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This is BBC World News Today, with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Syria's fractured opposition is urged to speak with one voice, as a | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
new attempt is made to end two and half years of civil conflict. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
In London, a group of Western and Arab nations push for peace talks in | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Geneva next month, but some Syrian groups say there's no room for | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
President Assad's men at the negotiating table. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
A worldwide hunt for the White Widow - Now the BBC tracks down the | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Nairobi address of British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Also coming up: A blonde, blue-eyed girl is taken away from a Roma | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
couple in Ireland, just days after a similar case emerged in Greece. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
And Queen Elizabeth is known for liking her race horses, but how | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
about this one at the the National Theatre in London? | :00:48. | :01:02. | |
Hello and welcome. A fresh attempt is being made to try to a broker a | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Syrian peace deal between the official opposition and president | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Bashar Al-Assad. The group of western and Arab nations who call | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
themselves "friends of Syria" have today held talks in London with | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
various opposition groups. Their message - that the groups should all | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
commit to negotiations in Geneva next month. Our World Affairs | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
correspondent Rajesh Mirchandani has more. | :01:26. | :01:37. | |
In all of the government checkpoint in Syria. Rebel and linked to | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Al-Qaeda have been blamed, another sign of how complicated this civil | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
war has become and how difficult it will be to stop the bloodshed. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Against that backdrop, international leaders met in London to talk about | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
peace talks. Smiles mask concern about extremism and deep splits in | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
the opposition of Syria. They agreed that only a political settlement | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
will end the war. The only sustainable way to end this conflict | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
and the suffering of Syrian civilians is a political transition | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
in Syria. The purpose of our meeting today has been to send a signal of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
our resolve, or unity and her determination in bringing that | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
about. On the ground, all rebel groups are fighting to topple | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
President Assad, but they are not united. Some are extremist Islamist | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
groups not interested in peace talks. Others will not talk unless | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
Assad Stepstone first. Here is another obstacle to negotiations, | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
President Assad insists he's not going anywhere. TRANSLATION: | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Regarding the pointer losing to me personally, I do not see any reason | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
why I should not run in the next election. In his country, UN | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
inspectors are continuing their work to rid Syria of chemical weapons. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
The head of the team says the Syrian government is cooperating. Critics | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
say the deaths caused by conventional weapons are going | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
unpunished. More than 100,000 Syrians have died over to have years | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
of fighting. International leaders today said the ultimate objective | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
was to end civilian suffering. The greatest victims, the people who | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
suffer the most are the Syrian people themselves who are being | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
driven from their homes and killed in the most wanton violence and who | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
are having an increasingly profound impact on surrounding countries | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Both the UK and US pledged more money to help the millions of Syrian | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
refugees, one concrete outcome of today's meeting. A key selling | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
opposition group still has not committed to the stocks for an end | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
to the war is no closer. -- the Syrian opposition group. One month | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
after the deadly seas at the shopping while in Nairobi, questions | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
are being asked as to who the attackers were. Interpol have issued | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
a red notice, as it has known, for the rest of the woman known as the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
white middle, some in the was married to one of the suicide | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
bombers who attacked the London Tube network in 2005. She is one of the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
most wanted terror suspects in the world and it has emerged that she | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
has been living in Nairobi as recently as two years ago. | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
This is the apartment where she lived between January and July 011. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
The people living here knew her as a mother of four young children as she | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
lived with a partner only known to the people here as Mick. Jihad for | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
young children, the youngest must have been five months old, and the | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
eldest eight years old. The day she was leaving she was in tears, | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
saying, her mother had passed away. With regard to the Westgate shopping | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
centre attack, there has not been any evidence linking her to that | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
attack but there has been much speculation. What is now likely to | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
reside close is the fact that her apartment was located less than 100 | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
metres from another shopping maul, an upmarket shopping maul in Nairobi | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
popular with the middle class. She had a clear line of sight to that | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
shopping maul and has been on the run from the police since 2011. We | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
have been told that one week after she moved out of the apartment the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
detectives arrived looking for her but she has been on the run since | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
then and just last month Interpol issued a writ -- the red notice | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
against her. That was in Syria. Samantha | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
Lewthwaite is one of a number of Britons suspected of joining | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Islamist organisations. With me is Peter Neumann, Professor | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
of Security Studies at King's College London where he's Director | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. I want to | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
talk about Somalia first, and the number of Britons or Somalis living | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
in Britain who beat egg being radicalised and going back. We think | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
that since 2008, roughly, there have been around 60 or 70 Britons that | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
have gone to Somalia. They were partly dictated by the very | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
aggressive recruitment campaign by Al-Shabab which has produced very | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
slick videos in English, aimed especially at English speakers and | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
ever since those videos have come out and increasing of Americans and | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Britons have gone to Somalia. We know that the Internet is key, I be | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
focusing on a particular demographic? Most of the people who | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
have gone people in their 20s, that is much in these videos that tries | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
to capitalise on people 's sense of excitement, since of adventure, one | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
of the videos and said come to Somalia, this is the real business | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
aligned. There clearly is a sense in which they are banking on people's | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
one young male's sense of excitement and adventure. Who pays for that | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
adventure? In most cases they pay themselves, they make the one-way, | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
ask their parents for money at it and it will money and tap into their | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
savings. Once they are there, Al-Shabab takes care of them. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Turning to Syria, this is something that is confounding diplomats, how | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
important our foreign recruits to the efforts of the Islamist militias | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
on the ground? They are particularly important to be to have distractions | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
which are strongly supported by foreigners. We estimate that around | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
6000 foreigners have gone to Syria since the beginning of the conflict | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
but 1000 of those are Europeans They are from different European | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
countries, 200 or 300 from Britain, 200 from Belgium, which is probably | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
the capital of the skin of them There are many theories about this. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
There seems to be a group of people who are actively facilitating | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
treatment from four cities in Belgium, one a very small city where | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
and 50 people have gone. Do you think that John Kerry and William | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Hague are right to be concerned about this? They see the favoured | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
factions losing ground. Absolutely and the danger with those foreign | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
jihad is is twofold. On one hand the often join very extreme factions. In | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
the creating a lot of bad outcomes instead of Syria. The second problem | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
is that at some point he makes return to their home countries that | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
have nothing to do, but the ideological indoctrinated and | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
brutalised. Something you have tracked is that it is hard to | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
counter the appeal when the Western governments are also saying that | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Assad must go. They are going to Syria with the same thought. Yes, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
there is no counter narrative. Before the hit that other | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
politicians get up in the Assad is a brutal dictator who killed his own | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
people, we are sending weapons there but you are not allowed to go, it | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
does not make any sense. It adds fuel to the flames. Yes. Is this a | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
problem likely to go? I think so. As long as this conflict continues it | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
will continue to draw new people in. A lot of empty freight there are | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
absorbed by the conflict in Syria so in that sense it is OK, these people | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
are over there, but in 510 years these people will come back with | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
nothing to do and that may contain a problem nothing to do. Thank you | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
very much for speaking to us. While a small number of foreigners | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
are entering Syria to fight with opposition forces, tens of thousands | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
of Syrians continue to flee the violence. On Monday we reported on | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
their perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, which they | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
see as a safe haven. Today the BBC's Matthew Price meets a family which | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
travelled overland from Syria to Libya, before buying places on a | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
vote to Lampedusa. Matthew followed their journey through Europe, to | :10:22. | :10:33. | |
refuge in Vienna. They came in on the overnight train | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
from Italy. Scared, vulnerable and alone. An educated family, the | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
family is an architect. They sold their two properties in Syria to pay | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
for their escape. Now, one bag contains everything they own. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Exhausted, the stock in a cafe. They asked us not identify them. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
TRANSLATION: I want a better life and stability for my children. I | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
want them to go to school and live just like other children. The | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
children are living in fear. They ask me, where is our house? My | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
daughter asks me about her bed. She wants to sleep in her bed. I don't | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
want to say to her. We first met them in the refugee | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
centre in Lampedusa, Italy. The mother describes their vote journey | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
as a suicide. We almost died, she said. Six days later, she was in | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
Vienna showing the photos. Of the house in Libya are the people | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
smugglers kept them. Of that dangerous vote trip from Africa to | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Europe. Italian officials then flew them from Lampedusa to another | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
refugee centre in southern Italy. And there, they were free to go | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
TRANSLATION: We were given the choice to stay in Italy or leave. So | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
the Red Cross to a spike after train station. Someone from the refugee | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
camp helped us put the tickets. And we took the train to Vienna. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Thousands of migrants have been arriving in Italy and under EU law | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
that is where any claim for asylum should be processed, and yet as we | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
found inside this cafe with this family that did not happen. Italian | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
officials did not require them to stay, in fact part of the system | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
actively encourage them to head north. Then they take a tram towards | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
the refugee centres here. Like many, they know the rules. The new | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
to register only in the country where they wanted to stay. In the | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
case, Austria. Whether you have now formally apply for asylum. Since the | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
filming of that study the couple featured have been offered asylum. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Police in Ireland have moved the seven-year-old club girl from a Roma | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
family and taken her into care. The family told officers that the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
tales was there as the police in Dublin were not satisfied with your | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
explanation of the documents introduced. Tests have not yet been | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
carried out. The case comes as Greek authorities seek to find the true | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
identity of a motherboard girl discovered in a Roma community there | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
last week. Police have widened their investigations to try and find her | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
parents and are now investigating almost a dozen missing children | :13:38. | :13:38. | |
cases. And now the centre of an | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
international trafficking probe It is now a week since police | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
swooped on Farsala. They found the Peel Maria living amongst aroma | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
community. The couple are suspected of kidnapping her. Medical tests | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
show she is five or six years old. The lawyer for the couple told me | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
today no crime had been committed and that her clients were given the | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
child. But there are still questions over her origin. There is no | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
evidence that Maria was begging or that my clients were exploiting her. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
The couple said her real mother was Bulgarian but I have doubts. Maybe | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
the woman who gave Maria said she was from that country. They have | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
been charged with abduction and having false papers. He has been | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
transferred to the local prison while she will be moved out of the | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
town. And so the couple have been separated. He remains here at the | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
prison while his partner will await trial in custody in Athens. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Meanwhile police have searched other Roma communities in the area and | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
several arrests have been made on suspicion of wider trafficking | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
network. The couple's house is closed up, neighbours watching how | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
this mysterious keys moves on. The prosecutors say all birth | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
certificates from the past six years will be checked for benefits fraud. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
I used to see the mother. She would come here to the square to beg with | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
a child. At 1.I asked her how she had got such a blonde angel. She had | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
said she had conceived at whether blond man. How could we know what | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
was going on? What aroma here feel under threat and marginalised, | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
worried about the impact this could now have. We do not sell or buy | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
children, says the president of the community. We have lots of my own, I | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
have five, my father ten. The charity looking after Maria have had | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
thousands of calls from around the world and is passing leads on to | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
police. The aim to find out whether this was a simple adoption, or was | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
there something more sinister and tragic involved? | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Spanish judges have ordered the release of a convicted mass militant | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
after the European Court of human rights ruled against continued | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
detention. Ines del Rio Prada of the separatist group ETA has been | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
serving a 30 Mac Pro -- 30 - year sentence for bomb attacks in the | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
1980s. Let's go to Madrid now and speak to our correspondent. Tell us | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
why she was released? Essentially, the Spanish government was keeping | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Ines del Rio Prada in prison using a ruling back in 2006. At ruling said | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
that anyone committed of the most serious offences including terrorism | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
offences could not be eligible for early release. The European Court of | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
human rights ruled that she should be eligible for release and that is | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
why it is now the possibility of not only her case that has been reviewed | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
and she has been released but other convicted members of ETA could now | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
be eligible for release. I no amongst ETA supporters there has | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
been anger about her treatment, but there has been more anger at this | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
sight of her walking free? There has. One question, from the | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
organisers representing the victims of ETA, is how one woman convicted | :17:35. | :17:46. | |
of several bombings in the 1980s, before completing her full 30-year | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
sentence, there has been a lot of anger and frustration. The | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
government have accepted the decision, but they haven't ridden | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
their disgust at the decision, which in the Spanish government's eyes is | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
a must take. How much has ETA and it seems men alive issue in Spain? It | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
hasn't. That is the interesting thing. For decades the issue of ETA | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
was the number one issue here for photos. Abel lived in fear and to a | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
certain extent it was a huge issue. -- people. It was hugely | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
instrumental in the politics of the regions in the Basque country. ETA | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
has been weakened by a series of arrests. It's called a cease-fire | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
two years ago. Although ETA has not disbanded, we are almost in post-ETA | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
Spain. It is such an emotive issue, of people feel strongly on either | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
side of the debate. A lot of people in Spain condemned ETA as terror | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
arrests. But ETA does have its supporters in the Basque country. I | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
think once again we are seeing a very difficult issue, one that has | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
hung over this country for so many decades. Although it has gone into | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
the background in recent years, this case is brought up some very | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
difficult questions again. Thank you very much. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Let's give you a brief look at some other news. More than 100 religious | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
clerics in Saudi Arabia have gone to the Royal Court in Riyadh to protest | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
against growing pressure to lift the ban on women driving. In one video | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
posted on YouTube, one cleric said they had come to tell King Abdullah | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
about the serious risk facing the country. A court in Italy has halved | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the amount - in alimony - that the former prime minister, Silvio | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Berlusconi, will have to pay to his ex-wife. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Mr Berlusconi - one of Italy's richest men - will now give the | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
equivalent of 1.9 million dollars a month to Veronica Lario and their | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
three children. A man from Liverpool in northern | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
England has been jailed for a year over a bomb all on his wedding day | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
to disguise the fact he had forgotten to book the venue. Neil | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
McArdle was arrested after he admitted calling the police just as | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
is bred was getting ready. Across the western world, there are | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
a growing number of women who choose to have a child alone, facing the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
prospect of raising a child without the help of our partner. As part of | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
our 100 Women series, call the Lucy Hockings has been to meet a woman, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
who after the age of 50, realised she might have missed the chance to | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
have a child and decided to do something about it. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
The intense love that mother feels for her child is something Sally. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
She would never experience. It came as a decision, not as a question any | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
more. I am going to give this a try. Then if it doesn't work, I will | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
graciously and gratefully let go of the chance for having it. Sally | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
needed a little bit of help as she calls it to conceive her child and | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
went through IVF. She was a private house in Port of the medical | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
community work, given she was an older woman on her own. I was | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
amazed, they were fantastic. They were very positive. More and more | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
people here in the UK are choosing to have the children in | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
nontraditional family units. Since 1986 there has been a 26% drop in | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
children being born to married couples. In terms of women over the | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
age of 40, 6.5% of all children are registered to a sole parent. The | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
organisation here makes -- helps women make the hard decisions. Our | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
demographics are changing so we are seeing an increase in the number of | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
women who have reached their late 30s and 40s who always probably | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
thought they would have children and suddenly find out that they are | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
perhaps going to be childless. For the first generation, the first time | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
that generation has a choice. The last few years haven't been easy for | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Sally. The usual sleepless nights and the pressure of work. She does | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
not have a single regret. It is just fantastic. It is just fantastic He | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
just gives me joy every day. No sleep, but lots of jolly. I kept | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
hearing people say the thing I am most proud about and what is most | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
important to me is my children. At a certain point of life you can be | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
detached from that. When you keep hearing that, you think, what can | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
that mean? I thought, I have got to try and have a chance to experience | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
that. Now I have. Now I understand! Male friends and family are also | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
role models to her child and she is happy is raising him alone and she | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
plans to be around for a long time yet. | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
One of the stars of the Bolshoi Ballet has gone on trial in Moscow | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
accused of masterminding an acid attack on the ballet's artistic | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
director. Parallel Dimitri Janklow denies organising the assault on | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Sergei Filin earlier this year which explores bitter behind-the-scenes | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
rivalries at one of Russia's greatest cultural institutions. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Pavel Dmitrichenko and two alleged accomplices face up to 12 years in | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
prison if they are convicted of intentionally causing grievous | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
bodily harm. All three deny the charges. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Far less controversy here in London, where 50 years ago, the queen of | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
international Peter. Its first performance was Hamlet, performed by | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Peter O'Toole, directed by Laurence Olivier. 800 productions later, the | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Queen was back on stage today as part of the day to's anniversary | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
celebrations. Our arts editor Will Gompertz has now looking at the | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
impact of national data. The Queen backstage at the National | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
Theatre. Peter O'Toole as the Danish prince, Hamlet. It was immensely | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
exciting. It was a wonderful adventure to have begun the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
company. Laurence Olivier, extraordinary actor and. Laurence | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
Olivier was the founding director. His brief was to represent a | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
repertoire of classics alongside new plays. It was a dream. It began in | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
the 19th century, we to have a National Theatre. It seemed that we | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
should have a central place of high standards were almost anything could | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
be done. In the last decade, the state funded institution has become | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
a more astute commercial institution. Warhorse transferred to | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
Broadway. There is no doubt that the National Theatre has made a great | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
success of its here in London. But what effect has it had on nation's | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
Theatre? I went to Newcastle to find out and speak to the man behind the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
national's hit show which started life here at the live Theatre. What | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Nash -- do you think National Theatre could do more? I think it | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
could collaborate on productions. That is probably the best way. I | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
think the National Theatre understanding is re-met is also | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
regional as well a central. The National Theatre has been criticised | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
by some for becoming too big, too dominant. But other argues that it | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
is envied around the world. Time to remind you of main news | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
Western and Arab leaders have urged Syrian troops for peace talks in | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Geneva next month. I am Philip atomic 's. -- Philippa Thomas. Good | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
night. A lively night of whether a head. Some very intense downpours | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
accompanied by some strong and squally winds. Those wins that start | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
to whip up particularly across the south coast. Low | :27:07. | :27:07. |