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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Syrian forces | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
launch their heaviest attack yet in Homs. We have a rare report from | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
our correspondent who's entered the city and witnessed the shelling | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
that's killing innocent civilians. We are hearing an impact every few | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
seconds, and in reply, you can also hear some Kalashnikov fire. It is a | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
pretty futile gesture. SCREENING. The pleas for outside help suffer a | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
setback after Russia and China block a UN resolution. Britain's | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
foreign secretary condemns their vetoes. These are the tears Arab | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
betrayal of the Syrian people and they have let down the Arab League | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
and have let down the people. Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
agree to set up a joint interim government. Can it end the deadlock | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
between the two sides and what does it mean for the peace process? | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Also coming up in the programme: An anniversary celebration fit for a | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
queen. 60 years to the day since she took the throne, Elizabeth II | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
renews her vow to serve her people. One of the world's most popular | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
writers - we ask why Charles Dickens remains such a superstar of | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Welcome. The Syrian city of Homs has been at the epicentre of | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
opposition to President Bashar Al- Assad, so it is little surprise it | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
is under heavy attack from government forces. Hundreds of | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
shells and mortars have been fired into populated areas. Paul Wood has | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
managed to enter Homs and people they have told him it is the worst | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
bombardment they have experienced in the 11 month conflict. This | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
report contains very distressing images. | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
Daybreak in Homs. The artillery fire was just beginning. Dazed, he | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
steered gently to safety. In this part of the city, it is the worst | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
they have endured. God is great, he shouts, in defiance. The shelling | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
is constant and we can hear impact every few seconds. In reply, you | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
can hear a bit of Kalashnikov fire. It is a futile gesture. GUNFIRE. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Eyewitnesses say at clinic was hit and they filmed the injured been | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
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moved. Over several days of this, most of the casualties have been | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
civilians. The houses do not have basements, so there is no where to | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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hide. Where is the Arab League, she shouts. This woman's son is badly | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
wounded. Give us guns, she screams! We cannot defend ourselves. In the | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
midst of all of this, most hide their faces, saying there is no | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
telling what the regime will do. They had their hopes in the UN, we | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
want is the Arab League to devour a situation to the UN so they could | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
help us, now they have abandoned us. He will help us now? This man died | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
attacking a government sniper position yesterday. The regime says | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
that the violence is caused by the fighters of the free Syrian army. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
No, says the rebel commander here, everything that they do is to | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
defend people. The regime cannot get to us, so it retaliate against | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
civilians instead. There certainly paying the price. The shroud is for | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
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a seven-year-old girl. They carefully write her name. Like all | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
of the dead here, she must be buried in darkness. It is too | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
dangerous in the daytime. There is no family, no prayers, little | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
dignity. They have to hurry, even now, they are attacked. There will | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
be many more such desperate and lonely burials. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
United States has announced it has closed its embassy in Damascus and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
in Britain, the foreign secretary said he would intensify efforts to | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
build an international coalition to ensure a peaceful solution to the | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
crisis. He strongly criticise Russia and China for their decision | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to veto a UN Security Council decision on Syria. We regard this | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
as a grave error of judgment by China and Russia. There is no need | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to mince words about this, Russia and China have twice vetoed | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
reasonable and necessary UN action by the Security Council. These are | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
betrayal of the Syrian people and and applying them they have let | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
down the Arab League and increase the likelihood of what they wish to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
avoid in Syria, civil war. They are on the wrong side of Arab and | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
international opinion. The foreign secretary, William Hague, and we | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
hope to get reaction to the news from Syria and little later in the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
programme, but first, some of the other news in brief and in the last | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
hour, it was announced that Romania's President has asked the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
head of foreign intelligence to form a new government. This follows | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the decision of the Emil Boc to resign as Prime Minister to date. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
He said he wanted to defuse political and social tension after | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
weeks a protest against his centre- right government on his drastic | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
austerity measures. Much of Europe is still suffering | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
under freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall. The number of | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
people at dying has run into hundreds. In the Ukraine, the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
thermometer has hit minus 33 degrees Celsius. More than 130 | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
people have died in the Ukraine. The former First Minister of | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Northern Ireland Reverend Ian Paisley has been admitted to | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
hospital. The 85-year-old was taken ill yesterday but his condition is | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
not yet known. He was the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party are | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
almost 40 years. A local military official in the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Philippines has more than 40 people were killed by an earthquake. The | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
6.7 magnitude quake shook a central province on Monday morning. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
We can return to our main story, the events in Syria, we showed you | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
that report by Paul Wood from the opposition stronghold of Homs Verde | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
there is very heavy shelling. The residents have told us it is the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
heaviest shelling they have experienced in 11 months of | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
conflict. We are joined by a Ausama Monajed, an adviser to be chairman | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
of the opposition National Council and he is joining us now, so the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
fact that China and Russia have vetoed this resolution on Syria, | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
what is the impact of this going to be on the ground? People suggested | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
would be the fighting on both sides getting worse. It is indeed, it is | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
a very, sad day when Russia and China have decided to take sides | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
with a killing regime. They are committing atrocities against the | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
people. This is just leaving the population, the revolutionaries and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the opposition, it leads them to believe there is no hope in the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
international community and the only way is to bring down this | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
regime by arming the opposition and fighting the regime's forces. We | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
have confirmed information and intelligence that the regime is | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
preparing for recorder needed a military attack on the city of Homs. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
The reason why, it has become a symbol of the military uprising in | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Syria and snout if they managed to crack it, it is going to have a | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
dramatic effect on the people. Those armed opposition groups, Euro | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
information is that they are going to step up their fight against the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
police? Yes, the weaponry, the support and the logistical support | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
is now pouring into the country. Different groups are mushrooming | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
and also, all around the country. Unfortunately Russia and China, | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
their veto on the UN Security Council resolution put an end to | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
any diplomatic or political solution for the conflict in Syria, | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
and that is why everyone is getting ready for the big fight. | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
British foreign secretary and the Americans are trying to find a | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
coalition of the willing to still get a peaceful resolution, the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Russian foreign minister visits Damascus on Tuesday, is there a | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
possibility, yet, that a rabbit could be pulled out of the hat by | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
either party to find a negotiation between the two sides? The Russians | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
are not in favour of asking Bashar Al-Assad to step down or finding | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
any solution or reaching any solution read this regime is no | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
longer in power. This regime is securing lots of arms deals with | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Russia and Russia, have they lost this current regime in this area, | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
there will be a dramatic impact on the influence in the Arab world and | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
in the region and they realise this. Unfortunately, they are taking the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
wrong decision, the wrong historic decision by a signing with the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
people. -- by not siding with the people. The attitude to what they | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
have done, it is not only disappointment but also anger. That | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
has made our work in the Syrian National Council very difficult in | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
finding any negotiations in the regime, and the only way forward | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
from that is the armed resistance. One file point, very quickly, the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
longer this conflict goes on, the longer they do not find a solution | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
for this, the more dramatic and more problematic for every one it | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
would be to deal with the aftermath when Bashar Al-Assad collapses. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
Thank you. Four months, but two main | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have tried to forge a united | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
party. They now agree that the Fatah leader, President Abbas will | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
organise elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Fatah has control the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
West Bank whereas Hamas was controlled Gaza since they fell out | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
in 2007. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu has said that President | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
Abbas would abandon the way of peace if he abandons the deal. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader, the Palestinian President and now, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
the Prime Minister also. After talks with Hamas chief hosted by a | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Qatar, Mr Abbas decided to lead dementia and unity government for | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
the West Bank and Gaza. TRANSLATION: We did not sign this | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
agreement for the sake of signing. We want to implement what is | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
related to the elections, the Government, the internal | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
circulation and any aspect. And this with all the hurdles we have | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
been surrounded by. We are serious about mending the old wounds and | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
closing the chapters of division in order to achieve reconciliation on | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
the ground. Palestinians have been crying out for political | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
reconciliation four years. But the division between Fatah and Hamas | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
has been bitter and sometimes violent. One year after a mosque | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
macro won the elections in 2006, fierce fighting erupted. -- after | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
Hamas won the elections. Mr Abbas says he wants this to change, with | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
long overdue elections being held later this year. He is really have | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
fall-back choice as Prime Minister. The two sides failed to agree on | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
any alternative names. There remains the major differences in | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
policy between Fatah and her mosque macro, not least, had to deal with | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
Israel of which rejected the deal. -- and Hamas. Hamas strives to | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
destroy the state of Israel and is supported by Iran. I have said many | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
times in the past that the Palestinian Authority must decide | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
between a packed with Hamas and peace in Israel. Hamas and peace to | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
not go together. After decades of failed talks with Israel, President | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Abbas is increasingly frustrated with US efforts to mediate and | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Middle-East peace deal. For now, peace between Palestinians seems to | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
be his priority. We can get a response from Israel | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
on this, Danny Rubenstein is a political analyst and joins us from | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
to ruler than -- from Jerusalem. Why should Israel opposed this | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
unity government? From the Israeli point of view, Hamas is a terrorist | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
organisation as they had been from the outset. The problem is, how | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
mosque macro belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, and this is a sort of | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
triumph from Morocco in the West. - - Hamas belongs. I do not think | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
that Israel have any choice. We do not deal with Hamas because it is a | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
terrorist organisation and we deal with Mahmoud Abbas, he is not only | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
the Prime Minister, he is the head of the PLO and from a formal point | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
of view, are negotiations is not with the Palestinian government, it | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
is with the PLO. We have to have an option to continue in negotiations | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
or what is left from the negotiations with the PLO and not | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the Palestinian government. said Hamas is a terrorist | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
organisation and it is recognised by Israel and the European Union, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
but the Muslim brother read in Egypt is not, even though they have | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
an alliance, I want to clarify that. How will Israel respond? In the | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
past it has without taxes from the Palestinian Authority if they do | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
not abandon this deal which it Israel will back off. They will | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
make a concession here. Israel will say, we continue with Mahmoud Abbas | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
because we know quite well that this reconciliation, up till now, | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
is more symbolic. It doesn't have any practical steps. They're still | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
in trouble and they're still, they cannot agree about the same | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
political issues. They cannot agree even about distribution the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
newspaper from Gaza in the West Bank and from the West Bank in Gaza. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
They didn't release prisoners. They didn't issue passports in Ramallah | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
for people in Gaza. From practical point of view, the unification or | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
the reconciliation doesn't work up till now. So, it can be... Does | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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that suit your purpose? No, I think that Israel will continue, there's | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
no negotiation any way. We can try to think about this and about that | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
and about this option or that option from practical point of view, | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
we don't have negotiation today with the not with Hamas, we don't | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
have negotiation with PLO. So it's not a practical question for us. We | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
can continue, Israel can continue and the government can continue | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
with its rejection of the Palestinian demand to freeze the | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
settlement activity and so on. Thanks very much indeed for joining | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
us live from Jerusalem. Now it's 60 years ago that Princess | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom and head of the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Commonwealth. She was visiting Kenya on February 6, 1952 when she | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
was told the news that her father George VI had died. To mark her | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Diamond Jubilee events will be held. Today it was a quiet advise toit | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Norfolk in the east of England. She has recommitted herself to | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
serve, renewing the pledges she made at the time of her accession. | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
In a Diamond Jubilee message the Queen says she's deeply moved by | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
the messages of support she received as she marks her 60th | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
anniversary of coming to the throne. At King's Lynn Town Hall, where | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
photographs of previous visits are on display, the mayor delivered a | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
loyal address and spoke for many. The 60 years Your Majesty has given | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
exemplary service to the people of this country and the Commonwealth. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
60 years ago this morning, the nation had been stunned when the | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
BBC interrupted its programmes to announce the death of the Queen's | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
father King George VI. This is London. It was announced from | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
Sandringham at 10.45 today, February 6, 1952, that the king, | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
who retired to rest last night in his usual health, passed peacefully | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
away in his sleep earlier this morning. It's hard now fully to | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
appreciate the impact the death of Britain's wartime king had on the | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
country. Alisdair Donald Campbell was ten. He was at school. A | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Frenchman, veteran of Word War I was taking a French class. Halfway | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
through that class, one of the other staff came in and whispered | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
something into the teacher's ear. Suddenly, we were conscious that | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
this grown man sitting in front of us was crying. For a child of our | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
generation and in the 1950s, you didn't often see grown men | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
especially in public expressing emotion of that kind. He recovered | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
:19:41. | :19:42. | ||
himself. He slowly walked to the chalk board and wrote the words | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
"(in French) that's how I learned of his death. The new Queen | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Elizabeth was in Kenya at the time of her father's death and just 25 | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
years old. She returned to London to be greeted by Prime Minister | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Winston Churchill and his Cabinet. At her accession Council she | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
pledged to continue the work of her beloved father and to serve Britain | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
and the other countries of which she is monarch. This morning on her | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
last few days in Norfolk, before returning to back ham Palace, she | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
was receiving the first of the thousands of greetings which will | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
convey the country's thanks for 60 years of service. Kate Williams is | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
a royal historian and she joins me now. Even those people who don't | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
count themselves as ardent royalists would have to accept the | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
Queen has done a good job. Yes, I think even those people who aren't | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
ar dents royalists, even republicans have o to say she was | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
thrust into the limelight at 25 and she has done an incredible job. 85 | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
and still going strong. Britain collapsed yesterday, no flights, | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
the roads were barely running, the Queen was still on her walk about. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
She's keeping going. Do you think she adapted to the -- with the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
times. There were criticisms during the times of the death of Princess | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Diana who epitomised a more modern touch of the Royal Family, more in | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
keeping with the times. You're absolutely right. Things have had | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
to change very much. So the Queen's always felt if you just carry on | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
with your routine, that's the way you'll get over the problems in | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
life. That wasn't what the nation or the world wanted when Diana died. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
The coolness, the stiff upper lip was a disaster. The Queen had to | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
rethink a lot of her relationships with the public and the Palace PR | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
machine had to change. We wanted to see a different type of monarchy, | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
more in touch with us and much less flamboyant in spending. Her father | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
was very enthusiastic about the Commonwealth. He was regarded as | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
one of those people who was instrumental in expanding it to the | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
current 54 members today. Rumblings of republicanism in some countries, | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
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how has she done there? The Queen has seen her self-as the Queen of | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
the Commonwealth. She's our greatest toured monarch. She has | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
toured all over the Commonwealth. It's very close to her heart. In | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
the Queen's speech at Christmas there's a lot about the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Commonwealth. Things are changing. We have seen big changes in Jamaica, | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
rumbles in Australia and I think we'll see big changes in Charles's | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
reign. At the moment it's co-heerd under the Queen. She creates such | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
affection in the people of the world. | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
Thank you. Now, the British author Charles | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Dickens is one of the most popular writers in the history of | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
literature, a man described as the first great media celebrity. On | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Tuesday ceremonies will be held to recognise his achievements. Robert | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Hall has been finding out what it is about Charles Dickens' work that | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
keeps him alive in our imaginations for so long. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
A Christmas Carol. A ghost story of Christmas. On a rainy night in the | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Manchester suburbs, a familiar story is unfolding. Like so many | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
before them, The Chorlton Players are telling a seasonal tale from | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
another century. He's a natural story teller. He saw things that | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
other people hadn't seen yet. I suppose he was ahead of his time, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the poverty and the conditions and just told the story really well. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
What I like is about the bankers being very rich, the poor being | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
very poor and I like that sort of parallel with today's society as | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
well. Charles Dickens book were drama tiesed almost as soon as he | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
finished them. Today's biographers agree that the journey from page to | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
stage made Dickens a Victorian superstar. What was that clanking | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
noise? One biographer has played his own part in bringing Dickens to | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
a wider audience. Whfrpblgts he was writing his books, he used to leap | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
up and look in the mirror and check the expression on his face and | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
report it and write it down. Because it was a performance for | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
him. He was being those characters in exactly the same as an actor | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
does. Charles Dickens didn't live to see his characters make it into | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
the movies. A season of screenings by the British Film Institute | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
includes the earliest version of A Christmas Carol made in 1901 and | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Great Expectations completed eight years later. Charles Dickens' fame | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
was still spreading. He was a rock star. He was a rock star. He was | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the most famous man in the world. He travelled the world. Crowds | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
flooded to him. He made millions of pounds in modern day money. He was | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
the first great media celebrity. The more you look at him, the more | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
you realise why he's still exciting and why people are still interested | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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in him. Interested and inspired. These are the children of | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Manchester's All Saints Primary, tapping into Dickens for a sense of | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
history and a spur to their own imagination. When you read his | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
books you're like, say you stop at a certain part, you want to read | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
more and you don't want to stop. They're more dramatic and they have | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
twists in them. They're good, yeah really good. Another vote of | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
approval for a journalist, author aspiring actor and campaigner for | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
the disadvantaged. The road of discovery that Charles Dickens led | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
us down remains well travelled. Charles Dickens there still | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
enthralling people young and old. Now we have been getting reports | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
coming in while we've been on air of a series of blasts in northern | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Nigeria. Witnesses say they took place at a marketplace in the city, | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
the base of the militant group there. There are reports gunmen | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
have attacked a police station also in the north. There at least 185 | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
people were killed last month in that series of bomb attacks carried | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
out by the same group. Let's remind you of the top story: There has | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
been a another massive onslaught by the Syrian Army on Homs with shells | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
and mortars fired into populated areas through the day. They have | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
told our correspondent that it is the worst bombardment since the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
uprising began almost a year ago. That is all from World News Today. | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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Hello there. More cold weather to come this week, as we look to | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
tomorrow's forecast. A chilly start, widespread frost and that brings | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
with it the risk of ice across many parts of the country. We're still | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
holding onto this area of high pressure. It's moving in once again | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
from northern Europe. Weather fronts are being kept out at the | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
west. That's giving a contrast in our weather, because certainly | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
through Monday it's not as cold in the west. We've had cloud. And | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
through Tuesday we keep cloudier skies. A bit of sunshine elsewhere, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
after a rather slow start to the day in the east. We'll see brighter | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
weather for the afternoon, but temperatures still struggling, just | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
above freezing across East Anglia and the south-east corner. We'll | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
continue with our slow thaw of the lying snow. Out towards the west, | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
we see broken cloud aacross -- across Devon and Cornwall. We'll | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
see more sunshine too. West Wales with brighter skies. Through the | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
West Midlands we may see a bit of thicker cloud. Don't be surprised | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
if there's the odd spot of snow, just coming out of that thicker | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
cloud. For Northern Ireland it's cloudy for the afternoon, | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
temperatures at seven degrees. A foggy start to the day, but much of | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
that through the central low lands should clear. Yet again Scotland | :28:10. | :28:14. |