the weather will be best, is where the weather will be best, the north of scotland and ben s enjoying some sunshine whereas by the time we get the lowlands, it is looking like it is going to be a cloudy day with some heavy rain at times at least, 11 degrees so it is relatively mild. and the weather tomorrow will hang around through most of the day, i think in the south and the south—east there will be a few areas where we may see some glimmers of brightness later in the day tomorrow. hello, this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines... the armed forces minister warns the uk will not be able to fly british nationals out of ukraine if russia invades — and says the situation is escalating. this risks escalating in a way that is really quite terrifying.

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now on bbc news, professional photographer conor mcdonnell has travelled the world and photographed everyone from calvin harris in las vegas to david attenborough in kenya. we follow him as he revisits the people and places that gave him his big break. it's been a while since i've walked a dog around here. i know. do you remember you used to walk the dog when you were little? yeah. yeah, and you used to bring your camera and take lots of pictures. yeah, he was my test subject a lot of the time. yeah! i rememberyou being upset you couldn't get in to see one of your favourite bands and you were telling me how you were going to do everything you could do to get in there. yeah, to get a pass. and look where you've ended up now. it completely changed the whole sort of trajectory of my life into this crazy world and crazyjob that i do now. some of the people i've photographed are ellie goulding,

niall horan, david beckham, calvin harris. i think you've got some interesting way of being able to capture a moment. the most important thing is you got my good side. some birds havejust landed in the tree up there. cannae wait to see you back on the road, taking some pictures. i heard a little quote the other day that i thought was so true. "broken people fix broken people." # you know that i'd die for,

i'd cry for— # you know that i'd die for you _ # you know that i'd breathe for # - i'd bleed for # you know that liverpool's my favourite place on the planet. i was born and raised here, grew up here, learnt my craft here, learnt myjob here. most of my friends are still here. coming back to photograph here, it's really cool. i've not photographed a gig here in a long time. the first camera i got was a very basic dslr camera, it was like an entry level digital camera. cost—wise, it was probably about £400, £500. this is a nikon d850 with a 24—70, which is a sort of close—up range — when it's at 2a, 70's sort of a mid—range zoom. after about a year, i invested in a different camera, and that camera probably cost about £1,000 maybe. i'd saved up quite a while for that one. and this one is probably my second most used lens. this is a 70—200. i use that for close—up of, like, faces or details, or also the drummers are normally at the back of the stage, so don't want to forget

about the drummer, basically. a lot of live music is quite dark, so you want cameras that, like, lenses that let in more light. but that comes with a more expensive price tag a lot of the time, and some of those lenses would cost about 1.5 grand, 2 grand, and then now, all this gear in this bag here, it's probably...it�*d be close to, like, ten grand maybe. # i'd cry for, you know that i'd die for you... the calm before the storm. some nice moments might pop up. some natural, cool moments that other people don't really get to see, so it's nice to try and capture that.

what have you guys been up to since the 02? chilling? yeah. we did live lounge, actually. oh, yeah, that was sick. it's definitely been weird coming back after such a long time. i was nervous just sound checking. so much pent up, like, time and so much, like, not thinking it were gonna happen as well. itjust didn't feel real. so, like, when we actually got on stage, and i knew — isaid, like, oh, it's gonna hit differently, that first show, but, like, actually, when we played it, it was just like... i cried so many times on the first tour. like, "this is too much, man." but definitely got a new level of appreciation for it. absolutely. gig's about to start. just checking my camera gear�*s ready, everything's working properly

the way it should do, and then, yeah, just follow the band up to the stage and shoot the show. crowd cheering rock music plays i went to a lot of gigs when i was an early teenager, and i always used to see photographers in the front, and thought that would be a really cooljob to try and do. i had no idea of how to do it. but a few months later there was a concert i really wanted to go to, and it was sold out. it was an english rock band called the subways,

and i tried everyone and anyone to see if i could get a press pass, cos i knew that'd be a way in to the concert. got no response from them, and eventually i actually ended up messaging the band members themselves and, amazingly, they responded and said yes. so i went and photographed that concert and that was where it all began. we love you, i love you! i love you too, thank you! music plays

# can you see the dark? # can you see the dark? # can you fix the broken. live music is where it started for me, with my career, and it will always be special and definitely hold a special place in my heart. that was a hot one. sweaty! i think my cameras were sweating as well! because of the nature of myjob, i travel a lot, so i've lived all over the world. i've have lived in london, i've lived in la, many different places, but over the last year during the pandemic, i've actually been back home

at my parents' house, which has been really, really nice, actually. it's time that i wouldn't have spent with them otherwise. hi, mum. hi, conor. how are you? i'm good. nice to see you. you 0k, love? yeah. yeah? do you want a cup of tea? ah, can i have a coffee, please? coffee ? certainly. so this is my old bedroom. i had this wall full of old photo passes from shows i've done, which also has the very first photo pass for the subways gig that i shot, almost 13 years ago. there's tour laminates for ellie goulding. there's a red hot chilli peppers one there, which is quite cool. mac miller, arctic monkeys, katy perry here. bring me the horizon shows, there's calvin at creamfields. i think that was actually the first time i photographed calvin, was that pass. there's a lot of memories on this wall.

i've got pictures that i've printed off for you. you can have a look through and see which ones you want. wow, look at the elephant there! were you lying on the ground? no. no? laughs it looks like it, though. don't tell me, is that a... painted wolf. wow, i love the colours. that's fantastic. how far away were you from the lion? not. . . not that far away. that's amazing. gosh. big lens helps, though. that's actually in the arctic ocean, that one. how did you find that? because i was out of contact for, like, two months! just watching your little blogs that you posted every now and again, that helped, cos i was sort of, like, tracking the weather, checking everything was all right, saying lots of prayers, yeah! laughs this was the last wildlife trip i did before the pandemic. really? injapan? yeah, this was injapan. you can see every hair on its face and its body there. that's amazing.

what sort of lens would that have been? i was pretty close for that one, i think. yeah, it wasn't, like, a big zoom lens or anything. no? i've printed out a few of my favourite live music ones as well. you obviously know...know that guy, don't ya? calvin, yeah. that's amazing. you've met him a few times as well, haven't you? ijust love the colours in that one. there he is again. that was one of the last shows before the pandemic. wow! that's an iconic shot, isn't it? and then niall, obviously. yeah, where was that one? that's in nashville. ellie at wembley. it's lovely just to see all the different people and the celebrities that you've met as well. i'm not driven by money in the slightest. never have been, never will. it's not something that motives me. but i have done well. i do shoots these days where it's one—day shoot, i could earn tens of thousands of pounds. we've always wanted all three of you to do what you enjoy doing, and i suppose if you enjoy doing it, you don't feel like you're going to work. yeah. it all worked out for the better and, you know, we're really proud of you and what you've done. we couldn't have asked for more, really.

it's just been incredible, what you've achieved. we just love you so much. love you. i met calvin harris back in around 2013, early 2014. i met him through ellie goulding, who i was working with at the time. and then i noticed he was headlining creamfields festival and i decided just to drop him an email and see if he had a photographer for it, and if not, does he want any photos taken? and, amazingly, he came back to me and said, "do you want to come and shoot the show for me?" so i went to photograph the show for him and the pictures ended up in his album. i've been to every show he's done since 2014. here's one of him on the set

of his song promises, which he does with singer sam smith. this shot is in between takes. they were just kind of chilling and having a laugh and ijust caught a really nice moment. boom! hello, there. hey, how's it going? i am all right. how are you? looking well. cheers. i ate a bison testicle last night. 0k, wow. yeah...raw. raw? aye. cut it up like sashimi and then i ate it. pure bison powerfor 24 hours. cool so that's what i'm doing. it's been a weird old time with the pandemic, hasn't it? no shows, no live music. there's only so long you can sort ofjust garden. when the pandemic first started, i was like, "oh, maybe i preferred gardening, actually." it was reallyjust...| think i made the right choice initially to go with music. yeah.

so, we've got something coming up, haven't we? we've got a...we've got a vegas show, couple of weeks. yeah, back to vegas. that was pretty much my last show before the pandemic. at first, i wasn't sure that i was going to do it again at all. i thought i was going to settle in to the new lifestyle, you know, spend a lot more time in the studio, a lot more time just being a human being. but then, you know, yeah, i saw other people come back doing shows, i was looking at the wee videos, like, "oh, it does look like fun, dunnit!" 0h, maybe i was bit down on it. 0h, i'lljust do one. so, i'm just doing one, just dip my toe in, see if... i feel like i'm going to enjoy it. exactly, and get back into it. i reckon you'll do that and the buzz of it will kick in. i might get a right buzz—on. i think you got some interesting way of being able to capture a moment without it looking contrived or, like, manipulated or anything like that.

so, ithought, "yeah, that's amazing." the most important thing is you got my good side so that i looked real sexy. laughs yeah. cannae wait to see you back on the road, taking some pictures. we'll be in vegas to have a good time. all right. see you in a couple of weeks. cheers, mate. see you later. take it easy. so, it sounds like i'm going back out to vegas with calvin. the first show of his i've photographed since before the pandemic. so, it's been a while. but i absolutely can't wait to get back out there and shoot it. so, i'm in manchester. i'm about to go to the manchester academy, which is where i photographed my first ever concert, almost 13 years ago — english band called the subways, and i'm going to meet billy, the lead singer of the band, and, yeah, catch up. hey, hey! good to see you. so good to see you.

you too. it's been a while. yes! let's do it. wow, back again! yeah. it's so weird when there's no—one here. it's strange. let's go see the stage. so, i genuinely wouldn't know what i'd be doing with my life if it wasn't been for you guys giving me that photo pass, almost 13 years ago to the day, for the gig that was right here. yeah! in this place. it's so weird being back, innit? yeah, absolutely. it's crazy. i genuinely believe that whether or not we'd given you that pass, that you'd be doing what you're doing now because you're brilliant at what you do and you'd still be soaring, regardless. if someone had said "no", or no response, i would have been like, "oh, well, i can't do that." well, you know, we feel honoured to have been that gateway for you. i actually have — i found the photos, or some of them anyway... oh, my god! ..from that gig. some of them are really bad, cos i genuinely had a very basic knowledge of how to use a camera.

like, and i thought, "oh, automatic mode will do it." and i had a quick glance through the pictures and they're all, like, blurry or the focus is off, and that's what started my obsession with photography, was during that first song you played, cos i popped it into manual mode, and that was like, i sort of know little bits and bobs, but then over the years it's stayed in manual the whole time and i've learnt how to use my camera. that's amazing. the thrill of it, you switched it up! that's absolutely amazing. i'll show you. right. so, this is you here. so this is you coming out. look at me coming on stage! but the focus is all off. like, here, the focus is on the mic stand and stuff. everything is blurry and out of focus. like, that... that's actually really artistic. no, it's not. it's awful! but it's here that i popped it into manual mode. i remember exactly when i realised for the first time that you'd just

tipped over in to stardom. i looked on your profile and i'd seen that you'd taken the photograph of the kanye and kim wedding. and i was like, "oh my, god!" "conor�*s onto big things now." laughs one of the craziest moments of my career was photographing kim kardashian and kanye west's wedding. i was asked by a mutual friend very last minute. itold him i'd never photographed a wedding and i didn'even own a suit. he told me to go get a suit and that he trusted me to do the job. kim and kanye and the whole family were very welcoming. and one of the photos i took on that day ended up becoming the most liked photograph on instagram at that time. one of the things i get from this, is if you give people an opportunity, and they take it, it usually works out really well.

and you're one of those cases. it's one of those beautiful things life, i think. so believe, people, if you want take that chance, go for it, always! absolutely, 100%. take it and run with it. i'm a wwf ambassador, and i'm off to visit a project called wild ingleborough, which is a project that is restoring the landscape to protect the wildlife, and i'm off to meet a guy called jono from the yorkshire wildlife trust, and i'm excited to meet him and see what the project's about and what they've been up to. getting into nature photography, ifound myself in some amazing places. days off on tour, somewhere like yosemite or yellowstone, there's a lot of amazing animals

and nature and scenery. and over time i developed my portfolio. one of the most special moments of my career has been having the absolute honour and privilege to work and photograph with sir david attenborough. working with sir david came about through the wwf. we are both ambassadors for them. and he was working on a project called our planet. and i got invited out to the massai mara to go photograph him and the rest of the crew filming, so i got to see behind the scenes, got to see and meet sir david, photograph him out in the mara, which was absolutely incredible. from then i've been all over the world with him. hello, connor. good to meet you.

i'm jono from yorkshire wildlife trust, welcome to wild ingleborough. what a day! wild ingleborough is like a landscape—scale restoration project. so this fantastic mountain here, it's got some great wildlife on it but sadly there's big areas that aren't that hospitable for wildlife, really, so what we're trying to do is connect up these little fragments around the mountainside by doing things like we see here, so putting some trees back in the landscape. we need more habitat back on this mountain to allow wildlife to flourish again, so all those species that need woodland and scrubland to live. also, it's a great way to capture carbon from the atmosphere. hold that there, so i can get a close—up of it. to come and visit a project like this, not far from home, it's really special.

and to be so involved with it as well — i got to plant a tree today, which is really cool. i'm definitely going to come back and visit. it's been a long time. glad to be back? yeah, it's weird. it feels strange but i'm looking forward to it. are you excited? yeah, i'm excited. i've not seen them yet. big reveal. here you go, conor. amazing. i love that. that's sick. that's the closest i'll ever get to being on the football team! yeah, cool.

ready? right, we'll do it down here. all right, cool. can you just sit down? let's try that. i like the lighting on it. little bit of fine tuning and it should be all right. which one of you is the better footballer? definitely me. is it? are you guys having that? you're not having it. who is the better one, then? me. yeah? cool, i think i'm done in here. let's go do some shots outside on the pitch. that was sick! there you go, topping it over the bar. i think being in a team, you learn a lot of life skills that help you along the way. it's definitely helped me. even being on a pitch in pe class has helped me touring with some of the world's biggest artists in the world, you know? a tour is essentially a team of people and you've got to figure

out how to work with people and deal with people and things like that, and i think it's an essential skill to have, learning how to be in a team, so that's why i decided to sponsor it this year. fantastic! that's my favourite one of you. nice action shot. it should be a close game. go on. get in! i remember a conversation outside the sixth form block on a cold miserable morning. talking about going to gigs, cos it's what you had a passion for. and i remember you being upset you couldn't get in to see one of your favourite bands, the subways, and you were telling me how you were going to do everything you could do to get in there. and look where you've ended up now. and that is a real lesson for our kids, that if you get up

off your backside and go make things happen, take your chance, put yourself out there, who knows where you can end up in the future? it's a great story — it's one i tell to my pupils. that makes me really proud. that's cool. great game. what was the actual final score? 7-1. 7-1! cool, i think my kit might have been a nice lucky charm. it's an honour to have been able to do this for the school and for the team. i feel really proud to have been able to do that for them. today is the day. it's early morning. i've got a few more things to pack in my bag. get that sorted, then

i'm off to the airport, to get on a flight to go to america for the first time in almost two years. so i've landed. i am on american soil. dance music plays i'm so excited to be back out photographing music and being at live events again. ijust love it, so it's so good to be back.

it is quite a mixed bag today with some of us across east anglia and the south—east enjoying some dry weather but the rain will arrive a little bit later on, nothing too heavy, the weather is heavy right now and it may actually peter out through this evening, only to return to the early hours of sunday morning, so very early on sunday, it does look distinctly wet. particularly across wales, dry and chilly across central and northern scotland,

and i think tomorrow, that's where the weather will be best — the north of scotland, inverness enjoying some sunshine, whereas by the time we get to the lowlands and southwards, it is looking like it will be a cloudy day with some heavy rain at times at least, 11 celsius. a few areas where we may see some glimmers of brightness later in the day tomorrow.

this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones with the latest headlines. the armed forces minister warns the uk will not be able to fly british nationals out of ukraine if russia invades and says the situation is escalating. this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones with the latest headlines. this is escalating in a way that is really quite terrifying. this is the largest concentration of troops on the european continent in 70 years. the united states orders non—essential staff to leave the us embassy in kyiv. the us and french presidents are due to speak to vladimir putin in an attempt to de—escalate tensions. borisjohnson receives a legal questionnaire from police investigating lockdown parties at downing street and whitehall. french police have fired tear gas on demonstrators protesting against covid restrictions in the capital paris.

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