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This is BBC World News Today. The United States says Nigeria's | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
president has welcomed an offer of expert American help to recover the | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
hundreds of abducted schoolgirls. Eight more girls have been taken | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
from a village in north-east Nigeria. The US has offered to send | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
a team to help find them. A day before South Africa's election | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
what are the challenges for the biggest party, the ANC? | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
I have been talking to the elders of Nelson Mandela's children who | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
defends the ANC against its critics who say it's not done enough to help | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
the poor. Also coming up: It may look | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
harmonious, but we give you the inside story on the epic power | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
struggles under way in China. The veneer of harmony is paper-thin. The | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
fight to take down him is bitter. And, what if humans were just a few | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
inches tall? An American teenager uses some photography tricks to | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
bring to life a world of tiny people. | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
Hello and welcome. The Islamist militants, Boko Haram, | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
have kidnapped eight more girls from a village in northern Nigeria - an | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
attack carried out as international outrage grows about the group's | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
declared plans to sell several hundred schoolgirls into slavery. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
This latest kidnapping happened on Sunday night in the village of | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Warabe, in Borno state. The girls taken were between 12 and | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
15-years-old. It follows the abduction of more than 200 | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
schoolgirls by Boko Haram three weeks ago. They were taken from a | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
school in the town of Chibok - that's an hour's flight away from | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the capital Abuja. It's thought they are being held by members of the | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Islamist group in their stronghold in the Sambisa Forest. But Boko | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Haram has threatened to sell them into slavery and, as you can see, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
their stronghold in the forest is close to the border with Chad and | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Cameroon - showing how easy it could be for the girls to disappear. We'll | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
talk to the UN about this, but first the BBC's Tomi Oladipo has the | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
latest on our developing story. They promised to keep protesting | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
until the schoolgirls were found. And true to their word, today saw | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
another march on the streets of Abuja. They are demanding the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
government do more to find the girls who were snatched from their school | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
in north-east Nigeria three weeks' ago. Now, fresh reports have emerged | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
of another abduction in Borno state. Police and residents of Warabe | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
village say gunmen arrived in trucks taking with them eight girls. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Nigerians are growing impatient with their government and its failure to | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
prevent such attacks despite having a state of emergency in the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
north-east. The Finance Minister has defended the government's efforts. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
For the past three weeks, the government has been following up | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
every lead using aerial surveys, using all the things at its | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
disposal. The problem was that we never communicated it well. Despite | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
the government's insistence that it is winning the war against the | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Islamists, this year has been the bloodiest since the conflict began. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
The horror stories are becoming all too common and people are wondering | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
how much longer this will go on for. Those concerns are being reflected | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
in the international community. The UK has joined the US to offer | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
support. We are offering practical help. What has happened here that | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the actions of Boko Haram in using girls as the spoils of war, the | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
spoils of terrorism, is disgusting, it is immoral, it should show | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
everybody across the world that they should not give any support to such | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
a vile organisation. The whereabouts of the schoolgirls remain unknown. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Their captors say they will sell them, an agonising thought the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
girls' grieving families would never have imagined. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
You heard William Hague there. The United States and the United Kingdom | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
have both offered the Nigerian government help in finding the | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
abducted schoolgirls - and in the last hour the US State Department | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
has confirmed that Nigeria's President, Goodluck Jonathan, has | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
welcomed the assistance. President Jonathan welcomes Secretary Kerry's | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
offer to send a team to Nigeria, to discuss how the United States can | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
best support Nigeria in its response. In addition, our embassy | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
is prepared to form a co-ordination cell, and this is what they | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
discussed on the call, that could provide expertise on intelligence, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
investigations and hostage negotiations, help facilitate | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
information sharing. It would include US military personnel, law | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
enforcement officials as well as officials with expertise in other | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
areas that may be helpful to the Nigerian government in its response. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
The President has directed that we and the Secretary and the State | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Department do everything we can to help the Nigerian government find | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
and free these young women. The President Secretary Kerry had their | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
regular meeting this afternoon and this will certainly be a prominent | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
topic of discussion. Joining me via webcam from Geneva is | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
Rupert Colville. Welcome to World News Today. Your reaction to what we | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
have been hearing from the US State Department, they are eager to get | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
this team sent to Nigeria as soon as possible? Well, it is good that | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
people are rallying around Nigeria now. The true horror of the | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
activities of Boko Haram are spreading wide across the world and | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
people realise something needs to be done. And these poor girls, you | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
know, more than 200, no-one knows the exact figure, but several weeks | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
now they have been - since they have been abducted. You have been warning | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
that the leaders of Boko Haram should be aware that they are | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
committing crimes against humanity, they may have to pay for this in the | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
years to come? Yes, absolutely. In international law, there is a pro hi | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
bigs -- prohibition against sexual slavery. Under certain | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
circumstances, these abductions could constitute crimes against | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
humanity. We have been talking a lot about what the Nigerian government | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
is doing, or failing to do in trying to get these girls back. What about | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
the role of the local governments, the state governments? Well, I think | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
that's been an issue because the - Nigeria is a federal state. The | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
local states have a lot of power and a lot of operational abilities. And | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
I think it is extremely important that the state authorities and the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
federal authorities co-operate fully and quite often, they are not from | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the same political party. So, that has been a concern raised in the | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
case of Borno state. Has the UN been reaching out to neighbouring | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
countries, to Chad and Cameroon, now we are hearing these rumours that | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
some of the girls may have been taken over those borders? Yes, that | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
was an issue the High Commissioner of the human rights - that was an | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
issue she raised with the Nigerian government. There needed to be a | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
regional approach to dealing with Boko Haram because they do seem to | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
be flowing back and forwards across borders, getting safe havens in | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
neighbouring countries and coming back. So, some kind of regional | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
co-operation is essential and we offered to do what we could to help | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
neighbouring countries come on board with Nigeria to combat this. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Briefly, that is quite a challenge, isn't it? These borders are very | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
porous? Yes, one would hope that everyone will be revolted by what's | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
happened to these girls and even corrupt people should be a bit moved | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
to do something about this. Boko Haram are really going totally | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
beyond the pail. So, it is really something that anyone should be able | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
to rally behind. Thank you very much. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
South Africans are getting ready to vote in the country's general | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
elections on Wednesday, the fifth poll since the end of apartheid. An | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
easy win is expected for the ruling African National Congress Party - | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
but there's been a lot of criticism over its aggressive campaigning, | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
with allegations that the ANC blocked opposition ads on South | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
Africa's public broadcaster. It's 20 years since South Africa's first | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
democratic election which saw the ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, came to | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
power. Though the party is expected to win again, a series of political | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
scandals, and a stagnating economy, means it may emerge weaker. At the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
moment, the ANC holds 264 of 400 seats in the National Assembly. The | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has 67. The | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
third largest party is the Congress of the People. But there's a new | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
player that's widely expected to make significant gains - the | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Economic Freedom Fighters led by Julius Malema following his | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
expulsion from the ANC. Let's talk to World News Today's Zeinab Badawi, | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
who's following the campaign in Johannesburg. Zeinab, over to you. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Thank you very much. Well, it is four hours now until any kind of | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
political campaigning has to come to an end because at 7.00am South | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Africans will go to the polls and polling stations are open until | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
9.00pm. This is the most hotly contested election in the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
post-apartheid era. There was a record number of parties standing, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
not just the ones you outlined there. There are 20 parties in this | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
election. That reflects the discontent that there is in the | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
country with the ruling ANC, which is accused of failing to deliver for | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
all its citizens after 20 years in power, people point to the lack of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
electricity, of course not enough jobs, unofficial rate is something | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
like 25% unemployed. So, all in all, lots of criticisms being levelled at | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
the ANC. Has it lost its mojo? I have been talking to the eldest of | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Nelson Mandela's children at her home. I put it to her, I said to | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
her, "Does the ANC deserve to win?" It deserves to win the election. It | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
is a party that fought hard for us to be where we are today. And I | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
think with all the problems that we have, within the ANC, I still think | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
it deserves to be the party that wins tomorrow. With all the problems | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
within the ANC - what are you talking about? Well, it's an open | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
secret that there are frictions, conflicts within the party. You | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
know, in the last elections, there was a breakaway group... You are | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
talking about a group of ANC members who are unhappy about the removal of | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
Mbeki? Yes. It is public knowledge that a senior member... The former | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Defence Minister of the ANC? Yes. Made a call that people should not | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
vote, or spoil their votes or whatever, which I think is | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
irresponsible. I think however you want to look at it, it is a party | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
that we still look very fondly. It has a history. Our parents paid with | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
their lives. We as their children suffered a lot. I think that it is a | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
party that has done quite a lot despite the challenges. We still | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
have a lot of challenges. No-one will dispute this is the party of | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
liberation. There are those who will say that is not enough anymore. 20 | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
years since your father became t first democratically elected | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
President of South Africa. You need to reinvent yourselves? The ANC has | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
tried. If you look at 20 years, where we are today, I think South | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
Africa has a good story to tell. The way that we live today is better | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
than what we lived - how we lived before. There is a lot of things | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
that have changed. There's a lot of access for black people today. Yes, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
you can talk about the violence that we experience in South Africa, which | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
is what people mostly called, but violence exists in many parts of the | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
world. Progress has been made, nobody will dispute that. The | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
government says three million new housing units have been built since | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
they came to power, 300 new schools have replaced the mud ones. I put it | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
to you that still, for example, the University of Cape Town last year in | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
March, published a study which said that 12 million South Africans go to | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
bed hungry every night, many of them children. Is that progress? Well, we | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
can say... That is not saying much. That is progress from a very low | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
base? But freedom in this country, we come from a very low base. We | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
quickly forget where we come from in South Africa. Many more people did | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
not have jobs. They couldn't live in the suburbs. They couldn't live in | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
towns, just because... It doesn't mean they were out of poverty, they | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
were still in poverty. We come from a violent... You still don't have | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
jobs, official figures say 25% of the population is without work. Yes, | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
but you can't expect miracles overnight. | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
So, you get an idea there, although she is not an official spokesperson | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
for the ANC, that that is how the ANC does defend its position and say | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
you Captain expect us to fix huge problems -- say you can't expect us | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
to fix huge problems overnight. In these elections, you need to look at | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
turnout. In the 2009 elections, it was 77% - relatively high. Are | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
people going to heed that vote "no" campaign and not vote as a way of | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
registering their protest? And, secondly, 66% is what the ANC got in | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
the last elections and in all the elections since the end of apartheid | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
it has polled more than 60%. If it goes below that, if it wins, people | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
will start asking questions all over the country within the ANC, even | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
right at the top of their leadership, are we doing it right? | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
What are we going to do now that basically the electorate may have | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
given us a bloody nose if we go below that 60%? We will be watching | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
and waiting to see what does happen in these elections, so that is it | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
for the moment from me. Back to you in the studio. Thank you very much. | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news: The | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
former Egyptian army chief, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, has said the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Muslim Brotherhood will no longer exist if he becomes president. Mr | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Sisi said that when he ousted the former Islamist president Mohamed | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Morsi in July last year, he had no political aspirations, but he had | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
changed his mind because of threats from both inside and outside Egypt. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
The world's largest drinks-maker, Coca-Cola, says it will remove a | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
controversial ingredient from some of its products by the end of this | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
year. The move follows an American teenager's success in getting more | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
than 200,000 signatures for an online petition, questioning the use | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
of the chemical BVO - or Brominated Vegetable Oil - in the sports drink | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
Powerade and some types of Fanta. Coca-Cola says all its ingredients | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
meet regulatory requirements. A German collector who was found to | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
have a vast collection of artworks including some looted by the Nazis | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
has died at his home in Germany. Cornelius Gurlitt, who was 81, had | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
just been released from hospital after major heart surgery. It | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
emerged last year that he'd been keeping more than 1,000 paintings | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
including works by Monet, Matisse and Chagall, at his flat in an | :17:27. | :17:40. | |
ordinary apartment block in Munich. The BBC Trust Chairman is to stand | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
down with immediate effect on health grounds. That is following major | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
heart surgery. The former Conservative Minister and the last | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
governor of Hong Kong before its handover has been at the head of the | :17:51. | :18:11. | |
BBC Trust since 2011. Berlin's push for new peace talks | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
was rebuffed by Russia, which said they would be pointless without the | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
involvement of Ukraine's rebels. Speaking at a press conference with | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Japan's Prime Minister, NATO's Secretary General said the crisis | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
was the biggest the organisation had faced in decades. Today we are | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
facing the gravest crisis to European security since the end of | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
the Cold War. But this is not just about Ukraine, this crisis has | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
serious implications for the security and stability of the area | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
as a whole. But while attention is focussed on | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Eastern Ukraine, there is unease in Kiev too, as the capital prepares | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
for Victory Day - a holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany by the | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Soviet Union. The BBC's David Stern reports. | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
This is a highway on the outskirts of Kiev leading to the east of | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Ukraine, where there is heavy fighting going on. As you can see, | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
this is a checkpoint. There are nine of these all around the city and | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
there are other checkpoints further on down the road. This one is being | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
manned jointly by two groups. The police, as you can see, but there | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
are also members of the self-defence units, the regular people who have | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
been camping out in the centre of Kiev and they have formed their own | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
protection groups and their own civilian police units. Now, they are | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
looking at cars, that I are stopping not every car, mostly trucks and | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
buses and larger vehicles and they are looking for weapons, explosives. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
They say they are worried about people trying to bring things in for | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
provocations. Especially on the eve of the May 9th Victory Day. There | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
will be big crowds. This is a major holiday. They are very worried, they | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
say, about provocations and possible clashes on that day. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
In China, an epic power struggle is under way, but you wouldn't know it | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
from the official media. The former security chief has disappeared, a | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
victim of the Orwellian security apparatus he once controlled. He was | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
once on the standing committee of the Communist Party politburo, but | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
his name has not been mentioned in the media for seven months. Now, | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
China is waiting to see whether the president has the strength to | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
confine such a powerful enemy behind bars. Our China Editor Carrie Gracie | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
reports on the fight and its implications. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
This family home is giving no secrets away to scandal hunters. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Zhou Yongkang is still missing. Presumed victim of the Orwellian | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
security system that he once controlled. National media no longer | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
speak his name. But here in this village, he is still the favourite | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
son. And no-one believes the story is about corruption. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Their house is no better than the one next door, he says, there is no | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
sign of luxury. These neighbours say it is all | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
politics, a power struggle at the top of the Communist Party. This | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
group point me towards the family graveyard and press me for the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
latest rumour on where Zhou Yongkang is being held. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
When he last came here a year ago, all the local dignitaries turned out | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
to pay tribute. But not anymore. Chinese politics is a cruel game and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
even a couple of months ago when his brother died - you can see his name | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
here in black - there were no key members of the family even at the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
funeral because they were all in detention. So, is it time to write | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Zhou Yongkang's political obituary? The farmer's son whose life journey | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
got comfortable as he accelerated through party ranks, joining the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
limousine class, running an oil company, then a province of 80 | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
million and crowning his career with control of China's internal | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
security. The veneer of harmony in the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
official press here is paper-thin. The fight to take down Zhou Yongkang | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
is bitter. China's a political cycle which offers a new President no | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
electoral mandate, so he uses corruption charges against an enemy | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
to get his own people and policies into place. | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
Strategists play this ancient game to improve their real-life tactics. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
The President has seized 300 of his enemy's pieces but the former | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
security chief knows all his secrets and has tacit support from others | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
who have made it rich in high office. | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
TRANSLATION: They are all watching his next move. If he can bring Zhou | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
down, they will have to obey him. If he is bluffing, they won't need to | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
fear him. He will be a paper tiger. Fighting tigers - the President's | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
own description of his anti-corruption campaign, to show | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
the other tigers who's boss, to bend the government to his will on policy | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
and to reassure the public that he is punishing the party's "fat cats." | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
But cornered predators are dangerous so China waits uneasy for proof that | :23:25. | :23:41. | |
this President has tamed his tiger. A home-schooled American teenager | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
who likes to imagine the world from the angle of what he calls "little | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
folk" has found his photo-editing project becoming an online | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
sensation. Zev Hoover conceptualises, photographs and | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
edits his visions before posting them online - and the 15-year-old | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
who admits he's sometimes lonely has received a massive response. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
My name is Zev Hoover. I take pictures of miniature people and | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
they have sort of exploded online recently. I wanted to improve my | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
Photoshop skills so I started the "little folk" project which started | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
as a way of getting better at Photoshop. After about a year of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
doing little folk pictures, they got picked up by some design blogs and | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
then it sort of exploded. Nature is very important in my work and | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
definitely inspires a lot of it and I think a lot of that comes from | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
living where we do. My sister is very often the | :24:37. | :24:51. | |
character in the pictures. Yeah, that's fine. Let me see what | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
sort of background you'll be on. I find my inspiration a lot of the | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
time just in the scenes that I photograph, so just thinking about | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
how fun it would be, how different that would be to experience if you | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
were, like, one-and-a-half or two inches tall because the world would | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
be really an entirely different place. | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
I certainly put a lot of myself into the characters because they almost | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
always are doing some hobby I'm interested in, or somehow related to | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
something I happen to be doing at the time. One of my most popular | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
photographs is of me piloting a paper airplane. | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
I think it's a popular picture because people like imagining. I | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
make them for my own pleasure because I love making them but, at | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
the same time, the comments and feedback certainly really encourages | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
you to keep going because just knowing that people are passionate | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
about it is incredible that someone else would care about my little | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
project. But the internet has made the world | :26:06. | :26:19. | |
a lot smaller, so anyone who is interested in this type of thing can | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
now go on and just find my work that easily, whereas without the | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
internet, it would be almost impossible, I would just be a kid | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
taking pictures somewhere and no-one would know about it, maybe forever | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
Don't Good evening. Most places managed to | :26:32. | :26:57. | |
miss the showers today, but some northern parts of the UK will have | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
fairly wet day tomorrow. In general terms, it will be another day of | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
bright spells and showers. Some showers keep going overnight. In | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
fact, some longer spells of rain is tied in with these weather fronts as | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
they run across from west to east. Showers possible almost anywhere, a | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
few clearer spells in between. As we go on through Wednesday, the rain | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
setting in for | :27:22. | :27:23. |