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get your hands on your heads. get off the bar and get on the wall. popeye doyle in the french connection face the wall! it brought him the first of his two oscars in not bad for a man voted least likely to succeed at acting school. he'd been given that particular award alongside classmate dustin hoffman. i've got more important things on my mind than that garbage. real nice meeting you. yeah. he was in his mid 30s by the time of his first big movie. take a good look, pop. i'm buck barrow. for his role in bonnie and clyde. bleak, brutal and gripping, the french connection turned him

the director to replace me because ijust didn't feel i could do it. i ain't gonna hurt no woman... ..but i'm gonna hurt you. for mississippi burning. now, you either go on the record for us right now, or it's going to be your ass we're talking about, of the royal tenenbaums, he was a versatile actor who excelled at playing the ordinary guy. and while he may have

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from the steps of a private jet just before it left baneasa we also know from romanian sources that these are dual and i understand perhaps one of the conditions of their release was that they would travel to the united states. obviously, they are wanted, there is a warrant so if they had stayed in europe, the eu, required, those countries, to extradite them, to the united states. saying the tate brothers remain under what they calljudicial they still face the very serious charges here

when it comes, important to say the case against them administration when it comes to these two men. public and private. we know this from a financial times on the romanian government, enormous pressure, so it is unimaginable, really, that they would have asked by romanianjudges

to recalibrate their case that is the situation as it stands this morning from bucharest. authorities confirming that andrew tait and his brother were allowed to leave the meeting with donald trump in the white house later. security guarantee as part of any peace deal in ukraine. donald trump says europe, not the united states, should be responsible for ukraine's security. with the us, calling mr trump a friend of the uk. our political editor chris mason is following the visit. well, hello, from washington.

foreign secretary david lammy was there too. why? they wanted to woo members of the trump administration who had been invited to a drinks reception. the prime minister, a labour prime minister, saying he reckons he's got something in common with elon musk, the billionaire working for donald trump, who just recently was handed who just recently was handed a chainsaw to try and a chainsaw to try and demonstrate his ruthlessness we want to strike at cutting through bureaucracy. we want to strike a new partnership. a new partnership. we share the view that our we share the view that our best days lie ahead. best days lie ahead. and, you know, taking out a chainsaw isn't quite my style, but we are stripping style, but we are stripping away red tape and bureaucracy. away red tape and bureaucracy. let's hear next, then, let's hear next, then, from lord mandelson who was making the case from lord mandelson that the uk and the us have always been super close and should continue working really closely. working really closely. i wouldn't say that we are being encircled by our

adversaries, we are certainly not, but they are doing a little bit of ganging up. and that's what's going to need us to be working hand in glove,

they met in september last year in new york, said that keir starmer was his friend. a clear british position. come to agreement. in those encounters, no doubt, president trump will dominate and president trump talking. is it ukraine?

will be upping their defence spending, which will on their defence spending. prime minister saying it's going to be up to 3%. where is the most important thing that he needs to push? ukraine and defence, i think, are clearly and as you imply, the announcement this week of an increase in defence spending in the uk will be treated as a new baseline. but the list is very long and also includes the which is a more bilateral piece of business between the uk and us. lord macdonald was the former

head of the and head of the foreign and commonwealth office in that commonweatth {office in that a lot to discuss we'll bring the details there. we'll bring the details to you. foreign minister of finland, elina valtonen starmer is in washington today to also convey we are very much aligned here, the uk, the european union we are a neighbour of russia and we have been a stable democracy for over 100 years,

of course, aid ukraine and also weaken russia, continue with the sanctions because those effectively negotiate a deal which will be lasting, which will be just because obviously the the entire world is watching. we'll bring you all the very latest here on bbc news. around the world and across the uk.

the uk government has signalled its support for a second runway at london gatwick airport. has said she is "minded to approve" what whitehall our transport correspondent sean dilley more details

down because the the tweaks are essentially very small. is to use its back—up runway, known as the north because at the moment, this behind me here is europe's biggest single runway airport, predominantly rather than business travellers. the second runway and the first together now, the airport argues that this would be fantastic create 111,000 jobs, £1 billion to the economy each and every year. we'll test those claims in a moment. would move that back up runway 12m to the north but various campaign

groups opposing it, lot of planes overhead. requires gatwick airport to put those noise mitigations in place before that second runway is operational at the turn of the decade, so roughly 2030. the airport, 5a%, to be done by public transport. so the secretary of state for transport has said technically, this means that this could roll but just within the last few

moments, i've been chatting who says, yeah, ok, but the government's made its position clear that it thinks that it's good for growth, and it's in no one's interest for it to carry on for that time period. those noise mitigations. when it comes to sustainability. sustainable fuels certainly an option. set against the government's target? the office for national statistics said that travelling out was £41 billion compared with those coming in. but from the government's point of view, probably not something we can test until the end

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him as the greatest to grace silverscreen. she him as the greatest to grace silver screen. she was gene the silver screen. she was gene hackman's girlfriend in that film. he was lex luther, filmyjze was lex luther. nemesis, filmyjzewas lex luther. nemesis, not playing superman's nemesis, not playing the hard man he was the usual hard man he was renowned for but playing a ere—e a taking renowned for but playing a "if r taking the mickey comedic role, taking the mickey out of himself very much. she says that he genius. one says that he was a genius. one of the many many tributes of the manyrmany tributes into gene hackman who hetrrihe "t“ ”ere “e'ier'r'er i“ ,, , a s, found dead at with was found dead at his home with his wife. he was 95. much more here on bbc hello again. the weather in the next few days is going high pressure is taking charge of things, really settling things down. all the time, though. for many of us, it will be dry with sunny spells, and also some mist and fog.

dry with some sunshine. through this evening and overnight, the cloud and showers clear away from the south—east. into east anglia. with temperatures like this, we are looking tomorrow, high pressure still firmly in charge we will have a few showers. the fog, with not much breeze elsewhere, but when it does, you will find a lot of dry weather and a fair bit of sunshine and some fairweather cloud bubbling as this weather front

approaches, the breeze will temperatures roughly 9—10 degrees. rain into the north—west. as it pushes further south, you might get the odd spot and a fair bit of cloud. that high pressure slips a bit further south and also some frost. the mist and fog slow to lift. then we are looking at a lot of dry weather around.

a trade war looms between the us and europe, from the eu and claims it was only formed "to screw the us." uk prime minister sir keir starmer is in washington, hoping to find common ground with donald trump,

is about to hit the european union with new tariffs. the us president said he's considering raising tariffs the bloc was only created to "screw the united states". trading partner. the bloc�*s exports. fleury has the latest from new york. donald trump warned during his first cabinet meeting that 25% tariffs on eu goods are coming soon. now, this is the first time the president has specified

a number as he railed against the eu for not