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This is BBC World News Today with me Lucy Hockings. A nightmare | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
scenario in Texas. The search for survivors continues in the United | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
States as daylight reveals the incredible damage caused by a huge | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
explosion at a fertiliser plant. Up to 15 people killed and hundreds | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
are injured. An emotional ceremony in Boston | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
remembers the victims of Monday's bombing as the President promises | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
to find those responsible. Also coming up: In an exclusive | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
interview, Israel's Prime Minister tells us that his country has a | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
right to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands in | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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Syria. It is clear that this is a serious challenge, not only to us, | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
if chemical weapons fall into the hands of Al-Qaeda, that is a | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
challenge to Britain, challenged to Europe, a challenge to the Middle | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
East. And no more Your Majesty. The Dutch | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Crown Prince adopts a more informal approach ahead of his coronation as | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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A search and rescue effort is continuing in the US state of Texas | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
after a huge explosion at a fertiliser plant killed up to | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
fifteen people and injured hundreds. A local sheriff said the scene in | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
the small town of West resembled a war zone, with many buildings | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
flattened. The blast, which is believed to have been started by a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
fire in the factory, produced a tremor equivalent to a small | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
earthquake. From Texas, Alastair Leithead reports. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
The first sign a fire filmed on a mobile phone from what seemed to be | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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a safe distance away. This was a huge explosions. You OK? Are I | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
cannot hear. Let's get out of here! The blast before 8pm was felt many | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
miles away. Voluntary fire fighters were among the dead. Stark was | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
complicated the rescue operation as the extent of the damage became | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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clear. Fire queues a riot. -- crews. Areas were levelled by the blast. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
An apartment block collapsed. was a major explosion. The windows | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
came in on me, the reef and the ceiling came in. I worked my way | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
out to try and get some more help. We lost all communication because | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
the power went out. The force pushed me back and there was | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
shrapnel flying everywhere. Many people were injured. The local | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
sports field is used as a staging period for treating people that | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
needed help. They picked up people to get them to hospital to treat | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the injured. And nursing home was within the radius of the blast. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Some were trapped as the building collapsed. I saw the rest home and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
people were buried under the rest home, it was calm. There Wroxham | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
top of them, we had to remove that. The ceilings were down. -- there | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
were rocks on top of them. We evacuated one of the wings as fast | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
as we could. The plant was in that small Texan town of West, a short | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
distance from Waco. The blast was felt fortified miles away. On the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
edge of the town, there was a school, homes and a care home. It | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
is thought there were 20 tonnes of ammonia stored in the storage | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
facility. The damage around the area is a shocking with the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
explosion tearing through homes. They had been going door-to-door | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
looking for survivors. There is nothing out of control there at the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
moment, meaning the fire is not that of control. There is no | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
chemical escaping from the fertiliser plant that is held to | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
have control. -- that is out of control. They are doing a fantastic | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
job in harass circumstances. This is what is left of the fertiliser | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
factory come up what is smouldering behind us first caught fire and | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
exploded sending a fire ball across this neighbour would, destroying | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
homes, killing and injuring many. Investigators are now looking | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
through what is left of the factory trying to establish the cause of | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
the fire and explosion that had such a devastating impact. | :04:52. | :05:02. | |
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And we'll be speaking to a reporter at the scene in just a few minutes. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Barack Obama has attended a memorial service for the victims of | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the Boston bomb attack today. Scores were wounded in the blast | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
and three people died. The National Security Adviser has spoke about | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
CCTV footage and wanting to speak to those responsible. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
It has been a week that Boston will never forget, from early morning, | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
the crowds gathered at the cathedral. They were waiting to see | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
their President. They wanted to remember the dead and wounded and | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
share thoughts of what happened that day. It is terrifying and | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
terribly sad. I personally know somebody that was hurt and is in a | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
critical condition. It is terrifying and it hits close to | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
home because you feel like it is in Harrow and backyard and Boston as | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
that experienced anything like this before. -- it is in our own | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
backyard. The President came to one of the victims and comfort those | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
whose lives were never be the same again. Once again, he is having to | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
speak for the nation in a time of mourning. You resolve is the | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
greatest rebuked you will ever committed this he must act. -- | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
committed this devastating act. If you want to terrorise us, shake us | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
from those values that were described, the values that make us | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
see we are as Americans, while it should be pretty clear by now that | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
they picked the wrong city to do it. APPLAUSE Investigators are saying | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
they have a strong lead, a potential suspect. They have CCTV | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
footage of a man dropping a bag off at the scene of one of the | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
explosions. And they are analysing this, a photograph that shows a bag | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
next to a post box close to the finish line. This is the same scene | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
a seconds later, one of thousands of Leeds that the FBI has junior | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
sift through. Today he is an opportunity for the people of | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Boston to come together to pray and reflect. It is a moment to remember | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
those who lost their lives and the many that suffered terrible | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
injuries and a chance to thank those who selflessly rushed to the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
scene. Like Natalie, a paediatrician and marathon runner | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
who despite the dangers, dashed into treat the wounded at the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
finishing line, Gabriel he wrote whose emotions today are of guilt. | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
-- a real hero. So much these people died because of me, and I | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
mean, they were there cheering for me at the finish line and they were | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
there to get me through, and they lost their lives and they lost | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
their limbs and I have such sorrow. Was it my fault? Was it because of | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
me? Had they not been there, they would be alive. In a country where | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
people often feel immune to the dangers of the outside world, the | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
bombings have left many people feeling less sure, at less safe, as | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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they struggle to make sense of the attack on the Boston Marathon. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. The head of the IMF, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Christine Lagarde, has been summoned to appear before a French | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
court investigating alleged abuse of office during her time as | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
finance minister six years ago. It concerns a case where Ms Lagarde | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
ordered a panel of judges to arbitrate in a dispute that ended | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
with a payout of more than 350 million dollars to the businessman, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
Bernard Tapie. She denies any wrongdoing. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
A man's been arrested in Mississippi in connection with a | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
letter sent to President Obama containing the deadly poison, Ricin. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
The letter was discovered at a mail screening centre before it got to | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the White House. The FBI says there's no indication of a | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
connection to Monday's attack on the Boston Marathon. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
A leading campaigner for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
football stadium disaster, has died. Anne Williams was 60 and had been | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
suffering from cancer. Mrs Williams fought to get the original inquest | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
verdicts overturned for her son Kevin and the 95 others who died in | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
the 1989 tragedy - a campaign which succeeded in December. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
The most successful Olympic cyclist ever, Britain's Chris Hoy, says | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
he's retiring after 13 years at the top of the sport. Sir Chris, who's | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
won six Olympic golds and eleven world championships, said he'd | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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committed every last drop of effort and couldn't give any more. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the BBC that | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Israel reserves the right to prevent weapons from falling into | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the wrong hands in Syria. In a rare sit-down interview with the BBC's | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, he warned that the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
flow of arms from Syria could change balance of power in Middle | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
East. We have Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
remember, Hezbollah at his firing thousands of rockets into our | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
cities and committed to our destruction, so is Al-Qaeda. There | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
are others in addition to them, inside Syria. They have the worst | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
radicals in the world, so we are concerned that the weapons that are | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
ground-breaking could change the balance of power in the Middle East | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
and fall into the hands of these terrorists, and we always reserve | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the right to prevent that from happening. A like when in January | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
when Israel struck Syrian government at weapons, a convoy | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
heading to Hezbollah in Lebanon? am not confirming the news reports. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
I am Ehud Barak confirms this, he said that when his real says | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
something, they mean it. I am the Prime Minister, and I will tell you | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
that I prefer to just stayed our policy, and that is our policy, and | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
it is clear that this is a serious challenge not only to us. If | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
chemical weapons fall into the hands of Al-Qaeda, that is a | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
challenge to Britain and Europe and the challenge to every Arab country | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
in the Middle East. Watch duty say to David Cameron, deja or urge him | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
not to lift the arms embargo in harming the rebels? I can ensure | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
that we see eye to eye with the British government on preventing | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
further terror and bloodshed in Syria. It is complicated because | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
you have got bad fighting the bad. They know you do it on to reveal a | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
private conversation, but teacher or urge him to be cautious? | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
arms in Syria, these chemical weapons, they are very, very | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
dangerous weapons. I what happens next? There are reports that Israel | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
has reached out to some rebel groups and reports you are even | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
harming some of them? I'm not confirming that we did. If we were | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
in touch, it would not make sense to talk about it, even on the BBC, | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
and I am not confirming that we have done that. The arming of | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
rebels presents a question of which rebels and which arms which is a | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
very complicated question for every country, including my country. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Israel planning a more aggressive military operation in Syria? We are | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
not aggressive, we do not seek military confrontation but we will | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
defend ourselves if the need arises. It would be both measured and | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
serious. What does that mean?It means we are measured and serious. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
A have a new plan? Be constant plan to defend our country. | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
Lyse Doucet is here with me. What to see me when he will defend | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
against Syria? They mean they will have to have an interventionist | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
approach because it is right on their doorstep. In recent weeks | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
there were more incidents of gunfire, mortars landing on the | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Israeli side of the border, some from the Syrian government, some | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
from the brambles. Israel feels threatened from the growing | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
strength of Islamist groups linked to Al-Qaeda. We know from his radio | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
officials that it was an Israeli airstrike on weapons had for | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
Hezbollah. He said that the terrorists had to understand that | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
if this happened with them, they would not hesitate to act. There | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
are reports that they are considering arming rebels, he was | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
quite careful about that. recognises and he discussed with | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
David Cameron that there are growing calls for the arms embargo | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
to be lifted and to harm the rebels. He said if we are going to do that, | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
it is very complicated. Which weapons and which groups? The | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
problem is, Syria is falling apart and in this chaos, how can you | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
control them. The message is, they will do everything possible because | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
the risks are too dangerous. worried are Israelis? They are not | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
as focused on what is happening in Syria, because it is far away, in | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
the Golan Heights. They have a Prime Minister talking about an | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
existential issues. There talking about Israel and the dangers that | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
they pose, so it has not really registered. There have been | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
comments by the Israeli chief of staff painting that this is the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
most pressing concern. It is right on Israel's doorstep. Did you press | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
him on what is happening in Iran? He seemed a bit more relaxed about | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
that. Last September he true world attention when there was this | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
cartoon bomb and said its Iran across as this, if it him riches | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
enough uranium two rapidly acquire a bomb, that Israel would strike. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
After the visit by Barack Obama last month, at the feels that they | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
have Israel's back and there has been unprecedented co-operation on | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
this issue. But the international community is clear that Iran is | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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arrest on a group of judges. Rather than accept the court order, the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
former president swiftly returned to his heavily guarded farmhouse on the | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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outskirts of Islamabad. And among the throng, she left the | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
High Court moments after the order for his arrest. The former military | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
ruler managed to beat his bullet-proof car and get away. One | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
of his bodyguards clung to the side. There were cheers from lawyers who | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
called him a traitor but there was no move by police. It is a far cry | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
from his glory days as army chief Watson says return from exile last | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
month, she has been barred from running for office and looks like a | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
spent force. A party official told us he is a little upset but not | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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giving up yet. We will fight it and he is a brave man. She will prove to | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
people that he is not guilty. remains inside his heavily security | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
farmhouse. There are police raid outside the door but they are there | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
to protect them, not to take him into custody. There has been no | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
attempt by the authorities to place him under arrest. Pakistan once | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
all-powerful military dictator is now a wanted man. Judges might agree | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
that he remained there under house arrest but this is new territory for | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Pakistan. The military has been untouchable, now a former army chief | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
is at the mercy of the courts. Let's return to our top story. The | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas. We are joined by our | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
reporter. We have seen some incredibly dramatic pictures as | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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daylight has come to the town of West. Can you describe the scene? | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
Very dramatic. Unbelievable when you look at close. Were being kept about | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
a mile away because investigators say it is still not safe for us to | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
go and and gets the kind of respect that we are seeing now. They | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
continue to search for people trapped in the rubble. The | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
explosions went off overnight in Texas and firefighters first | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
responded to the scene because there was a report of a fire. They were | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
trying to evacuate the area at this fertiliser plant and they had no | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
idea that minutes later there was going to be a massive explosion. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Several people are still missing right now. Authorities do not have a | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
death toll just yet. They believe from five to 15 people were likely | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
killed. More than 160 injured and taken to hospitals. There are still | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
a number of people missing. Homes were completely levelled in this | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
explosion. We saw a video of a little girl with her father. The | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
work recording it on their phone. -- they were to recording it. Her | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
father believes she likely suffered some sort of ear damage from the | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
magnitude of this explosion. Our investigators seeing what caused | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
the explosion? No they aren't. They lead | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
investigators on the scene are federal agents who are coming in to | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
see if a crime may have taken place. Right now they are treating it as a | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
crime scene even though they have no evidence that it was a crime. Until | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
they go through, they do not want to deem it as an industrial accident. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
They are treating it as a crime rate they as they sift through the | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
evidence. We are not even 24 hours since the explosion took place and | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
are still smoke and fire in different areas. They are being very | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
cautious as they go in. Five blocks and radius around this plant. It is | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
going to take them quite some time to get to the bottom of it. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
I can only imagine the shock that people are experiencing. Most | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
families must know someone affected by it. You seen the community coming | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
together? -- are you seeing the community coming together? | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Unbelievable amount of support. President Obama set out a message | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
saying that his thoughts and prayers were with the community. These | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
people have rallied around each other. We had people who were making | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
fit and bringing it to help feed these people. When we spoke to some | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
people here on Main Street, they were very sad but they also said | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
that this town rallies around each other like no other town in Texas. | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
They believe they can help each other get through this. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
The Dutch Crown Prince has set the tone for what could be a hands off | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
monarchy. King Willem-Alexander says that his subjects will not have to | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
address him as "Your Majesty". A man soon to be king but this | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
future monarch is proper thing a more laid-back style. In an | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
interview ahead of his inauguration to the Dutch throne, he said that it | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
begins with what will he will be called. Firstly my name is William | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
Alexander. I would find it strange to have to abandon that because I am | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
King. His mother is abdicating after more than 30 years on the throne and | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
there have been calls in the Netherlands for the future monarch | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
to strike to ceremonial duties. the lawmaking process is democratic | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
and constitutional, I will accept everything. I have no problems with | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
that. If my signature is needed, I will sign. With the new King will | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
come a new queen. His glamorous Argentinian born wife is the most | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
popular Royal in the Netherlands. Her popularity comes in spite of her | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
family background. When she married him, her father was not on the guest | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
list. That was because of his links to the military dictatorship of old | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Argentina in the late 1970s. He served as an agriculture minister | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
and he hasn't been invited to this month's inauguration either. She is | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
fluent in Dutch and said becoming Queen will not change her. I will | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
not act differently. My background is Argentinian. I love to dance, I | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
love music and I will keep on doing that. I will stay the same. King | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Willem-Alexander says he is ready to take on the role he has been blamed | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
for. An American women will make history | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
at the world's largest and longest-running music festival that | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
the BBC Proms. Marin Alsop is to be the first conductor of the "Last | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
night of the Proms" concert at the Royal Albert Hall. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
The mass celebration of classical music that is the "Last night of the | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
Proms". This year, for the first time, it will be a women holding the | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
baktun and leading the orchestra. The American conductor Marin Alsop. | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
I am very proud to be the first women to conduct but I am also sad | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
that it is 2013 and there still can be firsts for women. I think we have | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
to create more opportunities for women to be seen in these types of | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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leadership roles. It is here at the Royal porthole in London were later | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
this year, Marin Alsop will take to the stage. She will once again be an | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
exception that proves the rule. When it comes to professional conducting, | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
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it is a man's world. Almost all the great orchestras at led by men. Why? | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
There are lots of reasons why composers and conductors who are | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
women have been slow to come through. You can only work with what | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
you got. What is encouraging is that there are so many women composers | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
and conductors beginning to come through. She thinks that education | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
is partly to blame for the lack of female representation. In the | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
institutions, we don't have very many women who are teachers, | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
professors and so on. I think if that changed, it may help to inspire | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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women composers. Highlights include the return of Nigel Kennedy, Marin | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
Alsop's first last night at the Proms. | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
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I met to look forward to. A reminder of our main news stories: Up to 15 | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
people are thought to have died although police have so far been | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
unable to release exact casualties figures. A local sheriff said the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
scene in West resembled a Warsaw and with many buildings flattened. The | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
blast is believed to have been caused by a fire in the factory. | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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classic mixed bag. We had thunder and lightning in some places. | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
Tomorrow, lighter winds it still 12 showers around. This evening and | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
overnight, there will be some rain around across the country. First | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
thing in the morning there will be some rain across the South East and | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
a story of sunshine and showers tomorrow. I think the showers during | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
the course of Freddie will be much lighter compared to what we had | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
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through Thursday. -- through the course of Friday. 12 to 13 degrees. | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
It will take that chill away. One April showers around. Good sunny | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
spells from time to time. Across Scotland, some lovely weather across | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
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