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This is World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. The UN Security | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Council is about to discuss a draft resolution urging the Syria's | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
President Assad to step down. But in Syria itself, the authorities | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
launched a massive attack on opposition strongholds in what one | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
activist calls a terrifying massacre. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Keeping watch on Iran - the head of the UN's atomic agency tells us he | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
does not believe Teheran has revealed everything about its | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
nuclear programme. The problem is that we are not sure whether Iran | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
has declared everything, and therefore we cannot give assurance | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
that everything is for a peaceful purpose. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
An escalating dispute over oil wealth. The leaders of Sudan and | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
South Sudan that failed to resolve their differences at mediation | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
talks in Ethiopia. Also coming up: At the highest unemployment rate in | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
the developed world - we report from Spain, where the new | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
government is grappling with the new jobless rate, which is twice | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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And a musical meditation on that September macro as the world | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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renowned grimness Quartet comes to Hello and welcome. Activist in | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Syria say government forces have launched renewed assaults on | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
several cities. Witnesses say beef feared 4th division is leading the | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
attack in the City of Hama. These pictures, which we are unable to | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
verify, seem to show people demonstrating after Friday prayers | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
in the cities of Homs and another city. Activists say that shortly | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
after these pictures were taken, security forces opened fire. More | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
than 130 people are believed to have been killed across Syria in | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
the last 48 hours. The head of the Arab League observer mission says | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
violence and Syria has risen sharply since Tuesday. But what of | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the opposition fighters who have taken up arms or defected from the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Syrian army? Our Middle East Editor reports now from the Damascus | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
suburb of where the Assad Government's grip appears to be | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
weakening. To find out the strength of the | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
opposition, drive into the suburbs of Damascus. We had no idea what we | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
would discover. We found the Free Syria Army, deserters from the | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
President's forces and local men, securing a poor district on the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
edge of the city. They said they were protecting the people who were | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
about to hold a funeral. They looked well established here, with | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
sandbag firing positions. Everyone was on edge. For 10 months, the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
regime's forces have been cracking down hard on Friday protests. This | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
commander said he had been a general in the Syrian government | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
forces. A man interrupted to praise the Free Syria Army. Then, | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
something nobody wanted to hear. Security are coming? Don't be | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
afraid, said the general, our resistance is strong. Some of them | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
got ready to fight. Stay with me, said the general, don't be afraid. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Sentries were sending in information by phone. They all | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
seemed to know what was happening. They went into their positions and | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
others moved to deeper into the suburb, where the funeral had | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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It had felt as if every man in the suburb was there. | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
A big send-off for a man who was killed by the security forces. | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
Across Syria, funerals are focus for opposition. They chanted, "oh, | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
God, you're all we have. We are your men". This is another section | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
of the suburbs of Damascus which has slipped out of the control of | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
President Assad. The only way he can enforce his authority is by | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
sending in his men and by using their guns and bullets. And for a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
moment, that is what we thought was about to happen. It shows the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
tension, even with the Free Syria Army close by. It was time for us | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
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to go. He warned about snipers. Getting out was not easy. The Free | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Syria Army controller a surprisingly big area, but it was | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
surrounded. All this does not mean that the president is about to fall. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
He has his own strong support and lethal weapons, but the regime's | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
forces cannot be everywhere at once and the power of the opposition is | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
growing. Those dramatic scenes were from | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Damascus. The head of the un's atomic agency | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
is urging Iran to engage constructively with a team of | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
inspectors heading to Tehran this weekend. A report by the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
International Atomic Energy Agency in November has reinforced | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
suspicions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, despite its | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
repeated denials. The IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, said efforts to | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
verify whether Iran's nuclear activities Arfon on a military | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
purposes had been hampered by a lack of co-operation. Talks on | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
around's nuclear ambitions broke Darin Turkey one year ago. The | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Iranian President, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, insists Tehran is not | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
budget negotiations and is ready for talks with world powers. But | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
several other countries are still waiting for Tehran took reply to a | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
letter sent by the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Ashton, in October, calling for any discussions. The EU imposed its | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
harsher sanctions yet on Iran this week, including an oil embargo and | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
freezing of its central bank assets. Britain, France and the US also | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
recently sailed warships through the Strait of Hall news, a key | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
supply route which Iran has repeatedly threatened to close. And | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
today, the Israeli Defence Minister called for even tougher sanctions | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
to stop the run from reaching the point where a military strike could | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
not prevent it from having nuclear weapons. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
I have been talking to the head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, at the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
World Economic Forum en Davos. Does he believe the later sanctions by | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
the EU will have the desired effect of making Iran return to the | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
negotiating table? -- latest sanctions. In my view, engaging | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
with the IAEA will clarify the outstanding issue and it should be | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
in the interests of Iran itself. And do you believe that Iran has | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
declared everything in respect of its nuclear programme? You had | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
these inspectors going to Tehran to start their work. -- you have. | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
is a problem. Iran has declared a good number of facilities and they | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
are under the IAEA Safe Guard, and we can verify that they stay in | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
peaceful purposes. The problem is that we are not sure whether Iran | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
has declared everything and therefore we cannot give assurances | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
that everything is for a peaceful purpose. Do you personally believe, | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
Yukiya Amano, that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb? We have | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
chosen our words very carefully. We do not say that Iran has nuclear | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
weapons. We do not say that Iran has made a decision to develop | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
nuclear weapons. What we said to is that we have the information that | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
indicates that Iran engaged in activities relevant to the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
development of nuclear explosive devices, and the information is | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
credible. Therefore, we would like to clarify these issues. The EU has | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
imposed its toughest sanctions yet. Do you believe that the United | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
Nations is going to also route follows suit and ask for a total | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
oil embargoes and a frieze of all central bank assets? Do you think | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Japan will follow suit? Is that what you are pushing for? As we are | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
not working in the sanction of fields, we are working in the area | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
of a verification. It is difficult. In my view, the IAEA has a role to | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
play and countries have a role to play, the UN has a role to play and | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
everyone needs to work in it their own fields and with a combination | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
of efforts, we hope that we can make progress. Israel is one | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
country that is very worried about Iran's nuclear ambitions. The | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, has said he is content to see the world | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
in the driving seat in terms of getting a diplomatic resolution but | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
he said he would never turn down the option of using force against | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
Iran unilaterally. A my response to that is that we have to solve this | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
issue through dialogue. By dialogue, I mean that Iran has to tell us | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
everything. I have identified the areas where Iran needs to engage | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
with us. Iran has a case to answer. What do you say to the Israelis? | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
You have met Ehud Barak in Davos, who says that balls is not going to | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
be taken off the table. Barack Obama also said similar things. | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
What do you say? I am doing everything possible in my power to | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
solve this issue of in a peaceful manner. I believe that Israel | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
appreciates that the IAEA is to starting its responsibility. By the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
way, I believe that all the countries support activities to | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
verify the nuclear activities of Iran. The head of the UN's atomic | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
agency, the IAEA, talking to me from Davos. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Coil is a commodity that is often seen as a curse and a blessing. It | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
is hard to know which way it will go at the moment for South Sudan. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
When the country became independent six months ago, and neighbouring | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Sudan lost most of its oil wealth because the most of the fields were | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
in the South. The dispute is escalating over the revenues are | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
linked to the oil pipelines that run through Sudan. The presidents | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
of the two countries failed to reach agreement during mediation | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
talks in Addis Ababa today. This stand-off is already being | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
called the oil war. Last week, South Sudan announced it was | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
stopping its oil production after accusing Sudan of stealing its oil. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Saddam had started confiscating South Sudan's most precious | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
resource when both sides were unable to agree how much the new | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
country should pay in transit fees. -- Sudan or had it started. Issues | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
like the borders, citizenship and others were unresolved. About | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
three-quarters of the oil fields in South Sudan are under dispute. But | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
as a landlocked country, South Sudan relies on Saddam for the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
pipelines. The dispute about the transit fees continued attention | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
group. Hearing Khartoum, they know that Sudan's economy needs that | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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money. -- here in at Khartoum. Euphoria of Independence Day | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
celebrations didn't last long. South Saddam's decision to shut all | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
production down as Gail -- gained support throughout the country but | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
there are tough economic times ahead. During the long years of war, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
south Sudanese people managed without oil revenues and they could | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
tear it again. That is the gist of President Salva Kiir's message. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Others fear that if there is no agreement over or oil, Sudan and | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
South Sudan could drift into another conflict. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other news. The President of France, | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Nicolas Sarkozy, has announced French combat troops will leave | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
Afghanistan at the end of 2013. He also said French soldiers in | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Afghanistan will resume their training mission from Saturday. | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
Last week, four French troops in Officials in Iraq say at least 32 | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
people have died after a blast near Bureau procession in a mainly Shia | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
area of Baghdad. They say be blast was caused by a suicide bomber | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
driving a car laden with explosives. -- near a funeral procession. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
The Olympic Village in London has been handed over by the organisers | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
of the 2012 games exactly six months before the opening ceremony. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
The apartments will cater for 16,000 athletes and officials from | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
200 countries. Spain now has the highest | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
unemployment rate in the developed world. The latest figures show that | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
5.3 million people are without a job, nearly 23% of the workforce. | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
That is more than twice the average unemployment rate in the eurozone. | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
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They wait for work in a suburb in southern Madrid. These men moved to | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Spain and used to work here in the construction industry. Now, only | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
the odd day's work is available. Many others are waiting outside | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Jobcentres. Two weeks ago we saw these people queuing outside | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
because all the seats inside were taken. This man is a photographer, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
who lost his job just a few days previously. He told us things were | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
getting worse, and he does not know when Spain will start creating more | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
jobs. Nearly one in four of those looking for work in Spain do not | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
have a job. For young people, that figure is nearly one in two. It is | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
a massive problem for the relatively new government. Since | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
then leader took power at the end of last year he has announced a | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
significant public spending cuts to rein in the country's debt. He will | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
soon announce Labour reforms, to make it easier to hire and fire. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
For the government here, unemployment is a double-edged | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
sword. It gets less money through income tax and pays out more in | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
benefits. It also means that people here in Spain have less money to | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
spend, so growth is drying up, and Spain is all but technically in a | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
recession. At the World economic Forum in Davos, awards are made in | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
recognition of achievements from all walks of life, and the Crystal | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Award is given to artists who have used their art to improve the state | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
of the world, as the prize says. One winner this year is the South | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Africans singer Yvonna Chaka Chaka, known by some as the Princess of | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Africa. She's the first African woman to get this prize. In her | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
speech, she said that growing up in South Africa under apartheid had | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
told her that giving people the dignity was vital to building | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
fairer society is, which are critical to building a safe and | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
secure world. She treated her audience to a song. | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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# This is the power of Africa. # Let all the people unite. | :17:13. | :17:22. | |
# From north to self, just feel the power of Africa. Let's speak to | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
Yvonna Chaka Chaka now. Rain, congratulations. It must have been | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
difficult to perform in those circumstances. Yes. You said in | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
your speech that a fairer society is what you're after, when you look | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
at South Africa, it is really not doing very well on that score, is | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
it, with the allegations of corruption and everything? Well, | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
thank you very much for having me. I want to say, I'm lucky to be a | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
South African, particularly a woman. I think we have got a great | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Minister of Health, a doctor by profession, who understands all the | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
problems that people are having, and I think we need to give him the | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
thumbs-up. Just looking at what's going on in the rest of the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
continent, you hear about young people saying, we want jobs, we | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
want to have a share of the wealth, you see that in Nigeria, surely | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
that is something you must be pushing for? You know, for me, | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
being an ambassador, I have seen so many faces and places, it is 10 | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
years and we have seen change in that time. When I started as a | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, a child was dying from malaria every | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
30 seconds. Now, we can proudly say it is every 45 seconds. But I want | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
to see the time when we say every sat back, or maybe just one each | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
day. It is important that people are given medication. Malaria is | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
treatable and curable, and I still do not understand why people should | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
be dying from it. Especially women and children, they're the most | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
vulnerable. But I would like to think all those people, the British | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Government, the malaria Project, everybody supporting us, we need to | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
be supported, we need funding, so that those people should not die. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Now is not the time to put the brakes on. You're concerned about | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
young people, as you say, do you feel the continent is failing its | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
young people? For me, young people are our future, we need to engage | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
them now, we need to give them skills and jobs, so they can be | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
better citizens. If that is not done right now, we will be judged | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
by the very same people. I want to say to present governments in | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Africa, we need you to invest in your people, above all, you need to | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
educate them and give them the skills to become better citizens. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
It may be possible to detect autism at a much earlier age than had been | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
thought, according to an international team of researchers. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
They identified differences in the brain waves of infants from as | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
early as six months. Autism charities said identifying the | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
disorder at an earlier stage could help. This is how you test the | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
brain patterns of babies. This youngster is eight Mum sold and | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
developing normally. These electrodes will painlessly pick up | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
his responses. There was a big difference in his brain activity | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
between the periods when the faces on the screen were looking straight | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
towards him, compared to when they looked away. This suggests normal | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
social interaction. 100 would -- 100 babies were tested in total, | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
and with some of those who later developed autism, there was little | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
difference in brain patterns. showing us something we did not | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
know before, about these differences being identified at six | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
months. Nobody wants to read too much into this small study. The | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
test predicted autism correctly some of the time, but it also got | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
it wrong several times as well. The prospect of diagnosing autism in | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
its infancy is hugely attractive, because the earlier it is spotted | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
and support begins, the better the outcome for children. But this | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
research is really in the very early stages, and the test will | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
need to be a lot more accurate before it can be used routinely. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
This nine-year-old seem to develop normally until about 18 months, but | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
then his speech stopped. His mother says, as with any health condition, | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
early diagnosis is vital. He went from a child who was very sociable, | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
interactive, responding to his name, talking a few words, to none of the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
above. Perhaps if we had known at six months, which is what this | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
study might suggest, we could have done something even earlier. A lot | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
more babies are going to be studied in a wider trial at Birkbeck | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
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College in London, a move which has been welcomed by autism charities. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Now, the Kronos Quartet is one of the most renowned exponents of | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
contemporary music in the world. They're beginning their residency | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
in London. They will be performing a musical meditation on 9/11. They | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
will also be performing a world premiere by the Ukrainian composer | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
of Valentin silvestrov. We got exclusive access to the first | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
:23:08. | :23:18. | ||
rehearsal. It is the first time the musicians have seen the music. | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
Valentin Silvestrov And the Kronos Quartet are rehearsing a world | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
premiere. The composer was surprisingly slow to accept the | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
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offer. TRANSLATION: I never usually right | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
when I am offered a commission. A long time ago, in the Soviet days, | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
I was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture to write a piece | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
glorifying a party congress. I told them I would love to, but I was | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
busy composing a nocturne. This put me off writing commissions for ever. | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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But the long wait turned out to be worth the while, for Valentin | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
Silvestrov. It is an astonishing experience to work with him. We do | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
not have a common verbal language, so we have a translator, and we are | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
asking questions and getting answers in various language, it is | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
an incredible experience. The range of Kronos's repertoire is extremely | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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wide, here playing with the singer Alim Qasimov. From jazz and rock to | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
the huge variety of ethnic music. For the quartet's leader, however, | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
these contrasting elements are all parts of one single musical | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
universe. I cannot wait to wake up every morning and explore. So, for | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
me, being a musician allows me to explore the world. I think all of | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
us in the Kronos Quartet feel that. A traditional Iranian lullaby, as | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
well as music from Iraq, Uzbekistan and other countries, blend together | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
in to A wakening, a meditation on the anniversary of 9/11, which | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
culminates with a piece by the American composer Michael Gore. | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
Given everything that's going on right now in the world, I think | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
music can actually point directions for the way things might be able to | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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Before we go, a reminder of the main news. Activists in Syria say | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
government forces have launched renewed assaults on several cities. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
More than 130 people are believed to have been killed in the last 48 | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
hours. The head of the Arab League observer mission says violence has | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
risen sharply since Tuesday, when the mission's mandate was renewed | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
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for another month. That is all from Tonight, icy roads and widespread | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
frost, with temperatures down to minus 7 in Scotland. Tomorrow, it | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
should be a cracking start to the weekend, if you like it bright. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
This high pressure will be coming in for the start of the weekend. It | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
will be cold and frosty. Still some cloud in the south-east of England, | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
with the odd chance of a shower. A aide change across northern England, | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
compared to those wintry showers that we have had today. But there | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
is still the chance of the odd shower across East Anglia and the | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
south-east. Over the past few days we have had some gusty winds, but | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
they will be much lighter at the start of the weekend. In Northern | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
Ireland and the far north-west of Scotland, you will get cloud | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
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increasing the further Lothians you are. Another cold one on Saturday | :28:10. | :28:16. |