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A frantic round of European diplomacy for David Cameron - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
there are still objections to his EU proposal. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Just two days to go before the crucial summit and he's told | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
But back home, a speech by Prince William is welcomed | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
by those who want to keep Britain in the EU. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
In an increasingly turbulent world, our ability to unite in common | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
action with other nations is essential. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Kensington Palace say the Prince was not referring | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
A new cancer treatment that's showing unprecedented results | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
in trials - scientists retrain the body's immune system. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
A man goes on trial accused of planning a terror attack | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
on American military bases in East Anglia. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Russia is accused of war crimes in Syria but Moscow | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
denies its bombing raids hit hospitals. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And I'll be explaining how scientific understanding of mental | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
illness is being advanced by these - miniature human brains being grown | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30pm... | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian will stay | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
in operation until 2030 - seven years longer than planned. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
And, the search for two experienced climbers missing on Ben Nevis. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:27. | :01:47. | |
As David Cameron completes a day of frantic diplomacy in Brussels | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
aimed at winning support for his EU reform proposals, | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
here at home Prince William finds himself drawn into the debate. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
A speech given by the Prince at the Foreign Office has been | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
interpreted by campaigners as a signal that he supports | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
their call to keep Britain in the EU. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Kensington Palace deny he was doing any such thing. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuensberg looks at how the Prime Minister has | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
been doing and those comments by the Prince. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
The Foreign Office is as grand as a palace so Prince William might have | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
felt at home. Kensington Palace denied it but just as the government | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
prepared it fight to stay in the EU was the Duke taking sides? In an | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
increasingly turbulent world, our ability to unite in common action | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
with other nations is essential. Right now the big questions with | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
which you wrestle, in the UN, Nato, the Middle East and elsewhere, are | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
predicated on your commitment to working in partnership with others. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Whatever William meant, for the Prime Minister, technical problems | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
might put it mildly. He will most likely get other leaders to agree to | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
a new relationship but after that and after you have voted in a | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
referendum, the European Parliament gets it safe. Its leader may claim | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
that MEPs may block the changes. No government can go to a parliament | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
and say, this is our proposal, can you give a guarantee? It is not | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
possible in a democracy. If it feels like the Prime Minister is making a | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
last-minute dash it is because he is, still trying to secure support | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
to cut child benefit to EU migrants, to delay paying tax quick to -- tax | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
credit as well. But for all the nerves, at home the expectation is | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the deal will be done. For weeks there has not been talk of much else | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
here. The backwards and forwards between Westminster and Brussels as | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
dominated but the government has been doing but before long this | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
decision comes to all of us and it is coming soon. We hope for better | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
worlds, a better country for ourselves for on winter nights, | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
campaigners are starting to gather. For some, leaving the EU is about | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
controlling who lives here. If they had to take up arms at my age at 72 | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
to protect my country I would do it. And this choice is a serious at that | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
for you? It is, we do not want to import crown annuls -- criminals. We | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
want people with skills, we need them, no doubt about it, but we | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
don't need the wrong people. I will take time off work and I will be | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
campaigning night and day because this is a unique opportunity. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Different crowd for staying in is also starting them battle. What | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
makes you care enough to come here after work in the winter? It is hard | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
to be passionate about being pro-European but I think it is | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
something we could easily sleepwalk out of the EU. It is part of my | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
identity. I feel European. People like us need to make sure we engage | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
in the debate otherwise it will be pro-business Tories fighting little | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
England or right-wingers from Ukip. As the campaigns gear up, the deal | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
will never be enough for some. If we vote to remain and then the European | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Parliament scuppered it, the British people have been sold a false | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
proposition. But don't doubt how big that proposition is. If the deal is | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
done this week, you will vote within months Thursday or to leave for | :05:51. | :05:51. | |
good. Our Europe Editor Katya | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Adler is in Brussels. How seriously should we be taking | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
these various comments from people in Europe? If you look at the day | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
when the president of the rubbing council published David Cameron Butt | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
draft reform proposals a couple of weeks ago, the tweeted at the time, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
whatever will be will be and at the moment here in Brussels there is a | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
rare sense of high drama and that burning question that can David | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Cameron get his reforms passed when the countries of Central and eastern | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Europe are wrangling over the details of cutting Mike Windt | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
benefits and France is growling at proposed UK safeguard against | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Eurozone legislation? -- Mike Windt benefits. Every country has to site | :06:46. | :06:59. | |
up to this deal to -- migrant. Everybody can walk away with a | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
semblance of something and the French might crow they will stop | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Britain getting a feature on Eurozone legislation even though | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
David Cameron never asked for it. If the Prime Minister gets a nod for | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
his reforms it will allow him to call for the referendum as early as | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
June. He knows that whatever the details of the deal, his critics at | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
home will dismiss it so his strategy is that if he can show that he has | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
addressed the key issue of migration, we can win over the | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
voters he needs. Thank you. Scientists in America believe | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
they may have found a potentially They've managed to retrain cells | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
in the body's own immune system In a trial, more than 90% | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
of terminally-ill patients with blood cancers went | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
into complete remission. This is the body's natural | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
defence mechanism at work, an immune cell attacking | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
and neutralising a cancer cell, but when that doesn't function | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
properly, intervention's needed. This new study shows that specially | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
engineered immune cells, injected back into the patient, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
can suppress a type of blood cancer. The study was published | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
in the United States and British researchers, working in this field, | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
say it offers exciting potential We know the immune system | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
is incredibly powerful. We know we can harnesses cells | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
from the immune system, engineer them and give them | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
back to patients. These effects are not just for a few | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
weeks or a couple of months, they long-lasting effects over many | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
months and potentially over years. So we think the enormous power | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
of the immune system, in these kind of settings, | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
is there to be harnessed actually. A blood sample was taken | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
from the patient and immune cells Each one was modified | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
and transformed into a targeted immune cell to seek out | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
and destroy cancer cells. The cells were then grown | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
in a laboratory and stored. Later, they were returned | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
to the patient's bloodstream, where they were ready to detect | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
and then attack the cancer cells. The patients helped by the therapy | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
had all undergone other forms of treatment which had failed, | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
including chemotherapy But cancer experts say more | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
extensive trials and research So to have these kind of results, | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
which were really being used Now, we've got to figure out | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
how to make them last, how to make them more effective | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
and how to make this treatment There's some caution | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
about the latest study, as the full set of data has not yet | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
been published, but there's agreement this is an important step | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
forward in an exciting Scientists say the next challenge | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
is to get the technology genetically engineering cells to work on tumours | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
as well as blood cancer. The Metropolitan Police | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, has apologised in person | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
to the widow of Lord Brittan. It follows criticism of the force's | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
handling of the investigation into the late Conservative peer over | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
an historic rape allegation. Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
Tom Symonds joins me. What was in this apology and do we | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
know how it was received? It came in a meeting at a London hotel and the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
family have described it as a full apology, would I understand to the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
effect of, for everything you have been through. But the commission at | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
himself has been describing the meeting at a phone in with BBC Radio | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
1 London and he described it as a precise apology. This is what he | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
said. I confirm the apology we made some | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
months ago now which was an apology for not telling her at an earlier | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
stage about the fact that Lord Brittan, who by that stage | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
unfortunately had died, was not to be prosecuted | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
in the future and there was no chance | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
of a successful prosecution. Just to explain, this is quite | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
complicated, Lord Brittan was accused of raping a woman in 1967, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
evidence in 2013 to continue the investigation. The police decided to | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
push on and interviewed Lord Brittan and asked several times, up to ten | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
times, if the prosecutors would reconsider or review the case. What | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the Commissioner is apologising for is not for not telling Lord Brittan | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
before his death that he would effectively have been cleared but | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
not telling his family earlier after his death and there is a subtle | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
difference, as he put it, that is the precise apology he gave. We are | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
told it was well received by Lady Brittan but the family stress they | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
are less interested in apologies and more in answers and they have asked | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
30 questions of the Met in writing and they are expecting responses. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Human error is being blamed for a train crash in southern | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Germany last Thursday which killed 11 people. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Two commuter trains collided into each other, leaving a further | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into the actions | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
of a train signaller, who's under suspicion of negligent | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
Inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index, | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
has reached its highest level for a year. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
It rose marginally from 0.2 to 0.3% last month. | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
The increase is partly due to fuel and food prices no longer falling | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Four of Britain's nuclear power plants are to stay open | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
The French energy firm EDF says sites in Torness, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Lancashire, and Hartlepool will have their lives extended | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
EDF has yet to finalise investment plans for a new plant | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Russia has rejected claims by Turkey and France that it's committed war | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
Up to 50 people were killed in missile attacks on at least four | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
hospitals and a school in the north of the country yesterday. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
The UN's Syria envoy, visiting the Syrian capital Damascus | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
today, called for "unhindered" delivery of humanitarian aid | :13:20. | :13:20. | |
Here's our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
What looks like a Russian make fighter jet in the skies over | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
northern Syria. And then this... Suspected cluster bombs. Imagine | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
being in one of those buildings. Apparently north of the city of | :13:46. | :13:46. | |
Aleppo yesterday. And this is the sort of damage being | :13:47. | :13:58. | |
caused according to footage supplied by Syrian opposition activists. The | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
strikes are widely being blamed on Russian and Syrian forces. And after | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
yesterday's direct hits on hospitals and a school where they are still | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
looking for victims, the chorus of outrage is growing. Today the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Foreign Secretary added his voice to those who say it could amount to a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
war crime. There is mounting alarm also across the rest of Europe. The | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Russian bombing in Syria leaves us with little hope. The Assad regime | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
is strengthened, the moderate Syrian opposition is weakened and Europe is | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
flooded with new waves of refugees. The Syrian army, with its motion and | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Iranian backers, insist their advance into northern Syria is to | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
liberate areas from terrorists. Today Russia angrily denied it had | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
bombed hospitals. In Moscow, the Syrian ambassador even went on | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Russian TV to cast blame instead on the Americans. There is no excuse | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
for targeting innocent civilians of course but at the same time the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
battlefield around Aleppo is incredibly compensated. Not only | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
so-called moderate rebels backed by the West are being attacked, so are | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
more extremist fighters from the downers were front, admitted | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
terrorist group. That is White Russia and Syria insist they are | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
bombing legitimate targets but in Damascus, the UN special envoy was | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
today urging the Syrian government to agree to local truces to allow | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
food drops into seven other besieged areas but a wider ceasefire looks | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
further away than ever. Prince William finds himself | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
in the middle of the debate The joke's on George Clooney | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
in the Coen brothers' latest film - Coming up on Reporting | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
Scotland at 6.30pm. Robbery and violence, | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
the day-to-day risks being faced And, how much does it | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
cost to bring up baby? Our understanding of the human brain | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
is undergoing a revolution, according to some of the world's | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
top neuroscientists. Advances in genetics and brain | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
imaging are enabling researchers to discover more about mental | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
illness, opening up the possibility This report, from our medical | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
correspondent, Fergus Walsh, contains graphic images of the human | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
brain from the start. It is a privilege to be | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
able to examine this, the right hemisphere of a human | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
brain, one of hundreds of brains donated in the UK for medical | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
research every year. This delicate structure | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
is responsible for thought, memory, language, emotion, | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
consciousness, the very things that Yet despite all our scientific | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
knowledge, there is still a huge amount yet to discover about how | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
the brain works and why But the brain is beginning | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
to give up its secrets. Advances in biology mean many genes | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
implicated in mental illness have been identified and new scanning | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
techniques are creating something extraordinary - a complete map | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
of the brain's intricate These coloured lines represent | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
bundles of nerve fibres linking different parts of the brain through | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
a number of highly connected hubs. There are bits of the brain that | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
you can talk of as being hubs in the brain in the same way | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
that Heathrow is a hub Researchers have found that people | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
with schizophrenia tend to have fewer hubs, so their brain networks | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
are less well-connected Where the excitement is building | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
at the moment is linking the network diagrams that we can get out | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
of imaging to what we're learning If we can bring those two things | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
together, then we may be able to understand more clearly | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
what are the mechanisms, the genetic mechanisms, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
that drive network development to go off on a somewhat different path | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
that leads to schizophrenia. And if we can understand mechanisms, | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
then we can design new treatments. As well as deciphering the brain's | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
network of connections, scientists are also learning more | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
about its earliest stages of development, | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
by growing miniature brains. Known as organoids, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
here they are in the hands of the scientist who invented | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the technique, incubating in a Medical Research | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Council lab in Cambridge. These tiny balls of tissue mimic | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
what the early foetal brain Each was grown from a single cell | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
donated by a patient. In those with mental illness, | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
their mini brains can help explore We can actually then compare | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
the organoids to the patient and see if we can see some of the features | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
of the disorder and try to understand what | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
caused those features. I think it's a really huge step | :19:23. | :19:23. | |
towards some hopefully really amazing breakthroughs | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
in what has been a desert Mental health disorders have been | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
incredibly lacking in terms of new medications to treat these | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
really devastating disorders. So when will this research pay | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
dividends in delivering In the next five to ten years | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
you can expect two things One, we'll be able to use | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
neuroscience and genetics to target treatments better to patients, | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
and this could happen The second is that, based | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
on the knowledge we have now, we could actually have | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
new medications, not for an entire Of course, our mental health | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
is determined by our life experiences as well as the genes | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
we inherit. The more we discover about this | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
masterpiece of evolution, the greater the chance we have | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
of treating it when it goes wrong. There's plenty more from BBC One's | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
season on mental health, All the details are on our special | :20:26. | :20:40. | |
website at bbc.co.uk/in the mind. You can follow us on social | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
media at #In the Mind. A brief look at some | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
of the day's other news stories. A girl has told a jury | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
that the footballer Adam Johnson "made her out to be a liar" | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
following an alleged sexual encounter in his car | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
when she was 15. The former Sunderland and England | :20:56. | :20:56. | |
player denies two counts of sexual activity with the girl, | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
who's been giving evidence via video-link at | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
Bradford Crown Court. A search for two experienced | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
climbers missing on Ben Nevis has been suspended due to "treacherous" | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
weather conditions. Concerns for Tim Newton | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
and Rachel Slater from Bradford were raised yesterday afternoon | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
when they failed to return The Independent Parliamentary | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
Standards Authority has expressed concern over expenses for members | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
of the Northern Ireland Assembly. In a leaked report, it says | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
the present system is "informal It also claimed that it "can give | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
rise to allegations of impropriety." A man from Luton has gone on trial | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
accused of planning to attack American military | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
personnel in Britain. Junead Ahmed Khan, who's 25, | :21:42. | :21:42. | |
is also accused with his uncle, Shazib Khan, of planning | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
to travel to Syria to join Dan yelled Sandford reports. -- | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
Daniel. RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, | :21:49. | :22:12. | |
a US airbase and a possible target of what is alleged to have been | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
a plan to attack American servicemen The man accused of preparing | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the attack was arrested 25-year-old Junaid Khan | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
and his 23-year-old uncle, Shazib Khan, are accused of planning | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
at first to fight with self-declared They shared gruesome | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
videos of IS battles Shazib Khan wrote to a friend | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
that the only thing But the prosecution told the jury | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
that in around May last year, Junaid Khan changed his | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
mind about going abroad He decided to prepare acts | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
of terrorism here in the UK, targeting military personnel, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
either British servicemen or US Junaid Khan's job, as a delivery | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
driver for a pharmaceutical company, GPS data from his vehicles showed | :22:53. | :23:07. | |
he drove very close to the perimeter fences of RAF Lakenheath and RAF | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Mildenhall, both American airbases. The prosecution says he was planning | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
to attack either British forces At his house, police found detailed | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
bomb-making instructions on a computer but both men deny | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
preparing terrorist acts. Daniel Sandford, BBC News at | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
Kingston Crown Court. They're the directors behind some | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
of the most memorable movies From Fargo and the Big Lebowski | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
to No Country for Old Men and True Grit, the Coen brothers | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
are famous for working across a huge Now, they're tackling Hollywood, | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
1950s Hollywood, with a comedy in which George Clooney plays | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
an incompetent actor Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
has been talking to the pair. Hop, would that it | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
were so simple. Hail, Caesar is a classic | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
Coen brothers movie, a stylised, surreal comic tale, | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
undercut with a little menace. An original sort | :24:11. | :24:27. | |
of idea or the movie, when we first started | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
thinking about it was, OK, 24-hours in the life | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
of Eddie Mannix as a sort Marriage doesn't have to last | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
forever, but then having a child without a father would present | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
a public relations problem The aquatic pictures | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
did very nicely for us. Josh Brolin is Eddie Mannix a ledge | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
dairy 1950s Hollywood fixer. What does it look like and then how | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
do you between you evolve it? The scripts kind of develop out | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of essentially just a long conversation and then | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
the conversation gets more and more It's like, oh, I don't like that | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
sentence, I don't like that word, I mean, that's just the nature | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
of movie-making is that it's a... It's all about collaboration | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
and the good collaborations are the ones where you always | :25:11. | :25:23. | |
know what's right, where you know when the | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
other person's right. Gather $100,000 and | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
await instructions. There are so many familiar | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
structural devices we seen in Coen brothers movies do you ever worry | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
why about repeating ourselves? I think it was when we were shooting | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Fargo we were out on the street shooting the sort of | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
approaching car coming down. I literally turned | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
to Ethan and said - haven't we shot this | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
exact same thing before. We realise to a certain extent | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
you keep reverting to the same shots Mr Mannix, I know it sounds screwy, | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
but someone's calling What would happen | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
if one of you said - look, I don't want | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
to do it any more? We have talked about - | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
at one point when we made ten It gets too alarming | :26:14. | :26:23. | |
thinking about that. How many we've done and that in ways | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
you're not aware you're repeating yourself you think you're | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
like an old musician, now on the road because he doesn't | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
know anything else and just doing A day of contrast, after a cold, | :26:34. | :26:56. | |
frosty start sunshine across England and Wales. Elsewhere it has been | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
cloudy, wet and windy. Windy. Can In Scotland it has been cloudy and wet. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
That rain will move south and east overnight tonight. Still with some | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
hill snow in it as it pushes out of Scotland into northern England on | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
the back edge as well it will turn cold with snow showers falling | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
perhaps even at lower levels. Central and south-eastern areas not | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
as cold as the night past. We could see frost forming across East Anglia | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
and down along that Kent coast first thing. You might get early | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
brightness. It will be a cloudy, drab start to the day. There will be | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
rain, some persistent to the south-west, stretching up into Wales | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
and to higher ground we will see some wintriness as well. For | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
Scotland a bit of a tricky one first thing. Icy surfaces around, snow | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
showers at lower levels as well. There could be a light dusting into | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland in the morning. The showers will start to | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
ease away as we go through the day. It's improving picture, some | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
sunshine coming through, a coldish feel to the day here. Underneath the | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
cloud and rain a pretty miserable afternoon to come perhaps staying | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
dry during daylight hours to the extreme south and east. Then it | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
turns pretty interesting. As we go through the night-time period and | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
the temperatures start to tumble away we could see snow showers to | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
forming at lower levels. A wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow moving | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
through the Midland and south-east of England for a time. If you are on | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
the roads bear that in mind. Keep tuned to your BBC local radio | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
station. It will move away rapidly. A better, sunnier afternoon to | :28:35. | :28:36. |