:00:00. > :00:07.Junior doctors come under pressure to abandon their plans to strike.
:00:08. > :00:11.Will they go ahead despite criticism from within their own profession?
:00:12. > :00:14.CHANTING: Hunt must go!
:00:15. > :00:20.And has their union - the BMA - mishandled the whole thing?
:00:21. > :00:23.I'm going on strike because I feel I don't have any choice.
:00:24. > :00:26.The government aren't listening to us.
:00:27. > :00:29.They are trying to impose a contract on us that stretches us from five
:00:30. > :00:31.days to seven, when we are already struggling with five.
:00:32. > :00:34.We have an ageing population, posing a demographic bomb
:00:35. > :00:41.Also tonight, Brexit makes Europe weaker -
:00:42. > :00:44.a rare intervention from Russia as the Deputy PM tells Newsnight
:00:45. > :00:47.what the Kremlin really thinks about Britain's vote to leave.
:00:48. > :00:51.Britain's decision to leave Europe makes Europe a little weaker.
:00:52. > :00:55.Individual countries cannot affect international politics
:00:56. > :01:00.in the same way that a united Europe can do.
:01:01. > :01:04.And Georgetown University announces preferential admissions policies
:01:05. > :01:07.to help those descended from the slaves that it used to trade.
:01:08. > :01:11.Is this the right way to redress the ills of history?
:01:12. > :01:25.Until now, the consensus within the medical community has
:01:26. > :01:29.been staunchly behind the junior doctors.
:01:30. > :01:31.Today, that support is starting to show cracks.
:01:32. > :01:35.English junior doctors and their representatives
:01:36. > :01:38.are coming under increasing pressure to drop their five day strike -
:01:39. > :01:40.for four consecutive months - a level of industrial action
:01:41. > :01:45.that NHS England is calling "unprecedented" in its history.
:01:46. > :01:47.The government has warned it will risk lives, but it is
:01:48. > :01:50.the more measured criticism from within their own medical profession
:01:51. > :01:56.So has the British Medical Association mishandled this action -
:01:57. > :02:01.both in misjudging the mood, and in the strategy
:02:02. > :02:17.After have few months away from the picket line, the doctors union will
:02:18. > :02:23.soon return. The junior doctors industrial action has been expanded
:02:24. > :02:27.and extended. They've been on strike before but the junior doctors have
:02:28. > :02:33.never been in such conflict with the government. We don't want to take
:02:34. > :02:38.industrial action at all. All this will take is the government saying
:02:39. > :02:44.to us, we will stop the imposition. We are not going to force a contract
:02:45. > :02:49.on junior doctors. The government is putting patients first, the BMA
:02:50. > :02:56.should be doing that and not playing politics. How did we get here? The
:02:57. > :03:00.British Medical Association and the government cut a deal earlier this
:03:01. > :03:06.year. That was put to the BMA members in a referendum but they
:03:07. > :03:12.rejected it. Government imposed at contract anyway. As a consequence,
:03:13. > :03:17.the BMA has gone on strike again. This time, not for one or two days
:03:18. > :03:25.at a time but for five comp leak days in working hours at a stretch.
:03:26. > :03:31.-- complete days. The junior doctors are preparing to give up a lot to
:03:32. > :03:36.signal their seriousness about this contract being imposed. The
:03:37. > :03:41.government are trying to impose a contract that stretches as from five
:03:42. > :03:47.days to seven while we are already struggling with five. We are facing
:03:48. > :03:52.a demographic bomb exploding all around is. There are gaps in
:03:53. > :03:55.hospitals. Units closing in Oxfordshire today because there
:03:56. > :04:04.aren't enough doctors to stop them. This isn't the time to stretch
:04:05. > :04:08.elective services to seven days. A striking aspect of this has been
:04:09. > :04:15.discussion in other trade unions about the striking air BMA. On some
:04:16. > :04:20.issues there was a bitter division. The question on whether BMA members
:04:21. > :04:25.were shrewd to reject the contract. Some from the radical left union
:04:26. > :04:28.said they thought it was a good idea because the government will have to
:04:29. > :04:34.make a much better off if it is to win over members. They thought it
:04:35. > :04:38.would stop chumminess between the BMA and the government. The majority
:04:39. > :04:44.of union officials however thought it was a disaster. They thought it
:04:45. > :04:48.meant that the BMA's leadership were cut off at the knees and that their
:04:49. > :04:58.leadership couldn't speak for their members. The BMA is also in the
:04:59. > :05:05.awkward position of striking to a pose a contract that was agreed by
:05:06. > :05:08.its managers months ago. We have agreed a contract that is fair for
:05:09. > :05:15.junior doctors and its values them as part of the workforce. I don't
:05:16. > :05:21.think the union has changed its mind. The members have decided that
:05:22. > :05:24.they don't accept this contract, 58% of as, that is in contradiction to
:05:25. > :05:29.some members of the executive committee googled it was a good
:05:30. > :05:35.contract stop the majority don't and the union is representing as as it
:05:36. > :05:39.should. The BMA has an unusual structure as a union and it puts a
:05:40. > :05:47.lot of responsibility in the hands of inexperienced union officials.
:05:48. > :05:55.You can see that in context of leaks from the union. Union leaders were
:05:56. > :06:03.shocked at an apparent lack of strategy but union leaders in the
:06:04. > :06:11.BMA will have to be skilful to avoid conflict from members. They are
:06:12. > :06:15.likely to losing, and patients will end up waiting longer so they have
:06:16. > :06:19.the opportunity to fail on both of their targets. They could then lose
:06:20. > :06:23.a lot of money which given that their finances are on a knife edge
:06:24. > :06:30.will see hospitals running into further difficulty as a consequence
:06:31. > :06:35.of the strike. For all that, the Department of Health sounded unfazed
:06:36. > :06:38.at the BMA's new plans. Right now, there is no sign of peace.
:06:39. > :06:41.We asked to speak to the BMA and the government tonight
:06:42. > :06:43.to respond to the criticisms made, but they were unavailable.
:06:44. > :06:46.Joining me now, Junior Doctor Rachel Clark who's been a vocal
:06:47. > :06:55.Thanks for coming in. A lot of people understand that there are
:06:56. > :07:00.junior doctors, medics, who have frankly been pushed
:07:01. > :07:03.to medics, the end of their tether and are being forced to reach
:07:04. > :07:05.for the nuclear option. But fundamentally its quite hard
:07:06. > :07:08.for you to explain to the public this change of heart
:07:09. > :07:18.when you seemed so close to a deal. to some extent I absolutely agree
:07:19. > :07:23.with that. How do we as doctors forsake our patients for five days
:07:24. > :07:27.at a stretch? I know that every day I went on strike in the preceding
:07:28. > :07:32.year I cried on my way to the baguette line, I felt guilty, it was
:07:33. > :07:39.something I absolutely didn't want to do. Ashya macro picket line.
:07:40. > :07:48.Every doctor is going to go through that. This goes against the grain of
:07:49. > :07:52.our work ethic. When questioning the proportionality of age dry, I think
:07:53. > :08:01.you have to do that in the context of assessing the potential harm of
:08:02. > :08:08.the strike. -- assessing a strike. You have to assess that against the
:08:09. > :08:14.harm of the action you are trying to avoid. It's understandable but a
:08:15. > :08:19.slightly different point to the one I have made. It is very hard to turn
:08:20. > :08:25.to the public and say that we were close to that deal but were not
:08:26. > :08:30.going to go with that now because of reasons that we could have made six
:08:31. > :08:37.months earlier. That rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of this
:08:38. > :08:41.dispute. There has been a year of negotiation and you are right, in
:08:42. > :08:45.that interview, one of my BMA representatives thought it was a
:08:46. > :08:51.good deal. I never thought that was a good deal and nor did I great many
:08:52. > :08:58.of my fellow doctors. You were prepared to support it at one point?
:08:59. > :09:04.It is one thing to think it is the best of a bad series of options on
:09:05. > :09:12.the table. That is not the same as supporting it. But you would have
:09:13. > :09:18.voted yes and we have heard that many thought it was safe for
:09:19. > :09:26.doctors, say for the workforce and patients. Why has the mindset
:09:27. > :09:29.changed? For the last year, the BMA has sought to negotiate a new
:09:30. > :09:37.contract that will deliver a seven-day NHS, cost neutrally. This
:09:38. > :09:41.stipulation of the government was that the contract must be cost
:09:42. > :09:45.neutral and delivered these fantastic new services that we
:09:46. > :09:51.support and are committed to at the weekend. In the absence of funds and
:09:52. > :09:55.staff. We know that not only do junior doctors feel deeply anxious
:09:56. > :09:59.about the idea that we can be stretched more thinly and still be
:10:00. > :10:05.safe at the weekend, we know that Jeremy Hunt's own officials shared
:10:06. > :10:09.that queasiness, through leaked internal documents, their own risk
:10:10. > :10:14.assessments, a five out of five severity risk of that there aren't
:10:15. > :10:22.enough staff. Do you think that the BMA screwed this up for all of you?
:10:23. > :10:27.I don't. I wish that BMA had called out the government on the
:10:28. > :10:33.ludicrousness of... They spent eight days at ACAS negotiating with the
:10:34. > :10:37.government and we are now back with an unprecedented strike. Why would
:10:38. > :10:45.the government trust any new negotiation at this point when the
:10:46. > :10:48.last one was renege? This is the democratic process. The BMA may have
:10:49. > :10:55.delivered what they thought was the best deal on the table they are out
:10:56. > :11:02.of step with their members? Indeed. Jeremy Hunt has portrayed the BMA as
:11:03. > :11:10.radicals, militants leading us into a dreadful fight that we were too
:11:11. > :11:16.misguided to recognise? They weren't hardline enough for you? Far from
:11:17. > :11:21.it. What I object to is the political gameplaying, Theresa May
:11:22. > :11:25.is wholly wrong when she says doctors are playing games, it is the
:11:26. > :11:29.political gameplaying of presenting the electorate with an unfunded
:11:30. > :11:34.sound bite and pretending it is a policy. Nobody gets something for
:11:35. > :11:38.nothing and we know that and that is why we have public support. The
:11:39. > :11:43.public knows that if the government were genuinely committed to safer
:11:44. > :11:48.weekends, they would fund and stuff them. In Oxfordshire, my local
:11:49. > :11:52.hospital, a District General Hospital in Banbury has just closed
:11:53. > :11:57.its entire maternity services because they don't have enough
:11:58. > :12:02.junior doctors. Do you think you can win this or will it turn into
:12:03. > :12:07.something akin to the miners strike, as one doctor described it to me
:12:08. > :12:11.tonight? We have to do everything humanly possible to prevent the
:12:12. > :12:15.strike and I think that if Jeremy Hunt had any shred of commitment to
:12:16. > :12:21.patients, literally, all he needs to do is pause in position. He could
:12:22. > :12:26.have a pause. He is not giving up on the seven-day NHS and losing face,
:12:27. > :12:31.simply saying that we must come together with patients and pause
:12:32. > :12:35.this. That is all he needs to do. Then the strike goes away. Why he is
:12:36. > :12:38.not doing that, I simply can't understand. Doctor Clark, thank you
:12:39. > :12:42.for coming in. Russia's Deputy Prime minister
:12:43. > :12:45.has told this programme that Brexit has weakened Europe and created
:12:46. > :12:47.new uncertainties about its future. In a rare interview,
:12:48. > :12:48.Arkady Dvorkovich - who oversees economic
:12:49. > :12:51.policy for the Kremlin - has confounded what many believed
:12:52. > :12:53.to be the view of Russia, telling Newsnight that it was more
:12:54. > :12:56.important for Europe to be strong - and that Britain's referendum
:12:57. > :12:59.decision has hurt Europe. He also refuted the idea
:13:00. > :13:01.that President Putin was rooting for Brexit as a way
:13:02. > :13:04.of undermining European unity. He was speaking to Mark Urban
:13:05. > :13:07.at The European House - Ambrosetti Forum
:13:08. > :13:11.at Villa d'Este in Italy. For Russia it's important
:13:12. > :13:13.that Europe is strong, we don't need weak partners,
:13:14. > :13:18.we need strong partners to go forward and provide
:13:19. > :13:20.for a better future for Russian The British, the decision to leave
:13:21. > :13:28.Europe, may make Europe The whole process of getting away
:13:29. > :13:35.from Europe is a difficult one, increases more uncertainties
:13:36. > :13:40.from point A to point B. Strong politics makes Europe really
:13:41. > :13:45.a big player in the international landscape, and individual countries
:13:46. > :13:48.cannot affect international politics in the same way that Europe,
:13:49. > :13:53.a united Europe can do. There was a narrative
:13:54. > :13:56.during the campaign in Britain that Russia wanted Britain
:13:57. > :13:59.to leave the EU. That Mr Putin wants disunity,
:14:00. > :14:02.that if Britain leaves, the case for sanctions
:14:03. > :14:05.against Russia is weakened. First, we do not have any particular
:14:06. > :14:17.opinion whether UK should stay It's a sovereign affair
:14:18. > :14:24.of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe,
:14:25. > :14:26.and Russia is not a player The second thing, the sanctions
:14:27. > :14:33.are not because of British politics. Mostly it's the influence
:14:34. > :14:38.of the United States, and overall attitude of European
:14:39. > :14:42.governments towards events around Even if it is the wrong attitude,
:14:43. > :14:49.it's a mistake, it's counter-productive and brings big
:14:50. > :14:53.losses to all parties in this game, but we do not believe that any
:14:54. > :14:58.political process in Europe There has been a little bit
:14:59. > :15:11.of discussion around our Foreign Ministry about a reset,
:15:12. > :15:14.or a chance to have a different type Perhaps an intensified
:15:15. > :15:17.trading relationship... Let's see how it goes, we are open,
:15:18. > :15:20.we are ready at any point in time. I'm personally co-chairing
:15:21. > :15:23.the Russian-British energy dialogue. It is frozen for the moment,
:15:24. > :15:28.but our President Putin will see the British Prime Minister
:15:29. > :15:34.at the G20 forum in China, and hopefully they will agree
:15:35. > :15:38.to restore some of the things I've seen estimates that Russia's
:15:39. > :15:46.economy contracted by 3.7% in 2015. There is an impact of sanctions,
:15:47. > :15:54.I think you would agree, but now it would seem
:15:55. > :15:57.that the discussion in mid-September in the EU will be for renewing
:15:58. > :16:01.sanctions on Russia. Does that disappoint you,
:16:02. > :16:03.and for how long, realistically, do you think this is
:16:04. > :16:05.going to be a factor? First of all, the effect
:16:06. > :16:11.of the sanctions... Our estimate, and this is supported
:16:12. > :16:17.by leading international economists, that out of 3.7% contraction,
:16:18. > :16:22.0.5% related to sanctions, and the rest is relating
:16:23. > :16:27.to the oil prices falling So sanctions had an effect,
:16:28. > :16:41.but it was not the overwhelming thing in in the overall
:16:42. > :16:43.economic trend in Russia. Again, sanctions are negative,
:16:44. > :16:45.both for Russia and those countries Continued sanctions will also bring
:16:46. > :16:49.more negative effects to the global economy and to Russia,
:16:50. > :16:53.as part of this global economy, but most of the issues we have
:16:54. > :16:56.are our domestic issues We know which structural reforms
:16:57. > :17:06.we should implement and continue. We know that we need to conduct
:17:07. > :17:10.fiscal consolidation, that we need to promote innovations
:17:11. > :17:13.and diversification of the Russian And looking forward,
:17:14. > :17:20.presidential election in the US. Once again there is a narrative
:17:21. > :17:22.that President Putin I think President Putin
:17:23. > :17:30.was very clear about that. He believes that Donald Trump
:17:31. > :17:34.is a strong man, but that doesn't We will work with any American
:17:35. > :17:38.president, since we believe that the United States is a big
:17:39. > :17:47.and very influential global force, and we need to be in dialogue,
:17:48. > :17:52.we need to be in partnership and hopefully any new
:17:53. > :17:54.American president... Now the polls show that
:17:55. > :18:00.Hillary will win that, but we will work with any American
:18:01. > :18:02.president, to restore Deputy Prime Minister,
:18:03. > :18:05.thank you very much. Georgetown University in Washington
:18:06. > :18:11.has announced plans to apologise for its role in the slave trade
:18:12. > :18:14.by offering preferential treatment to the descendants
:18:15. > :18:17.of certain slaves. In 1838, nearly 300 men women
:18:18. > :18:20.and children were sold by the institution to clear
:18:21. > :18:23.the colleges debts. Now, it wants to redress the past
:18:24. > :18:27.in the form of help with admissions of their descendents -
:18:28. > :18:31.the same kind offered Here's how Georgetown President
:18:32. > :18:41.announced the move. We will offer a mass
:18:42. > :18:42.of reconciliation, in which we will seek
:18:43. > :18:44.forgiveness from participation in the institution of slavery,
:18:45. > :18:47.and specifically for the sale of 272 Other US schools -
:18:48. > :18:53.including Harvard and Virginia - have acknowledged the debt they owe
:18:54. > :18:56.to slavery, but Georgetown is thought to be the first to
:18:57. > :18:59.offer to attempt practical amends. Is this the right way
:19:00. > :19:01.to go about redressing Joining me now are the
:19:02. > :19:14.historian David Olusoga A warm welcome to both of you. Does
:19:15. > :19:19.this work? Does this make you think, David, that something is being done
:19:20. > :19:23.to correct past wrongs? This is the most brave and forward-thinking and
:19:24. > :19:29.American institution has done. It is partly able to do it because the
:19:30. > :19:40.records are so These 202 272 slaves were sold. The sale of these people
:19:41. > :19:44.saved the University. They gave, involuntarily, the money produced
:19:45. > :19:47.from that sale is why Georgetown is still there now. If somebody had
:19:48. > :19:52.written a check in 1984 for the money, I'm sure his children would
:19:53. > :19:59.be automatically welcomed into Georgetown. I don't really see the
:20:00. > :20:02.difference. Harry? I think it is a form of historic virtue, where
:20:03. > :20:06.somebody apologises not only for something they didn't do, but was
:20:07. > :20:10.done decades before they were born. We have seen a lot of this, it
:20:11. > :20:16.started with Tony Blair apologising the potato five famine in Ireland.
:20:17. > :20:20.He has a lot of things to apologise for, Tony Blair, but potato famine
:20:21. > :20:25.in Ireland is not one of them. I don't agree we are guilty for the
:20:26. > :20:29.sins, the very real sins, committed by our ancestors and I don't think
:20:30. > :20:34.we should be compensated for those sins inflicted upon them. It has
:20:35. > :20:37.nothing to do with guilt, you can't inherit guilt, you're absolutely
:20:38. > :20:41.right. You cannot inherit the guilt of your forefathers. There is no one
:20:42. > :20:47.around today who was a slave owner. This is about money, money was
:20:48. > :20:53.inherited, it was reinvested and the University 's rich. It is not about
:20:54. > :21:02.guilt, it's about money. Ferran. The second thing is it's fair to offer
:21:03. > :21:07.scholarships. -- fair enough. What they're saying, they are not
:21:08. > :21:12.offering scholarships but the same thing may offer to somebody whose
:21:13. > :21:15.parents or grandparents or great-grandparents attended that
:21:16. > :21:21.university... David, if you do believe it is about money. I
:21:22. > :21:26.disagree with that as well, the idea that just because you're ancestors
:21:27. > :21:32.are a long night you should have easier access to university. That is
:21:33. > :21:36.part of the American system. David, if you think it is about money and
:21:37. > :21:47.inherited wealth is that the right gesture? If these they have great
:21:48. > :21:55.records, why don't they pay out rather than these admissions?
:21:56. > :21:58.Slavery prevented African-Americans from accumulating generation upon
:21:59. > :22:04.generation, the sort of wealth and property and land that many people
:22:05. > :22:08.in America were able to accumulate. African-Americans struggle in many
:22:09. > :22:13.cases to attend university. One of the ways of re-dressing these things
:22:14. > :22:17.is further higher education those of you have an institution financially
:22:18. > :22:20.saved by the sale of slaves and is perfectly placed to help the
:22:21. > :22:26.descendants of those people. How far would you hold out against that
:22:27. > :22:30.principle? If it came down to the restitution of stolen Nazi artworks,
:22:31. > :22:35.would you say those should be returned? Are you saying it's just
:22:36. > :22:38.an apology? I think it's hard to come up with a precise date you
:22:39. > :22:43.could say as a starting point within living memory. I think it is
:22:44. > :22:48.perfectly acceptable for David Cameron to apologise for Bloody
:22:49. > :22:52.Sunday in 1972, there are people who survived. There is a stage where you
:22:53. > :22:57.go too far back in history where I don't think 1's own difficulties in
:22:58. > :23:03.life can be ascribed back to a particular horror. Of course, it was
:23:04. > :23:07.completely disgusting, inflicted on ancestors. History is full of
:23:08. > :23:10.disgusting behaviour by disgusting people. I don't think it is the
:23:11. > :23:15.descendants of those who have done the Di death disgusting things. If
:23:16. > :23:21.that example of having money that could have gone to you went
:23:22. > :23:25.elsewhere, is that... We're talking about two different things. As I
:23:26. > :23:28.said to begin with, it is completely acceptable to offer money as
:23:29. > :23:34.scholarships to people. Which they are not doing. I wish they would.
:23:35. > :23:36.That is fair enough, but there is a particular point about what
:23:37. > :23:42.Georgetown are doing, offering these lowered standards. They are not
:23:43. > :23:46.lowered standards. People with the same grades, the same
:23:47. > :23:50.qualifications, one of them was a legacy, either grandparents or
:23:51. > :23:54.parents on one of them was an ancestor... Do worry about that
:23:55. > :24:01.perception? It is an unfair advantage. If I was in that
:24:02. > :24:04.position, a descendant of slaves and got into university because of that
:24:05. > :24:08.I would feel cheap and don't patronise. I don't think it is the
:24:09. > :24:12.way to do it. There is that insidious sense that if you are part
:24:13. > :24:16.of that community, who knows they have been given access, what happens
:24:17. > :24:21.if you think everyone is looking at you thinking, they are only here
:24:22. > :24:24.because they are descendants of slaves? Universities in America are
:24:25. > :24:28.full of people because they are descendants of people who gave money
:24:29. > :24:31.to that university. It doesn't make you uncomfortable? That is the
:24:32. > :24:35.American system and they are extending that system to men, women
:24:36. > :24:41.and children, descendants of those sold. This could be a very clever PR
:24:42. > :24:46.coup by an American university, wants to do the right thing? Look at
:24:47. > :24:51.the words you think of redemption, Atonement. It's not surprising. This
:24:52. > :24:55.is a Catholic institution, looking at its past and using these terms of
:24:56. > :24:57.atonement. I think this is genuine and I applaud it. Thank you both
:24:58. > :25:01.very much for coming in. When Donald Trump went
:25:02. > :25:03.to Mexico earlier this week, some thought he might be rowing back
:25:04. > :25:06.on his rhetoric about immigrants, and about building a wall
:25:07. > :25:08.across the border. But no - in a speech just hours
:25:09. > :25:11.later, he made it clear his stance Multi Grammy award winning singer
:25:12. > :25:15.Lila Downs grew up both sides of that border between the US
:25:16. > :25:18.and Mexico - Secunder Kermani has been speaking to her about Trump,
:25:19. > :25:21.about her role as an activist When you listen to Mexican singer
:25:22. > :25:42.Lila Downs, as with so much in the country, you're struck
:25:43. > :25:45.by the constant and even often It's poetic, I believe,
:25:46. > :25:54.but it's also about confronting, So we have that contradiction,
:25:55. > :26:03.and in the arts it expresses itself with melancholy and what we call
:26:04. > :26:08.sentimento, and with joy and celebration
:26:09. > :26:10.and a lot drinking! # Lila Downs -
:26:11. > :26:18.El Palomo del Comalito #. Her music celebrates her
:26:19. > :26:23.indigenous Mixtec heritage. Downs was born to a Mexican mother
:26:24. > :26:27.from the State of Oaxaca and a white She grew up in both
:26:28. > :26:35.America and Mexico. So Donald Trump's bid to be
:26:36. > :26:39.president and his repeated calls for a wall at the border,
:26:40. > :26:42.in spite of a recent trip to Mexico, is something Downs
:26:43. > :26:45.takes very personally. We will build a great wall along
:26:46. > :26:49.the southern border. It hurts because I consider
:26:50. > :27:01.myself a border person, I think about my Anglo father,
:27:02. > :27:15.and I think it would be very sad... I've been working on music that
:27:16. > :27:24.tries to bring these worlds together, and here we have
:27:25. > :27:33.something that is, you know, contrary of what I have been working
:27:34. > :27:36.on all my life. Downs has also been vocal
:27:37. > :27:39.on issues within Mexico, like the disappearance of 43 student
:27:40. > :27:41.teachers two years Corrupt local police in a drugs gang
:27:42. > :27:47.have been blamed, but relatives think the role of senior officials
:27:48. > :27:52.is being covered up. You think about people who haven't
:27:53. > :27:58.had a chance to defend themselves, and it is the scariest
:27:59. > :28:04.form of terrorism, And in this case, of course,
:28:05. > :28:11.they were kids, they were students, and this was something that,
:28:12. > :28:18.for me personally, I had How free do you feel as an artist,
:28:19. > :28:46.as an individual, as I have seen female journalists
:28:47. > :28:56.in Mexico disappeared and threatened, as well,
:28:57. > :29:04.because of looking for the truth about disappeared people
:29:05. > :29:08.and this is, it's appalling, the way that you can be
:29:09. > :29:13.treated in our country. I actually wrote a song dedicated
:29:14. > :29:15.to journalists who are We put smoke on the alter
:29:16. > :29:25.on the Day of the Dead, and our belief is it's the way
:29:26. > :29:32.that the dead can find their way That's it for tonight,
:29:33. > :30:08.in the week that JK Rowling went to war with the Corbynistas
:30:09. > :30:11.on Twitter over who should Getting into a scrap with one
:30:12. > :30:17.of the country's most influential authors probably
:30:18. > :30:19.wasn't a good idea though, as we discovered when Warner
:30:20. > :31:09.Brothers gave us a sneak peak Good evening, if your weekend starts
:31:10. > :31:13.drying bright, make the most of it, because it is not last. All of this
:31:14. > :31:14.rain out West will