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This is BBC World News today with Tim Willcox. One year on from the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
start of the revolution and still a divided country. Egypt's Tahrir | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Square draws the crowds again, but where are the Facebook generation? | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
How much change has really happened? Although most of the | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
targets of the Egyptian revolution had not been accomplished yet. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
special forces from the same team that killed Osama Bin Laden 3 two | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
American hostages in Somalia. It came just hours before President | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Obama set out his vision for a second term in office. I intend to | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
fight obstruction with action and I will oppose any effort to return to | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
the same policies that brought on his economic crisis in the first | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
place. We assess whether his State of the Union address will win over | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
the voters. Also coming up, 2,600 delegates, 40 | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
heads of state, 18 central bank chiefs and about 70 billionaires. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
The German Chancellor opens the World economic Forum in Davos. | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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There is still a lot to learn from the economic crisis. And life after | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Borat, a new films showing Kazakhstan as the people would like | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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to us see it. Hello and welcome. One year to the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
day since the start of the revolution in Egypt which swept | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Hosni Mubarak from power, thousands of people return to Tahrir Square | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
in Cairo. Far from a united nation, the decisions in the society were | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
all too clear. Rival stages were set, with banners carrying | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
conflicting messages. Business, who command a majority in Parliament, | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
celebrating, one pro-democracy supporters want further reform, | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
including the resignation of the ruling military council. It is | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Party demonstration, part celebration. One year on, Egyptians | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
are proud of what they have achieved, but angry about what has | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
not been done yet. Tahrir Square is a bit of a noisy street party. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
There are plenty here pressing hard for a quicker move to democracy. | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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am proud of the revolution. We still find that the Egyptian people, | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
although most of the targets of the Egyptian revolution had not been | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
accomplished debt, it has not been filled by the military council. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Around the square, there are at least three different stages, with | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
the different political groups all blaring out of their competing | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
messages. That certainly would not have been possible one year ago. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Neither would this. Some fairly vicious caricatures of Eija's | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
current leaders. These are also pictures of those killed in the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
revolution. Some are being drawn by artists, right in the middle of the | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
demonstration. One year on from the revolution, Egypt is still ruled by | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
the military. This man addressed the nation last night to stress | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
that the army support the aims of the revolution. The other power in | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
the land are the Islamists. They are in the majority in the newly | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
elected Parliament and they are involved in complicated behind the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
scenes negotiations with the army of for a handover of power to | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
civilian rulers. Not everyone here in Tahrir Square once the immediate | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
downfall of the military. There are plenty of different agendas. Sooner | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
or later, someone will have to get this country moving again. One year | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
after the revolution, it is no longer the People versus the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
government, but a lot of groups competing for power. Sometimes | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
demonstrating, sometimes confronting, sometimes negotiating, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
it will be a long and complicated road ahead for Egypt. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Let us take you lied to Tahrir Square where you can see many | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
people still packing that central square in the heart of Cairo. This | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
is for the start of those mass protests against Hosni Mubarak. It | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
resulted in him been swept from power. He is facing trial. Let us | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
stay and speak to Dr Omagh Ashour, director of Middle East Studies at | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
the University of Exeter. There were special commemorative coins, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
mass parties planned for the whole of Egypt. How sincere gesture is | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
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that? I guess it is a way to absorb some of the anger of the protesters. | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
I was in a suburb walking to Tahrir Square, more than 100,000 | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
protesters came out and the chance were overwhelmingly against the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
armed forces. All of them were demanding a transition to civilian | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
rule, elected civilian rule, President first, it was chanted a | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
lot of times. It is a way to tell the Supreme Council to hold | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
elections as soon as possible. April is the deadline. We will see | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
more and more protests to push back the military out of role. Now there | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
is a Parliament, but the Parliament has limited powers, it cannot | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
appoint a government, it cannot sack a minister. It has the role of | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
crafting the constitution. To complement the full transition of | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
power, we need an elected president and that was the main demand today | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
in Tahrir Square. We were both there one year ago and I remember | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
that the Facebook generation was there, how the revolution swept | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
around the country via electronic media. Where were those people? | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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Many of them poorer all-round. Many of these younger activists ant all | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
of them were in the demonstration today. And many of them were | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
leading the demonstration coming from the upper middle-class areas. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
They were in Tahrir Square speaking to people and trying to formulate | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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an upcoming strategy. They were calling for a massive protest on | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Friday calling for elections as soon as possible. These debates are | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
there and most of these activists were there. This is a very | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
different game, the election process. And many of them did not | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
win in the parliamentary do that -- elections, but outside in street | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
politics, things are different and they showed today that they can | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
mobilise again and there is a lot of support for their demands for | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
their calls of the full transition to civilian rule. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Now look at some of the other news. At least 70 people in the Pakistani | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
city of Lahore are believed to have been killed by contaminated hard | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
drugs. Officials say the deaths appear to be linked to a batch of | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
drugs given to patients free of charge by a government-run hospital. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
A government official has told us that 28,000 people received drugs | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
from a contaminated batch. We understand that the drugs were | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
distributed free of charge in the middle of December. Some officials | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
say these drugs were manufactured by a little-known local companies | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
and they did not have expiry dates. Samples of the suspected -- suspect | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
drugs have been sent for testing. At least one firm has been closed | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
and several arrests have been made. Relatives of the dead are saying | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
that authorities waited too long to ring the alarm bells and a more | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
lives were lost because of this. Doctors are warning the death toll | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
could reach 150. We know that more than 400 people have become ill | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
since taking these drugs. Hospital sources have been telling the BBC | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
that they come under pressure to buy from the cheaper suppliers. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
They say if they do not, they could face court action from local firms. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
In the wake of this tragedy, doctors are saying that has to stop | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
and that hospitals have to be forced to buy drugs from reputable | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
authorised suppliers, not just from the cheapest people in the market. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his police | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
chief Hafiz Ringim. It comes in the wake of attacks by Boko Haram and a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
recent escape from police custody of a man suspected of masterminding | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the Christmas Day church attack. South Sudan has agreed a deal with | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Kenya to build an oil pipeline, potentially reducing its dependence | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
on its northern neighbour Sudan. Last week, South Sudan said it was | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
stopping its oil production because of the row with the government of a | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
transit fees. President Obama has praised the US | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
special forces to launch a pre-dawn raid in Somalia and rescuing two | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
hostages including an American. Both were on hand, but nine parrots | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
were killed. The aid workers were abducted in October when working | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
for a Danish de-mining organisation. The Navy Seal team the rescue the | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
hostages was the same team that killed Osama Bin Laden. A commander | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
in chief with every reason to be relieved. On his way to give the | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
State of the Union address last night, President Obama | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
congratulated his Defence Secretary on a secret rescue mission in | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
Somalia. This mission ended these two aid worker's nightmare. They | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
were freed by US Navy seals after three months held by Somali | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
kidnappers. They were seized last October in northern Somalia while | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
working for a Danish mine-clearing charity. They were held to ransom | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
and the health deteriorated and the US decision to rescue them came | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
from the White House. They were being held in a compound in | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
northern Somalia. US Navy seals, from the same unit that killed | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Osama Bin Laden, mounted the operation. They parachuted into the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
area, landing close to the compound at 2am. Gunfire broke out as they | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
approached and then the fighting that followed, all nine kidnappers | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
were killed. There were no US casualties. The hostages were then | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
flown by helicopter to the safety of the US base. The entire | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
operation lasted one hour. When it was over, the president rang the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
woman's father. He had taken a big risk. That President personally | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
authorised this and we have our special operations forces. They | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
concluded they should go at this time and the President gave the go- | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
ahead. The raid was the highest profile military action in Somalia | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
since US forces pulled out of there in 1994. That still leaves over 150 | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
hostages, mostly sailors, held by Somali pirates and bandits. The | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
ransoms for their release are rising, well into the millions. One | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
of those still being held is a British tourist, snatched from this | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Kenyan beach resort last September and taken to Somalia. It is partly | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
what prompted David Cameron to call an international conference on | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Somalia next month. Tonight, there are two X hostages his ordeal is | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
over. There will be more kidnappings and more piracy. | :12:41. | :12:49. | |
Somalia's problems will need lasting solutions. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
That daring raid happened just hours before President Obama went | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
to Capitol Hill to deliver his annual State of the Union address. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
In it, he demanded a fairer tax system with the wealthiest | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Americans paying more. He said the policy was about common sense, not | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
class war. That is how his republican opponents described it. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
The president of the United States! Up it is a great American ritual | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
and by now he knows the stage craft by heart. Will be Raffles estate at | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
the President Obama's last. With tens of millions watching at home, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
this was a pitch for his own job. America is back! Anyone who tells | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
you otherwise, any one who tells you that America is in decline or | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
that our influence has waned, does not know what they're talking | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
about! To there was optimism here, jobs being created at last, a car | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
industry reborn. What pains President Obama is the widening gap | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
between rich and poor. He says the nation faced a choice. We can sell | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
for country were is shrinking number of people do well, whether a | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
growing number barely get by. And we can restore an economy where | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
everyone gets a fair shot and were everyone does their fair share and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
where everyone plays by the same set of rules! Translation? The rich | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
should pay more in tax. Republicans call that class warfare. On foreign | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
affairs, he pledged that America would remain the one indispensable | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
nation, but he sounded a warning. The let there be no doubt. America | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and I will | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
take no options of the table to achieve that goal! In Syria, I have | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
no doubt that the regime will soon discover that the forces of change | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
cannot be reversed and that human dignity cannot be denied. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
president ended with a call for common purpose, evoking the spirit | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
of the Navy seals who killed Osama Bin Laden. This was a speech | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
delivered in Congress, but directed at American voters far beyond | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Washington. The President will now take his message on the road to | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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vital battleground states that will The trouble is, more than half of | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
the American population do not believe he can change things around. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Two-thirds do not like his direction. He has an uphill task. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
You have to give the President his dues. The private sector has | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
created jobs for 23 consecutive months, offsetting declines in be | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
government sector. People did not think that he would be as strong as | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
he is now six months ago. Things are moving in the right direction | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
but him politically, but certainly for the American economy. He | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
deserves the credit. When you look at what has happened and what the | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
Republicans try to do to our country last summer when they were | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
denied -- they denied the United States paying his debt... | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
United States is equal for the debt. The President called for two | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
trillion dollars -- up four trillion dollars in cuts but it has | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
to be staged. We want our economy to get stronger, we need to make | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
commitments and put the cuts in place. But we also needs to raise | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
revenue. He is quite clear. When you ask Americans whether they | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
think the tax system is fair and fairly applied, particularly when | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
you have a presidential candidate who paid less than 50 % of his vast | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
wealth in taxes, I think this is a winner issue for the President. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Mitt Romney was clearly in his sights, though he did not mention | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
him by name. Doesn't the empirical evidence showed that when you do | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
raise tax rates, the actual tax take is lower? No. Honestly, you | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
cannot 0.21 situation in US history where that has been the truth. That | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
is an old wives tale which has been told time and time again and it is | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
simply not true. When it comes to paying back the deficit, how on | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
earth is it going to happen when everything is locked in terms of | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Congress? There is no support there. Let's not forget that when Bill | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Clinton was President, we have balanced books up. We then had a | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
president, George Bush, who went in a completely different direction, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
gave tax cuts and drove spending or wildly out of proportion, got as | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
involved in two wars, one of which our current President has finally | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
withdrawn as from, so I think the American people will hear this | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
discussion over the next few months once the Republicans have selected | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
their candidate and we will have a good dialogue. But having said that, | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
this President is in much better shape than he appeared to have been | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
six months ago, particularly with the private sector job growth that | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
the US is experiencing. If you look at the water industry, one which | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Barack Obama single-handedly saved, hundreds of thousands of people | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
directly and indirectly employed against -- over the opposition of | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
most Republicans. -- the automobile industry. We must leave it there. | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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There's lots of snow, and it's icy cold in the Swiss ski resort of | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Davos, but there are many heated debates ahead for the top political | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
and business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum there. The | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
meeting was officially opened by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
She urged her audience to reflect on what lessons had been drawn from | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
the global financial and economic crisis and suggested there was | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
still a lot more to learn. TRANSLATION: What is needed is a | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
big rethink. Ever since 2008 and 2009, we have been debating time | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
and again what lessons we can draw from this big global financial and | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
economic crisis. Let us and perhaps take a moment and reflect a | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
question that was asked last year and that I'm going to ask again | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
this year, what lessons have we learnt from the global financial | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
and economic crisis? Is it sufficient? The answer to that it | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
is even in this year, it is still not sufficient. If we are talking | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
about having a rethink and are breaking new ground, I think there | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
is still room here for improvement. If one is realistic, even perhaps a | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
bit pessimistic come up one has to say that although in 2008 and 2009 | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
we have experienced very clearly that there is a close | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
interdependency, we have now been able to bring the Doha round to a | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
successful conclusion. We had a fast changeover in Davos. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Our previous guest is gone and we can now speak to the deputy editor | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
of the Financial Times Deutschland. Thank you for joining us. Germany | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
reset pushing the eurozone into a vicious downward cycle with | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
unrealistic austerity demands. It was -- was their son that she was | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
listening to him today? It was known before that that is not her | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
opinion. What did you draw from that? Bizzett more of the same? She | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
is not listening to the IMF either. She made it clear today, and that | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
was for the first time that she made it back play, that Germany is | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
not prepared to pay it more money for the eurozone, at least for the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
time being. That was new today and there was clear. Interesting that | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
Christine Lagarde wants the merging of the temporary yes -- ESF their | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
point Why was he not go along with something like that? Is it too | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
politically dangerous? That is one reason. She would run into massive | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
problems if she agreed to pay more money because the Democrats are | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
strictly against it, as is the population. On the other hand, her | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
opinion is that the eurozone is doing pretty well, and better than | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
the weeks before. We had some success for bond auction is, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
austerity programmes are in place in a few countries and today, she | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
mentioned that she almost praises countries like Spain, Portugal, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Italy and Ireland for putting these austerity programmes in place. That | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
is why she thinks she can have this tough decision. She also asked | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
business leaders to give policy makers more time to allow them to | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
sort this out, but how much town is left? There is a schedule now, that | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
the problem is we think Greece is more or less fixed, but still we do | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
not know how the outcome will be. Once we will run into problems with | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Greece Again, then the game is open. The problem is not solved yet, but | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
we look better now than we did six or seven months ago because we had | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
that idea of a new EU treaty which is being constructed. We have this | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
successful bond auction so it seems like as if we are on the right | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
track, but we had this opinion several times before so I'm not | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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sure either. Thank you for joining Five years ago, comedian Sacha | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Baron Cohen put the spotlight on Kazakhstan for all the wrong | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
reasons with his film spoof 'Borat.' Now the country is | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
launching its own cinematic fight back. To mark its 20th anniversary | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
of independence from the Soviet Union, it's made its most expensive | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
film ever, a national epic called 'Myn Bala.' And as the BBC's Arts | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Correspondent, Emma Jones reports, there's a new wave of Kazakh films | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
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This was the Bay -- the weight Sacha Baron Cohen's film brought | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Kazakhstan to the West. Although it was timing tea, they were betrayed | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
as backward, sister marrying peasants. Finally this is their | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
response, their own cinema invasion. This is a film which is filmed -- | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
No nylon jackets anywhere, this is the true history of how two | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
centuries ago cassocks overthrew the Mongolian oppressors. This | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
message of freedom cost 7 million US dollars to make and it was | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
funded by the cassocks to tell their story. TRANSLATION: We made a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
good movie and I think it will appeal to a crop -- audiences | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
across the world. A great film knows no borders. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
It would be wrong to assume there is no mood the infrastructure here. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
These are the world renowned nomad stunt men. This is where the cast | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
get put through their paces for the film. This stunt team have worked | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
all over the world on films like Conan the barbarian. They then came | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
home to Kazakhstan to make this They are a bad to do more domestic | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
work as well. Last year, the tale of a pink bunny, a look at while | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the youth, became the country's highest grossing domestic film ever. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
It alerted the authorities they had a market are now 20 films are in | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
production, Trent not -- 90 % of which are funded. | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
TRANSLATION: We have done a lot to attract young film-makers. Now the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
script writers are coming to us. The average age is between 20 and | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
27, they are the new wave of directors. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
This film should be launched at the Cannes Film Festival, but it is | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
hoped its sweeping landscapes will attract Westerners, although | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
modern-day Kazakhstan is as much about oil as a year its. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
TRANSLATION: Making films is important for our image building | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
for an international audience. It is a good investment to put money | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
in. After all, it is advertising the country abroad and hopefully | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
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It is hoped this a national epic could really make benefit for the | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
glorious nation of Kazakhstan, as A reminder of our main news: | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
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a year after the start of the protests which overthrew President | :26:34. | :26:36. |