world championships got under way in poland on wednesday — and the first gold medal went to elinor barker this crash on the penultimate lap. in a dramatic finale, barker held off the defending champion, kirsten wild of the netherlands, to improve on her silver medal from two years ago — and claim the fourth world title of her career. the two team sprint titles were also decided on wednesday. in the women's final it was australia against russia — and it was the australian pair of karly mcculloch and stephanie morton who took gold. that's a fourth world title for mcculloch — ten years after her first on the same track. the men's team sprint was won by the netherlands as they retained the title they won at home last year. in the final they beat france who improved on their third place finish 12 months ago — with russia taking bronze this time round. it's the fourth year a row the dutch have finished on the podium in the men's team sprint — with two silver medals followed by two golds. cricket — and the opening day of the first test between new zealand and bangladesh is into the second sessio

britain's elinor barker claimed the first gold medal of the uci track cycling world championships in the women's scratch race — including a crash in the penultimate lap — barker held off the reigning champion, kirsten wild of the netherlands, to improve on her second place finish from two years ago. manu tuilagi says he'll take some time after the six nations to make a "massive decision" over his club future. the leicester and england centre is weighing up an offer from french giants racing 92 to move to paris after the rugby world cup. tuilagi would be unavailable for england selection if he opts to go. back to football and the scottish premiership where this evening, neil lennon returned to celtic for his first game back in charge... fans though were clear on what they thought of brendan rogers decision to leave. they unveiled a banner before the game suggesting rodgers has traded immortality for mediocrity. the game was a tad more stressful for celtic than they would have liked as odsonne edouard's last gasp winner in stoppage time eventually giving them a 2—1 victory. with just 1

trisha barker, oroville"it looks good, but hasn't been tested."trisha barker says her father helped build the dam during the 1960s... and she's been very disappointed with how d-w-r has maintained it since.trisha barker, oroville "these things should have been taken care of."(but with)"it should have been maintained." others echo barker's feelings, distrustful of anything d-w-r has said over the past two years.martin down, oroville "just like they went with the same thing they did in the very beginning. i think they tried to cut corners."however others who live in the area áare confident with the progress they've seen on the dam.rebecca richardson, loma rica"i'm not too concerned about it."rocky richardson, loma rica"they've had a good company that's working on it, they seem like they're really busy all the time. not only that it's giving people jobs around here that may not have had jobs to keep working on there."d-w-r says it's working with the contractor to remove equipment during the rain storms... just in case the spillway is needed.but the s

. >> reporter: maria is up for her tribute to lulu barker. barker was famous for writing risque songs. >> they are well written, express a playful light-hearted sexuality. >> ♪ because if you feel you leg, you might want to try my thigh ♪ >> what he knows, what i know, creates this new blues for today. >> reporter: charlie musclewhite is nominated with his friend for no mercy in this land. >> ♪ what would be the first thing you would say to the lord ♪ >> reporter: ben wrote the title track after he heard about the murder of charlie's mother. a neighbor's son killed her to steal a few valuables. she was 93. >> it was a hard thing to deal with. and, i still think about her every day. >> reporter: all the nominees are thrilled. young people are now listening to their music. >> this music is so old already, but, everything old is new again. >> all these people that come to see ben, many of them never even heard of me before. when they left, they are new fans. >> reporter: as for elvin, about 30 years ago, he played a new song on a late night vari

president thomas barker achieved with the winter olympics last year bring in the careers together and cesar brought himself to be something more than just a sports administrators and he sees himself as having this ability to bring countries together where perhaps the politicians have not succeeded so far so i think that is going to be that the big issue in the coming months does in favor and in france you know try to force games in twenty twenty two on other countries in terms of certainly going against what cats are right in the eyes of the tournament want. that's an interesting point rob put it to james because currently pfieffer is is looking at a feasibility study as to whether or not to expand twenty twenty two from the thirty odd the thirty two teams to forty eight in if that were to be the case that would involve the participation of other countries in the reason i those countries who are currently blockading cata how complex how how plausible is this as an idea given the current situation if i can take what rob said a step further i think the notion that forcing the c.i. a sit

sophie barker defending serial number x equals. —— defending siegel. top story huawei. and the interview that we had. we will end with these images from toronto, where a resident has turned his backyard ice rink into a masterpiece after fresh snow blanketed his home. using a shovel to create what he calls the "snowna lisa." i kid you not. ithink i kid you not. i think you can guess who it is. a trend for the weather to turn very mild for this end of the week and the big picture we see twins develop over the next three days and those winds will be dragging up all the warm air, 2000 miles to our south and placing it northwards across the uk. a? for how much cloud there is going to be and it looks pretty cloudy for the next three days but towards the end of the week as pressure begins to rise, we will likely see that cloud break and some cloud breaks towards the end of the week that we could see temperature is left as high as 17 or 18 celsius for a few of us. very warm weather for a few of us. very warm weather for us for late february on the way. we do h

good friday agreement which ended decades of conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles in barker's and brussels for snouts so. the e.u. has been very clear that they're not going to change anything yet theresa may is there any way to why. well she's here because very she's been given no choice whatsoever withdrawal agreement was resoundingly defeated in the british parliament in the middle of january that was followed by lots of amendments being drawn up by different m.p.'s in parliament one of them stuck and that amendment has the backing of parliament has basically forced to resume aid to come back here to brussels to try and find alternative arrangements to the backstop that you talked about there why is that backstop very unpopular amongst m.p.'s well it doesn't have any unilateral way in which the u.k. can exit it it's got no time limit on it no sunset clause also it would mean at the end of a two year transition period if no trade agreement with the e.u. is in place that the whole of the u.k. would automatically continue to be under e.u. policy you know if you are a brick cit

the bbc‘s caroline barker is there. sports is all about rivalries.he olympic summit games were in atlanta, there were some great rivalries on and off the track. the ultimate with the new england patriot up against la. some bribery is go back a long time. to childhood fans turned punters for example. johnny and i walked on together at oregon state as freshmen and the punter position was open and all i knew at the time was theirs of these big allstate quarterback from washington that was supposed to come and that is the other guy was competing against the job. he pushed mea competing against the job. he pushed me a town in pursuit of the scholarship. look at we both are. it is crazy. think about where you came from and johnny is at the beginning of it all. he has earned every single bit of success. he never let circumstances defined his attitude. we are very close. he is a hell of a punter and we are very close. he is a hell of a punterand a we are very close. he is a hell of a punter and a great friend as well. you say you still talk to him, when was

president bush already has a bit of a reputation to be more anti corruption while on the other hand mr barker seems to be inclined to be more pro business and pro private investment but that's not what really counts from the european point of view in terms of business what's important is that nigeria stays on the path of democracy that you know the. losing part of the defeat of party reacts peacefully and that we can continue you know growing ties with nigeria. it was in there from the french and stock exchange thank you so much. and that is sure business in africa for now thank you so much for keeping our company. a new summit and a new round of political poker. the two sides will have to overcome decades of hostility. stoked by an unpredictable u.s. foreign policy machine and a family of dictators united by one obsession getting their own atomic bomb. to kim. kim sixty minutes. was the result it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about. do this because we can't stay on his way and i'm not. that. costly global news that matters. made for mines. this is state of the news afr

that president bush has a bit of a reputation to be more anti corruption on the other side and mr barker seems to be inclined to be more pro business and pro private investment but that's not what really counts from the european point of view in terms of business what's important is that nigeria stays on the path of democracy that you know the. losing part of the defeated part reacts peacefully and that we can continue you know growing ties with nigeria. it was in there from the front in stock exchange thank you so much. and that is your deal business in africa trial for now thank you so much for keeping our company. the law. says. to the news. channel. the final story. with exclusive access to a must see concerning part. of the show should be curious mimes. do it yourself networkers the facts so for subscribers and don't miss out his. i'm not all think that well i just sometimes i am but i stand up and whimper that we should have been think stephen for gemma culture of looking at the stereotypes aquatics put in here think the future of the country that i not. need to see me take the mos

so as i said all part of a coordinated effort to keep the pressure on nicholas' majority all right barker with an update from london the thank you natasha butler is now joining us from paris with the details from there because the french foreign minister has been speaking on venezuela what did he have to say. yes the french foreign minister joint evil agree are effectively saying that france is recognizing. as venezuela's acting interim president now what he said was that for him grade zero had the capacity the right and the legitimacy so organize new elections and as you heard there from neve this comes eight days after france's president emmanuel mccoy along with several other european leaders the u.k. put out a deadline to nicolas maduro to organize election or else they would recognize great oh well the french foreign minister gilani vitriol was speaking on french radio. we consider that today the president of the national assembly mr garrido was legitimacy is perfectly knowledged has the ability to call for presidential elections is the issue so then what is the way forward for franc

the team, featuring four—time olympic champion laura kenny, elinor barker, katie archibald and eleanor a second. back home, we ran a quicker time, andi back home, we ran a quicker time, and i had better legs, much better legs, now i just and i had better legs, much better legs, now ijust didn't happen here at these last two days. i don't know why, it's not like i haven't been feeling unwell or anything, so i feeling unwell or anything, so i feel partly responsible for it, because like i said back home, we went quicker. we ran quicker, so it's a bit disappointing i guess. now, some of the world's leading rugby union players have warned the sport's global governing body that proposed changes to the calendar.. risk player welfare. world rugby reportedly wants to introduce a 12—team world league starting in 2020 but world player of the yearjonny sexton has called the proposals "out of touch". patrick gearey has more. josh adams against elliott, josh adams. this is what it takes to play international rugby union, it's a sport that tugs at the emotional and physical extremes. the games gover

the ram shackled barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley wind left now to stir the faded bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history. the hideout of a living personification of evil. >> you got it stuck in your brain that i murdered somebody. >> charles manson. one hot, dry weekend in los angeles, august, 1969, a pregnant movie star slaughtered, along with four others in her home, across town a couple butchered in theirs. >> these were brutal crime scenes. things that the police had never seen before. >> reporter: murder so bloody, so ugly, they rewrote history. they became a kind of bookmark as an optimism i michigan ended. >> the '60 came to a close, 1969, that was the curtain the final curtain. >> who could make sense of it? >> are you sane? >> sane? >> yes. >> that's relative. >> two, even now. >> how do our kids end up doing this kind of incredibly violent crime? how did that happen in. >> we'll do our best to answer

march the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland is the main sticking point in barker's in brussels to get us up to speed so she seems to not be being theresa may seems to not be in a position to take no for an answer from from the e.u. what is she doing there. yeah well that's right when she's had very little choice but to come here she's been under pressure from the british parliament to rethink her withdrawal agreement after it was river sounding lead defeated in a vote in parliament in january m.p.'s then tabled amendments one of them stuck an amendment calling for a rethink of the backstop but the message that has come resoundingly from e.u. politicians is that they will not revisit this crucial insurance policy to avoid the return of a hard border between northern ireland part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland under absolutely no circumstances according to donald tusk the head of the european council will they we open the withdrawal agreement if there is any intention whatsoever of the british government trying to scrap the backstop we just had a final press

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making clear what they think about the future of venezuela and who should be in charge our i need barker with an update from london thank you rory chalons let's bring him and he's joining us from moscow and the kremlin has come out strongly as expected rory against the european countries who are now siding with. yes the kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov criticized the europeans saying that what they are doing is trying to legitimize the paying of power. revealing statements i think from to be true pascoe if you said that it's the people of venezuela who from our viewpoint should go through this crisis independently it's only the people of venezuela who are the solution to what is an internal issue and they think this basically highlights the difference between perspectives in russia and in the west where is what the russians believe is the. sovereignty is paramount so you cannot go sticking your nose into other countries there's no matter how bad the humanitarian situation is there it's the responsibility of that population with the power structures that exist to sort it out and effecti

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europe since august are calling on the government to take urgent measures to address the crisis need barker has more from london. those early years were to see a demonstration outside the british parliament but it is unusual not of the average joe who is only roughly about thirteen years old the kind of the pursuit and action of goes on around the loo when it comes to covert action has led to young people taking things into the own homes they see very much because of a growing international movement called sconce trikes for climate action the lady being big demonstrations that have taken place in front of him belgium scandinavia and germany and though the u.k. dozer how putting a cool takes of fashion in thirty towns and cities across the country mottola but take a look here one of the organizers i know what if you could step down for new books for a second here none of this of course is about a little bit more than people just changing their habits a home about turning off lights about carpooling and things like that what message are you trying to get to those in power. we want days and ho

polly barker throws the rule book not one of the issues of the week thought of wearing blackface you may have seen it in the. web page about one of their new jumpers polly this is her take in the latest episode of in case you missed it. i don't want to do it please me. venezuela israel something i was going to write shelly. not for a gays you miss it it's kind of a sensitive subject. blackface backing up pretending to be a black person if you don't one just for fun is racist because of history people used to think differently. they're very do it that people would want to partake of the. well meaning. the long black race are apparently confusing to some so let's see if we can clear it up with a few examples we may have already mentioned this but just to recap rule one. easy route to have done it and didn't forget if you did is rough little then the governor of virginia has this picture in his medical school yearbook he admitted and then denied saying he was the man in black face in fact late say he said that he had backed up in the process but not in this specific example great sense

barker held off the reigning champion, kirsten vild of the netherlands, to improve on her second placewo—time world champion and won olympic gold in 2008 olympic champion. in 2008 olympics. it's ten years to the day that he made his professional debut — and said boxing had given him the best years of his life. let's have a look at some of this morning's back pages. we'll start with the back of the mail, which has a picture of a rather happy looking willy cabellero. he of course replaced the dropped kepa arrizabalaga in goal. there is also a line just to the right on the training brawl between engalnd and georgian rugby players yesterday, which we'll have more on throughout the day. "0ne heel of a goal" is the mirror's take on sadio mane's impressive second goal against watford last night. and the telegraph goes with red—hot van dijk — the dutch defender, the other two goal hero in last night's liverpool win. they beat watford 5—0. plenty coming up across bbc sport today. right now on 5live sports extra you can listen to commentary of the the third 0di women's international between indi

newsroom and it is in qatar chalons as in moscow we begin with barker in london who will talk us through how close the e.u. is to having a unified position. well indeed the e.u. is still some way off yet undoubtedly it is important of course to acknowledge the very prominent voices within the european union are throwing their support behind. and his desire of course to become president of the country they say that he is a legitimate leader of the country and should be interim president until elections should be called but it's probably important to say that not everybody in the european union is singing from the same hymn sheet according to diplomatic sources italy is ready to block an attempt by the e.u. to officially recognize quite as president of venice wyler the the the coalition government there are right a much at loggerheads over what to do next the deputy prime minister luigi demaio is but blocks the prime minister from signing any kind of joint statement is led to a very unusual intervention from the italian president to what he plays a ceremonial role he's saying the governmen

so walk away expect from the president trumpets and i to tyson barker is program director at the aspen institute think tank here in germany d.w. correspondent. joins us from washington oh well both let's start with you what do you expect. well as we heard in the piece before he is expected to promote this traditional message of unity something that we hear in nearly every state of the union address but it's going to be interesting to hear whether he falls into the usual political track everyone needs to unify but specifically behind my agenda of course we know that agenda has been extraordinarily divisive he could in fact touch on some topics that as we heard are a little more unifying between the parties topics such as infrastructure lowering health care costs possibly even throwing some bones the democrats talking about things like a pathway to citizenship for children who were brought to the country illegally but the big centerpiece is going to be the talk of border security and funding the border wall and the thing that everyone is teasing that we're hearing from various sources in

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ortiz polly barker reporting from birmingham well there is another school in england that's also find itself in the media spotlight after it decided to drop a player but charles darwin following complaints from christian purred. charles darwin had all of the world so we've made a comedy musical about his life but boring i hate to say no he's not. it's must be telling for the latest slice of red ducted tonight we join lee and co and moments this is our to interest. thank you. thanks. a. lot that. goes to the comedy film where americans and americans covering american news are called for in a drunk's stuff let's get this out of the way everyone's talking about the state of the union so here is my in-depth analysis of president donald j. trump's state of the killings. that i covered it and i was wrong so we also have more honest than the state of the union. now let's move on to some religion so i know i covered the u.s. backed coup in venezuela last week but the problem with our country's on go and destruction of other countries is that it keeps developing so now i've got more breaking n

strike in november cannot be renegotiated the leaders held robust talks in brussels on thursday need barker as the story. it wasn't a great start for the british prime minister and empty bricks it demonstrated police jumped in front of a car with fifty days left before britain officially leaves the e.u. a feeling desperate. british m.p.'s have demanded she find alternative arrangements over the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland something she's promised to do we must secure in finding changes to the withdrawal would be to deal with the concerns the parliament over the bank storm and taking down changes to the back story together with the other work that we're doing our work is like. and other issues will deliver a stable to dorothy in the image and that's what i will continue to push for now it's not going to be easy i'm clear the fight against little practice it of it's delivering on time that's what i'm going to do for british public of a negotiation going on in the coming days to do just that but there's a problem for to reason may be used refused to reopen the w

britain's elinor barker claimed the first gold medal of the uci track cycling world championships ine penultimate lap, barker held off the reigning champion, kirsten wild of the netherlands, to improve on her second place finish from two years ago. that's all the sport for now. celtic if taken the lead at hearts in the scottish premiership. more on that and more up—to—date's stories at bbc website. that's bbc.co.uk/sports. more from them at 10:30pm in sports day. labour has suspended one of its mps, chris williamson, after he suggested the party had been "too apologetic" about anti—semitism. the mp for derby north later said he "deeply regretted" the comments, but he's now facing an investigation. chris williamson has speaking to our deputy political editor, john pienaar. i'm working with the party processes . i'm working with the party processes. there have been a number of complaints against me and i did not believe they have any foundation andi not believe they have any foundation and i make sure that i clear them up. can you claim that the have apology for what you said it?|j up.

. >> facebook's head of public relations brapdy barker was dealing with the backlash. >> we pushed thee company debated how they handled the outrage. >> there are just different points of view within the company that ranged from the engineers that felt stronger, so the sales reps that felt new and unique, to privatety advocates. >> what was mark saying at the time? >> i think he was among the people that were initially advocating to keep it with the belief that there might be a way to keep it and create it so that some people could use it if they wanted to and some people couldn't. >> there was 67,000 people that signed an online petition -- we didn't move fast enough and we broke some things. >> it was a privacy and pr i did as sere. and you can entirely opt out of the program. >> but the loss of trust was damaging. it was time to bring in the operator they needed to run fable. that person was sheryl sandberg, but getting her to come to facebook wouldn't be easy. she still had a job, a big one, at google. we spoke to her and a new report now questions her leadership. >> he had an apar

in this frank interview, billiejean king talks to the bbc‘s sue barker about her sexuality, life as angender equality, lgbt rights and socialjustice. applause as a youngster, i dreamt of playing professional tennis, but that, at the time, didn't look possible. then, all of a sudden, it changed, and it changed because of one person. on court, this unique talent won 39 grand slam titles, but it's what she did off the court that will define her legacy. the women's tour, which i played in, was set up by her in the 1970s, and suddenly, prize money, legislation and conditions improved for women like me. we had a voice. we were heard. it was a game changer. and today, all sportswomen are in a far better place. there's equality, respect, the playing field is levelling out. this woman led the way to make it all happen. a champion player, a fearless pioneer, the ultimate winner in a battle of the sexes, who i am proud to call a friend. she is billiejean king. applause the second time i picked up a racquet, i knew i wanted to be the number one player in the world. you know, it's wonderful to be c

the backstop should be there or not so who knows exactly what the next step will be wow ok named barker and russell for me thank you. six refugee family stranded on a british military base in cyprus for more than twenty years and one legal battle to settle in the u.k. in phylum seekers had arrived in a fishing boat operated by smugglers have been living in disused military housing on the island ever since david schaper reports. it was more than twenty years ago when a smuggler's fishing boat founded in these waters with more than seventy refugees on board the waves were driving them towards cliffs below a british military base in cyprus helicopters were scrambled to lift them out. coven was just three years old at the time he's lived here at number ten condon ave you ever since in a sovereign territory of the united kingdom an iraqi kurd his british passport is about to arrive at last. gets to some point where you you don't have hope anymore like. you just get used to wait just that without any answer or it's. the only glimpse you can get of his future is on a computer with patchy inter

president thomas barker achieved with the winter olympics last year bring in the careers together and seize a role himself to be something more than just a sport. ministre say he sees himself as having this ability to bring countries together where perhaps the politicians have not succeeded so far so i think that is going to be that the big issue in the coming months does in favor and in francine of try to force games in twenty twenty two on other countries in terms of certainly going against what cattle right in the eyes of the tournament want then that's an interesting point rob put it to james because currently pfieffer is is looking at a feasibility study as to whether or not to expand twenty twenty two from the thirty odd of the thirty two teams to forty eight in if that were to be the case that would involve the participation of other countries in the region i those countries who are currently blockading cata how complex how how plausible is this as an idea given the current situation if i can take what rob said a step further i think the notion that forcing the suit a situation

and one of the world s greatest sports stars, billiejean king talks to the bbc‘s sue barker on a rangem her sexuality to her struggle for social justice. that's a special programme — billiejean king: born to lead — at half past eight. the duke of edinburgh has voluntarily given up his driving licence. in a statement this evening — buckingham palace said that prince philip had made the decision "after careful consideration". prince philip, who is 97, was involved in a crash near the sandringham estate last month in which a woman suffered a broken wrist. norfolk police have said that they will return the licence to the dvla and that the investigation file for the collision had been passed to the crown prosecution service for their consideration. our royal correspondent, jonny dymond told us more about the events that led to this decision. it is, what, just over three weeks since the collision between the duke's car, which overturned and ended up on its side and another car, just beyond the sandringham estate, leaving two adults injured and the duke of edinburgh himself very severely shak

last year that's almost two hundred thousand applications barker reports from london. traditional island in a london pub. of course anglo-irish ties go well beyond an affection for each other's cultural stereotypes people have moved across the irish sea for centuries almost nine hundred thousand people born in ireland live and work in the u.k. now breaks it sounded a new dimension to the bond. richard with students applying for an irish passport anyone with at least one irish grandparents eligible for irish citizenship. this is my grandfather's birth certificate this is my connection with ireland for richard it's a way of holding on to his european identity after breaks it felt i had part of my identity stripped away. perhaps by a majority that i didn't relate to you know because i couldn't. i wouldn't really understand why people would want to vote out of. an inclusive europe a big part of me wants to stay connected to europe you know i want to feel like europe is my home. outside britain's parliament in london protesters opposed to a new favorite all the bronx it all

against the government barker has more. ice to the right two hundred fifty eight the news of the last three hundred three. a humiliating blow for the british prime minister she hopes for a straightforward parliamentary vote reaffirming her efforts to read it go to revise bricks and deal with brussels so the nerds have it. but many m.p.'s within her own party abstained from voting claiming the wording of her motion implied no deal brecht's it would be ruled out a possible new deal remains for many black city is the u.k. strongest negotiating position the prime minister was absent from the chamber the opposition labor leader wasn't the government cannot keep on ignoring parliament or plowing on towards the twenty ninth of march without a coherent. she cannot keep on just running down the cock and hoping that something will turn up that will save her day and save her face the government's initial withdrawal agreement was rejected by a record majority of m.p.'s last month the nose to the left four hundred and thirty two forcing

more on this with nave barker he's reporting from brussels. this is the first last ditch attempt by the british government to try and salvage a deal you between the u.k. and the european union treason may was forced pretty much to come back here to the e.u. to try and rework withdrawal agreement after it was resoundingly defeated in a vote of the british parliament in the middle of january m.p.'s then table to see these amendments one of them had the backing of parliament calling for her to come back here to try and find alternative arrangements to the so-called backstop just to remind you that's the insurance policy to avoid the return of a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland that's a backstop would at the end of a two year transition period if no alternative arrangement is in place mean that the u.k. remains are aligned in a trade sense with the european union that's very unpopular amongst hardline breck cities who want to make a clean break from e.u. membership there's also you know time limits on the backstop a

more about the high rate of fashion consumption fueled by the availability of cheap clothing the barker spoke to some of the demonstrators. london fashion week is one of the most important events in the fashion calendar anywhere in the world a chance to showcase new talents and design but it's also a chance to hold the fashion industry to account when it comes to its record on the protect the environment and sustainability which is what this is all about by direct action group called extinction rebellion that believes very much the fashion industry is a part of the problem as opposed to the sure i think at the moment we're in a situation where we're heading towards must extinctions worldwide climate change is kicking in and everyone is still continuing as if it's business as usual politicians are failing us the supply chains and things with the fashion world i know it's incredibly complex but we all have to reappraise the way we're living on this planet link here because london fashion week is just behind us we want to disrupt them we want to cling to cease to recognise that they keep t

mark barker nbc news. >> getting heckled by his dad, that's cool.ting a celebrity ambassador of specialaus each night and tonight it's the girl out's. kendall jenner and the music duo florida georgia line also guests tonight. >>> five years flyy when you're having fun. isn't that right? >> yes. >> i heard the only other time he got nervous was when he met a certain meteorologist from d.c. that's not doreen gentzler. check this out. >> we were playing the whisper challenge. me and jimmy playing the whisper challenge. that was one of the coolest experiences i've ever had. the best part was when they smmd doug er, i got to come out from behind the curtai that was t coolest. i made it look like there was an audience, there was no audience. i home fun with it. jimmy is one of the coolest guy you'll meet. >> you played it well. >> didou have walk u music? >> no. i don't know what it b would if i did. >> that was great. ap i'm still waiting for my second arance. >> shows you how well you did. >> the invitation is in the. ma >> come on, jimmy, it's five yea

. >> it's my birthday weekend is the way i look at it happy birthday to bob barker, by the way. >> with four straight quarters of declining operational income, which is going to change first for ford, the management team or dividends? >> management team, the previous guys were nicer, so were the other guys the ownership of the ford family, they want to keep the dividend i think they need the cash to do other things i think it's dead money. i would say don't buy, don't buy. they have some real improvement to do was i'm going to use the word bad charlie in kentucky. charlie. >> jim, just want to say an early happy birthday, boo-yah. >> thank you, partner. what's going on? >> nothing much. i have a question. i'm up about 35% on ge and i was wondering if the recent downturn is due to the trade talks or something else going on? >> let's take this very clear, okay this stock was pushed down way too low and then had a very big move up and then steve toos has been throwing it up 30% for a year been throwing a little cold water on it. it will go down another dollar, dollar and a half. larry culp

championships in poland and then this happened ten reuters for taking out in old great britain elena barker who was leading the race came out unscathed and went on to win ahead of netherlands because didn't failed it just went from cycling to dominoes the way for the. all right that is a useful for now have. will see you later thank you and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we hand you over to our teams in london with much more news coming up all the day's top stories right here on al-jazeera do stay with us. on line. with for the answer for them not to do this or if you join us on saturday all of us have been calling is in some form or some fashion this is a diana we are talking about a legal friend to me you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice from the hero posse a twitter and you could be on the street and join the global conversation on mt is iraq until now the coverage of latin america that most of the world was covering khuda taz tragedies of quakes and that was it

president thomas barker achieved with the winter olympics last year bring in the careers together and seize a role himself to be something more than just a sport. minister aides say he sees himself as having this ability to bring countries together where perhaps the politicians have not succeeded so far so i think that is going to be that the big issue in the coming months does in favor and in france you know try to force gains in twenty twenty two on other countries in terms of certainly going against what cats are right that iran in the eyes of the tournament want. that's an interesting point rob put it to james because currently feature is is looking at a feasibility study as to whether or not to expand twenty twenty two from the thirty odd of the thirty two teams to forty eight in if that were to be the case that would involve the participation of other countries in the reason i those countries who are currently blockading cata how complex how how plausible is this as an idea given the current situation if i can take what rob said a step further i think the notion that forcing the

president thomas barker achieved with the winter olympics last year bring in the careers together and seize a role himself to be something more than just a sport. minister aides say he sees himself as having this ability to bring countries together where perhaps the politicians have not succeeded so far so i think that is going to be that the big issue in the coming months does in favor and in france you know try to force games in twenty twenty two on other countries in terms of certainly going against what cats are right in the eyes of the tournament want. that's an interesting point rob put it to james because currently pfieffer is is looking at a feasibility study as to whether or not to expand twenty twenty two from the thirty odd the thirty two teams to forty eight in if that were to be the case that would involve the participation of all the countries in the region i those countries who are currently blockading cata how complex how how plausible is this as an idea given the current situation if i can take what rob said a step further i think the notion that forcing the c.i. a si

the final result when it comes will not go unchallenged on monday the people's democratic party of barker announced that it was rejecting all the results so far pointing to allegations of government use of intimidation of voters of manipulation of the votes of inducements to buy votes and incarceration even of officials these are allegations that the ruling party a.p.c. or president immediately dismissed saying the p.d.p. simply wants to discredit and destabilize the electoral process. cubans have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution which ratifies that one party socialist system it also offers some modest economic and social changes including the formal recognition of private property and the right to legal representation upon arrests the new constitutional so established as presidential term limits. this dog would win an olympic medal be able to record his sex just in the states. we. time to source his the thank you folly well robert kraft is the owner of super bowl champions new england patriots where he's been summoned on charges of soliciting prostitution a court date has been

has blocked the release of any statement which would have recognized the interim president meet barker's with minister here for more on but so not completely united the european union that that's right even though the number of european countries recognizing the interim president of venezuela has now gone up to twelve the e.u. has fallen short when it comes to following suit because the e.u. depends on unanimity between all of its twenty eight member states and we've heard that the italians be prepared to veto any joint statement its coalition governments and complete loggerheads about what to do with the situation in venezuela it's led to a very rare intervention by the president of italy who's normally a ceremonial figure who's now saying to the government look you need to sort this out and potentially back going forward but at the moment the italians are saying no that's exactly not what they're going to do the greeks have also said that they're not going to follow suit they're not going to back this president very similar situation in ireland as well the irish are saying ok look we d

s national health service you can check out our correspondent me barker's story by heading to al-jazeera dot com. in just a few hours the u.n. security council is holding an open meeting on the crisis in venezuela that's at the request of the united states on monday venezuela denounced the lima group there it is accusing it of waging a campaign to oust president nicolas maduro the fourteen member regional bloc had been holding talks in colombia with the u.s. vice president mike pence hence announced a new round of sanctions on close allies off my dear oh and urged regional partners to freeze venezuela's oil assets well at least twenty five people were believed to have been killed in violent confrontations along then as well as border with brazil over the weekend but duros forces were trying to stop opposition supporters from bringing us aid into the country mohamed jump june spoke with some of the survivors . says there is no uncertainty having survived the violence that erupted saturday in an area along venezuela's border with brazil he says it's clear to him the lethal force used by ve