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Thousands turn out to vote for the first time in post revolutionary | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Egypt. Despite irregularities, there's optimism that these | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
elections will see a new start for Egypt. I am so happy. If you ask | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
anybody here, he will tell you that we are all happy, very happy and | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
this is the first step in realising the goals of the revolution, this | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
is it, this. A momentous task for the Democratic | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Republic of Congo. Voters face violence and delays in just the | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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second elections since the end of the civil war. Not cinematic enough | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
for me? Flamboyant and controversial - we | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
pay tribute to the British film director Ken Russell, who's died at | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
And suppressed in the Soviet era, now honoured in Moscow - tributes | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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to the Russian composer Sophia Hello and welcome. We are outside | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
one of the 1,000 polling stations where Egyptians have been voting in | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
large numbers. Despite the bin -- uncertainty and insecurity leading | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
up to this, Egyptians turned out in large numbers. Voting had to be | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
extended by two hours. If all goes according to the new plan, polling | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
stations across nine places should be closing now, but there's another | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
day of voting tomorrow in what is the first days of voting in a very | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
long process of voting in parliamentary elections. It is | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
meant to put Egypt on the path to a new representative civilian | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
government. But will it achieve it? Let's take a look at what happened | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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This is what happened at one polling station in a district of | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Cairo. The first voters were queuing to hours before it was due | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
to open and they had to wait almost two hours more while some details, | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
like bringing in ballot papers, was Apart from a row about queue- | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
jumping, it was peaceful. The army, not the still despised police, | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
handled security. He told them to form an orderly line. And then they | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
were ready to vote. It is the first time in my life, me and my wife and | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
my son, we are going to get today because it feels like a good day. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
This day will be historic. ballot papers were enormous. This | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
district had 122 names to choose from. No one seemed to mind. They | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
used to have elections under the old regime, but they were always | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
fixed so most people did not bother to vote. Not today. TRANSLATION: | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
First time, I wanted to be good for everyone, whoever wins I just hope | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
they don't stay forever. Getting a free vote was a big part | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
of the revolution for a lot of Egyptians and it is finally | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
happening. There are still serious questions, though, about the amount | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
of power the Army wants to retain after civilian politicians are | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
elected. In the street, the Muslim Brotherhood, the front-runners, | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
were getting on the vote. Face- saving want a proper democracy. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Many secular the Egyptians believe that is not true. Sorting out the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
economy is the key to political stability here, whoever wins. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
700,000 new people enter the workforce every year. Many never | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
find a proper job. In his second hand bookshop, this man has seen it | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
all. He remember that -- remembers the king deposed in 1952 whose | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
successors still rule the country. TRANSLATION: Don't worry, the army | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
will deliver the government to civilians. The protesters still | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
hemmed in Tahrir Square tried to stop an election they said would be | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
for the violence. Now they are deeply divided about voting at all. | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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This date is not perfect, but it Egypt may get high marks and the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
high turnout, but there were certainly complaints about the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
voting. Some of the parties and candidates said there were many | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
irregularities, including the distribution of campaign leaflets, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
but what will be the verdict from Tahrir Square? Fees are the images | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
coming from Tahrir Square tonight. -- these are. It has been the scene | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
of clashes for more than a week. There has been intense discussion | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
on whether to boycott these elections. Even Tahrir Square is | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
divided on what to do next. We are joined by two young Egyptians who | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
have spent a lot of time in Tahrir Square. Thank you for joining us on | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
the BBC. You left the square today devote, why? It has been one of the | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
toughest decisions I've had to make. The way I thought of things, a lot | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
of people are going to vote anyway. If they were going to do that, I | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
needed to go it and put my vote somewhere. If there had been a big | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
movement saying we should stop the elections, I would have done that. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
But this hasn't happened. It didn't happen because of the short time we | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
had. Now you're a voter, how does it feel to cast your ballot? | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
still confused if I made the right choice or not. Some people might | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
think this is giving legitimacy to the military, which is something I | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
don't agree on at all. But on the other hand, I would like to vote | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
because I want the country to be secular so I am voting for that. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
You decided not to vote. Why did you make that choice? I think it is | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
for reasons like him. I see these elections as a legitimate ties | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
shown -- legitimisation prices for the military. If you look at the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
conditions under which the elections are being held, so soon | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
after the clashes, it seems rather inappropriate perhaps. But with | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
respect to run him, it was largely a personal decision. I just don't | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
think it is appropriate to have elections while we still have the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
main demand of ending military rule immediately. Now that you see there | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
seems to have been a large turnout, will you begin to change your mind | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
if some Egyptians think it is a process that should be given a | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
choice -- chance? No, absolutely not. The elections, whether one | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
participates or not, won't change the fact that ultimately we are | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
still under military rule, and this is the main demand we are in the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
square for now. You do look worried whether you have made the right | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
decision. Will you go back to the Square tomorrow or tonight? I am | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
sleeping in the Square tonight. Spending the night? Yes, I left to | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
vote and then went back. What can't achieve? Many Egyptians say it has | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
done a great job, let's move on. has achieved some stuff, but we | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
need much, much more. We want the regime to step down. It is about | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
time. Especially after the massacre, how many people they killed. They | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
are staying and ruling after all that. We still have a lot estate -- | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
say and I am staying until the military go, or they kick us out. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Thank you both very much for making time to talk to us. That is very | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
much a snapshot of what Egypt is now after its revolution that | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
toppled Hosni Mubarak. A divided nation and a nation not sure... | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Asking what has happened to the revolution and will this process | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
really bring Egypt to a better political future. It is still being | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
run by a military council so the onus is on them to prove it. | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
Egyptians did their part today by voting. Back to London. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
United Nations reports have accused the Syrian authorities of gross | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
systematic human rights violations. It is because of the way they have | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
been dealing with recent anti- government demonstrations. The | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
report alleges torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearance | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
were used by the government and security forces. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
The Emir of Kuwait has accepted the resignation of the country's | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
government amid a crisis over corruption allegations. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Tomorrow the Prime Minister is due to be questioned in Parliament | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
about the alleged payment of bribes to pro-government MPs. Earlier this | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
month, protesters stormed parliament after the government | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
tried to prevent him facing questions. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Tributes have been pouring in from across the football world for the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
former Wales manager Gary Speed, who was found dead at his home | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
yesterday. His career started at Leeds United and he represented his | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
country 85 times before becoming Welsh manager in 2010. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
The OECD has warned the eurozone could be entering another recession | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
and has cut his global growth forecast. It said the eurozone | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
would shrink in the fourth quarter this year by 1% and boy 0.4% in the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
first quarter of 2012. Italy's footballers are being encouraged to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
do their bet -- bit in these tough economic times. Today has been | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
deemed by a Bond update in that country and the aim is to encourage | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
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investors, including footballers, to purchase government bonds. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
It's an enormous challenge in an enormous country. Voters in the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Democratic Republic of Congo have gone to the polls for just the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
second time since the civil war ended eight years ago. The | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
presidential and parliamentary ballot has been beset with | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
organisational difficulties and marred by violence. Five people | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
died in clashes in the city of Lubumbashi after a truck carrying | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
ballot papers and several polling stations were attacked. And reports | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
from Kananga say residents angered by delays set fire to polling | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
stations there. Will Ross was out following events in the capital | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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Umbro has at the ready for Congo's big day. -- umbrella as at the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
ready. The downpour may have slowed down the stream of voters and made | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the journey harder, but in his young democracy people are | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
determined to choose their leaders. A change from the years of | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
dictatorship many remember. Some were surprised the election went | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
ahead given all the speculation that it would be postponed as | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
things were not ready. With 60,000 of these foreign stations dotted | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
across this vast country, the electoral commission has a daunting | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
challenge. You could say the voters are also not having it easy. To get | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
an idea of the size of the task under way here, have a look at this | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
table. There's no ballot paper, it is actually a ballot booklet. A | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
vast document, 13 pages of it, on each page dozens of candidates for | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
the National Assembly. Overall, there are 18,000 candidates vying | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
for positions in the parliament. There are only 500 posts. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
International observers have turned up, but will struggle to get an | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
accurate picture from right across the nation. Prior to the poll, | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
there had been a flurry of calls for calm. Some of the campaigns | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
turned violent. They could still be trouble ahead as it is expected to | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
be a tight race between the two in main Presidential candidates, | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Joseph de Villa, and a man old enough to be his grandfather, | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
Etienne Tshisekedi. Final results With me now is Daniel Balint-Kurti | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
- former West Africa expert at Chatham House, now head of the DRC | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
team at Global Witness. How do you think this ballot has gone? There | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
have clearly been a number of problems. The question is what | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
happens now? Whether the elections to a much more violent and what is | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
essential is to see whether voters accept the results. The results | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
will be announced on December 6th. That will be a really big test for | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
the Congo. Whoever is seen to be the victor in these elections, will | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
he be regarded as legitimate? priority must be to avoid further | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
violence because it has already reaped so much havoc on the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
functioning of the country. How do you avoid that? When you say | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
whether the elections are deemed correct or not, what would define | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
whether there will be further diamonds -- violence? The behaviour | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
of the key candidates is very important. It has been worrying | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
because we have seen the main opposition candidate, Etienne | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Tshisekedi, calling for violence. Even before the election he | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
announced that he was the legitimate President of Congo. He | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
called on people to rise up against the security forces. His behaviour | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
will be key. Whether the process will be violent or whether Congo | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
can remain stable and get through this in one piece. No country in | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Africa is isolated politically, Congo obviously not during its past | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
-- because of its past. Eight other armies were drawn into the country. | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
It is closely watched. Yes, between 1996 and 2003, millions of people | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
died because of fighting in Congo. It drew in the armies of many | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
countries. Congo is enormously important for Africa. It is a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
massive country, two thirds the size of western Europe, and it has | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
a lot of natural resources. It has about a third of the world's cobalt, | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
16% of the world's diamonds. Investors are very interested in | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Congo. What happens in Congo affects the continent. And yet it | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
seems we have seen a lack of interest from Europe and the United | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
States. Is that fair? And perhaps with everything that is going on in | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
the Arab world and everything with the European economy, there's a lot | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
to compete for attention with Congo. It is a very, very important | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
country. Its minerals are important to the world. They are wanted by | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
The British film director Ken Russell has died at the age of 84. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
During his career he became known for controversial films including | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
women and love, which won has several Oscar nominations including | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
one for Russell himself as best director -- Women In Love. He also | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
directed controversial religious drama The Devils and The Who's a | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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Ken Russell's portrait of the composer Elgar, one of the series | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
of acclaimed arts documentaries he made for the BBC in the 1960s. They | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
were beautiful to look at, seductive to listen to and | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
thoroughly self-indulgent. They marked him out as a film-maker of | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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At the BBC, he learnt his craft as a director and has developed his | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
trademark style, a flamboyant and visually extravagant. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
He moved into cinema, where his second major feature, Women In Love | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
was acclaimed as a masterpiece. shan't save them, father, there is | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
no knowing where they are. Exposing political chicanery and the evils | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
of the state, and I would plead guilty. But as time went on his | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
films got more extreme. The Devils reflected his fascination with sex | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
and religion and was widely panned. I started to make films around that | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
time, around 7172. He also disturbed may. -- 71 or 72. Whether | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
you like it or disliked it, you had a strong reaction either way, and | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
this is great. Tommy, made in 1975, was typically overblown. It there | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
followed more than 30 years in which his films became | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
progressively less successful and his financial difficulties | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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Eye Centre scrip to Channel 4 the other day,. It came back six months | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
later signed by somebody I had never heard of saying "thank you | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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for your script ." I nearly went mad! Not cinematic enough for me! | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
He was, and his films remain the work of a genius. As a genius, he | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
was extraordinary, and like all geniuses, sometimes his films were | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
much less than genius. Action. Music. Better to remember his | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
successes, like the musical the Boy friend starring Twiggy, a reminder | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
that Russell, all those self- indulgent at times, could also be | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
-- all those self-indulgent. The Life and Work of the director Ken | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Has died at the age of 84. At least 11 people are known to have died at | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
more than 30 are still missing after a bridge collapsed in | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Indonesia. The accident happened on Saturday on Borneo island and it is | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
understood that the cable snapping was the cause. The bridge resembled | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and its collapse sent | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
cars, buses and motorcycles into the river. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
The chocolate company Nestle has announced it will investigate child | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
labour in its supply chain in West Africa. The company's decision came | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
within days of the BBC investigation showing that child | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
labour is widespread in cocoa farms and the Ivory Coast. Campaigners | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
say the chocolate industry has known about these are pieces for | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
years but failed to address them. Humphrey Hawksley has this report. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Three weeks ago, we filmed these children cutting cocoa pods in the | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
Ivory Coast. The work is dangerous. They are kept out of school. It is | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
illegal. One said he had not seen his family for three years. | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
Cocoa is the raw product that makes chocolate. And far away from the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
poverty of West Africa, Nestle, of the world's biggest food company, | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
has declared that the present situation cannot go on. It is clear | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
that the way cocoa is cultivated Today, in the type of environment | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
it is done, with the use of child labour, with the number of | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
intermediaries in that supply chain, is not sustainable. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Cocoa's journey to our chocolate shops is complicated and filled | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
with middlemen. Nestle will track the cocoa from | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
the remotest parts of the bush through checkpoints and pay-offs to | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
the warehouse. Sacks of cocoa a ride in this | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
warehouse with no label as to exactly where it was grown or under | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
what conditions. It is here that cocoa begins its international | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
journey, that ends up in chocolate shops all around the world. | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
They are locked into containers to be shipped to Europe and America, | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
and the global business is worth more than $90 billion a year. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Yet once through the chocolate factories, most rappers don't even | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
say how the cocoa was farmed or whether it has been tainted by | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
child labour -- most chocolate wrappers do not save. Campaigners | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
want Nestle's audit to lead to real change. They need to tell us how | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
that research will be put into the public domain, it not die on the | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
boardroom table or a filing cabinet somewhere, and have that research | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
is going to, in the end, result in a slave three, traffic free | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
chocolate bars around this country and around the world. Nestle says | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
to end abuses like this, it will have to start paying more for cocoa. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
The search for child labour begins next month, with the first results | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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She is one of the most highly rated living composers of classical music, | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and Sophia Gubaidulina is one of the few women to have achieved such | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
status. Now the Russian composer is 80, and her music is being given | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
celebratory performances around the world. Alexander Kan, the BBC | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Russian Service cultural editor, has been to rehearsals offer | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
concerts at the Barbican Centre in London and has this assessment of | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
her importance. There is a bittersweet flavour to | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
the Gubaidulina birthday celebrations. During the Sixties, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Seventies and Eighties she could not travel outside the USSR. Her | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
work was not published and hardly ever performed. Her greats men to | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Shostakovich only grudgingly approved of her avant-garde | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
approach and encouraged her to continue down her pass. Now the | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
finest musicians and the world are paying tribute to her work. I am so | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
happy and so moved to see how deeply appreciated and loved she is, | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
not only by all of us musicians but by the audience, it really grasps, | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
almost instinctively, what her music is about. | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
The musician performs Gubaidulina's Second Violin Concerto, dedicated | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
to the famous violinist. The music focuses around Sofia, goddess of | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
wisdom, represented by the only violin in the orchestra, battered | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
the soloist. -- that of the soloist. The main Sophia is also the link | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
between the composer and the musician. -- the name of Sofia. | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Today Gubaidulina's music is widely performed and celebrated by the | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
world's leading musicians. The famous Russian conductor and | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
artistic director of this orchestra is proud to be the first performer | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
of the number of Sophia Gubaidulina's mate -- major works. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
The fire of life is there. It excites me, her imagination. Then | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
that my small world also becomes more active, because her | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
imagination and her sonority, she can create, provokes something in | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
my own system, which starts to think and also be inflamed. This is | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
what is a sign of great composition. Even with the support of musicians | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
as prominent as him, Gubaidulina's music remains better-known in the | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
West than her homeland. The situation, however, changes. Over | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
the last weeks, the composer, who has lived in Germany for the last | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
20 years, was in Moscow and her home city for a series of | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
celebratory concerts. You will not leave the room having heard | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Gubaidulina's music untouched. It is a really life-changing | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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experience, and that is what great A reminder of our main news, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Egyptians have been voting in the first parliamentary jet -- | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
elections since President Mubarak was toppled last February. Long | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
queues have been seen across the country and voting had to be | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
extended to cope with the numbers and delays. The US State Department | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
has reacted positively to the vote, saying the signs are quite positive. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
The British film director Ken Russell has died at the age of 84. | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
He began his career making arts films for BBC Television before | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
going on to make feature films including Women In Love, which won | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
has seven Oscar nominations including Best Director. In later | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
years, his film-making efforts were rather low-budget affairs, most of | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
them containing his trademark flamboyance. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
That is all from the programme. Next, the weather, but for now, | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
Hello. Through the day today wins have strengthened and we have | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
continued to see rain in the north and west. Into tomorrow, continuing | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
on a similar theme with very windy and wet weather a round, due to low | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
pressure in the Atlantic which will drive the weather throughout this | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
week. We have heavy rain to the north and west and tightly-packed | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
isobars bringing strong wins with them. With the rainfall in what | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
already saturated ground across parts of north west Scotland we | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
have an ample warning. Potential disruption to south-west Scotland | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
due to localised flooding tomorrow. The heavy rain moves across parts | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
of England and Wales during the morning combined with strong, | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
squally, gusty winds for the afternoon across northern England. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
During daylight hours for East Anglia and the South East, it will | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
stay dry but overcast, turning colder for the afternoon. Certainly | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
a colder feel to the afternoon across south-west England, | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
beginning to dry out the crap -- a touch by 3pm. Across Wales the wins | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
he's at this stage but still cloudy and wet weather around. For | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
Northern Ireland, brightness to come here with a chilly feel, | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
temperatures 7 or eight degrees, slightly lighter wind in the | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
afternoon and the showers could be wintry across the hills of Scotland, | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
where temperatures later in the day will really struggle, four or five | :28:14. | :28:18. |