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This is BBC World News Today. There is to the investigation into | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
allegations that British security services were complicit in the | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
illegal transfer of terror suspects to Libya while Gaddafi was The | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
battle for control of Libya continues, hundreds of anti-Gadaffi | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
fighters gather ready to attack one of his last strongholds, the town | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
of Bani Walid. An empty dock, the former French | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
President, Jacques Chirac, is too unwell to attend his corruption | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
trial.. As shares in the euro-zone fall sharply yet again, the boss of | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Ferrari gives us his speedy suggestions on how to solve the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
European debt crisis. We have to avoid becoming like Greece. In | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
other words, we need important structural deep reforms. And the | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
controversial Indian film about the caste system which questions | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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The Prime Minister David Cameron has been lavish with his praise of | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
how Libyans are dislodging Colonel Gadaffi after decades of misrule | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
and oppression. It is an embarrassment then that UK security | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
services are accused of being involved in the illegal transfer of | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
terror suspects to Libya while Colonel Gadaffi was in power. The | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
government says the allegations will be investigated. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
The ransacked office of the former head of Libyan intelligence. Inside, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
a treasure trove of one's secret files that revealed a close | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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relationship between British intelligence and Libyan spy master. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
He offers Christmas greetings and an invitation to runs in his office. | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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Other documents raised difficult Allegations of British involvement | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
in this treatment of detainees have already led to the promise of an | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
inquiry. The Prime Minister today said the Libyan allegations would | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
be looked at as part of it. We have issued new guidance to intelligence | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
services personnel on how to deal with detainees held by other | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
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countries. We have asked a retired judge, Sir Peter Gibson, to a poll | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
this inquiry and it will look at these latest accusations very | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
carefully. The foreign secretary at the time many of the documents were | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
written, said he did not know about the allegations. It was who policy | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
of the previous government, as is wholly to be opposed to any | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
complicity in torture or ill- treatment or unlawful condition. | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
Much of the communication involved the exchange of information. Some | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
of the documents suggest that Britain they have played a role in | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the practice known as rendition were suspects are transferred and | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
often mistreated. One document relates to a member of the Libyan | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
Islamic fighting group. He says he was tortured in custody. The | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
British government has always denied any complicity in his | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
mistreatment or rendition. It is effectively the unlawful kidnapping | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
of people, carrying them across borders and putting them into | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
jurisdictions where it is known perfectly well that they will be | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
mistreated. The British government also condemns that which is why it | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
would be so serious if it turns out that agencies answerable to the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
British government had been engaging in that sort of behaviour. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
The job of intelligence agencies is to gather information and sometimes | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
officials said today that involves working with regimes which do not | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
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share our standards. Joining us now is a former UK | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
foreign office minister in the Labour government and a former | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
chairman of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
These allegations are deeply embarrassing, and they, for the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
United Kingdom? I hope they are not deeply embarrassing. I cannot | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
imagine that there is any greater achievement than to dissuade | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Colonel Gaddafi to give up his weapons of mass destruction | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
programme which hour security service played an important role in | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
and we needed to protect ourselves against Islamist groups like Libyan | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
fighting group, Members of which were in Britain as well as in Libya. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
But the commander of the Tripoli forces is physically accusing the | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
UK of being complicit in his torture love, what you say to that, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
that is a serious accusation. is something that must be | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
investigated thoroughly. They have been other allegations of course in | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
the past. We on the Intelligence and Security Committee, examined it | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
very carefully and we didn't find it against the agencies. We didn't | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
have any political axe to grind. But there was a problem there, we | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
would have highlighted it but we didn't find that. This man is a | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
former member of the fighting were up and he confesses to that. They | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
were an organisation that wanted to commit atrocities inside Britain. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Believe me, if M I six had not been trying to get information on people | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
like him, they wouldn't have been doing their job properly. Are you | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
suggesting the when the current government welcomes the actions of | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the rebel forces in trying to topple Gaddafi, this is a man | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
should not be doing business with, is this what you are saying? | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
not at all, they have been many people who have been terraced who | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
have changed. What we have to wait for is to see if he really has | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
changed because what the fighting group wanted to do was to replace | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
Gaddafi's dictatorship with a very hard line Islamist government. I | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
soon that the noises we hear coming out of Tripoli now are for | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
democracy and not for setting up some kind of organisation which is | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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going to be run by religious On the ground in Libya, forces of | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the NTC, the National Transitional Council, are sounding increasingly | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
confident about taking the desert town of Bani Walid, one of the last | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
strongholds of Gadaffi's supporters. It is around 200 kilometres south- | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
east of Tripoli. Earlier, according to official sources in a | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
neighbouring Niger, the chief of security of Gadaffi's brigades had | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
crossed into Niger. Let's get more now from our Correspondent in | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
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For now at least, these rebels are not fighting but singing their | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
songs of the victory and liberation. Even so, they know they cannot yet | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
claim that all of Libya is free, not until they have dealt with the | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
final few pockets of Gaddafi resistance. One rebel fighter told | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
me that he fears sooner or later there will have to be a battle for | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
this time. What are you waiting for? Somebody inside he will give | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
us a signal to enter inside or not. We're waiting for that because we | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
are a new team, we have someone there already. Are you ready to | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
fight? Of course, we are one team. Whether many Gaddafi people in Bani | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Walid? Sure, not all of them have escaped. Negotiations are | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
continuing but some of the rebels here appeared to be losing patience. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
They said the humanitarian situation in the town is | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
deteriorating rapidly with food and water running out. So, the rebels | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
have moved closer to Bani Walid, their morale is sky-high. The | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
easily outnumber the Gaddafi loyalists and they are ready for a | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
full-scale assault on Bani Walid, the men at the order goes through | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
but for now at least, the leadership of the National | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Transitional Council same desperate to avoid a bloodbath. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
The BBC's Ben Brown is with anti Gadaffi forces on the road between | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
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Tripoli and Bani Walid and joins us What can you tell us about what the | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
National Transitional Council have been saying to you about this | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
battle for Bani Walid? They do seem absolutely determined to give | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
negotiations as long as possible. The deadline that the opposition | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
leader had last week, but the ultimatum really for the Gaddafi | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
forces to surrender of this Saturday, still stood so we could | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
be here for more days with no action on the ground. Even then, | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
negotiations so far have not been productive. It has been said that | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
this was because the presence of two of Colonel Gaddafi's sons were | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
there and the tribal leaders had this duty of guests and they could | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
not betray them. That may be a polite way of allowing them away to | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
climb down, a diplomatic way of letting them back into the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
negotiations. The trouble is, we had a few hundred really desperate | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
people, Gaddafi loyalists who may feel reluctant to give themselves | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
The corruption trial of the former French President Jacques Chirac, | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
got under way today. Mr Chirac, 78, faces charges of illegal party | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
funding during his time as mayor of Paris 20 years ago. Doctors | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
treating him say he is not medically fit to appear in court | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
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but the judges said the trial will go ahead without him attending. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
For 50 years, he was a potent force, not only in French politics, but on | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
the world stage. Jacques Chirac was for ever pushing the French point | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
of view. The zenith of his career, a bold stand against the war in | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Iraq. But today in the same chamber in which Barry and when it was | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
tried for treason, the elder statesman was betrayed as a frail | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
old man with a failing memory. The lawyers who represent him and nine | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
other co-defendants say there is no prospect of a fair trial. The most | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
important person in this trial is not available to come and defend | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
himself. For this reason, I think this trial has no meaning. The case | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
relates to his time as mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. It is | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
alleged he embezzled tax payers money, creating 21 ghost jobs to | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
pay allies from his party. The charge carries a possible sentence | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
of 10 years or a fine of 150,000 euros. The medical report that is | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
being submitted is signed by an eminent neurologist, it concludes | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
that Jacques Chirac is suffering from a condition that could be | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
linked to Alzheimer's. It affects the speech, there can be bouts of | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
manic loss and the sufferer is often unaware there is a problem. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Friends say the man who once spoke in such eloquent French now forgets | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
which party he is from but have the people forgotten what he is accused | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
of and how tirelessly he fought to evade this prosecution? He is too | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
old and so sick so there is nothing for us now. It is in the past. | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
two months ago, he sold the book with his memories, why could he not | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
answer to questions. He has lost his memory in two weeks! No! Yet, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
in spite of many rearguard actions to avoid court, Jacques Chirac is | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
the first French head of state to face trial since the end of the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
second world war. Historic, but not as significant as it would have | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
been had the man they dubbed the untouchable finally appeared in the | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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In Syria, opposition to the president Bashaar Al-Asaad, is | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
still gaining traction, despite months of oppression by the regime. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
The International Committee of the Red Cross says authorities have | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
given delegates permission to visit Syrian prisoners. As the protests | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
continue, this funeral procession in Homs turned into a protest march | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
as the crowd chanted, "You will not defeat us, Assad". Here in the UK, | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
the prime-minister David Cameron told MP's that President Asaad's | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
time was up. The message to President Assad must be clear. He | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
has lost all legitimacy and can no longer claim to lead Syria. The | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
violence should end and he should step aside for the good of his | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
country. The European Union has been taking | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
a lead in putting international pressure on Syria. It has now | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
banned oil imports from Syria and may expand the embargo. In a moment, | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
we'll talk to the EU trade commissioner. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
95% of Syria's oil is bought by the EU which accounts for a quarter of | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the country's budget. The ban prevents EU companies from making | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
new trades in Syrian oil, but they can continue to invest and operate | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
in the country. Russia doesn't support the sanctions, and Russian | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes they "bring no good". In | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
the long term, Syria could get around the embargo by replacing | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
their European trade partners with Asian markets. I'm now joined from | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
our central London studios by Karel De Gucht, the EU's Commissioner for | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
Trade. If the EU were serious about pushing pressure on, you would go | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
for a total trade embargo? -- putting pressure on. First of all, | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
as you mentioned, the most important export market for Syrian | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
crude oil is the European Union. Of course, he could be -- it could be | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
that oil experts are diverted to other markets, but we will have to | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
see what happens in the future. But it is a measure that has been taken | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
that will have considerable impact on the financing of the Syrian | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
regime. To be consistent, would you consider a ban on investments and | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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operations by oil companies in Syria, for example Chelle? As was | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
mentioned at the end of the statement, we will consider further | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
measured in the light of the forthcoming evolutions in Syria, | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
but when you speak about sanctions and the impact they might have, or | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
could have, that would be a ban on investment and that would not have | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
an immediate impact. We are not talking about sanctions that should | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
have an impact within two or three years, this is a people who are | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
suffering and are extremely courageous. So we have to look at | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
sanctions that can have an immediate impact, and I believe | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
that the export ban on crude oil, largely exported to Europe, can | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
have that kind of impact. We are talking about 10 million euros on a | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
daily basis, and it is a large proportion of their budget, so this | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
is a very well targeted sanction but we are considering further | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
sanctions if needed. Is the EU trying to get sanctions at an | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
international level, at UN level? We are, but as you mentioned, | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Russia is extremely reluctant about this which means that they are | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
saying no. So the result of us are making sanctions at European level | :17:27. | :17:36. | |
is because we could not have them at a global level with the United | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Nations. So the reason we have done it at European level is because the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
others are not only reluctant, they are negative about it. I did want | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
to ask you about Libya, but we do not have time. Thank you very much | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
indeed. Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
There have been scuffles both inside and outside the courtroom | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
where the trial of the ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
has resumed in Cairo. Several people were arrested outside the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
court as pro- and anti-Mubarak supporters clashed. Inside, the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
session was temporarily halted when prosecution and defence lawyers had | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
to be separated by police. Mr Mubarak is charged with ordering | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the killing of protesters during the uprising that removed him from | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
power. Up to 750,000 people are at risk of | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
dying from starvation in East Africa if the response to the | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
crisis doesn't improve. The United Nations also says the famine is | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
spreading across Somalia, the country worst hit by the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
humanitarian crisis, with emergency conditions expected to continue | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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well into next year. Scientists have created stem cells | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
from two endangered species, which could help ensure their survival. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
The northern white rhino is one of the most endangered animals on | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Earth, while the drill - a West African monkey - is threatened by | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
habitat loss and hunting. The scientists report in Nature Methods | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
that their stem cells could be transformed into different types of | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
Doubts are growing about Italy's commitment to the multi-billion | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
euro austerity plan it announced amongst much fanfare last month. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
European financial markets saw falls of around 5% on Monday as | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
investors worried about the ability of Italy and other Eurozone | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
economies to pay their debts. Measures to reduce the deficit in | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Italy, including a tax on high earners, have been proposed and | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
quickly dismissed as members of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
coalition government squabble over how exactly they will balance the | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
budget by 2013. With additional fears that the second bailout | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
package for Greece as some EU countries qustion the level of | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
support, could Italy become the next Greece? That's a question I | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
put to one of Italy's leading industrialists, the chairman of | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
Ferrari, Luca De Montezemolo. We are not Greece, but we have to | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
avoid becoming Greece. In other words, a week need -- we need it | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
important structural, deep reforms, and we have to take care of the | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
situation and take advantage. To put it in a provocative way, take | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
advantage of the situation to make the reforms. But this is not easy, | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
because in my opinion, we are at the end of a political phase, a | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
very long political phase. It will be difficult to do everything that | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
is necessary. Obviously the government is under pressure and | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
needs money. One of the key things Italy could do is get more money | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
through tax, and many say, let's face it, a lot of people in Italy | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
avoid paying tax.Unusual. You are saying rich people like you should | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
pay more. We have three different problems. The first one is we have | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
to fight with all the instruments we can against tax evasion. This is | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
something terrible in Italy and we have to do something even more to | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
combat this evasion. Secondly, we cannot ask only money from the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Italians, but the state has to do something with privatisation, | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
liberalisation and cutting costs, the political costs. Our country is | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
like a very heavy car, an expensive car. We have to cut the costs. Then | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
we can ask the money from the Italians, because they want to know | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
where the money goes to improve services and not to put money in | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
the public expenses. Last but not least, I think that people like me | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
have got a lot from our country. If the state will do what is necessary, | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
and only after the state does this, then it is normal for eight | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
solidarity and generosity that we can do more than others, because if | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
we are rich, we have to pay more. Briefly, to continue with your | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
analogy of the car, would you describe Italy as a Ferrari and the | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
tank is running a bit empty and that the government really ought to | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
be doing more, but it's difficult because they do not want the car to | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
stop, in other words they don't one measures that could bring -- bring | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
recession? Ferrari cars never stop, so this is not the right analogy! | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
But talking seriously, I am very seriously optimistic for the future | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
of my country if we can have a new political leadership, and if we | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
make reforms, because we have a lot of productivity. Italy has three | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
priorities, one is the public debt, so we have to decrease the debt, | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
then the Italian state is too expensive because we have too many | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
things to count up, and then we have to cut bureaucracy. If we can | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
do this, we have a huge future in front of us. That was the chairman | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
of Ferrari talking to me a little earlier from Rome. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
The film "Aarakshan", starring some of the biggest names in Bollywood, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
caused something of a stir when it was released in India - some states | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
even tried to ban it. The film brings to the silver screen the | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
issue of caste reservations or quotas in the education system for | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
people from lower caste or minority backgrounds. But how relevant is | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
this type of positive discrimination in today's India? | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from With an all-star cast, Aarakshan | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
has been making headlines since its release because of its | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
controversial subject-matter. The film looks at India's centuries old | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
caste system, a social hierarchy which places people in different | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
class categories based on their family background. It deals with | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the sensitive issue of affirmative action for lower-class and minority | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
people. Are you trying to accuse me of being a caste system racist? | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Some have tried to ban the film, but the director thinks it needs to | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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be discussed. 49.5 % of all higher education seats and government jobs | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
are reserved for second class cast in society, which has created a lot | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
of turmoil. This system of quotas is known as a reservation or | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Aarakshan in Hindi. It was introduced to make sure everyone in | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
India has access to the same opportunities. These students both | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
study on the same course, but even though the goal scored high marks, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
she struggled to get a place because she is from a higher caste. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
I couldn't get into the colleges because of the reservation. The | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
people who scored lower than me, their marks were really low, they | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
got into it and walked into the college just because they were | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
minorities. Ashish has benefited and says he has had it harder in | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
life because of his family's history as a look labourers, so he | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
There has been a need of reservations for us, and we need to | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
explore these opportunities. These is one of the many statues which | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
can be found across the country. He was the architect of the Indian | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
constitution and helped introduce quotas or reservations. That was | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
more than 60 years ago, so how relevant are they to today's India? | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
Reservations changed India dramatically. In a short space of | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
time it gave the lower-class an opportunity for a higher education, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
so they have been able to come civil servants, doctors, engineers | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
and so on. It is still relevant because we are still an uneven | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
society. Although it is not deserved as it was as much as it | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
was years ago, it is still as part of Indian society. Supporters of | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
reservation says it provides a level playing field but critics say | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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it is creating inequalities of its own. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Next to the weather, but from now, from me and the rest of the team, | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
:26:54. | :27:00. | ||
This week brings the return of whether we associate with the | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
autumn. They will be rain at times, and it will be on the cold side | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
with a very brisk winds. Through the night and into the Morrow, | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
windy weather, all due to low pressure bringing rain through the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
night and into tomorrow with the isobars so close together, the | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
first proper blow of the autumn season. Southern England will bear | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
the brunt of there rain in the morning with the strongest wins. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
The rain doesn't clear account until the evening. Very windy | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
across the south-east of Scotland and the north-east of England with | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
strong crosswinds on the A one. But it will be brightening up across | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
much of England and Wales during the afternoon but the rain is still | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
there in East Sussex and Kent, and the brisk winds continue across | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
southern England. Along with the brightening up process elsewhere | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
across England and Wales there will be a few showers coming in and | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
those will head to parts of Wales and western England later in the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
day which could be on the heavy side. For Northern Ireland, a spell | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
of dry and bright weather, and another band of rain will sink into | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
northern areas. And close to the area of low pressure in northern | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
Scotland, across: there are bands of rain to contend with. It stays | :28:10. | :28:16. |