:00:14. > :00:18.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. Split on imposing
:00:18. > :00:23.immediate oil sanctions but the EU continues to tighten the diplomatic
:00:23. > :00:28.pressure on to run. The European Union is not only
:00:28. > :00:37.significant -- signalling an intensification of our approach but
:00:38. > :00:41.doing a lot of effort as well. Syria's political leadership in
:00:41. > :00:46.exile. Repression in the name of security
:00:46. > :00:49.- Amnesty International's verdict on Saudi Arabia's response to the
:00:49. > :00:57.Arab Spring. Looking for that early morning
:00:57. > :01:03.caffeine hit? How strong is too strong?
:01:03. > :01:08.Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.
:01:08. > :01:18.And Meryl Streep defends her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher,
:01:18. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:30.described by one of her friends as Hello and welcome. The diplomatic
:01:30. > :01:35.screw on to run was tightened further today as EU foreign
:01:35. > :01:40.ministers agreed on new sanctions. 180 companies and individuals have
:01:40. > :01:44.been added to the original target list but they stopped short of
:01:44. > :01:49.imposing sanctions on the Iranian oil industry. It comes at a time of
:01:49. > :01:53.heightened diplomatic tensions following the ransacking of the
:01:53. > :01:58.British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. James Reynolds reports
:01:58. > :02:03.from Brussels. European Union foreign ministers
:02:03. > :02:10.had this meeting in their diaries long before the British compound in
:02:10. > :02:16.Tehran were attacked. But it gave them much greater urgency.
:02:16. > :02:23.Sanctions have been agreed on 180 additional entities associated with
:02:23. > :02:28.Iran's nuclear programme for the Iranian republic shipping lines or
:02:28. > :02:33.the Revolutionary Guards, so it is a major extension of the EU
:02:33. > :02:36.sanctions. Tuesday's embassy attacks are still
:02:36. > :02:41.David. At the British Government believes that protesters had links
:02:41. > :02:47.with elements of Iran's conservative establishment. The
:02:47. > :02:54.West is trying to work out ways to deal with the hardliners.
:02:54. > :02:57.We are already dealing with what comes next. Sales of crude oil line
:02:58. > :03:03.did not -- the pockets of the regime and feed its nuclear
:03:03. > :03:09.ambitions. For some, the pressure should focus
:03:09. > :03:15.here, on Iran's oil fields. The Islamic Republic is one of the
:03:15. > :03:20.world's largest exporters of oil. At this summit some ministers
:03:20. > :03:26.suggested and of -- and oil embargo but others are posted. The EU and
:03:26. > :03:30.Iran to a lot of business together but Iran's key market is in Asia
:03:30. > :03:35.and China in particular so more European sanctions can only have a
:03:36. > :03:41.limited impact. So the West has agreed to, despite concentrate on
:03:41. > :03:49.stopping Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its
:03:49. > :03:52.ambitions are entirely peaceful. Almost 200 companies are now on the
:03:52. > :03:57.sanctions list. Let's speak to Dr Mehrdard Khonsari,
:03:57. > :04:01.a former Iranian diplomat and a specialist in Middle Eastern
:04:01. > :04:05.affairs. They stopped short of imposing oil sanctions but what
:04:06. > :04:10.ability to month -- to manoeuvre does Britain have now to bring
:04:10. > :04:15.European ministers around to tighten the sanctions? What would
:04:15. > :04:21.really make a difference and where Britain has taken a lead is the
:04:21. > :04:26.sanctions placed on the Iranian Central Bank. While other countries
:04:26. > :04:31.are now resistant in terms of wanting to discuss or at -- a
:04:31. > :04:36.sanction on oil, but if they were to follow Britain in imposing
:04:36. > :04:42.sanctions on the central bank, that in effect would curtail the flow of
:04:42. > :04:46.oil from Iran to the Europeans. It would not allow for any mechanism
:04:46. > :04:51.for Iran to be compensated financially and they can't deal
:04:51. > :04:58.with this in cash so Iran would effectively be left to selling its
:04:58. > :05:05.oil to China and Russia and friends of those countries. In terms of
:05:05. > :05:11.what Europe imports, I think it is 6 %, so a significant amount,
:05:11. > :05:17.particularly in the straitened economic circumstances. Greece and
:05:17. > :05:21.Italy will not want that, will they? The position which Saudi
:05:21. > :05:25.Arabia has taken in recent months regarding other issues concerning
:05:25. > :05:30.its bilateral relations with Iran could easily compensate for what
:05:30. > :05:35.will be taken out of the Iranian market, so that is not really an
:05:35. > :05:41.issue. What is an issue is the will to notch it up a step further, to
:05:41. > :05:46.elevate matters to levels that at which they have never been.
:05:46. > :05:51.worried is the Iranian leadership about this action? They would be
:05:51. > :05:56.quite worried were actions to be intensified to this level, but at
:05:56. > :06:02.the level they have been breached, that is the little they predicted
:06:02. > :06:07.when they ransacked the British Embassy. They have -- they knew
:06:07. > :06:10.there would be repercussions, and when they rejected the
:06:11. > :06:14.International Atomic Energy Agency recommendations. They expected a
:06:14. > :06:20.certain intensification of sanctions but they will not still
:06:20. > :06:28.think that it will never get to the point when Orwell experts will be
:06:28. > :06:35.removed. William Hague was very clear to separate the International
:06:35. > :06:44.Atomic Energy Agency Report and the British Agency for -- the British
:06:44. > :06:54.Consulate. When it comes to the nuclear issue they are quite united
:06:54. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :07:06.in Iran but Ayatollah Khamanei is more hostile to Britain than others
:07:06. > :07:10.
:07:10. > :07:14.in the government. A final thoughtful stop in terms of the
:07:14. > :07:20.Iranian economy and domestic pressure from within, presumably
:07:20. > :07:25.this plays into that as well. is no question that the Iranian
:07:25. > :07:35.economy is in a terrible state. It has got worse annually and it has
:07:35. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:43.now reached new levels. Additional sanctions will her to it. -- her at.
:07:43. > :07:47.-- will hurt. In anticipation of this progression, the Iranian
:07:47. > :07:52.regime have tried to divert attention away from the main
:07:52. > :07:57.problems, the economy and a disenchanted population which
:07:57. > :08:04.yearns to follow in the footsteps of their brethren in the Arab world.
:08:04. > :08:09.Thank you very much. Syria's main opposition group, the
:08:09. > :08:18.Syrian Free Army -- and the Syrian Free Army have joined forces to
:08:18. > :08:23.work against President Al-Assad. The agreement came as the UN Human
:08:23. > :08:28.Rights chief said that Syria was in a state of civil war, with at least
:08:28. > :08:37.4,000 people killed. We place the figure at 4,000 but
:08:37. > :08:43.information coming to us is that it is a much more than that. I have
:08:43. > :08:51.said that, as soon as there were more and more defectors threatening
:08:51. > :08:58.to take up arms, said that in August that there would be a civil
:08:58. > :09:02.war. That is how I am characterising this. Let's go to
:09:02. > :09:10.Istanbul and speak to Jonathan Head at a meeting between the free
:09:10. > :09:16.Syrian army and the Syrian National Council. How significant is this?
:09:16. > :09:20.We have to see. I think it was a necessary step. The free Syrian
:09:20. > :09:25.army is a new factor in the Syrian crisis, although it has been around
:09:25. > :09:29.in name since July. It is only in the last few weeks that we have
:09:29. > :09:38.seen bold attacks launched in its name at that are going after unit
:09:38. > :09:42.serve government forces in Syria. That has raised to be -- the
:09:42. > :09:48.spectre of civil war. Most people putting pressure on Assad are
:09:48. > :09:54.trying to work through the Syrian National Council as the unified
:09:54. > :10:04.voice of the opposition. The Syrian army -- the three Syrian army seems
:10:04. > :10:06.
:10:06. > :10:12.to be a wild card. -- three Syrian army. Its operations inside Syria
:10:12. > :10:16.seems to go against the recommendations of the other group
:10:16. > :10:22.that there should be mainly three operations. Now the groups have
:10:22. > :10:28.come together and they have said that they will work together on the
:10:28. > :10:37.same political platform based on three -- non-violent struggle but
:10:37. > :10:43.they will use force to defend civilians. It is turning his
:10:43. > :10:51.movement into something more like a government in waiting, which is
:10:51. > :10:54.want -- what and those countries depressing Assad want to see.
:10:54. > :10:58.Amnesty International has accused Saudi Arabia of launching a new
:10:58. > :11:04.wave of repression in response to the Arab Spring. Thousands have
:11:04. > :11:14.been arrested and it said that trials were grossly unfair. Saudi
:11:14. > :11:15.
:11:15. > :11:20.Arabia said that it was based on incorrect information.
:11:20. > :11:26.The US Secretary of State had dinner tonight -- last night with
:11:26. > :11:35.Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader in Burma. It is the first
:11:35. > :11:38.visit to Burma by an American head of think -- member state since 1965.
:11:38. > :11:41.She called for the release of all political prisoners.
:11:41. > :11:46.Dominique Strauss-Kahn has described his encounter with a New
:11:46. > :11:51.York hotel maid as consensual but stupid. But former head of the
:11:51. > :11:55.Eyemouth was charged with sexual assault over the incident but the
:11:55. > :12:00.charges were later dropped. -- the former head of the international
:12:00. > :12:03.money -- International Monetary Fund. He said that the maid had
:12:03. > :12:08.given him a suggestive look as he emerged naked from the shower and
:12:08. > :12:14.he had taken it as an invitation. The French President Nicolae
:12:14. > :12:19.Sarkozy has been painting a bleak future of the economic future of
:12:19. > :12:27.his country and Europe. He told his audience into long that a new cycle
:12:27. > :12:32.of debt reduction was beginning. -- in Toulon. Christian Fraser joins
:12:32. > :12:39.us lido from Paris. This was a speech to his reporters but he will
:12:39. > :12:44.have quite a tough task winning a round the French public, with more
:12:44. > :12:49.power has been given back to public? Yes, this has to be seen in
:12:49. > :12:57.a domestic setting, four months from an election, he is lagging
:12:57. > :13:02.behind in polls from the Socialist candidate. He was talking about the
:13:02. > :13:07.economic crisis and why he has had to take some of the decisions in
:13:07. > :13:11.recent weeks like the austerity measures and changes to the French
:13:11. > :13:16.pension system. He said the economic crisis was on a scale
:13:16. > :13:19.unseen in three-quarters of a century. Them that was almost an
:13:19. > :13:27.acknowledgement that European leaders have not gone fast enough
:13:27. > :13:32.and far enough. -- there was almost. He said there would have to be a
:13:32. > :13:36.new debt reducing cycle. He said there would be an immense
:13:36. > :13:42.revolution driven by new technologies, a knowledge economy,
:13:42. > :13:48.and higher education. In terms of the country's credit rating and the
:13:48. > :13:54.banks, are we looking at some significant public sector support?
:13:54. > :13:59.Yes, I think there will have to be a change in the way that France
:13:59. > :14:04.looks at the budgets and obviously you hinted at that should -- the
:14:04. > :14:07.treaty change in regards to what Germany wants to see, tighter
:14:08. > :14:12.regulation and fiscal discipline on national budgets. He said tonight
:14:12. > :14:18.but France has not balanced the budget for 30 years and things had
:14:18. > :14:22.to change. There had to be a new pattern of tax and spend. One of
:14:22. > :14:27.the things that came out of the speech, he rejected the idea of a
:14:27. > :14:32.fiscal union with penalties for governments that digress. Decisions
:14:32. > :14:38.made by bureaucrats in Brussels seems to be the model advocated by
:14:38. > :14:43.the Germans. He said Europe needed for more democracy, it is more
:14:43. > :14:47.democratic when the politicians decide. The rebuilding of Europe is
:14:47. > :14:51.not some march towards a federal superstate. Angela Merkel is coming
:14:51. > :14:56.later on the week and it seems they raised an agreement that they would
:14:56. > :15:06.need to be a treaty change that looks at how governments tax and
:15:06. > :15:11.
:15:11. > :15:17.Per for many, it is the quick start the day, a shot of coffee to clear
:15:17. > :15:24.our sleepy brain. How much caffeine is in our drinks? A new British
:15:24. > :15:30.study has found coffee is can have so much caffeine only one cup
:15:30. > :15:36.exceeds the daily recommended a man for pregnant women.
:15:36. > :15:40.Over the last decade, the number of coffee shops has exploded. Do you
:15:41. > :15:50.know what you drinking? Glasgow University researchers found a huge
:15:51. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:56.difference in the caffeine hit from 20 off for thought health Thais-up
:15:56. > :16:06.off The thief fourth fourth closest to that was Starbucks with 51
:16:06. > :16:09.
:16:09. > :16:17.An espresso from an independent patisserie had 322 milligrams. Did
:16:17. > :16:25.customers know how strong it was? It is six times stronger than some
:16:25. > :16:32.other coffee is. Is it? That is good coffee. I like it. I like
:16:32. > :16:37.strong coffee. I do get a bit shaky. This one, I do not taste of how
:16:37. > :16:41.strong it is. You cannot tell. much caffeine is dangerous to
:16:41. > :16:46.unborn babies but researchers say pregnant women have no idea how
:16:46. > :16:53.much they are drinking. They should not have more than 200 milligrams
:16:53. > :16:59.of caffeine per day which is four cups of coffee. Data shows if you
:16:59. > :17:03.went to certain coffee houses you could get that and more with one
:17:03. > :17:13.shot of expressive. All the more reason to make coffee houses
:17:13. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:22.display caffeine levels. We thought we would put it to dip test. -- to
:17:22. > :17:28.the test. You are a flat white drinker meaning you like coffee
:17:28. > :17:33.with lots of milk. No, it is a beverage that takes its name from
:17:33. > :17:40.Australia and New Zealand. A silky, a velvety coffee that is on the
:17:40. > :17:45.menu at Starbucks and Costa Coffee. It is delicious. I drink a lot of
:17:45. > :17:55.espresso. This one here from a high-street chain, will that very
:17:55. > :17:56.
:17:56. > :18:03.much compared to another from a local deli? The research says that
:18:03. > :18:06.the shots differ. The biggest difference is do you add another
:18:06. > :18:13.shot when you buy your coffee? Different coffees have different
:18:13. > :18:19.caffeine levels. It is a plant. It has different levels of caffeine.
:18:19. > :18:24.So, your height will be sensational, something like this. Is this your
:18:24. > :18:30.traditional espresso? This is a tradition of, seven grams is the
:18:30. > :18:34.traditional. British consumers are trading up. We're seeing consumers
:18:34. > :18:43.liking stronger coffee. The extra shot is becoming a greater part of
:18:43. > :18:48.drinking. So, that will give you a buzz. Absolutely. In terms of the
:18:48. > :18:53.recommended amount of caffeine, where does that stand question mark
:18:53. > :19:01.200 milligrams. One of these is a shot from Starbucks. 51 milligrams
:19:01. > :19:06.of caffeine reported, I am no expert but that is the medical
:19:06. > :19:13.prognosis, 200 milligrams is the maximum pregnant women should have.
:19:13. > :19:21.They could have four of those. Research suggests few women would
:19:21. > :19:26.go that far. And something stronger than that? Less water. It does not
:19:26. > :19:31.change the impact. Not at all. you think with the advice coming
:19:31. > :19:39.out that we could ultimately see may be a chart of how strong the
:19:39. > :19:45.coffee is like chillies in the supermarket? Potentially but our
:19:45. > :19:52.research shows literally consumers are sensible when it comes to
:19:52. > :20:01.caffeine. Because our body tells us question mark yes, and we have done
:20:01. > :20:10.research with pregnant women. of pregnant females decrease the
:20:10. > :20:16.amount of coffee in T. It is a storm in a coffee cup.
:20:16. > :20:20.Realistically, most consumers are clear they should not be having
:20:20. > :20:30.huge amounts of caffeine, particularly if pregnant.
:20:30. > :20:52.
:20:52. > :20:56.I ask the right honourable gentleman whose fault is that?
:20:56. > :21:01.I the only one Margaret Thatcher but she has had many imitators over
:21:01. > :21:06.the years. Teachers cannot teach when there is no heating. Meryl
:21:06. > :21:14.Streep is taking a turn up to wear the blue suit. What did she want to
:21:14. > :21:21.bring to what is already a well worn part? I wanted to in some way
:21:21. > :21:30.capture whatever it was that drew people to her and whatever it was
:21:30. > :21:38.that made people have a special venom for her as a public figure.
:21:38. > :21:43.You turn if you want to, the lady's not for turning affair. The most
:21:43. > :21:47.difficult thing I had to do was find the breath to not only make my
:21:47. > :21:57.points but to make sure you didn't get your point in at any point, and
:21:57. > :22:02.another thing. Milk has gone up. 49 pence a pint. Meryl Streep place
:22:02. > :22:06.two macro Margaret Thatcher's. The political powerhouse, and a
:22:06. > :22:10.fictionalised version depicting a frail old lady with dementia having
:22:10. > :22:16.visions of heard of it -- deceased husband. To play one character in
:22:17. > :22:24.different ways is not easy. There is an element, a Shakespearean
:22:24. > :22:32.element to it, Lear or Hammett. I love you! Will Gompertz, oh my
:22:32. > :22:41.God! I said it secretly, liam macro The Gulls. Concerned with the
:22:41. > :22:45.endgame. And how power diminishes. In every capacity. He is a man who
:22:45. > :22:48.knows Margaret Thatcher World. He found the performance totally
:22:49. > :22:55.convincing but was uncomfortable about the portrayal of his boss in
:22:55. > :23:00.old age with Failing Mental Health. This will be controversial.
:23:00. > :23:05.Margaret Thatcher is depicted as a fee bill old lady, lonely and
:23:05. > :23:11.hallucinating. I found it painful to watch. If it was about my mother,
:23:11. > :23:19.I would be unhappy about it. I do think you can defend it as work of
:23:19. > :23:25.art. Was it difficult doing it when she is still alive? If we did it in
:23:25. > :23:32.the right way, yes, it would be OK. Members of my family, who have had
:23:32. > :23:38.dementia and friends, there is a feeling the walls are more
:23:38. > :23:41.permeable between the present and the past. Meryl Streep has been
:23:41. > :23:51.nominated for more Oscars than any other actress. It has been a while
:23:51. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:07.since she last won. The Iron Lady We can beat this disease,'s's vow
:24:07. > :24:17.as he marked World Aids Day. A disproportionate number of of
:24:17. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:30.Americans living in the southern They don't want to talk about it in
:24:30. > :24:37.the church or at home. People do not want to talk about it in the
:24:37. > :24:40.south. With numbers being high in the south, there is a need for
:24:40. > :24:49.people to say we have a problem and need to address it up front. That
:24:49. > :24:55.hasn't happened yet. The cemeteries in South Carolina are littered with
:24:55. > :24:59.secrets. Scores of those buried he died from HIV Aids but such is the
:24:59. > :25:05.stigma of the disease in the south but many took the true cause of
:25:05. > :25:12.their death to the grave. I have lost my sister, my niece, cousins,
:25:12. > :25:18.in-laws. The reverent has lost eight of her family to Hib Aids and
:25:18. > :25:26.is determined the tragic truth be told. I try not to cry. Life still
:25:26. > :25:34.goes on. A pasture -- pastor in the church, she is one of the few to
:25:34. > :25:41.speak out about a disease which has affected African-Americans. When
:25:41. > :25:46.people find out by hand out condoms, that shook clover. How can I be a
:25:46. > :25:51.pastor, a woman of God, and gives them a condom. I sit them that I
:25:51. > :25:57.would prefer to reach you eight -- preacher you a condom than preach
:25:57. > :26:01.at your funeral. The response has been vastly different elsewhere.
:26:01. > :26:07.Legesse spoke up right to wait and so public health officials had to
:26:07. > :26:14.respond. This journalist is the author of a shame to die. A book
:26:14. > :26:19.which chronicles the Aids epidemic in the south. The prognosis going
:26:19. > :26:24.forward is unless there is a major shift in the cultural attitudes, it
:26:24. > :26:32.will continue to plague the south. We have two test was to have a
:26:32. > :26:36.short drive, a clinic treats 450 people who are HIV-positive. Staff
:26:36. > :26:41.say it is an uphill battle getting those at highest risk to seek
:26:41. > :26:46.advice and treatment. What we have seen his people wait longer to get
:26:46. > :26:55.tested and they can into the system sicker and that adds to the
:26:55. > :27:02.epidemic because the amount of virus in the community is higher.
:27:02. > :27:06.don't want anybody to experience this. If I can prevent one family
:27:06. > :27:16.going through the agony we went through losing someone to this
:27:16. > :27:31.
:27:31. > :27:35.That is it. Coming up, the weather. Hello, south-east England gets rain
:27:35. > :27:43.overnight but elsewhere eight frost under clear skies. A cold start to
:27:43. > :27:47.Friday, some patchy ice with showers overnight. This is the
:27:47. > :27:52.weather front bringing the rain, it pulls away quickly on Friday. Sunny
:27:52. > :27:57.skies following on behind. Much of southern, central and eastern UK
:27:57. > :28:04.has a bright day. In the West, cloud increases with shower was
:28:04. > :28:10.breaking out. It is fine and dry in the North East. After early rain
:28:10. > :28:15.clears, the rest of the day gives plenty of sunshine. A stunning day
:28:15. > :28:20.across the south-east, temperatures held down in single figures. The
:28:20. > :28:25.south-western looks dry, a cloud increasing across the west of Wales,
:28:25. > :28:30.showers breaking out in the afternoon. A similar picture in a
:28:30. > :28:34.north-west England and Northern Ireland. We notice the wind picking
:28:34. > :28:39.up across western Scotland, especially in the north-west.
:28:39. > :28:46.Outbreaks of rape and in the east of Scotland drive through the day.