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The Taliban tried to silence her, but today Malala addressed the | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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world. So let us wage a global struggle against it literacy, d | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
illiteracy, poverty, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
our most powerful weapon. But were the politicians really listening, | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
we will ask Pakistan's ambassador to the UN, a pioneering Saudi film | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
maker and a minister educated in Bangladesh. After the wife of | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Alexander Litvinenko is denied an inquiry into her husband's killing | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
she says she will fight on. And then...The Whole Alan Whicker | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
island. There is too many. remember the original travelling | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
man. The two superheros from Seattle here to tell us how to | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
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protect the streets of London. Good evening, Malala Yousafzai had | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
a 16th birthday she will never forget, nor one the UN will ever | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
forget. Will her moving, powerful speech at the General Assembly in | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
New York become the movement in history by changed the fortune of | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
girls and young women denied an education, or will the passion and | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
fervour she's trying to imbue in world leaders dissipate like so | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
much else. The Taliban tried to deny this feisty teenager not only | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
an education but her life. In a moment we will discuss what it | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
would take to educate girls, not only in Pakistan, but around the | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
world. From the Swat Valley in Pakistan, | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
via a Birmingham hospital bed, to the United Nations in New York. | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
This has been the extraordinary journey of Malala. Last October her | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
life was nearly cut short by an aSAS san's bullet, after she had -- | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
assassin's bullet, after she had written a BBC Urdu blog about | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
education. With only a faint sign of her injureies, she spent her | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
16th birthday like no other. She reflected on why she was there. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead, they shot my friends | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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too. They thought that the bullet would silence us. But they failed. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
nothing changed in my live exSeptember this. Weakness, fear, | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
and hopelessness died, strength, power and courage was born. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
speech was about defiance but also forgiveness and non-violence. She | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
saw herself in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
not even hate the Taliban who shot me, even if there was a gun in my | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him. But here is | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
a reminder of what Malala and her many supporters are up against. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
When a reporter who had grown up in Pakistan recently returned there | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
for Newsnight, she interviewed a hardline Mullah who runs a girls' | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Madrassah, he made it abundantly clear that Malala is now regarded | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
as a dangerous figure. TRANSLATION: She talked about being open-minded | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
and liberal, on the Internet. She said there is no need for the veil, | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
and she always spoke against Islam, that is why the west like her. She | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
crossed Islamic boundaries, and that is wrong. Today at the UN | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
though Malala was undeterred by her opponents, instead she confidently | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
argued for the need for universal primary education. The full extent | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
of that problem has been revealed in a UN paper to mark Malala Day. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
57 million children are kept out of school, of those 28 million live in | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the world's conflict zones. Nigeria, Pakistan and Ethiopia are the | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
countries with the worst records. But Malala's main concern is for | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
young girls like herself. Her message, "empower yourselves". | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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us pick up our books and our pens, they are our most powerful weapons. | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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Education is the only solution. Education first, thank you. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Joining us now from New York is Pakistan's ambassador to the UN, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
here in the studio is a Labour MP and Shadow Minister for | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
International Development and a Saudi Arabian film director. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Ambassador first of all, was today embarrassing for Pakistan or a | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
reason to celebrate. Because it doesn't show the country in a | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
particularly good light? There was no embarrassment it was a cause for | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
sl operation as a matter of fact. I sat through that session and I | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
enjoyed every moment of it. Many in the audience were moved to tears | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
because of the passionate words Malala used. Very few people know | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
that Malala was a national icon before she became an international | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
icon. She was a celebrity in Pakistan before she was shot. So | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
what I want to tell you is what comes out of this day today is | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
noblity of Malala. Her readiness to forgive and I think that in | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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Pakistan we are proud of her. She sums up the essence of Pakistan, no | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
embarrassment add all. On the BBC Urdu on-line traffic and social | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
media, by the end of the day 70% of the comments on this BBC traffic | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
was negative to Malala, words like "prostitute", "cursed woman", some | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
of it so offensive it couldn't be kept up. Isn't it insurmountable in | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
Pakistan to change these attitudes? It is not, when Malala is waging | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
this struggle and people in Pakistan are waging a struggle for | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
education, against violence, against extremism, you should give | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
credit to the state of Pakistan and to the people of Pakistan. Let me | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
tell you that the dynamic, the dialectic here is between violence | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
on the one hand and education on the other. You know the person who | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
shot Malala he was preaching violence, he wanted to put across | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
his point of view through coercion, Malala used another vehicle, | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
education. And the whole of Pakistan stands for that. I want to | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
ask you, Malala is not in Pakistan now, when and if she will go back | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
is a matter for the future. What is your Government doing now to make | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
sure that every girl, for example, in the Swat Valley, can go to | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
school safely. Because many don't? We are doing whatever we can. There | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
is a war going on, there is war against terrorism. I think that's | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
the root cause of all the violence that has proliferated throughout | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Pakistan. We have to fix this. We have to staunch this violence which | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
is spreading. Let me tell you that Malala said something very profound, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
her voice has been heard, but because of her today here in the | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
United Nations, she want that the voices of other victims all around | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
the world should be heard. Let me tell you that Pakistan in this | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
regard is proactive. Terrorists threatened there would be no | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
elections, we went ahead and held elections, they said there should | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
be no polio campaign, we went ahead and conducted a polio campaign. We | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
went ahead with vaccination. So you have to compliment the genius of | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
the people of Pakistan and their resill yeoints in -- resilience in | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
the face of threats and violence. Malala said it is about educational | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
opportunities at every level. You made a pioneering film about a | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
young girl, and by a large education at school is good for | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
young women, but at every level. What happens in Saudi is it is not | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
about equal opportunities after school it is about segregation, it | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
is about not being able to drive a car. How much needs to change | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
across the world for opportunities for women? Well yeah definitely | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
there is so much to change when it comes to women. It is amazing to | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
see young girls like Malala who is coming and voicing their opinion | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
and they have this sort of confidence. And I hope in places | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
like Saudi, where they have a very heavyweight when it comes to | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
politics and it comes to the economy in the Middle East. Because | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Saudi is moving away from being a very conservative state and more | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
moderate and they are opening up. Can you put pressure on Pakistan? | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
don't know if we can put pressure, I don't know I'm not a politician. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
But I feel like Saudi is a leader in this, a leading country. It | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
leads by example and it is very important to see it opening up. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
we have to say that it leads by example but you can't drive in | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Saudi? I can't drive, but next year I start. The doctors can't work in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
hospitals treating men, this is the problem. You set up this huge | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
expectation in Saudi for young women going to school and then the | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
problems start? Now it is an exciting time in Saudi Arabia, it | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
is a moving and changing society. The pressure comes, I unwhat Mr | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Ambassador was saying, it is a pressure -- I understand what Mr | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Ambassador was saying, the pressure comes from conservative forces that | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
can't accept change, it is very difficult for them to move away | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
from those conservative values. What can you do to politicians in | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
this country when they are handing out international aid, sub-Saharan | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Africa has a dreadful record for girls in school. Don't you have to | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
be tougher about the way aid is calibrated and the demands you make | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
for that aid? What Malala has symbolised is a form of | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
international leadership that says to world politicians this is a | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
rallying cry. If you don't sees this moment then it will be too -- | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
seize this moment then it will be too late for millions of girls | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
around the world. This is a very important time, including the | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
western Governments like here, to show leadership and put women's | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
rights and empowerment and human rights at the heart of the agenda | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
and set govern ance. We are about to withdraw from Pakistan and the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
requirements we were making in terms of the women's issues have | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
been lessened on the way out of Pakistan? We have a huge aid budget | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
to Pakistan. Afghanistan, I mean? Absolutely. And that sets a huge | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
challenge when we engage in peace processes women's voices are not at | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the heart of the debate, violence and sexual violence is used as a | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
weapon of war against women as well as in these sorts of cases. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ambassador was talking about the Swat being a warzone, literally | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
just now with terrorism. But is this about poverty, is it about | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
culture, is it about religion? is about a number of issues. The | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
first one is it is about certain groups, extremist groups, trying to | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
hijack the agenda. We need to create the space for women like | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Malala to be safe and secure so that they can speak up as she is | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
doing for their countries. There is a great tradition in the sub- | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
continent of women speaking up and fighting for their rights. Our | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Governments need to empower and support them. Do you think it is | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
about poverty, culture or religion? I think it is all mixed up, I don't | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
think there is a clear answer. That is the pure reason. I think it is a | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
lot of the religious practices are mixed, especially in Saudi with | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
social and tribal practices and all tangled and people sometimes don't | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
distinguish, they don't know what is like social, what is the | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
religious and what is all that. But certainly in places like Pakistan | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
and Saudi Arabia to a certain degree it is very tribal. There is | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
a pressure on the individual and from the collective. People cannot | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
take personal choices and stuff like that. Just to finish with you, | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
you honoured and said that it was a tremendous moment and an honour to | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
be there in front of Malala. Will women's freedom, freedoms now be | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
made a priority for the Pakistan Government after today? It has been | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
a priority, let me tell you. It remains a priority of the new | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
Government under the leadership of Mr Sharif. Let me also tell you and | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
let me reassure you that there are millions of Malalas in Pakistan, | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
there is a Malala in every house in Pakistan. Because we represents our | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
spirit, the spirit of Pakistan. Yes, I was listening to you, there are | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
three problems, of course there is illiteracy and there is poverty and | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
terrorism. This is a very, very vicious brew, we are pitted against | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
it. We are mobilising all our resources to fight this menace. But | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
Malala's missage is larger than that. It is not -- message is | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
larger than that, it is not just Pakistan, it is the poverty and | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
marginalisation of girls around the world. Thank you very much indeed | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
all of you. At the very last minute the Home Secretary, Theresa May, | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
today denied the widow of the poisoned MI6 consultant, Alexander | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Litvinenko, a public inquiry into his death. After his murder in | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
London seven years ago relations between Britain and Russia became | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
very strained as the finger of blame was pointed at two men from | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Russia who hus a meeting with Mr Litvinenko. Sir Robert Owen, the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
coroner had requested a public inquiry to look at secret evidence | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
relating to the Russian state's involvement in the killing. In what | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
Marina Litvinenko called a political decision the Home Office | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
blocked it. Earlier today I spoke to her and asked her for her | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
reaction to the news. First of all we were waiting for this news a | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
long time. It was supposed to be the 1st of July we were waiting for | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
the news, whether or not we would have the public inquiry. Then it | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
was 9th of July and no news. When we went in the morning to the | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
courtroom we were just not sure what we were expecting. And the | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
coroner said it is only 10. 15 and he received the news the Government | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
declined our request for public inquiry. What do you feel about | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
that kind of treatment? I was surprised. Is this the way to treat | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
people in a court or why did the news come so late? For me it was | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
still more questions to my lawyers why it has happened? Of course they | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
can't answer me because it is probably not the first time but it | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
is not very often happened to people. It is not very often | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
happened to people that the Home Office phones an hour before being | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
due in court to say there will be no inquiry? There was no | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
explanation. No explanation at all? No. Your coroner believed only at a | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
public inquiry could some of the evidence come out about your | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
husband's connections with MI6. What kind of connections were they | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
with MI6? He was consulted for information about Russian organised | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
crime. So it wasn't a case that this was no James Bond agent? | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
Absolutely. I think his job, like a consultant for MI6 started for two | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
or three years. The coroner felt you absolutely had to have a public | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
inquiry for particular evidence to be revealed. What was that | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
evidence? The first time we listened about this evidence was | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
December last year. It was quite special for us, it was the first | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
time in an official way that was said this is evidence of the | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Russian state behind this crime. Before we can talk about this but | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
we could not prove it. After February and May it was the first | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
time coroner said he can't go through because he wasn't able to | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
use this evidence. Do you feel safe on a day-to-day basis in London? | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
did feel safe even before Sasha died. For us it started to be home, | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
for our son who was just six years old, and now he's 19, he has spent | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
most of his life here. It is difficult to say is he English or | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
Russian? When Sasha died I received this question almost every | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
interview, "do you feel safe"? It is difficult to say. Would you feel | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
safe if you were in Russia? For the last 13 years I have not been in | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
Russia. It is quite a long time much every time when we discuss | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
whether or not I would be safe if I deciding to I don't know really. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
What has been the impact of all this on you personally? I came | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
because of my husband. I support his decision to go to England and | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
when I lost him I was just like what do I have to do, what is next? | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
The decision to go through and just find this truth probably is keeping | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
me strong. Have you enough fight in you, enough money, enough | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
everything to keep going until you find out the truth? You know | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
probably I will look at Sasha and what he did for us and what I | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
remember about him. I know what he would do if it was happened | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
something to his friend or to us. It makes me feel I have to do this. | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
I have to do this because it is of his name, of his memory and I have | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
to have some kind of, not finish, but finalising and I can't say to | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
relax, but to be sure for myself I did everything for him. Thank you | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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very much. Rohan Bewick, who died today at the | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
age Alan Whicker who died today brought the world to people for | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
themselves. Interviewing notorious people to the fabulously rich and | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
wonderfully strange. Many travel journalists have tried to fill Alan | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
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Whicker's perfectly polished shoes. Whicker's World was the last word | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
in cosmopolitan travel and elegant broad kags. It had the music, | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
broadcasting. It had the music, so what if it dropped the apostrophe | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
from time to time, that is how urbane and sophisticated it was. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
And, of course it had one of the most singular front men in the | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
business. Often imitated, almost amputated, but never duplicated. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
There is always something awful out there just beyond the shadows, or | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
something unspeakable about to happen in some sinister dungeon. | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
wanted to write and travel. And journalist being seemed to be the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
way. There was a lot of romance about being a correspondent which I | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
eventually became, which was the target. Alan Whicker joined the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
BBC's Tonight Programme from Fleet Street, like others since he was | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
glad to quit the inky streets for late night news programmes at the | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
corporation. As I stroll along with an independent air! Unlike many in | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
television Alan Whicker could actually write. Commemorated in | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
song and suicide the casino, sugar- cake charming or seductively wicked | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
dominated this incredible village. While over the hill the Monte Carlo | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
beach, while not a beach and not in Monte Carlo. There he is in these | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
exotic places and he takes you with him. He was incredibly inclusive, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
he knew he was there on your behalf and he was having fun, didn't | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
pretend he wasn't having a jolly good time and staying in great | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
hotels. We don't do that any more, of course. But he did it on behalf | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
of the viewers. The long-running Whicker's World kicked off at the | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
country pile of reclusive billionare J Paul Getty, who | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
thoughtfully installed a pay phone for guests. Alan Whicker maintained | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
you could do anything as long as you did it with charm. You seemed | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
seem a melancholy man, your normal expression is not normally a happy | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
one, you often seem so miserable people must believe your money has | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
not brought you happiness? suppose that's the effect I suppose | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
of responsibility. Alan Whicker also encountered the dictator of | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier. You have had the worst international press | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
of any President I have known. got away with a lot but it was | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
partly this attitude which is charm, authoritativeness, and a refusal | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
really to compromise. You could see that in his garments. I mean he | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
dressed everywhere, it might be in Alaska, he could be in Haiti, and | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
he would dress like some old fashioned bank manager who had once | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
been a major in the army. He didn't change at all. A problem people who | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
are fast disappearing off the face of the earth. A race who one might | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
say are losing...That Changeless persona was famously sent up by the | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
Pythons. Where only reality is missing...Hello, Alan Whicker here. | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
:24:07. | :24:07. | ||
And by the man himself. Hello I'm sitting here in Sam Suhimo to | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
salute the city break. I'm always voted the luckiest man | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
in the world, the one everyone envys because I never do work. I go | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
to wonderful places talking to attractive girls all the time, no | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
wonder, it is the best job in the world. They blow my cover! There | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
have been some strange sightings in London this week. Linked to the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
fact that the capital has been hosting a symposium for people with | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
superpowers, not literally but people think they have a superpower | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
role in fighting crime, keeping communities safe. They see | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
themselves rather like Special Constables but not in such mundane | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
uniforms. In fact they also describe themselves as costumed | :24:50. | :24:59. | |
activists. Felix Stone and his wife came over to London from Seattle to | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
offer advice about keeping the streets clean rather than mean. | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
Phoenix Jones, and Purple Rain, real identity unknown are roaming | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
the city. So to test out their geek credentials, we took them comic | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
:25:28. | :25:31. | ||
shopping at superhero Mecca Forbidden Planet. Do you have Bat | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
Girl Vol12. They headed for two of got tham City's finest, Bat Girl, | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
but unlike fans, Phoenix Jones is a triple black belt and semi- | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
professional martial arts fighter. So he and his wife are living the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
dream. Wearing body armour on nightly patrols, breaking up | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
drunken punch-ups, occasional low getting stabbed, allegedly pepper | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
spraying protestors, something he denies. It sound like an average | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
day in the Seattle police force rather than a costumed vigilante. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Yet the city attorney has called him "deeply misguided" and he has | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
once been arrested for assault. Why does Phoenix Jones do it? Here is | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
the man himself, with Purple Rain at his side. Where are you on the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
streets? You know I think it is time for citizens to really stand | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
up and defend themselves and what we believe in. It is always a good | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
time to look out for your brothers and fellow citizens, that is what | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
we represent. Give us an example of how you intervene? For the most | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
part when we are out we are wearing cameras so we are able to collect | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
video evidence when crimes are taking place. We go and we | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
deescalate the situation. We help the victims if necessary if they | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
need first aid, we call 911, or here 999 and get the police. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
have done some superhero work on the streets? We have patrolled but | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
not run across crime yet. streets of London are not giving | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
you what you want at the moment. Why not just call the police? | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
call the police. I think it is important to note that we don't | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
want to take the role of the police, the police have a job that is very | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
important. When the police show up it is cool to have video evidence. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Do they like you? The police in Seattle like us now, not when we | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
start. What has changed, how do you operate with the police? We operate | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
before they get there. When they show up I give a video and write a | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
police report and testify in court if I have to. You are not wearing | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
your mask because we are law- abiding people and a you don't have | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
to, are you not threatening? really, people in Seattle know what | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
it is, they have come to understand and respect what we do. They are | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
not offended by it. You are really channelling something else, are you | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
superheros or vigilantes it is more? No.It is about Night Wing | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
and Bat Girl, it is more about that than anything else isn't it? No, so | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
a lig lantity is somebody who exacts their own form of -- | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
vigilantly is someone who exacts their own form of justice, what we | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
do is something different, you hurt someone we stop you and hold you | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
accountable for the laws that the citizens vote for. I have never | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
hurt anybody on patrol, I have been hurt been I have never hurt anyone. | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
Are you trying to get something going here, or are there superheros | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
hiding in the twilight area of London that we don't know? There | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
are a couple of guys we have been hanging out with and teaching them | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
cool stuff. On the streets with this amazing stuff on, are you | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
reasonably protected when you are out there, you have been stabbed? | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
On the streets of Seattle I have armour and bulletproof vests, it is | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
not useful here. We have stab- resistant plates. People know you | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
in Seattle, do they run for the hills when they see you? Usually | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
when we are out there people want to shake our hands and give us | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
high-fives, they are happy to see us. People will laugh when they are | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
having a fight they laugh at as you and instead of fighting each other, | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
we are doing our job. Is this about responding to things that have | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
happened to you in the past is it a way of dealing with things? Some | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
people have coping mechanisms, other people decide to be a leader | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
or champion of something. We decided instead of a bad thing | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
happening to us we stand for something. When we go out there we | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
tell citizens it is time to stand up and defend each other and | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
believe in something. You better get going, thank you very much | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
indeed. Time for tomorrow morning's front pages, two front pages Malala | :29:40. | :29:50. | |
:29:50. | :29:53. | ||
on the front of the Times and the That's about t I will be back on | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
Monday. The Russian agency responsible for Kremlin security is | :29:56. | :30:00. |