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top stories: Despite controversial new settlements planned by Israel, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
the US Secretary of State says Middle East peace talks will go | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
ahead. Two men are sentenced to death after | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
violent clashes in north west China. I was forced to take these bags in | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
my luggage. Two British women arrested on | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
suspicion of drug trafficking in Peru say they did not know they were | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
carrying cocaine. And it was one of the biggest art | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
heists in modern history - were these pictures burned to destroy the | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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of State John Kerry has said the latest round of Middle East peace | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
talks should not be derailed by Israel's decision on Sunday, to | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
approve well over a thousand new settler homes. Palestinian | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
negotiators have accused Israel of trying sabotage the talks, which are | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
due to begin later this week. But speaking in Colombia, Mr Kerry | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
stressed the need for both sides to return to the negotiating table and | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
focus on peace talks. I think what this underscores actually is the | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
importance of getting to the table, getting to the table quickly and | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
resolving the questions with respect to settlements, which are best | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
resolved by solving the problem of security and borders. Once you have | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
security and borders solved, you have resolved the question of | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
settlements. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
says the situation between both sides remains extremely tense. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
What I think we have here is a lot of tension building up ahead of | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
these talks due to take place in Jerusalem tomorrow and on Wednesday | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
between the Israelis and Palestinians, sitting down together | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
at negotiating table. As well as the settlement announcement that came | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
through on Sunday of 1200 new settlement homes to be built in East | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Jerusalem and the West Bank, land that the Palestinians claim as part | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
of their state, after that we had a committee getting together to | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
approve a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that are | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
to be released as part of the deal that was struck to get these peace | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
talks restarted. There has been a lot of resistance to that within the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Israeli government and wider Israeli society. That prisoner release is | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
expected to take place very late tonight, just 26 prisoners. They | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
will be part of a group of 104 scheduled to be released. Most have | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
been in prison for some 20 years since the 1993 Oslo accords and a | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
roundabout blend so this is a big deal for the Palestinians. It is a | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
sensitive issue for the Israelis and at the moment there is this delicate | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
balancing act going on. John Kerry, in his words, and sending the envoys | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
tomorrow, really trying to smooth things over and keep things on | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
track. He paid six visits to this region trying to get talks to | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
restart after they stalled last time. Is their optimism the talks | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
will happen? There is scepticism on both sides, but we have a real | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
determination from the officials who are involved, and the negotiators, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
that they will sit down and they will start off talking about issues | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
like Borders and security and put off the more difficult core issues | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
like Jerusalem until later. They are being very secretive about the | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
content of the talks and when I have spoken to people involved in the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
negotiations previously, particularly those in the run-up to | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the Oslo accords, they say this is very important at the moment, that | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
there should be secrecy, they should be keeping quiet, and trying to push | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
ahead with these talks despite the controversy surrounding them and the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
tension that exists. And as those tensions continue across the region, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Israel says it's shot down a rocket that was targeting the southern port | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
city of Eilat. The Iron Dome defence system intercepted the rocket which | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Israeli authorities say was fired from Egypt early on Tuesday. It | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
comes just days after the city's airport was closed because of a | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
security threat. Crime in the US is at a 40-year low | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
but it still has one of the biggest prison populations in the world. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Sweeping changes are being planned, which could dramatically reduce | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
America's bulging prison population. The Obama administration wants to | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
scrap mandatory prison sentences for drugs offences unless they involve | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
violence or organised crime. The move could save the US billions of | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
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dollars a year. America's prisons are overflowing. Here in California, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
gymnasiums are turned into dormitories as the prison system | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
struggles to cope. The numbers are striking, almost 1% of the adult | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
population in the US is in prison, and close to half of all inmates are | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
serving time for drug-related offences. In 2010 it cost the | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
taxpayer $80 billion. It is a legacy of the war on drugs which enforced | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug crimes. The Attorney | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
General wants to change that. a vicious cycle of poverty, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
criminality and incarceration traps to many Americans and weakens to | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
many communities. Many aspects of our criminal justice system may | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
exacerbate these problems rather than alleviate them. The prison | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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population is disproportionately black and Hispanic. He wants to give | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
judges greater discretion over sentencing to divert non-violent | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
drug offenders into treatment programmes rather than prisons. Many | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
states are already shifting funding away from prison building towards | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
rehabilitation centres, and some are red states such as Texas. Critics | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
say these measures are futile, that they will not significantly reduce | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
overcrowding, but the administration has clearly signalled the start of | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
the process, as well as an end to that of medicine in Iraq that | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
characterised the war on drugs. A court in China has sentenced two men | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
to death, following the outbreak of ethnic violence in the Western | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
province of Xinjiang earlier this year. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
State media says the two men were found guilty of murder and | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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terrorism. Three others were given nine years in jail. 21 people were | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
killed in fighting between police and residents in what the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
authorities there describe as a terrorist attack. Earlier I spoke to | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Zhuang Chen of the BBC's China Service. He explained what's | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
believed to have happened in April. 15 of the community workers and the | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
policemen have found suspicious movement in the house, and official | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
media say they were surrounded by local people and they were chased, | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
they were killed by knives and some of the policemen were herded in a | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
room and the room was burned down. 15 of them died and another six of | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
the local people were killed during the chase. What happened in the | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
aftermath? The government arrested those involved in the incident and | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
yesterday sentenced two of them to the death sentence, which is a | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
severe sentence and a long-term jail imprisonment for the rest. Xinjiang | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
is one of the flash point in terms of China's ethnic regions and the | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
series of incidents that happened in the past, for instance the biggest | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
one happened in 2009 when nearly 100 people were killed. That is the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
issue which is very difficult for the Chinese government to deal with | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
because the ethnic minorities were all there. Describe the area, where | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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does it border? Pakistan, Afghanistan, and obviously the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Congress said they are not terrorists, it is only because of | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the oppression of the Chinese government that leads to those | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
instances. Obviously the state media and local groups have different | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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versions on what is happening on the ground. She has grown up in the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
spotlight, the white heat of the White House - Chelsea Clinton has | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
worked in Wall Street but is now focused on her father's charity, the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Clinton Foundation. Touring Rwanda and Tanzania amongst a number of | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
countries in Africa, she talked to my colleague Komla Dumor about what | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
drives her right now and whether she will one day follow in her parents' | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
footsteps. As the foundation expands its footprint and influence in | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Africa, another Clinton is taking up a bigger role. Chelsea Clinton sits | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
on the foundation's board, and this project demonstrates how simple | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
interventions can provide clean water in poor communities. I think | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
success in your life really matters and as much as I loved solving a | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
problem on Wall Street and seeing I was right, and investment idea, I | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
didn't ultimately want to dominate the number of my life in dollars but | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
in how many people I can say is, the number of people I can help in power | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
to lead their own lives. You come from the very influential political | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
dynasty, why not make that choice as opposed to pursuing this? Right now, | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
I feel called to participate in the nonprofit sector. I am also grateful | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
to live in a city under state and a country where I really believe in my | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
elected representatives. If ever one of those changed and I thought I | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
could make more of a distance -- difference, or I no longer believed | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
in the ethics and the competences of my political leaders, then I would | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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have two ask myself honestly whether that would be a better path. | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
young British women accused of attempting to smuggle more than two | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
million dollars worth of cocaine from Peru to Spain have said they | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
were not aware that they were carrying drugs. Michaella Connolly, | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
from Belfast, and Melissa Reid from Scotland, were stopped in Lima last | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Tuesday. Officials say almost 12 kilos of cocaine was found inside | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
food packages in their luggage. In footage which has emerged of their | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
police interview, Melissa Reid said she didn't know what was inside the | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
bags. I was forced to take these bags in my luggage. You know it | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
contained drugs? I did not know that. Melissa Reid, 19 years old, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
and her co-accused Michaella McCollum Connolly is 20 from | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
Belfast. Still to come: And mass jailbreak in Brazil, nearly 40 | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
inmates are still on the loose after a riot in Sao Paulo. | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless after the worst | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
typhoon this year in the Philippines. Two people have been | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
confirmed dead and several others are still missing, following the | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
trail of destruction left by Typhoon Utor. Typhoon Utor, tearing homes | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
apart. Worst hit the neighbouring coastal towns north-east of the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
capital, Manila. Trees were uprooted, power lines tangled, | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
houses flattened. This villager says she saw her house shaking like it | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
was being lifted up. Her family hurried to take shelter in a bigger | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
house. Not everyone was so lucky, many people are still missing. This | :13:41. | :13:50. | |
woman struggles against the raging waters. She is OK for now, but her | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
fate is unknown. Manila escaped the path of the storm. The flooding was | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
not too extensive here. Schools were still closed bow, precautionary | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
measures have become standard after the high death tolls of storms in | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
recent years. About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year and | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
people are resigned to them, but this is the largest yet, and the | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
clean-up will be a challenge. This Typhoon Utor is being described as | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
the most powerful storm to have formed globally this year. The winds | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
are 175 kilometres per hour, it is now moving on and the worst for the | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Philippines is over, but the typhoon has accelerated as it moves into the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
South China Sea. It is forecast to make landfall in China on Wednesday | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
so the immediate danger has passed but huge destruction has taken | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
place. The people here are now left to count the cost and repair the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
damage. A group of 20 condors, one of the | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
largest flying birds in the world, has been found poisoned in the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Chilean Andes. Rescuers near the town of Los Andes found two dead | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
condors, while 18 others were foaming from the beak or too frail | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
to fly. It's thought they may have eaten poisoned carcasses, or drunk | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
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water contaminted with insecticide. The latest headlines: US Secretary | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
of State says Middle East peace talks will go ahead, despite | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
controversial new settlements planned by Israel. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
A court in China has sentenced two men to death following clashes in | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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the Western province of Xinjiang by Picasso, Matisse and Monet stolen | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
from a museum in Rotterdam October last year? The trial of three men | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
accused of stealing the patience has been opened and adjourned in a | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
mania, but suspicion is growing that the paintings may never be seen | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
again. Dr Bendor Grosvenor is an art dealer | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
and art historian and is here in the studio. Obviously there is a trial | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
going on so we must be careful about what we say, but give us the | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
background? We have had a theft in the Kunsthal Gallery in Rotterdam, | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
seven important pictures missing by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, big names. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
The ringleader was arrested, but apparently his mother has said that | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
she burned the pictures, so that is the great mystery, whether we will | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
ever see them again. Why were these pictures targeted? It is the big | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
names of art, they are worth a lot of money. Famous images that the | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
viewers might recognise, one of them was Monet's scene of Charing Cross | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
bridge. How big a loss would that be if they had been burned? Monet | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
painted that seen a few times, we're not talking about the Mona Lisa, but | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
it is always sad when a great painting is lost. I have just been | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
to his house and see many of his great paintings. What could be done | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
with these pictures if they were not burned is a big question, you can't | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
just hide one in your bedroom? is a great myth that Lott of these | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
pictures are stolen by collectors who just want to have them, that | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
does not really happen. There is also a myth that they are stolen as | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
collateral in drug dealings by underworld criminals, but does not | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
really happen either. Most of them are basically taken hostage, ransom | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
money. The pictures are buried or hidden for a number of years, the | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
heat dies down and then five, ten or 20 years down the line, the thieves | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
say, hey, I have got your picture, give me a fee for information, | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
basically a ransom, the picture is returned. That makes the suspicious, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
I don't think, despite some of the evidence coming out of Romania, that | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
the pictures have been burned. I would be willing to bet that they | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
will somehow turn up out of the woodwork in a few years. It is a | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
good way to get the heat off you and stop people looking for the pictures | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
if you say they are burned, the police might give up and look at | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
something else. What about security? I often take my kids around | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
galleries and I am often terrified that they will fall into a picture | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
of great worth and bankrupt me, but security is often quite lax? It is | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
pretty good in many places. There were some flaws in this particular | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
museum. It is alleged that once the alarm was triggered, the Lochs went | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
off as part of the fire safety precaution, so they could go | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
wherever they wanted. These thieves only need a few minutes, in this | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
case they were in and out in less than two minutes. Are these things | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
becoming more common or we just hearing about all? We need to stop | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
paying these ransoms. In every case it is very tempting because museum | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
owners and private owners want the pictures back, but it makes things | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
worse in the long run. China is targeting dozens of foreign | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
and domestic drugs companies in a crackdown on corruption in its vast | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
health care system. It follows a bribery scandal there involving the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
British drugs giant, GlaxoSmithKline. Now, five drugs | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
salesmen working for other foreign pharmaceutical companies in China | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
have told the BBC that they routinely pay bribes to Chinese | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
doctors to get their drugs prescribed. Our Beijing | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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correspondent, Martin Patience has China is counting the cost of its | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
health care. This bus conductor spends her entire salary on her | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
husband's medication. He is suffering from a brain tumour and | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
government health insurance only covers part of the cost. The family | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
survives with hand-outs from relatives. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
TRANSLATION: When my husband felt sick, he was a young man. We didn't | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
have a lot of savings. It is a huge burden for us. As Beijing expands | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
provisions for health care, government spending is soaring. It | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
has made clear that reform is required to rein in costs. It is | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
investigating possible price-fixing in up to 60 pharmaceutical | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
companies. Last month a detained executive from the British firm | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
GlaxoSmithKline confessed on state television that his company paid | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
bribes to doctors so they would prescribe its drugs. He said the | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
bribes were then absorbed into the cost of the drugs, pushing up prices | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
by a third. GlaxoSmithKline has said it appears some of its local staff | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
acted outside the company 's processes. Five employees working | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
for other foreign drugs firms have confirmed to us that they have with | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
this corruption, including this salesman, who did not want to be | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
identified for fear of losing his job. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
TRANSLATION: At one hospital our product was no longer on sale, so we | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
paid about $1000 to a senior doctor to get it back on the shelves. My | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
manager approved it. In a system overwhelmed by patient | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
is, corruption is not limited to drug sales. Using hidden cameras, we | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
filmed touts illegally selling appointments outside a Beijing | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
hospital. They are so well-established they even have | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
business cards. This touts told is that if we paid $50 he could get is | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
an appointment that afternoon. -- this man told us that if we paid | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
$50. I tackling corruption, the authorities are hoping to make | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
health care cheaper. -- by tackling corruption. The | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
government wants people to spend their money in other ways in order | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
to drive domestic growth. But for this woman, any thoughts of holidays | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
or new furniture remain a distant dream. Until the drugs get cheaper, | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
the best they can hope for is to just scrape by. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Dozens of prisoners have escaped from a youth detention facility in | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Brazil following a riot. The inmates set fire to mattresses and held some | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
of the prison's staff hostage. Police in Sao Paulo say at least | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
thirty inmates are still on the run. Serena Chaudhry reports. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
A daring climb-down, and then a leap to freedom. These are just two | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
prisoners who escaped from a youth detention facility in Sao Paulo. 54 | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
inmates fled in total. The prisoners made their escape after a riot broke | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
out at the Fundacao Casa facility, which houses more than 100 detail | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
needs. Dozens of the underage offenders set fire to the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
mattresses, sparking a blaze in the prison's central yard. Nearly 30 | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
staff members were held hostage during the riots and the facilities | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
director was taken to hospital with cuts to his head and bruised ribs. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Police are still searching for the escapades. | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
It's Proms season here in the UK, the summer classical music festival | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
at London's Royal Albert Hall. This year the world famous violinist | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Nigel Kennedy has returned to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he's | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
accompanied by a youth orchestra from the Palestinian territories. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Wissam Sayegh of BBC Arabic met the musicians and Nigel Kennedy himself | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
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This classical masterpiece, Vivaldi's four seasons, is known to | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
millions around the world. But here it has been given a very different | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
tone. It has been transformed into a | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
musical dialogue between East and West. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
They are bringing such a fresh perspective on Western classical | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
music, at the same time are still having contact with the route 's | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
fall of the music from their forefathers, which is so wonderful, | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
to hear people play Arabic music. I am giving space for some of the kids | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
to play their own music as well as the classical format to show what a | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
beautiful soul they have, it is phenomenal. 17 music students have | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
spent four days in London with this world-famous violinist preparing for | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
the opportunity of a lifetime, to perform in the BBC Proms, the most | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
respected classical music festival in the world. Nigel Kennedy is one | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
of the most acclaimed musicians in Britain, but his aim is to give a | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
platform to these young and promising musicians from the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
Palestinian territories. This is the first time the | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
Palestinian trip -- the Palestinian Strings Orchestra will perform to an | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
audience of this size, not to mention the millions watching at | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
home. Allah it is an amazing experience and gives Palestine a | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
boost. We are showing people that we are not what they think we are. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
is an opportunity for us to perform before people. It is a real | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
connection between us. It helps them to see what is happening in | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Palestine and the music we play. This orchestra was formed two years | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
ago and has been praised for its celebration of Palestinian culture. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
We are bringing something very positive vote from Palestine, this | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
is Palestine, these are young Palestinians, we have something to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
show people -- we are bringing something positive forward from | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
Palestine. Nigel Kennedy's unique ambition is opening doors for this | :26:31. | :26:35. |