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and they look really happy. talking of looking happy reminds us of the formal wedding photographs featuring harry, meghan and the bridesmaids and page boys. the photographer has revealed the secret of getting the children to cooperate. the kids came onto the set, i immediately shouted "who likes smarties? " and then everyone, hands up, smiles. even some of the adults, i think, put their hands up. so that was our magic word of the day. back at buckingham palace, harry and meghan were leaving, so some family farewells. and then, watch the courtier on the right. yes, he bowed. that's something else the former ms meghan markle will need to get used to. nicholas witchell, bbc news at buckingham palace. that's a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight — now on bbc news it's time for newsnight with kirsty wark. women who say they've considered trying to harm themselves in a way
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that's serious enough to harm the pregnancy but not severe enough to kill them. that's the reality of banning abortions. tonight the referendum on abortion which is splitting the republic of ireland. with three days to go, a tight race, and expats flocking home to vote, we hear from passionate supporters on both sides. also tonight, his party campaigned for remain at the eu referendum, but what position should it take now? showtime! let's go. we'll explore the polarised landscape of labour and brexit. and this... # so sally can wait # she knows it's too late # as we're walking on by...# tonight in manchester, thousands have been at a concert commemorating the arena attack, in which 22 people died and more than 800 were injured. we hear how, a year later, the trauma is still fresh for many. good evening.
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ireland is in the grip of one of the most difficult issues for the country — a decision on whether to remove the eighth amendment from its constitution which gives equal right to life to mothers and the unborn. in other words, a ban on abortion. friday's referendum looks to be finely balanced and such are the passions aroused that many of the irish diaspora are flying home from all over the world to cast their crucial vote. the taoiseach leo varadkar is backing a yes vote, and has said it is only a matter of time before a woman in ireland dies as a result of using abortion pills bought online, something that is itself illegal. if passed, ireland's parliament, the dail, would then begin the process of legislating on the proposed termination of pregnancies at up to 12 weeks, and it would make ireland more liberal than the north, where the westminster 1967 abortion act does not apply. ireland was the first country
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in the world to legalise same—sex marriage through a popular vote. so is ireland, once seen as one of europe's more socially conservative countries, now about to undergo a more radical change? we need change. we need choice. vote yes to repeal the eighth on the 25th of may. you can make a difference. here on dublin's henry street, it's the culmination of months of campaigning and bitter debate. in three days‘ time, ireland will be voting on whether to repeal the eighth amendment in the country's constitution, a law that criminalises abortion. let's win repeal, let's win abortion rights. rita harold has spent most of the last six years campaigning for abortion rights. do you really think it's acceptable that somebody who doesn't have the money to travel abroad to access abortion can face 14 years in prison? having or administering an abortion carries a hefty prison sentence. many in ireland support
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the law as it stands. a no campaign has been set up metres away. and lucy kelly has travelled down from northern ireland especially to give her support. we are all very positive. obviously a lot of work still needs to be done, particularly in these final days. so if we're on the streets telling people what legislation actually means, what repeal actually means, and the fact that abortion is in no way pro—women... the irish government has proposed legislation allowing abortion on request up until 12 weeks of pregnancy, half the time in britain, but without any restrictions. i would like to think people are, you know, quite shocked and disgusted at a a 12—week limit for abortion, you know, for any reason. you don't help women by killing their babies. for a progressive,
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compassionate society, we should be providing women with real life—affirming support, real crisis pregnancy support. so this is what the abortion pills look like. you get one which you take on the first day. but for many irish women, crisis pregnancy has meant taking things into their own hands. rita has met many who have felt the need to break the law by ordering abortion pills online. the stories that you hear from people, when they tell you they need abortion pills, some of them are extremely distressing. i spoke to women who already had children, who were really struggling economically to provide for the children that they had. i spoke to women in violent relationships. i spoke to very, very young women. according to one study shown to the irish government, more than 7,000 irish women have risked imprisonment and bought pills since 2010, and numbers are on the rise. then, of course the other
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big section is, "i need an abortion with pills." it's estimated that five new women every day order their pills from charities such as women on web. the pills are approved by the world health organization and considered safe under medical supervision. rita offers help to women trying to order the pills, even though this is illegal under irish law. yourfinal page is instructions on how to use abortion pills safely. it describes very simply and in an easy to understand way how to use the pills, which is more complicated than people think. it's not just paracetamol, you don'tjust take it and go. it's inducing, essentially, the same as a miscarriage. you're going to have contractions, pain, bleeding etc. those are all ordinary symptoms. where abortion is legal, like in britain, taking the pills without medical supervision is banned. what would we have if we
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didn't have this option? we would have women putting their health in danger in other ways. women who say that they've considered trying to harm themselves in a way that's severe enough to end the pregnancy but not to kill them. that's the reality of banning abortion. it doesn't have to be an extreme situation for the pills to go wrong. siobhan, not her real name, is from a conservative part of rural ireland. after getting pregnant early on in a relationship, she decided to try the pills. myself and my partner, you know, kind of weighed up the pros and cons of either becoming parents or deciding against it. and ultimately we decided that the relationship was too young. but with no doctor to consult, siobhan researched abortion pills on the web. i had read online and i had listened to women's personal stories
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on youtube and stuff like that, and a lot of people had mentioned that it was nothing more than a bad period and stuff like that. the second set of pills, after about half an hour, i started to get very severe cramping. the cramping kind of came first and then the blood started coming. and i did, like, i had laid towels and stuff on my bed but i soaked through all of them while i was asleep. i did have to get up a few times during the night to change my bed sheets, because they had soaked all the way through. yes, there was a lot of blood involved. siobhan kept her ordeal to herself until she became involved in a conversation with someone very close. we were having a conversation about the upcoming referendum and they referred to women going for abortion as "bitches going to england. " i was trying to reason with this person, like, you know, there's reasons why people have abortions.
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so i admitted to them that i had an abortion. and you could, you could see this person's face, it really changed how they would view the whole thing. it just gave them a whole different perspective on it. forthe no campaign, the use of online pills in ireland is not an argument for repeal. professor patricia casey is a practising psychiatrist and one of the campaign's leading figures. in the uk, women take illegal abortion pills as well. they're sold in the uk as well. they're sold all over europe. you know, the whole of europe, bar one or two countries, have very liberal abortion laws. i do not buy into the argument that allowing for abortions in ireland will stop women taking illegal abortion pills. my issues are that i believe every person in the womb is a human being and that every human being has an inalienable, fundamental right to life.
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if a young person, a baby in the womb, male or female, cannot be born, they can't exercise any other rights. information on the no vote. thank you very much. it's just crazy. it's a position that the no campaign is taking to the streets. but when you legalise abortion on demand, you actually create a demand for abortion. i just see abortion as completely inhumane. it kills your unborn child while they're in their mother's womb. but in urban areas like dublin, the no message seems to be facing resistance. do you think there should be restrictions on abortion or do you think it should be freely available for everyone? i think it should be a free choice. that's very upsetting, sir. all the best.
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that's very upsetting, though. whichever way ireland votes, such is the divide, many people will be deeply upset. and the result will resonate throughout the country for years to come. joining me from dublin are breda 0'brien, who is a columnist with the irish times and a no campaigner. and ivana bacik, who is a labour senator, barrister and representative of the yes campaign. good evening to both of you. first, ivana bacik, you are campaigning for legal abortion up to 12 weeks but on scans of foetuses at 12 weeks, you can see a heartbeat and you can sometimes tell the sex, there is definitely movement. can you understand how that might be deeply upsetting and completely unacceptable to many people? well, everyone will have their own view on abortion and certainly, i'm a mother myself
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with two young daughters but what i am campaigning for and what the yes campaign is calling for is a vote for yes on friday to repeal the 8th amendment, to remove out of the constitution the absolute bar on making any reform to the abortion law, and the reality is, and i've been canvassing extensively in and around dublin and outside of dublin, the reality is that most people now in ireland do except that our law is too restrictive. having the ban in the constitution means that we as legislators can't legislate to provide access to abortion even where a woman or girl has been raped, or faces a serious risk to her health or has had a devastating diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality. in order to lift the absolute bar, we need to repeal the 8th amendment. after that, the government would be free to legislate and has set out a framework of compassionate and sensitive legislation which would allow for abortion in a range of circumstances but subject to a very
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tight and controlled legislative framework, but the first thing and the message for anyone who is undecided as yet as to how they will vote is that to make any change the abortion law, we have to vote yes on friday to remove the 8th amendment. it's an absolute bar to any reform and currently the legislation is the most restrictive in the world. breda 0'brien, if a father was to rape his daughter and as a result of that there is pregnancy, that in the view of the no campaign would not be grounds for an abortion. i think the kind of appalling situation that you have described isjust so impossible for people even to think about, like, i'm the mother of teenagers and i find it impossible but the question that we are being asked here is not about those exceptional and tragic cases. you mentioned that abortion would be freely available up to 12 weeks but it is also available up to viability
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on very similar grounds to what you have in britain, which is where, as you know, most of the abortions in britain, 97%, happened on the grounds of a threat to the mental health, an unspecified mental health threat to the mother and we're going to have that here, too. i'm sorry to hear if you use a term like fatal foetal abnormality because she is talking about children with a severe, life limiting condition and we have very good care for those women here in ireland when they continue their pregnancies. it is a bit dehumanising to call them fatal foetal abnormalities. i had the privilege of accompanying a friend in that situation whose child lived for nine weeks and four days and three hours and they were very precious and they brought out a huge amount of love. let me carry on with you for a moment because you say that a father raping his daughter is exceptional circumstances but that is not the point, it is the principle and the principle is that would not necessarily be seen as
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grounds for abortion. i'm asking you, isn't it inhuman to force perhaps even a teenager to carry on through a pregnancy after the rape of what is an incestuous attack? i know of a case of miss c, a celebrated case for the wrong reasons, a 13—year—old who was brutally raped and brought to britain by social workers because they felt the only possible solution, the only good answer could be to give her an abortion. she's gone on the record in the last few days saying, don't use me as an excuse to introduce abortion, regret it every day of my life. more broadly, we have a situation in ireland where gay marriage was won on a popular vote. it's possible that this will also be won on a popular vote for the yes campaign.
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answer the social conservatives losing ground in ireland? i don't really care if they are losing ground, i care about the fact that there is nothing about abortion that is modern or progressive and i think history will look back on it as quite barbaric and we felt we had the right as adult women to take life. i'm not targeting that at young women in distress or older women in distress. if you lose the vote on friday, is the position changing? you look at medical science, viability is much earlier than when the 67 legislation was passed in westminster. there have been changes. it may not be so acceptable to as many people as the yes campaigners think because of advances in medical science. well, let me first of
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alljust say that of course i don't in any way intended to dehumanise or make light of the terrible consequence of a diet diagnosis but the issue for any terrible consequence of a diagnosis but the issue for any couple... the point for any couple in those circumstances, to have choice, to continue their medical care at home rather than travelling. what the no side ignore is that women are travelling in their thousands to england every year. the test and definition of viability is very different. ididn't interrupt... it is far from being more liberal, it is more restrictive and we have an english solution to irish problems with thousands of our women
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travelling to access medical care going abroad which we should have at home. that's why so many people are travelling home to vote and why we are campaigning for yes. thank you forjoining us. it was the second day of the grenfell inquiry today, which has begun with commemoration hearings, when families who survived, and relatives of those who did not, have the opportunity to tell their moving and dreadful stories about the devastation wrought on their lives by the inferno. reliving that awful night is very harrowing and each witness tells their story in their own way at their own pace. katie razzall followed today's testimony. can we begin with an unfortunate and upsetting incident in the inquiry room? so much of what is said is upsetting because of the nature of it but there was a moment, a video made by a family who lost six relatives, the video was played without the advance warning that should have been given by the team that it contained distressing images. the video began with footage of grenfell
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on fire, the sound of terrified voices: people shrieking from inside and out. the impact on people in the room was terrible. 20 people left, many of them in tears, some of them hysterical. a woman was hyperventilating in the corridor and had to be medically treated. clearly it was an oversight. they must say and they want to say, and it is distressing for the team and they apologised but it's a sign of how raw this is. why have they wanted to include such distressing footage? i haven't spoken to the family, we've been asked not to approach family members during this difficult time. i heard their powerful testimony today and the sense i got is that they want people to remember and to know the full horror of what their relatives went through. they want them to understand that this shouldn't have happened. they lost six family members, nadia, a nurse, her husband, basim,
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and their three children, and next door was nadia's mother. they must have suffered terribly. and the angerfrom nadia's brother as he spoke today was palpable. i have to live with my family ripped apart for the rest of my life. i don't see this as a tragedy. i see it as an atrocity because essentially, there is segregation between the rich and the poor. i think they call it a postcode lottery. but i'm here to remember six lives. they were ordinary people but they were also extraordinary people. they were my family and they should still be
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here. each story is so harrowing and so dreadful but it so important for each family to have their time to tell their story. and so important to here as well about these individuals. every story, you hear about people who worked hard, who cared for their families, who fell in love, who loved opera, bob marley, who lived life to the full, and amongst it, every time you hear of the agony of losing a child, a sister, a mother, an uncle. it goes on and it's impossible not to be deeply moved. today there was definitely that anger, much more clear than yesterday and at one point a relatives was quietly interrupted by the enquiry counsel to save that perhaps what they were saying about what was neglect from the authorities would be better left to the authorities. the man said that they have been censored enough
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and that they must listen. there is anger and deep sorrow and we're never going to be able to do justice to the people who died or to what was said about them today but here are some excerpts of what was said. i am bereft without her. if she had died a normal death, i would have been able to hold her. 0r comfort her and say goodbye. but i feel a part of me has been ripped out. nothing seems worth it anymore. debbie was an exceptional, extraordinary person. and i was completely blessed to have her as my daughter. i had 3a years with pily and they were beautiful, glorious, wonderful years filled with happiness, love and laughter. i adored her. and we shared it with everybody around us. she was a unique, beautiful,
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exceptional person. my pily was perfect. to this day, the questions remain in my mind and plague me about what exactly happened. it is very important for me to take part in this process of questioning, of finding out the truth. it is so important for me to understand how it could come about that i have lost granya, my beloved sister, while my children, who are still so young, have lost their little cousins. i cannot lay them to rest yet. my uncle lived in grenfell tower. he sadly perished. he was the most kind man i have ever met. he was the world to me. his personality made me stronger every time i was around him.
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we would do so many fun things together. these things have sadly now come to an end. it's hit us in the heart. we are here because of failure. we are here because the system failed. the system was allowed to kill hesham rahman and 71 other souls. the very system designed to protect those people. but it failed, it failed them because it allowed individuals within that system to convince themselves that they had done enough. the system allowed them to hide behind rules and regulations and forget that there were human being lives at stake. we are here because there is a system of neglect. a system which allows individuals to show contempt for others, and call it, "just doing myjob." the grenfell enquiry.
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tony blair weighed into the brexit debate again today, this time to lambast jeremy corbyn, opining that the labour party will pay a heavy price for the leadership‘s closet euroscepticism. he said that labour is now in the worst of both worlds, neither appealing to leave nor remain voters. the former prime minister speaks as an ardent pro—eu campaigner, who wants to see the 2016 referendum reversed, so no surprise that he remains critical of labour's position that the vote should be respected, with no second referendum. but what about his view that labour is in the worst of both worlds? the party's formal position, formulated in february, is that the uk would leave the customs union but then negotiate a treaty that would do the work of the customs union, but that is not the unanimous view of labour mps. nick watt is here. what is happening? in the labour party has been framed by the prospect of
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returning to the house of commons, the eu withdrawal bill, which was amended 15 times in the lords. the government will seek to overturn most of the amendments. two key ones for labour, the requirement on government to report back on the steps it is taking tojoin a customs union. the leadership of the labour party is in favour of a customs union. the second one is that the bill cannot come into force unless the governmentjoins the european economic area, which is essentially the single market. tony blair supporters are in favour of that. where is it lining up? the leadership supports customs union because they believe it gives the ability for tariff free movement of goods but would allow the uk to have a day in trade deals that the eu would sign around the world. the leadership opposes the european economic area membership, saying it would lead to free movement and that the uk would be subject to the rules of the single market, so the uk would be able take and not a maker. there are opponents ofjeremy corbyn, people like kevinjones and john mann, who agree with him on
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this, saying it would be a death sentence for labour to go along with that. there are trade unionists and some fans ofjeremy corbyn in the shadow cabinet who say that labour should support membership of the ea as that's the best way of preserving jobs. thank you. iam nowjoined by the labour mp caroline flint, who broadly supports labours position and wants us to leave the single market and customs union. also fellow mp 0wen smith, who is still holding out for another referendem. good evening to both of you. are you clear on the labour position? yes, i think the position is that there should be a customs union and a strong, close relationship with the single market but to some extent that is a fudged position and i think unfortunately the country will see that. we must be clear with people about the kind of trade—off we are prepared to accept and in my view, if we are to retain a strong
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manufacturing base, if we're to make sure that we don't have a hard border in ireland, preserving peace and prosperity and if we are to remain a leading nation in the world, then we need to stay in the customs union and the single market. stay in the single market, meaning free movement? if you stay in on the current rules, yes. if we went into the eea... you'd never get that pastjeremy corbyn. articles of the eea treaty say you can have a safeguard mechanism stopping free movement. you're laughing, caroline flint? you think it's pie in the sky? if we are leaving the european union we cannot be in the single market nor the customs union as it currently stands. norway, part of the widened eea area which was widened to suit norway, lichtenstein and iceland, they aren't in the customs union
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while they are in the single market. and they accept it. they excepted freedom of movement. the truth is this negotiation will have to come up with a deal that is bespoke for the uk. we're talking about the withdrawal bill and these two amendments. the leadership say, you know, vote for the customs union but you don't want that. i think if we can negotiate... a different customs union? a customs relationship, that's an thing to think about, because that's part of what works with other countries. what sectors would you like to have this relationship to exist with? let me give an example, thinking about the car industry and a sector like that, which brokers parts of cars that go across europe, may be that area we can come to an arrangement. the truth is, there are companies in other parts of the eu right now who are lobbying in their countries to say, the uk is important, we've got to get a deal and we'll go to the wire but there will be a deal. you can't have a situation
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where i think we are disrespectful to the vote of the referendum, basically to say that we want everything we've got now, meaning we aren't leaving let's look at the european economic area which you support but the leadership is against voting for that amendment, will you be voting for it? yes. so defying a leadership and the whip? yes. what do you think will happen to you afterwards? i suspect very little, i've already been sacked from the shadow cabinet and i would have thought there will be quite a few people prepared to vote with me. let's not get hung up on the eea beekeeping is that if we want to have frictionless trade and protectjobs, we've got to stay in the single market or very close to it and the customs union. you talk about reflecting what people want and the truth of the matter is that labour voted for brexit.
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i didn't. no, you didn't but the majority of people in wales did. you were against the popular vote in wales. 54% of people in my constituency voted to remain. i think increasingly people right across wales and across the rest of the country, we saw in northern ireland just this week, a new poll suggesting that only 31% of people their support leaving. i think opinions are changing. we have got to be playing with people about the choices they face. caroline? i don't think there's much evidence opinions are changing, really. in the referendum campaign, a majority voted to leave, 40% of remained voters in the campaign also wanted changes to freedom of movement sojust on that issue there is a far bigger majority for that to change that was reflected in the in or out. you voted remain. yes. in your constituency it was a leave out but it was not clear what kind of leave
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but you seem to be going for the whole hog. i think that's wrong, gusty, i can remember as a remain campaign saying to people we would not be able to be in the single market or customs union and also part of the remain campaign was emphasising we did not want to be like norway. but the situation with labour, this coalition of the people in the north who voted to leave, the people in the saudi voted to remain an labour has to get them together somehow but that's impossible and tony blair is right about that. in the north who voted to leave, the people in the south voted to remain an labour has to get them together somehow but that's impossible and tony blair is right about that. i suspect it is which is why the only real way to solve this is to put it back to the people, the people's vote to ratify the deal when we know what the real deal is. should tony blair butt out now? you were a blairite. i think tony blair is wrong and discover people don't want a second more we have to try to get the best deal we can
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and also think about the sort of policies we should have been thinking about for many years to increase skills and productivity. thank you forjoining us. we've all done it — you dig out the best china and find the cups and saucers don't match, and the cruet‘s alljumbled up. bad enough at a golden wedding party, but what about when the bits and pieces are priceless renaissance treasures? that has been the fate of the twelve caesars — silver statuettes of julius caesar, nero, caligula and the other emperors of rome. they were made with accompanying decorative dishes, recording the emperors‘ triumphs, but sometime in the 19th century, the statues and dishes were all muddled up. and that's the way they stayed, until tv‘s mary beard spotted a cock—up at the v&a museum. now the caesars have been reunited with their rightful gubbins for an exhibition, as steve smith reports. 0ur story tonight is one of great art and power, excess. mystery. we lay our tale in the splendid surroundings of waddesdon manor, 19th—century pile in
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buckinghamshire, where a priceless display of renaissance silverware is on show. they are the silver caesars, representing the awe and majesty of imperial rome. all your favourites are here, nero, caligula and of coursejulius caesar himself, standing proud on top of tazze, or ceremonial bowls. we first meetjulius caesar positioned on a column over a dish that has four scenes from his life and so appropriately, the first scene of the invasion of britain, wherejulius caesar arrives to conquer this previously unknown people and so if we come around, we can get a detail. these are the battering ram that caesar's troops were using to invade the british buildings and they have got literal ramps‘ heads at the top. great. suetonius says his fleet is almost destroyed by a storm on the way back to call.
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we have got these fabulous ways that mix in with the cloud, smashing the ships. the silver caesars were made after the classic account of their lives by suetonius, but with one major difference. who better to explain that mary beard? when we read the lives suetonius. its warts and all. that is why we love it because we like reading about the terrible things that tiberius got up to in his swimming pool, and the nasty bits! here, the selection and the kind of reading of suetonius, and i think it is a very interesting reading of an ancient text because it is really positive. so it is about triumphs. it's about generosity. but if there's one thing this programme stands for, it is a faithful reading of suetonius.
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count on us to put the scandal back into the stories of caligula and his chums. noble senator incetatus. you know everybody, don't you? so what did the unknown renaissance silversmiths who made these pieces find to say in caligula's favour. this is a terrific one. he's built an ephemeral ball bridge over the bay of naples, a bridge of boats, a pontoon bridge and he is riding across it back and forth on horseback. in a recent article in the new york times, that passage from suetonius was used as a comparison with donald trump's campaign to build a wall in mexico. we have nero, here, and in fact, there are two seems there which might appear to be negative and they are both to do with nero's obsession with music.
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we see the people fleeing the fire and nero up in his tower playing his liar and singing. but hang on, there's more. i read about this tazza into the v&a and i asked to go and see it and they got it out of its case and it was supposed to be the bowl topped by a splendid figure. then the bell rang and i thought, "that's not the mission, that tiberius". they had managed to get the wrong emperor on the wrong bowl. but what immediately started to kind of intrigue us at that point is that if one of these is wrong... then so must others be. this is the tiberius dish, the tiberius figure over the scenes of his life, but the dish normally lives in the v&a with the figure of the mission which is back here.
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so all of this is in the v&a. no, just the commission figure which normally lives in minneapolis with the figure. who's here? this is augustus, here, shown every dish... all of this is in minneapolis? no, this dish is in la, normally paired with the figure of nero which is here, shown here with his dish with scenes from the life of nero which is normally in new york. yeah. completing the circle, with the figure of tiberius. that is easy for you to say. well it is a bit bonkers, it all happened in the 19th century when the dealers did two things, firstly putting different bases on the tazze, they'd look for people at the time. it was a more ornate look
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for people at the time. and then they started answering the figures and they got muddled up. the culprit was this french dealer but his fancy additions seem to work as his bling statuettes became the must have baubles of plutocrats like ferdinand rothschild, who built waddesdon manor. what about here? this is the smoking room, that was built specifically to how is what ferdinand pulled his renaissance museum. there we have a description in german of what is unmistakably one of the caesars and it is the augustus figure on what is now the commission dish. let's not get into all that again! who else was partial to a caesar? people like jp morgan. not to mention press baron william randolph hearst, the model for citizen kane. is the present lord rothschild sorry he's not got one? i would love to have them in a house! we had five in the family
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in the 19th century. it is a bit sad that none of the five are here. and when they'll return to their rightful owners, guess what? they will go back to being in the wrong order again. mary beard has a hunch about that. i have a very strong suspicion someone will try to do some swaps on the side. not a bad idea. perhaps the owners of the caesars will see sense and have a stab at it. that's all we have time for. we leave you in manchester where a memorial concert was held today the city centre, one year after the horrific terror attack where 22 people died. tonight the bells rang across the city at 10:31pm, the moment of the explosion. good night. # don't look back in anger # i heard you say
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wednesday. it is not looking bad at all for most of us. a lot of sunshine on the way. 0n the cool side on the north sea coasts with an onshore wind and a bit of cloud, but for many inland it will be a beautiful day. these weather systems in the atlantic on moving northward between scotland and iceland. away to the south, that is why the weather is settled at the moment. these temperatures in single figures in the north. in the morning, sunny skies absolutely everywhere. the cloud melting away to the coastline. eventually, the sun is out. temperatures of 23 in london. as cool as 13 degrees on the north sea coasts. some rain around this week, especially on thursday. this weekend, things will improve. from singapore, the headlines. president trump admits there's
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a substantial chance that his planned summit with north korea's kimjong—un will not go ahead. facebook boss mark zuckerberg tells european politicians that he will make it a top priority to prevent interference in democratic elections. but some are not impressed. i asked to use six yes or no questions and got not a single a nswer questions and got not a single answer “— questions and got not a single answer ——i questions and got not a single answer —— i ask you. also in the programme. we visit one of the 32 million indian households that still don't have mains electricity, despite government claims to have connected every village. the people of manchester unite in silence to remember those
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