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Of syringe to cut infections like hiv and hepatitis. Hello and welcome. The film birdman has won the oscar for best picture and best director at the Academy Awards ceremony in hollywood. Best actor went to Eddie Redmayne for his leading role in the theory of everything, while the best actress award wednesday to Julianne Moore for still alice. From hollywood, heres david willis. Reporter its an evening of sumptuous glamour. The movie industrys big night out. A night when hollywoods new arrivals get to rub shoulders with some of the biggest stars on the planet. And Everyone Wants to talk to the man of the moment. Patricia arquette was named best supporting actress for her role in boyhood. She used her acceptance speech to make an impassioned appeal for equal rights for women. Its our time to have Wage Equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of america. All themes in the acceptance speeches. A middleaged womans battle against early onset alzheimers disease in still alice gained Julianne Moore a best actress honor. Glory, the theme from selma not only won best original song but brought the celebrity crowd to its feet. The oscar goes to Eddie Redmayne. A favorite for best actor, londoner Eddie Redmayne who played Stephen Hawking in the theory of everything, nonetheless, could hardly believe his luck. I am fully aware that i am a lucky, lucky man. This oscar wow birdman, the story of a fading Hollywood Star played by Michael Keaton took four of the top honors including best film and best director. Claim every mountain reporter 50 years after the sound of music, lady gaga channeled her inner Julie Andrews to perform a medley of songs, bringing the house down in the progress. David willis, bbc news in hollywood. til you find your dreams more this hour. What do you think of that . Let me know. Im on twitter. Lets move on to the rest of the news. A court in egypt has sentenced prominent prodemocracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah for five years in jail for breaking a law that bans Police Protest without a permit. A short while ago, the bbcs sally nabil in cairo gave me an update on the verdict. Reporter yes, alaa fattah is a prominent political activist here in egypt. Today has been given a fiveyear sentence, together with another political activist. There are 25 defendants in this case. The remaining the 23 we know that they have been given a threeyear sentence each. This case has been severely criticized as being politically motivated. Human rights activists say that the current regime is trying to silence any Opposition Force that tries to speak up against the authorities here. What we are getting from inside court, that once the ruling was announced, the families of the defendant, some of them fainted others cried, some of them even chanted slogans, saying down with military rule. Security forces then moved to evacuate the courtroom at once. What we are getting from the defendants lawyers, as well is that this ruling is not final and they are still going to appeal it in front of the court of cessation, the highest court in the country. What about the al jazeera cases today . Reporter yes, it has been adjourned until the 8th of march. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy were here, but the rest of the defendants, two of them were missing. So the judge decided to adjourn the whole case until the 8th of march when all of the defendants were present. Fahmys lawyer asked for more witnesses to appear in front of court, so they are waiting for the witnesses to come for all of the defendants to be present, to check the evidence and discuss the witnesses in the upcoming hearing on the 8th of march. Sally nabil there. Other news today, and one of the leading academic figures among sunni muslims has called for an overhaul of religious teachings to combat the spread of extremism. Sheik Ahmed Al Tayeb says a historical misreading of the koran has encouraged what he calls an intolerant interpretation of the koran. In thailand two students have been sentenced to 2 1 2 years of prison. They were convicted under thailands law, which banned criticism of the royal family. The 40th anniversary of a antidictatorship uprising. At least 70 people are now known to have died in a ferry accident in bangladesh after authorities managed to reach the vessel, which caught fire on sunday. It was truck by a cargo boat after crossing the padma river. Most of those who drowned were on the ferrys lower deck. Dozens were rescued. Witnesses say the ferry may have been overcrowded. North korea is banning foreign runners from competing in this years pyongyang marathon as part of a precaution to stop the ebola from entering the country. Despite almost four cases of ebola infection coming from west africa africa. Ukrainian military says it wont pull back its heavy weapons from the conflict zone in the east of the country until prorussian rebels is stop shelling its positions. Well a truce is meant to be enforced in the area but the latest reports speak of continued fighting. And ukraine says the rebels have attacked its positions with artillery and small arms. Bbcs david stern is in kiev. Just explain these latest details for us david. Reporter well yes. This artillery pullback was actually supposed to start just 48 hours, or within 48 hours after the ceasefire began. The ceasefire was supposed to begin basically about ten days ago, saturday and sunday the previous weekend. Obviously, the ceasefire hasnt begun. Theres still sporadic shelling perhaps at a lower level than what we saw previously but it is continuing, especially around the donetsk city and the port of mariupol, and the ukrainian military, although having said that they would now begin the pullback of the artillery, along with the russianbacked rebels now says that theyre going to that they cannot pull it back, as long as the firing is or the shelling is continuing. What the reaction will be from the rebels were waiting to see whether they are going to start a unilateral withdraw or whether they too, will delay it. Petrov poroshenko, meanwhile, the president of the ukraine, still sounding defiant over crimea. Well, yes saying that ukraine will get crimea back. But at the same time, thats not too much of a surprise. Ukraine, of course has never given up on getting back the crime crimean peninsula. They say they do not recognize russias annexation of that. And even if its not as mentioned as much in the press or perhaps in the discussions that are going on about whats going on in the east ukraine still very much considers crimea a part. The question is now, when or if it would come back. Obviously, this is not happening anytime soon but, of course the Ukrainian Government their official position is that ultimately, the peninsula will be returned to ukraine. Okay david. Thanks very much. The Worlds Health Organization Says smart syringes that break after one use should be used for injections by 2020. Reusing syringes leads to more than 2 Million People being infected with diseases, which include hiv and hepatitis every year. David shipley reports from cambodia. Reporter im in cambodia in the village of raqqa, which is in the grip of a health crisis, because more than 2 million here have been infected with hiv. Theyd all been given injections by a local unlicensed medic, suspected of reusing syringes and needles. So the question is is there any way to avoid this kind of thing from happening again . Well with me is mark koska, whos come up with a design for a better kind of syringe. Mark talk us through the comparison of a normal syringe and your one. Sure. This is a normal syringe, made in billions around the world, but because of the design you can use it as many times its easy to refill. Exactly. And you cant sterilize them. Theres no way of doing that in a guaranteed way . No. So this is an autodisable syringe, which after use locks, and then breaks that click is the break . Exactly. So it can never be reused again. Now, this idea seems blindingly obvious, but youve been pushing for this for, what 30 years. Wheres the resistance come from . I think theres resistance in many different points. From putting in legislation and policy to manufacturers changing over to a product, which quite frankly, isnt that exciting on an economic basis for them. They dont make a lot of money out of it . Correct. So there are a combination of different barriers. But it seems that weve got the perfect storm. And now with all the components we will have a chance of putting these out around the world and replacing standard syringes forever. Reporter now, right now, here in raqqa, there are all of these people Young Children families infected with hiv. It must be incredibly frustrating for you to see that . Its amazingly traumatic for me to see this firsthand. I travel a lot and do see it everywhere i go. But its also motivating, to make sure that this finally takes place on a global scale. Is it conceivable that the world would switch to singleuse syringes or syringes you just literally cant use again . Its totally, totally possible. Weve already done this with immunizations, which represents less than 10 of the injections given in the developing world. And that has been a fantastic success. Now were targeting the 90 of what we call curative injections, the ones given here in raqqa, with reused equipment, which cause the problem. Mark many thanks indeed. Mark koska there. So, in fact today, the world Health Organization is announcing a new policy for the world to switch to syringes that can only be used once. They want that to happen by 2020. Well have to see if thats going to be possible. David shipman there in cambodia. Now we turn to business. Hsbc still making headlines, aaron . Still making their headlines with some numbers, not necessarily great numbers, absolutely geeta. Thanks very much. Hello there. Yes, the britishbased banking giant hsbc has reported a 17 fall in annual pretax profits to the number 18. 7 billion. Now, of course this just follows weeks of being in the spotlight over accusations at its swift division. Aided largescale tax avoidance and in some cases, tax evasion. This morning some claims are being made about this guy right here, the chief executive. The guardian reports that stewart gullver had a swiss account in which he put about 5. 7 million of his own money through a panamanian company. Lawyers for mr. Gullver told the guardian that full uk tax had been paid on the entirety of his worldwide earnings less the credit, that is, for the tax paid in hong kong. His lawyers declined to answer questions on why he used a panamanian firm. Well have more on that, coming up on gmt. Now, if youre a parent geeta, you may or may not just kidding. You may or may not like the sound of this because youtube, the online video streaming channel is going kid friendly. Theyre launching a new app that will be able to run on smartphones and tablets and allow children to watch supposed of their favorite tv shows. It will feature parental controls, very important, and remove all viewer comments. Youtube not the only Video Service that launches their childfriendly service recently. Last month, twitter launched the vine kids app. It is a youtube generation, isnt it . How about this one . You fancy a new career . Well, it seems the that s thes that pilots are in huge demand. British airways has started its recruitment drive, but with the cost of training is it something to consider . According to boeing the world will need 533,000 new pilots in the next 18 years. We know it cost around 90,000, possibly up to 100,000 for the training, but are the salaries anything to write home about . According to the British Airlines association, 60,000 is what you can earn on the lower end on large european carriers. Well have more on this coming up on gmt in just over an hours time. Tweet me and ill tweet you right back. I should say geeta, the big drive with British Airways and the world, more female pilots. Only 5 of all pilots in the world, female. They need more female pilots. 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Reporter were expecting the greek government will submit that list of conditions it is willing to implement in return for the fourmonth loan extension in brussels. It will be considered by the European Central bank and the imf. They will give their verdict tomorrow whether they believe it meets what they request of the greek government. If there is complete disagreement, the deal could collapse. If there is fine tuning needed greece has until april to do so with its certreditor institution. And thats when greece needs that 7 billion of aid disbursement. Really, its going to be kept on a pretty tight leash by the germans and others who want athens to try to stick to some of the conditions of the previous bailout. Still, that tugofwar goes on. And, is today an absolute definite deadline because a lot of these deadlines move as we keep saying. They do but today is a deadline, yes. And i think that greece is going to fix a deadline. Its been working feverishly over the weekend to draw up that list of demands. And interestingly, as for the question as to whether the greek voters, the voters of the Government Support it, well when you ask it about talking to people here you get the sense that a lot of them do. A lot of them feel that actually they were expecting a compromise. They werent expecting the government to be able to follow through with everything theyve promised. But if the creditors and if other eurozone governments request too much of the greek government, if they request greece to compromise even further, well then that support could be begin to ebb a little bit. Because, of course siryriza was elected promising they would be able to raise the minimum wage, reconnect peoples power whos been cut off, provide free food that kind of thing. They may have to compromise on these deals. Its a crucial moment whether support for the syriza government holds. Bear in mind the Political Capital of this government at the moment is high. A very high popularity rating. In the sense now is the time to compromise and he will hope he can take the majority of his voters with him. Now, two former british secretaries have referred themselves to the mps standard commissioner under allegations of demanding cash for access. Jake straw and marco rifkin were filmed as documentary makers as posing as staff as a chinese firm. Theyre seen as offering their services for thousands of pounds. Our Political Editor has the details. Reporter these are two of the most experienced mps around. Both are former senior cabinet ministers. Both men were filmed by undercover reporters posing as representatives of a fake chinese company. Jack straw is heard describing how he operated under the radar. He also talks about how much he charges for his advice. Obviously, theres the if we get down the track, theres the issue of what the fee oh, of course i dont know if you have a daily rate in mind. Normally its 5,000 a day, thats what i charge. Sir Malcolm Rifkin is said to have said he could see any foreign ambassador in london if he wanted so he could provide access that is useful. The mp is also heard saying he doesnt get a salary. I am selfemployed, so nobody pays me a salary. I have to earn my income but when im not doing something, i can do what i like. Jack straw has been suspended from the Parliamentary Labor Party at his own request. In a statement, mr. Straw said the discussions were about what i might do once i left the commons, not whilst i was still serving as an mp. Sir malcolm told the bbc, i would not assist any company to acquire information that was not already public. He insisted this had no bearing on his role as the chairman of parliaments intelligence and security committee, which overseas the work of mi5 and mi6. A full investigation by parliaments commission of the standards is now certain, but that could take months. Well sir malcolm ripkind has been speaking to the bbc. Sir malcolm ripkind, youve been accused of using your experience as a politician to benefit a private company. Was that appropriate . Well it has been accepted by parliament and by our law for many, many years, that members of parliament as long as they declare any outside business interest in the register are free to take other employment. And what i do 70 75 of my time, is my parliamentary work. 20 25 of most are a number of business interests i have. And i think its very important that that should be possible. I know the labor party doesnt like it and some other, many other people perhaps dont believe that mps should have second jobs but, you know, theres a large body of Public Opinion that thinks differently. We dont want to see fulltime politicians who know nothing about the rest of the world and actually rather like knowing that members of parliament have interest in other parts of the economy. But isnt it different as an mv having an outside interest like a previous profession like a doctor or a lawyer and this sense of an mp offering themselves for hire. Hold on first of all, i didnt offer myself. I dont offer myself. I was approached by this particular alleged company. They said we are wanting to establish an advisory board, because we want to consider an investment in britain and elsewhere in europe. We want a number of Senior Business people and senior political people on that advisory board, because we want to better understand the regulatory system the financial system, the political system of the countries we might be investing in. Thats how it happened. So they said will you talk to us. I said yes, of course, aisleill talk to you, but no commitment either way. So you did not offer yourself for hire but you entertained the you use that for hire, as if its derogatory. Its the world we live in people have particular experience and skills to try to use their skills to help their standard of living. Very, very simple. And my experience for many years has been in Foreign Policy and european issues. Most of the discussions i had with this socalled company, probably 80 of them had nothing to do with the united kingdom, they were wanting my views on investments in parts of Continental Europe france germany. These are areas i had experience of and that people are willing to renumerate me for sharing that experience Parliament Approves of it the law permits it its in the members interest. You can look at the register youll see all my political interests, as you will any other member of the parliament. Sir malcolm ripkind there. We know birdman was a big winner at the oscars but what really matters is what everyone was wearing. 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On hollywoods biggest night, other winners include Julianne Moore for best actress in still alice, best supporting actress went to Patricia Arquette for boyhood. And keeping the cash flowing. Greece faces a deadline to detail reform. The eu bailout continues. Hello and welcome. Of course egypt has sentenced a prodemocracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah for five years in jail, for breaking a law that bans protest without a police permit. His lawyers say the charges are politically motivated and baseless. The bbcs sally nabil in cairo has this update. Alaa fattah is a prominent political activist here in egypt. Today he has been given a fiveyear sentence together with another political activist. There are 25 defendants in this case. The remaining 23 we know that they have been given a threeyear sentence each. This case has been severely criticized as being politically motivated. Human rights activists say that the current regime is trying to silence any Opposition Force that tries to speak up against the authorities here. What we are getting from inside court, that once the ruling was announced, the family of the defendants, some of them fainted, others cried. Some of them even chanted slogans, saying down with military rule. Sally nabil there. With me is ann rosette from bbc arabic. We call people liberal, prodemocracy were sympathizers with the muslim brotherhood. Who is he . Alaa fattah is an activist. He started his activism before the mubarak regime last fall. He had a blog and he was writing and publishing about the mubarak regime. And he took to the streets in the 2011 protests and he has been very vocal against mubaraks regime the military council and even the muslim brotherhood. His sister is still actually in prison as well. His youngest sister she was sentenced to two years in jail for breaking the protest law. So what is the significance of today . Abdel al sisi talked about respecting the court and the law yesterday, and its very significant, some people say it is a crackdown on different activism lines in egypt, whether its muslim brother, islamist or more liberal and secular. But we will have to wait and see whats going to happen next because Abdel Fattah Al sisi also hinted he might peril the activist youth. There have been a lot of al jazeera who are jailed. Absolutely. Al jazeera was more focused, because they are journalists, they are well know to the rest of the world. But also people in cairo and particularly activists took to the streets in 2011 were also demanding some focus on them. Because basically, the charges are breaking the law protest, and there is a feel of a rising sentiment against this law and how constitutional it is. Hanan, many thanks. Thank you. The retrial of the journalist who is face terrorism charges have been postponed for another two weeks. The journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were released on bail earlier this month after they spent more than 400 days in prison. Their colleague, arrested with them, the australian journalist peter greste who spoke to the bbc also he has been deported and released effectively, to australia earlier this month. Lets get some other news. One of the leading academic figures among sunni muslims has called for an overhaul of religious teachings to combat the spread of extremism. Sheik Ahmed Al Tayeb says a historical misreading of the koran has encouraged what he described as intolerant interpretations of islam. A court in thailand has sentenced two students to 2 1 2 years in prison for staging a play which is ruled to have insulted the monarchy. They were convicted under thailands laws that banned criticism of the royal family. The play staged in 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of an antidictatorship uprising by students and features a fictional monarch and his adviser. At least 70 people are now known to have died in ferry accident in bangladesh, after authorities managed to reach the vessel, which caught fire on sunday. It was struck by a cargo boat by crossing the padma, which is one of the countrys biggest rivers. Most of those who drowned were on the ferrys lower decks. Dozens were rescued. Witnesses say the ferry may have been overcrowded. Now to the oscars. The film birdman has won the oscars for best picture and best director at the Academy Awards in hollywood. Best actor went to Eddie Redmayne for his leading role in the theory of everything. Whilst the best actress award went to Julianne Moore for still alice. From hollywood, heres david willis. Reporter its an evening of sumptuous glamour. The movie industrys big night out. A night when hollywoods new arrivals get to rub shoulders with some of the biggest stars on the planet. And Everyone Wants to talk to the man of the moment. Patricia arquette was named best supporting actress for her role in boyhood. He used her acceptance speech to deliver an impassioned appeal for equal rights for women. Its our time to have Wage Equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of america. A middleaged womans battle against early onset alzheimers disease in still alice earned Julie Ann Moore a best actress award. Glory, the theme from selma, not only won best original song but brought the celebrity crowd to its feet. The oscar goes to Eddie Redmayne. A favorite for best actor, londoner Eddie Redmayne who plays Stephen Hawking in the theory of everything, nonetheless, could hardly believe his luck. I am fully aware that i am a lucky, lucky man. This, this oscar whoa reporter birdman, the story of a fading Hollywood Star played by Michael Keaton took four of the top honors including best film and best director. Climb every mountain reporter 50 years since the sound of music, lady gaga channeled her inner Julie Andrews to perform a medley of songs, bringing the house down in the process. til you find your dreams i like the original. Let me know if you want to. We will have more on the oscars including a look at the main thing of all interest what were the stars wearing, plus how have the nights winners been celebrating. Thats coming up in a few minutes, stay with us. We move to australia, because its tackling its citizenship laws. The Prime Minister tony abbott made this announcement just a day after the release of a report of the sidney cafe siege. Reporter its two months since australias biggest ever antiterrorism operation ended in a blaze of gunfire. And decembers sydney siege, carried out by a man who claimed to be an Islamic State supporter was clearly on tony abbotts mind as he introduced todays new proposals. Now, i cant promise that terrorist atrocities will ever again take place on australian soil, but let me give you this assurance. My government will never underestimate the terror threat. We will make the difficult decisions that must be taken to keep you and your families safe. Reporter australia is increasingly concerned about the number of its citizens fighting overseas with Islamic State. The government estimates there are 90 australians currently fighting with extremist groups in syria and iraq. And a further 30 who have already returned home. Today, mr. Abbott said some of them could lose their australian citizenship. We cannot allow bad people to use our good nature against us. The government will Development Amendments to the australian citizenship act, so that we can revoke or suspend australian citizenship in the case of geonationals. Reporter mr. Abbott said Australian Nationals fighting with Islamic State could have their entitlements to state benefits removed and have their travel restricted. In separate measures he said what he called hate preachers would be targeted. Mr. Abbotts critics accuse him of creating a climate of fear to distract from his own political problems including the recent questioning of his leadership style. But today, he said the country was facing a new longterm era of terrorism. John dollson, bbc news sydney. Also in australia, the disgraced entertainer ross harris has been stripped of his honors following his convictions for child sex offenses. He was jailed for six years by a court in the uk last june. Harris is originally an Australian National that had been given two awards under the countrys honor system. He currently still holds the title of cb here in britain. The Worlds Health Organization Today launches a Major Initiative aimed at reducing infections caused by dirty syringes. The w. H. O will be backing the use of smart autodisable syringes, which cant be used again. Gary shipman reports from cambodia. Reporter im in cambodia in a Little Village of raqqa, a bit of a backwater, until now. This place has become the center of a National Crisis because more than 200 people have been infected with hiv. What they all have in common is that they were treated by an unlicensed local doctor operating just behind me here. And the authorities suspect that he was reusing old syringes passing hiv from one person to another. The man behind all of this now faces charges of murder. Hes under arrest. He was a popular local figure because he operated very low cost, but people here are now realizing the consequences of that. During our time here we met a family where the mother and four of her children have all been infected with hiv, just one of many examples here. Perhaps most shocking, the an abbott abbott, the head of the local buddhist monastery, a man whos 82 and cellibatecelibate, has also revealed hes been infected and hes very worried about the impact on the local community. All of this comes as a the world Health Organization is increasingly concerned about number of countries where syringes are reused. Not only spreading hiv, but also hepatitis and other forms of disease, which is why they are now today announcing a new policy, for a complete switch from syringes which you can reuse and therefore pass on infection to a new kind of syringe, which can literally be used only once. If you try to refill it it will simply break. Every year, millions of people are infected by reused syringes and many of them die. The hope is this new initiative will bring that to an end. David shipman there in cambodia. Stay with us here on bbc news more to come. More reaction to the oscars, include whaging what the stars were wearing on the big night. Now . This is bbc world news. Im geeta gurumurthy with the latest headlines for you. Prominent political activist in egypt has been sentenced to five years in jail for breaking a law that bans protests without a police permit. At the oscars Eddie Redmayne wins best actor for the theory of everything while Julianne Moore picks up best actress for still alice and best film goes to birdman. Now, another headline for greece today with the government sending European Union official a list of reforms its willing to make in return for an extension of a loan. That list has been submitted, but not yet been confirmed whats in it. Last week, the greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis agreed of an extension of its bailout program, on the condition that its agreements are accepted. The greek government is estimated to have a total amount of debt of around 323 billion or around 365 billion. By far the biggest amount, 60 is owed to the eurozone. Other Big Questions include the International Monetary fund European Central bank, and greece also owes around 50 billion in bonds. Some numbers there for you. Well talks last friday in brussels between officials from the 19 euro members concluded with an agreement to exthe end greeces bailout for four months. But it gave the new greek government until the end of today to complete a list of policies, in return for the continued funding. Thats been done our finance chief will decide will the proposals do go far enough or whether they trigger another round of emergency talks this week. Greece is a long way from being out of the woods yet. Were really at the very beginning of this very long process. Market volatility is likely to continue, but it was very important to reach an agreement on friday because otherwise, banks have been under tremendous pressure this week. They were losing deposit. They were at the mercy of the ecb. At least now theyve bought some time and hopefully, they will get an agreement the next few days. Our correspondent mark lowen is in athens. Reporter another important day for greece here as the government submits a list of the conditions it is willing to fulfill in return for the fourmonth extension of that loan agreement. And the list will go to brussels and to greeces creditors, the imf, the European Central bank the european commission. They will evaluate the list of conditions and they will give a verdict tomorrow tuesday, as to whether it meets what they believe greece should do. Has greece compromised or caved in . Here to discuss a little bit further is a journalist with the newspaper affiliated with the governing party syriza. What do you expect to be on this list of conditions . Definitely theres going to be a plan to talk about tax evasion, oil smugglers, to fight the local oil garrison, who has had enormous gains during the past five years, and of course to reforms in order to tackle the humanitarian crisis. And the greek government says it is now coauthors of its own destiny. But isnt this just simply caving into terms of the original bailout . No. The original bailout had cuts. There would be no more cuts or pensions for wages. There would be no more measures inflicted on us. Its for the first time that the greek government actually negotiated. And agreed with the European Union, or at least agreed pretty much its for the first time that were not tenants, we are being regarded as equals. Its the first time that thats happened. Reporter and do you think that the majority of greek voters, the voters of cities that support the government on this, even though it has been forced to roll back a little bit. I think that syriza has shown a responsible ability to negotiate. The majority of the greek people want to remain in the euro zone which is very important. And second syriza has doesnt have the approval of its voters, but have around 86 of approval. Its a widely accepted government, especially given the past five years. No government has had this much approval. Thank you very much, indeed. If the institutions dont like what they see, well the deal could collapse. If there needs to be fine tuning, greece has until april to do so. We could be back here in two months time for the next chapter in the greek is aga. Mark lowen in athens. Back to the oscars. In case you havent heard, heres where the nights biggest awards ended up. The results are in and these are the actors and the movies that have taken the top honors at this years oscars. The top prize of the night went to birdman, as it won the award for the best picture of 2013. The oscar for best actor went to Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the theory of everything. Jk simmons took the best support supporting actor for his frightening display in whiplash. The best actress oscar was given to the awards favorite Julianne Moore, for her role in still alice, and Patricia Arquettes 12yearlong role in boyhood earned her the best supporting actress oscar. The best director award went to alejandro g. Inarritu for birdman. And the award for best Foreign Language film went to the polish film ida. Now, thats the story of who won what on the night, but in case youre interested on what everyone was wearing, heres a quick look for you at some of them. Well, this is gone girl star rosalinde pike wearing a lovely red dress, red was also the choice for dakota the 50 shades of grey star. Krissy teegan showed her background in modeling as she took her turn on the red carpet. Jennifer lopez caught on this gown, for her turn announcing one of the awards. One of oscars best actor winner Julianne Moore, went for a white and black number as did Patricia Arquette who took best supporting actress, and that means kira nightly missed out, despite being nominated. She chose this dress to cover her baby bump. Men have a few less options. Best actor, Eddie Redmayne shows an oscar can definitely improve any outfit. Best supporting actor, jk simmons, but jared leto stood out the most with a powder blue tux and shiny shoes. Some celebrations are still going on. The biggest afterparty hosted by vanity fair. Amongst those there, best actor, Eddie Redmayne. Eddie, congratulations what was going through your mind when you stepped on that stage and held that oscar. Show us it show us it look it exists its real. You know, i couldnt articulate it. It was like a frenzy of virtually every single Human Emotion possible all in about 30 seconds. You described yourself as a custodian of that award. I feel like there were particularly making this film i spent four months going to london, met many people their families, and not only them but of course the hawking family. Its definitely a sad story. Eddie redmayne with the news that he won. According to the chinese earlier, the year of the sheep began last week and the animals have never been more popular across asia. One cafe in the south korean capital seoul is proving a particular hit, having given the flock free rein to wander amongst the tables. Steve evans went to visit them to see if they could give him any idea what the future might hold. Hello. This is a cafe in seoul. A trendy cafe. Its got a bit of a gimmick for the year of the sheep. Its got sheep in. Its a gimmick, as i say, but were going to go along with it a bit. First of all, what does it mean in terms of the zodiac for the year of the sheep. Let me quote the zodiac. The year of the sheep is for people who describe it as elegant, intelligent, dependable, calm individuals, who are very creative they can be shy, pessimistic, and puzzled about life it says and prefer to be alone. So thats the year of the sheep. But there is also whether you accept this or not is another matter. But there is also in any new year, a time of looking forward. Thats what its about. And in this country, in korea, its about two things. In south korea, clearly, its about the economy. There have been jitters about the economy in 2014 and those jitters continue. People are worried about growth. Growth will be Something Like 3. 5 . Tidy growth but maybe a bit less. Not so good. The other thing, of course is this divided peninsula. Whats going to happen between north and south korea . Both pyongyang and seoul here will be making softer noises. They seem to want to get together. The americans are a bit tougher. So, whats going to happen with the economy . 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