khakis explosions have been heard in khakis after that visit —— kharkiv after the visit by president zelensky. those are the details from reuters. we will keep you up to date. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello. today has been a day where we have seen a cloud really build through the afternoon to bring some scattered showers. this was one of those showers working across parts of devon earlier this afternoon. on the radar, you can see showers across northern scotland, eastern england. we have had a line of heavier showers and even a few thunderstorms working across wales and the south—west, where we have seen today's heaviest showers. they will clear overnight and it will be dry for a client —— a time because most of england and wales. scotland and northern england will see clouds thicken with showers returning to many areas as we go through the night. another chilly night with temperatures, 5—7 celsius. a cool start on monday and another unsettled day as this area of low

pressure moves westwards from scandinavia. not many isobars on the charts. the winds are going to be very light but what this area of low pressure will do is create further showers. there will be quite a bit of cloud around on monday morning, still a few bright or sunny spells coming through but into the afternoon, the showers become extensive and widespread. some of them heavy, particularly across south—west england where the wind will bash together to give a line of conversions and along that we will see some of the day's heaviest showers and thunderstorms that will probably stretch into parts of the south midlands and central southern england. is immune from a shower. because there is not much wind, the showers could last for quite a long time. on tuesday, more showers in the forecast but they showers are going to get a bit of a kick from a trough in thejet going to get a bit of a kick from a trough in the jet stream. that means that means that showers will be much heavier with hail and thunder much more widespread, still some sunny spells around but this is the day where if you catch a shower, you are more likely to get a real soaking. temperatures are still a bit on the low side for the time of year but in

the may sunshine between the showers, not feeling so bad. for the middle part of the week, on wednesday, we still have showers on the chance, mostly across eastern scotland and eastern england. that said, they won't be as widespread and probably not quite as heavy. more of you will start to enjoy drier weather. given a bit more sunshine, starting to feel warmer, 17 in glasgow, 19 in cardiff and 20 in london. as we go through thursday and friday, showers tend to become confined to the north west of the uk. most areas will become drier with a bit more sunshine and temperatures into the low 20s across england and wales. feeling a bit warmer. thus the latest forecast and i will you later. this hello, this is bbc news with me, lewis vaughanjones. lewis vaughan jones. the headlines. the government says it's "very concerned" over upsetting scenes at the champions league final, as fans were tear gassed in paris. heavy fighting is continuing in eastern ukraine, where russian

forces are trying to capture the city of severo—donetsk. the russian ambassador to the uk tells the bbc that moscow will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the battle for ukraine. president biden will arrive in the texan city of uvalde later today after a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. one of the greatestjockey�*s of all time lester piggott, who won the derby nine times, has died at the age of 86. now on bbc news. talking movies reports from the cannes film festival. hello from the french riviera! i'm tom brook and welcome

to our talking movies cannes film festival special. in today's programme, we look back at highlights in this 12—day french film extravaganza. 2022 is a big year for the festival, its 75th anniversary an occasion for rejoicing by cinema lovers. proper fabulous film festivals are wonderful places just to meet other artists and find out what they're thinking about. i love cannes. here, actors and actresses are worshipped. we report on hollywood star tom cruise coming to town and being given the festival's highest award, the palme d'or. he is very nice. he played very good. and one of the most eagerly awaited films of the festival — body horror picture crimes of the future from david cronenberg.

even the grimmest moments, especially grimmest moments, of shooting his movies tend to be the days that we have the most fun on the set. films made in or about ukraine where a central feature of the festival. —— were a central feature... for us, it's important to present our movie and show why we have a fighting mentality. and three years after parasite won the top prize at cannes, films from south korea make an impact at the festival. ever since parasite blew up in 2019, i've seen this ballooning success of korean films. all that and more in this special cannes film festival edition of talking movies. as ijust mentioned, 2022 marks a special year for the cannes film festival because what is arguably the world's most famous and glamorous film festival is marking its 75th anniversary, and there was the hope that here, on the french riviera, as covid—19 moved more into the background, that this year, the cannes film festival would be

as close as possible to normal. as cannes got under way, someone cinephiles were looking back to the old days. ..filmed on the beautiful french riviera. alfred hitchcock's 19505 thriller to catch a thief, starring cary grant and grace kelly, set in and around cannes, has moments which reflect the glamour that has always partly defined the festival. diamonds. but glamour aside, at its core, the official selection of films at the festival has always displayed a commitment to serious cinema. i think the important thing about cannes and why it'as lasted so long — 75 years — is that it's managed to balance the constraints of glamour and intelligent art house cinema. you can'tjust have the festival and its rigorous art house from around the world — it needs the sprinkling of glamour, it needs the buzz. the umbrellas of cherbourg in 1964... # as the eagles soar. ..michael moore's incendiary documentary fahrenheit 911 in 2004,

quentin tarantino�*s pulp fiction in 1994, federico fellini's la dolce vita in 1960 are all films that have won the top prize, the palme d'or, at cannes over the decades and achieved landmark status. # let's don't let a good thing die. this year, baz luhrmann�*s portrayal of the life and music of rock �*n�* roll legend elvis presley, starring austin butler and tom hanks, was among the movies that got attention at cannes. we are two odd, lonely children, reaching for eternity. of the 21 films in competition this year, there were many pleasing entries. can you relax your triangle of sadness? social satire of the modelling world triangle of sadness, starring woody harrelson, had ardent followers. bruno! as did the eight mountains, set in italy — a powerful and moving tale of male friendship. then there was holy spider —

a controversial fictional interpretation of a killing spree of prostitutes two decades ago in the iranian city of mashhad. to many, what has made cinema on offer at cannes distinct over the years is that it isn't controlled or excessively moulded by hollywood. cannes plays a very valuable role in the world because it's not hollywood, and cannes has this very french, european, you know, attitude towards cinema, which is — which is great. cannes is the one that will give prizes to films that maybe no—one has heard of or will not be commercial so i think cannes is valuable, i think it's still a valuable market. you know, i think it's a place where the industry gathers. although there's a festive spirit at cannes on its 75th anniversary, there are some disconcerting realities, such as what does the future portend for this mammoth

festival firmly committed to showing films in cinemas in a world where streaming has really taken off? one of the most eagerly awaited films at cannes this year was crimes of the future from canadian film—maker david cronenberg. it boasts an impressive cast — viggo mortensen, lea seydoux and kristen stewart. emma jones reports. it's eight years since canadian david cronenberg competed at cannes. this director's go—to theme has been the relationship between the body and mental disturbance. it is time to start seeding. it is time to listen. but with crimes of the future, cronenberg's back to the feel of one of his earlier movies, such as the fly. the fly got into the transmitter pod with me that first time when i was alone. are you afraid of all emotion?

— — a little —— a little emotion? viggo mortensen and lea seydoux play performance artists who use each other�*s bodies as canvases at a time when the human body is evolving to adapt to the synthetic world around it. it's a brand new organ, never before seen. if it feels like a throwback, it's because it is. i believe that you wrote crimes of the future more than 20 years ago? it's really strange, isn't it? i mean, when i wrote it, nobody was talking about micro plastics and now, every — just a week ago, or two weeks ago it was, "well, actually, we found micro plastics in the bloodstream". before, we had already found it in maybe 80% of humans in the flesh. we examined the body — human, you know, people who have this — and it seems that the body is accommodating it somehow. it's not going crazy, it's not creating cancers. what does this mean? and so, this is suggesting something that, on the face of it, might be outrageous but turns out to be actually rather realistic in an odd way.

mortensen, cronenberg's collaborator from other works, including 2005's a history of violence... i think i'm losing my mind. ..returns, this time a celebrity artist saul tenser, who's unusual in that he can still feel physical pain. pleasure has also evolved into something quite different. it's always fun with him. i mean, i trust him. he's very open to me and to others in terms of their suggestions, their ideas. he makes you feel part of the storytelling, you know, in a real way and so, i tend to be willing to try things for him that i might hesitate to try for other directors. this is david cronenberg's sixth time in competition at cannes. despite his reputation, he's never won the palme d'or. the closest he has ever got to it was a specialjury prize in 1996 for crash. it's something we are all intimately involved in.

crash, about the eroticisation of car collisions, prompted some famous cannes walkouts at the cinema when it was shown in the 1990s. ..surgery is sex, isn't it? isn't it? you noticed? now, one of crimes of the future's leading actors, kristin stewart, thinks audiences are ready to look at cronenberg's directing vision, however provocative. maybe he just is smarter than us! because we have been on the, you know, sort of — not to be too dark about things — but the path to destruction for a very long time and as quickly as technology develops, i think that he probably was fearful of that well before we were. that he wrote a movie about people who need to cut into each other to feel something or feel close to each other feels really urgently immediate and only very recent. many of cronenberg's directing descendants also found success at cannes. julia ducournau's palme d'or�*s titane — a body horror about a woman

who gets pregnant by a car — clearly found inspiration in his work. at nearly 80 years of age, he's already got another movie planned and as crimes of the future shows, he's lost none of his ability to provoke here at cannes. hollywood star tom cruise is one of the big attractions at cannes this year. he came to the festival to promote his new top gun sequel, top gun: maverick, and to be the recipient of a tribute for his ao—year career. he also received a surprise accolade — an honorary palme d'or, the festival's highest award. the french air force put on a big show for tom cruise at the cannes film festival, honouring him with an impressive fly—past by eight fighter jets. he is one of the biggest names to stand on the red carpet at the famed palais de

festival in cannes. being feted at the festival with a special career tribute has to be one of the highlights of his career. this isn'tjust about me, it's about everyone — everyone that i've worked with. a celebration of movies. to be able to share it with people that have just worked so hard, i'm like, this is a celebration of movies and it's beautiful, i'll never forget it, it was really lovely. people are standing in line for hours to get a glimpse of him and screaming and yelling and saying "tom!" _ "tom, turn around!" "wave at me!" in recent days, cruise has been at several premieres for his recent top gun: maverick film. despite all the hoopla that surrounds him, he's keen to point out that his new picture is celebrating us naval aviation culture. it really is representing that culture and aviation and the navy culture and kind of has the same

ethics of doing the right thing, about family, about tradition. # take those old records off the shelf. tom cruise made his big breakthrough in 1983 in the coming—of—age comedy risky business. over the years, he's garnered critical acclaim in films such as the color of money, rain man... my brother? i don't have a brother. ..jerry maguire... show me the money! ..and born on the fourth ofjuly. i don't want you to feel sorry for me. he's also the star of the hugely successful mission: impossible series. rightly or wrongly, he's perceived as a commercial actor. some wonder if his career warrants a special tribute from the august cannes film festival, including giving him an honorary surprise palme d'or — the festival's highest award. i think what cannes is doing by saying, "come here, tom cruise," there was some reservations, people saying, "well, he doesn't make the finest movies, he doesn't make art house pictures," but he does power cinema, and i think that's why cannes is honouring him this year. tom cruise.

top gun. in 1986, tom cruise starred in the original top gun film, playing a us navy test pilot. i'm on my way. it was a huge hit. it made in cooperation with the pentagon. that's classified. in the wake of the film, recruitment into the us military reportedly shot up. although top gun has done remarkably well at the american box office, it's not without its detractors. some say the film glamorised combat — a point that i put to a very young tom cruise at that time. if we wanted to make a war film or a film about — that glorifies combat, we would've been blowing people away from the beginning to end. it's a film about character, and essentially, the end big battle, the adversary is faceless, the opponent is symbolic of the character and his conflict. having any fun yet? now, 36 years later, we have top gun: maverick sequel. the film has been getting outstanding reviews. it's seen as less jingoistic than its predecessor. the 59—year—old star has been

on a charm offensive promoting his film. on the french riviera, there was a lot of love for him. he is very nice. he played very good. he's very famous and he's serious about his life, you know? very professional, so i think he's a good guy. your reputation precedes you. i have to admit, i wasn't expecting an invitation back. top gun: maverick looks set to put him back on top and bring some solid, much—needed business to cinemas around the world, struggling to recover from the impact of covid—19. a central feature of the cannes film festival this year has been the war in ukraine. that disconcerting reality has made its presence felt in numerous ways, from president zelensky giving a live video address to the opening night audience here at cannes to severalfilms made by ukrainian film—makers or shot in ukraine being shown here at the festival. but can these movies really make any difference to what's

happening with the war, to people's lives on the ground in ukraine? a church basement seen in the documentary mariupolis 2 shows the desperate lives of citizens who've lost their homes through the devastations of war. it comes from lithuanian director mantas kvedaravicius, who was killed allegedly by russian solders in april. his fiancee smuggled the film out of ukraine. it was hurriedly assembled. one of the film's co—producers, nadia turincev, believes it's bringing audiences something quite different from news footage from ukraine. the narrative is the days that people spent, was the bombing that you hear and you see sometimes, and how they live, so maybe those who can see this film, they're gonna be looking differently at what happens there but also, everyday life, other things. pamfir, anotherfilm from ukraine at cannes — a small—town drama —

doesn't, on the surface, have anything to do with the war. but its director, who is making his debut feature with this film, believes his movie does demonstrate the resilience of ukrainians. for us, it's important to present our movie and show which kind of a people exist in our country, with the passion, with the power, with, you know, struggle and why we have so much, like, a fighting mentality. these films, shot in ukraine or made by ukrainian film—makers, are definitely attracting interest in cannes. people, of course they have interest. some people want to help us and they are buying ukrainian films, because this is actually, like, a very obvious way to help, unfortunately, but the interestjust increased dramatically. the cannes film festival has condemned russia's invasion of ukraine. the official russian film delegation was uninvited. but the fact that the russian film

tchaikovsky's wife was permitted to be shown in competition at the festival has angered the ukrainian film community in cannes. even though it comes from a russian dissident exiled director kirill serebrennikov, who condemned the war and sought refuge in germany. cinema and art in general is a huge statement around how valuable human�*s life is, how important human life is. it's absolutely anti—war statement. ukrainian film—maker dmytro sukholytkyy—sobchuk is annoyed by this film's presence and its director at the festival. it should be normal process when the cultural institutions cancel every russian citizen. when he here, he the part of the russian propaganda. mesdames et messieurs, volodymyr zelensky. applause. despite president zelensky�*s plea in a live video address to the opening night audience

at cannes not to stay silent over russia's invasion of ukraine, the reality is that cinema at cannes isn't likely to have much direct impact on the war. but what, at least, film here on the french rivera can do is get people to think about the war and all its complexities. there has been no escape. when the film parasite won the top prize, the palme d'or, here at cannes two years ago, and then went on to win the best picture oscar, it really heightened interest in south korean cinema. well, this year, country's cinema has been very much centrestage at cannes, as emma jones reports. a year ago, leejung—jae wasn't a global acting star and possibly wouldn't have had a midnight premier at cannes, for his directing debut, the thriller hunt. sir. we've just intercepted this. but that was before netflix's squid game — a gory series where contestants are literally eliminated as they compete for a cash prize

by playing children's games. its success has sealed south korea's reputation as a cultural hub, from where some of the world's most compelling film and tv originates. its lead actor has been reaping the rewards at this festival. translation: in korea, - we all know this cannes festival and it's a dream place for to come for all the people in the movie scene. so, i'm just really excited, and i still feel i'm in my dream. hunt, which took the actor four years to write, is an espionage thriller set in the early 19805 in south korea — a difficult era for the country and a world away from the prosperous democracy of today. screaming. man down! rattling at a speed of 100 bullets a minute, hunt is an action film — very different to parasite, the oscar winner that took its director bong joon—ho

from a beloved festival auteur to household name. ever since parasite blew up in 2019, i've seen this ballooning success of korean films. but when you think about it, that success has always been there. like, ever since 2000, we've seen directors getting all these international awards for theirfilms, so there has been ground work laid, it's always been there. it's just with the success of squid game, you know, now we're all seeing it. ever since bong joon—ho's parasite took the palme d'or here at cannes in 2019, the festival's had a special association with korean film, so it's no surprise that another highly respected korean director wanted to launch his latest project here, too. director park chan—wook is back in cannes after six years. he's twice won thejury prize, including for 200a�*s old boy. his latest film, decision to leave, is a sumptuous noir love story between a policeman and a suspect

named seo rae. translation: this premise, | that the detective will find out that it's actually seo rae who killed her husband, and that is really usually the end of a feature—length film, right? but that is the end of the first part of my film, and another whole new story unfolds in the second act. other film—makers are eyeing up korea as a cross—cultural hub, including the japanese palme d'or winner hirokazu kore—eda. broker, in competition at the festival, was filmed in south korea and with a stellar cast, including parasite actor song kang—ho. the film is a story of so—called baby boxes, which allows unwanted babies to be dropped off and cared for by others. sadly for cannes, with its back still turned to netflix, it's taken the streamer to produce

a global hit like squid game and propel its star up these red steps. but the appetite to watch content from korea can only continue to increase the audience for these films that premiered here. well, that brings our special cannes film festival edition of talking movies to a close. i hope you've enjoyed the show. please remember, you can always reach us online at... and you can find us on twitter. so from me, tom brook, and the rest of the talking movies production team here on the french riviera, it's goodbye.

hello again. today has been a day we have seen the clouds build through the afternoon to bring some scattered showers. this was one of the showers working its way across parts of devon earlier in the afternoon. on the radar picture you can see showers across northern scotland, eastern england in this line of heavier showers and even thunderstorms across wales and the south—west. that was the heavier showers. they will clear overnight and it will be dry for most of england and wales and scotland and northern england will see clouds thicken with the showers returning to many areas as we go through the night. another chilly night with temperatures of 5—7 c. a cool start the day on monday and it is another

unsettled day as this area of low pressure moves westwards from scandinavia. not many isobars on the charts, the winds are going to be light on what the will create for showers. there will be cloud round but still with a few bright and sunny spells coming through but into the afternoon, showers becoming extensive, widespread. some of the heavy and particularly across south—west england women have winds bashing together to give this line of convergence and along that we will see some of the day's heaviest showers and thunderstorms that will stretch into the south midlands in central and southern england. because there's not much of the way of wind, the showers could last for a long time. for tuesday we have more showers in the forecast but the showers are going to get a bit of a kick from a trough in the jet stream. what that means is that the showers will be much heavier and hail and thunder much white more widespread but this is the day where if you catch a shower you are more likely to get a real soaking from

it. temperatures are still on the low side for the time of year but in the main sunshine between the showers probably not feeling so bad. for the week and for wednesday we have showers in the charts mostly across eastern scotland and england but they will not be as widespread and quite not quite as heavy and more of you will start to enjoy drier weather. given a bit more sunshine and starting to feel warmer at 17 in glasgow and 19 in cardiff and 20 the top temperature in london. forthursday and 20 the top temperature in london. for thursday and friday showers tend to be confined to the north—west of the uk and most areas will become drier with more sunshine and temperatures into the low 20s across england and wales and feeling across england and wales and feeling a bit warmer.

this is bbc news. the headlines at four. the government says it's "very concerned" over upsetting scenes at the champions league final — as fans were tear gassed in paris. people were begging, the liverpool fans that were in were begging because they said it just seemed to be like it could be a repeat of hillsborough. that's how bad it was. ukraine's president volodyrmyr zelensky has made a rare trip outside the kyiv region, to visit the city of kharkiv. heavy fighting is continuing in eastern ukraine, where russian forces are trying to capture the city of severodonetsk. the russian ambassador to the uk tells the bbc that moscow will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the battle for ukraine. we have a very strict provision on the issues of the use of tactical nuclear weapon, and it is mainly when the existence

of the state is endangered.