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This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Brazil's moment to shine as host of the World Cup is eclipsed by public | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
sector strikes just three days before the first match kicks off. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Protests on the streets of Sao Paulo - police use tear gas to disperse | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
I live in Rio de Janeiro where here, at least they are getting ready to | :00:26. | :00:38. | |
party. Police in Pakistan are back | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
in control of the country's largest airport after Taliban fighters storm | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
a terminal leaving 31 dead The row over infiltration of schools | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
in England by militant Islamists. The Government places six schools in | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Birmingham under special measures. And Rik Mayall, one of Britain's | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
most popular and talented comedy We start in Brazil where riot police | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
in the country's biggest city Sao Paulo have fired tear gas | :01:05. | :01:29. | |
at protesters who are demanding The subway strike has unleashed | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
transport chaos in the city which hosts the opening match | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
of the football World Cup Not quite the suspicious start to | :01:40. | :01:57. | |
the World Cup that the authorities might have been hoping for? | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Everywhere else in Brazil it seems they are getting ready to celebrate | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the start of the World Cup, but that is still one outstanding industrial | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
dispute. For supporters lucky enough to go to that first match on | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Thursday evening, there is a fair chance that they are going to | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
struggle to get to the ground, unless they leave a very long time. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Maybe this is just brinksmanship on the part of the unions. They know | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
that this is their moment of maximum leverage over the governments, over | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
a strike that has been declared illegal. There where clashes today. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Gridlock in Brazil's biggest city just three days before the World Cup | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Striking Metro workers continuing to demand pay rises in excess of 10%. | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
Military police again try to break up the protests and yesterday | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
But these workers voted overwhelmingly to stay out | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
until their demands are met and say they don't care | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
It's a new stage for the Brazilian situation since the last year | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
and the World Cup is just the beginning of a new wave | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
The Government insists that these strikes and protests will not be | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
allowed to disrupt the World Cup and will use whatever force they deem | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
necessary, but if the riot police, as in the past, move in too hard, it | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
may exacerbate tensions even further and lead to more delays | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
for fans trying to get to World Cup games across Brazil. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Sao Paulo's chronic transport problems are notoriously bad | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
at the best of times and if these protests continue | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
the impact for World Cup schedules and fans could be enormous. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
The protesters? mood is upbeat for now but things could turn ugly | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
if there is no last-minute deal or the Government tries to resolve | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Here in Rio de Janeiro one of the principal concerns for the parties | :04:05. | :04:23. | |
has been the security situation. There have been attempts at what is | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
called pacification. I went to one of the first places to be pacified. | :04:34. | :04:47. | |
This favela used to be a place where drug dealers openly carried guns. | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
That has changed. There are no streets, just steps. This policeman | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
is now in charge of that favela. He told me of the dramatic difference | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
that the pacification unit had made. When was the last homicide in the | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
favela? For more than five years there has not been a homicide. | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
Pacification is relative. We ran into this police squad, guns drawn, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
looking tense. One of duty officer told us about an encounter he had | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
had in a nearby favela. How many shots did the drug dealer fire? It | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
was very difficult to count. Lots. Very dangerous. The drug dealers | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
shot from all directions. Before this favela was pacified over three | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
murders per month in the community of just 7000 people. The figures | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
speak for themselves. And the scars of the battles are everywhere. For | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
all the problems and frustrations of daily life this favela is getting | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
ready to party. Yellow, blue and Green paint must surely be in short | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
supply. The World Cup is very important to us. Everybody is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
excited about the games. Regardless of everything that is happening, the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
important thing is that we participate and celebrate. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Everything is going to be all right. The beautiful game has never been | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
played more beautifully done by Brazilians. These favela children | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
dream that one day it will be them representing the national side. On | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the question of who will when they speak with one voice. Brazil. | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
Brazil. Brazil. I think we will hear people chanting Brazil quite a lot | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
over the next few weeks. The weight of expectation is high on the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
national side. Just beyond where we are broadcasting, just down there, | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
that is the supporters all that is still under construction. They will | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
be welcoming tens of thousands of supporters. There will be a huge | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
screen. Their workers are tried to get everything in place for the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
opening match of which takes place on Thursday, less than three days | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
from now. You really do see that football is | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
in the DNA of Brazil. It is a leveller and an equaliser. It is a | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
country that is not equal in many ways. | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
Yes, a flippant point first. One of the coaches said, if you watch a | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Brazilian dance their feet move at an incredible pace. That is what | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
these young kids bring to the football. It is dazzling. It is | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Samba football. But it is a great leveller. It is the source of | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
peoples dreams. The national side, with the exception of one player, is | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
drawn from favelas. It is the kids who kick around on a dirt track | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
outside shantytowns tuning that one day they will be picked up by one of | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
the big teams and then eventually gets picked up by a big European | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
team and then shine on the national stage. Football is something where | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
everyone is equal. Except maybe that in the favelas they are better | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
footballers than they are in the wealthy suburbs. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Nice to see you so animated. Clearly a big football supporter yourself. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
Pakistan's largest airport has reopened | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
after an overnight battle between Taliban gunmen and police that left | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Witnesses living nearby said it sounded like war had broken | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
On Sunday evening ten attackers stormed Jinnah International | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
They entered an area used mainly for cargo and private flights, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
hurling grenades, firing automatic weapons and rocket launchers. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Pakistan's Taliban has claimed responsibility, | :09:50. | :09:50. | |
Turned into a virtual war zone, Pakistan's biggest airport, | :09:51. | :10:12. | |
in a battle that lasted all night until Government troops finally | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
As the wounded were evacuated, burning cargo buildings lit up | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
the night sky, an eerie site in what is normally | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Just how heavily armed the ten attackers were is clear | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Grenades, rocket launchers and suicide belts. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Also food and water, suggesting they were planning a siege, or to hijack | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Pakistan's Government praised its troops for their swift response. | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
Our forces have done a tremendous job. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
We saw how quickly they controlled the situation. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Our army and police tackled the situation nicely and killed all | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
the terrorists involved in the incidents. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
In claiming responsibility a spokesman for the Pakistan | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Taliban said the attack was in revenge for the death of this leader | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
But he also warned more attacks were planned. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
They are not the same as Afghanistan's Taliban, but there | :11:27. | :11:38. | |
are links. The Islamic insurgency is against Pakistan's Government. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Recent attempts at peace talks by Pakistan's prime minister caused | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
a split in their ranks and it is possible this attack was to try to | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
It would have caused a lot of material damage | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
if they had hit commercial airliners and it would have provided them with | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
the iconic images that they need in their campaign. | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
The attack was less devastating than it might have been, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
but it still raises questions about Pakistan's security. | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
In the UK, a political row has broken out over schools in England's | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
England's education watchdog says six schools in Birmingham have been | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
Those schools have now been placed under what's been described | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
as special measures, and the Prime Minister David Cameron | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
is calling for snap inspections of all schools in the country. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Birmingham schools have endured months of leaks and rumours | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Today, a damning verdict for five of them, with Ofsted condemning | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
a culture of fear and intimidation that was quite shocking. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Some headteachers, including those with a proud record of raising | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
standards, have been marginalised or forced out of their jobs. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
This has left a vacuum in which schools previously rated good or | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
outstanding have suffered enormous staff turbulence, a collapse | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
in morale, and a rapid decline in their overall effectiveness. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Ofsted said there had been a deliberate attempt to change | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
the ethos of the schools, with the curriculum being narrowed, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
and an exclusively Muslim culture in non-faith schools. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Outside one of them today, Park View, opinions were sharply | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
In 2001, people achieving A* to C was any five to 7%. | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Now, it's 76%, it is a huge achievement. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
So, the haters, the people who are against the school, don't want us | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
We do have Islamic assemblies but they just teach lessons like, | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
being nice to one another, being nice to your parents. | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
It's not like we have courses on how to make bombs. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
You can, you can, but you can't have a girlfriend or boyfriend, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
And in Islam, you can't have an girlfriend or boyfriend either. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Yeah, but it's not an Islamic school. | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Yeah, it does feel like an Islamic school, but it's not supposed to be. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
There is something wrong that two years ago, a school that has been | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
rated as outstanding in all the different sections | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
of the report, 18 months later, has been classed as inadequate. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
There is a failing in the process of Ofsted or, | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
they have come back here with a political agenda to look for certain | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Earlier, their teachers expressed anger that | :14:18. | :14:18. | |
their school, which was found to be outstanding by inspectors two years | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Ofsted inspectors came to our schools looking for extremism, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
looking for segregation, looking proof that our children | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
have religion forced upon them as part of an Islamic plot. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Excuse me. The Ofsted reports found absolutely | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
because this is categorically not what is happening in our schools. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
At this school, Oldknow, Ofsted says a small group | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
of governors has been promoting a narrow faith-based ideology, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
But the school principal, curently on sick leave, | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
said she had been targeted by a hostile governing body. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
I'm upset, because I am the principal of Oldview academy and | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
I have been treated in this manner. It's disgraceful. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
The Education Secretary today said he would take decisive action. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Schools that are proven to have failed will be taken over, | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
put under new leadership and taken in a fresh new direction. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
On today's evidence, schools in Birmingham have been | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
subject to an organised attempt in some cases to entrench | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
But whether or not that amounts to extremism will be hotly debated. | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty for | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
prisoners in the country, but it's not clear if opposition activists or | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
The announcement comes just days after Assad won a third term | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
in elections that the opposition and Western nations | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
India's new government has set out its plans for rapid economic reform. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
President Pranab Mukherjee says the government will provide water, | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
power and a toilet to every home within the next eight years. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
He's also promised a zero tolerance approach to violence against women. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
And Egypt's Interior Ministry says seven men have been arrested | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
on suspicion of sexually assaulting women at celebrations for | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
President Abdul Fattah al Sisi's inauguration on Sunday. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
The arrests come amid growing outrage over a graphic | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
video that shows a woman being sexually assaulted, allegedly during | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Japan says it intends to resume its international whale hunt. The Prime | :16:30. | :16:51. | |
Minister told a Parliamentary hearing that his government is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
committed to the eventual resumption of commercial whaling. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
In just over 100 days, Scotland will decide whether to stay part of the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Opinion polls suggest the No campaign is maintaining | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
its lead with 58% of voters wanting to stay in the union. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
But Scotland's First Minister says the credibility of its Yes | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
For more on this, let's go to the BBC's Rob Watson who | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
First of all, give us a brief assessment of the two campaigns. | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
I think there is no doubt that the yes campaign has been very vibrant, | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
they are after all campaigning for their lifetime ideal. The no | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
campaign, if you like, has been set by some of the problems that you | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
would get from parties that are often at odds with each other, the | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
political party that favour union. Overall it has become rather | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
distilled. We know what the yes campaign stands for, they believe | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
that there is a logical proposition that Scotland would be best | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
governed, purely, from this building behind here in Edinburgh. The no | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
campaign is founded on this fundamental idea that the union has | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
been incredibly successful for 300 years, why would you risk damaging | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
it? You get those in the no camp we | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
say, we might end up sleepwalking into independence because their | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
voters are less inclined to go out and vote in that referendum. The | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
pro-independence voters armour motivated. -- are more motivated. I | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
do not think there is any doubt that there is a lot of gaming and has | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
been going on about how you interpret the polls, harmony people | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
are really undecided to come and what about turnout. The yes campaign | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
is try to put out the line that this will be so momentous that when | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
Scottish people have been given this chance on September 18, they are | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
going to think, I do not want to throw away this industry -- | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
opportunity to go independent. I think the no campaign are basing | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
their hopes on this idea that the Scottish people are inherently quite | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
conservative with a small fee, and while they might be tempted into the | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
idea of independence, the majority will say at the last minute, not | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
sure about this, too much uncertainty. How much influence does | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
outside in -- opinion have? For example, President Obama saying last | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
week he thinks the UK would be better off staying united. Well, far | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
be it from me to downplay the influence of President Obama, but I | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
think the sense is here in Scotland that intervention such as that, they | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
very much make a splash on the day that they are made, but I think to | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
try and give some context to those outside of Scotland, the people here | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
have been listening to the arguments for and against since 2011, since | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
the Scottish National party won the parliamentary elections here. So | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
people are really steeped in this stuff. I think interventions from | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
outside the United Kingdom probably don't have much effect. Have some of | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the interventions from London had an effect, such as the government | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
saying, we are not keen to have you using the pound? There may be other | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
convocations? I suspect they will have. Even amongst voters who do not | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
like that sort of message, it leaves an impression somewhere. Thank you | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
very much indeed. The referendum is 100 days away. | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
The post of President of the European Commission is | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
the most high profile job in the European Union and there is | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
The British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the thick | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
of the behind the scenes negotiations to try to | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
prevent an arch federalist like the front runner Jean-Claude Juncker | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
In the next few hours, Mr Cameron will be meeting | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
his counterparts from Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden in | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Stockholm to try to influence the race for the Commission President. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Joining me from Brussels is the Europe analyst | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
and senior adviser to the European Policy Centre, Jacki Davis. | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
Commission president, not officially on the agenda on these talks, but | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
hard to imagine it is not going to be discussed. Absolutely, as you | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
say, responsibly what they are there to talk about is not the | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
personalities for the next five years, who will run the EU, but the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
programme. This is a group of economic liberals, they want to | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
focus on the reform agenda for Europe, from measures to boost | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
economic growth, job creation, make Europe more competitive. They are | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
discussing the programme but given the battle royal that is developing | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
over who should be the next commission president, personalities | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
are important. It is an imaginable that they will not discuss this in | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
the margins. And John Claude Junker seems to be the man that the man | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
that a lot of people want to stop, an arch federalist. There have been | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
a lot of fluid allegations about him, it has become quite personal | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
and nasty according to his own aides. Absolutely, it is not just | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
about his views on Europe, there is a sense that he is part of the | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
European old guard. The former Luxembourg Prime Minister, chair of | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the Euro group, the Eurozone finance ministers. Seen as a traditional | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
European integrationist. There are those like the four who are meeting | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
tonight and tomorrow who really wants to focus on a new agenda and | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
say we need fresh faces and thinking. That is the personality | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
element of it. There is also a process argument. There is a battle | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
between EU leaders, governments, and the newly elected European | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Parliament. They say Jean-Claude Juncker was the candidate of the | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
biggest group in the Parliament, that emerged with the most votes, | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
and therefore he should get the job. Government leaders are saying, | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
that is not your job. We choose who we would like to run the UV # | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
executive and you get to approve it. This is being played out on so many | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
different levels. Some object to the man, some object to his approach on | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
policies, and many object to the process. Some predicting this | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
argument will be resolved by June but it could run into autumn. Where | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
is the all-powerful Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany on this? She | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
has supported him but it seems a bit tepid now. She has got a nightmare | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
problem. She is not that enthusiastic about him but she went | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
along with the process of him being the candidate of the party that her | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
group belongs to in the European Parliament. She is now being told to | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
honour that and has come under huge pressure in the German media from | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
her coalition partners, and also people saying, do not back David | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Cameron, he is bullying the rest of Europe in his refusal to accept John | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
called Junker. But she will want consensus, she is caught between a | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
rock and a hard place. One of Britain's best known | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
comedy actors Rik Mayall has He starred in some | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
of the most successful comedy series of the Eighties and Nineties, | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
like The Young Ones and Blackadder. Police and paramedics were called to | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Rik Mayall's house in South West London at lunchtime | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
but he died at the scene. His death is not thought | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
to be suspicious. Here's our arts correspondent | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
David Sillito. Will you stop making that | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
revolting noise, Vyvyan? You know I'm ill! | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Stop shouting, Neil! Desperately right on, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
more than a little tragic. If you want to hear shouting, matey, | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
this is it. Aaargh! Rick in The Young Ones wasn't just | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
a funny character. If you were a student in the 80s, | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
you probably met someone a bit Oh, now, how ruddy considerate, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Vyvyan, thank you very much! Alternative comedy had landed | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
on television. Over the next 15 years, | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson took that template... | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Aargh! And just turned up the volume, with | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
a hyperactive cartoon violence. They had met university | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
in Manchester in the 70s, and became part of the new world | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
of the comedy club. Shut up! | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
But it was his idea for a sitcom about four students | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
that made his name. You haven't got an MP, Rick, | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
you're an anarchist. Oh, well, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
then I shall write to the lead If you needed comic swagger, | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
he was your man. Hooray! | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Hooray! Where haven't I been? | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
Woof! But in 1998, Rik Mayall suffered | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
very serious injuries Copy that, Sergeant, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
I can report the Batnet has just He did, though, | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
return to our screens. Last year, he appeared on Jonathan | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Creek. David Walliams, Bob Mortimer, | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
Helen Lederer, Eric Idle, have all this afternoon spoken of their | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
sadness, the loss of a great talent, whose place in comedy history will | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
always be that moment back in the early 80s when a Cliff loving | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
anarchist led the charge of a new generation of comedians and a new | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
way of making us laugh. Who's been tampering with | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
my question cards? Three days before the start | :26:18. | :26:19. | |
of football World Cup in Brazil, protests are continuing | :26:20. | :26:31. | |
in the country's largest city, Sao Paulo, despite riot police | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
earlier firing tear gas to force one The demonstration began as a show | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
of support for metro workers, who've been on strike since last | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Thursday demanding higher pay. Hello. Whilst the sun it has been | :26:42. | :26:59. | |
hot and humid today, others have had some torrential downpours. Through | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
the night we will keep some showers around and still | :27:05. | :27:06. |