:00:07. > :00:09.Rupert Murdoch strikes to get his empire back as the media
:00:10. > :00:13.mogul's 21st Century Fox bids for Sky.
:00:14. > :00:15.This was the deal that crashed and burned five years
:00:16. > :00:20.What will the regulator say now, and would this deal be good
:00:21. > :00:31.This is perhaps Rupert Murdoch's last chance to reunify the firm he
:00:32. > :00:34.founded and cement his legacy as the most powerful man
:00:35. > :00:37.We'll talk to the man who, as Business Secretary,
:00:38. > :00:47.The Russian Olympic team corrupted the London games
:00:48. > :00:54.More than 1000 Russian athletes across more than 30 sports
:00:55. > :00:57.have been implicated in an explosive report into doping today.
:00:58. > :00:59.We interview Yulia Stepanova, the whistleblower whose revelations
:01:00. > :01:06.led to the Russian athletics team being banned from Rio.
:01:07. > :01:15.She tells Newsnight she is now hiding in fear for her life.
:01:16. > :01:17.We'll be asking the President of the World Anti Doping Agency
:01:18. > :01:31.And are other countries just as bad?
:01:32. > :01:39.It looks like Rupert Murdoch might be about to get his empire back -
:01:40. > :01:45.The owner of 21st Century Fox was thwarted in his efforts to get
:01:46. > :01:48.Sky back when his now defunct newspaper News of the World became
:01:49. > :01:50.embroiled in the Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal.
:01:51. > :01:57.But he's been putting pieces of the jigsaw in place.
:01:58. > :01:59.Murdoch's son, James, returned as chairman of Sky
:02:00. > :02:02.in January this year, and he is also the chief executive
:02:03. > :02:06.An ally of Rupert Murdoch's told me tonight that he always had
:02:07. > :02:09.an emotional attachment to Sky and was pulling out
:02:10. > :02:14.all the stops to get it back - he already owns a 39.1% stake -
:02:15. > :02:19.But, despite the fact Sky's deputy chairman Martin Gilbert has
:02:20. > :02:22.told me the price was good and one he feels should be put
:02:23. > :02:24.to the shareholders, will the regulators be so sanguine
:02:25. > :02:27.about Ruport Murdoch's - perhaps - last big play?
:02:28. > :02:32.Rupert Murdoch has done some surprising things in his life
:02:33. > :02:35.like aged 84 getting married to model Jerry Hall
:02:36. > :02:40.One thing that surprised no one, though, is his renewed
:02:41. > :02:47.For Rupert Murdoch this is unfinished business.
:02:48. > :02:59.I mean, the modus operandi, you know, all of Murdoch's
:03:00. > :03:00.companies, NewsCorp, 21st Century Fox, you name it,
:03:01. > :03:02.has always been own and control or dispose.
:03:03. > :03:05.Don't get caught half owning something, or owning something
:03:06. > :03:06.significantly other people have control of.
:03:07. > :03:08.February fifth, 1989, the door of television's new age.
:03:09. > :03:15.Rupert Murdoch lost control of Sky in 1990 when lack of cash
:03:16. > :03:18.forced him into a merger with British Satellite Broadcasting.
:03:19. > :03:23.With BSkyB's share price down 30% on the year,
:03:24. > :03:26.and the pound at 30 year lows against the US dollar
:03:27. > :03:28.following the Brexit vote, Rupert Murdoch knows that the deal
:03:29. > :03:34.that he's never given up on might never be cheaper.
:03:35. > :03:37.Added to that, his calculation is the political climate that
:03:38. > :03:42.sunk his last attempt has now changed decisively in his favour.
:03:43. > :03:47.Mr Murdoch withdrew his last bid in 2011 when it crashed into a wave
:03:48. > :03:49.of public revulsion over the phone hacking scandal,
:03:50. > :03:51.and particularly the interception of voice mail messages
:03:52. > :03:55.There were also concerns about diversity of media ownership,
:03:56. > :04:04.Even if there is concern, I would assess those
:04:05. > :04:08.as being slightly less of an issue now than they were.
:04:09. > :04:10.But even when you go through the entire process,
:04:11. > :04:12.first of all remember you have the BBC sitting
:04:13. > :04:15.in the corner as the biggest game in town by far.
:04:16. > :04:18.Secondly, you know, for a deal this size,
:04:19. > :04:21.it isn't really very much skin off 21st Century Fox's nose to come up
:04:22. > :04:24.with some way of guaranteeing Sky News's independence
:04:25. > :04:29.if that is what they end up having to do.
:04:30. > :04:32.The media landscape is very different from 2011 with streaming
:04:33. > :04:34.services like Netflix and Amazon on the rise, nevertheless
:04:35. > :04:39.Sky is still a huge player and a huge price.
:04:40. > :04:42.Our North America Business correspondent, Michelle Fleury,
:04:43. > :05:05.-- burst, will second time round the The Jambos to mark
:05:06. > :05:14.if you look at what is happening to TV and film, the film industry has
:05:15. > :05:20.changed massively. We see a wave of consolidation going on. The example,
:05:21. > :05:29.after buying direct TV, AT is trying to buy Time Warner. If you
:05:30. > :05:33.take Fox, with its huge European footprint, Fox would gain access to
:05:34. > :05:37.a huge number of consumers. That would help it compete against the
:05:38. > :05:43.likes of Netflix and Amazon. More and more of us are not watching TV
:05:44. > :05:49.lies necessarily, but are streaming, this is the way to respond to that.
:05:50. > :05:55.-- live. The other thing is price. Sky's share price is down 27% since
:05:56. > :05:59.the start of the year. That means if you are looking at doing this deal,
:06:00. > :06:04.well, it is getting cheaper than it has in the past. The other thing is
:06:05. > :06:09.the fall in the pound. That is after Brexit. That is playing in Rupert
:06:10. > :06:19.Murdoch's favour. 21st Century Fox makes its money in US dollars.
:06:20. > :06:22.Vince Cable was Business Secretary at the time of the last
:06:23. > :06:40.Lebas and Mark two has gone. Rebekah Brooks is back. -- the Leveson
:06:41. > :06:45.Inquiry Mark two. This takeover is exactly the issue I faced six years
:06:46. > :06:48.ago, which is the extent to which there is genuine plurality, choice
:06:49. > :06:52.in the media. It is a highly concentrated business. There is an
:06:53. > :06:58.issue of plurality now as there was then. At the time I referred the
:06:59. > :07:02.matter to the competition authority. They concluded there was a problem.
:07:03. > :07:07.They sought remedies and the thing fell through. I think the same
:07:08. > :07:09.issues present themselves as now. Rupert Murdoch withdrew the bid
:07:10. > :07:15.because of the controversy over the phone hacking scandal. Would a big,
:07:16. > :07:22.powerful commercial media group in the UK be such a bad thing?
:07:23. > :07:25.Potentially it could be a bad thing. In respect of news specifically.
:07:26. > :07:32.Because this is where plurality matters. In order to get its
:07:33. > :07:37.broadcasting licence Sky News would have to remain impartial. It is not
:07:38. > :07:43.as if it is going to be influenced by Fox. Indeed, but that is not a
:07:44. > :07:45.matter for me, you, or independent commentators, it is a matter for the
:07:46. > :07:52.independent commission authorities and the regulator, Ofcom, to decide
:07:53. > :07:53.whether the rules can be reversed, and whether there would be genuine
:07:54. > :07:57.independence. Thanks very much. David Elstein is a former Head
:07:58. > :08:08.of Programming at Sky and Chief Executive
:08:09. > :08:17.of Portobello News. With this be a bad thing in terms of
:08:18. > :08:25.plurality? I don't know why it would be an issue with plurality at all.
:08:26. > :08:32.Sky would be owned by 20 -- would be owned by 21st Century Fox. To be
:08:33. > :08:38.perfectly honest, there wasn't a media plurality issued last time.
:08:39. > :08:44.That was completely bogus. I hope that... Well, that shouldn't be a
:08:45. > :08:52.public interest intervention in this case. There is no basis for one, of
:08:53. > :08:56.course. I hope Sky manage to avoid putting any rings around Sky News,
:08:57. > :09:03.which might inhibit its long-term financial future. Rather than rings,
:09:04. > :09:08.you heard Vince Cable say that there was a concern about impartiality of
:09:09. > :09:11.news. But actually, last time round, Rupert Murdoch was going to set up,
:09:12. > :09:16.as it were, a separate, not exactly a trust, but a separate organisation
:09:17. > :09:21.to deal with Sky News. Is it possible he might do this this time
:09:22. > :09:26.round? There is no need to do it this time around because there is no
:09:27. > :09:31.issue. Sky News has been an exemplary observer of the
:09:32. > :09:36.impartiality rules. It is governed by the impartiality rules. Let me
:09:37. > :09:39.put that stricter Vince Cable. There you are, there hasn't been any
:09:40. > :09:46.breach of impartiality. -- straight to. It has been a good independent
:09:47. > :09:49.organisation. Because they are separate companies there is not an
:09:50. > :09:54.issue. But there is the same controlling influence. Whatever he
:09:55. > :09:58.says... The simple truth of the matter is when we referred it to an
:09:59. > :10:04.independent commission authorities last time they judged that there was
:10:05. > :10:06.a threat to media plurality. This was their independent judgment.
:10:07. > :10:16.Regardless of what people in the industry say about it. But there is
:10:17. > :10:20.no reason to suspect, or may be the media landscape has changed so much.
:10:21. > :10:25.The Ofcom analysis was hopelessly wrong. It was the most embarrassing
:10:26. > :10:31.document Ofcom has ever produced. There was no plurality issued. There
:10:32. > :10:34.should never have been a prolonged negotiation like there was. There
:10:35. > :10:41.should never have been a need for the undertakings that News Corp at
:10:42. > :10:47.that time offered. But at that time, it was one company, now it is two.
:10:48. > :10:51.So it just does not arise. What about the fit and proper persons
:10:52. > :11:00.test? During the time of the phone hacking Ofcom questioned James
:11:01. > :11:05.Murdoch's and actions. They said his actions fell short of how a chairman
:11:06. > :11:13.should have acted. They took the test. They passed Sky as an
:11:14. > :11:21.operation. They did the test, Sky past, and on we go. Phone hacking
:11:22. > :11:25.was a terrible disaster. A disaster for its victims. A disaster for the
:11:26. > :11:30.company. A disaster for the reputation of the press in the UK.
:11:31. > :11:35.As far as we know it has gone. As far as we know there is no evidence
:11:36. > :11:41.that James Murdoch knew about it, improved it, authorised it, or any
:11:42. > :11:47.of that. Now that all of the lawsuits are out of the way, now
:11:48. > :11:52.that the prosecutions have gone, the issue, as far as I can see, it
:11:53. > :11:56.doesn't arise in this context. In a sense, Vince Cable, they have been
:11:57. > :12:00.cleared. There have been issues of deleted e-mails recently brought up
:12:01. > :12:07.in the courts, but by and large there is no stain. I think the
:12:08. > :12:12.public would be more reassured if are the first Leveson Inquiry have
:12:13. > :12:16.led to something. But it hasn't. Why should Rupert Murdoch suffer for
:12:17. > :12:22.that? Part of it has never been investigated. The oversight of the
:12:23. > :12:28.media is as bad, or as it was back in 2010. This is a separate issue
:12:29. > :12:33.from plurality. But the plurality issue remains. And I think he don't
:12:34. > :12:42.accept David Dale Steyn's wishing away of the Ofcom report as
:12:43. > :12:47.incompetent. -- David Yates Elstein. -- David Elstein. I'm interested to
:12:48. > :12:55.see where you think the problem arises with Fox getting a hold on
:12:56. > :12:59.the European... They have the same controlling force behind them. They
:13:00. > :13:05.are legally separate companies but with the same controlling influence.
:13:06. > :13:18.The same overarching control, that's the problem, David. Absolutely. The
:13:19. > :13:29.Murdochs have always run Sky. They have always operated their interest
:13:30. > :13:32.separately. Let me reemphasise. The Ofcom report may have been
:13:33. > :13:43.independent, but it was deeply, deeply flawed. Ofcom has never
:13:44. > :13:47.attempted to respond to my critique. I am sure they hope that document
:13:48. > :13:53.never sees the light of day again. It wasn't Ofcom's finest hour. It
:13:54. > :13:57.was not Vince's finest hour. He had to leave his job as secretary of
:13:58. > :14:00.state after he admitted that he launched the public interest
:14:01. > :14:10.investigation as part of his war on the Murdochs. It is personal, is it?
:14:11. > :14:12.I think I've been vindicated. I referred it to the competition
:14:13. > :14:18.authorities. They are independent. Nothing to do with me. Not
:14:19. > :14:20.political. And they judged, as I did, that there was an effect of
:14:21. > :14:23.plurality and that remains. Thank you very much indeed.
:14:24. > :14:25."A dangerous slide towards political interference in sport."
:14:26. > :14:27.Vladimir Putin's response to the McLaren report
:14:28. > :14:28.which confirmed widespread state-sponsered cheating
:14:29. > :14:30.among the country's top athletes across four years,
:14:31. > :14:33.is surely evidence that we live in a looking glass world.
:14:34. > :14:35.McLaren, the Canadian law professor who ran the investigation
:14:36. > :14:37.for the World Anti-doping Agency found that Russian athletes
:14:38. > :14:41.corrupted the 2012 Olympics on an unprecedented scale and says
:14:42. > :14:46.that we will probably never know the true scale of the scandal.
:14:47. > :14:50.Now the IOC is to retest all Russian samples from 2012.
:14:51. > :14:53.Yulia Stepanova the Russian athlete, who first blew the whistle
:14:54. > :14:56.on Russia's widespread doping, which led to the row over
:14:57. > :15:01.Rio, is now in hiding, somewhere in America,
:15:02. > :15:05.She has told the BBC she believes she will be killed
:15:06. > :15:27.Yulia Stepanova, Russian champion, world-class athlete
:15:28. > :15:34.Branded a traitor in her motherland, she and her husband helped
:15:35. > :15:42.expose cheating in Russia on a colossal scale.
:15:43. > :15:44.The revelations from this most controversial couple led
:15:45. > :15:46.to a humiliating ban on Russia's entire track and field team
:15:47. > :15:54.Outraged, President Vladimir Putin immediately responded,
:15:55. > :16:15.saying his sports men and women were victims of double standards.
:16:16. > :16:17.After revealing the dirty secrets behind Russian athletics,
:16:18. > :16:19.the Stepanovs, with their young son, Robert, have spent the past
:16:20. > :16:26.They are currently in the United States.
:16:27. > :17:09.They are unlikely to return home any time soon.
:17:10. > :17:12.Yulia Rusanova, her maiden name, was brought up on the edge
:17:13. > :17:17.of an industrial estate in Kursk, south-west Russia.
:17:18. > :17:19.With an alcoholic and violent father, she had
:17:20. > :17:27.By 20, she began to excel as a middle-distance runner,
:17:28. > :17:32.Her performance improved when her coach gave her
:17:33. > :17:37.The band drug helped her cut a remarkable three seconds
:17:38. > :18:02.Once she was on the national team, she was sent to a top sports
:18:03. > :18:36.scientist and expert in performance enhancing drugs.
:18:37. > :18:38.But at one race meeting, she came across a person
:18:39. > :18:42.in the system who wasn't prepared to turn a blind eye.
:18:43. > :18:44.Vitaly Stepanov was an idealistic young officer at Rusada,
:18:45. > :18:52.A dirty athlete and a crusader for clean sport.
:18:53. > :18:54.It was an unlikely combination, but two months later
:18:55. > :19:00.Somehow, they stuck together, despite frequent rows
:19:01. > :19:08.There is Rusanova, second in the Russian championships.
:19:09. > :19:11.As I said, she had a fright before she did indeed
:19:12. > :19:14.Yulia went from strength to strength, running
:19:15. > :19:17.the World Championships in South Korea.
:19:18. > :19:20.But some clean athletes were puzzled by her success.
:19:21. > :19:22.She's young, she looks very talented, has good
:19:23. > :19:28.I led the whole way in the semifinal and just at the very end I got
:19:29. > :19:31.overtook by two girls, one being Yulia.
:19:32. > :19:34.Of course, I was extremely shocked to see her in front of me.
:19:35. > :19:40.After the event, she looked very guilty, is the only
:19:41. > :19:47.word I could think of, and I thought that straightaway.
:19:48. > :19:50.Eventually, Yulia got a two-year suspension
:19:51. > :20:31.after irregularities were detected in her biological passport.
:20:32. > :20:38.I had been writing to Wada since 2010, and it was a little
:20:39. > :20:41.discouraging to see that they kind of preferred to somewhat stay away
:20:42. > :20:48.Yulia's ten-page confession to the World Anti-Doping
:20:49. > :21:00.So she began secretly taping her coaches,
:21:01. > :21:04.officials and fellow athletes on her mobile phone.
:21:05. > :21:06.In this recording, her doctor boasts about how his drugs have
:21:07. > :21:15.After the recordings aired on German TV, the Stepanovs left Russia.
:21:16. > :21:20.Now living in the US, they have received little support.
:21:21. > :21:22.The classic sport structure and system doesn't necessarily want
:21:23. > :21:25.whistle-blowers coming forward because it brings bad
:21:26. > :21:33.And that's contrary to the brand, and it ultimately hurts the brand.
:21:34. > :21:40.And so I'm not sure that that's exactly what sport really wanted.
:21:41. > :21:43.Yulia's whistle-blowing got a cold reception in Russia.
:21:44. > :21:49.The press attacked her as a rat and a traitor.
:21:50. > :21:54.Online, some even called for her execution.
:21:55. > :21:58.Russian history is full of stories of betrayal.
:21:59. > :22:00.There is a famous one about a schoolboy who informed
:22:01. > :22:05.on his own father to Stalin's police.
:22:06. > :22:10.Some are calling Yulia a modern day version,
:22:11. > :22:15.for selling out her fellow athletes and her country.
:22:16. > :22:18.She's not a hero because there's nothing brave in it.
:22:19. > :22:23.The main motive for her, as for any other athlete
:22:24. > :22:30.who is and was doping, is a financial motive.
:22:31. > :22:32.In this very laboratory, hundreds of positive samples
:22:33. > :22:37.The Moscow lab lost its accreditation in April and has been
:22:38. > :22:44.After a round of sackings at the Russian anti-doping agency,
:22:45. > :22:52.Those who worked for Rusada in previous years, we don't
:22:53. > :22:57.have these old people in our company any more.
:22:58. > :22:59.Wouldn't sorry be a good thing to say?
:23:00. > :23:03.Actually, I think we should be sorry that everything happened
:23:04. > :23:08.and that there were hints that people could say that
:23:09. > :23:19.Yulia hopes to compete at the World Championships
:23:20. > :23:23.in London next summer, perhaps under a neutral flag.
:23:24. > :23:26.But given the further allegation in Richard McLaren's report,
:23:27. > :23:34.will her fellow Russian athletes be there, too?
:23:35. > :23:52.And if not, does she feel responsible?
:23:53. > :23:55.Some call Yulia Stepanova the greatest whistle-blower
:23:56. > :24:01.Whatever the case, the fallout from her revelations will be felt
:24:02. > :24:08.in Russia and worldwide for some time to come.
:24:09. > :24:12.Lucy Ash reporting, as part of the BBC'S 100 Women series.
:24:13. > :24:15.You can see a full length documentary on Yulia Stepanova
:24:16. > :24:26.and her revelations on 24th and 25th December on BBC World.
:24:27. > :24:35.We're now joined from Glasgow by the President of Wada,
:24:36. > :24:39.Good evening. Her story is shocking and you need whistle-blowers like
:24:40. > :24:43.that but there is a woman who thinks if she goes back to Russia she will
:24:44. > :24:48.be killed. You heard the contributor from America saying, we do not want
:24:49. > :24:55.whistle-blowers in one way in sport, so how will you help people like
:24:56. > :24:59.her? Well, I know of this couple, I have had video conferences with her
:25:00. > :25:05.husband. He has helped with the establishment of what will become
:25:06. > :25:09.the Wada whistle-blowing policy. And she has been as warmly welcomed by
:25:10. > :25:13.the athletic community as anybody could be. The reception of what she
:25:14. > :25:19.did in Russia, I agree has been pretty terrible. As far as moving
:25:20. > :25:23.forward with whistle-blowers, on the 1st of January next year we put in
:25:24. > :25:28.place a brand-new whistle-blowing policy. People will be able to get
:25:29. > :25:30.at us from our website, and it will be run by our head of
:25:31. > :25:35.investigations, who was the professional investigator on the
:25:36. > :25:39.first of the commissions of enquiry, the one which actually found about
:25:40. > :25:42.all the trouble in Russian athletics, the one that Yulia
:25:43. > :25:49.Stepanova, I suppose, was responsible for. On that question,
:25:50. > :25:53.according to achieve sports reporter at the Sunday Times, when she made
:25:54. > :25:56.those allegations in that German documentary, your organisation
:25:57. > :26:03.ignored her and hoped she would go away and her allegations would not
:26:04. > :26:07.get traction. Well, I took on this job in 2014 so I have had to go back
:26:08. > :26:10.and look at records. I don't think that was the case. It takes quite a
:26:11. > :26:15.long time to deliver the evidence that anybody needs before you start
:26:16. > :26:20.an investigation. She has said herself that it was not until 2013
:26:21. > :26:25.that she began to collect the evidence that anybody would have
:26:26. > :26:29.required. The other problem we had is that as an organisation we did
:26:30. > :26:32.not have the legal powers to establish that type of investigation
:26:33. > :26:38.until the 1st of January 2000 and 15. But that was the date when our
:26:39. > :26:45.first commission went into work, based very much on her work. So much
:26:46. > :26:52.doping, from London 2012, right through to Sochi. But in the London
:26:53. > :26:56.2012 Olympics, Russia got 24 gold, 32 silver, 32 bronze. They were
:26:57. > :27:02.doping on an industrial scale and were not once detected, even though
:27:03. > :27:05.you had observers there. If you look at the McLaren report, you will see
:27:06. > :27:11.a very detailed description of the system put in place to ensure that
:27:12. > :27:14.exactly that happened. It was doping on an industrial scale and it was
:27:15. > :27:21.coordinated through the Moscow laboratory and the Deputy Minister
:27:22. > :27:24.for sport. We knew, when the IOC began to retest the London samples
:27:25. > :27:28.and were beginning to find evidence of doping, because the technology
:27:29. > :27:32.was better, that there would be bad news to come. I don't think in any
:27:33. > :27:39.way we believed it would be as bad as it has turned out to be. Well, in
:27:40. > :27:44.Rio there were actually doping incidences from something like 52
:27:45. > :27:51.countries. So we know Russia is not the only culprit. Two questions.
:27:52. > :27:55.First, how will you get Russia back into the world scene when it is in
:27:56. > :28:01.such a state? Secondly, what about the other countries? As far as
:28:02. > :28:06.bringing Russia back into the world scene, that is now, I have to say,
:28:07. > :28:09.something of a priority. It is going to be very difficult for sport to
:28:10. > :28:13.have the biggest country in the world noncompliant on a prolonged
:28:14. > :28:17.basis. It involves a number of things that have to happen in
:28:18. > :28:20.Russia. The first would be to accept the validity of the reports that
:28:21. > :28:27.have been produced by Professor McLaren. Secondly, they have to
:28:28. > :28:30.understand that a proper, well-organised anti-doping
:28:31. > :28:35.organisation has to be independent, as independent as it can be in any
:28:36. > :28:39.country. That involves independent people, not just Russian
:28:40. > :28:42.sportspeople. Vladimir Putin said today this was political
:28:43. > :28:46.interference in sport on a grand scale. He does not sound ready to
:28:47. > :28:55.take recommendations. Well, he has taken a number of the last few
:28:56. > :28:59.months. I understand that the President has said, we have a
:29:00. > :29:03.problem and we need to fix it. I am encouraged by that. This will not be
:29:04. > :29:07.an easy process because in someways we are trying to change the culture.
:29:08. > :29:11.That is just the technical bit. The problem thereafter is to do it in
:29:12. > :29:16.such a way that the rest of the world believes it and knows they are
:29:17. > :29:18.behaving appropriately. Next year we have the World Athletics
:29:19. > :29:24.Championships in London. Can you say they will be clean? Nobody would say
:29:25. > :29:29.that anything would be guaranteed to be clean, on the evidence of the
:29:30. > :29:33.amount of doping that goes on. The IAAF are working closely with us,
:29:34. > :29:37.but it will be very difficult for us to deal with the Russian anti-doping
:29:38. > :29:40.agency in one way and for track and field athletics to do it in a
:29:41. > :29:45.different way, so there is a common interest. But every effort will be
:29:46. > :29:49.made. I think it is a fair point to say that since modern and better
:29:50. > :29:54.technology has produced a lot of really terrible evidence now,
:29:55. > :29:57.anybody who believes that will not improve by London 2017 is probably
:29:58. > :30:01.not thinking straight. Thank you. Just before we go, we wanted to wish
:30:02. > :30:04.many happy returns to the man who was born Issur Danielovitch
:30:05. > :30:07.on this day in 1916. He's the last leading man standing
:30:08. > :30:09.from Hollywood's Golden Age, patriarch of an acting dynasty
:30:10. > :30:12.and star of films like Paths of Glory, Out of the Past,
:30:13. > :30:14.the Vikings, and, of course, despite many claims
:30:15. > :30:17.to the contrary, he was Spartacus. So - Kirk Douglas -
:30:18. > :30:39.happy hundredth birthday. # I've got a wail of a tale to tell
:30:40. > :30:44.you, lads # A wail of a tale, and it's all
:30:45. > :30:50.true, I swear # There was mermaid mini
:30:51. > :30:57.# I met her in Madagascar. # I hate surprises, myself.
:30:58. > :31:06.# Blow me down and picked me up, she swapped me for a trout. I'm
:31:07. > :31:17.Spartacus. I'm Spartacus. I'm Spartacus. I'm Spartacus. Good
:31:18. > :31:19.evening. The weekend will start with a north- south divide