what do you think about that? well, it's interesting. _ what do you think about that? well, it's interesting. i _ what do you think about that? well, it's interesting. i didn't _ what do you think about that? vii it's interesting. i didn't think i'd be sat here talking about elon musk potentially fighting mark zuckerberg but the world is a crazy place. what but the world is a crazy place. what did the training _ but the world is a crazy place. what did the training look _ but the world is a crazy place. what did the training look like? you are an expert. did the training look like? you are an exert. ., ., �* , ~ an expert. from what i've seen, mark zuckerber: an expert. from what i've seen, mark zuckerberg looks _ an expert. from what i've seen, mark zuckerberg looks like _ an expert. from what i've seen, mark zuckerberg looks like he's _ zuckerberg looks like he's taking the training seriously. i've seen him train with ufc world champions and elon musk, i've seen him doing some bicep curls, so i think mark zuckerberg is taking this seriously. if they were to fight, i'd put my money on him. if they were to fight, i'd put my money on him-— if they were to fight, i'd put my money on him. what skills do you need to be _ money on him. what skills do you need to be a _ money on him. what skills do you need to be a winner _ money on him. what skills do you need to be a winner with - need to be a winner with cage fighting? need to be a winner with cage fiuuhtin? ~ ~�* , , need to be a winner with cage fiuuhtin? ~ ~~ , , ., ., fighting? mma is every martial art there is, fighting? mma is every martial art there is. so _ fighting? mma is every martial art there is, so they _ fighting? mma is every martial art there is, so they need _ fighting? mma is every martial art there is, so they need to - fighting? mma is every martial art there is, so they need to learn - fighting? mma is every martial art| there is, so they need to learn how to box, click wrestling, jujitsu. there are lots of different ways to win a fight. you can knock somebody out, get a submission, or it might be three rounds at the judges decide. there are a lot of skills

down era and if you think about fighting in august, that's far too soon. they need a lot more training. how did you get into it? be; soon. they need a lot more training. how did you get into it?— how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when _ how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i — how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i was _ how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i was 15 _ how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i was 15 for - how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i was 15 for a - how did you get into it? by seeing it on tv when i was 15 for a trip i l it on tv when i was 15 for a trip i saw conor mcgregor, the biggest superstars of the sport, and i went to my local gym and said, can i try it? ~ , ., _, to my local gym and said, can i try it? , ., ., to my local gym and said, can i try it?_ it's so - it? why do you love it? it's so challenging. _ it? why do you love it? it's so challenging, one _ it? why do you love it? it's so challenging, one of _ it? why do you love it? it's so challenging, one of the - challenging, one of the hottest spots in the world. there are 70 different things to most day of training is tough. the mentalfights are physically and mentally challenging. perhaps that's why those business tycoons are looking for a new challenge, perhaps to pick something up this difficult. if something up this difficult. if you win, presumably _ something up this difficult. if you win, presumably you _ something up this difficult. if you win, presumably you get - something up this difficult. if you win, presumably you get an - win, presumably you get an adrenaline rush. perhaps they're looking for that. the adrenaline rush, its complete _ looking for that. the adrenaline rush, its complete euphoric- looking for that. the adrenaline i rush, its complete euphoric when looking for that. the adrenaline - rush, its complete euphoric when you went first up it's what keeps me in the sport i don't need to fight, i fight because i love it. perhaps that's something they are chasing,

the next adrenaline rush and challenge. plan, or perhaps it's a publicity stunt. they don't need the money or the publicity.— publicity stunt. they don't need the money or the publicity. perhaps mark zuckerber: money or the publicity. perhaps mark zuckerberg does _ money or the publicity. perhaps mark zuckerberg does for _ money or the publicity. perhaps mark zuckerberg does for threads, - money or the publicity. perhaps mark| zuckerberg does for threads, because he has lost a lot of users, but sometimes it feels like two schoolkids in a playground with these two. schoolkids in a playground with these twe— schoolkids in a playground with these two. , , ., ., these two. definitely, social media can be a dangerous _ these two. definitely, social media can be a dangerous thing. - these two. definitely, social media can be a dangerous thing. they - these two. definitely, social media i can be a dangerous thing. they have the ability to call out each other and challenge people to fights. does it help undermine _ and challenge people to fights. does it help undermine cage fighting, these two? it it help undermine cage fighting, these two?— it help undermine cage fighting, these two? , , ~ , , ., these two? it depends. all eyes on this board is _ these two? it depends. all eyes on this board is better. _ these two? it depends. all eyes on this board is better. you _ these two? it depends. all eyes on this board is better. you can - these two? it depends. all eyes on this board is better. you can growl this board is better. you can grow the sport. but i guarantee this fight will be low level. i have helped train people who have done charity fight we have a short amount of time to prepare and, even though they train hard, they end up looking about like a pub. plan, an undignified brawl? yet. i guarantee it would be pretty for those in the

sport who appreciate martial arts as an art. . ~ sport who appreciate martial arts as an art. ., ~ i. sport who appreciate martial arts as anart. ., ~ .., an art. thank you. i appreciated learnin: an art. thank you. i appreciated learning about _ an art. thank you. i appreciated learning about that. _ so let's take a look at some of the front pages... the daily mail leads with, i'll which one crooked migration lawyers, and the lionesses are through to the last eight. that was tough against nigeria today. the front page of the guardian, air pollution linked to global rise in deadly resistance to antibiotics and reprieve for asylum seekers ordered onto a barge, some of the asylum seekers who was put with dorset didn't because i charity got involved to stop it happening. the mirror, clueless, 15 asylum seekers on barge but doesn't recede lee reprieved as lawyers argue the vessel is unsee. that's it. the papers are not on my ipad matter. that's all from us tonight. i'll be back again tomorrow. until then, goodnight.

breaking news from around the world 2a hours a day, this is bbc news. which must be pretty scary, right, for you? for sure, yeah. i could just hope that it will not break her. alexander lukashenko crushed the protests to stay in power, but he didn't crush the spirits of everyone. in warsaw, in exile, these granny activists are filming skits for social media. they're sending up lukashenko's supporters, fighting a repressive regime by laughing at it. anna's home has been searched,

her relatives threatened, but she told me she can't stay silent. translation: i think it's a betrayal. - if we don't speak out, who will? in belarus, everyone is silent because it's impossible to say a thing there. so every week in warsaw, belarusians gather. some are former prisoners themselves. others have relatives behind bars. they all had to flee here for safety. of course, in terms of scale, this is nothing like the kind of protests that we saw three years ago inside belarus itself. it is really hard to keep that protest spirit alive once you're in exile. but that is what these people are trying to do, and to send the message that the repression inside belarus hasn't stopped. that's why inga now lives in a shelter in poland with her son. the police came for her two years after the mass protests, when they found a photo of her on a friend's phone

with an opposition flag. in custody, she says, they were treated like animals. but that's not what upsets her most. translation: all these amazing, educated people are all in prison. | that's so hard. just for our words. inga knows she can't go back to belarus or she'd be arrested again. and opposition supporters aren't just being locked up there now, they're being kept in isolation. sarah rainsford, bbc news, warsaw. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. in india, the senior congress party leader, rahul gandhi, has entered parliament for the first time after being reinstated as an mp. mr gandhi, who hails from india's most influential political dynasty, was disqualified as an mp after a court found him guilty

in a defamation case in march and sentenced him to two years in jail. india's supreme court last week suspended that ruling, opening the way for mr gandhi's return. the un's children's agency, unicef, says south asia has the highest percentage of children exposed to extreme high temperatures, compare to all other regions. unicef estimates that around half a billion children in south asia are exposed to temperatures exceeding 35 celsius for approximately a quarter of the year. among the most impacted are children in afghanistan, india, pakistan and bangladesh. extreme weather continues across europe, with countries battling heavy rain, flooding and fires. slovenia's prime minister says flooding there has caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. meanwhile, hundreds of people were evacuated from the east coast of sardinia as more than 50 wildfires tear through the island.

thousands of scouts at an international event in south korea are being evacuated from a campsite due to an incoming tropical storm. the uk and several other countries had already left, citing extreme hot weather and poor facilities at the site. je seung lee has more. first came the heatwave, now it's a storm. a contingency plan has been put into action in south korea, with all scouts taking part in this year's world scout jamboree being evacuated early from the campsite because of an incoming storm. the typhoon is expected to make landfall on thursday, bringing with it heavy rain and strong gusts. now, it's a massive operation that's expected to last a few hours. 36,000 people from over 150 countries are being moved out of the site in this country's southwestern coast to the capital seoul.

some 1,000 buses are being mobilised. the government said it made the decision because it was no longer safe to hold events there. it said it also listened to the concerns of the world organization for scout movements and national delegations. now, the event isn't ending early. instead, the participants will continue with other activities in seoul and the surrounding area, including cultural experiences. now, it's worth mentioning that there's growing criticism towards the organising committee, as it's been revealed that most of the budget allocated for the event, which is around $76 million, was spent on the committee itself rather than setting up the campsite, which was heavily criticised for its poor conditions, leading to a lot of the scouts falling ill from high temperatures. the american film director william friedkin has died at the age of 87. he won the best director oscar

for the 1971 thriller the french connection, but he was perhaps most well—known for directing the iconic and controversial horror film the exorcist. the film, about a young girl possessed by the devil, was infamously banned in many countries, but it became one of the most successful and influential films of all time. here he is speaking about the exorcist in 2008. it's realistic. there's no escape from it. it isn't like there's a lot of distance for the audience, like most of the films in the genre today, where you can laugh. i mean, there will be some laughs, but they're nervous laughter based on tension. i'm joined now by film critic siobhan synnot. thank you so much forjoining us on newsday today. i was just looking at your twitter, or newsday today. i was just looking at yourtwitter, orx, newsday today. i was just looking at your twitter, or x, and newsday today. i was just looking at yourtwitter, orx, and it newsday today. i was just looking at your twitter, or x, and it seemed that you have met friedkin your

self. can you just talk us through what he was like?— what he was like? very softly soken, what he was like? very softly spoken. very _ what he was like? very softly spoken, very courteous, - what he was like? very softly spoken, very courteous, he l what he was like? very softly i spoken, very courteous, he was what he was like? very softly - spoken, very courteous, he was very charming, and infact spoken, very courteous, he was very charming, and in fact he turned to my editor so much that he persuaded him to put his picture on the front page of my newspaper — quite an achievement if you know my editor! he was as well of course one of the highly regarded directors of the 19705 highly regarded directors of the 1970s above there with spielberg scorsese, francis ford coppola, and i think his skill was really to treat what other people might have regarded as b movies with the utmost seriousness. sending like the french connection, a cop movie, could have been a potboiler, but in his hands it was something far more elevated than that and he got an amazing performance out ofjean hackman, despite the fact thatjing haipeng felt that his character, pop —— popeye doyle, was morally referenceable and had to be pushed

by mackler to give his character its full weight, and the exorcist, he never regarded that as a horror movie despite the spinning heads and the peas soup —— gene hackman. he regarded it as a serious drama, a moral question, and when he felt the energy onset of was not quite as energetic as he would like he punched one of the characters, one of his actors come in the face of a noxious annual actor either, a priest. noxious annual actor either, a riest. . , , ., , ~ priest. incredible stories there! at the ace of priest. incredible stories there! at the age of 87. _ priest. incredible stories there! at the age of 87, he _ priest. incredible stories there! at the age of 87, he actually - priest. incredible stories there! at the age of 87, he actually had - priest. incredible stories there! at the age of 87, he actually had a i priest. incredible stories there! at l the age of 87, he actually had a new movie coming out?— movie coming out? that's right. he has a version _ movie coming out? that's right. he has a version of _ movie coming out? that's right. he has a version of the _ movie coming out? that's right. he has a version of the king _ has a version of the king mutiny court—martial, chance to see one of our great film makers for the very last time —— came mutiny. sad news today, i think, last time —— came mutiny. sad news today, ithink, with last time —— came mutiny. sad news today, i think, with william friedkin, at his films or carry onwards. maybe he did not achieve the same potential for the oscar

wendt for the french connection and the assignment that surrounded the exorcist, but he had something of a comeback with a film called killer joe with matthew mcconaughey, and it is always worth seeing it william friedkin film.— is always worth seeing it william friedkin film. ,, ., , ., ., ., ~ friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank ou so friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much — friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much for— friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining _ friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining us _ friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining us on - you so much forjoining us on newsday today. mi; you so much for “oining us on newsday today. 18—year—old ana mayers and her mum keisha schahaff are set to make history, as the first mother and daughter to go to space. they'll also be the first people from the caribbean to make the journey. they won the voyage in a competition. louise hosie reports. welcome to space. it is a once—in—a—lifetime adventure few of us will ever experience. but for keisha and ana, their dream is on the edge of becoming a reality. they are about to become the first ever mum and daughter in space. they will be on board

virgin galactic�*s unity spacecraft. to just have the experience to actually go to space and look at our amazing planet from that high and to just breathe that in and to just be in that energy isjust super amazing. it brings out a lot of emotion in me because it's something that i've wanted for so long and it's happening. i know we will get to experience weightlessness and see the planet from out of space. i have no words to describe how i feel about experiencing that. originally from antigua in the caribbean, ana is currently studying physics at aberdeen university and hopes to eventually work for nasa. you and your mother are going to space. i we won! her mum won their seats on the rocket after entering a competition she saw advertised on a flight as they travelled to get ana's student visa ana believes it was

written in the stars. had i not randomly chosen aberdeen university and had we not had to take a massive detour to get my visa, we wouldn't be going to space. this is cool! ana hopes her example will inspire promising young astronauts. like some young people at this event in aberdeen. i think it is really cool that people from aberdeen can go up into space. it's really amazing. how does it make you feel seeing the rocket and everything? it is great! because i see the earth and where i'm living, i can see my house on earth. you will be the first mother and daughter to ever go into space. how does that feel? it is so much more reassuring and so connecting to be able to do this with someone i love so much. the virgin space flight takes off

from new mexico on thursday. that's it for the programme. thank you so much for watching. hello there. there's a promise of something a little bit warmer for all of us towards the end of the week. but it's going to be a short—lived warm snap, as cooler, wetter conditions return for many northern and western areas over the weekend. for the next few days, it's southern areas which will see the mist, the murk, the cloud, the rain. a bit brighter further north. this deep area of low pressure will bring all sorts of problems to scandinavia, with localised flooding, heavy rain and strong winds. but the weather front pushing in across the south of the uk for tuesday will be a much weaker affair, bringing increasing cloud to the southern half of the country, with some patchy rain and drizzle, low cloud, some sea fog around south—western coasts and into wales. but for northern england, northern ireland, scotland, bright with some sunny spells, one or two showers in north—east scotland, where it will be windier, especially in the northern isles —

gusts up to 50 miles an hour here, with only 12 degrees in lerwick. but for the mainland of the uk, 16 to maybe 20 degrees from north to south. as we move through tuesday night, it looks like the showers, long spells of rain across the south of england clear away and it turns dry with lengthy clear spells. but it will continue to be windy in the north—east of scotland, into the northern isles. temperatures in single digits across the north. another chilly night to come here, but milder in the south and west, where it will be a bit more humid, misty and murky. wednesday, then, not a bad—looking day. quite a bit of sunshine around. still windy in the north—east of scotland and the northern isles, but thicker cloud will push into western areas at times and there will be some mist and murk around too. but i think most places will stay dry, creating sunshine across the east and south—east of england. so, here, 2a, maybe 25 degrees — and it'll feel increasingly humid as well. towards the end of the week, we start to tap into that warmer air over the near continent, so it will turn drier and sunnier. but it will turn a little bit humid as well. but you can see the red and orange colours spreading their way northwards across the uk. we could be up to the mid—20s

in scotland on thursday and the high 20s for parts of england and wales. but it will be a short—lived warm spell. low pressure out in the atlantic will send a weather front across the uk during friday, which will bring showers or longer spells of rain, particularly to the north and the west of the uk. some of them may be heavy. and as it moves through, temperatures will drop back down below the seasonal norm once again. so an unsettled theme as we head into friday and the weekend across the north and the west of the uk. not looking that bad, though, across southern and eastern parts of england.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. ukraine sees itself locked in an existential struggle against russian aggression. already, the conflict has lasted 1.5 years — almost a decade, if you trace it back to moscow's first military moves in crimea and the donbas. what has the fight and the human cost of it done to ukraine, to the spirit, the morale of the people? well, my guest is andriy khlyvnyuk, a ukrainian rock star turned armed defender. as ukraine becomes a militarised society, what has happened to its culture? andriy khlyvnyuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me here. good day, sir.

it's a pleasure to have you here.