:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tom Donkin.
:00:08. > :00:09.The headlines: The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost
:00:10. > :00:16.Wind, rain and a massive storm surge have flooded coastal towns.
:00:17. > :00:22.The US vows it won't give up on peace in Syria,
:00:23. > :00:27.We'll hear from a top American official.
:00:28. > :00:33.Also coming up - can you name these men?
:00:34. > :00:35.The two vice-presidential candidates debate -
:00:36. > :00:38.but how much does it really matter?
:00:39. > :00:41.And the biggest mystery in modern literature may have been solved -
:00:42. > :00:56.but was it right to unveil the author's real identity?
:00:57. > :00:58.The most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in nearly
:00:59. > :01:01.a decade has struck Haiti, bringing winds of 145 miles
:01:02. > :01:04.per hour, heavy rain and severe flooding.
:01:05. > :01:07.This heat map shows the eye of the Hurricane
:01:08. > :01:12.Matthew has been classed as a Category Four hurricane -
:01:13. > :01:14.that's just one level below the most dangerous.
:01:15. > :01:16.Locals are being urged to "do anything they can
:01:17. > :01:24.Haiti's President has said a number of people have already been killed.
:01:25. > :01:29.The BBC's Christian Fraser has the latest.
:01:30. > :01:39.Hurricane Matthew is the most powerful storms across the Caribbean
:01:40. > :01:42.in almost ten years. It is barrelling across an island that is
:01:43. > :01:48.ill-prepared for what it will throw at them. Haiti is still recovering
:01:49. > :01:53.from the earthquake that struck in 2010, and a devastating outbreak of
:01:54. > :01:57.cholera. There are thousands of people living under corrugated iron
:01:58. > :02:01.roofs, in shantytowns that have no defence from sustained, an hundred
:02:02. > :02:07.and 40 mile an hour winds. The president has been urging people to
:02:08. > :02:11.move to safer shelter. We have already seen deaths. People
:02:12. > :02:15.who were out at sea. There are people who are missing. There are
:02:16. > :02:20.people who did not respect the alerts. They have lost their lives.
:02:21. > :02:24.The Red Cross has been out in those areas that will take the brunt. In
:02:25. > :02:29.districts where roads are already filled with mud. But many like this
:02:30. > :02:34.man have refused the offer of shelter. They came with a truck to
:02:35. > :02:38.move us, he said, but what about the stuff we have at home? If we lose
:02:39. > :02:43.our things, if they are stolen, we won't get them back.
:02:44. > :02:47.From the International Space Station, Matthew looks like a vortex
:02:48. > :02:51.of trouble. The forecasters predict it could dump up to 40 inches of
:02:52. > :02:56.rain in the more isolated areas of Haiti, raising fears of mudslides
:02:57. > :02:59.and floods in these heavily populated hillsides. Hurricane
:03:00. > :03:03.Matthew has slammed into Haiti, very power.
:03:04. > :03:07.And, it has been getting all its energy from the ocean waters.
:03:08. > :03:11.In the next few hours, it will move into Cuba, and then out into the
:03:12. > :03:15.Bahamas, where there are lots of very warm ocean tropical waters.
:03:16. > :03:19.That will fuel the Hurricane, so it will maintain some of its intensity,
:03:20. > :03:25.and then potentially moving very close to the Florida coastline as we
:03:26. > :03:28.go through this week. In the Bahamas, they are in a hurry. Wood
:03:29. > :03:33.and aluminium sheeting to protect what they own, and in Cuba, the
:03:34. > :03:39.government is buzzing thousands of people to shelters in six eastern
:03:40. > :03:43.provinces. In Jamaica, the outer bands of Matthew have now passed the
:03:44. > :03:47.capital Kingston. Heavy rains have left lots of damage behind, but this
:03:48. > :03:57.may be nothing compared with what awaits the impoverished island of
:03:58. > :04:00.Haiti. Our correspondent game this update
:04:01. > :04:03.in the last hour. From the early hours of this
:04:04. > :04:10.morning, Hurricane Matthew has been buffeting this country, with winds
:04:11. > :04:17.of up to 140 miles an hour. The fear is that it will dump rainfall of up
:04:18. > :04:21.to three feet. You can see already the problem of flooding. There is
:04:22. > :04:27.also a worry about mudslides in this very mountainous area that is
:04:28. > :04:32.denuded of trees, and as you can see here, there is some flash flooding
:04:33. > :04:36.happening already. Now, Haiti has already got so many problems. It is
:04:37. > :04:40.suffering still from the earthquake that hit it in 2010, which killed
:04:41. > :04:45.more than 200,000 people. It is suffering from a cholera outbreak
:04:46. > :04:49.too. Public health officials fear this will exacerbate that particular
:04:50. > :04:55.crisis. The conditions here are atrocious. To step outside is to be
:04:56. > :05:00.drenched within a matter of seconds. Nick Bryant there.
:05:01. > :05:04.Charities and NGOs in Haiti have been scouting the damage and handing
:05:05. > :05:15.out supplies, and I'm happy to say, we can speak to Plan International
:05:16. > :05:21.bat director. What do people need the most, and are they getting it?
:05:22. > :05:29.Thank you for up offering me the opportunity to share with the wider
:05:30. > :05:39.world about Haiti. The country now is suffering. All
:05:40. > :05:46.our staff are mobilised to support the population especially as they
:05:47. > :05:57.are coming out, because we have three officials in the south-east
:05:58. > :06:00.and in the West. Hurricane Matthew, the situation is virtually more
:06:01. > :06:17.critical in the south and in the south-east. We now have heavy rain
:06:18. > :06:25.and some violent winds, and we have the river, that we explained, is at
:06:26. > :06:29.a high risk of flooding. This is the situation now in Port-au-Prince, and
:06:30. > :06:40.the population are very afraid and scared of the situation. But all the
:06:41. > :06:43.NGOs are mobilised, both at central government and local level. They are
:06:44. > :06:50.already mobilised, but we are waiting after the Hurricane to make
:06:51. > :06:55.an assessment to support all the population are different levels.
:06:56. > :06:59.Thank you very much for that update. I'm sure our viewers will join me in
:07:00. > :07:01.wishing you all the best in Haiti. And now, some of the day's other
:07:02. > :07:02.news. Fighting has continued
:07:03. > :07:04.around the city of Kunduz Government forces have been trying
:07:05. > :07:07.to repel Taliban militants who entered several areas
:07:08. > :07:09.of the city on Monday. An Afghan government spokesman says
:07:10. > :07:12.the security forces are now in control of large
:07:13. > :07:14.parts of the city. Kunduz fell briefly to the Taliban
:07:15. > :07:16.last year, but was recaptured The International Monetary Fund has
:07:17. > :07:21.delivered its latest Police in South Africa have used
:07:22. > :07:23.stun grenades to move on student protesters
:07:24. > :07:25.at Wits University in Johannesburg. Their protests over the high cost
:07:26. > :07:28.of education have forced the closure of some of the country's most
:07:29. > :07:30.prominent universities The Court of Arbitration in Sport
:07:31. > :07:35.has cut the ban given to the tennis player Maria Sharapova from
:07:36. > :07:38.two years to 15 months. The Russian tested
:07:39. > :07:41.positive for meldonium It means the five-time
:07:42. > :07:45.Grand Slam champion CAN return The US Secretary of State,
:07:46. > :07:53.John Kerry, says Washington is not abandoning the search for peace
:07:54. > :07:55.in Syria, that's despite The US blames Russia AND the Syrian
:07:56. > :08:00.government for fresh More than 400 people have been
:08:01. > :08:05.killed in the city of Aleppo since Russia in turn has blamed
:08:06. > :08:23.the Americans for the collapse So, if there are no talks with
:08:24. > :08:26.Russia, what happens from here? Our chief international correspondent is
:08:27. > :08:33.in Brussels with more. Over to you. Yes, what happens and what is left,
:08:34. > :08:36.four months, if not for years, the main thread in a very tangled and
:08:37. > :08:42.not a very optimistic process of trying to move the Syrian conflict
:08:43. > :08:48.towards some kind of resolution, has been the talks between John Kerry
:08:49. > :08:51.and Sergei Lavrov. Last week at the UN General Assembly. John Kerry said
:08:52. > :08:54.the situation in Syria was hanging by a thread. The only thing keeping
:08:55. > :08:59.that thread alive were the talks with Sergei Lavrov, so what happens
:09:00. > :09:02.now that they have broken down? I am joined here in Brussels by the State
:09:03. > :09:07.Department spokesman, John Kirby. I know you said in your statement that
:09:08. > :09:11.it was a not a decision you took lightly, that you are to continue to
:09:12. > :09:15.work for peace. How can you, when your main interleukin-2 is no longer
:09:16. > :09:18.talking with you? Well certainly, we don't like being in the position
:09:19. > :09:22.we're in right now, having to suspend those talks, because Russia
:09:23. > :09:26.does have considerable influence over Assad, and it made sense for us
:09:27. > :09:28.to try to workouts and sort of arrangement with the Russian
:09:29. > :09:31.government, but obviously, that didn't happen, because they won't
:09:32. > :09:35.stop supporting the Assad regime. They won't stop with the bombing,
:09:36. > :09:41.they weren't stopped the siege of Aleppo, so we were left with little
:09:42. > :09:44.choice. That said, there are still multilateral forums we can work
:09:45. > :09:50.inside. The UN led process that is trying to get the political talks
:09:51. > :09:53.back on track still exists, and of course, the UN Security Council is
:09:54. > :09:56.still there. So there are plenty of opportunities for us to try and
:09:57. > :09:59.attack is from a multilateral perspective. The other thing is, we
:10:00. > :10:03.suspended the stored. It doesn't mean that if Russia is willing to
:10:04. > :10:08.commit to a significant step, like putting Assad on the ground, that we
:10:09. > :10:11.would restart it. It is not like it is over for ever.
:10:12. > :10:16.As you know, many critics in the State Department and the pens again
:10:17. > :10:19.said that John Kerry was on a fool 's errand. You would not be able to
:10:20. > :10:22.make a deal with Russia. Have they been proven right?
:10:23. > :10:27.I don't think so. Nobody is happy about where we are right now, what
:10:28. > :10:30.is the alternative? If you don't keep trying a diplomatic solution,
:10:31. > :10:35.the alternative is just more war, more bloodshed, more violence, so I
:10:36. > :10:39.don't think the secretary would have one bit to apologise for in terms of
:10:40. > :10:44.the effort that he went to to try to get some kind of an accord, an
:10:45. > :10:47.arrangement, that would get the cessation of hostilities enforceable
:10:48. > :10:52.and sustainable. So again, we did not take this decision lightly. We
:10:53. > :10:57.would prefer not to have had to make the suspension, but if Russia is
:10:58. > :11:02.willing to prove in some form of fashion that they are willing to
:11:03. > :11:04.make a significant step, stop this bombing, we will certainly be
:11:05. > :11:08.willing to listen to those ideas and to restart some kind of dialogue.
:11:09. > :11:13.And it is also what is called Plan B. We understand talks have been
:11:14. > :11:17.stepped up about a possible military option. We know from that audio tape
:11:18. > :11:21.that was released of John Kerry's own feelings about the war. He said
:11:22. > :11:23.he had argued for a military option. Is it time to look for another way
:11:24. > :11:27.forward? I would tell you this, and that is
:11:28. > :11:31.for months now, the US government has remained open to having
:11:32. > :11:36.discussions about other options available to us, options outside
:11:37. > :11:43.diplomacy. This is not a new idea. This is something that our agency
:11:44. > :11:45.and the president himself has welcomed.
:11:46. > :11:50.The president hasn't welcomed it all? He doesn't want to get
:11:51. > :11:54.involved, necessarily, and he has come under criticism about that.
:11:55. > :11:58.He has welcomed a robust discussion inside the US government about all
:11:59. > :12:02.our options, and to stay open to all options, but he has also said that
:12:03. > :12:06.no other option is better than a diplomatic one. All the other
:12:07. > :12:10.options we have looked at, be they military and non-military, don't end
:12:11. > :12:13.up in a better place in terms of a more peaceful Syria than a
:12:14. > :12:17.diplomatic approach. So we continue to believe that the right solution
:12:18. > :12:21.is a political one, not a military one, but we would be irresponsible
:12:22. > :12:24.as the government and we did not continue to have these discussions.
:12:25. > :12:27.You talked about ramping it up. I would actually say that discussions
:12:28. > :12:31.about options, the whole panoply of options, has been something on the
:12:32. > :12:35.table now for many months. The BBC spoke to Sergei Lavrov
:12:36. > :12:39.recently, and he blamed the United States that this breakdown, saying
:12:40. > :12:42.you refuse to separate yourself from backing Al-Qaeda linked group, and
:12:43. > :12:45.he said that the main problem in Aleppo.
:12:46. > :12:48.Well, any suggestion we are backing Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda linked groups
:12:49. > :12:53.is absolutely false. It flies in the face of the facts. We recognise that
:12:54. > :12:56.there has been a co-mingling of some of the groups with al-Nusra, which
:12:57. > :13:03.is Al-Qaeda in Syria, and we have been working hard to get that
:13:04. > :13:08.separation to take place, but the fault here for the breakdown, the
:13:09. > :13:11.fault for the suspension, lies squarely in Moscow. The secretary
:13:12. > :13:15.was clear about that today, and at the UN. The fault lies with Russia,
:13:16. > :13:18.and the fact that they continue to bolster and support the Assad regime
:13:19. > :13:23.as that regime continues to attack its own people.
:13:24. > :13:25.Do you think Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry will find a moment to speak
:13:26. > :13:29.here? I did the granny plans for them to
:13:30. > :13:33.have a conversation in Brussels. John Kirby, here in Brussels, where
:13:34. > :13:37.leaders are gathering to talk about the situation in Afghanistan,
:13:38. > :13:40.another conflict where on some issues they don't see eye to eye,
:13:41. > :13:43.but many will be asking if John Kerry, the quintessential double,
:13:44. > :13:47.will look for some way to try to get this process back on track.
:13:48. > :13:53.That is all from Brussels. Thank you bring much indeed. Thank
:13:54. > :13:54.you for joining us, our chief international correspondent.
:13:55. > :13:58.In little more than a month's time, either Tim Kaine or Mike Pence
:13:59. > :13:59.will be, as they say, one heartbeat away
:14:00. > :14:03.The role of American Vice-President is famously a low-key one
:14:04. > :14:07.But in a few hours' time, the running mates to Hillary Clinton
:14:08. > :14:09.and Donald Trump will be the centre of attention
:14:10. > :14:11.as they hold their first and only TV debate.
:14:12. > :14:18.When it comes to the debates between those who will be
:14:19. > :14:19.second-in-command, perhaps James Stockdale put it best
:14:20. > :14:27.Who am I? Why am I here?
:14:28. > :14:29.So, let's start with Hillary Clinton's pick, Tim Kaine.
:14:30. > :14:31.Even Republicans have struggled to find fault with
:14:32. > :14:41.His first speech as a Democratic vice-presidential candidate
:14:42. > :14:44.was aimed at Donald Trump, no doubt skills he will have been
:14:45. > :14:47.We've seen again and again that when Donald Trump says
:14:48. > :14:49.he has your back, you'd better watch out.
:14:50. > :14:52.Donald Trump chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence, although their initial
:14:53. > :14:59.He is an experienced Washington hand and a favourite of social
:15:00. > :15:02.conservatives, and as the politician in this relationship,
:15:03. > :15:08.he often finds himself translating the views of businessman Trump.
:15:09. > :15:11.It seems like just about every day, the national media latches onto some
:15:12. > :15:14.Turn on your Twitter account, turn on your cable TV,
:15:15. > :15:23.The vice-presidential debates can often draw huge audiences.
:15:24. > :15:28.This 2008 contest between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin
:15:29. > :15:35.70 million viewers tuned in, and this year's vice-president's
:15:36. > :15:40.We've got two presidential candidates who are seen deeply
:15:41. > :15:43.unfavourably by the vast majority of Americans, and two vice
:15:44. > :15:46.presidents candidates who are largely unknownby the vast
:15:47. > :15:48.majority of Americans, but those vice-presidential
:15:49. > :15:50.candidates have a level of credibility talking
:15:51. > :15:52.about their presidential running mate that the presidential candidate
:15:53. > :15:57.can't really have talking about themselves.
:15:58. > :16:00.Candidates do get a chance to distinguish themselves.
:16:01. > :16:04.In 1988, Dan Quayle compared himself to President Kennedy.
:16:05. > :16:08.His opponent, Lloyd Benson, had this scathing reply.
:16:09. > :16:12.Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy.
:16:13. > :16:24.There has been nothing conventional about the 2016 election
:16:25. > :16:28.year, apart from perhaps the two vice-presidential picks.
:16:29. > :16:34.And yet, as the past has shown us, when you take to the stage,
:16:35. > :16:46.And don't forget, all you need to know about the US
:16:47. > :16:50.We also have this piece on why the Vice-Presidential debate
:16:51. > :16:53.matters, plus Katty Kay on Bill Clinton's women, and much more.
:16:54. > :16:58.bbc.com/news is where you need to head.
:16:59. > :17:00.Pope Francis has made an unannounced visit to Amatriche,
:17:01. > :17:02.the Italian town devastated by an earthquake
:17:03. > :17:06.Crowds of photographers and onlookers surrounded the Pope
:17:07. > :17:09.as he emerged from his car at the local school where he met
:17:10. > :17:12.children, survivors and relatives of the victims.
:17:13. > :17:15.Here's our Rome correspondent James Reynolds.
:17:16. > :17:19.The Pope described this as a private visit, so he made the two-hour drive
:17:20. > :17:25.from Rome in a regular car, notable only for its tinted windows
:17:26. > :17:32.In Amatriche, Francis was taken to see earthquake survivors.
:17:33. > :17:41.Many are still living in temporary shelters.
:17:42. > :17:44.From the first moment, I thought I should come here,
:17:45. > :17:53.Pope Francis met firefighters who showed him the extent
:17:54. > :17:59.The Vatican itself sent relief teams here in the hours
:18:00. > :18:06.The Italian government has promised to rebuild this entire region.
:18:07. > :18:11.The Pope, the Bishop of Rome, normally surveys the grand works
:18:12. > :18:15.This morning, by contrast, the view in front
:18:16. > :18:28.Three British-born scientists have been awarded
:18:29. > :18:32.David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were
:18:33. > :18:34.recognised for their discoveries about unusual forms of matter.
:18:35. > :18:36.The Nobel Committee said their work has
:18:37. > :18:38."opened the door on an unknown world".
:18:39. > :18:47.Our Science Editor David Shukman has more.
:18:48. > :18:53.From steel strong enough to hold up bridges to the intricate robot on a
:18:54. > :18:57.production line, to the myriad devices in our everyday lives we
:18:58. > :19:01.depend on materials that have qualities that make them useful for
:19:02. > :19:04.particular tasks, but there is another unseen world of materials
:19:05. > :19:09.that don't behave in ways you would expect. Research into that world was
:19:10. > :19:13.awarded the Nobel Prize for physics today. To the logical phase
:19:14. > :19:17.transitions... Three scientists, born in Britain,
:19:18. > :19:23.recognised for making some strange and conjugated discoveries.
:19:24. > :19:26.New kind of phase transition. One of the judges resorted using
:19:27. > :19:31.pastries to explain their work. The bagel has one hole.
:19:32. > :19:37.How materials change their characteristics of the smallest
:19:38. > :19:41.scales. One of the winners was Duncan Haldane, awarded by his
:19:42. > :19:47.students at Boston University. Time to double down and learn! He told is
:19:48. > :19:51.that fundamental research could lead to unpredictable benefits.
:19:52. > :19:55.Science goes by people exploring where they want to go, and sometimes
:19:56. > :19:58.they find something good, and sometimes that actually leads to
:19:59. > :20:01.technologies, so we don't know where it is going to go, so it is very
:20:02. > :20:05.important that people should follow their dream, basically, and not be
:20:06. > :20:09.constrained to work on something that the funding agency thinks is
:20:10. > :20:11.going to be in the national interest.
:20:12. > :20:16.So what is this Nobel Prize for physics been awarded for? Well, it
:20:17. > :20:19.is all about revealing the materials -- that materials can exist in
:20:20. > :20:24.states that we never even thought of. So, take water. When it is
:20:25. > :20:27.heated, it is in the form of steam. A little cooler, and it becomes a
:20:28. > :20:31.liquid that you can drink. Colder still, and it freezes into ice. But
:20:32. > :20:38.it turns out that when the temperature is even lower, materials
:20:39. > :20:41.can exist in a whole range of different states in which they
:20:42. > :20:44.behave in ways that just as expected. For example, allowing
:20:45. > :20:48.electricity to flow without resistance. If this can be
:20:49. > :20:52.controlled, new, much faster computers might be on the cards, so
:20:53. > :20:56.this research is seen as having huge potential.
:20:57. > :21:00.It is a theoretical results, but if you want to apply materials to
:21:01. > :21:04.modern technology, for example, future generations of smartphones,
:21:05. > :21:06.you can't do it without having an understanding of what these
:21:07. > :21:11.materials will do. Duncan Haldane and is to ballot
:21:12. > :21:14.prizewinners were at one stage seen as out on a limb with their
:21:15. > :21:18.research. Now it has become in stream, and they are looking for the
:21:19. > :21:19.next challenge. -- his two fellow prizewinners.
:21:20. > :21:21.It's a literary storm worthy of a bestseller.
:21:22. > :21:24.A journalist in Italy says he has solved one of modern
:21:25. > :21:41.Gent-macro two claims to have revealed the real identity of the
:21:42. > :21:45.writer known as Elena Ferrante, who has sold more than 2 million copies
:21:46. > :21:48.worldwide. Very little is known about the author, who writes under a
:21:49. > :21:51.pseudonym, but the Italian journalist has published a story
:21:52. > :21:52.naming errors enabled professional translator.
:21:53. > :21:54.A number of high profile literary figures have slammed
:21:55. > :21:57.Bestselling British novelist Matt Haig wrote on social media:
:21:58. > :22:00."The pursuit to discover the 'real' Elena Ferrante is a disgrace
:22:01. > :22:03."A writer's truest self is the books they write."
:22:04. > :22:05.Author and journalist Jojo Moyes tweeted: "Only criminals
:22:06. > :22:07."deserve to be unmasked, if they have consciously
:22:08. > :22:10."sought privacy. Badly done, @nybooks."
:22:11. > :22:13.And Marlon James, last year's winner of the Man Booker prize for fiction,
:22:14. > :22:15.wrote: "What kind of person supports this...
:22:16. > :22:26."And no, I have not and will never read the article."
:22:27. > :22:31.Well, I'm joined now from Rome by the journalist
:22:32. > :22:33.at the centre of the story, Claudio Gatti.
:22:34. > :22:39.Very good of you to join us. I first want to ask you, what annoyed you so
:22:40. > :22:43.much about ton-macro that made you dedicate so much time to uncovering
:22:44. > :22:50.who she really was? Nothing annoyed me. Actually, I was a fan of hers. I
:22:51. > :22:54.started this as a reader. I read the four books and I loved them all.
:22:55. > :23:01.Then I read the autobiography, the same autobiography that is being
:23:02. > :23:05.published in the US in November. Just to know more, like many, many
:23:06. > :23:11.other readers. I was interested in knowing who was the author behind
:23:12. > :23:17.the pseudonym, and I was interested in that, and then, I noticed that
:23:18. > :23:22.there was a lots of details in that autobiography, and I realised that
:23:23. > :23:28.it should be established, it should be clear from those details, who the
:23:29. > :23:33.person was, and the more I looked, the more things didn't quite turn
:23:34. > :23:37.out to be right, and then I decided as an investigative journalist to
:23:38. > :23:40.use the typical technique of investigative journalism, which is
:23:41. > :23:48.following the money, seeing who was paid for the huge commercial
:23:49. > :23:53.success, and I've found the evidence that led to the person identified as
:23:54. > :23:56.the real Elena Ferrante. Of course the author has said many times that
:23:57. > :24:01.she does not want to be outed in this way, she liked to privacy.
:24:02. > :24:05.I wonder, as many others have, would you have gone after this author if
:24:06. > :24:08.it was a man? The Bronte sisters and Jane Austen had to hide their
:24:09. > :24:12.identity. Are you just punishing this because of her success as a
:24:13. > :24:15.woman, some calling it sexist bullying?
:24:16. > :24:18.Well, I was accused of being a misogynist, except that the people
:24:19. > :24:23.who do that do know how investigative journalism works. In
:24:24. > :24:28.writing, the writing starts as a subject and then develops into a
:24:29. > :24:31.story. In investigative journalism, you start with the mystery and want
:24:32. > :24:39.to find out what the mystery is. In Italy, the number one suspect, or
:24:40. > :24:45.candidate, for Elena Ferrante was a man. In fact, it was the husband of
:24:46. > :24:51.the person I identified. So, when I started, I had no clue if the real
:24:52. > :24:54.Elena Ferrante would be turn out to be a man or woman.
:24:55. > :24:58.It does sound like you have the some kind of public service, but many of
:24:59. > :25:02.her readers would argue that they enjoy this intimate contract, if you
:25:03. > :25:05.like, with her. The reader doesn't know the author's background, the
:25:06. > :25:09.author does not know the reader's. You seem to have railroaded that
:25:10. > :25:11.sacred contact and denied a lot of readers they enjoy ability of
:25:12. > :25:16.reading their work? Well, in the history of art, I am
:25:17. > :25:22.not aware of any situation, any work of art, that has been ruined by the
:25:23. > :25:28.fact that people would know who the author is, or the artist is. As far
:25:29. > :25:32.as I am concerned, knowing the cultural millionaire, the
:25:33. > :25:38.background, the history of an artist, only enhances the art, so I
:25:39. > :25:42.don't see how that would work. Thank you very much for joining us.
:25:43. > :25:45.An interesting topic, we will no doubt discuss online.
:25:46. > :25:48.You can more detail and analysis on our website, bbc.com/news.
:25:49. > :26:06.From all the team here, goodbye.
:26:07. > :26:10.Good evening. Temperatures won't drop as much tonight, because there
:26:11. > :26:11.is a bit