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$:/STARTFEED. A weekend in the German countryside for David | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
Cameron and Angela Merkel. It look like happy families for the cameras. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
But behind closed doors, can he sweet talk her into supporting a | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
new European relationship for Britain. We have gathered a troop | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
of economists to try to guess who is saying what to whom? | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Is your house just over 120ms from the proposed high-speed rail route, | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
you might have a very big problem. At the moment they won't even | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
compensate us full stop, or give us the value of the property, let | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
alone all the extra needs that I would need to enable me to move. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
It's a good job Top Of The Pops was scrapped, as the chart rise of this | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
song, offensive to the memory of Margaret Thatcher, a headache for | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
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the BBC, or just plain daft. Good evening, Angela Merkel is | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
playing mine hostess to the Camerons tonight. The German | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Chancellor has already said that she personally wants Britain to be | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
an important part and active member of the EU. The talks will be over | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
EU reforms and how close or far apart they are over change. At the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
same time as if to highlight the economic difficulty at the heart of | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the European product, in Dublin finance ministers have extended | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Ireland and Portugal's loan over ten years, and a bail out has been | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
agreed for Cyprus, ready to be agreed by member states. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Wish you were here? For the Prime Minister and his wife it is a long | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
weekend in an 18th century cast. Think Chequers German style. A | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
country retreat in outside Berlin, with not just other halves invited, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
but the Cameron children on their way too. The gist of it is this, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
"we like you Dave and there are at least some things we can agree on". | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Swap a German castle for Dublin Castle and another EU meeting about | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
the latest country, Cyprus, to provoke a blast of the jitters | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
about the future of the single currency. Finance ministers agreed | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
a 10 billion euro rescue package to stop Cyprus sliding into bankruptcy. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
But the island and the savers will have to stump up a lot more than | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
originally thought. 13 billion euros. The Cypriot problem is not | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
even near to be solved. There are huge questions around the bail out, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
no-one actually knows by how much the Cypriot economy will contract | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
by, will shrink by, therefore it is very difficult to work out a bail | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
out package, a support package, when everything is so uncertain. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
This Cyprus story will run for a very long time. It is not just | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Cyprus causing grief either. Next stop Slovenia, where a new | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Government is dealing with an old problem, the banks. Everyone is now | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
looking for the next Cyprus, who is next in line for a eurozone bail | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
out. The strongest contender is probably Slovenia. That is stuck | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
with a braanking sector that -- banking sector that hold as lot of | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
toxic debt that it can't get off its books. The Government there is | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
not rich enough to bail out its own banking system. We are looking at | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
another bail out at some point for Slovenia. Probably a limited one. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Beyond the eurozones stumbles from one crisis to the another remains | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
the UK's question about the EU. For so long it is seen by the EU as the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
embarrassing uncle at the Christmas party, plonked on the sofa, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
grumbling away and irritating others in the European family. On | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
top of a generation's worth of scepticism amongst its European | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
opposite numbers, we can Adam I don't know's veto wielded in | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Brussels a then that speech in January spelling out his plans to | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
renegotiate the UK's terms of membership of the EU, and put it to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
a referendum by 2017. What is on the table for discussion this | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
weekend? David Cameron wants to persuade his partners that Europe | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
needs to be reformed and treaty change is the way to do this. For | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Angela Merkel, she wants to keep Britain engaged and to try ensure | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Britain doesn't leave. But the German Government isn't at all keen | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
on having treaty change in the short-term. It is unpalpable to the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
German Government because they think we will have problems | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
ratfying it, and several member states might lose that. And they | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
realise if they open up the treaty the Brits will try it blackmail | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
everyone to get the concessions they want. But, some point out, the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
gap between the German and British perspective on all things European | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Union isn't that wide and is bridgeable. Once that is all those | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
hellos and guttentags are out of the way. When the British and | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
German politicians sit down and talk, they spend 30, 40 minutes to | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
look at the language to use and how to communicate with each other past | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
the ideology. When it comes to the policy discussion they tend to | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
agree. For example, on the need to strengthen national parliaments, | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
make the EU more democratic, on the need to cut down and reform the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
European Union budget. So, the music's jolly, the scenery is | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
pretty, but do you still wish you were here? This Englishman's home | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
this weekend is a German castle, but Europe's direction is no walk | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
in the park. Just how significant is the | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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weekend's visit, to help me unpick I'm joined by my guests. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
First of all, is this going to be really more of a public consumption, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
or will there be any move on whether or not Angela Merkel is | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
even considering acceding to David Cameron's notion that he should | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
have a referendum on treaty change? It is a horse that has bolted. The | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
referendum has been promised. if he doesn't get what he wants on | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
treaty change? The Germans are not going to push for treaty change, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
they won't push for it because they have realised that other than them | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
and David Cameron nobody wants treaty change. They won't push 25 | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
other European countries in a direction that they don't want to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
go. It is a risky strategy. Even if they started going down that road, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
it would take years and years to reach an agreement. Do you agree | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
with the analysis in the film that if Britain went for that referendum | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
other countries may well follow. That is a problem for Angela | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Merkel? I think that's absolutely the case. It is the domino effect, | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
and whether or not we can sustain that sort of cohesive view in | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Europe, I don't think so. Megan, is this really just for public | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
consumption this weekend, to show that on a personal level at least | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
they can do business, they like each other? Yeah, I think so, I | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
don't expect anything to come out of this weekend's talks, especially | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
given a German election in September. There won't be any | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
movement on this whatsoever. David Cameron wants repatriation of power | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
towards the nations, Merkel doesn't want that at all. She want a much | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
bigger role for the European Commission in helping to bail out | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
all the weaker countries. On the whole question about the general | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
elections, is that the big issue in town this year, do you think? | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
certainly a much bigger issue than what David Cameron wants at the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
moment. At the moment all eyes are on German, what's going to happen | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
there, to some extent there is unrealistic expectations, how much | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
does the German election matter for Europe. Whoever is in charge after | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
September will follow the line that Merkel is on now. Where is Merkel's | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
biggest problems, is it the right in the CD? She herself doesn't have | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
the problem, her approval ratings are stellar. Her party is slightly | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
less popular. Her opponent from the social democrats is nowhere to be | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
seen. She has no coalition party and she won't have a majority, she | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
needs another partner to form a pact. We are in situation where the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
finance ministers in Dublin have approved the lengthening of the | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
loan to Ireland and Portugal, and the bail out for Cyprus. With | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Slovenia coming up the back. This is exacerbating the whole problem, | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
the politic between north and south in the euro isn't it? Absolutely, | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
to some degree this whole trip this weekend is a bit a distraction of | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
what is going on. Merkel wants to focus, at the end of the day, on | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
the crisis in Europe. I don't really think David Cameron coming | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
along is her priority at the moment. I think. What about, I mean the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Cyprus bail out is not popular in Germany, we can talk about Slovenia | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
in a minute. It is not, but Merkel's approval ratings have shot | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
up off the back of it. The CDP and the Greens were demanding Germany | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
didn't bail out Russian oligarchs, that wasn't the case but that was a | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
bail out. She demanded a depositer pay out. And her approval has | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
improved. Because she was able to that. What about the Slovenia | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
situation, there is a different approach to this than Cyprus? | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
is a different approach to all other European countries than to | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Cyprus. Cyprus is not a very popular case, not only in Germany | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
but many other European countries. Even before the banking trouble, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
they weren't particularly good at making friends in Europe. Now they | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
manage to have a business model that is obviously unsustainable. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
They are a very special case. Slovenia is a stable, nice-looking | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
country, for the banking sector it failed to privatise it fully, they | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
have a lot of work to do. But there is very different political | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
attitudes towards Slovenia than Cyprus. Do you think Cyprus should | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
have gone? That is one ogs, I think it is still an option for Cyprus to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
try to negotiate its way out of the eurozone. It would be painful, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
certainly, but it might be less painful than the bail out they | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
signed up to. Your view on that? Absolutely, at the moment the best | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
option for Cyprus is to basically exit the eurozone, issue its own | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
currency and hopefully find a little bit of stability. If you | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
look at the extension of Portugal, obviously and Ireland, you have | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Slovenia, problems in it low and Spain, ultimately, this is the -- | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Italy and Spain, but ultimately in 10-15 years, will there be a | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
separate north-south, with the south dropping out of the euro, and | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
it being a northern currency? could have a, it is totally viable | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
that you end up issuing a sort of second tier euro for the periphery | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
states. But I don't think it is the ideal option. I think we are now | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
committed to this project, and the ideal solution is one where we | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
stick together. However, Cyprus is a special case. If any eurozone | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
country has the possibility to leave it is Cyprus. I would also | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
point out that eurozone membership is a political decision, and the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
europroject is, to a large degree, a political project. If the weaker | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
countries do decide to abandon the euro, I'm not sure if the political | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
will will be there for them to band together in a separate state but | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
they will go back to their currencies. These currencies would | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
have zero credibility. Reintroduced central banks would find it hard to | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
maintain price stability, to keep the currencies from plunging, they | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
would have to massively default on their debt. It would be mayhem and | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
painful. It would be mayhem for Germany? It would be, because they | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
are for political reasons committed to this thing, it needs a stable | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
neighbourhood to export to, and they need these countries to stop a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
reintroduced damp mark from becoming strong. There are those | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
saying it is Germany that has to leave the euro? Cyprus has a chance | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
and it is not the case that you would have complete chaos, because | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Cyprus, of all the countries, it does actually have a viable economy | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
on its own. Yes, you would have. has a lot of gas. It has a lot of | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
gas and tourism. Even if it issued its own currency and we saw it fall | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
in value, that would be very attractive to tourists. It would be | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
volatile, don't get me wrong. We would recover much more quickly. | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
what we are talking about, for the next three or four years yet utter | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
volatility throughout the European states, no settling down of any | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
country? We will jump from crisis to crisis as we have for the past | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
couple of years. As far as the idea of eurozone exits is concerned, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
choreography is key. A unilateral default and exit worst option | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
possible for any of these weaker countries. But a negotiated exit, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
with bridge financing and balance of payments support from the IMF | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
and other troika members, that is a better option. Thank you very much. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
I have to stop you there. On Wednesday's Newsnight we | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
reported from Minova in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
on one night of November last year Government soldiers committed mass | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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rape and other terrible violent Well today 12 senior officers in | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
the military were suspended. The film maker Fiona Lloyd-Davies who | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
secured confessions from that soldier and others is here. What is | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
the significance of the suspensions? It is very significant | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
that it was senior officers this time. It sends a very strong | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
message to all the army that it is not just the foot soldiers who may | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
be punished. In your film the foot soldiers all said that the command | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
to rape came from the senior officers that makes it very | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
important? That's right. The BBC film, the film you made went out on | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Newsnight on Wednesday, it then went out on BBC World on Thursday, | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
that is not the only pressure that is been put on, but it is part of | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
the pressure? There is a sense that the Congalese authorities don't | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
want to be criticised publicly, and there is also a gathering momentum | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
at the moment about what is going on in Congo, about sexual violence, | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
politically diplomatically, even in celebrity services, the UN Special | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Representative on Sexual Violence has returned from Congo and met | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
with the President. The G8 meeting this week have been talking about | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
stopping sexual violence. William Hague has presented his unit | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
preventing sexual violence as well. You have also been following the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
rapes for the last ten years. And do you think the women have any | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
expectation that it is really going to change? It has been very low in | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
the past. They have risked their lives to testify in the few trials | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
that have taken place, only to see perpetrators walk free. This time | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
there is such a real commitment for this trial to go forward, I know | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
women on the ground have already agreed to be witnesses. | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
Thank you very much. The Government says that when the high-speed two | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
rail line is built, those living next to the 250 mile an hour train | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
will actually welcome their fast new neighbour and worry what they | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
were so worried about. In the meantime residents complain their | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
houses are only sellable at a huge discount. The Government already in | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
trouble over the Compensation Scheme, after a judge ruled last | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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month its consultation was so unfair as to be illegal. There are | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
thousands of stories on the HS2 line, we could look anywhere for | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
people with something to say. The building of the first stage of the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
line, between London and Birmingham, won't start until 2017, and isn't | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
due to finish until 2026, its impact is already keenly felt. Take | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
the village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, this pub has | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
closed, it is exactly where the line will run through. If you have | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
to live in an area where HS2 is coming, this could be the best | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
situation to be in. The compensation in these circumstances | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
is most generous. I have come to meet the organisers of the HS2 | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Action Alliance, they took the Government to judicial review and | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
won. The judge agreed the consultation on compensation had | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
been so unfair as to be unlawful. The property market is completely | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
stymied, it has just frozen, what you will see is lots of houses for | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
sale and nobody wants to buy them. You have extreme problems in that | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
people want to get on, they want to move on with their lives, and yet | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
for two decades they are going to be frozen out. How much | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
compensation you get depends on how far you live from the centre of the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
line, within 60ms, you are compulsory purchased, you get the | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
value of what the property would have been before HS2 plus a 10% | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
bonus that can't exceed �47,000, you get your moving costs as well. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
If you live between 60-100ms from the line in a rural area you | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
qualify for the voluntary purchase scheme. You ask the Government to | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
pay the unblighted market value of your home. But you are not eligible | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
for any of the other extra payments. However, if you live more than | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
120ms from the centre of the track, you will have to prove extreme | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
hardship, like divorce or loss of your job, that means you have to | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
move but you can't sell because of HS2, prove that and you will get | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
the unblighted market value. Hello. Hello. If, like Derek and | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Margo, you want to downsize or upsize, or just relocate, there is | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
nothing on offer. They are just two yards outside the voluntary | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
compensation zone. What is the consequence of those two yards for | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
you and your lives? There is a thing called "blight" if you come | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
to sell the house. At the moment I would say that whatever the price | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
the house would have been, had they not put the line up, you will lose | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
between 20-30% of the price of the house, if you can sell it. If you | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
can sell it. Who will be interested in a thundering great train coming | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
along. Every so many minutes. People might buy it if the price | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
was right? We want to move to a place where the price is right for | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
us, we are not going to be able to. Estate agents have told the couple | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
they would want �1,500 even to market the home, which they have | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
also been told is unsellable. Their only other option wait until the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
line has been operating for a year, and then put in a claim for the | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
impact caused, by then Derek will be nearly 90. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
We have come to the Cock and Rabbit club, very close to where the line | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
will go. This is where they film Mid-Summer Murders. One of the | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
interesting features of high-speed rail means the cost to communities | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
like this is far greater than what other infrastructure projects. That | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
has an impact on compensation. Let me show you what I mean. If we | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
imagine a normal infrastructure project, like a road or railway. It | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
goes like that. There is your end point and there is your start point. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
But what will happen is you have junctions or stations along the way. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
So, the people who live in this sort of area, like that, will have | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
the cost of being near the line or the road, but they will also have | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
the benefit of having access to this fantastic new infrastructure. | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
So the cost on them, or the impact on their house prices, for example, | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
will be some what mitigated. But, with high-speed rail, don't forget, | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
none of these exist. It goes from London to Birmingham, bypassing | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
this place about here, and it has absolutely no benefit to the people | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
who live here. Meanwhile, a short stroll from the derelict pub I met | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Adam. Hello Adam. He spent years adapting this barn to provide the | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
perfect home for him and his family. This kind of adaptation doesn't | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
come cheap. You are close, because the pub is going. How much closer | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
does the line come to the pub? line goes right through the middle | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
of that pub, and comes closer to us at an angle across into this wood | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
over here. Add dumb only has one fully functioning lung and says his | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
sometimes fragile health wouldn't allow him to live close to the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
building work. As soon as the diggers arrive, he says he has to | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
leave. If my neighbours have to leave, they might not want to, if | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
they got the value of their property they might not want to | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
move. In my case there is extra issues, I couldn't just buy another | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
property tomorrow and move into it. I would have to find a place, I | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
would have to find builders and get doors widened, new bathrooms put in, | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
accessible bathrooms and kitchens. Probably ramps and raising ground | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
level, all this costs a phenomenal amount of money. We have put our | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
life savings into this property to make it the only place in the world | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
where I'm 100% independent. There is nowhere else on this earth where | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
I can be like that. You wouldn't get the money back if you did | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
qualify for compensation here? The final stop on my journey is | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
back at London, in the Department of Transport, where I have an | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
appointment to see the minister in charge of HS2. Hello. We have seen | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
from the evidence of high-speed 1, that has gone through the heart of | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Kent up to London that despite all the rhetoric and the campaigning | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
and the complaining back in the late 1980s, when the project was | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
beginning to be developed, that actually when the project is and | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
running, those problems have not materialised. But the first phase | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
of the railway won't even be built until 2026, that is 13 years away, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
that is a long time to wait and not sell your house for what you think | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
is the market value. Even if the problems that you fear don't | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
materialise? There will be some people who may feel nervous, I | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
think unjustifiably, about the impact. But if there is a need for | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
them to have to sell their house, under the conditions of the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
hardship scheme, then they will be provided with that help, at an | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
unblighted property price. And what about Adam Thomas and his family, | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
even if they do qualify for the hardship scheme, they fear they | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
won't get the money they would need it adapt another property. The | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
minister says he can't comment on individual cases, but. That | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
situation would also afly to any other individual who lived miles | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
and miles away from a major project like high-speed 2. Given that a lot | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
of people invest a lot of money in their properties in different ways | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
and they don't necessarily then Israelise the money they have | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
invested in the im-- realise the money they have invested in the | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
improvements of the property whether for health or aesthetic | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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reasons, that is part of the market and buying and selling a house. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Back in the Chiltons, the cheers ring a little hollow, there is a | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
creeping fear there is nothing they can do to stop the line. The best | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
they can hope for is improved compensation. We have to tell them | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
:25:22. | :25:23. | ||
what we want and we want full and fair compensation. Since we | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
recorded our interview with the Transport Minister we have received | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
a statement from his department. "we know that people's personal | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
situations sometimes bring unique challenges that we can't fully | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
anticipate through the design of a property Compensation Scheme. We | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
aim to be flexible in responding to that small minority of cases. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
HS2Ltd is ready and willing to talk to anyone in such a situation to | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
discuss how it might help." Historians may come to refer to it | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
all as a right ding dong about a song, the BBC won't play Ding Dong | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
The Witch Is Dead in full on the radio 1 Chart Show, they will show | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
a clip of a news reporter explaining a sudden popularity, | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
that a campaign had been launched to send it to number one after | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Margaret Thatcher's death. It is thought to be number three. It has | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
provoked comment and controversy, and a rival song I'm In Love with | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
Margaret Thatcher. And changes in the way music is bought and | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
consumed mean does it matter any more. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
As a long from The Wizard of Oz climbs the charities, friends of | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
Dorothy are hard to find at the BBC T will play the song in the chart | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
rundown, the controller of Radio One said, but only for five seconds | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
or so. The track will be put into context by a reporter. I believe | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
that you have got a situation where a group of people in society have | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
decided that they will campaign by using this track and trying to get | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
this track into the chart. I find it disrespectful. But I also I'm | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
very conscious if I ban it I will get myself into issues of freedom | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
of speech and censorship. Once upon time this was the record | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
the BBC didn't want to play. God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Some say it reached number one in the summer of 1977, unofficially. | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
If you believe the rumour around at the time, God Save The Queen was | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
said to have sold enough record to be number one in the week of the | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
Jubilee. But when the official charts came out Rod Stewart was | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
still number one. More recently unlikely Christmas dittties have | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
been propelled to the top of the charts in a bid to keep out | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
offerings from X Factor contestants. We have been here several times | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
before. From Simon koul's anger at the affrontry of -- Cowell's anger | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
from the affrontry of people who might not want to grant him his God | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
given right to have the Christmas number one, to Relax from Frankie | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
Goes To Hollywood, the outrage is at the very reliant agent for | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
getting something to number one. The decline of vinyl threatened to | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
leave the singles' market in a spin. I know, it's late. But apparently | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
all is well. The rise of iTunes and other download sites in the early | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
noughties has created a real boom for the singles' market. It rescued | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
the market and it is in a healthy state that last year was the most | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
singles sold in a single year on record. Because it is so easy? | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
the digital download era has created an ecosystem where you can | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
buy a symbol on impulse, but the rise of digital download has walked | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
hand in hand with the rise of social media. Not only can you buy | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
it on impulse but as a community as a statement en masse. That is what | :29:23. | :29:31. | |
we are seeing this week. It turns out that the top 40 isn't as old | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
hat as the Music Hall, but remains every bit as urgent as it was in | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
the dear departed days of Gary Davies. So says one gold-fingered | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
pop Svengali. This is all part of the excitement of the charts, when | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
people can just do their thing, and make a record that nobody wants to | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
get to number one. That is the excitement what technology has | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
allowed us to do is see people's choice better and quicker and | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
probably a little more accurate than it has been in the past. You | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
know for the last 30 years the record companies have been hyping | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
the charts, or accused of hyping the charts, you can't do that now | :30:12. | :30:22. | |
:30:22. | :30:22. | ||
when you are down to millions of downloads. Not possible. These are | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
historical cultural documents, almost. Aren't you pushing it a bit | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
there. It's three-minute disposable pop, most of of it? It is three- | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
minute disposable pop. But these are cultural mile stones from the | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
1970s to last week. These are important cultural moments. | :30:48. | :30:57. | |
# Let's get Ready to Rumble. In other news Ant and Dec | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
unexpectedly went to number one with this cultural moment. As far | :31:01. | :31:05. |