and if the saudis are responsible, he said, the consequences should be very severe. the us treasury secretary has pulled out of a high—profile investment conference in riyadh, as have his opposite numbers from britain and france. prime minister theresa may is considering delaying the uk's departure from the single market and the customs union to give more time to agree a final brexit deal and find a solution to trade and security issues on the irish border. but she's come under significant criticism from her own party as a result. afghanistan is on high alert ahead of crucial parliamentary elections with militants increasingly active and posing a growing threat. the taliban says it carried out a deadly attack inside the governor's compound in kandahar. the assault claimed the lives of two senior security officials. now on bbc news, simply the best: in conversation with tina turner. so, tina, you taught mickjagger the

pony. 7 >> teach me? i'll try. what the pony is, it was originated by the pony is, it was originated by the ridge an tiger—cats b and we usedit the ridge an tiger—cats b and we used it as a travelling step, and you have to count, so how do you get from this point of the stage to that. the pony is one, two, that two, three puts the flood back. 0k. one, three... no, come on. come on, come on. one, two, three. two, three, you've got to move that other foot. tina turner. hello. hello. another autobiography... another. this one is the end of the second part. why, what did you want to say? it's 20 yea rs later

what did you want to say? it's 20 years later i think, probably a bit more, and a lot has happened since the stage life and my life changed, i had sicknesses and i moved from america to switzerland and retirement set in. and things changed. and that's how the book starts, with a beautiful wedding. it sta rts starts, with a beautiful wedding. it starts actually in this hotel, you go back to your house on lake zurich, not farfrom go back to your house on lake zurich, not far from here, go back to your house on lake zurich, not farfrom here, then a series of revelations happen. you feel a bit weird on your wedding day, a bit tired, and then you had a stroke7 i think i'd overdone something some kind of way, but i went to hospital to find out what this cramping sensation was, and they put me on the table for mri, we called it, and they said the blood pressure went up. and i said, oh, it's always up, because i always had high blood—pressure. immediately they took me on and they said it's a mild stroke on the back of the head and they took me down and i said i

didn't believe it, a stroke, no, like that. they left the room. hit the floor, the whole right side was gone. i thought, the floor, the whole right side was gone. ithought, what the floor, the whole right side was gone. i thought, what have i done? i really have had something, because i can't move. i've forced... used all of my willpower to... i wanted to get back like i was, i didn't believe... i thought i was the ultimate person to fix things. i thought, don't give into it, it will come back. it was a mild stroke, it wasn't a heavy one. and you were 73 at the time? at the time, yes. and did it affect your singing at all? obviously when you couldn't speak, but when your speech came back, was your voice is still there? actually having retired i haven't tried to sing since... i'm sure i can. it still there! after we kind of got rid of the strike, then the shrill started, this dizziness. they found out what that was in the inner ear,

they corrected that. then after that was the kidney pain and they found out... that was the colon next, so they had to cut half of it out. because it was cancerous7 they had to cut half of it out. because it was cancerous? yeah. then they said... i wonder if one of your kidneys is functioning. actually what happened is i stopped medication for kidney because i was tired of the medicine and i wanted to see what i felt i could, my old self, because the blood—pressure medicine holds... it restricts you a little bit. so your energy had gone? energy, yep. and then i thought, i'm stopping it, i'll go back to homoeopathic medicine. homoeopathic medicine wasn't strong enough for what my problem was. right. and that's why the kidney reacted and failed. so i went to the doctor and he said, your kidney numbers, they're he said, your kidney numbers, they‘ re totally he said, your kidney numbers, they're totally down, what have you done7 they're totally down, what have you done? i they're totally down, what have you

done7 isaid, well, istopped they're totally down, what have you done? i said, well, i stopped the medicine. so he says, well, your kidney is gone. now you only... you have no kidney. did you say you'd been foolish7 have no kidney. did you say you'd been foolish? no. swiss people are like the english, they have manners. isaid, so like the english, they have manners. i said, so what happens? he said, if you don't maintain it, if you don't do what we recommend, you will probably die. so i said, well, if it's time... ifelt like, i'm late 70s, my mother died at 84, my sister died at 74, maybe this was my time. you accept the life and death. i was ready. i said, you accept the life and death. i was ready. isaid, ijust you accept the life and death. i was ready. i said, ijust thought it's my time. you'd even checked out assisted suicide. i did once earlier anyway. death is not a problem for me. i don't really mind leaving. i know a lot of people don't think that way, but i'm happy i do because... anyway, erwin said no.

they said to erwin, you can live with one kidney. so erwin thought... so erwin said to the doctors, can i give her one of mine, something similar, i wasn't there and then he found out he doesn't need to kidneys so found out he doesn't need to kidneys so he came to me and said, tina, you don't have to make this decision now. i can give you one of my kidneys. i said, now. i can give you one of my kidneys. isaid, oh, owen owen, you're young, i'm already older. it's ok, you just get used to mean not being here. um, no, he didn't wa nt not being here. um, no, he didn't want that. then he talked me into him taking on one kidney. i said, no, i had to talk to the doctors. i talked to him about erwin and what would happen to him because he was still quite young. i did feel like i was older, i was already in my 70s, so was older, i was already in my 70s, so why should i take the kidneys from a young man and let him finish his life? that's what i felt like.

he said, well, no, no, my life is fine how it is, i'll give you one of my kidneys. so the obvious question is, you're 79 next month, you've had your stroke, you had cancer and you've had kidney failure and a kidney replacement. how are you, tina7 kidney replacement. how are you, tina? i'm happier than i've ever beenin tina? i'm happier than i've ever been in my life. i'm happier than i ever thought that life would become for me. so that means that most of my hardships came while i was young. growing up. and then in the last days, when normally people suffer from old age and sickness, my happiness came. i am a really thoroughly happy. and how is your health7 thoroughly happy. and how is your health? it's really good. i go to the doctor now once a month for them to just check if everything is going 0k. to just check if everything is going ok. itake to just check if everything is going ok. i take medicine once a day, but i have to for the rest of my life. i did fall a couple of days ago and

broke something, so i was in a wheelchair and on crutches, but now i'm going through my sick period and i think it'll take me right into the 90s or whatever. i'll be around for a while! you stay in the book in 1968 you tried to take your own life. right. at that time when i tried to commit suicide, my life was really down, it was the ike and tina days. i was terribly unhappy, extremely unhappy. continuously, day m, extremely unhappy. continuously, day in, day out. i didn't have a way out. i didn't know... i was through the door but that didn't come at the time, ijust felt hopefully helpless. when i was really, really, really fed up, that's when ijust took a chance and said come with me and left. it's really clouded my life and the situation i was in with ike. it's a tough question to ask somebody who's in a situation of domestic abuse, but you said it a minute ago, the other option was to walk out of the door. why didn't

you7 walk out of the door. why didn't you? i didn't have a place to go, i didn't have money, didn't have access to money. i was leaving children. which i did try to leave, couple of times, that wasn't written in the books. and the first time was when i had the experience of being whipped with a wire hanger, and then another time was something else. and i realised, well, you don't go back. the experience is one to leave, don't go back. you got married to ike. just tell me about the wedding, because it's unconventional. 0h, ike. just tell me about the wedding, because it's unconventional. oh, oh, oh! that was really bad. ike was crooked from day one to david chiu to the end of... everything he did was conniving. i was different. i thought the wedding was... i was fairytale —ish. i thought a man would ask you to marry him with a white dress. it was my wedding, a piece of paper pushed across, we

signed, and after that we went to a brothel and watched sex. that's even ha rd to really brothel and watched sex. that's even hard to really think about. so as far as hard to really think about. so as farasi hard to really think about. so as far as i was concerned, nothing had changed. i was still with ike. i wasn't married. as far as... my thinking, i was the same what i was to him, which was he knew already that i no longer cared about him and was paranoid about me leaving. he had already sensed that i was thinking about leaving. so that was the beginning of the end. the beginning of... violence, and how evil he was. it was everyday, every moment. every now and then, there was some fun. sometimes it was, but i don't remember what it was, but i remember there were days it was lighter and nicer. but mostly, remember there were days it was lighterand nicer. but mostly, he was just a really... lighterand nicer. but mostly, he wasjust a really... always lighterand nicer. but mostly, he was just a really... always angry with me. he treated me like i was a

prisoner, and he was the god. phil specter, as we now know, is a fairly strange character, but what could he do for you, as a producer, what tina turner did he find7 do for you, as a producer, what tina turner did he find? he wanted me to sink, not deliver. ike had me singing more of a gospel we. when i was a little girl... the melody... the melody of that song is... the production... the real production of that was what phil wanted. and so when i went to actually audition with phil, he said, no, no, just the melody with the piano. i can sing anything when you tell me how to sing it. give me the melody. it was simple and held the melody. it was simple and held the day of the studio when the room was full of all kind of mises and is that wall of sound. -- musicians.

the famous wall of sound. how you get that is with an instrument here, another instrument, four or five instruments, the room was full of an orchestra. and never before, you'd never seen orchestra. and never before, you'd never seen anything like that? no, never. and with that... i chill now. imean, it never. and with that... i chill now. i mean, it was another feeling to sink to that. when i was a little... really to sink into that... i saw exactly what phil was producing. you're not just exactly what phil was producing. you're notjust a singer in that context, you're an instrument, aren't you? actually yes. he'sjust playing you like... totally two different ways of singing. then bono gave you a song, and you couldn't find the melody in that at all. bono said... when! find the melody in that at all. bono said... when i received goldeneye...

this is bond. i thought, said... when i received goldeneye... this is bond. ithought, he said... when i received goldeneye... this is bond. i thought, he didn't make a proper demo. someonejust through the music together and he had just written the song and when roger, my manager, said, tina, this isa song... roger, my manager, said, tina, this is a song... he told me it was a big break. he said, it's a little bit rough. i thought... break. he said, it's a little bit rough. ithought... how break. he said, it's a little bit rough. i thought... how do i put this together? it wasn't showing me what the melody was. and so... yeah, i had to say i created as close to what i thought the melody was of that. it was your melody, not his. it was. close enough that he gave me a guideline, but not enough to sing, not to sing it, i had to work really hard. i remember, really close myself off. i had just moved here when that happened. to really find goldeneye... when that happened. to really find goldeneye. .. that part when that happened. to really find goldeneye... that part was clear, but the verses, there was no guide.

he said... i rememberwhen but the verses, there was no guide. he said... i remember when he said, he should have known... the should have known, he wrote the song! but he was very pleased with the outcome of it. it was in the studio when the song was being recorded. yeah, that was another feat. that was hard. song was being recorded. yeah, that was anotherfeat. that was hard. but i was proud of myself when i came up with a song out of what he sent to me. yeah. i don't think he really meant for me to sing it. i don't think he really meant that anything could come from that. i don't even really think he cared to write a song for bono with what he gave me. i wish i still had some of that stuff. but, yeah, i knew then i had talent to sing anything put before me. you could make it a live. i could make it live. # you'll never know how i watch you

from the shadows as a child. # you'll never know how it feels to get so close and be denied. # it's a cold and honey trap i've got for you tonight. # revenge is a kiss. # this timei tonight. # revenge is a kiss. # this time i won't mess. # now i've got you in my sight. so you became a swiss citizen, relinquishing your american citizenship, and here you are now, in 2018, looking back at your old country, at america. what are you seeing? difference. it is different than when i was there. my attitude about being there is, i had

lived there the first 50 years of my life, but now i'm moving to another country. part of that was because of my relationship with erwin. part of it was i was always treated a little differently in those other countries that i was in america, has in america, a black singer, r&b singer, was always a black singer, r&b singer. that was what i was in america. they saw me as an r&b singer. and that is why river deep mt hi, was not pop a enough to be p°pped mt hi, was not pop a enough to be poppedin mt hi, was not pop a enough to be popped in america, not lack enough to be black, so didn't have a home. so that was the story there. and why i felt so comfortable living america was because of treated me not as a black person, they treated me just asa black person, they treated me just as a star. as a rock star. as a rock star. in britain, in holland, in germany7 star. in britain, in holland, in germany? all over, they welcomed me

with open arms. and ifelt germany? all over, they welcomed me with open arms. and i felt really good and welcome. there is a tragic end to the story. it comes after the book is finished, really. and it tells the awful story of your son's suicide. yes. it is very hard to talk about, but i have managed, because it has been quite awhile. i still don't know what took him to the edge, because at that stage he had said to me that he had never met a woman that he felt that way about, which i met her during the funeral and asked her about craig's life. his girlfriend? this is his new girlfriend. he was bringing her to meet me on his birthday. he had decorated his apartment that i bought him years ago, he had gotten a newjob with a real estate, a very prominent real estate company, in

california, he was very happy with. i have no idea what pulled him down except something that followed him with loneliness. i think it was something with being alone. but when i think that, then why didn't he called a new girlfriend that gave him the left? so it wasn't that. he didn't call her. actually, it seemed like she wondered what happened to craik, he hasn't called. so it looked like whatever was bothering him, he was a very introverted person, he was very shy. so i didn't know, except now what i listen back to our last conversations, i noticed a change. and he said higher, dear. and nobody calls them other dear, whenever he called me. and last only we talked the conversation was different, and i didn't know that until after the suicide. in what way was it different? no hi, dear, and i

just want to hear that voice and that love of yours. after that, i thought hear your voice? he had never said that. and that laugh of yours, never said that. and that laugh of youi’s, never. never said that. and that laugh of yours, never. alwaysjust talked about coming to see the music, i sent him the book, and all that. everything was going good. every time he called me. but that last... i would say the last two tides that he talked to me, it was no hi, dear, no... you could tell when the voice was up no... you could tell when the voice was up 01’ no... you could tell when the voice was up or down, and the voice was down, as if he was just relaxed. legend more cheerfully, because it seems that you are supposed to be retired. i am, except... well, you are kind of nod. you have a hit musical on the west end, which is on its way to broadway. you have this book. what else do you have planned? you know what i am proud of? yes?

that at this age there is still something happening. you've got that gift inside you, that voice. anybody can write a song. who's singing going to blow us away. my music doesn't sound old—style. there is a musical that is a hit. i think the documentary will be a hit. so, a side of being really tired of talking about myself, i'm really proud of what my future as a star became. i feel proud that i hold that in my hands. out of your entire canon of songs, which would you pick as the one you most enjoy performing7 as the one you most enjoy performing? my songs, because they are always covered. any song you have the performed7

are always covered. any song you have the performed? there were quite a few that i love that wasn't mine, because i was accustomed to covering. and i heard,, robert palmer, ‘s addicted to love. and i change everything i covered. i like that one very much. it still moves me when i played today. i played it faster, changed some of the lines, but i made it my own. addicted to love, something was right about it being my asylum. my songs were good songs. terry britton, the covers that i did... proud mary. proud mary, of course. mark knopfler, private done so. # you don't look at

theirfaces. # private done so. # you don't look at their faces. # habitat private done so. # you don't look at theirfaces. # habitat you don't think of them as women. # you don't think of them as women. # you don't think of them at all. # you don't think of them at all. # you don't think of the money. # and you are a private dancer, a dance for money, do you want me to do. # on your private dancer, a dance of money, and any old music will do. you believe in reincarnation, you say so in the book. what would you like to come back as? i would like it to be easier. what do i want to come back... i think as a teacher. i think i want to come back with the knowledge that i learned this lifetime, and i think i want to teach spiritually, to help people know how to live. and are you anna

may or are you tina turner? voth. isaiah burse. tina turner is still on stage, people still see me as tina. -- on stage, people still see me as tina. —— both. isay both. ithink evenin tina. —— both. isay both. ithink even in my private life people might see a little bit of anna may at some of the parties or whatever, or my style of living. i don't party a lot, i don't travel a lot, i stay at home, so they can go by how i live my life here, to know that, no, she is not that way or this way. so they would know that that part of tina is only on the stage. soap anna mae is a quiet, reclusive type, tina turner the show woman. much less, i think. tina turner, thank you very much indeed. thank you. hello again.

most of us saw some decent sunshine on thursday, and after a sunny day, we've kept those clear skies for the first part of the night as well. this is how things looked at the end of the day in east yorkshire. with those clear skies and light winds in place, temperatures have been falling pretty quickly. but we do have quite a bit of cloud now working into the north—west of the uk, along with strengthening winds. so the coldest part of the night is past us in northern ireland and across the north—west of scotland, with temperatures actually rising over the next few hours as this band of rain arrives. also some gale—force gusts of wind working into the western isles, becoming quite blowy as well for the northern isles of scotland. further south, well, we've got some frost around to start the day in the countryside. northern england cold, some cold spots in wales, again with temperatures just dipping down, and there could be one or two patches of frost elsewhere first thing. but generally friday, across england and wales, it's high pressure that's firmly in charge, weather fronts staying

across the north—west of the uk. heavy rain then to start the day across north—west scotland. but the rain eases off quite quickly, and as the front pushes southwards, it weakens just to a strip of cloud, really, across northern ireland, working into north—west england and the far north of wales — could be the odd spot of rain, but not amounting to much. south of that, some sunshine, temperatures to 16 degrees also in london, so a pretty mild day coming up. now, through friday evening and overnight, we'll keep the clear skies, light winds combination across england and wales. this time, we may well see some mist and fog patches forming through the night as those temperatures fall. areas that could be foggy — well, maybe the somerset levels, through the wash marches, the salisbury plain as well, could be a few patches elsewhere. so it does mean for some of us saturday morning could start something like this, and any mist and fog could take a few hours in the morning before it burns away to reveal some sunshine. further north and west, quite a lot of cloud to start off your weekend.

outbreaks of rain for the north—west of scotland, where it'll continue to be quite windy. temperature—wise, the temperatures around about 15 or 16 degrees for scotland. a 17 for belfast, so mild here, and towards south—east england, highs reaching 18, possibly 19 degrees celsius. for the second half of the weekend, high pressure still with us across england and wales, but another cold front sliding into the north—west of the uk will bring some heavier rain with it to scotland, and this time northern ireland getting some heavier rain for a time too. the best of the weather further south, but again there could be some mist and fog patches to start the day. some of that could be quite slow to clear. but it's in the south that we'll see the highest temperatures. things, though, cooling down across the whole of the country as we head into monday. that's your weather. this is the briefing. i'm victoria fritz. our top story: breaking the rules. the eu warns italy it's planned spending for 2019 is too high. —— its. more pressure on the kingdom. donald trump hardens his tone

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