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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Maria Sharapova is suspended for two years after testing | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The Russian tennis star calls the ban unfairly harsh | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Deadline extended - UK voters have more time to register | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
to vote in the EU referendum after a last-minute rush | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Accused of being behind the deaths of hundreds of migrants, | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
one of the world's most wanted people smugglers is arrested. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
International fans flock to see the boy wizard, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
who's back, this time on London's West End stage. | :00:42. | :01:01. | |
She hasn't played international tennis since announcing her positive | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Now Maria Sharapova has discovered what the penalty for a taking | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
A tribunal has suspended the former champion for two years raising | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
serious questions about her future in the sport. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Sharapova admits she took Meldonium, during this year's Australian Open | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
but says she was prescribed the drug for medical purposes | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Our sports news correspondent Richard Conway has this update | :01:25. | :01:36. | |
from Wimbledon where the world's top players will soon compete. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Within minutes of that decision being known today, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
Maria Sharapova issued a statement saying she would appeal | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
and that she wanted to be back playing tennis. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
But, of course, she won't be here at Wimbledon | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
It was here in 2004 that Maria Sharapova was launched to fame | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
by winning the Ladies Singles title at the age of just 17. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
But now she is 29, she is at the peak of her career, | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
but she is facing that two-year ban that stretches back | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
to January this year, to the Australian Open, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
when she tested positive for a substance called Meldonium. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Maria Sharapova said she took that substance because she had | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
She wasn't aware that it had joined the list of prohibited substances | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
only on January the 1st, so she offered that as a defence, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
but an independent tribunal has said that's not a good enough defence, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
and they accept that, while she didn't intend to cheat, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
she should have known about the rule change. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
So that appeal will now go forward but it could be some time before | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
we see Maria Sharapova back here at Wimbledon, back of course | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
at the Rio Olympics, which she looks now set to miss | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
as well, and of course at any other Grand Slam. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
It could be 2018 before we see her in competitive | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
There's more on this story, including What Is Meldonium?, | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
on the BBC News website and if you're watching | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
on BBC World News, stay tuned for Sport Today, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
With just over two weeks left until voters decide whether Britain | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
should leave or remain in the European Union, | :03:06. | :03:06. | |
it's becoming increasingly clear that the campaign will go down | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
A few hours ago, the British government announced | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
that the deadline for voters to register has been extended | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
That's because the registration website crashed on Tuesday before | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
the midnight cut-off, meaning that some people could have | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
According to the government, almost 60,000 people | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
were trying to use the service when the problem was first reported, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
It lasted until after midnight, when more than 20,000 people | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
But the government's data does not show whether those users | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar, has the details. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
Were you one of those who try to register to vote | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
At over 500,000 clicks and counting, the official website crashed. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Thousands were denied the right to join the EU referendum, so today, | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
an emergency decision to grant more time. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
David Cameron, who believes the bigger the vote, | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
It is extremely welcome that so many people want to take part in this | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
massive democratic exercise, in this vital decision | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
The new deadline will be midnight tomorrow. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Gordon and Nicky from Worcestershire tried to register last night. | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
And it's really great, I think, that the Government | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
are being flexible and responsive so quickly to make sure that people | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
I hope a lot of young people are also online at this very moment, | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
because it is their future more than ours. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
This vote will decide Britain's place in the world for decades so no | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
surprise more time has been given for voters to register. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Tonight, the Remainers, who believe a big turnout | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
at the polls will help their side, look happiest. | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
That is why the campaign has become frantic, with the Leavers | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
warning of mass migration if we stay inside the EU | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
and the Stronger Inside talking of a meltdown in the market | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Now there are fresh warnings that if Britain chooses to leave the EU, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
many more Scots will want to leave Britain. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
The Leavers say they will support the decision to extend the time | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
to register but not all of them are happy about it. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
Any idea of rewriting the rules in any substantial way would be | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
madness and make the country look like a shambles in the run-up | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
If they left it till the last minute and all tried to register yesterday, | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
that is their fault and we should not change our regulations | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
in the middle of a very important referendum campaign simply | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
to suit those who have not organised their personal affairs | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
well enough to secure their registration in good time. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
But thousands more will be able to vote. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Will more young voters swing it for Remain? | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Or more voters angry about EU meddling when it for the Leavers? | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
-- Or more voters angry about EU meddling win it for the Leavers? | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
There is not much cheer from either side so far. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
It has been more about competing visions of gloom. | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
But on the 23rd of June, voters will decide once | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
and for all how the country is run, and the skies are already darkening | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
It's not just the UK where Euroscepticism is on the rise. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
A new survey shows that other countries within the EU | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
are increasingly disenchanted with the way Brussels works. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
The European Union is most popular among some of the newer member | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
By contrast, France and, perhaps not surprisingly, | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Overall, younger people are more positive about the Union. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
In France and the UK this contrasts sharply with older age groups, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
whereas other nations like Italy and Hungary see little variance. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Let's talk through these numbers with Nina Schick, from Open Europe, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
a think tank remaining neutral in this referendum debate. | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
Not very surprising that the newer member states, the former Soviet | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
bloc countries, rather enthusiastic. But increase, very unfavourable. -- | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
in Greece. In France, though? This distrust of the EU is a trend that | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
has been happening for some years. The Eurozone crisis is still not | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
over, and the austerity in some southern countries is incredibly | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
hard to bear. 50 or 40% youth unemployment in some countries. Add | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
to that, Europe is facing the migration crisis, which has seen | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
loyalties split at such a level that we haven't even seen at the height | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
of the Eurozone crisis, it is facing a challenging time and this is a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
continuation of a trend we have seen for a few years. You talk about the | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
way the EU has handled the EU crisis -- migration crisis, most countries | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
disapprove of of how that has been tackled. The policy was to have a | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
quote to redistribute refugees around EU countries. When it comes | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
to something like refugees and migration and asylum policy, it is | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
very sensitive, and although some countries like Germany have been | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
welcoming, the Eastern and central bloc have said they do not want to | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
take refugees and they resent that Brussels thinks it can force them to | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
do so. Young people seem more optimistic. Is that because they | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
don't have as much experience? It depends country to country. In | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Poland, young people are more sceptical and in the UK more | :09:02. | :09:13. | |
optimistic. All the people think they have signed up to a common | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
market whereas young people think of it as right to travel and live | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
abroad. This is a general trend but it depends on which country we are | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
talking about. What is interesting is how the people who have been | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
polled think about the future of the EU, it is kind of split. At the | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
highest level of the EU, they take any kind of victory they can get, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
because it has been bad news after bad news. Over five years of | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
economic crisis, then the migration crisis. This optimistic vision of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Europe is being increasingly challenged across the continent and | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
one of the problems as people think Brussels is so far removed from | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
them. If you look at national elections, people turnout higher | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
than European elections, cos they feel closer to their representatives | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
at a national level. Part of the challenge is that there is no such | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
thing as one EU citizens are -- citizenry, and Brussels seems very | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
distant. As we just heard, the Pew research | :10:28. | :10:28. | |
suggests that an overwhelming majority of people in Europe | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
are unhappy with the way the EU has But efforts to identify people | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
traffickers and to bring them A 35-year-old Eritrean who's thought | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
to be at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from Africa | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
to Europe has now been James Reynolds reports | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
now from Rome. Mered Medhanie was | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
brought to Italy by jet. His journey to Europe was easier | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
and safer than those made by the migrants who paid to go | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
on overcrowded boats. TRANSLATION: It is a particularly | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
important arrest. He is the head of one of the most | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
advanced criminal organisations dedicated to the trafficking | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
of migrants and the new path has been opened thanks to international | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
cooperation between agencies. Mered Medhanie, who is 35, | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
is accused of smuggling migrants, bribing officials and extorting | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
money from families. Prosecutors believe he smuggled up | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
to 8000 people a year He and an accomplice may have | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
taken in up to ?700,000 In 2013, one of his suspected boats | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
went down near an Italian island. Investigators say Mered Medhanie | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
was heard on the phone His phone conversations | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
may have cost him. British intelligence agencies | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
were listening in and helped We would consider this to be a major | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
disruption of an organised However, we still have | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
other investigations and lines of inquiry, | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
particularly where we focus our attention on high priority, | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
iconic individuals who certainly feel they are out of reach of law | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
enforcement and of the courts. And those smugglers are still able | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
to dispatch vessels towards Italy. These migrants were | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
rescued this week. Hillary Clinton has been celebrating | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
her long-sought milestone, becoming the first woman to lead | :12:34. | :12:43. | |
the US Democratic Party's She had secured the number | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
of delegates needed for the nomination even before | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
Tuesday's primary elections. President Obama congratulated her, | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
saying her campaign But there's just one problem, | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
her rival, Bernie Sanders is refusing to give up, | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
as James Cook reports. All men are created equal, | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
says America's Declaration That has sounded dated | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
for a very long time and yet it is only now, | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
240 years on, that it may be about to change, | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
thanks to this woman. Thanks to you, we have | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
history that a woman will be a major party's nominee | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
for president. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
challenger, says he will not quit. He is intent on making | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
what will surely be a symbolic stand at the party's | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
convention next month. Next Tuesday, we continue | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
the fight in the last I know that the fight in front of us | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
is a very, very steep fight, but we will continue to fight | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
for every vote and every As her rivals point out, | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Mrs Clinton is one of the most unpopular presidential candidates | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
since polling began. This is shaping up to be | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
the bitterest of battles. We can't solve our problems | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
by counting on the politicians The Clintons have turned | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
the politics of personal enrichment into an art | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
form for themselves. Her place in history | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
all but assured, Hillary Clinton "To every little girl | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
who dreams big," she said, "Yes, you can be anything | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
you want, even president". Here's another remarkable thing, | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Mrs Clinton could become the first First Lady to move | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
into what was once her husband's Let's bring in our Washington | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue. Before we talk about the hurdles | :15:04. | :15:21. | |
Hillary Clinton has to get across, let's take a moment because that has | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
been a somewhat remarkable achievement. Yes, it is and the | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
cemetery is striking as well because it was eight years to the day after | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
she had had to concede that she wouldn't become Democratic nominee | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
because Barack Obama turned out to be the first African-American to | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
become president of the United States. He won the primary eight | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
years ago. But here she is, having said 80 years ago, we've made 18 | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
million cracks in the glass ceiling, she has finally broken through and | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
will be the country's first ever female nominee from a major party. | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Could be the first ever female president of the US. It is quite a | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
moment and wherever people are on the political spectrum, they | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
understand that marks a moment in this nation's history. Even Barack | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
Obama has asked Bernie Sanders to get behind Hillary Clinton, but he | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
is still holding strong. He said he wanted to go to the end of the | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
process. Believe it or not, there is one more primary to go in | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Washington, DC next Tuesday. It will not make any difference to the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
outcome but he wants to go through to the end. I think to prove that | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
this isn't just a sort of flash in the pan candidacy, he thinks he has | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
started something, he thinks he is shaping the future of the Democratic | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
party, and I think you had seen in Hillary Clinton's speeches and her | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
rhetoric, she has had to change some of her policy positions and language | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
to take account of these young people who have got behind Bernie | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Sanders. Her challenge is how does she picked them up and get them | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
behind her? They haven't got any where else to go, and likely to vote | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
for Donald Trump, but they might stay at home if they do not feel | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
enthused by her campaign and it is her job to do that. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
At least ten people people are reported to have been killed | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
and dozens more wounded in a series of air strikes on rebel-held | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
areas in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
Activists say one of the strikes was near a hospital. | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
It's not clear who's responsible, but government forces are seeking | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Turkish media says a car bomb has exploded at a police station | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. | :18:01. | :18:01. | |
Turkey's Prime Minister says three people were killed | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
Ambulances rushed to the scene in the town of Midyat, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
The blast comes a day after eleven people were killed in a bomb attack | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Authorities in Singapore have announced that public servants | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
will be blocked from accessing the internet on work | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
computers from May next year for security reasons. | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Officials said the move aims to plug potential leaks from work e-mails | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
and shared documents amid heightened security threats. | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
French security forces have carried out an anti-terrorism training | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
It's in preparation for the European Football Championship | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Hundreds of police, emergency services and special | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
forces were involved in a simulated terrorist incident. | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
This is Lyon's main square and, in a few days' time, | :18:52. | :19:07. | |
this is where tens of thousands of people will flock to watch | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Many fan zones like this are dotted up and down the country and, | :19:11. | :19:22. | |
tonight, the French security services, the emergency services, | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
are testing their abilities to respond in case of the worst-case | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
TRANSLATION: Tonight we have an exercise with two interests. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
The first is to see how the police react after an attack. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
The second is how we communicate across forces so that we are ready | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
These anti-terrorism exercises have been taking place across France over | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
There's 700,000 security forces, police, some special forces | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
involved, and the message is that this will be a huge | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
security presence for fans, that they should be vigilant, | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
they should enjoy the football but ultimately have confidence that, | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
if anything goes wrong, these people and the security forces | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed a joint | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
The speech is a mark of his rehabilitation in Washington. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
For years he was banned from entering the US | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
following controversy over religious violence that took place | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
while he was chief minister of his home state of Gujarat. | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
Today, our relationship has overcome the hesitations of history. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Comport, candour and convergence define our conversations. | :20:37. | :21:03. | |
The controversial artist who set fire to the door of Russia's | :21:04. | :21:23. | |
security service has been fined 7,000 dollars, in what's being seen | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
as a rare show of leniency by Russian authorities. | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Pyotr Pavlensky first gained notoriety when he nailed himself | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
to Moscow's Red Square, but it was his torching | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
of the Federal Security Service last November that landed him in prison | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
Sarah Rainsford watched the trial in Moscow. | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
Handcuffed and under police guard, a Russian artist is led into court. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
Pyotr Pavlensky likes to shock his public, but his latest | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
work landed him behind bars, on trial as a criminal. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
The question is, was this art or just arson? | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
The canvas, or target, was the headquarters of the FSB, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
As the fire he lit rose behind him, the artist stood silent and still. | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
Pavlensky calls this his comment on the rule of terror in Russia. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
We've just been let in for the final few moments of this trial. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
The judge is about to return to deliver the verdict, | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
and the artist, there inside his metal cage, | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
surrounded by police, bailiffs and a huge number of cameras. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
But after seven months in prison, the artist was released | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Outside, cheered by supporters, Pavlensky said he had no regrets. | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
His work was meant to expose the mechanisms of power, he said, | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
ruling over 146 million people through fear. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
The artist's style has always been controversial. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Like the time he nailed himself to Red Square by the scrotum. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
It was a comment on apathy and indifference. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Or when he chopped off part of his ear to prove his sanity. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
It has left many baffled or disgusted, and the criminal | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
But Pavlensky himself is quite clear. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
TRANSLATION: They are trying to label me, to say this is how | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
a criminal or a sick mind views those in power. | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
But I am an artist, I am doing political art. | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Pavlensky's work is challenging but he is making it | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Harry Potter is back, this time on the London stage. | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
And the audience at the first public performance of the play | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child were not disappointed. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
The latest instalment in JK Rowling's saga | :24:04. | :24:04. | |
received a standing ovation, as fans finally found out | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
what had happened to the boy wizard when he grew up. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
You have been amazing for years at keeping Harry Potter secret | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
so you did not spoil the books for the readers who came after you. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
So I'm asking you one more time to keep the secrets. | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
Before the play began, JK Rowling made this | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
Fan dressed as wizards and witches queued around the block | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
as they waited to clear the strict security. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Whatever it was they saw in there, | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
The play is expected to be the theatrical | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
When tickets went on sale last October, the first 175,000 | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
The face value of tickets starts at ?15 but some have sold | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
These behind-the-scenes pictures give us a glimpse of the characters. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
What we do know of the plot is that it picks up where the last | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
novel leaves off, with Harry as an overworked employee | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
at the Ministry of Magic dealing with his youngest son, Albus. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
The biggest challenge we had through all of this and the biggest | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
ambition was to make something the fans loved, | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
and if tonight's reaction is anything to go by, | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
it looks as though we may have done that. | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
The play is in two halves and part two gets its premiere tomorrow, | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
and it officially opens at the end of the month. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
How exciting for all those fans out there. | :25:45. | :25:56. | |
But for now, from me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
This evening's storms will fade away quicker than last night leaving most | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
of us dry to start Thursday. But humid | :26:15. | :26:16. |