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A deadly battle in the Ukrainian City between Government forces and | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
pro-Russian militants leaves at least seven people reported dead. As | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
the tensions reignite, we're in Donetsk in the north. There is | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
violence on the streets today in the Ukraine, every time it happens this | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
region moves one step closer to full-blown Civil War. In Red Square | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
President Putin commemorates VE Day with massive show of force and then | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
heads to Crimea. What we have seen today was an extraordinary display | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
of what some call Putinism, a heady mixture of nationalism, military | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
might and nostalgia for Russia's past. And this. Except of course it | :00:50. | :01:02. | |
is not. A proposed deal with the Internet service providers could | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
mean the penalty for internet piracy is a gently telling off. A rap star | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
is not impressed. Happy birthday Alan Bennett, 80 today, any regrets? | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
I'm very ill-read, it is hard to believe but it is true. One of the | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
advantages of being 80 is I now know I can't do anything about this. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
Good evening, in a crisis characterised by shies and faints by | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
the Russian leader, President Putin's appearance at a parade today | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
as part of Russia's victory today in World War II was straight forwardly | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
triumphant. He praised the people of Crimea showing loyalty to an | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
historical truth in choosing to be part of Russia. The US State | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
Department called his day as unnecessary and provocative. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
First in the Ukrainian port city, a two-hour battle between the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Ukrainian army and pro-Russian supporters left seven dead. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Ukrainian army and pro-Russian tensions couldn't be higher, with | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
less than 24 hours to go until people in parts of Ukraine vote on | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
whether or not to join Russia. I have been speaking a short while ago | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
to somebody inside the city, they tell me the atmosphere is very, very | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
tense tonight. Men roaming the streets, some of them drunk from | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
this Victory Day celebration, but crucially angry over the killings | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
that took place today. The most conservative estimate is seven | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
people dead, we think that figure almost certainly will be higher. Now | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
every time this happens this part of Ukraine inches a little bit closer | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
to full-blown Civil War. The divisions in Ukraine deepen and | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
become more bitter. In western capitals we hear people talking | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
about the need to deescalate the situation. But the truth is it is | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
getting harder and harder to control the militias that are operating | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
here. I spent the day trying to piece | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
together what took place in the City, and also meeting a militia | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
trying to hold this country together. I should warn you some of | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
the images in this report are disturbing. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
Today Ukrainian soldiers opened fire, apparently on unarmed | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
civilians. Kiev had been hoping to avoid scenes like these, with what | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
has, until now, been a relatively cautious security operation in the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
east. But not all the pro-Russian protesters were unarmed. Here on the | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
right of the screen a man in black is clearly seen firing a pistol | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
towards a Ukrainian soldier. Moments later another shot rings out and man | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
falls to the ground. Today Kiev's soft low-softly approach appeared to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
harden. The Government says it sent in the troops to confront around 60 | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
pro-Russian gunmen who had taken over the police headquarters in the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
centre of the city. The building has changed hands several times in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
recent days after an intense gun GATT bathle this afternoon, both the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
seperatist and the army apparently abandoned the place, leaving it to | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
the flames. These flames could now easily spread through this volatile | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
region. 06 miles away we met some pro-Russian fighters setting off for | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the town. All local volunteers, financed and armed by | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
patriotic-minded Ukrainians opposed to the break-up of their country. In | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
normal life sur gay is a priest. Now he -- Sergei is a priest, now he has | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
taken up a Kalashnikov and he's prepared to use it. We have to deal | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
with the Russian invasion. It is Russian Special Forces. They take | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
command. Russian Special Forces have to be taken away. By any means | :05:39. | :05:53. | |
necessary? Yes. "Glory to Ukraine" they cry as they get ready to take | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
the fight to the seperatists. The situation in this region is drawing | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
in people, these pro-Government, pro-Kiev, but the danger is it will | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
also be drawing in people from the other side as this escalates. They | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
squeeze as many as they can into their only minivan. We are ready to | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
shoot our way through any checkpoints they say. If they do | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
make it there they will become yet another combustible element in what | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
is already a highly volatile mix. The turbulent happenings in Ukraine | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
are followed nowhere more closely than in Moscow, where today ahead of | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the visit to Crimea, President Putin parade the military might of the | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
country on VE Day. We were there. It is day for the remembrance of | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
past sacrifice. It is one when Russians s of all opinions revel in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
the feeling that this is a country to be reckoned with. For us, | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
watching with them, today's parade and fly-past in Moscow were also a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
timely reminder of President Putin's popularity. Do you think President | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Putin has made the country stronger? Yes I think so. I think he's the | :07:09. | :07:20. | |
best President from the new history of Russia. Russians are deeply proud | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
of their victory and their Armed Forces. And President Putin's | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
personal ratings have never been higher. But in the wake of his | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
actions on Ukraine many of Russia's neighbours are now fearful. In Red | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
Square veterans, weighed down with medals and memories looked on at | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
those who have inherited their legacy. The Armed Forces that took | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Crimea are now standing ready in a policy spelt out by their leaders to | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
protect Russians in neighbouring states. Countries with large Russian | :07:55. | :08:09. | |
populations can only survive if they take the needs of those people into | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
account and their interests, including their cultural identity | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
and things like that language. Provided that they keep good | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
relations with the Russian federation. It doesn't mean they | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
have to join the Russian federation. But it means that they should never | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
think of opposing the Russian federation. For the President, who | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
headed straight from the parade to Crimea, there is no apparent | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
contradiction between the war time fight against Nazis, today's moves | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
against fascists, as he always them in Ukraine, and the championing of | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Russian fights based on language or fate. Ultra nationalists have booked | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Putin enthusiastically, and say if the Baltic or other former Soviet | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Republics now worry, that is a bonus. It is very good that they are | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
worried, because we are worried about millions of noncitizens, | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
Russians who speak Russians, they are non--citizens, they have no -- | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
noncitizens, they have no passports, they have no power, rights in the | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Baltic Republics. Firstly the resultic Republics should take -- | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Baltic Republics should make decisions, that Russians in Baltic | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Republics are citizens, then they will not worry about anything. The | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
power of economic achievements bears witness to the failure of the Soviet | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
model. No amount of workers could save it from bankruptcy and | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
break-up. I met a rising figure in the beleaguered opposition to get | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
his take on the role in Putin's new ideology of symbols, like the St | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
George ribbon, which is everywhere now. I respect this symbol, because | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
for me it is a symbol of the great victory. But I see that for many | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
for me it is a symbol of the great people in Russia, in Kiev, in Baltic | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
countries, it is a symbol of aggressive Russia. Will he succeed | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
in creating what you might call a new Russian nationalism, or will | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
people be resistant. Right now he's very popular in the polls? Putin is | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
not about empire, he is just about money. He's just about oligarchs, | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
he's just about his friends who are oligarchs, and actually you know | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Putin really wants to rule like Stalin. But actually he wants to | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
live like Abramovic. And you cannot have both things at the same time. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Down in Crimea, President Putin launched himself into more displays | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
of might. At sea and in the air. Much of the world may regard | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
Russia's annexation as illegal, so Russian officials have faced | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
sanctions as a result. But the President's message to Crimeans is | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
that together they would weather it. TRANSLATION: There is a lot of work | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
in front of us, but me and you will overcome all difficulty, because we | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
are together, and that means we have become even more powerful. Happy | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
Victory Day. But some go too far in this heady atmosphere of nationalism | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
and post-Soviet nostalgia, perhaps that is to be expected. We saw many | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
images of Stalin today, and that hints of passions and models of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
leadership that could cause President Putin serious problems, | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
choking his relationship with the west and its sources of capital. The | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
crisis with the west could either lead to Russia f it is smart, | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
getting to a high orbit economically or if Russia succumbs to its very | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
well known problems and flaws, it could lead to breakdown and possibly | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
a break-up of Russia. So the stakes can hardly be higher than they are | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
today. The President's actions in Ukraine have already produced | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
economic consequences, and if the Victory Day party isn't to be | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
followed by a national hangover that could last years, Mr Putin will need | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
every ounce of his political skill. We're joined live now from Moscow. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
The EU are threatening more sanctions and that will happen on | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Monday. Will this affect Putin's next move? These EU sanctions are | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
one of the constraints that now operate in Mr Putin's mind. Along | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
with US economic sanctions and Russian public opinion, when you're | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
here it becomes very clear that many, many Russians would be deeply | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
reluctant to see Russian troops invade Ukraine, not Crimea, eastern | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
Ukraine, and fight. This, if you like, lines up all the key | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
constituencies on the point of Russian troops, that is why we | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
haven't seen the full scale invasion as some people would call it to | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
date. But, the US and EU, because they can see that's the way | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
President Putin is thinking, are now talking about introducing more | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
stringent sanctions. Particularly the US, what they call sectoral | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
sanctions, targeted at the banking or oil sectors, for example. They | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
are talking about doing that in the coming days, even without a Russian | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
invasion. Now how far that will, if you like, | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
do what the Americans want and if the EU does something similar, how | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
far it will do what they want, in encouraging President Putin to make | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
greater efforts to de-escalate the situation, we don't know. One thing | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
I think is clear, that key constituency, Russian public | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
opinion, could change as we see more of these tragic events on the | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
ground. Odessa, and Mariople, if they carry on day in, day out in the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
coming weeks, Russian opinion will change over whether what they call | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
peacekeeping troops should go into eastern and southern Ukraine. You | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
never know, by that point, EU and US opinion about whether Russia should | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
be stopped from doing that might change too. | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
A British team arrived in Lagos today to join the American and | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
Nigerian search for the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram as Amnesty | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
International leased a report claiming that Nigerian security | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
forces had at least four hours advance warning on the raid on the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
state-run school and failed to act. Amnesty's Africa director said it | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
amounted to a gross deriliction of Nigeria's duty to protect civilians. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
My guest is here. What are some of the more devastating details | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
appearing from the testimonies? Our research is talking to many people | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
in northern Nigeria and have heard from many and from official sources | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
and two senior military men that they did have four hours notice and | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
nothing happened. There were military nearby, within 100kms, who | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
could have been mobilised and they weren't. So these girls, in the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
school, were left defenceless. You heard also in your testimonies that | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
the Nigerian forces were terrified of Boko Haram? Yes and they didn't | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
feel able to confront them. There were small numbers actually in | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Chibok, and the majority of soldiers were elsewhere. They could have been | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
mobilised. But the thing here too is we were reporting at the end of last | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
year about 50 schools being burnt down, 70 teachers being slaughtered, | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
and children being murdered. The Nigerian authorities have had so | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
long to have time where they could have been providing protection to | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
those girls in that school and other schools in the region. Sky News are | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
reporting, a single report on Sky News tonight that devices used by | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
the American and British forces are hearing that there a the hearing of | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
some girls, and some technology is allowing them to hear into the | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
forest, there is hope they are alive and within the border? We must | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
absolutely hope for that. Amnesty produced a report earlier that 2,000 | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
people have been killed in the last year in Nigeria. It strikes me that | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
you weren't able, organisations like you were not able to cut through | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
with that information, it has taken the kidnap of these girls to | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
galvanise both public opinion and international opinion, why was | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
Amnesty not cutting through? We have been reporting about this all | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
through the year and pushing through. I think it is the way the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
parents fought and we are proud of our solidarity with that. If it took | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
foreign boots to get the girls back would you support that? Amnesty | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
doesn't make those judgments, but we are glad to see that type of | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
technology at the disposal of the Nigerian Government. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
If you were one of the legions of fans of the US theories Game of | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Thrones, it must be tempting to break copyright law and download the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
latest episode on American TV to keep ahead. I'm not suggesting you | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
should. There was once talk of cutting off the Internet if you | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
behaved that way, now not so much. A draft agreement between the content | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
providers and internet companies seen by the BBC suggests a new soft | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
low-softly approach. No more will they try to scare the living day | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
lights out of music and film fans. Instead a series of polite letters | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
to inform and educate, if you ignore the letters? | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
The Government has rather struggled to deal with digital piracy, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
legislation exists in the form of the digital economy act of 2010, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
that would allow the cutting off or strangling of an infringers internet | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
connection. However legal and technical difficulties means the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
policy remains fuzzy and unused. One of the big problems was the way it | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
was introduced in the wash-up period of the Labour Government and it was | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
forced through. Internet providers and the entertainment industry have | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
got together to hammer out an approach about copyright infringers | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
and who manages the system. We have got hold of a paper that points it a | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
less severe approach. It says if your internet providers sees you are | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
downloading illegally, they will send you a letter that what you are | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
doing is wrong and pointing you to places where you can buy content | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
legally. If you ignore that you get another letter, ignore that and you | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
get a another letter. After that there is one final sanction, another | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
letter. People are going to be collecting information about alleged | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
criminal or civil offences. Storing that information for some time. We | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
really need to know more about that. It is a pretty extraordinary thing | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
for somebody to be doing, whether or not they are going to use that in | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
court proceedings in the future? Previously the entertainment | :19:57. | :20:12. | |
industry has tried to frighten us into paying for content. Backed up | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
in the United States at least with a few huge fines. One student told to | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
pay ?675,000 for downloading Munich. Has this proved counter-productive. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
I have always worried if going after music fans is really a good idea. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
This is an issue of consumer education, they say the point of the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
letters is to inform people about what is happening. I think a better | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
way to do it is for the major record labels to declare that they are | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
going to pay artists 50% of digital royalties on albums that have | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
recouped, and recruit artists to come forward and say I will be | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
making music, you like my music, would you support me. I think that | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
would be a much better way to educate consumers rather than | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
sending them these pathetic little letters. | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
Rather than taking every download to civil court, the people who make the | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
music and movies are trying to make the content available easily and | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
cheaply on legal sites like Netflix the content available easily and | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
and Innant Video, many are prepared to cough up a few pounds for | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
reliable and legal content. There is every reason to use the commercial | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
services, which are just hugely by-election hugely more convenient, | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
and of course that's what's happening. People are not choosing | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
the free but dreadful service, they are going for the slightly quite low | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
cost, but really easy to use ones. Meanwhile the entertainment industry | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
continues to go after the illegal file sharing sites, trying to starve | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
them of advertising revenue. One attack is to say who are the players | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
involved in this, the people selling the advertising and the credit card | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
companies processing the payments. Those people, are they players, can | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
we squeeze them in some way. The lesson of recent years seems to be | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
that the law moves far too slowly to deal with piracy. The only thing | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
that may have a hope of keeping pace with technology is, technology! I'm | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
joined by the musician guest and a technology writer. | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
First of all you have a new album coming out before the end of the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
year, how do you feel about the fact that people will listen to it for | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
free? I feel like, you know when people download music for free, you | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
put your heart into it and making music, I share everything I'm going | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
in, and to put all that effort is art for me, for people to download | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
it for free I don't agree with that. They are getting a better? A third | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
and a second letter. I was going to say that doesn't change anything, I | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
think a letter stopping piracy isn't going to work. Would you like to see | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
people punished in some way or fined a reasonable amount of money? I say | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
a lot of people are not aware it is illegal, some of the younger | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
generations coming up, there is so many options on the Internet. There | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
is a way where there is a next step, maybe, but the letters are not going | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
to work. It is obvious there is not going to be a big stick, will that | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
kill new music? No, I don't think so, artists are in a really | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
difficult position. On the one hand they don't want to punish fans, they | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
want to publish the people who le but not their fans. There is no way | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
people will not the flood of pyrecy. I can't see it killing new music as | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
there is a lot of money around in the music industry. Record labels | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
need to look at other ways of making money. Have you ever downloaded | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
illegally? No, I'm atypical in that regard. It may not kill new music | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
but what if it were you starting out now? It will kill music, a lot of | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
people say do we do shows and tours only people like Madonna and | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Coldplay can do that and they don't need to make money there. You need | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
to make money to carry on doing music. The thing is to sell. You had | :24:43. | :24:54. | |
Billy Brag and radiohead had that thing of asking people to pay what | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
they thought? Personally I wouldn't. What will happen then? People get | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
bored when gay men start banging on about mad done national cirriculum I | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
will. Years ago she did something smart, at the end of her record | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
contract. Hang on a minute, she was a massive star before she did that? | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Of course that. She wasn't a young person starting out? You have to | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
understand that the same technology that is causing problems for piracy | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
is also enabling new artists to go up on-line. So many new artists who | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
sell millions were discovered on the Internet. There is a lot more | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
grassroots artists propelled to stardom by fans on technological | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
platforms than before. The power of record label A is in decline. I | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
kind of agree with people saying it needs to evolve, I don't believe, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
that doesn't no sense it is devaluing it if you are making music | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
where you guy fans. I should be clear I'm a content creator, I | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
write, my bread and butter is writing and I consider it to be art | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
and what I create. You have to admit at some point there is no stemming | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
the tide. What is a way that we can actually manoeuvre the change into | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
for example subscription models, Apple for example said they wouldn't | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
have any struck with streaming content, until about two years ago | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
with Steve Jobs, or today they have bought a content streaming company? | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Steve Jobs didn't want anything to do with streaming he wanted a file | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
on a computer. He believed a direct relationship to having a file and | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
paying money. I have so much sympathy, I like that model for all | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
sorts of different content. But the reality is you are not going to stop | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
it happening, it is polite to say that and I know why you say that, | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
that people don't know they are doing wrong. They do, and they do it | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
any way. The majority of people, the younger generation might not think | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
they are doing anything wrong. It is a habit they get into it and their | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
friends. Is there an a habit they get into it and their | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
people necessarily don't want to own your content but want access to it. | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
More people access and fewer people own it? I guess the Internet helps | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
because when you have up and coming artists you help people hear your | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
music. But as in what the art is, I believe it is devaluing more and | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
more where people are saying have it for free and it is not how it should | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
be. It is counterintuitive and painful for those of us who create | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
content, but it seems to be inexable. | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
Alan Bennett 80 years old today in the midst of his best years. Some of | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
his best hits happened on the other side of 50, not least The History | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Boys, he turned down a Knighthood and winses at the term "national | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
treasure sure". He famously said you don't put your life into books you | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
find it there. Here he is talking to his friend in an exclusive extract | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
in a forth coming interview. I'm very ill read, I don't know if that | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
sounds modest but it is true. I like American literature more than I do | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
contemporary English literature. I don't feel any of the people writing | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
in England can tell me very much. That may be unfair. Writing seems to | :28:20. | :28:28. | |
me spoils you for reading. If I'm trying to write something I will | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
tend to read only you know superficial stuff. I don't read | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
anything which would make me think I can't do as well at this. Which I'm | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
very much prey to. And then they said, take your clothes off now. And | :28:51. | :29:02. | |
I didn't. I didn't. And I wanted him so much. They came back poems, the | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
first talking head I wrote was about a woman who was dying. And then I | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
wrote the next six quite quickly, then there was a gap and then I | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
wrote another six and people say, people write to me and say would you | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
like to come and talk to us, perhaps you could write a talkinghead, as if | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
I could just run it off and there was nothing I would like more. But | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
you know they came from I suppose deep down it is not there any more. | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
You have written about how there was a definite change in the way you | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
wrote when you were diagnosed with cancer, when you thought you were | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
going to die. You said it acted like a laxative on you? I put a spur on. | :29:55. | :30:03. | |
I think -- a spurt on, it happened when I was diagnosed in 1997, it was | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
you know, they didn't, they said I had a 50-50 chance of surviving, the | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
truth was I actually had a one in five chance. So I was very, very | :30:16. | :30:28. | |
lucky. Anybodywas I actually had a one in five chance. So I was very, | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
very lucky. Anybody would think by the time we got to the History Boys | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
in 2004 the shadow was receding. I think some of that was renewed life | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
and vigour, which is not a word I normally associate with myself, fed | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
into The History Boys probably. One of the defining features of your | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
work is that you invite empathy for people who if the kind of audience | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
that comes to the theatre would encounter in real life they would | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
run a mile from? And I would run a mile as well. Is writing in some way | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
a means of encountering stuff that you would not encounter or you would | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
avoid encountering in life? It is also a way of doing things that | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
people wouldn't expect you to do either in writing or in life. I mean | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
I think of things to say or to do and I think all the people won't | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
want to hear that from me and then I think why not. Particularly as I | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
have got older, that's much more the case. The wonderful Alan Bennett at | :31:39. | :31:47. | |
80. You can see the full interview at 9.00 on BBC Four. | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
Before we go, a quick plug, this August Newsnight will be heading to | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
the Edinburgh Festival for a special programme exploring what Scottish | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
independence would mean for the cultural future of the UK. And Scots | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
near the referendum ballot box, the comedian Rory Brenner among others | :32:06. | :32:14. | |
has called for levity. We have had a talent contest, Newsnight Referendum | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
Review, part of the show in Edinburgh. Here is how you get | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
involved. Newsnight is on the hunt for great | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
performances that address the issue of Scottish independence and the | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
future of the kingdom, anything knows as long as it is entertaining | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
and thought provoking, stand-up, sketches, mini-musicals, songs, | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
poetry or dance, if you are getting inspiration from the yes-no debate | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
we want to hear from you. The acts will perform live before a judging | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
panel and studio audience at the Newsnight Edinburgh Fringe Special | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
on Tuesday the 21st August. Only one will be declared winner of the | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
Newsnight Review, upload a 60 second sample of your material at the BBC | :32:59. | :33:06. | |
website. The deadline is Sunday 26th July, don't wait until the closing | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
date. Get to it. Tomorrow's front pages, | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
just the Telegraph and Mail. That is almost it for this week | :33:13. | :33:31. | |
which marks the passing of a broadcast legend from his regular | :33:32. | :33:40. | |
BBC spot. Alan Hansen will have his last Match of the Day. We will look | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
at the subtle way he dealt with Jimmy Hill. All I'm saying is if he | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
had allowed McManemen his way in the end he would have opened up the way | :33:53. | :34:03. | |
for Fowler. Jimmy be quiet will you. Also he could | :34:04. | :34:05. |