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This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox. One injured Western | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
journalist is rescued from Syria - another remains unaccounted for. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The British photographer Paul Conroy is smuggled out of Homs - | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
but his rescuers pay a heavy price at the hands of the Syrian army. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
They have a cordon of snipers, so it really was an incredibly | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
dangerous operation. Many activists died in pursuit of it. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Inside the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant - one year after | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
There are blots here, a surgical mask, and of course, they fought | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
face mask to protect us from anything in the air. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Occupied - now vacated. The tented protest camp around London's St | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Paul's is cleared. Also coming up in the programme: In | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
the final run-up to Russia's presidential vote - a musical | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
message to Vladimir Putin. It's loud, and it's angry - how | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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music is competing for the hearts A fine line between business | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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success and failure in the world of Hello and welcome. The injured | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
British photographer Paul Conroy, who'd been trapped in the Syrian | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
city of Homs since being wounded last week, has been smuggled out to | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Lebanon - but at a great cost. The group that facilitated his rescue | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
said a number of its volunteers died in the process. There remains | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
confusion over the whereabouts of the wounded French journalist Edith | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Bouvier - it's thought she too was evacuated to Lebanon, but that | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
hasn't been confirmed. Paul Wood reports from the Lebanese capital | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
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Beirut. The shelling of Homs, unrelenting | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
today as it has been for three weeks. In the middle of this, | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
activists tried again and again to bring out the injured to must score. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Three volunteers died in the attempt, they say. Another 10 | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
reportedly killed, bringing in medical suppliers to wounded | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Syrians who remain. A British photographer is in Lebanon now. His | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
paper said he was in good shape and in good spirits. His family said | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
they were overjoyed and relieved. We heard he is out, we don't know | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
where he is. I'm happy that he is out. One week here and on the phone | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
or he comes in person, will be so happy. Edith Bouvier was with him | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
in the makeshift hospital. There is confusion over her apparent | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
whereabouts. There are two additional term this there as well. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
They were in this area of Homs. After leaving, they had to get out | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
of Syria. Harassed by the government, they became split up. | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
This activist helped them to flee. TRANSLATION: They were coming under | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
a lot of fire. They had to travel on foot and move from house to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
house. There were rockets and tank shells fired at them. The | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
evacuation took three or four hours. Despite the successful rescue, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Marie Colvin died in planes -- Homs. Her body apparently remains their, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
along with that of the French photographer. His goal from pleaded | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
for his remains to come home. TRANSLATION: The loss of your | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
boyfriend is terrible, but the waiting is insufferable. All | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
religions recognise that to say goodbye unique a body and today we | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
are unable to grieve. I had promised everybody, his friends and | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
family, but I will not leave him there. The plight of civilians in | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Homs remains desperate. Rescue workers are trying to rescue a | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
little boy here, trapped in the rubble of his home destroyed by a | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
shell. He apparently survived. Many others died today as every day. | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
Efforts by the Red Cross and Red Crescent to get a temporary | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
ceasefire have so far failed. The global campaigning group Avaaz | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
says it was involved in coordinating the operation to | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
evacuate the journalists. Earlier I spoke to the group's executive | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
director, Ricken Patel, who explained to me what happened. | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
We have a network of journalists and activists for trousered -- | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
throughout Syria. They volunteer in this operation and over 23 of them | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
died over the course of it. The operation began a few days ago when | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
they had to run the cordon of the trench the Syrians had dark with | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
snipers and shelling. In that attempt, the group was split. Paul | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Conroy was able to go ahead and the other journalists had to go -- a | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
turnaround. We are happy to hear that he has made it completely out | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
of Syria into Lebanon. Was this operation compromised because | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
people were reporting that they were being evacuated during the | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
operation? The operation, the riskiest part of it took place a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
few days ago so at that time, it was not compromised. We were still | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
unhappy to see media coverage in the last 24 hours because there are | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
still the terrorists inside Syria and we want to get them out safely. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
How difficult is it to extract people through this route? Explain | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
the terrain you are going through? It is tremendously difficult. Even | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
in peace time, Syria is a police state with spies every word. In | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
this situation, they have hi-tech surveillance equipment, they have a | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
drone that may be provided by Iran or Russia, they have a cordon of | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
snipers, a news around the next up the town so it was dangerous. Many | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
activists died. The fact that 23 activists have been killed in this | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
operation, does that mean that this route will be unable to be used | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
again? We saw that the route it was not entirely safe several days ago. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
We had activists killed while using it. In acts of bravery, they still | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
decided to run the risk and use the route. In that particular column | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
that was shelled, we have breed activists die and six to die at | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
returning the journalists. People are still running risks and | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
choosing to run them. Thank you very much. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Now a look at some of the days other news. At least 16 people have | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
been killed in an attack on a bus in Pakistan. Gunmen opened fire on | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
the vehicle in the Northern district of Kohistan. The bus was | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
carrying passengers from Rawalpindi, the city which is headquarters for | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
the Pakistani military. The French President Nicolas | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Sarkozy has ordered his government to draft a new law punishing denial | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
of the Armenian genocide. It comes after the French Constitutional | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Court ruled the law was unconstitutional as it infringed on | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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freedom of expression. Ireland is to hold a referendum on | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the treaty which would tighten EU control of its finances. It will be | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the first popular vote on plans for stricter budget discipline, agreed | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
by 25 member European states - but not by the UK or the Czech Republic. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
A crippled Italian cruise ship with 1,000 people on board is being | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
towed to the main island in the Seychelles, Mahe, by a French | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
trawler. The owners reversed an original decision to take Allegra | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
to a smaller island because there weren't enough facilities there. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are going head to head in the US states | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
of Michigan and Arizona to choose the Republican presidential | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
candidate. The latest opinion polls suggesting Mr Romney has a marginal | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
lead in Michigan. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are also candidates in | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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both states. An independent report on last | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
year's nuclear disaster in Japan has accused the owners of the | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Fukushima Nuclear power station and the government of being 'panic- | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
stricken', after an earthquake crippled the plant. It said the | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
authorities had only narrowly avoided a meltdown, which could | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
have forced the evacuation of Tokyo. Today international journalists | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
were allowed into the Fukushima plant for the first time since the | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
disaster. Reporting from inside Fukushima, here's Roland Buerk. | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Every day, around 3,000 people on average work inside the figures | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
seem a plant. Before they going, they have to come here. This is the | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
sitting up room. What you have to wear to face of radiation? First, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
aplastic boiler suit. I have got a double layer, plastic boots on as | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
well, there are blocks. A surgical mask. Of course, a full face mask. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
-- there are blocks. It is to protect us from anything that could | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
be there. We were been taking to the planned. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
The first group of foreign journalists allowed in. Through the | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
exclusion zone, 12 miles of abandoned homes and fields, to the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
heart of nuclear disaster, a source of fear for the Japanese for almost | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
a year now. This is where the fight back is being co-ordinated. The | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
control room at the power station. Minute by minute, they are | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
monitoring the reactors, mouse stabilised. The air has been | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
scrubbed by filters to keep the radiation out. TRANSLATION: All we | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
have in mind is to prevent the release of radioactive gases that | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
leaked outside the power station which happened before. March last | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
year, when the power station was rocked by explosions. Beat tsunami | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
had triggered not down to three of the reactors. Japan's leaders | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
feared they would have to order the evacuation of Tokyo. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
It is only when you come here that you can appreciate the strength of | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
the explosions. You can see a few men are belt working. These | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
reactors are now in a state of fault shut down. It remains highly | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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radioactive here. They had to decontaminate this area, dismantle | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
be the power station will stop it could take up to 40 years. | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
We were driven right past the reactors, scarred by what happened. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
In places, it is too radioactive for humans to venture. Elsewhere, | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
the workers were busy, maintaining the cooling systems vital to | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
keeping the reactors under control. TRANSLATION: I worked here before | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
the disaster cert since my plant is in this condition, I think this | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
stay here. As for my health, my dose exposure is within the legal | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
limit. I have no concerns about health. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
What they fear it is another earthquake, a second soon army. It | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
could tip the nuclear disaster once again. No one needs reminding now | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
that sitting on the edge of the Pacific, the crippled reactors are | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
One of Britain's biggest banks, Barclays, has been ordered by the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
UK Treasury to pay almost $800 million in tax which it had tried | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
to avoid. The tax authorities have outlawed two types of tax avoidance | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
schemes, which were legal when Barclays set them up, calling them | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
highly abusive. Barclays has expressed surprise at the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
government's decision but says it respects it. The Treasury is now | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
expected to earn billions of dollars more in future taxes from | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
banks. The man leading the race to become | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
France's next president is proposing a drastic tax hike on top | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
earners there. Francois Hollande believes those earning over one | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
million euros a year - that's about $1.3 million - should pay a 75% | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
rate of income tax. The Socialist Party candidate has promised that | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
if elected, he would undo tax breaks brought in by Nicolas | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
Sarkozy, who he currently leads in the polls. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
It had been erected outside the iconic landmark of St Paul's | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Cathedral in the City of London for exactly for four months and 12 days, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
but in the end took just four hours to dismantle. After months of legal | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
appeals and counter appeals the protest Occupy London camp, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
mirrored by other demonstrations against excesses of capitalism | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
around the world, was razed to the ground overnight, as police and | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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bailiffs moved in. The BBC's Jeremy Cook was there. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
St Paul's Cathedral, a world renowned place of worship. For | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
months, it was home to the Occupy London encampment. It was on high | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
alert last night, expecting trouble. Police and bailiffs came in | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
overwhelming numbers, he to clean a camp which is -- has sharply demand | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
-- divided opinion. Scuffles, but no real trouble. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
After months of tensions, the tents are finally been cleared away. They | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
are being loaded up into the dump trucks, but the protesters insist | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
they will remain. The message went out all all | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
supporters to come and join the cause. The police cordons and | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
blocked the way. The court order was but the removal of tents and | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
other structures. The City of London Corporation said it | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
regretted sending in the bailiffs, but had no choice. As the Terrence | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
continued, a few of the most committed a protesters manned the | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
last barricade. Ultimately the result was never in doubt. I think | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
that this is an opportunity for us to move aside weights and to be | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
creative and innovative. -- moved sideways. It is the end of the | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
beginning. With the new day, a combination of the landscape he had | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
changed. Dozens of tense gone, time for the clean-up operation to move | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
them. The high-pressure hoses were put to immediate work. Some local | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
businesses where clearly glad it is all over. It is a good day today | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
because business is back to normal. Be campaign has been difficult, at | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
times embarrassing for the Church authorities. Today this was their | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
response. Last night was about the removal of tense and camping | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
equipment. It was not about the removal of protest or debates or | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
ideas. Those things carry on, just as they have for hundreds of years, | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
but perhaps they carry on in sharper focus. Life is returning to | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
normal, but the court order applies to tense, not protesters. Many of | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
them say they and their message Let us speak to Laurie Penny, a | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
journalist at who joins us from a New York. It is all over. What has | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
it achieved? To say the occupied movement, if it is a movement, is | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
over is a bit premature. There are still two camps in London. There is | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
one in Finsbury Square. The idea that one encampment could somehow | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
bring down capitalism on its own, that was never the idea, that was | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
never going to happen. It has never been an agent of change so much as | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
a helper of change. It has achieved its message already. Look at the | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
story you ran. It is about people demanding a higher taxes on high | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
earners, campaigns to fight tax avoidance a month banks. Those | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
discussions are now in the public's fear. Are you saying the movement | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
has put that into the public views of politicians have a pressure to | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
bring about those changes? movement is certainly not the only | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
actor this campaign trying to bring awareness of tax avoidance and | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
economic injustice into the public sphere. We had the student movement | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
last year. Next year, it will be something different. People's | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
movements always change. This is not an isolated incident. It is | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
very incident -- very interesting here in America watching the | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
Republican presidential candidates used the language of the super-rich. | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
He avoids taxes, he earns a lot of money, this would normally be | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
attacked. Nobody really knows where this rhetoric has come from. The | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
movement has moved economic injustice onto the agenda in | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
America and Britain. But the trouble is, it is all a bit vague. | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
There is no real clarity of message or strategy. It is a field which | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
you can take from it what you will. Really? Just the way you are | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
describing it. But you look at the number of groups outside St Paul's, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
there is no clarity of message or strategy that unites all the | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
protests around the world. This is what journalists have been using to | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
attack the movement with it for some time. Let us have won a single | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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message so we can ignore it. We are not ignoring it. What is confusing | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
at traditional Jenice if the lack of one key idea. -- traditional | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
journalists. This is about opening up possibilities of change that do | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
not involve a mainstream politics. You can be cynical about that or | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
you can be optimistic but one thing is for sure, young people in | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
particular are starting to think in a different way about politics. Yes, | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
it is they, people cannot be expected to come out of many years | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
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of politicians to do what they want. -- they eat. This is just the spot | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
of what will be a political movement. It is a cultural movement. | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
It is quite frightening for a lot of people in power. Thank you. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
It is only a few days and two Russians vote in the elections, a | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
process that has been controversial since last year's vote which was | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
alleged to be fraudulent. Vladimir Putin is expected to win. Some of | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
his critics have been finding unusual ways to express themselves. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
They have asked us not to reveal where they are. All who they are. | :20:16. | :20:26. | |
It is all very hush hush. But not for long. This punk band are | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
rehearsing their latest song about a Vladimir Putin and you do not | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
need to understand Russian to realise they do not like him very | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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much. Here, they hope he will soon be chased from power. Why? This | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
singer says she believes he cheated in last December's parliamentary | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
election. That is why she wants him out. When they perform in public, | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
they select high-profile venues, like this roof opposite a jail | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
where anti-government protestors have been locked up. Earlier this | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
month, they conquered Red Square and sang Putin has wet himself. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Because it only lasted a couple of minutes before the police turned up. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
A protest songs on the Kremlin was I'd do a step, it shows how the | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
political scene had changed. -- Kremlin APPLAUSE doorstep. | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
It was Knowles -- are not so long since Vladimir Putin was on top. | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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Milibands sang his praises. We want a strong man, they once sang. -- | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
and girl bands sang his praises. Critics welcome the change. | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
more people criticise the power, the better it is for society | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
because that makes power realise they are vulnerable and they have | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
to be vulnerable. They are not invincible. But there is still one | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
band that is backing Vladimir Putin. These are wrapping Russian | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
pensioners have become an internet sensation with a song about how | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
clever and a -- about how clever at the Vladimir Putin is. He will be | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
hoping, election day Russian voters will be singing the same tune. -- | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
on election day. The British animation industry which has | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
spawned favourites such as Wallace and Gromit to Bagpuss and Bob the | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
Builder claims it is up danger of terminal decline. Our is urging the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Government to introduce tax breaks in next month's budget. -- and | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
Animation UK. We asked one animator to illustrate the problem for us. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
An animator in England comes up with a new idea for a programme. He | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
takes it to a financier who loves it. But then he started to lean the | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
sums. You realises if the programme came from Ireland, 28% of the cost | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
would come in a tax break from the Government. It came from France, | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
20% of the cost would be paid for by the French government. There are | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
similar tax breaks around the world but not in England. This means more | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
and more animation is done overseas so the English animator was told, | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
"Thanks but no thanks". Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions co-created | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Teletubbies and a recently The Adventures of Abney and Teal. She | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
is with me now. When you look at the figures, how on earth do you | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
survive? With great difficulty. We have subsidised our own work for a | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
long time and hope for international sales. Sometimes we | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
do, sometimes we do not. You are taking a huge financial risk as | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
well as a creative one. It is becoming, particularly in young | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
children, even more difficult because there is a feeling the | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
smaller the child, the smaller the Budget. At a time of austerity, | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
what chances are you offered? should be given tax breaks because | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
the potential... Of up to 40%? would be great. For various reasons. | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
Not least because of the export potential of animation from the UK. | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
There ought children's programmes, it is very high. -- for the | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
children's programmes. We are not able to find ourselves to the | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
extent we did now. What about copying other businesses and | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
outsourcing this? You think about mobile-phone businesses with call- | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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centre as overseas. A people forget we are doing art. It is an art form. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
Of course you can find superb technicians... I tried it once. I | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
sent work to India and it was a disaster. What came back looked | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
completely different from what we sent out and then we have to send | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
someone to look after it. They became more expensive. The only | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
time I have done it successfully was years ago with Poland where we | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
had some animation done there. Again, we had to send someone out | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
there. Aid is not a used -- as a straightforward, because it is art. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Have things deteriorated over the years? Was it a better environment | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
years ago? My company is 27 years old. If I was trying to do it now, | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
I would not. In the old days, you had full production costs. You | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
could live. You did not have to go out there and sell toys or what | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
ever to raise 80% of the budget you have to raise. The most you will | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
get from a broadcast in the UK is 20% of your budget. Costs have | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
risen. It cost just as much to make animation for a small child as an | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
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animated film. Thank you. That is We did not quite break our record | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
for Scotland. Nonetheless, we reached 17 in degrees. As we look | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
up to tomorrow, high pressure is still in charge. South Western | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
winds would keep it mild. A grey start tomorrow morning. The cloud | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
will break up. Scotland will see some of the brighter spells. | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
Temperatures will rise. You could see 12 degrees in Leeds. We will | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
see some brighter spells in the south-east corner, a top | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
temperatures of 15 degrees. For better breaks in the cloud in the | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
south-west. Up a bit more sunshine here. Still staying cloudy isn | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
Cardigan Bay. Moving further inland, you might see better brightness. It | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
will stay dry. Some at sunshine in Ireland. It will be damp in north- | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
west Scotland. That will move further south through Wednesday | :28:13. | :28:17. |