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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kirsty Lang. Organised armed | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
resistance in Syria. Army defectors launch their biggest | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
attack so far in Damascus while the Arab League debates suspending | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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Syria's membership. The empty chair of Syria in the | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Arab League. Almost unthinkable. A graphic illustration of how this | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
crisis is shaking the Arab World to its core. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Keeping politics out of politics. Italy's new prime minister unveils | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
his technocratic government. Courting controversy by countering | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
China. President Obama announces more US troops are to be based in | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Australia. Also coming up in the programme: | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Should smoking in cars be stubbed out? Doctors in Britain say smoking | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
in your own car should be banned. Critics say it would be an invasion | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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of privacy. I think we are penalised everywhere we go, no | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
matter where it is, even outside now. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
It's all about the image. We look at the importance of design in the | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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hugely influential Manchester music Hello and welcome. A raid by Syrian | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
army defectors on a military intelligence complex in the suburbs | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
of Damascus shows the scale of opposition President Bashar Al- | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Assad is now facing. Calling themselves the Free Syrian | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Army the group say their troop numbers are growing. It comes as an | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Arab League foreign ministers meeting called for urgent action to | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
protect civilians from the regime's brutal crackdown on protesters. Jon | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
Leyne reports. Every day, more evidence emerges | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
from Syria of the government's brutal reaction to opposition | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
protests. These pictures are impossible to verify for certain | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
but appear to show members of the security forces beating up | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
opposition supporters on the outskirts of the capital. Who wants | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
freedom anyway? Says one of the security men. Make sure you shave | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
their heads before you start beating them properly, third | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
another. -- says another. And these pictures appear to show it Syrian | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
government tanks attacking opposition strongholds, despite a | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
pledge by Syria to withdraw its armour from the streets. But the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
conflict is also edging closer to a full civil war. These are some of | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
the increasing number of army detect -- defectors, taking on the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
security forces. They say they were involved in the first major attack | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
on a military base last night, with a co-ordinated assault on | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
intelligence headquarters close to Damascus. Once again, the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
government is encouraging its own supporters out onto the streets. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
They have been rallying to support President Assad and to denounce | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
international pressure on Syria. Syrian TV have been a run pictures | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
which appear to be of the release of 1,000 political prisoners, one | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
of the few signs of the government bowing to foreign pressure, but | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Turkey is among countries to have run out of patience. It is | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
threatening to cut off electricity supplies. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
TRANSLATION: We cannot approve a system that has been committing | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
crimes against humanity. We are currently supplying electricity to | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Syria. If this trend continues, we may have to revise that decision. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
And in the Moroccan capital, Arab ministers have been gathering to | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
consider new action against Syria. They are expected to confirm the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
decision to suspend Syria from the League and possibly impose new | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
sanctions. Syria has angrily decided to boycott the meeting. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Here it is. The empty chair of the Syrian Republic in the Arab League. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Almost unthinkable and a graphic illustration of the way this crisis | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
is shaking the Arab world. The crisis is moving rapidly forward, | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
both in diplomacy and growing violence on the ground. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
The commander of the Free Syrian Amy has told the BBC that they did | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
carry out the brazen attack on the intelligence complex in Damascus. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Colonel Riad al-Asaad has led the defectors since July, when he | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
abandoned his post in protest. TRANSLATION: The operation did in | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
fact take place and it was precise and it was targeting the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
intelligence services centre in Damascus. The centre was used as a | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
killing centre for killing innocent Syrians in Damascus. For the past | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
10 days, we have seen an increasing number of defections. Because of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
what we are doing on the ground, this encourages people to join our | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
battle and the number of our members is increasing on a daily | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
basis. The regime has got to go. We are on the side of the Syrian | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
people, who have full legitimacy. Let's find out more about the Free | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Syrian Army. The BBC's Jonathan Head joins us live from Istanbul. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
How does this Free Syrian Army fit into the broader opposition to | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
Assad's rule? They were established about five | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
months ago, the beginning of them were, and they have operated | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
officially rather autonomously. They are army defectors who tried | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
to reform themselves as a coherent military group that can then go | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
back and take the fight to President Al-Assad's forces, so | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
they then go under the umbrella of the Syrian National Council, the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
main umbrella group, which says it is committed to a non- violent | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
uprising, but clearly they are aiming for the same goal and the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Syrian National Council has applauded the actions of the Free | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Syrian Army. Bear in mind, the unarmed protesters that the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
National Council broadly represents have been facing pretty heavy armed | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
onslaught from government forces for many months now so I think they | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
feel they are entitled to fight back but this Free Syrian Army is | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
operating autonomously and has set out what it says it will do in | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
their transition, the role it will play in setting up new security | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
forces and crucially, committing itself when there is a change of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
government, a democratic government, to handing back all authority to | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the civilian government. Turkey has been accused of | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
providing safe haven to this group by the Damascus regime. Is there | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
any proof of that? There is plenty of proof in that | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
the commander you were just listening to there has been living | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
in Turkey for several months now. The official position of the | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Turkish government is that they do not shelter the group but they | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
offer asylum to anybody fleeing oppression and violence inside | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Syria. They have 8,000 refugees who have been living on the border, | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
among them and number of defectors. Turkey distances itself from any | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
official organisation. It says it wants and non-violent solution but | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
it is clearly tolerating them and there are clearly close links | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
between Turkish intelligence and Turkish government officials and | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
those Free Syrian Army officers. They are talking to each other a | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
lot. Thank you very much. Italy's new | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
government has been announced and it's all bankers, company | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
executives and top flight academics with not a single politician among | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
them. The new Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, has been | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
sworn in and said the absence of party politicians would help, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
rather than hinder, the government's duties. As well as | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
being prime minister, he will also be finance minister. Meanwhile, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Greece's new technocratic Prime Minister faced his first democratic | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
test today - a vote of confidence in the Parliament. Mr Papademos, a | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
former central banker, secured a comfortable majority. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
In a moment we will be going to Athens but first, Alan Johnson | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
joins me from Rome. The markets are very happy with this new | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
technocratic government. Do you think the Italian people of? | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Right up to the last moment, there was speculation that there might be | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
senior figures in this Cabinet line-up but when the list was read | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
out it was only technocrats. You get the sense that the extreme | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
financial pressure born against Italy from the markets has led to a | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
certain sidelining of democracy in one of Europe's biggest democracies. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Having said that, you get the fence that people on the street in Rome | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
are ready to give Mario Monti a chance. They are weary of the | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
failings of their political class and are ready for something a | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
little different. To Athens, Mark, Greece's | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
technocratic prime minister faced his first Test today, the vote of | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
confidence in parliament. Was that a rubber-stamping exercise or was | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
it Sirius was my it was largely a formality. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
They were always expected to get an easy majority because the National | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Union coalition government controls 254 out of the 300 MPs behind me, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
so it was a comfortable but expected win. Probably the only | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
simple tasks that the new government will have. Ahead it | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
faces an extremely difficult task. The urgent priority to ratify the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
latest bail-out package but in return for that, it will need more | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
austerity measures, are more cost cutting, and austerity is a very | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
dirty word in Greece. It will bring tens of thousands out onto the | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
streets in the next few months, starting tomorrow, when a large | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
demonstration is planned to coincide with the anniversary of | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the student uprising against a military dictatorship here 38 years | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
ago. We expect a very large protest on the street angry at the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
austerity measures that the government has said it will pursue | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
in order to secure the next vital instalment of its international | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
known. Mark, thank you. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Now, a look at some of the day's other news. Portugal's prime | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
minister is hoping to sell off state assets to a former colony. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Pedro Passos Coelho is travelling to Angola to gauge the country's | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
interest in buying shares in some of Portugal's state companies. In | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
an extraordinary piece of role reversal, Angola's economy, which | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
suffered over decades of civil war, is predicted to grow by 12% next | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
year, while the economy of its former colonial master, Portugal, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
is contracting under the pressure of the Eurozone debt crisis. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Here in the UK, the number of people out of work has hit a 15- | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
:11:41. | :11:42. | ||
year high of 2.6 million. -- one in 516-24-year-old Britons are out of | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
work. The Bank of England warns the economy could stagnate until the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
middle of next year. Judges at The Hague have ordered | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
the former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic to undergo a full | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
medical examination, to see if he's fit enough to stand trial for war | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
crimes. General Mladic, who's 69, failed to attend a hearing last | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
week, saying he was too ill. He's accused of commanding acts of | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
genocide in the Bosnian war, charges he denies. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has claimed any racist abuse in | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
football should be settled by a handshake. He made the comments on | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
his Twitter page. England's Football Association has announced | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
it's to charge Liverpool's Luis Suarez with racially abusing | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
President Obama has upset the Chinese by expanding American | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
military ties with Australia. China's state news agency has | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
accused the US president of using his diplomatic ambitions in Asia to | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
detract attention from his economic woes at home. President Obama | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
announced plans to station more American troops in China and there | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
is growing concern in the region about the rise of Chinese power. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
This report from Sydney. Only four other American presidents | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
have made this journey. One of the United States's oldest allies. In | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Julia Gillard, the president has the closest of political partners | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
to press home his wider mission, the engaging American foreign | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
policy in the Asian Pacific region. The two leaders announced the US is | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
to increase its military presence in Australia by stationing 2500 | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
marines and extra aircraft around Darwin. China was not mentioned by | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
name but the President's security message was clear enough. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
United States is stepping up its commitment to the entire Asia- | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
Pacific. We are deeply grateful for our alignments of Australia. Our | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
alliance is going to be indispensable to our shared future | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
and the security we need and the prosperity we seek, not only in | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
this region but around the world. America and Australia already carry | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
out military exercises together but and the reinforce represent a much | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
more muscular presence in the region. It is the signalled to | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
allies that they have a reliable friend and to China that it cannot | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
act alone. America has already had its disagreements with China over | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
trade and currency. What it does not want to happen is for that to | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
escalate into anything more dangerous. President Obama said | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
today there is nothing to fear it with China but by linking commerce | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
and security, the US is saying with prosperity comes vigilance. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has outlined conditions for | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
allowing American military bases to remain in Afghanistan in the long | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
term. He told a gathering of 2000 Afghan elders and leaders that | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
among its other conditions, American forces must agree to stop | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
carrying out nitrates, which a very controversial in Afghanistan. It is | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
taking place amid high security. The Taliban has threatened to | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
Arriving at the Loya Jirga. It is an Afghan tradition, the gathering | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
of tribal elders and political leaders. President Karzai came to | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
get their backing for a contentious proposal, a security pact with the | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
Americans. He spelled out his terms. TRANSLATION: Note-taking prisoners. | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
Who are they to imprison the Afghan people? We have no right to have | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
jails here, this is our soil. -- they have no right. The return he | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
said the Americans could retain military bases in Afghanistan after | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
combat forces lead in 2014. But the White House may not like the deal | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
he is offering. As the Loya Jirga got under way, a major security | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
operation around the capital. The Taleban have about to attack the | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
delegates who, in a bitter irony, will be discussing reconciliation | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
with insurgents. Security forces here on the highest | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
level of alert. Checkpoints like this one have been reinforced and | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
around the city they are more patrols and more road blocks. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Police sources claimed to have foiled a number of potential | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
attacks, but they know there could be others. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Many shops were closed today. Many streets, all but deserted. People | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
were staying home, fearing the worst. Loya Jirga can be a | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
dangerous business here. Joining me now live from Harvard | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
University is Michael Semple, a former European Union diplomat in | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Kabul and author of 'Talking to the Taliban'. Live from Harvard | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
University is Michael Semple, a former European Union diplomat in | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Kabul and author of 'Talking to the Taliban'. Isn't it a bit late for | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Karzai to start distancing himself from the Americans is that going to | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
wash with ordinary Afghans? I think he has deliberately selected people | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
who will find it palatable. It is not legally binding in any way, is | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
it? It is not like a parliament? it is a bit like calling a | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
political rally way you want to get lots of people at to line them up | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
in front of you way you state your position and you can claim their | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
support. In subsequent rounds of negotiation, he can say, I have the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
people behind me and you must listen to me. You are saying that | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
almost everyone in that tent will have been selected in some way by | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
the Karzai administration? Absolutely. That is the way it is | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
done. There is no election to form this gathering. Based at -- | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
messages were sent out to the amp - - administration's appointed by the | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
President and they were told to gather a certain number of the book. | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
In your view, this is a sham, is it? The theatre is a far better | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
word than sham, and sometimes theatre does count. A lot of people | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
will be examining the Loya Jirga up to check are the important people | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
there or not. It is one of the ways that Afghan politics is done, but | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
you should remember that there is also a parliament that is elected | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
to try to take decisions on such things. A lot of members of | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
parliament have been unhappy. Apparently security is so bad that | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
we have been told that our own BBC team dare not even going the 10th. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
-- in the tent where the gathering is happening, which shows how | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
vulnerable the Karzai administration is. I think it shows | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
how the focus has been turned away from the ostensible subject matter, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
which is what should be the right terms between the duty Afghanistan | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
and the US. It has been shifted to a tussle between some of the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
insurgents and the Karzai administration to see whether the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
latter can pull it off without disaster. What do you think about | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
this proposal that Karzai put forward that the Americans should | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
stop night raids? How will this go down in Washington? On the one hand, | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
these are well rehearsed positions. It is absolutely true that some of | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
the aggressive moves of NATO forces are quite unpopular. Karzai it | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
likes to speak to the crowd on this one. But there is also an issue of | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
who is doing him a favour. The way that the speech has been picked his | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
as if the Americans are desperate to keep bases there for some | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
interest they have. Whereas the positions that I have heard from | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Washington is that if they are going to retain any minatory | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
presence there is to maintain the stability of Afghanistan. Thank you | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
very much. Doctors here in the UK say no-one | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
should be allowed to smoke in a car, even when driving on their own. The | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
British Medical Association argues that a ban should be enforced | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
because people in smoky cars are exposed to very high levels of | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
harmful poisons. Opponents argue that cars are private spaces and | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
that a ban would go too far. Jane Hughes reports. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
This is a test to measure the level of toxins released when someone | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
smokes in a car. Tobacco smoke contains 69 potential cancer- | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
causing chemicals. Even after a short drive and a single cigarette, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
the monitor shows those chemicals are well above safe levels in this | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
car. Second-hand smoke in a confined space can do terrible | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
harm: It can cause lung cancer, asthma, respiratory infection, and | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
increase the risk of sudden infant death. Opening the window only goes | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
some way to a lowering the harm, and there is evidence that suggests | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
the toxins stay around long after the cigarette has been put out. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Smoking in cars carrying children has already been banned in South | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Africa, most Australia and parts of the US and Canada. Wales and | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Northern Ireland are considering the same thing, but the BMA wants | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
more: A blanket ban, even when there are no passengers. Cars are a | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
restricted environment, air gets concentrated in there and if | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
someone is smoking, the people in that car, both at the time and | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
later, will get very high doses of the cancer-causing agents that are | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
in cigarette smoke. Drivers we spoke to in Cardiff were | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
divided about the idea. I think the government penalises us everywhere | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
we go, no matter where it is, even outside now. It is a very good to | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
it stops Bassett -- passive smoking in an area where you get a lot of | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
people. If you are alone, fine, but when you have children, that is a | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
different matter. Some say cars are private spaces and this would be a | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
step too far. If we introduce a ban, all cars, irrespective of who is in | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
that car, it is a very small step to banning smoking in the home as | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
well. It is a very dangerous step to take. Ministers in England and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Scotland say there are no plans for a ban, but they are working to a | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
rape -- raise awareness of of the risks. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
The '80s and '90s was an era that changed the face of British music. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
The so-called Manchester scene gave birth to bands like the Happy | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Mondays, Joy Division and The Stone Roses. But it wasn't just about the | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
sound, it was about the image too. That's being celebrated at a | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
exhibition of album covers and posters in London and Kathy | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
:23:12. | :23:15. | ||
Joy Divis and it was the ban that started it all off. -- Joy Division. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
The band that took 70s punk and turned it into a deeper, more | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
:23:30. | :23:39. | ||
This is the cover of their debut album, Unknown pleasures. It is a | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
:23:49. | :23:50. | ||
dark, stark and seething with energy. Bans were making owned -- | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
their own music on their own terms. They genuinely did not care whether | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
people like to them or not. They had a strong vision. It was their | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
:24:10. | :24:11. | ||
With the suicide of the lead singer, Joy Division reformed into a new | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
order. Both bans, as well as many others, were assigned to Factory | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Records, one of the most influential labels of the era. | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Factory Records was the Manchester sound under one roof. It was | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
factory Records who also created the image. The label had its own | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
:24:40. | :24:42. | ||
design team and came up with For fans of the Manchester scene, | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
the place to experience it in all its glory was the Hacienda club. A- | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
night out there was claimed to be a life-changing experience, not least | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
because with their music came the drugs and this was all about | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
Ecstasy. And nothing said more about the spirit of the Hacienda | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
than this iconic poster. It was very intense. Lots of people up on | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
podiums, lots of people dancing, dry ice everywhere, lighting, and | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
this incredible music, this techno music that was happening. So, in | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
some ways, this is a way of trying to express that feeling in a visual | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
way. The Happy Mondays were the poster | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
boys of the scene in the late 80s and they were the ones who made the | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Manchester sound into Nat -- international with several were | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
tours. By then, it was all about house music and rave culture and a | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
:25:57. | :25:58. | ||
The influence of the first Summer of Love was most obvious in the | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
music of the Stone Roses who mixed 60s garage pop with the 80s garage | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
beat. Their self-titled album has been described as one of the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
greatest of all time in the UK. The band recently announced that they | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
are reunited with a world tour planned for 2012. The first stop, | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
Manchester of course. A reminder of our main news. The | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
Syrian opposition stepped up its armed operations with an overnight | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
attack on military and intelligence bases near Damascus. Meanwhile, an | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Arab League meeting in Morocco has been fiercely critical of Syrian | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
violence against anti-government protesters. | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
The Italian prime minister, Mario Well, that's all from the programme. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Next the weather. But for now from me and the rest of the team, | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
Seeing a bit of cloud tonight. It has been fairly wet today in | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Cornwall. The rain will move through overnight tonight so by | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
tomorrow, although it starts cloudy, it will become bright up to the day. | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
Here is that weather front, the heaviest of the main living through | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Northern Ireland and up to Scotland by the end of the night. With the | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
remains in Scotland tomorrow morning, cloudy and damp. Some | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
cloud in the south-east corner, but things should brighten up nicely | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
through northern England. Sunshine by 3pm. Temperatures around 11 | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
degrees. The cloud will linger through East Anglia, parts of Kent, | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
with some spots of light rain. Some sunshine along the south coast. The | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
cloud later in the afternoon will thicken again through Devon, but | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
for much of daylight hours, it will be tried with highs of 13 or 14 | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
degrees feels --. Wales should remained dry. The brain will return | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
for Northern Ireland and it could be heavy. It will be accompanied by | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
strong winds as well. A bit of rain moving into the south-west corner | :28:05. | :28:09. |