authorities in crete are trying to clea n authorities in crete are trying to clean up after the flash are swept away and homes flooded for some authorities to lodge rescue operations. these are the third wave of fresh floods in less than two months. it's another busy week ahead in the house of commons and across at the european commision as the uk government struggles to get a deal agreed to leave the eu. today we might get an update on the british goovernment‘s request to extend its departure untiljune 30th and the papers are full of speculation about the next steps. i'm joined byjonathan charles the managing director of communications at the european bank. lovely to have you in the programme. that's boil this down to the bare minimum. as things currently stand, on a the 12th, believe the eu with no deal. absolutely right. this is the crunch has devolved the crunch weeks, we've had so many crunch weeks in the last few months. it's hard to remember there is a key deadline which is this friday. if the default position is, if there is no extension, if there is no deal, you can leaves. h

the author is in berlin to headline the african book festival which starts on thursday and of crete is a philosopher a mesmerizing and thought provoking author and someone who's not afraid to step up and speak his mind. joins me now thank you very much thank you for correcting me about the pronunciation of your neck it's a pleasure to be and i'm glad you disobey joe father a read the books i think everybody is. you said the families wrote the book the book prize winning book you wrote it to give yourself reasons to live things evolves it changed a great deal for you since then so what inspired the new book the freedom artist i think i wrote the freedom artist. myself some of the central questions that i feel faces us as human beings. and faces us in our times how free are we. what are we prisoners of what ideas or cultural assumptions what political ideology is what limited visions of the world we prisoners of and indeed the book which i have here as the freedom artist it has a title almost or sometimes above it who is the prisoner can you reveal that or can anybody reveal that you kno

film season is fast approaching so we thought we would look at the amazing app for that went into creteof one of the big children's films of the year. dumbo. this is tim burton's take which took something —— scenes 30 mr mentor sub involved now, introducing the world famous flying elephant! when i initially came on board, my focus was what will he look like, what are the practical considerations and design considerations, how does tim wa nt design considerations, how does tim want to realise him as a character? tim wanted something to a completely photo real, his unusual design was not going to sit well in a perfectly real world. we chose to shoot on location which was shoot everything on stage, control the lighting, the set design, it was important we created a sort of beautiful downtrodden character driven movie with a world that was equally sort of design to his character and book as well. dumbo's animation is subtle, contain, and most of his emotion is read either through his eyes or body language. so it was incredible important. we had to do quite a lot of work to find the right bo

this bridge on the greek island of crete has survived a lot of severe weather in its iii—year historyhis flood in february was just too much. australia, in february, and it's supposed to rain in queensland during monsoon season, but the rains here this year are exceptional. the city of townsville is hardest hit, with prolonged rainfall shattering records going back to the 19th century. flooding hits iran, too. dozens of people are killed in storms that last from march into april. the record rainfall follows a prolonged drought, and the floods strike with astonishing force. the scale of flooding here is thought to have been made worse by decades of deforestation. in the usa, tornado season gets off to a deadly start. this is alabama, in march, where the storms leave a path of destruction half a mile wide and a mile long. 23 people are killed here — that's more than double the number of people killed in tornadoes in the usa in the whole of last year. in the uk, in march, an amazing escape. one moment, you're strolling along the street, then this happens. strong winds cause part of a bui

turkey or mania and ukraine than most of this is over land there's some showers for the south of the crete and the central med the certain amount of cloud and a prevailing breeze i think will make tunisia feel a little bit disappointing at least in the north in tunis probably overcast twenty now has more in the way of sunshine rather warmer in robot and this is typical of the far north of africa as you can see all the way towards egypt. it was sponsored by. but i'm a traditional every weekly news anchor going to see recent breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the clouds channelise that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were caught on the story that matter the most in bad news a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the head of sudan's military transitional council to step down has now been replaced by another general

much to give it a flooding over lands i said has had a pretty wet winter this is on the island of crete in situ which is in the east pretty widespread flooding as you can see from and to be honest not very much rain as reported that's the thing that's gone through this is about last thirty six hours with a satellite pictures has not been dispersed and gone. through turkey as you can see in our under nice clear skies the thing is about fifty so reported much the same on the mainland agrees but in turkey mommer is nearly double that now along the whole the south coast of turkey there was flooding during the winter so this will easily produce flooding one small forecast why it's rosalee dry in turkey but time fortunately this time tomorrow the rains come back to greece expect yes more flooding as a quick look at further east in iran where of course is extensive flooding for a very wet last couple of weeks the figure of hundred thirty six images meets up in the mountains in the province of lower stan the lower that's come down and move in the floodplain further south we've got the worst of

turns out its founder julian sounds amid rumors he's about to be kicked out of crete as the london embassy. the u.n. security council called on libya's rival factions to avoid the bloodshed as a commander from the east of the country advances his troops towards the capital tripoli. and call him a better version of a harbinger about another move by us from. and as that israel prepares for elections some of those vying for the prime minister ariel post sparked controversy .

and they try to be as dis crete as possible. lim that exposure as much as they can and be careful about who they talk to about it until they know who might be complicit or not. >> barr doesn't seem to know a key detail about the investigation. watch this. >> so would it be odd that the candidate was never really briefed by the department of justices that your campaign may be targeted by a foreign entity? >> that is one of the questions i have. i feel normally the campaign would have been advised of this. >> and can you think of a good reason right now why they wouldn't have been? >> i'm interested in getting that answered. i don't understand why the campaign was not advised. >> so, director, as we know the campaign was informed about involvement in 2016. you know that. because you were there. why doesn't barr say that? >> he could have asked about it earlier and in private and not it mused about it publicly and essentially review his ignorance there. because both of the campaigns were given defensive briefing. i know when we sta

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the plot is about a dj, landing in vietnam from the island of crete to served in the armed forces radio is the fact. the rest of the film is pure hollywood. he died in july of this year. he was really a conservative guy. in the movie, robin williams depicts him as a funny, un-soldier like character. good morning vietnam portrays a guy who meets a vietnamese girl, who happens to be the sister of a local soldier. the vietcong brother pulls the dj out of a bomb plot in a bar. in the hollywood version, he is portrayed as wildly popular because of the antics he uses when he plays records. robin williams improvised all the scenes as the dj. the first sergeant is jealous of his antics and sends him into the field, knowing or hoping he might get killed. the vietcong brother saves him yet again. the late robin williams won a golden globe award for best actor. he was nominated for an academy award. the film is number 100 on the 100 funniest films of american films. let's turn to the lessons learned from vietnam. to do this, we will look at six perspectives. political, military, veterans, peace ac

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has cut off aid to three central american nations, those the president feels are responsible for crete creating these caravans, experts feel that will make things worse. if you want people to stay in the country, you should give that country money to improve conditions there. and this threat to shut down border. no one thinks it can be done. people aren't sure it will happen at all. he's threatened twice before and hasn't followed through. the people in the white house say this time feels more real than others. there's a chance he does try to do this. >> the idea of anything feeling real has my mind spinning. he's on a tirade on twitter. talk about it. >> the republicans are very nervous about the plan to shut the border. also republicans very nervous about the president's renewed interest in health care. he's gone on a three-tweet spread this evening suggesting that though he does want to repeal and replace obamacare and create a new gop plan he's punting it, pushing it beyond the 2020 elections. he says, after the republicans win back both the house and senate. so we have optimistic

excellent and superb defensive terrain, and then in a holy novel form of warfare they seized the island of crete by airborne assault defeating superior numbers of british commonwealth troops and inflicting severe loss in the british mediterranean fleet. in june 1941, hitler hurled his armies and the greatest land invasion in history against soviet union. huge chunks of soviet land containing about 40% of the population and 40% of the economy fell under german heels. millions of soviet soldiers were killed or captured in most of those captured would perish. just behind hitler's armies targeted juice with just a precursor to would've been a total racial reordering of the world. in early december, 1941, the soviets counterattacked and drove the germans away from the gates of moscow and other locations. as with the battle of britain, it was not clear at that time that this was a permanent to live rents or merely a reprieve nor did anyone know with confidence whether he might inc. another agreement with hitler. at the end of 1941, the battle and entered its most fraught phrase as you both searched ou

this bridge on the greek island of crete has survived a lot of severe weather in its 111 year historyueensland during monsoon season, but the rains here this year are exceptional. the city of townsville is hardest hit, with prolonged rainfall shattering records going back to the 19th century. flooding hits iran, too. dozens of people are killed in storms that last from march into april. the record rainfall follows a prolonged drought, and the floods strike with astonishing force. the scale of flooding here is thought to have been made worse by decades of deforestation. in the usa, tornado season gets off to a deadly start. this is alabama in march, weather storms leave a path of destruction half a mile wide and a mile long. 23 people are killed here, that's more than double the number of people killed in tornadoes in the usa in the whole of last year. in the uk in march, an amazing escape. one moment you're strolling along the street, then this happens. strong winds cause part of a building to collapse, and one lucky pedestrian misses it by seconds. and here's something you don't see

a bit closer to home in europe, this is crete. we had a lot of rain here over the weekend.pace ofjust 2a hours. a lot of that came in a very short space of time. you can see that cloud sliding eastwards on the satellite picture. it stays unsettled through the mediterranean. this next spinning area of cloud sliding across the central mediterranean delivers some showers and thunderstorms across greece and turkey during tuesday. a lot of showers generally across the western side of europe, some wintriness over higher ground, but also some snowfall across finland, a little area of low pressure here. in helsinki, it stays pretty wintry over the next couple of days. temperatures in berlin much lower than they have been. in athens, dodging most of the showers, further downpours not too far away. back home over the next few days, it will turn cooler with a return to overnight frost. more details on that in half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. theresa may has just four days to stop the uk from leaving the eu without a deal. the prime minister is preparing to

earlier we saw the pictures in crete, and spilling into parts of western turkey. parts of south wales all the way down into south—west england and east england and some has been heavy at times. gradually pushes down towards the south—west of england into this evening and these are the temperatures at 5pm. a noticeable come down on where they we re noticeable come down on where they were this time yesterday, so into this evening, the rain getting pushed down towards the far south and west, we keep that keen breeze going through places like anglia, lincolnshire and yorkshire, but further north we expect the temperature to drop, when close to freezing if not a touch below through northern england and up into scotland, and beneath the cloudy temperature not dropping away quite so far. through wednesday, the high pressure continues to build in, squeezing the weather front, the rain in the cloud down towards the fartip of rain in the cloud down towards the far tip of cornwall and into the isles of scilly. patchy rain and at times through the channel islands but as the d