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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Egyptian security forces stand accused of allowing the country's | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
worst ever football riots. As a nation mourns at least 74 victims | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
of the violence, the Government responds with sackings and an | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
investigation, but many feel the truth is obvious. There wasn't | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
enough security in the stadium. And those who were there were standing | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
there in a symbolic way. They did not carry out their duties. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
The big freeze in Europe claims more lives. 1,100 Serbian villagers | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
are now cut off by heavy snow. Are some of us hardwired to be | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
addicts? New research links addiction to brain abnormalities. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Also in the programme: On the election trail in Russia. We meet | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
the pro-Putin factory workers in Russia's industrial heartland. But | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
how much support does the Prime Minister really have? | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And cartoon royalty - the unofficial portraits of "Her Maj" | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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the Queen to celebrate her Diamond Hello and welcome. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
The anger on the streets of Cairo and Port Said in Egypt was palpable | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
today, just hours after the worst football riots in the country's | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
history. The question on the streets and in Parliament: how a | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
match between two teams well known for their supporters' bitter | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
rivalry could have descended into a mass riot that left at least 74 | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
dead. The Government has declared three days of mourning, sacked a | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
wave of officials and launched an investigation. But in a febrile | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
atmosphere of suspicion, many Egyptians have been wondering if | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
darker forces were at play. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. On the | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
streets of Cairo this afternoon they already have their own | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
theories. These football fans are convinced the attack was planned | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
and organised by Egypt's security forces. It was a crime done from | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
the old regime. They stole money from the people for 30 years and | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
now they are spending the money to make gangsters and corruption in | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Egypt, because they don't want the revolution to succeed. There is so | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
far no evidence to support that claim. These were the extraordinary | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
scenes at Cairo railway station early this morning as the train | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
carrying survivors and the dead from Port Said pulled in. Thousand | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
thousands of supporters crammed the balconies and platforms. Justice or | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
death, they chant. This man immediately blames the head of | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Egypt's military junta for the death. Tantawi opened the doors so | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
the thugs could attack our friends, he says. As dawn breaks another | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
train pulls in. Anxious parents wait desperately for news. My son | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
has not answered his phone since yesterday, this mother weeps. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Please, I beg you, help me find my son. This is how it all happened, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
on live television. As the game ends, fans from the victorious Port | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Said team flood the pitch. The Cairo team flee for their lives. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
But many of the Cairo fans were not so lucky. As they try to flee, they | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
are overrun, beaten, bludgeoned and stabbed. Today the blood-smeared | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
seats tell of the brutality of the attacks. The piles of shoes show | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
where bodies were crushed against locked gates. If head of Egypt's | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
military junta met with shaken players from the Cairo team. He | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
promised the culprits will be found and punished. TRANSLATION: With the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
results of this investigation, each one will take his punishment, and | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
we will know why and who caused this tragedy. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
But with so many young people dead, nothing will stop some here from | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
believing that the old men who ruled Egypt for so long are somehow | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
responsible. There've been demonstrations and | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
some violence in Tahrir Square today. These are the pictures | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
coming in live from this place. That's the centre of the uprising, | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the 18-day uprising against Hosni Mubarak this time last year. And | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
indeed some of the supporters of the Al-Ahly team were part of those | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
demonstrations last year. We can now speak to Adham el- | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Kamouny, sports presenter for Egyptian television, who was | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
watching the match on TV last night as the tragic events unfolded. He | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
joins us via Skype. What were your thoughts as you watched this riot | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
break out last night? Well, I just wanted to tell you something that I | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
thought there was going to be a disaster from the start. When the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
spectators started to arrive, as soon as they arrived into Port Said | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
they were welcomed by through stones and stuff like that from | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
other Port Said spectators. Even when the Al-Ahly players were | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
warming up, also the Port Said Ultras started through rockets and | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
fireworks at the players and the Al-Ahly wanted to cancel the game, | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
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but it was not possible, since you are on Port Saidy soil. It needs a | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
referee who has lots of guts to do that kind of call. If he cancels | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
the game on a Port Saidy level he will probably be going home in a | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
coffin. It has always been very tense between the two rivals. One | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
week before the game there was like a war on the internet between Al- | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Ahly spectators and Port Saidy spectators. We are waiting for you, | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
we are going to kill you in you come, if you come you had better | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
bring your own coffin with you - stuff like that. All of that was | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
known to the police and to the Government officials. Sorry to | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
interrupt, but is security normally tighter at games like these between | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
such bitter rivals? Yes, it's very tight. And believe me, through my | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
work, I work as a TV presenter and I go to the stadium as lot, and I | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
know when the policing is very tight and when it is loose. In that | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
kind of game, you cannot have a loose security force in that | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
special game between Al-Ahly and Port Said. And Al-Ahly versus Al- | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
Masry in Port Said. You can't let loose the game. If you let loose | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
disaster will happen like that, because before, I think in this mid | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
'90s or the early '90s there was another disaster in Port Said | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
between Zamalek, which is the Al- Ahly rivals, and in Port Said with | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Al-Masry. Several people died, including some soldiers from the | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
police force. OK, thank you for joining us. | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
Record low temperatures and heavy snowfall is causing problems across | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Europe. In Serbia whole villages have been cut off, with emergency | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
services struggling to reach around 11,000 people. Nick Thorpe reports. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Another rescue mission for the people of Bosnia. This time not | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
from the war but from the weather. Bosnia has 65 mountains higher than | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
1,500 metres, and villages like this one in the east of the country | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
have been especially hard hit by the snow. TRANSLATION: | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
temperatures are killing us. We are really grateful for this help, but | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
the snow has blocked us here until spring. Few helicopters are | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
available, so most villages we can only be reached or not reached at | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
all by road. TRANSLATION: A state of emergency has been declared in | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
several areas but it is still very complicated, because of the heavy | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
snow we have not been able to reach all the houses. In neighbouring | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Serbia, the emergency services say as many as 11,000 people are cut | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
off in a string of villages in the mountainous south-west of the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
country. The villagers are used to hard winters and usually have | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
plentiful supplies of firewood and food, but these conditions have now | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
lasted nearly a month. Most of the population are elderly and many | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
need medicines. The cold has also surprised countries more used to | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
the greens and blues of the Mediterranean than the whites of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Siberia. In southern Europe, the wintry conditions have caused chaos | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
on the roads and delight in the classrooms. More snow is forecast | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
for the coming days, making this one of the coldest winters in many | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
countries in living memory. Now a look at some of the day's | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
other news. The Indian Supreme Court has | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
ordered the Government to cancel some mobile phone licences it | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
granted to telecoms companies four years ago. India's public auditor | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
claims mis-selling of the licences cost the treasury tens of billions | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
of dollars. It's the latest twist in one of India's biggest | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
corruption scandals. Rescuers in Papua New Guinea are | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
still searching for survivors after a ferry sank with up to 350 | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
passengers on board. So far more than 200 people have been pulled | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
alive from the sea by helicopters and Australian aircraft. Scientists | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
have found a giant prawn-like creature lurking 7 kilometres down | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
in the waters off the coast of New Zealand. The creature is a type of | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
amphipod. The biggest of these spotted was an impressive 34 | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
centimetres. It makes quite a size. This Saturday tens of thousands of | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
people are expected to march through Moscow to demand honest | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
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elections, the protest another sign of the feeling for Vladimir Putin. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Steve Rosenberg has been to the Ural mountains to find out what | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
people there think of him. In this town every day looks like | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Armageddon. This is a town which never stops burning. Churning out | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
iron and steel round the clock. The snow here is black from pollution. | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
But people's lives depend on the factories, and it is instability | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
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which they fear most. Yevgeny Kazlov set up a workers committee | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
the black Vladimir Putin for President. The protests in Moscow | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
don't reflect the mood of Russia, he says. Working people don't want | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
revolution, we want stability. That's why we support Putin. At the | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
tank factory up the road, they pledged their loyalty to Mr Putin | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
live on TV. This worker offered to come to Moscow with his mates to | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
take on the anti-Government protesters. Yevgeny and the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
metalworkers aren't marching on Moscow. But today they are taking | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
the train to the regional capital, Ekaterinburg. There they join | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
thousands of other workers from across the Urals at a pro-Putin | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
rally. There are no white ribbons, the trademark of Mr Putin's | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
criticsment the symbol here is the worker's glove. This rally is a | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
direct response to the young and middle class Russians in Moscow | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
who've been protesting against the Government. And it is an attempt to | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
show that away from the capital Russia's working class still has | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
faith in Vladimir Putin. But the crowd here was smaller than | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
organisers had promised. And some of what we saw seemed stage managed. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
This photographer was trying to get as many people as possible to pose | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
with the same vote for Putin sign. One worker I spoke to, who asked to | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
remain anonymous, said his work mates only travelled to the rally | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
because they were offered extra days off work and free train | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
tickets. So just how popular really is Vladimir Putin in Russia's | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
industrial heartland? He will win votes here, but more perhaps out of | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
a fear of change than any real belief that a President Putin can | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
make life better. Scientists in Cambridge say they've | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
found important evidence suggesting how drug addiction can run in | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
families. A study compared drug addicts with their non-addicted | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
siblings and found both have similar abnormalities in their | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
brains. This suggests you can inherit conditions that make | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
addiction more likely, an how people who are physically | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
susceptible manage to avoid it. It is one of the great scourges of | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
the modern world, addiction to drugs. But what determines who gets | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
hooked? New research offers an answer. The study focused on | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
addicts and their siblings, like Sophia and her sister Teresa, | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
brought up together in the same troubled family, they described how | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
one stayed clean and the other didn't. I was about 19 and the | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
people I was hanging around with, the influences. But it wasn't, I | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
didn't get into the crack into I was 30. I'm not Holyer than thou | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
but I just already knew early on in my life that there was certain | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
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The study involves scanning 50 addicts and their siblings. The aim | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
is to see if there are biological clues to the addiction in the brain. | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
The results are surprising. What is revealed by this research is | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
potentially very useful. The siblings of addicts and the addicts | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
themselves share a similar pattern of abnormalities in their brain. | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Physical evidence that you can inherit conditions that put you at | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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risk. The scans show how this works. Below indicates show area of south | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
-- areas of self-control. These brothers and sisters who don't have | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
addiction problems, they can tell us, how did they manage to overcome | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
these problems? What do they do in their daily lives to manage their | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
self-control? The Sisters were tested for self-control. The share | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
abnormalities in their brains but have turned out very differently. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
The long-term goal is to make use of that knowledge, but that will | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
not be easy. It is unlikely to prevent all addiction but it is one | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
step along the way of identifying people who address key. -- people | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
who are vulnerable. Immediate benefits are not likely, but having | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
a clear idea of his most bomb rubble could help steer them away | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
from a life of addiction. -- of whose most vulnerable. | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
Some fascinating research. Led speak to Professor David Nutt and | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
Dr Robert Lefever. -- let speak too. Does this ring true? Are we hard- | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
wired, some of us, into addiction? The if the causes. The first is | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
genetic. This runs in some families and not others. Even within the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
family, you get children with no potential and others who have | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
considerable potential for addiction. Emotional trauma is one | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
reason which stimulates children to go on. The third is exposure. Some | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
people are exposed and their families to alcohol and the would | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
channel in that direction. Others will go to drugs. In your | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
experience, it can be triggered by their regular smoking of very heavy | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Murro won a. The society in which one lives, the family, the other | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
children are immensely influential but I do not think you can make an | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
addict. I think you're born with that tendency. I think people can | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
have traumas of all sorts of crimes are not going to have any addiction. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
In terms of the shape of their brain, the abnormality of the brain, | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
what does this say? This research tells us that both groups have a | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
problem in controlling impulsive behaviour. That is shown in the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
behavioural task, how well they can stop doing things they shouldn't do, | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
but it also translates that, when you do brain imaging, you can see | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
the relationship between the coupling of the front of the brain | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
and the drive centres below is somehow disrupted. That path we | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
does not work properly. That is why they become impulsive. And siblings, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
why does one develop an addiction and the other doesn't? There are a | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
number of reasons. But chemically? We do not know. This research does | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
not help us there, but what it tells us, is that the process that | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
leads to addiction are a mix of chemical and structural. We can | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
probably target the chemical abnormalities with drugs. To answer | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
your question, a lot of it is exposure. Drama can change the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
brain, exposure to drugs - if you do not take a drug, you cannot get | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
addicted. We presume from studies that that all my ability translates | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
right across the board. -- that vulnerability. How useful all this | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
before you? It is useful. We have found that, there are three | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
clusters. Alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, sex and love | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
addiction, and risk-taking. That is probably governed by one genetic, | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
hedonistic urge. Let's go for it! But then there is one that is | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
associated with work and exercise, and the third one is a relationship. | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Using yourself as a drug for other people are using other people as a | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
drug for yourself. Some people had all three of those tendencies. | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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Others had won, only others had to. -- others had only two. This is | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
where the research needs to go. We need to say, be careful with this, | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
otherwise there will be trouble coming your way. Surgically, can | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
anything be done? Be to do that in Russia. The do surgery in the rain | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
-- in the brain. Like a lobotomy? That is what they do. What are the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
result? They say it is great. The trials are not conducted in a | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
fashion we would consider properly scientific. No way! Completely no | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
way! Fascinating. A veteran treasure hunter says he | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
has found the wreck of his life, billions of dollars worth of | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
platinum on a Sunday Second World War British boat. Greg Brooks says | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
he discovered the bounty on the Port Nicholson, which was sung by a | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
German U-boat. The salvage team are convinced there are 30 crates of | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
platinum ended on board. -- platinum ingots. Have you seen this | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
platinum, Greg Brooks? I have seen it. We do not know hundred % | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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whether it is platinum. There is 4,600 of those ingots supposedly | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
aboard the ship. You have been shed Red Hunter for 20 years or so, is | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
this the biggest one you have found? -- you have been a wreck | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
Hunter. It is better than anyone has a margin. It is unthinkable | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
that there is that amount of wealth under the sea. It could have even | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
more on it. Has it been a race? Are there other people like you tracing | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
this wreck? Not this one, because I have a federal Admiralty claim on | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
it. We are custodians of it. No one can touch this red. There are other | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
companies out there looking for similar wrecks that they have | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
information on and it is on the same basis. It is nowhere near as | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Valuable. In terms of the legal entitlement, if you managed to | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
bring it up, is it all years? De suddenly become a billionaire or | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
are you one already? No, I have a hard time rubbing two coins | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
together! You might have a lot of platinum to rub together! I am | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
hoping so. It has to going front of the federal judge and he will look | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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at all the facts of this. Beaux- Arts, we did all the research, we | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
know that their platinum was shipped by the USSR TDs. We know | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
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that the ship did not make it here. -- by the USSR to the USA. The USSR | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
does not exist any more, it broke up, so nobody has a claim other | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
than as at this moment. difficult would be? It is what, 700 | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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metres down? No, 700 feet. So how difficult would be to bring it up? | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
It will be difficult. Our season starts in late May to mid-September. | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
We have been out there trying to get this stuff up since then. It is | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
extremely difficult with storms, currants, breakdowns, all that type | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
of thing. It is extremely difficult. And the co-ordinates? That is a | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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good one. Thank you very much. Queen Elizabeth celebrates her | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
Diamond Jubilee this year. There will be events around the country | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
to mark her 60th year. Called Her Maj, it is an irreverent series of | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
unofficial portraits of the monarch. Queen Elizabeth II, arriving at | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Westminster Abbey for her coronation. Dignified, composed, | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
monarch of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth. Over the | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
years, there have been many official portraits of Her Majesty. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
She seems quite pleased with this one. I wonder what she thinks of | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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imagine her, a friendly but feisty barmaid. Here she is rummaging | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
through a skip. You never know, she might find something nice for the | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
She is the face of Britain but we do not know what she believes, her | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
opinions about things. There is still something of a mystery and | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
magic of the monarchy about her. Until the 1950s, the British | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
monarch very rarely appeared in cartoons, it was almost a royal | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
taboo. One decade later, all that changed. It was the Swinging 60s, a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
time of freedom and artistic openness. Britain's cartoonists | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
were eager to make the most of it. They now had card launch -- they | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
now had free rein to imagine the Queen as one of us, at home with | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
her hands and family. represents us, she's England, or | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Great Britain or the United Kingdom. She did not volunteer for this job, | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
it was foisted on her. I do not feel the same kind of critical | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
faculty at work when I think about her. The cartoons about this | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
exhibition -- at this exhibition described the key historic moments | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
during her reign. This was the state visit to Ireland last year. | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
It shows the Queen and her husband treating their coasts -- their | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
hosts to a bit of Irish dancing. Obviously, that did not really | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
happen! Some of the cartoons here are affectionate, others cheeky, | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
and others downright unflattering. What makes them appealing is the | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
idea that the Queen may not be so difficult -- different from the | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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I am sure she loves them. That is There is the prospect of some snow | :28:03. | :28:12. | |
this weekend. Where embarking on another very cold night. -- we are | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
embarking. We still have some high pressure across us. There will be | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
some snow at the weekend. On Friday, it will be a cold, frosty start. | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
Some showers across eastern England. There is plenty of sunshine across | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
northern England. Along the east coast, there will be some cloud | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
around. Possibly some lingering snow. It will be mainly dry until | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
we get to the evening. Temperatures around freezing. Across other areas, | :28:51. | :28:59. | |
lighter winds. A change for Northern Ireland. There will be | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
more cloud. There could be some light rain or sleet. That cloud | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
will increase into the West of Scotland and the Western Isles. | :29:08. | :29:15. |