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This is BBC World News today with me, Tim Willcox. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Proud of the killings and inspired by the atrocities carried out by | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Al-Qaeda - Anders Breivik boasts in court he has carried out the most | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
spectacular attack in Norway since the Second World War. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
As Bahrain gears up for its Formula One Grand Prix, a damning report | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
into continued and and necessary force against demonstrators. This | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
is what we are seeing more and more with the demonstrators outside | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Manama. They start peaceful but then a young men come up with | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Molotov cocktails, confront the police and then the police are | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
responding with tear gas. You can see they're charging down the hill | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
towards us here. The death of the British | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
businessman Neil Hayward in China, now the Prime Minister gets | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
involved. But what did the British government know and when? | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Also coming up, a new technique to treat early prostate cancer. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
Ultrasound can do things faster and better. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
We are at war. We need a team. the ultimate super hero film, not | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
just one but a crack team of superheroes as the world of comic | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Hello and welcome. The killings, he said, where inspired by Al-Qaeda. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
The deaths of his 77 victims in Norway last summer, justified as a | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
blow against multiculturalism which he claimed was destroying his | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
country. Anders Breivik added today that his motivation was based on | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
goodness and not evil. Matthew Price is in Oslo and joins us now. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
Yes, contrast the horror of Anders Breivik's crimes, the panic and | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
screens, with the quiet calm of the courtroom behind me. The thing that | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
I was most struck by as I sat in that courtroom a few feet from the | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
descendant -- defendant, was often how polite he appeared. He had also | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
clearly invested an awful lot of time in working out what he | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
believes to be a very reasoned justification for the terrible | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
crimes he committed. That made it no easier for anybody who was this | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
thing to his words. Norway's most notorious killer was | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
driven to court ban on time. As one of his defence team also arrived. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
The most important thing today is that he gets to explain why he did | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
what he did. This, as far as he is concerned at least, was to beat his | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
day, his voice, his words, his own twisted justification. The cameras | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
were asked to leave. Breivik walked calmly, slowly to the stand, | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
clutching 13 pages of the printed a statement he wanted to deliver. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
I have carried out the most spectacular and sophisticated | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
attack in Europe since the Second World War, he said. I acted out of | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
goodness, not evil. These were pre- emptive attacks to protect | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Norwegian Society. I ask that I be acquitted. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
For over an hour, Breivik presented us with his world view. His belief | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
that as a white Christian Norwegian, he is no more a terrorist than | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
indigenous peoples fighting occupation. These were not innocent | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
children, he told the court, of the teenagers he had killed at the | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Labour Party summer camp on the island of Utoeya. They were | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
actively working to uphold multicultural values. Yes, I would | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
have done it again. This is what he would have done | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
again. Some Norwegians are angry that a man who has admitted to | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
these crimes is now being given a platform to express his views. But | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
this man, a survivor from the island massacre who studies in | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Liverpool disagrees. Some people have questioned even holding this | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
trial. I think it is important for the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
survivors who have to live on with this, to hear the reason why it | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
happened. We have got to know a lot about that today. Just outside, the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
multicultural Oslo that Breivik so despises walks by. Past the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
buildings still damage from the bomb he set off here. He will give | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
more evidence tomorrow. There were, of course, so many | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
people who were affected directly by Anders Breivik. One of them is | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
with me now. You were on the island that day and you saw him. How did | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
you feel when he was giving his evidence today in court? Mixed | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
feelings. On the one hand it was good to see him there, in a | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
position rather different from when I saw him last time. And also, I | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
think it was important to hear his twisted but still coherent ideas on | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
why he did the things he did and see that they fit into a pattern. | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
But on the other hand, of course, it reminds you more deeply about | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the people that have lost their lives and even more so, the parents | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
that are here. And he actually mentioned your wife in court. She | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
is a prominent journalist and commentator here, she often writes | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
about immigration issues, he ventured not just your wife but the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
fact that you and she had had a child. That get very personal for | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
you, doesn't it? Definitely. It had a very nasty taste to it. Of course, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
it makes you think even more about the things he has been doing. But | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
once again, on the other hand, it really underlines the kind off | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
world-view he is sharing unfortunately with other people. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
The sheer existence of people with a background in Muslim countries, | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
whether or not they are practising, believing or not is a problem. The | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
fact that we have a child together and that child will have me as a | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
father is in his view, a threat and a problem for Norwegian Society. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
And that is a very nasty thing. is worth pointing out that you have | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
a background in a Muslim country. One of the other things that struck | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
me, you have already pointed towards it, his arguments sounded | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
rational, thought-out, reasoned, hopefully not too many people | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
agreed with them but there will be people who agreed with them. These | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
are arguments about multiculturalism at immigration | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
which are popping up across Europe at the moment and have been in | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
political circles as well. Clearly his actions are the actions of we | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
hope, fridge, dip -- but do you think his arguments are of a Fringe | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
hit -- here in Norway? arguments have moved from the edges | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
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to the mainstream. We heard from editorials, articles, books and | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
even from parliamentary positions is a very big threat that needs to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
be addressed. Just very quickly, does that mean that he should not | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
be standing there being able to put across his viewpoints and being | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
able to reinforce those arguments? On the contrary, I think is good to | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
hear those arguments in this setting knowing they are connected | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
to actions which are inherently, there is an inherent tendency | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
towards violence in political ideology that wants to get rid of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
all Muslims in Western countries so it is good to hear this in this | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
setting rather than on a parliamentary rostrum. Thank you. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
It is kind of you to join us. Anders Breivik said I know I have | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
caused an incredible amount of suffering, that will be no comfort | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
to his victims. Thank you. With just days to go | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
before Bahrain's Formula One Grand Prix, the human-rights group | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Amnesty International says torture and ill treatment continue. It says | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
it has evidence of people being kept in prison for participating in | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
peaceful protests and security forces are using excessive and | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
unnecessary force against demonstrators. Bahrain's government | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
have rejected the claims but the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
been caught up in some of the violence. | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
Another sunset brings another protest. Every evening, they take | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
to the streets here in their thousands. Down with King Hamad is | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
the chant, as it has been for more than a year now. Bahrain's Shia | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
majority is refusing to be silenced. This is what we are seeing more and | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
more with the demonstrations outside Manama. They start of | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
peaceful but then young men come out with Molotov cocktails, | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
confront the police, through the fire bombs and now the police are | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
responding with tear-gas and their trudging down the hill towards us | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
here. -- they are charging down the hill. Bernie Ecclestone says | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Bahrain is peaceful and say. Tell that to the people who live in the | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
Shia villages. This is the image Bahrain's government would like the | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
world to see. Many Bahrainis are delighted Formula One is back. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
Within the poor Shia villages, this is how the graffiti artists see it. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
The car spewing tear gas is being driven by Formula One supremo | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
Bernie Eccleston and King Hamad. As race day approaches, this man is on | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
hunger strike and close to death. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is a democracy | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
activist sentenced to life in prison last year by a military | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
court. My father basically look like a skeleton with skin on it. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
His daughter, Zainab, saw her father last Sunday. She says he | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
could die at any time. My father is everything. Even my faith in | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
humanity. Losing him would be the worst thing. But I do know that | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
this is a cause that is worth dying and I do know that my father will | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
continue. He is not a person who will ever give up. He will continue | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
fighting. Amnesty International has declared Abdulhadi al-Khawaja a | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
prisoner of conscience and is demanding his immediate release. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
But the Justice Minister says only the courts can decide that. Only | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
the courts can decide for stud he might be dead by then? I hope not. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
We are providing the best medical care possible. If he does die, the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
streets here could explode again. The young Shia Bahrainis who take | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
to the streets every night are impatient for change. We want | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
democracy, we want freedom. This government, when we ask for that, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
it straightaway tries to kill anybody who does this. A year ago, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
these people were calling for a limited change. Now they want King | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
Hamad and his family to go. We can talk now have to Jalila al | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
Salman, a former vice-president of the teachers as physician who was | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
imprisoned earlier this year. Herr appealed for a civilian court is | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
currently ongoing and she is out on bail. She joins us now by webcam | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
from Manama. The Governor -- government says reforms have been | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
implemented, you are out on bail, do you accept that some progress | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
has been made? As citizens in Bahrain, we cannot say anything -- | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
we cannot see anything of these reforms on the ground. If something | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
has been taking place, we should know it. For me, as an example, I | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
am sat as a teacher. -- I am sacked as a teacher. I am not at work. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
They have not given any reason. government says all public sector | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
workers who have been reinstated. He is not completely right. Most of | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
them are returned back and reinstated but not for all of us. I | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
am an example of that. What do you think should happen regarding the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Grand Prix this weekend? Do you think that the Formula One | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
authorities should pull out? Actually, I am not a political | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
person but as a normal citizen in Bahrain, I see what is going on | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
here in my country and to my people, I think yes, they should pull out | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
of Bahrain. Formula One should not be here this year again because of | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
what is happening on the ground. Bahrain is not safe. It is not the | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
small island is to be before. It is not a peaceful place as people are | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
saying. We are living in a war. many of your colleagues remain in | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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prison? We have 13 teachers in prison right now. On top of them is | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
the President. We are appealing now. We must leave there, thank you. I | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
think we can speak now on the phone to Fahad Al Binali. He is in Manama | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
and a spokesperson for the Bahraini national information authority. You | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
say you have bought about changes but it seems that nothing has | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
changed on the ground. Are necessary, excessive force used by | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
security agents against protesters. That is an unfair assessment. First | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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of all,... That is the spirit which led to the High Commission. That is | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
why its findings were broadcast to the world that they are still | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
available online for Bahrainis and anybody else who is interested. It | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
has to be said that no other Arab leader has opened his government to | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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Amnesty says the reforms are piecemeal. No senior member of the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
security forces has been held to account for the 40 people that died | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
last year. Many were arrested erroneously and sentenced by a | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
military court. First of all, it has to be taken into consideration | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
the report published its findings at the end of November 23rd, a few | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
months have passed but a lot has happened. So, everything has | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
miraculously improved in two months, has it? This is exactly why we are | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
speaking to Amnesty International. A lot has happened on the ground. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
You spoke earlier about the dismissed workers, they have been | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
reinstated except those currently under trial and awaiting judgment. | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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Earlier, it was said people were... Convicted in a military court,.... | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
The line is dropping out and we are only hearing half of what to say. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Thank you for joining us. The other news: The radical Muslim preacher | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Abu Qatada has been arrested in Britain with the government | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
announcing it intends to deport him. It's expected he will appear at a | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
special immigration hearing in the next few hours after the Home | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Secretary made a statement to parliament. The European Court of | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Human Rights blocked his deportation to Jordan in January. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
It ruled evidence obtained by torture might be used against him | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
if he appears at a court in Jordan. The European Union says it's | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
considering all possible options against Argentina over a decision | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
to nationalise a Spanish-controlled oil company, YPF. The move by the | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Argentine President, Cristina Fernandez, follows months of | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
tension with Britain over oil exploration off the Falkland | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
islands. A former London shop worker, who | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
became governor of one of the wealthiest states in Nigeria, has | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
been jailed in Britain for money laundering and fraud. James Ibori | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
admitted stealing nearly eighty million dollars from the coffers of | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the oil-rich Delta state to fund a lavish lifestyle. He was sentenced | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
to 13 years in prison by a court in London. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
A jumbo jet carrying NASA's oldest space shuttle, Discovery, has | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
landed in Washington DC after a dramatic final journey. Thousands | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
of people watched the shuttle being flown over the capital's most | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
famous landmarks. Discovery will be put on display at the National Air | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
and Space Museum at Dulles airport. It flew 39 times in space - more | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
than any other shuttle. It's a delicate balance for any | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Western country keen to build closer trading links with China, | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
but the death of the British businessman Neil Heywood in | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
mysterious circumstances in China last November saw his case being | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
raised at the highest levels today between Prime Minister David | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
Cameron and a member of China's Politburo. Our diplomatic | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
correspondent James Robbins reports. The Prime Minister with a man | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
ranked No. 5 in China's political hierarchy. I warmly welcome you to | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Downing Street. The first chance to Britain to send a message directly | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
to the Chinese leadership. Britain expects a complete and convincing | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
explanation of Neil Heywood's death. What really happened at this hotel | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
last November? It is here the body of the British businessman was | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
discovered, at first the Chinese said he died of excessive alcohol. | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
He was close to this man, Bo Xilai, brought down by accusations his | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
wife was involved in murdering Mr Heywood. In the Commons, the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Foreign Secretary was accused of reacting too slowly to the changing | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
stories from China but William Hague insists it is not the case. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
We have demanded an investigation, the Chinese authorities have agreed | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
to conduct such an investigation, there has been further discussion | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
about that between the Prime Minister and the visiting member of | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
the Politburo. I will also meet him shortly. We are pursuing this | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
carefully and vigorously. Foreign Office is also having to | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
explain a meeting between Jeremy Browne MP and Bo Xilai on the day | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Britain first heard of the death. Although this was going on in the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
same city, the government insists there was nothing initially to | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
suggest there was anything suspicious. No reason to tell the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
minister. It is uncomfortable as Britain piles pressure on China to | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
reveal the full truth. The message is unusually blunt. The government | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
by insisting the Chinese investigation into the death must | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
be free from political interference, and must expose the truth, seems to | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
suggest it has real fears the precise opposite could be the | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
outcome. A new treatment for prostate cancer | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
which targets cancer cells with sound waves could control the | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
disease with far fewer side effects than standard techniques. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Researchers at University College London believe the findings - | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
albeit on a small sample - could transform future treatment of the | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
disease, which is the second most common cancer worldwide. The | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
treatment fires high-frequency non- invasive sound waves directly at | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
the tumour. The technique called focal therapy. 41 patients took | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
part in the trial. And twelve months later none had incontinence | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
- a side effect with other treatments. And just one in ten was | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
impotent. Joining me in the studio is Louise Dickinson, who worked as | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
part of the research team at University College London Hospital. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
This seems a significant break through but it is a small sample of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
people. How concerned should we be about that in terms of | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
effectiveness? It is a proof of concept trial and a small number of | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
patients over a short term follow- up so the results are encouraging | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
but the next step is a larger trial, a medium term of follow up and also | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
to recruit across a number of centres. And is the principle that | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
by zapping these cancers effectively in a small way, you can | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
get the disease earlier? concept is focal therapy so it | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
targeting the cancers rather than the whole prostate. You're causing | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
less collateral damage to the surrounding nerds and normal tissue | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
and fewer side-effects. Is this a technique used with other cancers | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
to positive effect? It has been but it follows other organ cancers like | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
breast cancer moved from mastectomy to lumpectomy and we are following | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
a similar strategy. And is this the reason why the side-effects we | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
associated previously like incontinence and other problems can | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
be avoided now? Absolutely, it is preserving the tissue and it helps | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
your function and had three Cancer Control in the longer term. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
terms of the cost, I think it can be done under local anaesthetic? | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
is a general anaesthetic but patients tend to go home the same | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
day. That is effectively cost- effective. It is cost-effective as | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
a treatment. So, this would save the NHS money at a time when it is | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
under financial strain and scrutiny. Potentially but we need to formally | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
evaluated that. Discuss the procedure now and how this plan | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
will be expanded to others who might be offered this, someone with | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
prostate cancer watching now, what other timings of them being offered | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
something like this? So, we are expanding this formal trial around | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
the UK, men there may be suitable might have disease on one side of | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
the prostate, they would have disease localised to the prostate | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
and lower intermediate resist rather than high risk. It is one of | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the biggest killers, a common cancer than men in this country and | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
the second most common internationally, why has it taken | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
so long do you think to develop something like this when it is such | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
a big killer? The change really is in the diagnostic procedures so we | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
can now see tumours better with advances in MRI and ultrasound and | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
we can locate it better compared to the standard diagnostic procedures | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
until now. That has helped us move towards this concept of vocal | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
treatment. OK, thank you for coming on. For millions of comic fans | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
around the world the release of the film The Avengers can't come soon | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
enough. The film doesn't just feature a single superhero but a | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
whole army drawn from America's Marvel comic book universe. They | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
include Thor and Captain America and as Tom Brook reports it's | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
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We are at war. We need a team. There may be an element of hype but | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
this movie is like no other. France have been a poor night waiting for | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
previews. I have been looking forward to this movie since I was a | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
little kid. I love Marvel superheroes. I grew up on The | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Avengers. This would make an awesome movie and they have made it. | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
I am stoked. What sets the film apart is it brings together several | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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Super heroes into one picture. They include Iron man, Court Of Thunder, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Thor and Captain America. They have served as a teaser for the new | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
picture. There was a master plan and that involved creating a | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
universe and bringing these characters together slowly after | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
each had been established and stood on their own to feed. Mark Ruffalo | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
who portrays the hulk sees it as a mix of different superheroes with | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
strong personalities. It is an analogy for the world in a way. It | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
is where we are. It is even on a small scale in America. Super egos, | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
powerful people fighting it out, thinking they have the right answer. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
The film isn't just a creative endeavour catering to movie fans, | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
it is also a huge commercial enterprise. It has been estimated | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
the budget is in excess of $220 million and is predicted it could | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
set a record for the opening weekend box office for a superhero | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
movie in the US. It's also spawning a multi- million dollar | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
merchandising authority including a fashions the dogs, superheroes sell | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
all sorts of merchandise. The films have become cash generating | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
machines. The film arrives in cinemas around the world next week | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
and with its box office takings are likely to be big, it is expected | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
there will be a sequel to this superhero movie. | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
A lot of superheroes on their way! A reminder of our main news: The | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
man accused of killing 77 people last July has boasted of carrying | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
out the most spectacular attack in Europe since the Second World War. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
But he demanded to be acquitted claiming his motivation was good, | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
not evil. He said he was defending the European Anthony Wall JUN -- | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
Norwegian people against multiculturalism. With preparations | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
are under way in Bahrain have for the Grand Prix, the decision is | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
still causing controversy. The human rights group Amnesty | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
International says torture and ill- treatment are continuing in Bahrain | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
and that there's evidence of people being kept in prison for | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
participating in peaceful anti- government protests. That is it | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
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from the programme. From us, Hello, some typical April weather | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
at the moment, a mixture of sunshine and showers for many. | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
Tomorrow, a similar day, quite blustery. Some torrential downpours | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
in the forecast. This low-pressure is driving the weather. It is | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
sitting across us and in no hurry to move on. The main focus is going | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
to be across England and Wales. Brighter with sunshine further | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
north. Across northern England by afternoon it could be very cloudy | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
and wet and temperatures struggling. A cold afternoon with highs of nine | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
degrees. Some torrential downpours and thunder in the south with | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
temperatures around 10 or 11. Some bright spells across Cornwall and | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
Devon but a scattering of showers. Across Wales, generally overcast | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
skies, showers are dotted around. You will see a lot of water falling | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
in a short space of time. Northern Ireland, some brightness, | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
temperatures nine or 10. A similar data Tuesday. Across Scotland, some | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
showers, they could be wintry on high ground. On Wednesday night, | :29:12. | :29:17. |