government had to whip. The | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Prime Minister agrees with this amendment. He agrees the objectives | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
of the amendment, but unfortunately the Liberal Democrats made it so | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
difficult that the Government had to whip against it today. But as | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
the minister said, it will be introduced, the spirit of this | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
amendment, if the consultation bears it out, will be introduced | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
using secondary legislation. Liberal Democrats are running this | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Government? The Liberal Democrats are in coalition with this | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
Government. They are part of this Government. But one might say they | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
possibly have far too much influence on issues like the health | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
bill, immigration, Free Schools and abortion today. What did you make | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
of the Prime Minister's response when you raised that with him today | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
in Prime Minister's Questions. We can have a look at it. Mr Speaker | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
the Liberal Democrats make up 7% of this parliament yet they seem to be | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
influencing our Free School policy, health, many issues, immigration | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
and abortion. Does the Prime Minister think it is about time he | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
told the deputy Prime Minister who is the boss. I know the honourable | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
lady is extremely frustrated about...maybe I should start all | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
over again. I'm going to give up on this one. | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
What did you make of that? Actually the Prime Minister contacted me | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
afterwards and told me that what he wanted to say was that he had | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
supported the amendment, supported the aims and objective, but | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
unfortunately it was a difficult day to do that today. For a variety | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
of reasons. I don't think he intended to respond. I believe him | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
when he said that I believed him. I think he was just caught unawares | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
by what happened with the party opposite, and the response. | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
whole of the House of Commons, including plenty of people on your | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
benches, seemed to find it hysterically funny when he talked | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
about you being very frustrated, that tells you something about the | :29:27. | :29:36. | |
atmosphere of the House of Commons and its general juvinillity? | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
knows how cross I am at how much influence the Liberal Democrats | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
have had, not just on this policy, but this particular one, that I | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
have worked for six years on. I'm very angry because I have discussed | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
this with the Prime Minister, I know he agrees with it. I know he's | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
pro-choice, but he's sensitive to these issues. He don't like the | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
idea that abuse may take place in the system. Did anyone apologise | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
for the way the House of Commons behaved? No, but the Prime Minister | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
apologised to me personally. didn't think it was another of | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
those "calm down, dear" moments? I don't. Because they are not | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
planned, he doesn't stand up, the Prime Minister had no idea I was | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
going to ask him that question. If he did know I was going to ask him | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
that question, and responded like that. Then one would think | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
something was Machiavellian in his response, he had no idea I was | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
going to be called. In four days time it will be the | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack, which reshaped our world. | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
The decade since has been characterised by war, fear and | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
suspicion, we have been repeatedly told that what is at issue isn't | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
religion, yet the chasam between Islam and the west still seems vast, | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
in a recent poll 47% of Americans said the values of Islam were | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
inxatable with the values of America don incompatible with the | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
values of America. Is it possible that a popular culture could help | :31:00. | :31:09. | |
bridge the divide. In the US you don't have to look | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
too hard to find negative images of Muslims. This attack on the United | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
States will also be a revenge attack for all mu Jihad Dean. | :31:20. | :31:30. | |
:31:30. | :31:31. | ||
For some, they are the enemy within. The ultimate, perhaps, was the | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
vitriolic campaign against the so- called Ground Zero mosque. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
mosque, no mosque. A horrified liberal America decided a cultural | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
counter-attack was in order. Maybe we need a Muslim version of | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
the Cosby show. I know that sounds crazy, but The Cosby Show did so | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country. | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
I think sometimes people are afraid of things they don't understand. | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
A seething hatred is the way US broadcaster, Katie Couric, | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
described the way some Americans feel about Muslims. Her suggestion | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
of using a mainstream sitcom to counter prejudice has been both | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
praised and ridiculed. But that show already exists, just a few | :32:17. | :32:27. | |
:32:27. | :32:29. | ||
Little Mosque On The Prairie is about Muslims and Christians, | :32:29. | :32:37. | |
attempting to live in harmony in the fictional town of Mercy. | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
:32:47. | :32:49. | ||
My point is this, wine gums, rie bread, liquorice, western traps to | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
draw Muslims into drinking alcohol. His sermons drive me to drink | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
alcohol. Patience daughter, it is his last sermon. It has been a huge | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
success in Canada. Give me a hug. Currently recording the sixth | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
series, sold to more than 80 countries worldwide, though not the | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
US or the UK. The series centres on the arrival | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
to the prairie of a liberal, Canadian-born Imam. We don't go out | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
to be an issue-based show, we are a comedy, like The Cosby Show was, we | :33:23. | :33:30. | |
are not a political comedy, we are a comedy with Islam as a backdrop, | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
because some of the characters happen to be Muslim. That is what | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
makes everyone feel more assimilated from both points of | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
view, whether Muslim or non-Muslim. We had a fan of the show who says I | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
love what you do on Little Mosque, that is pretty high praise coming | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
from a Jew. That is what the woman said. | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
Did you see what I just saw. eyes, those eyes. Starting to look | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
like the third world around here. Even the executive who is made | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
Little Mosque were worried, when Little Mosque went on air, how | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
would the community react. Some orthodox Muslims said it was wrong | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
and we shouldn't do this. There wasn't a huge rallying cry to kill | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
me or burn my house. We are on set in Toronto and getting ready for | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
the big opening scene from season six, two of the main characters are | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
arriving back from honeymoon, and of course they are expecting some | :34:28. | :34:35. | |
trouble with airport security. are The comedy has been described | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
as more Vicar of Dibly than Four Lions. There is a healthy helping | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
of suicide bomber jokes. Here is the deal, my mom and dad split up, | :34:48. | :34:56. | |
and my dad decided to stay in Lebanon, he's Lebanese but not a | :34:56. | :35:04. | |
suicide bomber. Look, not every Muslim is a terrorist, OK. | :35:04. | :35:11. | |
It's not been an entirely smooth ride, though. Little Mosque manage | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
to cause a slight diplomatic spat between the US and Canada. Tonight | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
the tables are some what turned, newly released cables contain | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
diplomatic exchanges about CBC television. So this cable was from | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
the US Embassy in Ottawa to Washington and accused the | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
programme of insidious, populist sterotyping of Americans in Canada. | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
Shows like Little Mosque On The Prairie set off alarms at the | :35:43. | :35:53. | |
:35:53. | :35:55. | ||
embassy, showing a US man abusing Canadians. They would spend their | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
time watching Little Mosque On The Prairie, I would have thought they | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
had other things to do. It was all much to the despair of American | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
Canadian executive producer, Mary Darley. I sat down immediately and | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
drafted a letter to Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, and had my | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
assistant pull together the past season. I found this letter, and | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
Hillary Clinton got it when she said, thank you for everything you | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
are doing to foster cross cultural unity and understanding through | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
comedy. Do you worry about being preachy, it is supposed to be | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
funny? Completely, being preachy is something we have watched all the | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
way through. The rights for the programme were acquired by Fox in | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
the US, but it was never remade. Zarqa Nawaz says she has written | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
and pitched her version of the Muslim Cosby show four times | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
already in the states. Four times it has failed to make it to pilot. | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
That could mean the shows aren't funny enough, she is already | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
feeling the heat that goes with this territory. Immediately you see | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
your name on a blog and it is associated with those typical words | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
like Jihadist, or pro-Sharia. You don't want a network to suddenly | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
say, oh my God, is it really true, is she seven stage ways from Osama | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
Bin Laden. It does worry me, for sure. Does the US need this. The | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
Cosby Show ran for eight sow sons from 1984, and credited with | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
changing attitudes to African- Americans. The Daily Show thinks | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
the idea of Muslim version is hilarious. Next time, a special | :37:36. | :37:43. | |
visit from the Prophet Mohammed. no, no. | :37:43. | :37:49. | |
Cut, cut, cut. No, no. While the states continues to debate the | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
reality, inroads are being made into possibly the most American of | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
pop culture. The 99 comics features a team of Islam-inspired superhero, | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
most recently involved in a crossover with the Justice League | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
of America, fighting alongside superman and Batman. President | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
Obama has praised the comics for bridge agricultural divide. The | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
animated version of The 99 is in production. We as American Muslims | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
were completely absent from pop culture. Unfortunately after 9/11 | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
people only looked as Muslims as immigrants and immigrants as | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
Muslims. To get our voice out there we needed to be comedians, actors, | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
writers, singers, in every sphere, basically. There is an argument | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
that Muslims will never be completely normalised in the west, | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
until a woman in a hijab is selling us washing up liquid, maybe that | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
will be the real superhuman feat. With us now is Caryn Mandabach, the | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
US TV producer behind The Cosby Show, among others, and Naif Al | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
Mutawa, the creator The 99, the Islam-inspired comic book featured | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
in the film in New York. Will it air in the states as far as you | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
know? As far as I know, it has been bought and paid for, we are waiting | :39:17. | :39:24. | |
for a date. What will be the effect, do you imagine? It's good content, | :39:24. | :39:31. | |
it is top teir, it is written by the writers behind Ben 10, Batman | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
and superman. I think kids will love it, and show the values we | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
share as human beings are more than divides us. You don't feel you are | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
puting it out into a hostile environment? I didn't feel that | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
when I started, but I'm getting tinges of it now. It hasn't been | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
put in the schedules yet? No it wasn't. It was bought over a year | :39:50. | :40:00. | |
:40:00. | :40:03. | ||
ago. How do you explain the delay? It is best for the broadcaster to | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
explain. That when President Obama talked about The 99, and it brought | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
to us the people's attention, and the people who talked about the | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
Norwegian killer, they came after us, and it led to jitters in the | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
broadcaster, the date kept getting shifted. The thing is the | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
broadcaster is also in the same situation we are in, it is a | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
hostile political environment in the US. They are doing the best | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
they can for their business. Sometimes it is not exactly what is | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
best for us. Caryn Mandabach, how important, or | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
how powerful is the capacity of shows on television to change | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
people's attitudes? It is huge when it works. But I think now network | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
shares are down significantly. The Cosby Show premiered to a 28 rating, | :40:48. | :40:57. | |
I don't know what the share was, which meant over 31 million people | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
were premiering, we were up against Magnum PI, we thought we would come | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
in second, now a highly rated show is six million people. What do you | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
put down to the success of it? was huge, it showed we had more in | :41:11. | :41:18. | |
common than differences. Human beings being human beings, whatever | :41:18. | :41:26. | |
culture and language they speak and long to, and God, our centres are | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
the same? He was a man in search of the perfect nap. Why hasn't Little | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
Mosque On The Prairie gone to the states? There is no preawareness, | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
you have to have a marketable item, whether an actor, or a comic book, | :41:38. | :41:45. | |
or some sort of thing to hang it on. It could be that it is just not | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
very funny? It could be a great comic who know 40 million people | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
himself, Cosby had played to so many audiences for so many years, | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
he had a gigantic peer awareness and it was brilliant. Do you think | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
it is the function of the media to change human behaviour? | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
directly, but the function to impact culture, and in America to | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
impact culture in such a way that you can sell soap. That's all? | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
What's the function of The 99? know, as a psychologist and a | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
father, I believe if you tell your children enough time they are | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
stupid, they will start believing they are stupid. If you tell them | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
enough times they are a terrorist, they will start believing that. I | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
think the media has a responsibility to reflect reality, | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
but at the same time it can create alternative realities. One of the | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
lessons I learned from The Cosby Show, I implemented it in the comic, | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
we don't discuss religions, they are from 99 different countries, | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
and they learn to appreciate each other's powers, that is how | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
multiculturalism and diversity comes out, it is not done directly. | :42:55. | :43:02. | |
You almost sound like a missionary? The name is Mutawa, now the title. | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
For me, I grew up, my parents made the mistake of their lifetime, I | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
was eight years old, my Arab Muslim parents accidentally sent me to a | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
Jewish summer camp in New Hampshire, I ended up going there for years. I | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
didn't figure out until year seven and didn't tell anybody, now my own | :43:21. | :43:27. | |
kids go there. I learned very early on, I grew up in Kuwait and went to | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
summer camp in New Hampshire, and had to navigate the line closely. | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
In the end saw more of the same than differences. I wanted to be | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
able to communicate. Growing up post 9/11, my kids, seeing the kids | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
they see on TV, and who represents Muslims, it is pretty scary. That | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
stuff feeds back negatively. I wanted to make a difference and | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
change that, this is the method I chose. What do you make of that? | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
Great, I hope he's a great success. For large commercial success like | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
The Cosby Show to make an impact, you have to have a huge amount of | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
buy-in, in advance, people have to know something about, it is just | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
really difficult, it is a tough market. Like I said, the difference | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
between premiering at a six rating and a 32 rating tells the tale now. | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
You can't get a whole bunch of eyeballs any more in one place. | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
television can't have the power it used to have? It doesn't. Given | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
fewer people watch it? There is a lot of reasons, that is one of them. | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
The others? Broadcast network now is all corporatised. Here you are | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
used to a human-scaled business, there it is 100% corporatised, it | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
is self-dealt, they buy from themselves. They are only really | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
interested in their 19% perquarter, they have a much different God in | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
America than here, you answer to something different here. That's | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
what he's up against now. Do you still have this great belief in | :44:59. | :45:09. | |
television in New York? Are you asking me? Yes? I mean, you know, I | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
do believe that television will be important for us. I do plof that we | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
have incredible content. Cartoon Network acquired it for Asia. It | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
will be playing all over the world, and some parts of Europe, except | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
the US, even though it was the first market that boigt it. I think | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
TV is a way. You need to get into licensing and games, which | :45:29. | :45:38. | |
hopefully it down the pipe for us. The film is launching at the New | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
York Film Festival, further proof that what we have is something that | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
is worth its salt. Good luck, thanks. | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
Tomorrow morning's front pages now. The Financial Times has news that | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
the criminal, there is going to be a criminal element to the American | :45:53. | :46:03. | |
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That's the long and short of it tonight, tomorrow you have the | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
pleasure of Gavin's company, it is not an opportunity that comes along | :46:18. | :46:28. | |
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every day, make the most of it. Goodnight. | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
The wind will die down a little bit tonight. It won't be as strong on | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
Thursday, looking a cloudy day. Most places seeing outbreaks of | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
rain, some sunshine here and there across parts of eastern Scotland, | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
for example. And also to the east of the Pennines. To the west of the | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
opinion nines, grey day with outbreaks of rain. Dull and down | :47:09. | :47:16. | |
through the Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east. That breeze | :47:16. | :47:22. | |
will bring an awful lot of cloud, sitting over moors and the south | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
west England, a glum day here, and also across Wales, a lot of cloud, | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
outbreaks of rain, nothing too heavy, pepping up later in the day. | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
For Northern Ireland it is a similar picture, there may be a | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
hint of brightersness, but overall a gloomy day. Sunny spells in | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
Scotland but a whole host of showers packing in from the west. | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
Largely dry in the east of Scotland with some spells of sunshine. As we | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
head into Friday, the winds will pick up again, introducing warmer | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
air. With sunshine on Friday it could feel warm. Scotland there | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
will be outbreaks of rain. Dryer and brighter across England and | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
Wales. Temperatures on Friday could reach 22 or 23 Celsius. Grey across | :48:04. | :48:08. |