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We start with Syria, where the chaos of its five-year | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
civil war continues to have devastating consequences | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
The UN says at least five medical facilities and two schools | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
in northern Syria have been hit by missiles, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
killing up to 50 people, including children. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
At least two hospitals were hit in Idlib province, | :01:31. | :01:46. | |
both in the town of Maarat al-Numan - which has been facing air strikes | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
from Russian and Syrian regime planes after rebels | :01:51. | :01:51. | |
A children's hospital was partially destroyed near another rebel-held | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
town of Azaz, in Aleppo province, close to the Turkish border. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
MSF has blamed the Syrian regime, while Turkey has blamed Russia. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
But it comes just days after an apparent international | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
agreement for a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins has more. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Rescue workers scramble over the rubble of a hospital hit | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
by missiles, to rescue any survivors they can find. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
It has been bombing intensively to try to win the area back | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
We have had at least seven deaths among personnel and patients | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
and at least eight people have disappeared. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Further north, missiles hit a children's hospital and a school | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
apparently sheltering refugees fleeing the joint Russian | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
This is only a few miles from the border with Turkey | :02:38. | :02:55. | |
which is opposed to the action. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
All the talk over the weekend in Munich involving Russia | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
and the United States was about achieving | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
A cessation does not apply to their bombing campaigns. | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
Moscow sees pretty much anyone fighting against Syria's President | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Assad as a legitimate target, no distinction is drawn | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
in the Kremlin between fighters for so-called Islamic State | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
and these anti-Assad rebels who are supported by the West, | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
so it is hard to see the five year war being anywhere | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
The Russians can end this if they want to. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
They can make this work by scaling back their bombing and redirecting | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
it against the real terrorists rather than bombing | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
Russia shows no sign of changing course and is embroiled in a hotter | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and hotter war of words with Syria's neighbour Turkey. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Washington is urging cooler heads but on theground there is nothing | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
In the last few hours we've heard that the UN peace envoy | :03:57. | :04:08. | |
for Syria, Steffan de Mistura, is making a surprise | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
I spoke earlier to BBC Arabic's Lina Sinjab in neighbouring | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Yes, I have spoken to some sources in Damascus and they have confirmed | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
that he will be there tomorrow morning it is a short cut 24 hours | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
trip to that area. It seems that is only because of the recent | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
developments and escalations. We are not sure about the agenda, we know | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
that he will meet senior Syrian officials, but we do not yet know | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
much detail about what those discussions will be about. We assume | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the special in what will raise the issues of the attacks today about | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
hospitals and by mainly the Russian and government warplanes. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
At the moment we do not have anyone accepting responsibility on the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
strikes at the hospital facilities. Yes, there are some details about | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
the amount of people that were targeted, we know that at least ten | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
people were killed any hospitals in Idlib and another dozen as well and | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
another hospital. Neither the Russians nor the Syrian government | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
have claimed responsibility for the attack but we know for sure that in | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
that area of Syria in Idlib and then Aleppo, it is only the Syrian | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
government and the Russian warplanes that are in operation, so there is | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
no third-party to blame for these attacks. | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
Separately, we are hearing that military exercises have been taking | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
place today between the Turkish air force and Saudi Arabia, what extent | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
of military involvement do we expect from Saudi Arabia? | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Basically, we heard an announcement from Saudi Arabia that they are | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
willing to send in ground troops to Syria. We know that they are sending | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
some warplanes as well to operate with the Turkish forces. That is | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
another addition to the competition. Saudi Arabia strongly opposes | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
President Bashar al-Assad and they do not see a future with him in | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
power. Sending troops to Syria now to fight Islamic State might be seen | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
as more problematic by the rebels, who are supported by Saudi Arabia, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
so the focus is now shifting to fight Islamic State rather than | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
fighting President Assad's forces. My correspondent in Beirut. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Now to a fascinating glimpse into the world of Pope John Paul II. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Hundreds of personal letters uncovered by the BBC between him | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
and a married woman over a 30-year period reveal a close friendship. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
The documents were hidden away in the National Library of Poland, | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
along with dozens of photographs showing the pair together. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
Our religious affairs correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, reports. | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
This is the story of the Pope's letters to his closest | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Pope John Paul II was writing to a married woman, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, a philosopher and fellow Pole. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
When you've got a strongly heterosexual man and an attractive | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
woman in a very intense relationship that is cultivated and which engages | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
mind at a high level of intensity, there's danger everywhere. | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
The letters have been hidden away in the national library of Poland. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Pope John Paul let their friendship grow, writing "God gave you to me | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
The future Pope invited Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka to join him | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
and others on country walks, skiing holidays, even camping trips. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka invited the then cardinal to stay | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
with her family at their country home in New England in 1976. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
After the trip, his letters suggest a man struggling to make sense | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
of their friendship in Christian terms. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
One from 1976 says, "my dear Teresa, I have received all three letters. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
You write about being torn apart but I could find no answer | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Later, his letters looked back to that trip to New England | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
like this one, saying, "I'm thinking about you and in my thoughts I..." | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's letters are not publicly available. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
I do believe she completely fell in love with him during the first | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
I think it's completely reflectd in the correspondence. | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
John Paul II died in 2005 and the extent of Anna-Teresa | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Tymieniecka's role in his life has until now remained largely hidden. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
There is no suggestion that the Pope, now Saint John Paul | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
II, broke any vow of celebacy, but the letters show the human side | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
of a much-loved Pope, doing one of the loneliest | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
Reverend James Martin is editor at large of the Jesuit magazine, | :09:06. | :09:19. | |
Thank you for joining us, what you make of these revelations? | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
It is not uprising in one sense. It has been talked about in another | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
book. Celibate males and females have close relationships with people | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
of the opposite sex, it is not really that unusual. | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
But the start this friendship when he was a cardinal and continued | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
whilst he was the Pope, is that not uprising? | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
No, I have deep friendships with both women and men. Because you are | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
celibate does not been that you stop having friendships with people. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
There might have been a love relationship but it sounds like they | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
were both faithful to their files, so it is not uprising to me. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Did you get any sense about how much was known about it at the time? How | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
much freedom Bob John Paul II had private correspondences like this? | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
As a cardinal and even as a Pope, I doubt it would be someone -- | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
something he would tell close friends about. Some people might | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
have known about his affection for her, but it is important as someone | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
who are celibate to have deep and intimate friendship with people of | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
both sexes. Hope John-Paul, he was canonised | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
very quickly, if this had emerged quicker, do you think that would | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
have affected our process. -- Pope John-Paul. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
There is nothing wrong with having such a friendship, it works for a | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
lot of people. Such a famously popular Pope, do you | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
think this adds to his appeal, this showing of the human side, as it | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
were? Yes, for some people the celibate | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
lifestyle appears cold and distant, we have someone and we see someone | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
who had deep relationships with people. But that someone like Pope | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Francis, I do not think anyone would accuse him of being a cold person. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
The human ices people and reminds us that celibate friendships, sometimes | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
even intense friendships at times are required. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
You do not find this unsurprising or unsettling, but it has fascinated | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
the world since it came out today. Yes, people have a total | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
misunderstanding of what it means to be celibate, as if we cut ourselves | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
off from all friendships. Sometimes people who are celibate fall in | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
love, and perhaps the dead, but he was able to do with it and remain | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
fearful to his promise of celibacy and hard are those of marriage. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
-- perhaps the dead. Thank you for joining us. My | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
pleasure. -- they did.. Meanwhile, the current Pope Francis | :11:53. | :12:08. | |
has asked Mexico's indigenous population for forgiveness over | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the social exclusion He led an open-air mass in native | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
languages in the country's impoverished Chiapas state, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
where he called for greater appreciation of indigenous cultures | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
and issued a warning over the human He told the crowd of around 100,000 | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
people that the world could learn from them how to interact | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
harmoniously with nature. The service comes in the middle | :12:26. | :12:26. | |
of a five-day trip that he's already used to speak out against | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
crime and corruption. Now a look at some of | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
the day's other news. Poland's government is to introduce | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
a law making it illegal to assert that the country was responsible | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
for Nazi atrocities Some of the most infamous sites | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
of the Holocaust are on Polish soil, but Poland objects to the term | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
"Polish death camps" to describe death camps set up under | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
German occupation. The law would allow the government | :12:47. | :12:47. | |
to take legal action against anyone using the phrase, and anyone | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
breaking the law could be jailed Police have retaken control | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
of a Mexican jail following last week's riot in which 49 | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
inmates were killed. Officials say officers had put | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
an end to the self-government imposed by criminal | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
leaders in collusion They've also dismantled | :13:02. | :13:02. | |
what they call luxury cells, containing mini-bars, | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
aquariums and saunas in the prison in the Topo Chico | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
prison in Monterrey. Police in Australia have seized one | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
of their biggest hauls They discovered hundreds of millions | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
of pounds worth of liquid methamphetamine, concealed | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
inside a consignment It was in late April, | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
1999 that two teenagers went on a rampage in Columbine High | :13:22. | :13:37. | |
School, in the US state of Colorado. They killed 13 people that day - | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
shooting classmates and teachers mercilessly - and leaving explosive | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
devices behind them. At the same time, they turned | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
the name of their town into a byword for the phenomenon | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
of school shootings. In the 17 years since, | :13:52. | :13:52. | |
we've heard from survivors and the families of victims, | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
but the killers' parents Now the mother of one, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
Sue Klebold, has written a book All of her proceeds will be donated | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
to research and charitable foundations focusing | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
on mental health issues. She's been speaking | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
to the BBC's Kirsty Wark. Columbine High School lies 15 miles | :14:09. | :14:28. | |
south of Denver in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. On the 20th of | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
April 1999 its name became infamous around the world. That was when two | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
students can withdraw their cars packed with explosives, guns and | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
grenades into the parking lot of the school and set about destroying the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
school. This was not a moment of madness, it was a cold-blooded | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
massacre, months and months in the planning. | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
And your suburban high school turned into a killing field. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
I was crying and telling them not to shoot me. They shot the girl he shot | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
her in the head in front of me. This was clearly the most | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
devastating and formatting scene that I have ever seen. I hope never | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
to see it again. -- dramatic scene. -- traumatic. I do not think that I | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
knew anything until that evening. It was such a day of confusion, we had | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
puppies come to our home, we were asked to leave our home and sit | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
outside. We sat on the ground all day. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
At that stage, you must have thought it was more likely that your son was | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
involved in the shooting as opposed to being shot? | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
We could hear through the window, the television had been left on and | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
at one point we heard 25 people were dead. At that point I remember | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
thinking that Delyn is really doing this, he must stop and that was when | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
I prayed for him to die. I thought, something must stop this, whatever | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
it is that is going on. It took me a very long time to believe, months to | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
believe that my son was actually responsible for killing and hurting | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
people. Up until that point, I believe I was living in an extreme | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
state of denial. It must have been a very strange | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
thing to commute that between them, he and his friends were going to | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
blow out that school. That was one of the most difficult | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
moments of this entire process because I had to go to so many | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
different phrases of accepting this and acknowledging that they were | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
present and they had heart people and that it was planned, not | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
impulsiveness, and then at the police reports to learn that the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
plan had to been to tell everyone in the school, but that the plan had | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
failed, when I thought of that and thought of the magnitude, I've | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
really did not think that I would live through it. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Did you think there were certain signs that you missed? | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
I think that there were, in particular, the fact that in his | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
junior year, several things happened to him. We had all those issues in a | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
row. He got arrested, he got into trouble at school. He had scratched | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
a locker at school. I did not recognise that those things meant | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
that there was a potential life and death situation. I did not recognise | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
that these where possible signs of a mental condition. That is why I | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
wrote this book because I wanted people to understand that when | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
children act out or shall edit ability or anger, it may not be that | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
they are just being difficult or needs to be lectured, it may mean | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
that the article. Many people will read this book and | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
in different ways because it will mean a lot to different groups, it | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
will mean a lot to the victimsand the survivors, and so on. What would | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
you say to them? What do you say to them now? | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
I have this feeling of wanting to see over and over again, I am sorry, | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
I am sorry, I am sorry. And I know that such a thing is so completely | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
inadequate. I just so sorry for what my son that. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
That was the mother of one of the Columbine shootings speaking to | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
Kirsty Wark. The heads of four central European | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
nations want stronger border controls to stem the flow | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
of migrants and refugees Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
and the Czech Republic - known as the Visegrad Group - | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
are working out how to deal with the thousands that cross | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
through their countries every day. They have criticised Greece's | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
response and could help Macedonia Our correspondent is present there. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
What have we been hearing? We had been led to expect there | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
would be a rebellion in Prague today, a major act of defiance | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
against the European Union 's and in particular, Angela Merkel of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Germany. That did not happen. All four leaders appeared on the stage | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
behind me and said that the preferred a pan European solution to | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the European problem and for now, they are not willing to introduce | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
something on their own. Having said that, one of the words you can | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
probably see on the screen behind me is the what trust. That is the | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
slogan of the Czech presidency. It is in short supply in Central Europe | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
at the moment. These countries do not believe that Turkey and Greece | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
are capable of holding back large numbers of refugees and migrants | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
that are making their way northwards into Western Europe and they have | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
said that it is time for a line be if, in fact, those countries feel. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
If individual countries to take their own measures, I suppose it is | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
looking ever less like unified European response to the migrant | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
crisis. Very much so. That is quite clear | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
that there are differing approaches across Europe and of course the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
countries of Central Europe have long argued for a much more robust | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
defence of the European Union's suburban flight and in fact, the | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Slovak Prime Minister said today that if there are huge numbers of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
people are arriving, once again, they wanted to send hundreds of | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
policemen to essentially close the border between Macedonia and Greece, | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
to stop those flows of migrants and a mouth like that would be very | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
unpopular, I think, in Berlin and Brussels because it would isolate | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Greece and perhaps even destabilise that country, which is already | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
trying to deal with the flow of migrants. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Rob Cameron, thank you very much for that. Rob Cameron in Prague. | :21:11. | :21:25. | |
Staying with planes, and a Virgin Atlantic flight, | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
carrying more than 250 people, had to abort its journey from London | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
to New York, after a laser beam was pointed at the cockpit. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
A crew member reported a medical issue involving one of the pilots, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
shortly after take-off from Heathrow. | :21:37. | :21:37. | |
It's the first time an airliner has had to abandon a flight | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
There are flashing images in this report from Sophie Long. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
at JFK, not Heathrow. should have been resting | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
It took off without incident, but shortly after the crew contacted | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
air-traffic control and told them one of the pilots | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
We have a medical issue with one of the pilots after a laser incident | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
after take-off and we are going to return to Heathrow. | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
The pilot's union said those targeting aircraft may not know how | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Initially, it is bright flashing and you can get shadows | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
and you are obviously distracted, because you are not expecting it. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
These laser attacks are the same as being attacked with | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
The distraction these can cause at the critical phase of flight, | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
take-off and landing, could potentially lead | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Virgin Atlantic said the flight was brought back to Heathrow | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
as a precaution, and the safety of the 252 passengers and crew | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
There has been a dramatic rise in the number of such incidents. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
In 2006, eight laser attacks were reported to the Civil | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Balpa say that 50% of the 870 pilot surveyed last year said they had | :22:44. | :22:56. | |
One reason for the surge is the greater availability | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Internally if these are used they become far too bright, | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
the eyes are upset and people will look away. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
So there really is not an application internally for these. | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
Outside, again, other than to try to deliberately blind | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
someone if you are targeting people, there is no real application. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
It is an offence to shine a light at an aircraft | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
Balpa are calling for it to be made more serious. | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
plane is the same as possessing an offensive weapon and they want | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Sophie Long, BBC News, Heathrow. | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
Tonight, the greats from the music world will gather in Los Angeles | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
for the Grammy Awards, and right now, we have our own musical treat. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Four-handed piano started as a way to take orchestral music | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
into smaller venues, but it has turned into an art form. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
Twin sisters Hourshid and Mehrshid started playing together in Iran | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
and currently are in Canada, where the BBC's Sam Farzaneh | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
And I was playing a ballad with my sister. | :24:06. | :24:32. | |
We started playing piano when we were eight years old, | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
We started to play the classical music repertoire. | :24:35. | :24:47. | |
Our grandfather played the tar, which is one of the main Iranian | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
Our father also, he played the tar and at that time when we were young | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
kids, we always listened to him playing and practising. | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
On the other side, our mother listened to a lot of opera, | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
we watched ballet, and we went also to concerts. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Some people, they ask us if it is easier to play together | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
in terms of communication and in terms of actually | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
It is not perhaps a matter of being easier, sometimes we just | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
have some special ways of looking or slight motions of the elbow | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
If we don't have this fusion, then there will always be two | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
persons playing, whereas the whole idea should be as if it is one | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
person with two left hands and two right hands. | :25:33. | :25:45. | |
You can get in touch with me and some of the team via Twitter - | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
But for now, from all the team here, goodbye. | :25:50. | :26:06. |