uk pride comes to the city of culture. roud now that things have come on leaps and bounds for everyone, whether you are transgender or whatever. and bringing comedy and curiosity to the world of museums, bill bailey curates his first exhibition. i shot tomas limpkin from but two feet away, however the pistol ball did not strike but instead flew upon the ground, striking a hedgehog. we start at this huge music festival in what was an old fruit market. it is now the cultural quarter of the city. and 1st saturday every august, this happens. there are more than 200 bands here today. 200 bands playing across 1a stages with 13,000 people descending here. you can feel the excitement and the vibe. one of the bands here today is the happy endings. a couple of months ago they were playing at glastonbury, but tonight they are here. it was like i had made it playing at sesh. only a few months ago, you were at glastonbury, how does this compare? that is a different animal. i had as much fun playing earlier as i did at glastonbury. do yo

the scenes of britain's city of culture with a special programme on hold's year—long festival of artsnd culture. —— hull's year—long festival. welcome to summer in the uk city of culture. and summer means festivals. we have got them all — literature, theatre and music. we're here for the humber street sesh. one day, 30,000 people, 1a stages, 200 acts, it is incredible! we will try to get you round as much as possible, and we got this. hull has seen its first—ever children's literature festival inspiring the next generation of writers. what happens when you grew up is you are still a child inside, fortunately, so the stories i write are the stories i wrote for myself when i was about eight. uk pride comes to the city of culture. i'm so proud now that things have come on leaps and bounds for everyone, whether you are transgender or whatever. and bringing comedy and curiosity to the world of museums, bill bailey curates his first exhibition. i shot tomas limpkin from but two feet away, however the pistol ball did not strike but instead flew upon the ground striking a hedgehog. we start a

city of glastonbury. do you think city of culture has made a difference?‘ glastonbury. you think city of culture has made a difference? a lot of people are looking to see what all the fuss is about and i think it is nice. i have sensed a lift. when you went to glastonbury do people know where you were from? only because i announced at! tell the world. to write! beautiful harmonies. we cannot stay here all day, we need to go. it is brilliant that it is all local talent. it advertises hull as the city of culture. this year, particularly, it is special because we are the city of culture. it is fantastic, great family day out for us fantastic, great family day out for us all. the atmosphere is really good. i have been involved with the local community. it is the really amazing atmosphere. really good. for the younger generation, this is vital for the growth of the music scene. for them, setting vital for the growth of the music scene. forthem, setting their sights, you can play these big stages. my first ever gig was here a few years ago and it is brilliant because new peop

do you think city of culture has made a difference?‘ glastonbury. l the fuss is about and i think it is nice. i have sensed a lift. when you went to glastonbury do people know where you were from? only because i announced at! tell the world. to write! beautiful harmonies. we cannot stay here all day, we need to go. it is brilliant that it is all local talent. it advertises hull as the city of culture. this year, particularly, it is special because

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hull has been celebrating a year as uk city of culture — and the events planned for the last few months how good has this year been so far? the fourth tell the world season starts in october and all thejuicy details have just been announced. the exciting programme for the next 3 months includes large—scale public artworks like a hall for hull, an installation and venue in its own right. there is more excellent theatre in store including a brand—new adaptation of the bestselling novel a short history of tractors in ukraine. the hull of the future is the setting for a new series of short sci—fi films entitled 2097 we made ourselves over. the eyes of the art world will be firmly on hull as the winner of the 2017 turner prize is announced and a spectacular light show will run in hull's old town from december into january. so bring it on, let us tell the world how amazing hull is. it is looking pretty good there. visitors to one american museum are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet. an italian artist and sculptor has created the fully functional 18—carat gold lavatory at

hour, plenty of colour and comedy, as we head to hull to check out the latest from britain's city of cultureo bbc news. ten of thousands of people living in the us state of texas have been ordered to leave their homes as flooding caused by tropical storm harvey continues to cause devastation. meteorologists say conditions are ‘unprecedented', describing the storm as the biggest to have ever hit the state of texas. so far more than two and a half feet of rain has fallen in houston, where roads have been turned into rivers. the city has been warned to expect up to a year's worth of rain within the week. five people are reported to have died in the rising floodwaters. emergency services in the area are overstretched and 3000 soldiers have been mobilised to help people to safety. 2000 people have been rescued, some plucked from rooftops by helicopters. in the past 30 minutes us army engineers have started releasing water from reservoirs in the city, after levels "increased dramatically" president trump is due to visit the city tomorrow to survey the damage. richard lister reports. taking only wh

of their people. sot: toni olmo, barelona native// "barcelona is a very open city it's full of cultures and i know right now everybody there is suffering this terrible attack."while bas believes its not just about spain- but a growing problem of fear mongering tactics through terror seen in among its allies as well.sot: laura bas, barcelon native// "it's not about spain i think it's in general about the world about these extremist people that want us, the world, and europe get scared of them." ((grant/map)) breaking news out of san jose...police are on the scene of a double shooting.this is happening on 9th and east taylor street. according to san jose police.. officers arrived to find two people shot.they were rushed to the hospital with life- threatening injuries.the shooter ran and has not been caught. we'll keep you posted there. (pam) the bay area fast food worker.. who is now out of a job after attending the alt right rally in charlottesville. denies that he is a white supermacist. in a statement cole white says, while there were people with those beliefs there.he and many others were there to sta

culture and los angeles is something that begins and ends with the movies. but the city has always been home to radical ideas and art, architecture, literal -- literature, and urban life. the profile ofity has run bigger and writer. with new cultural institutions, new approaches to art, and new ways of thinking about the landscape. join me as we hit some of the city's most important cultural landscapes. this is

hour, plenty of colour and comedy, as we head to hull to check out the latest from britain's city of culture

culture of the united states. however, they change the culture of our country as well. new york city'sculture has been changed by the immigrants who came here. so it's a two-way street. and that's true even when you're commuting in from the suburbs. and i agree that the prospect for change is not high right now, but to say that basically we're sort of doomed to have this high cost, elite, this kind of city full of effectively elite, very high-end people, kind of young, millennial-type singles, very few families and immigrants is to basically say structurally the commanding heights of the american economy and culture will be held forever by, essentially, the left because you're writing off the cities politically in a sense because the demographics is kind of destiny on that point. the reason that these cities are so far to the left today is because demographics changed. the people who voted giuliani into the mayoral, the mayor's office are either dead or in florida. [laughter] so, you know, the king can't afford queens anymore. you know, that kind of middle class voter's gone. so if not

that is the culture of this city, not just historically, the culture of many cities throughout the unitedtes, big, medium, and small. and we cannot be in a position where we have this false choice between the values of who we are and what we want our children to become. and also the undermining of a police department's philosophy, of community policing. because we want residents to see the police department as partners in making their neighborhood safe. if you have one part of your city, whether it be a pilsen, little village, back of the yards, that are predominantly hispanic to name that one community, that fear the police department, it actually undermines the very philosophy and also the public safety we're seeing. so i think it's a false choice. and i say, before, we will never be coerced on our values. if you believe tomorrow can be better for your children, that means you believe in the american dream. immigrants from around the world and people from chicago believe in that. we have a public scholarship, if you get a b-average in high school, community college is free. it's the onl

damascus and damascus has a lot of impact on me and so damascus the city of jasmine, it is a city of ritual, one of the oldest cultures, oldest inhabited city in the world. like turkish baths. if you want 56 robots, my grandmother and grandkids, every friday. on monday the head of the political party, all these people came for a meeting at my grandfather's house. women will be home and everybody knows if you come on monday, although women will gather and that is where you get married and get this and everything. i will learn a little bit about damascus for you. my grandfather -- to give you an idea, was built in 1737. my grandfather was born in the house, and before my first sibling was born there. this is in damascus in 1955. we emerged from my grandfather's house and gathered, still bright, but had substance allowing a gentle breeze to pull the plane. a sign that my two it's spends most of our summers, the house was large and grand, 28 rooms occupied two floors. the last courtyard, scented flowers, felt magical. and be mesmerized, what this home had to offer. this elegant house told a story of money and power and as

city of baltimore is conducting a seventy two a cease fire to try and stop the bloodshed the organizes under the slogan nobody kill anybody believe their initiative will be the first step to changing the city's culture of violence these days and they got support too from gangs and drug dealers but also establishing so-called no shoot zones in places which have frequently seen violence baltimore is on track towards its highest annual homicide told ranking alongside chicago detroit as one of the most unsafe cities in the us. few cities in body american or a more depressing lead in the city of baltimore baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. murder out of control. yes baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy. this week we have two suspects that we need your help. with will from baltimore next his see america correspondent ashley banks the. i'm in for another pretty grim year old where authorities are saying that freddie agrees a death that took place a couple years ago is the reason for the spike and homicides in the city according to the baltimore sun baltimore police commissioner kevin davis is trying to combat the gun violence and has the poit one hundred fifty officers and sup

the slogan nobody kill anybody believe that initiative would be the first step to changing the city's culture of violence and not to say that got support too from gangs and drug dealers they're also establishing so-called no shoot zones in places which have frequently seen violence baltimore's own trucks towards its highest ever and you will homicide toll ranking it alongside chicago and detroit as one of the most unsafe cities in the united states. the cities of body american urban decay. depressingly in the city of baltimore baltimore a record high murder rate. baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy. this week. that we need your help. with more details in baltimore. actually banks. i'm in front of the forty grim year old where authorities are saying that freddie agrees a death that took place a couple years ago is the reason for the spike and homicides in the city according to the baltimore sun baltimore police commissioner kevin davis is trying to combat the gun violence and has supported one hundred fifty officers and supervisors we spoke with baltimore city police department spok

of the world's economic output comes from cities. but so too do more than 70% of greenhouse gases being admitted in the world. politically and culturally, cities are the vanguards of openness. the champions of globalization. important qualities in the time when nationalists and anti-global sentiments are reemerging. taken together what these trends mean is clear -- a future dominated by cities is rapidly becoming our present. so as we have done in the previous two years, we are gathered in this global city, here in chicago to discuss the role of global cities in the changing world. this year in some ways it is different from previous years. the questions we hope to answer over the next few days are entirely new for good reason. citiessly we asked if drove the global economy. now we ask how they will continue to do so. before we asked if cities can have a foreign policy. now we are more interested in the example of city diplomacy at their best. before we asked whether such cities can challenge national governments for power on the global stage, today we know they are. we want to know how they will do so and better the lives of citizens

the city of turku, a business and cultural hub on the south—west coast of finland is now calm with quiets the scene of chaos. an 18—year—old man carrying a knife went on a frenzied attack in the city's main market square. the moroccan killed two people and injured eight others before police shot him in the leg and made the arrest. authorities have not released the identity of the attacker who remains in hospital. police believe this was not a random act of violence on the innocent, but a targeted attack on women. the two finnish victims were female as were six of the eight others injured. this is the first ever terror attack in finland's history. juha sipila is the first finnish leader who has had to respond to terrorism but his message was familiar. this is the first time we have a terrorist attack in finland. of course, the whole country is sorrowing the situation right now and we are looking for the future anyway, together. and we don't give up. while terrorism is new for finland, the authorities are asking the usual questions after an incident like this. did the attacker act alone, o

the city of turku, a business and cultural hub on the south—west coast of finland is now calm with quieta knife went on a frenzied attack in the city‘s main market square. the moroccan killed two people and injured eight others before police shot him in the leg and made the arrest. authorities have not released the identity of the attacker, who remains in hospital. police believe this was not a random act of violence on the innocent, but a targeted attack on women. the two finnish victims were female as were six of the eight others injured. this is the first ever terror attack in finland‘s history. juha sipila is the first finnish leader who has had to respond to terrorism but his message was familiar. this is the first time we have a terrorist attack in finland. of course, the whole country is sorrowing the situation right now and we are looking for the future anyway, together. and we don‘t give up. while terrorism is new for finland, the authorities are asking the usual questions after an incident like this. did the attacker act alone, or was he part of a wider network? so far, four ot

of their people. sot: toni olmo, barelona native// "barcelona is a very open city it's full of cultures and i know right now everybody there is suffering this terrible attack."while bas believes its not just about spain- but a growing problem of fear mongering tactics through terror seen in among its allies as well.sot: laura bas, barcelon native// "it's not about spain i think it's in general about the world about these extremist people that want us, the world, and europe get scared of them." (pam) developing tonight: president donald trump taking to twitter today to defend confederate statues.(grant) this comes as communities across the country are debating what to do with their own monuments.tonight -- confederate symbols in san diego, los angeles, and baltimore, have been removed. president trump tweeted today: "sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments." trump also argued taking down confederate statues would lead to the removal of other monuments. (grant) all this after a white supremacist rally in charlottesv

actually you can go somewhere like manchester where you can enjoy all of the features of a big city, concerts and culturerything else, but it is a bit cheaper. a bit cheaper, but there is the stamp duty cost of putting investors. the conservatives have said if they do not disagree about it it will cost votes. apparently london has always had roughly three times the number of buy to let mortgages as other cities like manchester but actually the rate of new buy to let mortgages in london as half since 2016 and it is very much about the new tax that is very much about the new tax that is placed on purchasing new properties so, yes, there are a lot of people desperately searching around london for the last cheap property that they can buy and rent out to some poor and unsuspecting soul. actually, lachlan was saying, may be better off just soul. actually, lachlan was saying, may be better offjust looking outside london altogether. whether this is a good thing for renters in cities outside london is a whole other question, but nonetheless it is difficult to stop the market forces once they are in place. people

of us are in so many places. and how for all the reputation that cities can be in cultures of liberalism, the essential tenets of conservatism and an attitude towards preserving traditions and attitude towards strengthening people's agency, those are present in cities. party labels may come and go but conservatism is very present. what we have seen as lewis describes is a built environment that was not planted well in many places. but rather was driven apart. so we saw many cities torn apart by interstate projects that snaked through intentionally poor working-class neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, and highways in cities have to be just as good as i was outside of them. we saw a lot of enthusiasm that destroyed a lot of good architecture and urbanism. in many cities in america you see them starting to try to prepare. trying to put pieces back together and there places where it's happening. one of the great sites of that is the city of detroit where it is as bad as its reputation gives you to believe. it has gone through things that no other city in america has and it has gone further down, but in detroit and i

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of publicity what you have coming out in the fall 2017?. >> 800 pages big by a british historian to look at the city as a hub of commerce and culture in the city has had and the research she asked billy went to his temple and we think it will tell people about the country we have another book coming out that will lead peter the great decided to send two ships to what would be known as alaska but did that as a trip to study the natural world but chaos in sudan they shipwrecked on a deserted island that had ferule fox's and they all had scurvy. >> it is a great way to see booksellers and to lay to meet with the media with the npr marketplace so it is a good kids to show how to highlight in persons. >> one more title?. >> this book is about to ship harbored in brooklyn during the revolution with terrible conditions but was researching ships to like those maritime stories were roll history. >> thinks we're time . >> i.m. reading james cliburn's booked of his experiences about the life of koresh does scott king. >> what inspired these choices. >> let me say that when she was really in the movement those women never got the credit for what they

of the entities, the city state is not just an episode. samaria beginning of were a dominant entity. of course in the west, very unlike asia. aty states have played staggering role in our cultural development through italy and so forth. i found it thinking, how did this change? today singapore is the only city state of any independence. even though that we meant, city generate close to half of the gdp of their country in territories. we emphasize them, they shape the world system. a scale that dwarfs even their cities. political power ended up in countries which contain many are as whose interests expressed in their political systems very separate from those of their global cities, whose economic role in my view is as dominant as ever, and their political role is remarkably significant. what do we do about this? i don't think it is plausible the cities which lack armies and lack on tribal loyalties, which i rather like, when to rise up and say give us independence. i wrote a column in which i argued that it will be a good thing if london became singapore. if it became an independent city states. i do not expect them to see to that. so we are not going to have political independ

of the entities, the city state is not just an episode. samaria beginning of were a dominant entity. of course in the west, very unlike asia. aty states have played staggering role in our cultural development through italy and so forth. i found it thinking, how did this change? today singapore is the only city state of any independence. even though that we meant, city generate close to half of the gdp of their country in territories. we emphasize them, they shape the world system. a scale that dwarfs even their cities. political power ended up in countries which contain many are as whose interests expressed in their political systems very separate from those of their global cities, whose economic role in my view is as dominant as ever, and their political role is remarkably significant. what do we do about this? i don't think it is plausible the cities which lack armies and lack on tribal loyalties, which i rather like, when to rise up and say give us independence. i wrote a column in which i argued that it will be a good thing if london became singapore. if it became an independent city states. i do not expect them to see to that. so we are not going to have political independ

gamblers and there's just you know it's just amazing to see people it's just a tremendous city deal for full of culture music. just people watching just fantastic. i mean this is this is not the. i mean just lots of different emotions all the conk out my mind is not woman who was screaming for a children didn't just hope she phoned them and say yes it's incredibly evocative the way you describe amer just one last thing on this we're seeing we're looking at pictures while you're speaking here a lot of on balance is on the street a lot of part of medics and we don't know the figures yet all of whom have lost their lives does it look as if there were a lot of ambulances what you could see apologizing you know when i we're getting i mean i've i mean i've lost count of time and we've always been you bought some six seven times now you're on the seven hundred meters away from the scene six seven times and the tell you i was carry things up will be sore only on two of the. two. i call the only minimum of the ambulances and then well i realise was that each time it was all awful thankfully that's no more i bli

city-state is not just an episode. the very beginning of samaria, city-states were a dominant entity. in the west, very unlike asia, city-states have played a staggering role in our culturaldevelopment, from athens through rome through italy and so forth. really, today, singapore is the only city-state of any independence. all the cities you talk about them even the ones of immense scale, city regions which generate close to half of the gdp of their country are nonetheless and that it -- nonetheless embedded in territories. the reason we emphasize them, they shape the world system. they are of a scale that dwarfs even their cities. political power ended up in countries, which contain many cities, and whose interests are as expressed in their political systems very separate from those of their global cities, whose economic role in my view is as dominant as ever, and their political role is remarkably significant. what do we do about this? i don't think it is plausible that the cities, which lack armies and lack on tribal loyalties, which i rather like, when to rise up -- are going to rise up and say give us independence. i wrote a column in which i argued it -- and i belie

of being the best city we can. i think if we do that, we will be attractive to people. lewis: coming off of that, if we can come back to the cultural side. the importance of place. how that attracts people and creates a sense of value. somebody want to comment on? gracy: well i think one problem that relates to that, of course, is -- and this is a problem in a lot of small communities that i've seeand interacted with. that as larger cities, the san francisco's of the world, attract people, what happens to the smaller communities surrounding them? usually, they become suburbs. a lot of them experience that transformation from once being a vibrant rural town to becoming a bedroom community for people who buy groceries elsewhere, who buy everyday needs elsewhere, who go ahead and go to chuh in the city as opposed tooing to church locally. in addition, a lot of local businesses suffer. so they're trying to answer the question of how do we make ourselves uniquevibrant, powerful, both socially and economically, when all our resources are being drained from us. and they have this feeling of kind of becoming faceless. i do think it's inter

of how clearly he can recall those things. the one thing he doesn't say if this was selectively enforced. the police knew about the blind paints in the city. this was part of the culture and the blind pigs in the city. this was part of the culture. the problems and tensions only existed between police and the black community. this was not the only time they decided to goand raid thatd a place -- night, a place there was. about the behavior that me to escalate to a higher level. it's spilled out into the street and there were people out there. that is what becomes the flashpoints. mesa, michael is from la california. he was in the national guard. good afternoon. caller: the only unit actually thehe city of the time was summer camp. we were there and there were 300 of us. i lived on eileen street. city. the ton truck..5 as they would bring the prisoners to the trucks, the police would beat them up. it was unbelievable. i would never forget. shocked to see this going on in my city. it was literally heartbreaking. pedro: was the national guard involved in that as far as the roughing up of african-americans or was it just the detroit police? caller: from what i can tell, i

this city is one of the most loving cities in the world, recently ranked america's most charming city, a city whose spirit and culture of generosity is supported by this spirit of diversity and tolerance that we have here. we have a major office of the international rescue committee, for instance, several hundred immigrate, political refugees who have settled here. we love them. they happen to mostly be muslim. we have a large historic african-american population, the dialogue on race where the city leads to get together and talk about challenging issues in the past. because of those two things, our generosity and diversity, we're one of the most successful cities in the country, we just had 50 biotech companies launch ag organization here. my point of saying this, if they figured they had a city to intimidate away from progress, intimidate away from the truth, they picked the wrong city. if anything, we'll come together and press the gas on all the values that have made us a success story, and i think we're seeing that. as we speak, there were 600 rallies around cities and virginia in support of charlottesville agai

of maryland. that same conversation is happening in numerous cities throughout the south where civil war memorials are part of the region's history and culture kentucky, one city there is bracing for the possibility of more violence. correspondent matt finn is in lexington tonight. [shouting] >> after deadly riots in charlottesville, lexington, kentucky mayor jim gray a democrat tweeted about his plans to remove these two confederate statues from doubt. the mayor tells fox news he defends the timing of his tweet which launched lexington into the center of the controversial issue and grabbed the attention of white supremacy groups. >> there's no perfect time to do the right thing. >> for two years lexington city officials have discussed plans to remove the statues of john breckenridge and general john hunt morgan from the old county courthouse. once home to chief side, one of the largest save auction sites in the south. >> this is a place where slavesy auctioned. it's not the place to gore phi and honor men who fought to preserve slavery. >> at a meeting tuesday, council members voted unanimously to move ahead with plans to relocate the statu

this moscow urban for him which is a gathering supported by the city of urban planners from all over the world. architects, food cultureeople, to discuss the future of big cities. of vladimir putin himself, he said that we need to be -- in order to be competitive you have to have a competitive mega-city. if people don't want to live in your city, you cannot compete. oliver: it is a conscious decision by russia to let us make moscow something that will draw people in a make a conscious effort to change it? >> yes. the talk of the city is how everything is being torn up, the sidewalks are being widen, bike lanes introduced, there are new park benches everywhere, historically accurate trees lining boulevards so they look like they did in the 1800s. these elaborate street festivals. --t people actually come tourists are coming in because it is less expensive to stay there than it has been in the past but they're also doing this so people who don't live in moscow but our russian, come to the city. oliver: turning this into a cover image was the job of our photo editor. i love this week's focus which is on cities. did you ch