this is bbc news, the headlines: the biden administration says it supports waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines — a breakthrough for international efforts to suspend patent rules and make it easierfor poorer countries to manufacture vaccines, as the pandemic continues to rage in india and south america. the uk is sending two royal navy patrol vessels to the island ofjersey — to monitor the situation in the english channel — after the french government threatened to cut off power supplies to the channel island, over disputed post—brexit fishing rights in the lucrative fishing area. donald trump's ban from facebook and instagram has been upheld by facebook�*s oversight board. the social media giant ruled the outgoing president had broken its standards and rules by appearing to sympathise with the capitol building attackers, while continuing to falsely insist that he won the election.

the probation officer who was in charge of the man who carried out the fatal attacks at fishmongers�* hall in london has told an inquest that he had no indication he was being deceived by usman khan but he admitted that there had been some prison intelligence that khan might return to �*his old ways�*. daniel sandford has more. the disastrous consequences of allowing a recently released, high—risk convicted terrorist travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it

was usman khan's probation officer, ken skelton, who authorised his trip to the learning together event. but today, he insisted that he didn't make that decision alone. he said that a mapper panel, a panel of experts responsible for public protection, had backed the decision. ken skelton told the jury that although there is no written record of the mapper experts positively agreeing to the trip, they had been aware of it and had not objected. "they must have said he can go," he explained, "that decision would not have been made alone by me." either way, khan did travelm by himself, on a train to the capital, despite what saskia jones�*s family's lawyer said today was a remarkable number of red flags waving. daniel sandford, bbc news. now on bbc news, a look back on the academy

awards on talking movies. hello from los angeles and welcome to our talking movies oscars review special. i am tom brook. in today's programme, we are going to look back at hollywood's august night of the year. nomadland took the top prize. it was a bit of diversity and a very unusual oscars ceremony in the pandemic times. this goes to the academy of motion picture arts and

sciences despite the pandemic. and nomadland, an incredibly observed portrait of itinerant people in the american west emerged as a big winner overnight. and the chloe zhao, she made history. so news of the victories travelled rapidly around the world. watching the oscars ceremony was emma jones. from the moment nomadland was first shown, oscar watches pictured that moment. the story of burn played by answers and norman by living life on the road in the van spoke of freedom, new horizons and wide open skies.

an alternative america to an audience suffering in a pandemic year. and it was made by chloe zhao, a chinese film—maker who becomes the second ever woman to be named best director. her win as an asian woman is also historic. it is pretty fabulous to be a woman in 2021. frances mcdormand took the best actress award, her third, while nomadland which both chloe zhao and frances mcdormand co—produced, was also named best picture. but it is the directing victory that is the trophy for women in the film industry. only kathryn bigelow�*s the hurt locker has won before. even bigelow has been a lonely role model. if this win helps more people like me get to live their dreams, i am so gratefulfor this. i have had a group dinner with kathryn bigelow once and i definitely fan girled big—time. chloe zhao was born in china, before coming to school here in the uk and then moving to the us

to finish her studies. she says that she has always felt like a bit of an outsider and she certainly is brilliant at telling the stories of other outsiders and of different kinds of communities. songs my brothers taught me, about a brother and sister living on an native american reservation, and a film about an injured rodeo cowboy were both micro—budget films. nomadland also offers up an altogether different version of the american dream. to me, that american dream isn't a glamorous, you know, achieving, winning the big game and become... ..have a gold aeroplane or something. i think the american dream is really the american broken dream, almost. you know, they kept going, they keep going once their dreams are broken. that is the true american spirit. we not only accept the tyranny of the dollar, the tyranny of the marketplace, we embrace it.

the film features many real nomads, rather than actors, nonprofessionals being another signature feature of chloe zhao�*s film—making. they report she brought her own van to immerse herself in the lifestyle. it was very instinctive. she isjust... kind of almost a chameleon, she takes on the people she is with, it seems like, based on her history and past life. yeah, it was amazing to watch. but chloe zhao�*s new film will be nothing like these. she was given marvel�*s eternals, starring angelina jolie as her next project and a $200 million budget to go with it. this is an extermination. women may have waited 11 years for another best director to come along, but oscar night also delivered emerald fennell�*s victory for best original screenplay for promising young woman, a category a woman hasn't won in 13 years. the wait for the next female winners should never be as long again.

when the oscar nominations were announced, the academy was applauded for fielding the most diverse group of oscar nominees in history. more than 70 women scored nominations and nine people of colour were represented in the acting categories. women and people of colour did do well, but some commentators rather caustically remarked that the two top acting prizes were taken home by white people. well, let's take a look at all of this in a bit more detail. whoo! the finely wrought unpretentious minari, an immigrant story set in arkansas, certainly certainly brought diversity to oscars night, when youn yuh—jung became south korea's first oscar—winning actress actress and certainly the to only the second asian woman to win an acting oscar. in minari, she played a quirky, doting grandmother, her relationship with her grandson providing audiences with some beautifully tender moments. her refreshingly unguarded personality backstage just after winning supporting

actress she made it clear she is all for diversity. i think it is very nice to understand each other and we should embarrass... embrace each other. laughter. just we are equally human beings who have the same warm heart. the party. best supporting actor oscar went to britain's daniel kahlua for his role injudas and the black messiah, playing chairman of the illinois black panther party at hamilton, brought down by an fbi informant in 1969. it was a brilliant portrayal of the young black activist. i think more people are going to watching the chairman's story. that is what this was about, telling the truth and getting it out there and making sure people see who this man was and what this man did and what this man continues continues to give. the fact that i can even stand

on the stage with the statues the fact that i can even stand on the stage with this statue because of what he did. another nod to diversity was soul, which won for best animated feature. it was the first pixar animation to have a black protagonist. a very touching story of a school music teacher trying to reunite his body with his soul. they don't care nothing about me. ma rainey�*s black bottom starred viola davis as a singer, who didn't win, but the film picked up oscars for make—up, costume and hair styling. i think everybody benefits from diversity. everyone does. yes! and so, i think... also, i think everybody wants it, to be honest. i feel like that has been the thing. y'all back and up and leave, let me alone! we was alljust having fun! of course, ma rainey�*s black bottom's leading man, the late chadwick boseman, who died from cancer last year, didn't, as was widely expected, win for best actor. the producers had positioned best actor of the last award, hoping to deliver a teary

emotional sendoff for the show for boseman�*s posthumous win. instead, it went to anthony hopkins, who rather awkwardly wasn't there, but a few hours later he did appear by social via a social media posting to accept his second oscar for playing a man suffering from dementia in the father. that film also won for best adapted screenplay. so i am here in my homeland in wales and at 83 years of age i did not expect to get this walk, i really didn't, and... i am very grateful to the academy and thank you stop and i want to pay tribute to chadwick boseman, who was taken from us far too early. you keep looking at me as if something is wrong, much praise went to sir anthony hopkins for his winning

portrayal, but looking at the evening overall, there was a sense that the academy hadn't quite lived up to its promise of awarding more fully black performers. in terms of best actor and best actress, it did not. we got a lot of really good unease in there, we got a lot of really good wins, but i don't think it was the most inclusive that it could have been. the academy is actually doing a great deal to continue to push diversity. they are moving in the right direction, we know there has been progress in this country and hollywood but there has bit has been exceptionally slow. it was a great night for the danish at the oscars, with danish movie, another round, which follows teenagers who engage in experiments with alcohol, won the best international feature film. thomas winterberg and the film's production team were still celebrating hours after the event. the oscars win brought denmark a day of celebration. i feel like the whole country is standing celebrating us now at home, especially this year. it's overwhelming, actually, because not that many things have been happening in denmark throughout the last year

because of the covid—i9. now, finally, something positive is happening, so i feel that at home the whole country is celebrating. other oscars handed out included best documentary of self africa's love affair with the octopus. we went into the oscars believing that steven soderbergh, a film—maker was one of the producers of the oscars show, was going to reinvent the oscars ceremony and use the restrictions imposed by covid—i9 to create something quite wondrous. well, it didn't quite work. the evening started on a promising note, with actor and director regina king strutting through union station while theatrical credits appeared on the screen. steven soderbergh had said

the oscars would unfold like a movie. it didn't totally deliver that way. there was a nice intimate supper club atmosphere, but acceptance speeches dragged on. there was not much humour, although glenn close did do a little dance, which was quite funny. but there was no overarching concept that bound everything together that shone through. i think there are just some hindrances, just given the pandemic and what it's wreaked on hollywood and the precautions that obviously had to go into effect in order for it to even take place in person. i do think that they really successfully pulled off the whole no mask thing. i think it was really exciting for everyone watching, obviously, to see talent without masks, all dressed up, showing off their famous faces. and it kind of brought a sense of normalcy to the whole night. for those tuning in to watch the ceremony at home, there was a range of opinion. certainly some disappointment. it did seem rather not

relevant any more tonight, unfortunately, but it used to feel relevant. and that, i think, was a bit sad, really, to watch and... they were celebrating so much and it really didn't feel like we were celebrating current culture, really. it just felt a bit distant from the media and things i have seen over the past last year. i enjoyed it. it was good to see how they transformed union station into an intimate atmosphere, it had tables and the way they were sat in tears on top of each other. when the ratings came in the day after the oscars, it was a disastrous showing. less than 10 million tuned in to watch the us, a low record last year for the last oscars pulling in more than 23 million viewers. when the problems is the potential audience for this year's oscars ceremony shown on abc tv had little awareness of the crop of best picture nominees. the extent to which this is an asterisk year, i think they get a pass.

it is amazingly pulled off a show at all. i think it was incredibly logistically challenging and we shouldn't be too harsh on them. i think that the people at abc know full well that the movies that were in contention are what make ratings and the movies were not well known. the movie business is shaky. it is not sure where it is heading and there is this terrible precipice that could just... people... the exhibition could just disappear. and there could be no movies, and we could be watching everything on tv. i don't think that is going to happen, but that is the backdrop for a grimmer, sadder oscars and we have to pull out and recover and bring people back to the cinemas. and one day, very soon, take everyone you know into a theatre shoulder to shoulder in that dark space and watch every film that is represented here tonight.

a big part of the traditional oscars ceremony is the humongous red carpet. this year, there was a red carpet, but much more modest. but the organisers were keen on fashion. they issued a dress code instruction to nominees, that they should dress in a way that was inspirational and aspirational — whatever that means. but stylists did work with hollywood stars to get them to express themselves through fashion, as triston daly reports. at the oscars this year was a small step towards normalcy. some of hollywood's most recognisable faces walked the socially distanced red carpet. this year's oscar fashion was really strong and i think that added on to the enthusiasm ofjust the public being excited to watch the red carpet

before the ceremony. we saw a lot of the midriff trends happening on the red carpet. andre day looked amazing in her gown and that dress, vera wang went to a welder to create because it is totally made out of metal. laurie thys, stylist to best actress nominee andre day and best singer songwriter has felt the pressure of working with clients through this pandemic. there are moments where i am yelling with them, i there are moments where i am a person, but it has been - a little bit of both. fittings via zoom and know sitting close in and making| sure that things are there. trying to get a good gauge . and division and making sure the cameras in the right place so you can see - everything, you know?

it has been a bit of- a challenge in that way, but we are pushing through, so it is a good thing. - of adjusting to working in the midst of a pandemic. without red carpets for a good portion of award season, the fanfare in the form of endless flash photography and press yelling at stars names was missing. but place of the carpet was a more intimate venue for celebrities to display fashion. we have been in all. these people's homes and in their backyards. i have had to bring gear. i would say it has made photographing a bit - more intimate. the second you step . into someone's home, everything is stripped down, you know? - and i feel like there - is a level of personal ability and connectivity that you get from being inside these - people's homes, it is really cool. i some agree there is an upside of seeing celebrities in their homes but the red carpet is unmatched in terms of glamour. this award season, the oscars was able to set itself apart when it comes to spectacle. i think people are really tired of zooms and these

virtual events. in my opinion, we need physical award shows, we need physicalfashion shows in orderfor these things to survive because fashion and film, they need to be seen in order to survive. well, with oscars 2021 behind us, where will we be one year hence? who'll be the possible academy award winners in 2022? talking movies has been trying to find out. i thinkjennifer hudson has a good chance of getting the nomination for best actress in respect. she was hand—picked by aretha franklin herself to play her in the biopic, and we have seen her do her magic in playing dream girls effie and her singing won her the oscar that year. it would be great to see her do

a repeat and if she did that it would be the icing on the cake. i really like ana de armis, who is coming off brilliantly in 2019 with knives out. you can see her maybe in a year being best actress for her role in blonde, which is a fictionalised take on marilyn monroe, based on the novel by carol oates, i think it is going to be talked about a lot for best actress. one of my big picks for best actor in 2022 is _ denzil washington. he is in oscar's favourite, - he has already won two oscars over the course of his - illustrious career and in his next film he is playing none - other than the role of macbeth. you cannot ask for a better role than macbeth. - if the film is as good - as everybody hopes, i think denzil washington stands i a really, really good chance. i think that in 2022, it is going to be oscar isaacs's year. he has a role coming up in the card counter, a new movie that involves

a gambler and a revenge plot. itjust sounds juicy and fun, but also a meaty role and i just can't to see what oscar isaac does with it. a huge contender for getting the oscar for best director at the 2022 academy awards is nia dacosta for candyman. she is talking about social justice and racial relations in america in the history of black americans in this country. it would be awesome if she was recognised for that work. i think the best director next year, actually someone - who is really in the i conversation this year and that is director— chloe zhao, with her next film, eternals, which really stepped

up to the plate of directing - a hollywood blockbuster. it is a marvel film and early buzz on the film says - she really hits it out - of the park, but also stays true to who she is as a film—maker. i it is hard for me to imagine best picture going to anything other than westside story. you know, it is steven spielberg's first musical. we are coming into a year where all i think people will want is big entertainment that reminds you of what movies can do, so it seems like a shoe in for best picture. i suspect we will have dune winning the oscar for best picture in 2022. people will be engrossed by the cinematic magnitude of this film. it's starring oscar isaac and timothy charlemagne. i think it is one of those stories that has been called unfilmable because it is so expensive, but overall i think this will be a fan favourite at the oscars. my pick for best picture i is actually a film i thought was going to win best picture this year and that the film i in the heights. it was delayed due to - the pandemic, but now it's finally being released this summer. - millions of people are -

clamouring to see this beloved musical by lin—manuel| miranda brought to life by the director. i think it could be the best pic. - what a strange year for the oscars, a very unusual ceremony, record low ratings, at least in the united states, and clearly there is a lot of thinking that needs to be done, but what does bring reassurance is that all eight pictures up for best picture all were very fine films. i was very pleased that no man land won for best picture, i was very pleased that nomadland land won for best picture, but personally i would i would have liked to seen another film get the best prize. so for me, tom brook, the rest of the talking movies team here at los angeles, new york and london, it is goodbye, as we leave

you with the song that won for best original song at this years oscars. # always fight for you # i always... # always fight for you # see it through... # baby, you # always fight for you. hello there. the weather is set to change a bit this weekend as the wind direction changes. at the moment, though, we've still got that cool northerly airflow and that means more showers, heavy showers again during thursday. certainly a dramatic day on wednesday, lots of downpours, hail and some thunder in there as well. a lot of those showers have faded away, so we've got a cold start. may be a frosty start in places on thursday morning. not as cold in the southwest where there is more

cloud moving in. that's going to bring a bit of rain and drizzle that will run its way along the south coast through the english channel for a while. but could be a bit snowy to start with in scotland. snow levels will tend to rise, but these heavy showers will move across scotland into northern england. fewer showers for northern ireland, while some may see some sharp showers in the southeast corner of england for a while, there should be fewer showers through the midlands, wales and southern england. temperatures still only 9—12 degrees. another chilly feeling day despite some sunshine. as we head into the evening we will see those showers continuing to move their way southwards, fading away for most inland areas overnight. that means temperatures are going to fall away. it's going to be another cold night. there is a risk of a frost, but may not be quite as cold by friday morning. plenty of sunshine to start the day. we will see the cloud developing, and a few showers breaking out as we head into the afternoon. most of those heavier and perhaps thundery showers with hail confined to eastern scotland and some eastern parts of england,

turning drier further west. temperatures should be a little bit higher on friday, but still no better than 1a, maybe 15 degrees. now into the weekend, the changes i promised. we've got another area of low pressure. that is going to strengthen the wind and these weather fronts will bring some rain up from the southwest. looks like it's going to be a southerly wind that brings that rain and eventually that will introduce some warmer air, especially during the second half of the weekend. wet weather, though, i think for england and wales on saturday and for a while in northern ireland, the rain moves slowly northwards into scotland where it's going to be a cold day here. temperatures across england and wales away from the north should get up to 1a or 15 degrees. maybe a touch warmer than that in the southeast if it brightens up as the rain clears later in the day. we should be turning more showery, i think, during sunday and with that warmer air across most areas, 19 or 20 as possible in the southeast. it cools on monday, but the showers will continue.

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