day. 25—8dc. a chilly start to the day. —— holding at 5—8dc. some outbreaks of rain arriving from france later in the day, winds will strengthen as well. temperatures down a notch. monday we need to keep an eye on, heavy rain and strong winds could bring disruption to travel. so keep an eye out. this is bbc news. our latest headlines... alfie evans — the toddler at the centre of a legal battle over his treatment — has died. his father said on social media, "my gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings. absolutely heartbroken." cabinet colleagues rally round home secretary amber rudd as calls from labour to resign continue. she says she didn't see a memo copied to her office which detailed home office targets for deporting illegal immigrants. parole board decisions could be challenged more easily, under new government proposals. it follows a review set up after the release of the serial sex offender, john worboys — a decision

that was later overturned. state media in north korea has hailed yesterday's summit with the south as an historic meeting that paves the way for the start of a new era. now on bbc news, it's time for talking movies. hello from new york. i'm tom brook, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, when we look back at some of the highlights from this year's tribeca film festival. the tribeca film festival

is now in its 17th year. it began, basically, as a civic restoration project to help the ruined tribeca neighbourhood to get back on its feet after the attacks of september 11th 2001. it has grown to become a significant film festival, with a wide range of mainly independent features from film—makers around the world. the festival opened with the world premiere of love gilda, a documentary on the late american comedian and actress gilda radner. in 1975 to 1980, she was america's sweetheart. she was really probably one of the most famous comedians around at the time. love gilda is a film about a woman directed by a woman, and, as such, was a fitting start to a festival that states it is working towards gender equality in the age of "me too". a higher proportion, 46% of the film's at tribeca this year, were directed by women. it's great.

it is as it should be. co—founder robert de niro was delighted by women's gains at the festival. by generation, things will get better and better and things will hopefully even out. but it's simply increasing the number of female film makers at tribeca going to bring about true gender equality? true gender equality? what we can do, as individuals who work on the festival is make the changes around us, is be the change that we want to see in the world. we have got to try to at least encourage that change and we will see how far that goes. but clearly our world seems to be open to it now. love gilda was one of some 100 feature films shown at tribeca. the festival's offering extends well beyond films. there were talks, tv series, virtual reality experiences and much more. the virtual and augmented reality section was a big attraction. several projects were designed to get festival goers to focus on real issues,

such as climate change and racism. even if they were a bit mind—boggling. well, we had tonnes of amazing experiences, but some to mention are dinner party, a narrative piece that is about a couple in the late ‘50s, early ‘60s that were abducted by aliens. this is based on a true story, they say they were abducted by aliens. it is kind of through the lens of racism because it is an interracial couple. we also have the day the world changed. it uses a lot of new technology to put you in the ruins of hiroshima. and also to look at our world from a distance, to really understand what and where it has been affected by nuclear war and by nuclear weaponry. some of the exhibits were very interactive, with terminal three, augmented reality technology put me in the position of being an airport immigration agent, interrogating

in a muslim passenger who appeared as a hologram, to determine whether or not she should be allowed into the united states. it is an interaction partly designed to help break down prejudices. what is that on your arm? this is a piece of poetry. is that a verse of the koran? no, it's not. it'sjust a persian poet. what the project is really trying to achieve is that once you go through it, you hopefully realise that you might have come across someone with very different ideologies. they might have been a muslim, and they may not have been a muslim, they may have been very outspoken atheist. but the ideology doesn't matter at the end of the day, when you hear their personal stories. virtual reality is a rather solitary pursuit — just you and a headset. at tribeca, there was an effort to make it a more communal experience, with tribeca cinema 360. that is a 20—seat vr cinema that is showing four curated programmes twice a day. so the idea behind that is to create a space where people can convien in, 20 audience members can,

in, each with their own individual headset and have these same curated experience. what is the advantage of that, though? because there are actually watching on their own, aren't they? they are watching on their home, but i think even though you are watching on your own and you have your own agency, there is that moment when the programme is over and you remove your headset and you understand that everyone in that room has had the same experience that you have. and it really does foster a conversation, which is exciting to us. one of the documentaries at tribeca this year chronicles a train journey. not beneath the streets of new york, but a 3—day trip across tanzania in africa. at the strength to survive. tristan daley reports. travelling across tanzania over the course of several days. this is the setting of the verite—style

documentary tanzania transit. the film follows several characters, among them rukia, a woman trying to start a new life after years of trauma. peter, a preacher whose goals may be more monetary than religious. and william, a maasai who was taking his grandfather back to the countryside after a visit in the city.