. >> who was john forster, robert? >> forster was an ex-legal person. he was a reporter. he became dickens's best friend, his only really good friend. he became his agent. he became his best editor. eventually, he became his biographer. when he wrote the life of dickens, in many ways, it was the life of a friend. it was a life written by a friend about a friend in a friendly way. like all good friends, it told a few sharp truths about dickens, but it did them in disguise. we've just been hearing about the relationship. forster reproduces dickens's will in which turner is the first person mentioned, not his ex-wife or his children. it is his way of tipping a wink to the reader that this woman was the love of his life. >> i want to go back to the poor. growing up in india. where did that come from? what is it about the urban poor that so compelled him? >> it is the thing he escaped. it is a place he might have -- he has that great quality of the great novelist. he is omnivorous. there is nothing of life that is not interesting to him. he would plunge into these worlds, the

. >> rose: and who was john forster, robert? >> forster was a -- an ex-legal person as dickens was. he was a reporter. he became dickens' best friend. in some way his own really good friend who stuck through him by him through thick and thin. he became his unofficial agent. he became his best editor and eventually he became dickens' biographer and when he wrote the life of dickens in many ways it was the life of a friend it was the life written by a friend about a friend. but like a good friend, it told a few sharp truths but it did them in disguise. so we've been hearing about the relationship with ellen turnin. forster reproduces dickens' will in which ellen turnin is the first person mentioned. not his ex-wife, not his children. and forster produce this is without any great show or explanation but it's his way of showing the reader this woman was the love of his life in the last 20 years. >> i want to go back to the poor. you mentioned growing up in india, where did that come from? what was it about describing and writing about the urban poor that so compelling him? >> well, what

one of per basketball games it had spent 20 months right before she had a heart condition which forster's to stop playing the sport that she loved >> pam: kron 4's alecia reid tells us how the former basketball star is coping after graduation. >> reporter: their peak and a lot of support is what have played a part in getting her to pay a terrible part in her life. >> reporter: >> it is good to be back with the people that helped and supported you. >> reporter: basketball is what she knows. when her father was shot and killed outside one of her high school basketball games it was a reality that she was not able >> my father was my best friend and one of the only to me and i could actually give my all two.o >> reporter: >> i cried every night. not wanting to live anymore. contemplating rather i what commit suicide or not. >> reporter: there is a lot on horizon for the cal guy at grad. she still has her shot. reporting in san francisco kron4 names >> pam: >> pam: new at 8- it is an annual holiday tradition in san francisco.more than 30 years in the making. glide memorial church hosted it's a

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he forster beneath a nearby bridge rated he sexually assaulted her with the gun pointed at her head the entire time. left she wentker to get help and call the police. easy public schools referred us to metropolitan police, and did not comment to the young minor -- comments. the young mother was transferred to a hospital for treatment rate >> a shocking twist there. the victims brother telling us that he said the attacker is a parent, a father at the school. we checked this with a lease, are investigating that possibility and working on this case around the clock. thank you. monterey county police are investigating a body found along a busy stretch of the beltway. it was discovered on the right shoulder. is lane of the outer loop closed so that the investigation can continue. the police are calling this suspicion at this point -- suspicious at this point. >> a news conference was just held to announce a reward to help track down whoever shot and killed rob kirby -- ron kirby. the police chief just a gallon that investigators are nowhere near identifying a suspect in this case, so he made

from where robin forster walker in key eve. >> it's called the save ukraine rally. the implication that from behind the barricades, less than 200m away the opposition was threatening to break ukraine apart. the party filling european square, irjobic given the prime minister warned of the dangers of european integration. >> we have to fulfil certain conditions. do you know what conditions are these? we have a legal ice same-sex marriages. >> you can see the thousands of people brought in to take part, coming in in special trains and buses, we understand, but the reaction of the crowd has been subdued. supporters of president viktor yanukovych has been arriving from the regions all week. workers from the struggling industries, teachers on government salaries. i spoke to a pensioner off cameron, "we are paid to be here" he admits. "how much?" very little, he said. those who there are afraid of what europe has to offer. >> translation: europe says we need same-sex marriage. i'm against that. >> why are they interfering with us. >> the governing party of regions pledged

. >> robin forster walker is in kiev. what reeks from the government so far? >> the government released a statement earlier the spokesperson for the security services has been warning of a criminal investigation into politicians seeking to overthrow the state and that could carry up to ten years in jail, a ten year jail sentence. no names were mentioned but we have to assume that talking about the political leaders of this opposition movement. and takic at a warning to them not to proceed with this continuing process here in the center of the ukrainian capitol. apart from that the president himself is remaining silent when it comes to sitting down and agreeing to any of the protest oars' demands, chiefly that he step down and replace his government and setback towards closer integration with the european union. instead of as he seems interested in doing, closer ties with motio moscow. he is understood to have had a meeting with vladimir putin on friday. there's been resum rumors joinig putin's union, that would be a descrowtion movindustriousdisas. dependence

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