from new york, the bbc‘s tom brook reports. music.most every day. and several miles away in prospect park in brooklyn, the kings county brass quintet holds court. new york cityjazz performers have been forced outdoors to the parks trying to eke out a living after the pandemic led to the closure of the city's music clubs. it's very bad. new york is the centre of the jazz world, and there's a lot of musicians who live offjazz, you know, playing live for people. and pretty much, they were denied that. music. i'm here about, like, two or three times a week playing with different groups. i was in central park yesterday, and, yeah, this is all we have being able to play outside, so hopefully it's not going to be too cold of a winter. the crisis in the city's jazz world is painfully evident in new york's greenwich village, where legendaryjazz clubs are trying to stay afloat. the village vanguard is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in the world. it faces possible extinction. six months ago almost to the day, we closed our doors... .

i am tom brooke and welcome to our special talking movies programme, where we look forward to award seasonly, at this time of the year, award season is taking shape, but because of the pandemic, everything has changed, with the oscars now shifting to april. but, some potential awards contenders have emerged, especially at the venice film festival. from venice, for talking movies, emma jones reports. to the astonishment and the acclamation of the film industry, the venice film festival took place in 2020. it even had, behind the masks, instantly recognisable faces. but this year, with only two american films in competition, it was undoubtedly a european event and given its timing, that is unusual. this is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, but coming to venice in september and its festival, usually means the start of autumn award season, because this place has a habit of spotting oscar winners. but in 2020, by necessity, it has been a very different kind of festival. venice shows us that award season, if it has a physical form, will involve socially distanced carpets, masks, an

tom brook, bbc news, new york.ite house on saturday as he seeks to dispel lingering doubts about his recovery from coronavirus. several hundred supporters have been invited to hear him speak from a balcony. he's also planning to attend a rally in florida on monday. it comes as the us commission on presidential debates has announced that next week's second presidential debate has been cancelled. the commission had proposed a virtual debate between the two candidates, but that idea had been dismissed by president trump. that is all for me. stay with us that is all for me. stay with us here on bbc news. bye—bye. hello there. during friday, we saw colder air sweep down across the whole of the uk. accompanied by a fair number of showers as well. this weekend, it remains on the chilly side. again, a mixture of sunshine and showers. the showers much more widespread, though, on saturday. we have the colder air because the winds are coming in from the north or north—west. and that is because we have lower pressure sitting t

music plays hello from new york, i'm tom brook — and as the us presidential election campaign gatherselcome to our cinema and politics edition of talking movies. president trump reportedly likes a hollywood classic, citizen kane. joe biden has expressed the fineness of the british period drama, the king's speech. we've been exploring the movie preferences of the presidential candidates and what they may signify. murray, one small thing... yeah? when you bring me out, can you introduce me asjoker? the moviejoker, the origin story for batman's biggest nemesis is among the films reportedly shown in the white house screening room during president trump's tenure, as our steven spielberg's pentagon papers drama, the post, and the musical drama the greatest showman. but nobody for certain knows how these films resonated with the president, but out on the streets, new yorkers believe they have a sense of what movies donald trump really likes. i think president trump would probably like titanic, something like that. definitely something violent, i would definitely say, like an action movie, de

is at the center of brookings institution values and theviews expressed today are solely those of the speakers . once again thank you for joining us this morning and now over to tom wright, director of the center on us and europe. >> thank you so much for that introduction and thank you to all of you for joining us online this morning. i'm hoping first, we thought it would be an eventful october, there's a lot of things to discuss and i don't think any of us would have gone into it with what we find ourselves this morning so to talk about the broader implications of the election and foreign policy in general , we're fortunate to be joined by a terrific panel of my colleagues from brookings so i'll briefly introduce them although i'm sure there are they are all knownto you . first is rebecca holston, chair and senior fellow of government study . and has done immense work on the election and us politics but the connection to foreign policy and america's role in the world . the owner help, my colleague epicenter for the united states and europe , and of course formally senior director from europe and russia in the white house during the trumpet ministrations, cd apo

center of brookings institutions policies and values and the views expressed today here are solely those of the speakers. once again, thank you all for joining us this morning and now over to tom wright director for the center on u.s. and europe. >> suzanne, thank you so much and for that introduction and thank you all for joining us on-line this morning. when we first devised this panel concept a few weeks ago, i thought it would be-- we thought it would be an eventful october with lots of things to discuss, i don't think any of us could have quite envisioned the circumstances in which we find ourselves this morning. and so the talk about that and the broader sort of implications of the election have the relations and foreign policy in general, we're fortunate to be joined by a terrific panel of my colleagues from brookings. so i'll briefly introduce them, although i'm sure they're all known to you. first bill olson, the editor and chair and senior fellow on governance study. and has done immense work on the election and u.s. politics with the connection to foreign policy, america's role in the world. fiona hill, my colleague at the center for the united states and europe, se