brunel loved acting and one dressed up brunel loved acting and one dressed up as an old woman.ce inhaled a coin, threw a party trick, and then invented a machine, to remove it. party lover, landscape gardener, so it. party lover, landscape gardener, so much more to brunel band that hat on and that cigar. —— so much more to brunel than that at and that cigar. —— hat. now it's time for newswatch with samira ahmed. this week, the challenges of reporting from russia. complaints about that hat for in, did newsnight doctor a picture of jeremy corbyn to paint him as a kremlin sympathiser? —— continue to flood in. three weeks since the poisoning of sergei skripal and his daughter, yulia, and relations between the uk and russia have not improved in that time, reporting on the deteriorating relationship from moscow has been correspondent steve rosenberg, who had a rare opportunity last week to question vladimir putin, then on the campaign trailfor his vladimir putin, then on the campaign trail for his re—election. vladimir putin, then on the campaign trail for his re-election. president

brunel loved acting and once dressed up as an old woman. hat and that cigar. the headlines on bbc news... three people, including a portuguese citizen, have been killed and a policeman is in a critical condition after a gunman took hostages at a supermarket in southern france. former labour leadership contender owen smith has been sacked from jeremy corbyn's shadow cabinet after calling for a second eu referendum. enforcement officers working for the information commissioner have entered the premises of cambridge analytica in central london. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello and a warm welcome. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode.

you can see engraved on the bed, isambard kingdom brunel, and when you open it up kingdom brunel, andment at a time but as he grew more successful he was able to afford these really beautiful sets. and you get a good insight into his life, and we know his achievements, we still travel on them every day. what sort of bloke was he? what was he really like? i think he was terrific fun. one of his friends called him the life and soul of the party which is something i didn't know about brunel. he loved amateur dramatics. there is a great account of him dressing up as an old woman in some amateur dramatics, but he was also racked by self—doubt. he is very far away from the confident engineer we see from the images of him, and i think that is one of the exciting things for visitors, because we can all relate to someone who appears confident on the outside but internally is worried desperately what people think of them. thank you very much indeed, so much more from you later on and we will have a play with some of the artefact inside the museum. the museum opens today, and some of the origina

welcome to being brunel, something that i know a thing or two about.e was big headed, think again. letters and diaries you suggest he was often played with self—doubt, the aim has been to tell a more personal story. family portraits reveal his personality, he was an art lover, a room dedicated to the pictures he collected, inspired by shakespeare. one of the items here on display, brunel‘s school report from when he was at school in france, in it we learn that he was very successful at maths, drawing and german in particular, when it comes to his behaviour, teachers say it was beyond repair, they expected very great things of him. he duly delivered, among his many achievements, the great western railway. this is my favourite part of the new exhibition, 3—d printed map of london to bristol, showing his vision of the railway, carving its way across the landscape. among his most among his most treasured possessions, his cigar box, containing his daily ration, no fewer than 48 cigars. often fell asleep with a cigar, stories about a friend coming to see him

also in the tri-valley, the sig alert, the traffic alert by chp at brunell.r left two lanes blocked. what happened there was a box truck, 26,000 pounds that hydroplaned and lost control. both directions are slowing because of the distraction at the divider. the rest of the bay moves nicely. >> major concern during any storm power outages. a live look at the pg&e map showing where there are outages at the minute. we last heard more than 1,000 customers were without power. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live. we know a lot of people's power is out right now. one of the things they should do in the event of something like this? >> reporter: first and foremost, pg&e did put out some tips. >> if you see a downed power line avoid that. don't go near it. you can still get electrocuted. call the authorities and just stay away. the power is out. battery operated flashlight instead. have a backup phone. either your cell that plugs directly into the wall. the reason being that if for when the power comes back on, when the power comes back on pg&e turn on each applia

anybody who knows bristol knows that brunel is still at the heart of it. judgeship —— passenger ship. she was a fantastic shape. there are so many other things you can learn about the manner brunel, he smoked 48 of those cigars a day. he often fell asleep while he was smoking. he only slept for hours a night and he did not need ten hours like me and you —— four. i'm not sure how you know that, but thanks! tara in belfast. how has prince harry and meghan's first official joint visit to northern ireland been going? it has been a very successful visit, they are at titanic belfast, but they are at titanic belfast, but they started off at a peace initiative this morning. prince harry launched an initiative here back when he was a single man but this time he brought his bride—to—be and they met young people and they proved to be a hit. the focus of the initiative is on young people and deciding on a more peaceful way forward for northern ireland and the young people said they were honoured to meet them and they felt they were very down—to—earth. and that it was

found that he was the second most popular briton ever, a new museum dedicated to isambard kingdom brunel country, we will pop along. and if you love blockbuster films with giant robot, stick around for the film review, at 8:45pm, and even if you do not, please do(!) and we will find out what mark kermode thinks about pacific rim uprising. we will be live in amsterdam as english preparations for the world cup in russia continue with a friendly against the orange of the netherlands. formula 1 is back, the ca i’s netherlands. formula 1 is back, the ca rs reveal netherlands. formula 1 is back, the cars reveal their early form ahead of the first race of the season in melbourne. and it is sport relief, there is a whole host of events taking place, we have also spoken with the double winter olympic champion lizzie yarnold, she will be involved later on and she will be telling us what her future in sport may hold. it is always hard to a nswer may hold. it is always hard to answer that question straightaway, my automatic response is, do you know what you are doing in four yea rs' know what you ar

protests following the florida shootings last month of seventeen high school children and stuff brunell's has more from the. spur to action by the marjorie stoneman douglas high school protesters teenage students around the united states plan to walk out of class on march fourteenth they're demanding stricter gun laws in and look at the influence of the gun lobby now you're ramaswamy is a thirteen year old student in los angeles it's the adults making the laws but the kids who are getting shot and so i feel like the kids are the ones who should be standing up for themselves now as mother sosh ramaswamy fully supports or i have told my you walk out if you want to walk out you walk out and we will deal with that but the administrator said knowing is school or discouraging student protests and threatening punishment her teacher told her that if anyone left the classroom at ten am then they would get in on satisfactory that they would lose their privileges like being able to put this new land with their class. other school districts around the u.s. are brandishing similar threats for example

glamour and glitz this is sad in many has been overshadowed by sexual misconduct in the industry brunell's reports. hollywood had war than awards on its mind at the ninetieth annual oscar ceremony host jimmy kimmel quickly brought up disgraced hollywood producer and accused sexual predator harvey weinstein who was expelled from the academy last year the academy as you're no doubt aware took action last year to expel harvey weinstein from their ranks there are a lot of great nominees but harvey deserved this about. the far reaching sexual harassment scandal in the growth of the b. two in times up movements were on the minds of many finally saying time's up it's a new day in hollywood with new challenges ahead for all of us while those serious issues overshadowed hollywood's big night to a certain extent the show as they say must go on and it did. and the oscar goes to. the shape of war. this may very well be the shape of water one of the best picture award to be the story of a love affair between a mute cleaning lady and a strange him hideous creature at the center of a cold war weapons pro

in this year's academy award nominations though so many change is still coming too slowly as well brunell's reports. in this classroom at the art center college of design the numbers of male and female aspiring film directors are about equal and the women feel they have a fair shot at making it professionally the main thing i think as a woman so make is that you have to focus on is really not being intimidated not being intimidated by the amount of male colleagues you have and the amount of the spirit and gender that you would encounter on set outside the classroom the gender disparity in the film industry is stark amy adrian crunched the numbers in her new documentary half the picture over about the past ten years women direct four percent of top feature film so obviously men direct ninety six percent of most movies you see and let me fitters in the numbers for t.v. your little bit better think its averages about women direct fifteen percent around of television shows some men direct eighty five percent every single way you looked at the numbers they were terrible for women that's despite

gets overlooked the costume design is is every stitch tailor made clothes help to seal states are brunell'swent to the los angeles fashion institute to find out how close make the man as the saying goes and often they make the movie too. at the fashion institute of designs museum in los angeles oscar nominated apparel is on display in all its glory fashion designer nick for rails says costume is a subtle but vital part of all great films a lot of people say you know when you really don't notice the costumes in a film and the costume designer has done their job. getting. nominated costume design in victoria and abdul sends messages about wealth class and power the clothes especially for a victorian up to and queen victoria it's showing you who she is a queen good custom design is more than beautiful dresses it requires painstaking historical accuracy for the film darkest hour costume designer jacqueline duran went to extraordinary lengths to lend authenticity to actor gary oldman portrayal of winston churchill the tissue knack of vanity. we knew something about the actual sampled world and t

when offices cornered him in his backyard they say they thought he had a gun i'll just go as well brunell reports now from sacramento. yes there is no demonstrators marched through the streets of sacramento california capital city for a second day friday they were protesting the police shooting of an unarmed twenty two year old black man last week he was judge he was sentenced and he was executed the protesters blocked traffic and shouted slogans and dented a car that tried to pass through one group attempted to block a major highway but were prevented from doing so by california highway patrol officers in riot gear stephan clark died in his own backyard killed by a hail of police bullets i don't care what color he was you know no person on this earth to be sat down like that. because both of you. think of this newly released video from a police helicopter shows clark running and climbing over a fence in a neighborhood where police were responding to a report of a man breaking into cars. police wearing body cameras cornered clark and within seconds the encounter turned deadly. the policem

overshadowed by the ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct in the film industry from los angeles brunell's has mle. the hollywood had more than awards on its mind at the ninetieth annual oscar ceremony host jimmy kimmel quickly brought up disgraced hollywood producer and accuse sexual predator harvey weinstein who was expelled from the academy last year the academy as you are no doubt aware took action last year to expel harvey weinstein from their ranks there are a lot of great nominees but harvey deserved this about. the far reaching sexual harassment scandal in the growth of the me too time's up movements were on the minds of many finally saying time's up it's a new day in hollywood with new challenges ahead for all of us while those serious issues overshadowed hollywood's big night to a certain extent the show as they say must go on and it did. the oscar goes to. the shape of what i this may very well be the shape of water won the best picture award the story of a love affair between a mute cleaning lady and a strange im d.b.'s creature at the center of a cold war weapons program it be