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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. The BBC | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
witnesses relief efforts under way in a long besieged city in Syria. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
More food and medicines are brought in to the old City of Homs - more | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
people are getting out. The BBC's Lyse Doucet is there. The buses are | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
poised here, ready to go in, to take people who are desperate to leave | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
what has been 18 months of siege. Britain on its highest alert as | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
winds and torrential rain cause more flooding - with fears that some | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
flood water could be contaminated. Also coming up: We talk to a doctor | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
who favours Belgium's planned move to legalise euthanasia for | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
children. It is wrong, the idea of the child, who decides his own | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
death. The South African puppeteers who brought Warhorse to life on the | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
London stage are now adding their magic to a Midsummer Night's Dream. | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
Hello and welcome. The old city of Homs has become one of the symbols | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
of the brutal civil war in Syria. The last 18 months, many residents | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
have been trapped there without any assistance. Today, something | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
happened - a small aid convoy, in armoured vehicles, made its way into | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
rebel held areas. Meanwhile, in western Syria the government is | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
paired to try and drive the rebels out of their strongholds. What could | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
be the next strategic battle in Syria. At the lists posted a video | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
they say shows government jets carrying out an intensive series of | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
air strikes in and around a rebel held town. Revels today blocked | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
attempts by regime forces and their Lebanese allies Hezbollah to advance | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
on the town. Capturing this town is important for the government to | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
secure the main road from Damascus to the North and the coast and to | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
cut rebel supply lines from Lebanon. As the fighting went on, so too did | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
the relief operation to evacuate foldable civilians from the old city | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
of Homs where they have been trapped in terrible conditions -- vulnerable | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
civilians. Another large group has been allowed out but it is believed | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
there are more to come. Although the extended truce expires on Wednesday | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
night, the governor of Homs said it can go on until everybody who wants | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
to leave can do so. They have joined the millions who have already fled | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
their homes. More than 2 million have crossed borders, like these at | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
a refugee camp in Jordan. People here are watching the peace talks in | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Geneva closely but don't see much hope. TRANSLATION: Geneva, Geneva. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
We have been waiting for that conference to solve our problems but | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
it hasn't had any benefits for us. They didn't even do anything about | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Homs. They can't send any food supplies in to help them. This was | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
the third day of the second round of talks in Geneva and so far all agree | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
they have produced very little, but they haven't yet reached a dead end. | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
How delegation was surprised to find them giving the floor to the other | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
side, this was not really on the agenda. They were not able to reach | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
the joint agenda. Left their own devices, it's hard to imagine them | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
reaching an agreement. The mediator has decided to bring the Russians | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
and Americans in a day earlier than planned, to try and get them to step | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
up pressure on their respective allies. But nobody is holding their | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
breath. There has been some movement in the old city of Homs where more | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
than 1100 people have been able to leave. But between one and 2,000 are | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
still believed to be trapped in very difficult conditions. Our Chief | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
International Correspondent Lyse Doucet has been in the Old City | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
today - she sent us this report about residents waiting for the aid | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
to get into them. A rare humanitarian truce is | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
underway again here. Food, trucks with armoured vehicles bearing UN | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
logos have gone into the area. And when the food arrives, we understand | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
that people will start coming out. Buses are poised here, ready to go | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
in, to take people who are desperate to leave what has been 18 months of | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
siege, with supplies becoming increasingly scarce. Workers from | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
the Red Crescent are here in their distinct red jackets. As one as the | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
United Nations. They are outside what is a reception centre, an | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
abandoned room which has been used for besieged people, to give them | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
water, food, medical assistance, even polio vaccinations to people | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
who have had so little help over the last nearly two years. We | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
understand, though, that the longer the mission goes on, the more | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
sensitive and dangerous it becomes. There are opponents who say this is | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
a means for the opposition fighters to escape. There are those among the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
opposition who say that their fighters, when they come out, are | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
being taken in for questioning. These humanitarian missions, as | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
noble as they are, cannot escape this. But it is a rare glimmer of | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
light in an otherwise dark and destructive war. We have one other | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
development to bring you. Police in the UK are investigating claims that | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
a British man carried out a suicide bombing in Aleppo. It's thought | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Abdul Waheed Majeed, who's 41, drove a truck full of explosives into the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
walls of Aleppo prison, which is under the control of the Syrian | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
regime. If true, it would be the first documented attack carried out | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
by a British National for rebel forces. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
US forces in Afghanistan have strongly criticised President | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
Karzai's government for planning to release what they call 65 "dangerous | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
insurgents" from a prison on the Bagram air base - perhaps as early | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
as this week. The US says that it has evidence that the men were | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
responsible for carrying out attacks on international troops. It says | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
their release is a major step backward for the rule of law in | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Afghanistan. Here's David Loyn in Kabul. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
It is difficult to describe how a grey -- angry the US are about the | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
potential release of the 65 men, they describe them as dangerous | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
insurgents in what is one of the most strongly worded attacks on the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Afghan administration I have seen coming out of the American military. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
They are really worried that these men, who they have taken off the | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
battlefield, and returned to the fray. They say other men released | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
from Bagram in the past have gone back to fighting and the evidence | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
they have given the Afghan authorities on these 65 include | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
weapons that were taken off them, sawn off shotgun, a Kalashnikov, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
grenade launchers, bomb-making equipment taken off them. One of the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
men, who is potentially about to be released, was captured in an attack | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
on Afghan forces. The fear is that these individuals, about half of | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
whom were taken in Helmand, could return straight back to the | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
battlefield. With me is Xenia Dormandy from the | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
British foreign policy think tank The Royal Institute of International | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Affairs based at Chatham House. She's worked at both the US National | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Security Council and the US State Department. What do you think is the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
message that President cars I is sending here? What is going on is he | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
is about to step down, there is an election in a few months, and he is | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
protecting his back. This is about Karzai, you can see that because | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
most of the opposition, most of the principal candidates running for | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
president have said they would support a stronger role for the US, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
they would sign the bilateral security agreement. This is Karzai | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
trying to show his independence from the US. But is this a popular move, | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
disabling will let fighters out of prison? It is a good question. It is | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
what he leaves the Afghan people want. They clearly want to be | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
independent, like most nations, they want to show their sovereignty and | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
independence from the US. What he has done is he has taken it much | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
further than most Afghans would take it, and you can say this in many of | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the votes that have been called in recent elections, the principal | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
elite, the members of the people who are running to be the new | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
presidents, they have all said they would sign the bilateral agreement, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
continue to work closely with the US. So this is really about Karzai | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
trying to step away from the perception that he is a pawn of the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
US. When you talk about the elite behind in being concerned, do you | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
think they are worried about loss of aid as well? We have heard from | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Republican senators, saying this is a real hammer blow to their | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
relationship. Absolutely, this is where there is a lot of concern in | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
the US, this is all about Karzai, not the country. Because the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
consequences of not engaging in a productive way with the US, whether | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
it said this issue, insurgents who are going to be released, or whether | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
it is signing the bilateral security agreement, the consequences of that | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
are significant for Afghan security, development and their economy in | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
terms of international investment. Whoever follows hammered Karzai, do | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
you think the Taliban are going to somehow get back into power? | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
Afghanistan has three major challenges. It is to conclude some | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
kind of political agreement that includes the Taliban, they are a | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
part of Afghanistan. It has two up with some solution on security, and | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
it needs to drive forward its economy. Those things are intimately | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
connected, but what is clear is the Taliban are a part of Afghan society | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and therefore need to be brought into the process. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Hurricane force winds are hitting Britain - with forecasters warning | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
that a month's worth of rain could fall in the next few days - on land | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
that is already water logged after some of the worst flooding in | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
decades. The south and west are getting the brunt of the bad weather | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
- but it's been treated by the government as a matter of national | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
urgency - and a potential health risk. Here's our Environment | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
Correspondent Claire Marshall. The new landscape of southern | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
England. Ground water levels are at record highs row, it could be like | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
this for months. Look closely, what is in this floodwater? We brought a | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
microbiologist to once re-home. The Thames is running through this | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
house. It is a small absorbent pad, that is being soaked in membrane | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
sulphate... This testing kit has been used in disaster areas all over | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
the world. It shows a high level of bacteria, ultimately, if you can | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
avoid it, don't go near it and make sure you take sensible precautions. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
It is not just the physical dangers of the floods, it's the mental | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
pressures. Darren has just heard things might get worse. His street | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
may be flooded to save another larger area of Chertsey. The last | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
news we had was that the army were considering putting a complete | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
sandbag wall down the centre of the road, and flooding these houses even | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
more, talking one metre, to save others. I can understand that, but | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
it's not nice to hear when you are fighting day and night. Difficult | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
decisions are being taken in other parts of the country. In Winchester, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
the sandbags will block the river. It will save 100 homes but send | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
millions of gallons of floodwater elsewhere. In Bewdley, ?10 million | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
has been spent on defences. They have in built up and are holding for | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
the moment. Now a look at some of the day's other news. The first | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
plane carrying supplies to the Central African Republic has arrived | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
in Bangui. An initial load of 82 tonnes of rice has been brought by | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the World Food Programme from neighbouring Cameroon. The fighting | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
in the country has made it difficult to bring supplies in by road. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
A court in Pakistan has ordered the government to reveal the whereabouts | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
of a campaigner against drone attacks. Kareem Khan disappeared | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
just days before he was due to testify before European | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
parliamentarians about drone aircraft strikes on Pakistan. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Activists say he was last seen leaving his house with men wearing | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
police uniform. The Penguin publishing company has | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
decided to recall and destroy all remaining copies of a book on | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Hinduism. Wendy Doniger's book "The Hindus: An Alternative History" had | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
been the subject of a legal challenge claiming the text was | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
offensive to Hindus. The move has heightened concerns over freedom of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
speech in India. The far right party of France seems | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
to be gaining popularity. A study of a thousand French voters has found | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
that a third say they agree with the ideas of Front Nationale. That total | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
is up 12% since 2011 - the year Marine Le Pen became the party's | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
leader. Belgium may soon decide to extend | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
the right to euthanasia for the very ill -- to children. The Belgian | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
House of Representatives is due to vote on the issue of mercy killing | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
on Thursday. The upper house the Senate has already agreed that death | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
should be an option for children in the advanced stages of terminal | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
illness, suffering unbearable pain, if they understand what that means | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
and if they have parental consent. They have been emotional | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
demonstrations outside Parliament, urging a no vote, with campaigners | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
arguing that such a law would open the door that no one would be able | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
to close. If the bill is passed, it will go to the King to sign into | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
law. That is wrong for any child to | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
decide upon its own debt. A six-year-old child does not have the | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
knowledge to do that. It is wrong because of that. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Joining me from Brussels is Jutte van der Werff Ten Bosch, professor | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
of paediatric oncology at Brussels University Hospital. | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
Welcome to World News Today. I understand you support this bill, | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
why is that? And of course, as a paediatric oncologist I am facing | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
children who are dying irregularly. Fortunately they can sure most of | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
the children we treat but unfortunately we cannot and | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
sometimes these children go through extreme phases of pain and suffering | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
before they die. We cannot always treat that as we would like to. From | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
that point of view, I can imagine the point of view of the child that | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
says I do not want to do this, this is too much for me. I choose to die | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
in a more comfortable way, which has been made possible by euthanasia. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
How sure can you be that very young children understand what it means? | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Of course, the older the child, the more certain it will be and the | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
easier it is to be certain of that. Even in younger children, we have a | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
team with experts in it and among them they are psychiatrists and | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
psychologists who have been trained to talk to these children to | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
communicate and, well, I think the community can be certain that we | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
know that when we draw the conclusion that this children they | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
once this, then that is what the child really wants. Of course, I can | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
understand this is difficult to understand for people who have not | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
worked with this group of children, with children who have cancer, | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
children who are dying. It is a very specific type of job but we can do | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
that, we can talk to them. I understand you are looking for the | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
best possible situation for the children, but some critics argue | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
that it is very expensive to look after children who have advanced | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
terminal illnesses and that the pressure of resources on the might | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
push the wrong decision to be made. I am not making the decision, it is | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
the patients who are asking for the Tunisia and we are listening to | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
them. We are therefore the patients and it is not the other way around. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
The discussion about resources is much more broad than euthanasia and | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
children and it is important as well, but it would not concern me in | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
making my decision. I am listening to the patient and what they want. I | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
understand that Belgium would not be the first to pass this law, there is | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
a similar blog in the Netherlands? That is true. What is your | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
experience or what have you learned from that fact? | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
We have learned that the law in the Netherlands is not the best law that | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
there is because there is in a summit of 12 years. That means that | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
children under the age of 12, they are still not allowed to ask | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
forgiveness -- euthanasia which I believe is a weakness. We know by | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
experience that they are not many children asking for euthanasia. It | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
is uncommon but it has happened in about five cases. Even if it is a | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
small amount of patients who benefit from this law, for them it is | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
important that we have this law. Jutte van der Werff Ten Bosch, thank | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
you for joining us from Brussels. Thank you. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
The castaway who says he spent 13 months adrift in a boat is back in | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
his home country, El Salvador. Jose Alvarenga was found two weeks ago in | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
the Marshall Islands. He said he got lost in a storm while fishing off | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
the coast of Mexico in December 2012. Miranda Hurst has the story. | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
Fail and exhausted, Jose Alvarenga arrived in El Salvador late on | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
Tuesday. All he could mother was, "I do not know what to say." Jose | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Alvarenga was found this on Encke weak two weeks ago and the Marshall | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Islands. He claims to have left Mexico for one day of shark fishing | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
on December 2012. He said he drifted for more than one year and travelled | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
8000 kilometres. A friend who was with him died on board. He said he | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
survived by catching fish and birds with his bare hands and drinking the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
blood of turtles. The 37-year-old was met in San Salvador by family | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
members and officials after flying from America. He has clearly been | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
through a lot. Given the fact that I have worked in migration for many | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
years, I can sure -- I can be sure that the -- he will go through a lot | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
more because readjusting will not be easy. The family of his companion CD | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
won't speak to him to find out how their son died and what happened to | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
his body. Jose Alvarenga will undergo further checks before being | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
reunited with his family on a nearby coastal fishing village. | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
Day five of the Winter Olympics in Sochi got off to an extraordinary | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
start earlier with the first gold medal of the morning being shared | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
between two competitors in the Women's Downhill Skiing - the first | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
time a gold's been shared in the history of the Winter Games. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Let's get more from Ore Oduba from the BBC's Sports Centre in Salford | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
near Manchester. Good evening, good evening from | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Salford and Manchester. A very exciting day five of the Winter | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Olympics. It was the first in alpine skiing, a joint gold and it came in | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
the Women's Downhill Skiing. Amongst the first medals awarded to the | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
however let us talk about that first. Tina Maze was the 21st rider | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
to come and posted the same time. She see her moment with her | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Slovenian competitor. Also double celebrations for Germany, the | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
finished ahead of the Austrian competitors to claim victory. That | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
was in the luge doubles. Elsewhere a gold-medal was one for another | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
German. He had held a six second advantage before the ski jump before | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
that ten kilometre cross-country race. I could not go without | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
mentioning home success for the whole nation. Russia have won a gold | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
medal in the figure skating. That is their second of the games so far and | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
comes after their success in the team event. There was a Russian | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
first and second placed finish. There compatriots taking a silver | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
medal also. Thank you for that update. | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
A visual treat for you now, the latest production from the team | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
behind the international stage hit War Horse. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Now one of Britain's top directors - Tom Morris - has teamed up again | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
with South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company for Shakespeare's A | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Midsummer Night's Dream, which will start its international tour here in | :23:09. | :23:09. | |
London. Lebo Diseko reports. Finally Cartama asks and jewelled | :23:10. | :23:27. | |
eyes reflect the Mr Li life of the woodland spirits in Shakespeare's | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
most popular comedy. The delicate puppets contrast with the giant | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
flames of Handspring's warhorses also have a magic of their own. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
Something that happens when you work with puppets is that you know it is | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
not alive. The audience know it is not alive but they are going to get | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
anything out of the story they have to imagine that it is. There is a | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
big that the audience has to get over if they are watching a puppet | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
show and I believe that is a profound creation and that in that | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
moment the odd is give the gift of life to the stage. | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
It was after the success of War Horse that Tom Morris and his | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Bristol company decided to team up with Handspring. This production is | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
going on an international tour after its run at the Barbican Centre. It | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
is all a far cry from the workshops in Cape Town where we found the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
early days of the creation of these puppets more than one year ago. It | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
is here that a team of locally recruited craftworkers designed the | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
puppets for the international stage. As the Shakespeare puppets emerged, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
War Horse designs await shipment across the globe. It has brought | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
them to the small South African company. It is actually quite | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
incredible and we are humbled by the amount of interest that has been | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
generated from foreigners. They are now wanting to come to our country. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
We get e-mails every single day. At least two or three people telling us | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
that they saw our show and found out that the puppets were made in South | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Africa and can be please come and see your workshop! Back at the | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
Barbican Centre, they get ready for the opening night. Puppeteers show | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
off their wonderful designs and magical spirit of the two | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Shakespearean thieves, the clownish mustard seed. And the vamp -ish | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
cobweb. A reminder of our main news: aid | :25:50. | :26:08. | |
workers and Syria have evacuated more trapped residents from Homs as | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
well as delivering essential supplies. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
The Governor of Homs says 200 people have got out of the city and nearly | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
200 parcels containing vegetable oil, flour and rice has gone and | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
took the Syrian people. At that peace talks in Geneva at the | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
opposition delegation without a transition plan but the government | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
representatives refused to discuss it. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
You can Well, that's all from the programme. | :26:39. | :26:39. | |
Keep up-to-date on Twitter and Facebook. Next, the weather. | :26:40. | :26:40. | |
Goodnight. Winds of over 100 mph at the West | :26:41. | :27:02. | |
coast of Wales Today. We still have hearing warning for wind, meaning | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
dangerous conditions are likely across the North West | :27:09. | :27:09. |