the series in which leading artists and performers talk to me about their most significant cultural influences and experiences. i m john wilson and my guest is oscar winning actor nicole kidman who has been an international star for over 30 years now. i was really looking forward to meeting nicole in london, but even a superstar s travel plans can be ruined, so we talked virtually. nicole kidmanjoining us from los angeles, welcome to this cultural life. thank you, thank you for having me. you were born in hawaii and moved to sydney with your australian parents at the age of four. your father was a clinical psychologist and biochemist. was it a creative upbringing? yeah, absolutely. i mean, as much as i grew up the daughter of a scientist who became a psychologist, i was also the daughter of a nurse educator, but they were both academics. but there was an enormous love of the arts. i was always taken to the theatre, opera, symphonies, my mother loves opera. what are your earli
in just a moment. libyan government concedes that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. a government spokesman has called for immediate negotiation and a halt to the rebel assault. the libyan rebels say some gadhafi loyalists are still holding out in the capital of tripoli. but let s go to my colleague matthew chance. he and other universities have been watching these fast-moving developments unfold at a hotel where they were. matthew, tell us what it s like where you are right now. we re worried but but set the scene. reporter: well, it s a very strange vantage point we have on this tripoli crisis. as the gun battles rage outside as crowds celebrate in some parts of tripoli, we re still confined to this hotel in the center of the city. at one point earlier this evening many of the government minders who have been assigned to us, first of all they started carrying weapons and as the evening progresse
been killed. the violence shows no signs of slowing. last year there were under 10,000 cartel-related murders. this year is shaping up to be worse. mexican president calderon sent thousands of troops and federal police to the border. hundreds of them have been slaughtered, even more have quit. gun battles rage nearly everyday. while the cartels began murdering and kidnapping each other they soon found profit in targeting civilians and legitimate businessmen. i m a mexican businessman. i was kidnapped in teenage teenage they threatened if my in tijuana. they threatened if my family did not pay they would cut off my ears or fingers. sean: dea stationed in mexico. these people are unpredictable, very bloodthirsty.
been killed. the violence shows no signs of slowing. last year there were under 10,000 cartel-related murders. this year is shaping up to be worse. mexican president calderon sent thousands of troops and federal police to the border. hundreds of them have been slaughtered, even more have quit. gun battles rage nearly everyday. while the cartels began murdering and kidnapping each other they soon found profit in targeting civilians and legitimate businessmen. i m a mexican businessman. i was kidnapped in teenage teenage they threatened if my in tijuana. they threatened if my family did not pay they would cut off my ears or fingers. sean: dea stationed in mexico. these people are unpredictable, very bloodthirsty.