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Hello, you are watching BBC World News. Our top stories: The Olympian, | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Oscar Pistorius, is to be charged with murder after his girlfriend | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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was shot dead at his home. Reeva Steenkamp was found with | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
gunshot wounds to the head and the upper body. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Test the lot. The horsemeat scandal intensifys as every European member | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
state is told to check all processed beef. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Cleared for take-off. American Airlines and US airways agree to | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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merge to create the world's biggest Let's bring you the developing | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
events of the last couple of hours. The South African sporting legend, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Oscar Pistorius, has been charged with murder following a fatal | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
shooting at his home near Pretoria overnight. The police were called | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
to his home in the early hours of the morning. It's been confirmed | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
that the woman who died was his girlfriend. 30-year-old model, | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Reeva Steenkamp. They had been dating for about a year. | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
Let's show you the very first picture of Oscar Pistorius leaving | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
a police station on his way to court. There he is. He travelled | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
there from his home after the events of the early hours of the | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
morning. He has left the police station to go to hospital. There he | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
will be tested, have his blood tested for drugs. Then he will | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
appear in court, we are told, very shortly, but we can show you the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
scene outside where his home is. That is a gated community in an | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
estate just on the outskirts of Pretoria. That is the gate. A | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
secure compound where you have to check in and check out when you | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
visit it. It is providing security for all of the homes inside of it, | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
but the police arrived at that town house complex on the estate, the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
paramedics were already there. The police recovered a 9 millimetre | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
pist oil from the scene. Let's show you how much of a shock this has | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
come as both in South Africa and beyond. Oscar Pistorius is a | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
sporting legend. He is known as 'Blade Runner'. He has won six | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Paralympic Gold Medals over his athletic career. Let's remind you | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
how he rose to prominence. Pistorius took up athletics in 2004. | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
He made a Paralympic debut winning a gold in Athens only age 14. He | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
then fought a ban excluding him from taking part in able-bodied | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
competitions, succeeding in October, 2008 that decision paved the way | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
for him to become the first amputee sprinter ever to compete in the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Olympics when he learned a place on the South African team at London | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
2012. There he won two golds and is silver at the Paralympics, | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
including setting a record in the 400m. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Now we have had so much reaction coming in over the last few hours | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
to the shocking news. Let's get more now. Ed Harry is an athletic's | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
BBC commentator, who has covered the Olympic and the Paralympics | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
games. Your thoughts on hearing what has happened in South Africa? | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
It is snork. You have been talking about his global professional. The | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
esteem with which he is held in South Africa. I would go further N | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
all sport globally, I would put him second only to Usain Bolt. He has | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
drawn people into sport. People who may not have watched the Olympics | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
or the Paralympics previously, for the Paralympics it has been such | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
good news. Taking up the sport, aged 17, going to that year's | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Paralympics and winning medals straight away. He has been the face | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
of Paralympics sport since that Athens Games nine years ago, but | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
his story has drawn people in. This young boy, before had could walk, | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
had both legs amputated below the knee. He has only ever known | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
walking on prosthetics. It did not stop him competing against able- | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
bodied athletes. What a fight he had taking on the world governing | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
body of ath49ics and weeching the semi-final at World Championships | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
and the Olympic level. With so much scrutiny held on every word he | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
ulters. I have always found him a humble person and very aware of the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
place he holds in the history of sport and in sport in general terms. | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
I was going to ask you what he was like in your dealings, how did you | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
find him? He would choose his words carefully indeed, but I think what | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
endeared people, endears people to Pistorius pits is this genuineness | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
in his nature. -- Oscar Pistorius. I mentioned | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Usain Bolt it is a trait that they both share. Although it is little | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
more orchestrated, managed in how he spends his time, he was the only | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
athlete before the London Olympics to bring a broadcaster with him and | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
to conduct the press conference as though it was a television | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
programme happening in the press hall for the benefit of the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
journalists to orchestrate how the questions were asked. All of the | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
questions were asked but it is another example of the kind of | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
circus built around Pistorius, but at its heart was somebody never | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
carried away by that. Somebody who spoke warmly about the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
conversations He has with Nelson Mandela and the role he plays in | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
sport and when he did speak out it was to high light that some | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
competitors were using longer prosthetic limbs than previously | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
and Oscar Pistorius lost a race as a result of that. When he made the | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
controversial comments, the media that surrounded those remarks and | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the stories that grew from it illustrated the fact he has to | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
choose his words carefully. Like a Usain Bolt, like a Michael Jordan a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Roger Federer, he is one of those people on whose words we hang | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
because of what they have achieved within sport and outside of it. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Finally, did Oscar Pistorius talk much about his private life? Was he | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
prone to talking about his girlfriends? Did he ever talk about | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
this girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp? No. He was private in that sense. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
So much of his life has been public, but he would talk about his family | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
growing up. Comfortable talking about that, talking about his | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
parents, grandparents, upbringing, brothers, sisters, but in terms of | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
relationships he would answer with a twinkle and smile and decline to | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
go into detail. Thank you very much. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
That from Ed Harry, he has covered many of Oscar Pistorius' events | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
over the years. Thank you. Now, we were talking about Oscar | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Pistorius' deceased girlfriend. Her name, we have found out over | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the last couple of hours is Reeva Steenkamp. They have been dating | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
for about a year. They were something of a golden couple. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Earlier, Reeva Steenkamp's publicist, told me how they have | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
been coping since the shooting. At the moment we are in | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
communication with the people on the scene. There are no ov shall | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
statements. There is far too much speculation at this moment in time. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
We are hoping to get accurate information in the next hour or two | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
of what transpired, but no-one is in a position right now to make any | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
claims. No-one actually knows what happened. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Sara when did you hear about what happened? A couple of hours ago. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
When I woke up. I got some very shocking phone calls. I switched on | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
the news. Yep, we heard about it like that. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Absolutely, in terms of Reeva's family and their learn being it, | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
how are they? Shocked. Devastated. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
There are no words. Everyone that knew her is absolutely in tears it | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
is just the saddest day for everyone that knew her. She was an | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
absolute angel. The sweetest, sweetest human being. Kind, a kind | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
human being. It is very, very sad. We have been looking at a picture | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
of Reeva Steenkamp while you have been speaking. She was somebody | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
that had a lot of friends and brought a lot of happiness? Yes. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Very accurate a presentation. She was a gorgeous girl both inside and | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
out. She also had a brain. He is had done her LLB. She was, had an | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
incredible entrepreneur spirit. She was destined for success. E yes, it | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
is a tragedy. Was it public knowledge that he and | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Oscar were together? Yes and no. Yes. People knew. Obviously they | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
had been seen around. So yes, you could say so. It was not something | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
that they went out of their way to publicise. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Have you heard anything of reaction from Oscar's family about what has | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
happened? The tragic events? Unfortunately at this moment in | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
time we have been dealing with Reeva's camp, her friends, her | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
family. That was Sara Tomlinson, Reeva | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Steenkamp's publicist. Of course, the woman who has died at age 30. A | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
girlfriend -- the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, shot dead at his | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
home in the early hours of the morning in Pretoria. There are many | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
developments happening fast. Oscar Pistorius is expected to appear in | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
court shortly. Now to other matters. The broirb Government says that | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
three horse carcasses containing of a horse drug, bute have entered the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
human food chain in France it is properly known as phenylbutazone it | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
is a painkiller used on horses. It is potentially harmful to humans. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
The European Union ordered random testing to be conducted across all | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
27 Member States to see if the horsemeat has been relabelled as | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
beef. Time to share the intelligence. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Arriving in Brussels, ministers from the seven countries directly | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
involved in the horsemeat investigation. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Since January, whether the first strains of horse DNA were | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
discovered in a beef burger in Ireland, 18 countries have been | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
forced to withdraw products that contain significant volumes of | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
horsemeat. Norway and Germany are the latest. The scale of the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
problem is much greater than first envisaged. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
There is more than one problem here in terms of one person, one entitty, | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
but we will have to wait to see when we pull the data from the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
investigations that are going on. There were few details given on | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
where the investigation had gotten to. What got was a plan to better | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
understand how widespread the problem had become. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
So, the European Commission has come up with a recommendation. | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
From the 1st of March there will be a new testing regime. First the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
testing of all processed beef products for horse DNA. Secondly, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the testing of horsemeat across the union for the banned chemical, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
phenylbutazone, also known as bute. The programme will run for three | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
months alongside the existing testing regime in each member state, | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
but is it enough to restore flagging consumer confidence? | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
this stage we don't know, but I think that the meeting today showed | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
complete determination to reassure the consumer that when they go and | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
buy a processed beef product that they get beef and not horse. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
From the Government's involved, there has been finger pointing in | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
the recent weeks, on the ground things are different. Polish | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
inspectors working in Ireland, Irish inspectors in Poland. There | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
are arrangements also in Britain and France and between France and | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Romania. The ministers say there must be greater collaboration and | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
sharing of data. That starts with the three-month testing programme. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
If it works, by May we should know how many of us have unknowingly | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
eaten horse and whether the reassures -- reassurance that | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
horsemeat is safe, that it is correct. | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Stay with us here, we have much more coming up: Including could | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Liverpool face racial abuse in Russia? We find out why the club is | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
taking the possibility very seriously. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Let's get more on the top story: The South African sporting legend, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder after a fatal shooting | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
at his home near Pretoria overnight. The police were called to his home | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
in the early hours of the morning. It has been confirmed that the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
victim was his girlfriend, 30-year- old model, Reeva Steenkamp. The | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
police have opened a murder investigation. These are the first | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
pigts of Oscar Pistorius leaving the police station in Pretoria on | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
his way to court -- pictures. He is known as the 'Blade Runner' because | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
of his two artificial legs. He made history in London when he became | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
the first double amputee to compete in the Olympic Games. He went on to | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
win two Gold Medals in the Paralympics. He is considered a | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
role model by many in South Africa. Perhaps it was all too easy to | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
believe straight off that Oscar Pistorius was responding to what he | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
believed was an intruder in the house. This, is taking place in a | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
part of the world which is often synonymous with high crime levels, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
even though he was living in a so- called high security environment | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
and a high security village which had controlled access. There were | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
high walls, electric fencing on the walls, even though that was the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
case, many for instance who live in similar circumstances have personal | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
weapons. They are firearms. I was going to say a9 millimetre | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
pistol was retrieved at the scene. Whatever the circumstances in that | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
house in the early hours of the morning, we cannot know, but it is | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
not unusual for the for instance to carry a weapon for personal | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
defence? No, indeed, since the end of apartheid in 1994, what many say | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
is a legacy of the apartheid regime, crime levels in Africa have South | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Africa have risen dramatically. One of the try umps of the government | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
is that they have managed to get under ircontrol the high levels of | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
cielt crime, but the police are not able to control criminals. A tax -- | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
attack in one's home, as a result people have been akiering -- | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
acquiring a personal weapons. Even though about five years ago, | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
legislation changed to make it harder for the licensed firearms to | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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Welcome. Our latest headlines: Police in South Africa have charged | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
the Paralympic Champion, Oscar Pistorius, with murder after his | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead. The horsemeat scandal | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
intensifies as every European Union member state told to check the DNA | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
of all processed beef. The creation of the world's biggest | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
airline is expected to be formally announced later. American Airlines | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
and US Airways have agreed a merger in a deal which has been in the | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
pipeline since last August. Michelle Fleury has more now from | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
New York. American Airlines can trace its | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
roots back to Charles Lindbergh. Its past hasn't saved it from | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
trouble. Now American is merging with US Airways a move that will | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
help it expand in the east coast markets of the United States. The | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
combined group will keep the American Airlines name because of | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
its broader appeal creating the world's biggest airline and | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
overtaking United and Delta. It caps a wave of consolidation that | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
leaves the US aviation industry with four major carriers. This is | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
the man who will run the new company, Doug Parker. When he | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
proposed the tie-up, American executives dismissed the idea. His | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
ability to strike a deal with AA's labour unions paid off. There are | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
still hurdles to clear, though. So for frequent fliers the merger | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
between American Airlines and US Airways raises the question - is | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
this deal any good for them? Will it raise ticket prices? Will the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
number of routes available go down? To preserve competition, the US | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Justice Department will want to vet the deal. When United merged with | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Continental in 2010 the combined group had to sell some airport | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
slots. American and US Airways may find they will have to make similar | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
concessions to win over regulators. Liverpool Football Club is | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
concerned its players may be racially abused when it plays Zenit | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
St Petersburg later on. That is because Landscrona says it doesn't | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
want any black players on its team. Surrounded on all sides by the | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
frozen river, the stadium in St Petersburg where tonight Zenit host | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
Liverpool's multi-racial team of international stars. The Zenit St | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Petersburg fans are known for their passion and showmanship, but they | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
are also known for their racism. The team has never had a black | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
player because, according to previous managers, the most | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
hardline fans would not have accepted them. In this city, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
supporters who want a white-only team were easy to find. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
TRANSLATION: It is a tradition going back God knows how many years | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
and I want it to stay like that. TRANSLATION: There is no black in | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
the colours of Zenit. There should only be white players, a white team. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
In December, one of the main Zenit St Petersburg fans' group, | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Landscrona, said the absence of black players at the club was an | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
important tradition here and complaining that black players were | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
being imposed on the club. This man is a Nigerian who has been living | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
in St Petersburg since 1986. He's a Zenit supporter, but in the stadium | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
other fans have called him "a black monkey" and he is aware of the | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
possibility of violence. I have to look and watch who is by my side, | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
and be very careful. I read somewhere that Zenit is the most | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
racist club in Russia? Not only in Russia, in Europe. It is not only | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
in Russia, Europe. The most racist club in Europe? Zenit. The club's | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
management insists that it is trying to change fans' attitudes to | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
race, including a video campaign praising the world's greatest black | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
players. TRANSLATION: It is a big problem, a | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
problem of society. The club is not responsible for bringing people up | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
and we need everyone in Russia to try to create a society which does | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
not include racism. The coach insists there is no rule | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
banning him from buying black players. In the summer, he signed | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Hulk. Russia is hosting the World Cup in five years and the country | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
is running out of time for improving its fans' behaviour. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Racial intolerance isn't just an issue for Russian football, some of | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
the most senior and political sporting figures in Israel have | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
condemned a series of racist incidents associated with one of | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
the country's biggest football clubs there. After Beitar Jerusalem | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
signed two Muslim players from Chechnya, a minority of fans have | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
been protesting at games and training sessions vowing to keep | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
the Beitar "pure". Anger and hatred on the terraces. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Two players were signed to try to help Beitar Jerusalem qualify for | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
the end-of-season play-offs. The reception they got from some fans | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
was hostile and openly racist. Beitar has a long tradition of not | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
signing Arab or Muslim players. When news emerged that the | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
Chechnyans were coming, one huge banner at a home game read "Beitar | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
- forever pure". This man is a footballing legend here. An Arab | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
who played more than 30 times for Israel. He too suffered racist | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
abuse on and off the pitch, but says most clubs have changed, | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
except for Beitar. TRANSLATION: For most clubs, it's a | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
pure football thing, whether to have an Arab player, if he is good | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
enough or not. But Beitar seems to take pride in the reputation as the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
most racist in Israel. Racism on the terraces is a blight affecting | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Israel and many other European countries. The management here at | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Beitar Jerusalem acknowledge they have a long-standing problem, but | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
they are determined to stamp it out. Fans angry with the Muslim signings | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
are suspected of setting fire to the club's offices last weekend, | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
destroying trophies and football memorabilia. We are not going to | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
give up because of what happens in the past few days with the minority. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
We will support our new players and we will still be a football club | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
that chooses players because they are players and not because of | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
their religion. Some fans have been banned for racist behaviour, but | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
there are still strong views at the ground. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
TRANSLATION: This is a Jewish club. Others disagree. Most of the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
supporters are here to see soccer. They don't care about the religion | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
of the player, they are not racist, and they want to enjoy the game. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Beitar Jerusalem admits that potential investors and sponsors | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
have been put off by the club's reputation for racism. A reputation | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
the majority of fans now want to lose. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
In a country notorious for drug- related violence, police in one | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Mexican city have found an unusual way to recycle some of the weapons | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
they have captured. In Ciudad Juarez, they have enlisted the help | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
of an artist to turn them into musical instruments. | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
This one is made up of more than 30 rifle barrels. This one two pistols. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
This contraption - dozens of Kalashnikov magazines. Together, | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
they sound like this. The brains behind this project is an artist | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
and musician. TRANSLATION: Weapons make people | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
rush into their homes and leave public spaces abandoned. And | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
basically cities are ruled by fear. Music has the exact opposite effect. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Music makes people get together, leave their homes and take back the | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
streets and public spaces. The guns are tested and tuned. Their dark | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
past is not forgotten, but it is now their sound which is their | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
primary function. TRANSLATION: After opening the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
boxes, it takes three days to get over the shock of being in contact | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
with this material. We are not used to seeing weapons, especially not | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
thousands of them. From there, it is caveman style, what sound can | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
they make? The first thing you do is start hitting them. That is how | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
our ancestors began to make music. Almost 7,000 guns were used in the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
making of this project. All seized from the city of Ciudad Juarez | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
which is located near the US border. At the height of Mexico's drug- | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
related violence, the city averaged ten killings a day. The pair say | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
this project is not just a protest, but a proposal, a vision for more | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
harmonious times ahead. If you want to get in touch with us, | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
do get in touch via Twitter. You can see what we are working on our | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Facebook page as well. Let's update you on our main news. This is the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
scene outside the secure residential complex where there is | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
the home of Oscar Pistorius, the South African sporting legend. He's | :26:45. | :26:50. |