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state of national calamity. The number of dead simply cannot be | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
counted. We will be live in Tacloban and hear from the Save The Children | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Fund. A British doctor in a Syrian jail has written to the Foreign | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
Secretary claiming he was subject to torture. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
We ask his brother what he wants William Hague to do. And this. The | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
first nude portrait Lucien painted was of his daughter Annie aged 14. A | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
new and intimate diary of Lucien Freud, one of the most controversial | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
portrait painters of the last century. | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Good evening, the numbers and estimated 10,000 dead, many more | :01:10. | :01:28. | |
Good evening, the numbers and breakdown of law and order have all | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
been reporting, with close to ten million people directly affected. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Today David Cameron has pledged an extra ?4 million to the relief | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
effort and has sent a Royal Navy ship and plane to assist in the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
disaster. We report on whether weather like | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
this are more likely. The scale of this massively powerful storm in the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Philippines is made real from space, from weather satellites and this | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
taken by one of the astronauts on board the International Space | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
Station. On the ground the impact of the typhoon is hard to absorb. At | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
least 10,000 feared dead in Tacloban, that is one small city on | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
one of thousands of islands. We need food, water, we have | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
one of thousands of islands. We need from the staff and volunteers of the | :02:22. | :02:41. | |
Philippine Red Cross on the ground, they are liking the scenes they are | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
coming across to those of the tsunami. It is the same devastation, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the flattened houses, the desperate needs of the people on the ground. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Clearly at this point we are still not getting the full information on | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
the scale of the disaster, I mean we're hearing huge figures from the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
UN today of 9. 8 million but we won't have access to all the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
seriously affected areas. When this kind of extreme weather event hits, | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
people will inevitably ask whether it can be linked to climate change. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Whether we might have made the situation worse. Well single events | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
are hard to attribute to climate change, and typhoons and tropical | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
cyclones in particular. This typhoon cannot be linked to climate change. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Looking ahead to coming decades the expectation is the intensity of this | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
kind of storm expectation is the intensity of this | :03:31. | :03:50. | |
This is not strange in that regard. We do see if we look into the | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
future, the models suggest that in future when the sea surface | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
temperatures warm up that we can expect to get more intense tropical | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
cyclones. The imprint of this typhoon is plane | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
from these before and after photographs. Cargo ships washed | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
ashore, houses with their roofs ripped off. It is harder to imagine | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
a more intense storm, what might that mean for Governments planning | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
ahead for such events, trying to minimise the loss of life. We need a | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
good hindsight we view to see what was done and how well it was done. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
The Philippines is generally well prepared, given its level of | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
resources. It suffers from floods, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
major volcanic eruptions and it is earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, | :04:39. | :04:59. | |
inhabitants. This island nation has a culture of dealing with the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
destructive forces of nature, yet it has been overwhelmed. The typhoon | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
weakened over Vietnam and into southern China. If, in the future, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the intensity of such storms does increase, aid agencies will need to | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
plan for an even bigger response for the years ahead. We will have an | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
obligation to work much harder to persuade the donor community to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
invest in that preparedness beforehand. As you can see with the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
access issues now, the best is to have people and goods in place | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
before the event. We had a good indication this was coming, it was | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
hard to mobilise the support up front. I think that will be our | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
challenge if the typhoon seasons start to increase in impact. Once | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
all the data is in, this may turn out to be the strongest recorded | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
typhoon ever out to be the strongest recorded | :05:50. | :06:12. | |
been devastateded. -- devastated. What are you seeing? The rain that | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Susan was talking about, possibly coming. It has arrived here. We have | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
had torrential downpours overnight. I counted at least four. And this in | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
an already very bad situation, the one thing that really stands out | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
here is that there are virtually no buildings with their roofs intact. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
So this means even where people are not in the total devastation area, | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
they are living in buildings without roofs, with the rain that is falling | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the miserable situation is even worse. Are the authorities in | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
control, can you say there is law and order or something like it? We | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
see very little of the authorities over the last two days here. There | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
is no real presence of troops or police | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
is no real presence of troops or have been able to survive for the | :07:01. | :07:18. | |
last three days on the little food that they have. But everywhere we | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
went on Monday people kept saying to us, please help us, we have no food, | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
our children are hungry, when is the Government going to come and help | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
us. There is a real sense that they are not getting any help. We are now | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
into I think, we could count this as the fifth day starting now since the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
disaster struck. There isn't still any sense of the Government arriving | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
here and giving people the help they need. We have the chief executive of | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
Save The Children in the studio. It is obviously appalling, but do we | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
have any sense actually of how bad it is. There must be lots of places | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
that nobody from outside has been to yet? No we don't have any sense. We | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
only have the reports from teams on the ground, like the Save The | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Children team I spoke to earlier, saying how desperate it is getting | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
in places like Tacloban. That saying how desperate it is getting | :08:09. | :08:28. | |
to focus on. The danger is, if we don't get enough aid in, it will be | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
pregnant mum, it will be children who won't get that aid. We have to | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
get food and water in very quickly. David Cameron as you know has | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
announced a total of ?10 million in British aid. HMS Daring is going | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
from Singapore to the Philippines and an RAF C-17, those are broadly | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
the right things? They are the right things to do, the most important | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
thing tomorrow is to open Tacloban Airport fully. It is partly | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
operational but we need it to be a 24-hour round the clock air HUB to | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
get the aid in. We can't get it in by road, there is another regional | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
hub on another island not too far away, but it is ferry and roads, it | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
might take ten-hours of driving with the roads blocked and only | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
motorbikes on them. We need to get the air hub and get into Tacloban | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
and spread out to other parts of the air hub and get into Tacloban | :09:17. | :09:37. | |
events. In Africa, for example. When I was in west Africa recently old | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
men were tell Muslim League they used -- men were telling me they | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
used to have a drought every ten years and now it is every two years. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Communities are facing extreme weather change. We can argue about | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
climb plate change, but including typhoons like this, you can't | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
attribute to it, but the impotencity must be connected with some -- | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
intensity must be connected with some form of climate change. We need | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
to put preparedness measures in place. You presumably learn from | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
every one of these disasters to do better. Preparedness, is that | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
difficult for donors to stump up for, people look at this and | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
understand why they have to give cash, but don't think in advance of | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
a disaster that they should do that? It is the most important investment. | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
We have had a storm in India where It is the most important investment. | :10:27. | :10:47. | |
a lot of food and water in. And we are sending a plane in tomorrow. The | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
most important thing is to have local communities trained in that | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
preparedness in place. One of your own work Workers went in earlier, | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
she went in to what is this? We sent six people into the eye of the storm | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
to be ready when it hit. We lost contact for three days. We were very | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
worried they lost their lives. They survived but many people haven't. We | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
now need to act very quickly. All the organisation, us, Oxfam, the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
United Nations are there ready to help. But we do need to get this air | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
hub functioning to get huge amounts of aid in. We need to get aid to | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
people. Coming up: of aid in. We need to get aid to | :11:33. | :11:56. | |
at the moment. One of the called schemes is the green levy, they | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
charge customers extra on their bills to do with green issues. ECO | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
is supposed to help the poorest customers afford insulation or new | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
boilers. A Freedom of Information request has revealed the energy | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
companies supposed to help customers are reaching a tiny fraction of the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
eligible households. We have been finding out where the money from | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
your bills is going? ?57 that is the amount the average bill payer is | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
forced to pay to their energy company to fix up other people's | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
draftee houses. New wall insulation put on these homes in Nottingham. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Clashing bills, relieving fuel poverty and cutting carbon | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
emissions, this is what British Gas is among the companies | :12:48. | :13:18. | |
saying hitting ECO targets will hit far more than the Government says. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Not ?57 but ?90 a bill payer. One of the factors outside is pushing bills | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
up. But EON is far ahead with fixing up deals with local authorities and | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
fixing en masse and to budget. Elaine is an NPower customer, her | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
daughter is with British Gas. But it was EON that did their free | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
insulation. The floors are a lot warmer, first thing in the morning | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
they used to be really cold to stand on, they are a lot warmer. I used to | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
put two quilts on my bed in the winter, now I only have the one on. | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
You get out of bed in winter, now I only have the one on. | :13:57. | :14:15. | |
reason is they have to hit targets for helping people by March 2015, if | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
they don't they can get fined 10% of turnover. In the case of British Gas | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
for example that could be hundreds of millions of pounds. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
The Government won't disclose details of low income customers from | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the benefits system, so it costs firms hundreds of pounds to find | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
them. Customers aren't always willing to tell but their personal | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
circumstances, some customers are proud about their personal | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
circumstances and don't want to tell you they are vulnerable, they have | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
to sign up to being vulnerable in front of people they don't | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
particularly know. For some people they don't want to have to admit to | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
these things. It is hard work to find customers and the whole he | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
industry and the whole country could benefit if we were to share data | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
better with the Department of Work and d Pensions. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
The think-tank got Ofgem to and d Pensions. | :15:03. | :15:25. | |
weakened rather than delivering the support the bill payers need to see. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
It is vital that the Government doesn't bow down to this pressure | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
from the energy companies and makes sure that this support for energy | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
efficiency improvement stays in place. Like other companies, EON is | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
expected to have to raise bills in the coming weeks with talk from the | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Prime Minister of rolling back green taxes. NPower says it is still | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
confident it will meet its target, as does British Gas with projects | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
worth ?900 million. Meanwhile we are all paying for ECO through our | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
bills. If it is going to work they will have to step up the pace. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
We asked representatives of the energy companies and ministers from | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
the department for energy and climate change, to come on to | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Newsnight to talk to us about ECO, but nobody was available. Happily | :16:15. | :16:15. | |
the Shadow Energy Minister, and ECO for adding on to our bills. | :16:16. | :16:36. | |
This Freedom of Information that the think-tank has asked from the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
regulator, we can see three of the energy companies are not meeting | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
their targets, and they have put up our bills on the basis this is | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
increasing their costs. I ask myself the question if I was asking | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
somebody to do energy efficiency in my home I would pay when the work is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
done. They seemed to suggest we should pay through the bills. What | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
should we do, should we suspend the system until it is sorted out. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
People, as you say, are paying green levies of various sorts and not | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
seeing the money being used the way they thought it was? I would have | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
thought we shouldn't have to wait for a Freedom of Information | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
question from Ofgem. So the public and others who are interested can | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
see what is going on with the schemes. What should we do about it? | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
I think ECO is a flawed scheme, it is overly bureaucratic. For one | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
I think ECO is a flawed scheme, it about how the energy companies go | :17:28. | :17:45. | |
about this. We have said we would have a scheme based on local areas | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
and therefore it would be bottom up rather than top down, we think we | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
can reach people more effectively through local councils and charities | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
and groups. Would you suspend it now? What we have to interrogate | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
here. Let's be honest about this ECO is part of the debate because the | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
companies are trying to defend against their price rises. I think | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
it is fair for us to question them on how they have attributed their | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
price costs and therefore on our bills. They blame ECO the regulator | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
should only cost ?15, and yet the companies say it is over ?57. The | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Telegraph tomorrow has spiralling energy bills, and the Energy | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Secretary saying the companies are treating customers like cash cows do | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
you believe that? Strong words, we have said | :18:37. | :18:54. | |
you believe that? Strong words, we parliament as he said he is | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
tomorrow. We have people in the coalition fighting over issues so | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
important to bill payers. They could freeze the bills now, they could put | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the over 75s on the cheap tarrif, those are Labour's measures in | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Government and they have to match words with actions. | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
He had the title "Senior Adviser for Innovation" to Secretary of State, | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross fill filled that, and it took him to | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo and helping rebels in the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
border areas of Syria. In the 2008 presidential election Alec Ross | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
masterminded Barack Obama's technology and multimedia strategy, | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
playing a key role in getting him to the White House. That success helped | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
secure a the White House. That success helped | :19:46. | :20:06. | |
seemed a marginal aspects of foreign policy, it all changed with the Arab | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Spring where it played apart. He helped keep communication 0 networks | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
running in places like Benghazi, in the face of a ban. The application | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
of digital technology to revolutionary ends looks less | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
positive today as the Arab Spring has unravelled. The risk to security | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
of modern communications has become more obvious, the more we learn | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
about GCHQ and others thanks to Edward Snewden. Can America lecture | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
the world about digital freedom, while at the same time using | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Intelligence Services to exploit these new methods of communication | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
which potentially put liberty at risk. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Alec Ross is with me no When you worked on this programme, trying | :20:55. | :21:13. | |
Alec Ross is with me no When you were Twitter revolutions or Facebook | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
revolutions they were pro-President Yeltsin by people in the extend they | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
have -- propelled by people in the extent as they had the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
communication. There isn't an app for building a democratic society. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
It is tanks that matter in the end. People can communicate through | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Twitter but it doesn't matter if they are going to get shot at? The | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
most powerful technology in a conflict where the Government is | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
using bullets and tanks. The technology that matters the most are | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
the bullets and the tank. Cellphone versus tank, the tank will win. Here | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
is the thing, in many countries a head of state isn't going to be | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
willing to gun down their pole. In this case what these technologies do | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
is give very powerful capablities to citizens and networks of citizens. | :22:03. | :22:24. | |
do that? That is right. You cannot divorce the technology from the | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
reality on the ground. There is certain constituencies that think | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
you can tweet your way to democracy. It is a very powerful tool for | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
communication, collaboration, for elevating people's voices, but if | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
what a Government is doing is saying a site is blocked, you won't tweet | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
yourself to a Jeffersonian democracy. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
So in places like Iran and Syria social media plays a minor role? | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
What will ultimately change China and Iran are young people in these | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
countries. There are half a billion people who use microbloging sites. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
400 million of whom are under the age of 25. That is what whether | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
change China. That age of 25. That is what whether | :23:14. | :23:34. | |
don't really see the two as being entirely interrelated. Internet | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
freedom is the freedom to connect to the Internet, to the websites of | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
one's choosing. And to be listened to by the NSA? I don't think | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
internet freedom is the freedom to do whatever you want with nobody | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
necessarily looking on the internet. This is really a manifestation. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Today's manifestation. This is the year 2013 manifestation of the | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
century's long tension between security and liberty. It is | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
difficult for an American to lecture or suggest people adopt some of | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
these technologies when a major arm of the US Government is doing this | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
isn't it? I don't think they are lecturing, I don't think | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
finger-wagging, impurrous lecturing at the people around the world ever | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
work, even when you have a halo over your head, which few states do. Do | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
you have a your head, which few states do. Do | :24:23. | :24:42. | |
the world has learned a lot. One of the things that I come to personally | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
is as these technologies grow more and more powerful, just because | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
something is legal and technologically possible doesn't | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
mean it is the right thing to do. Is Hillary Clinton running for the | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
presidency of the United States the right thing to do, you worked with | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
her for a while? Absolutely the right thing to do. I hope so, I have | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
an 11-year-old son, I have an eight-year-old daughter, and a | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
six-year-old daughter, and I pray to good almighty that they grow up in a | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
country that Hillary Clinton is a President and some right thing Tea | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Party Republican is not. America needs her, the world needs her, you | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
all need her. Do you think she will run? I don't know. This speculation, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
it drives her a little bonkers I think. Because it is three years | :25:31. | :25:31. | |
away. We actually think. Because it is three years | :25:32. | :25:57. | |
unwin! -- to win! A British doctor imprisoned in Syria a year ago has | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
written to the Foreign Secretary decribing torture at the hands of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
prison guards. 31-year-old Shah Nawaz Khan vanished while working as | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
an emergency surgeon in AP LEP POE a year -- Aleppo a year ago. | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
Nothing has been heard from him. We speak to his brother in a few | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
moments. REAK Nothing has been heard from him. We speak to his brother in | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
a few moments. Dr Adlington Khan checking off medical lists in 2012. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
The young father of two had flown to Turkey with the charity Human Aid, | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
he was patching up civilian casualties arriving daily from | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
across the Syrian border. By casualties arriving daily from | :26:42. | :27:00. | |
thousand worth of medical flies -- ?20,000 worth of medical supplies, | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
and started setting up a hospital. 48 hours later he was taken by | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
President Assad's forces. Many of those who think they can help by | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
crossing borders into Syria. They are taking great risks. We all see | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
the really horrendous situation that is Syria at the moment. What the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
real issue here is the need for humanitarian access. If the proper | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
agencies, the UN, the Red Cross and other humanitarian agencies were | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
able to go into Syria and provide support and help we wouldn't see | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
individuals risks all in the way we have seen this doctor. For six | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
months his family didn't know if he was alive or dead. Then in July his | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
mother flew from London to Damascus. She found her son in prison, | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
weighing just five stone. And His two young children have also | :27:52. | :28:37. | |
written to William Hague asking for help. The Foreign Office has long | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
been advising against all travel to Syria, it says it will use every | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
opportunity to press for his release, but with diplomatic | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
relations suspended its options in the country are limited. I'm joined | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
by Dr Khan's brother. Just before we came on air we got a message from | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
the Foreign Office almost. But aside from that they | :29:02. | :29:21. | |
have not really been imaginative in trying to push for my brother's | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
release. We have been prompting them on the actions that they could | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
possibly take. We appreciate that there isn't a consular service in | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
Syria. We don't recognise the regime effectively? We don't. But that said | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
we are dealing with nations, whether it be Russia, China, indeed we have | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
been in meetings with Iran recently. They do recognise the regime and | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
have good connections with the regime. And indeed have been | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
involved in brokering the release of other prisoners from other | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
countries, indeed the French, the Germans, the Italians have been | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
successful in getting their citizens out. What do you make of the | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
allegation that is your brother is reporting of witnessing beatings and | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
being beaten up himself? Understandably they are of great | :30:10. | :30:10. | |
distress. I haven't Understandably they are of great | :30:11. | :30:31. | |
what he was going through -- presume about what he was going through. We | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
are grateful now's being treated slightly better. His weight has | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
picked up a little bit. He has been transferred to a civilian prison. | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
That is because of our backing. My mother's gone and chimed every bell | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
and knocked on every door within Damascus. She has been more | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
effective than the British Government. Can I ask you directly, | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
here is a man who went into Syria without a visa, over a very porous | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
border, where there are a lot of foreign fighters who come into | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
Syria, you can see where it is going. Is there any chance your | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
brother was involved with the opposition, political activity or | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
actually was a foreign fighter, is there any chance that have? No, we | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
are an apolitical family. He has dedicated his life to his career, | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
training as a surgeon, and his kindly to anybody helping or giving | :31:21. | :31:40. | |
any assistance. Certainly when I flew out there initially the worry | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
was that they could just kill him. And it came as a relief that he was | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
alive, and to an extent held by the regime rather than a more extreme | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
element. I think he would be as moved by the Philippines that you | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
have already covered, as by the might of the Syrian people. Do you | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
think he's been treated differently either by the Foreign Office or the | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
Syrians because his name is Dr Khan and not Dr Smith or Jones? I can't | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
tell you exactly the reasons why we as family believe if he was an | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
English female JOURMist then -- journalist, then yes, the response | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
would be different, more direct briefings. We haven't heard from | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
William Hague at all, we are told's following TSHG but he hasn't | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
attempted to meet as you at any time. I fleetingly | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
attempted to meet as you at any process, that is simply not taking | :32:32. | :32:51. | |
place. Those are things we are pushing for. Lucien Freud was one of | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
the most acclaimed portrait painterings of the last century, and | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
also one of the -- painters of the last century, and also one of the | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
most extraordinary, his life included brushes with gambling and | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
debts and brushes with the law. Now a new diary has been revealed, | :33:11. | :33:19. | |
Breakfast With Lucien. We asked Geordie Greig to make a short film | :33:20. | :33:30. | |
about his work. I was 17 when I first saw paintings | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
by Lucien Freud. It was the era of punk, and I found these | :33:36. | :33:37. | |
psychologically more edge, punk, and I found these | :33:38. | :33:59. | |
we got talking. Lucien was the grandson of Sigmund Freud Freud, the | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
founder of psychoanalysis. He was born in Berlin, but in 1942, when | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
Lucien was ten, his family moved to London to escape the Nazis. He | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
started as a penniless emigre, but became one of the most acclaimed | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
painters of his generation. Luis YEP changed the perception of | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
portraiture, and especially the nude in art. His subjects were an | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
extraordinary picksure of people, criminal, supermodel, aristocrat, | :34:31. | :34:40. | |
even the Queen. His naked figures were sensual. But to some people | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
cruel and shocking. There was always a frisson about his outrageous | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
private life. Gambling, hundreds a frisson about his outrageous | :34:49. | :35:09. | |
final shot. I wrote him a letter saying I have got a brilliant idea | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
but I need to see you in person. I was banking on his curiosity. Well, | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
he rang. Come for breakfast. So I went to his studio and over a | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
breakfast ofburg Gandhi and -- Burgandy, and half a roasted | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
partridge that I WI he had eaten the night before I unravelled my | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
brilliant idea. My idea was to photograph Frank Albach and you can | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
be in the photograph. He was a fellow Jewish emigre and painter who | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
arrived in the 30s and who Lucien saw every week for breakfast. He | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
said, OK. It led to another breakfast, this | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
time at the Cock Tavern in the meat district of London where they had | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
kidneys and a cup of tea. This was the | :36:02. | :36:18. | |
kidneys and a cup of tea. This was for breakfast. At Clarke's in | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
Notting Hill. Where Lucien came every day with his assistant, David | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
Dawson. Lucien Freud Freud was -- Lewis yen | :36:29. | :36:36. | |
Freud was one of the most original people I ever met, he hung out with | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
criminals and heiresses. He spoke about escaping from Nazi Germany, | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
hanging out with the Queen when he painted her. Painting Kate Moss. | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
Gambling debts of extraordinary amounts of money. And always there | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
was a cultural vein which was focussed on his art. After Lucien | :36:58. | :37:08. | |
died in July 2011, I spoke to the people closest to him. Most of whom | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
also people closest to him. Most of whom | :37:11. | :37:29. | |
told me how Lucien placed her in an uncomfortable pose, possibly | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
reflecting the problems that developed in their relationship. In | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
many ways my book is a key to the people who were painted by Lucien. | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
It identifies, sometimes for the first time, who was painted. The | :37:44. | :37:53. | |
women Women In Fur Coat, Big Man, they were titles that he used, that | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
always obscured and kept secret the idea of those in Freud land. But how | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
important is it to know the intimate secrets of an obsessively private | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
individual? I met the art critic Brian Sewell at the National | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
Portrait Gallery, in front of a painting of Lord Rothschild, an arts | :38:13. | :38:14. | |
patron who had once lent money painting of Lord Rothschild, an arts | :38:15. | :38:38. | |
ever said about that was "I paint with my prick". That is so true of | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
Freud. The first nude portrait Lucien painted was of his daughter | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
Annie aged 14. She told me how her father would reach with his paint | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
brush to move strands of her hair to see her nipple. There is very little | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
in his early work in which anything is there by chance. It is there | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
because he wants it to be precisely there. That is a very good example. | :39:08. | :39:20. | |
Everything is deliberate. That where I Think your revolution of the | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
sexual Freud is there, it is a deliberate note and what he wishes | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
you to see. deliberate note and what he wishes | :39:29. | :39:48. | |
art which defines him. It was a life well lived, well loved and certainly | :39:49. | :39:58. | |
one we won't see again. Geordie Greig is here and one of | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
Lucien's children. Was this book a bit of a shock for you? I think it | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
was more difficult to read than shocking to read. I think most of | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
the things I knew in general but not in detail. And was that | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
uncomfortable? Some of the reading was definitely very uncomfortable. | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
Do you see why, I mean Brian Sewell made the point clearly, why a great | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
artist, we do want to know quite a lot about them. Is that, do you | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
think, fair game? It has nothing to do with the arts. The suggests, they | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
held a certain charge and that do with the arts. The suggests, they | :40:40. | :40:59. | |
make of that? He didn't like journalists for a start. You were | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
persistent and you won his trust? Lucien allowed his whole life to be | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
shown on his canvas, shown in public places and galleries. I have illumid | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
who those people are and how they fitted into his complicated life. 14 | :41:19. | :41:26. | |
children axe no mamsed, others, many who came in and out -- acknowledged, | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
others who came in and out of his life. It is what story tellers and | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
writers do is to illuminate who are the people in the art. We have seen | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
this in TS Eliot and Thomas hardy and often the family don't like it. | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
It is a tough call and often the family don't like it. | :41:49. | :42:09. | |
domesticated. We never had a normal family relationship with him, of | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
course. That is the case with many artists. Look at Picasso, for | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
example. But the point he was making is the family will always object, | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
and if you look at the painting behind you, you can see something | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
very intimate. People perhaps want to know more than just the title, is | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
that not a legitimate area to look at? I understand people want to | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
know, I'm talking about him, he didn't title with names or meaning | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
to be important. He said to me when I talked about my work he asked on | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
several occasions show me what you are working on, when I came back | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
from Rome I showed work. If I talked about meaning he went spare, he got | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
very, very angry. I know for about meaning he went spare, he got | :42:57. | :43:18. | |
understand the driving forces. What was set up with the model and | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
himself, the psychological space. All that energy, all that... Libido, | :43:27. | :43:34. | |
if you like, went into the work. He would have hated your book, wouldn't | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
he? I don't think he would have. It is written after his death. He knew | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
I tape recorded the conversations, because the tape recorder was often | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
put down on the table when we had breakfast. Breakfast With Lucien is | :43:48. | :43:55. | |
a very frank and candidate book. Lucien was never anything but did | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
Ied in his wife and work. Did he want you to write TU do you think? | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
He knew that I had interviewed him and we had done interviews. This is | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
an extension of that. In that way he would have | :44:10. | :44:26. | |
an extension of that. In that way he died. Some critics were not as kind | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
as Sewell, one said you give us the gas gossip but failed to capture the | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
artist? I think they mean art. It is a very fulsome look at his wife. He | :44:40. | :44:47. | |
had, in his life, dating great DA Garbo, borrowing -- great at that | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
Garbo, hanging out with the Krays and the Queen painting her. He | :44:55. | :45:02. | |
covered the 21st century to heights to painting Kate Moss. It wasn't a | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
life as iconic and totemic as a 20th century artist. That is why it is a | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
biography. Which has caused debate, consternation and controversial and | :45:16. | :45:16. | |
why it is very, very readable. Jennifer Lawrence, about the | :45:17. | :45:37. | |
influence of her movies on young women. | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
You have voiced concerns about the pressure on young women in | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
particular to young women to be thin, do you worry about losing | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
weight for a role? When we were doing The Hunger Games, it is called | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
The Hunger Games, she is obviously underfed, she would be incredibly | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
thin. But I was like, I just kept saying, this is we have the ability | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
to control this image that young girls are going to be seeing. We | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
need to make, girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
that we will never be able to obtain, these unrealistic | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
expectations and this is going to be their hero. And we have control over | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
that. So it is an their hero. And we have control over | :46:27. | :46:45. | |
you with a bow and arrow wouldn't really be scary. Now the papers. | :46:46. | :47:34. | |
We leave you with the Russian # I'm up all night to get some | :47:35. | :47:59. | |
# I'm up all night to get lucky # Wait up all night to get some | :48:00. | :48:06. | |
# Wait up all night for good fun Wait up all night to | :48:07. | :48:22. | |
Good evening a rather murky start to tomorrow | :48:23. | :48:23. |