the artist damien hirst. you have been watching newsday. stay with us.d to dominate the summit between donald trump and xijinping. before we go, let's take a look at these pictures. thousands of people have attended a memorial service in the russian capital, moscow, to honour victims of the st petersburg metro blast. crowds gathered in red square to remember the 14 people who were killed in the bomb attack on monday. that's all for now. thanks for watching bbc world news. hello there, good morning. lots of pleasant weather on offer over the next few days for large swathes of the united kingdom. and in fact, on thursday, it was a pretty decent day for many, although there was always a bit more cloud in the north and west, a little bit of rain with that, and that is where we keep most of the cloud overnight. it helps to give the temperatures up in the north and west, but generally it is a chilly night. major towns and cities, eight, nine degrees. but it is in the rural spots, away from the north and west, that we are going to see temperatures getting down

in his only broadcast interview about the piece, damien hirst has been speaking to our arts editor, willnew show is that he still loves spectacle. the bigger, the brasher, the better. even in genteel venice, where he's filled two enormous palazzos with mythical figures. the idea is that there is a collector from 2000 years ago, who was a freed slave from antioch in turkey. and he begged, borrowed, stole, commissioned a massive collection. he built the biggest ship of its day called the unbelievable, or the apistos. he packed the treasures into it and the ship sank. it was a mythical story. then, ten years ago, we looked into the discovery of the wreck and we found the wreck and excavated the treasures. the exhibition is the exhibition of the treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable. so the story goes but, hang on a minute. what's this? an ancient sword, bearing the legend, "seaworld." a marble sculpture with barbie branding. doesn't matter tattooed figure looks a lot like rhianna? is damien hirst taking the mickey mouse? for me, the show is totally about belief. you can believe whate

is damien hirst taking the mickey mouse? for me, the show is totally about belief. aside, this collection of bronze, solid gold and marble artworks must have cost a fortune to make. uh...what did we say? more than 20, less than 100? we can do better than that, damien. more than 50, or less than 50 million? i'm not sure. probably more. a lot of money. yours? yeah, mine. why do you want people to believe in this story? i want you to be searching for the truth, and i want you to have to be peeling back the layers to find the truth. i don't know what that truth is for you, but i know what it is for me. what is it for you? for me, it's that this guy lived 2,000 years ago, he amassed this collection, and he tried to do something for posterity, and it sank to the bottom of the sea. it's like, i'm really shocked that i say that to you now. there is something sort of barmy about believing a story you actually invented yourself. you know, people believe in santa claus. the difference is, those are other people's story. but if i close my eyes, i can see the sky. are you to tel

like the damien hirst cow for example.rd is chicken and stay, what is the many —— that tank of formaldehyde is basically. we talked about a cashless society. for the in your restaurants, what is it? or credit cards. we don't do co nta ctless. credit cards. we don't do contactless. you very rarely see cash coming through. —— they are all credit cards. if you perry amex all these... would you stop taking cash? some cafes and restaurants were stealing cash at all. that a tricky one. especially in a restaurant business. because, tips, that kind of stuff, people still leave cash tips. you very rarely see people actually paying by cash. it's always actually paying by cash. it's always a bit suspicious if someone pays by cash! laughter exactly when i pay with cash people think what is going on. crisp £50 note! it would be remiss of me, to talk about brexit, but i am curious about your point on this. there is a lot of worry in the industry, your industry, about staffing if they bring in these immigration controls, free movement co

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we have an exclusive on the latest work by damien hirst. hello.rospect of us military action against syria appears to be moving closer, because of the suspected chemical weapons attack which killed at least 84 people. syria's claims that it didn't carry out the attack have been met with widespread scepticism, and strong words from the us secretary of state. rex tillerson said there appears to be no future for president assad as syrian leader. he's again appealed to russia to reconsider its support for the regime in damascus. nick bryant reports from new york. yesterday, we saw abdul—hamid alyoussef grieving for his twin children, poisoned in the attack. today, he suffered the further agony of burying them. often, the images we see from syria are of helpless victims, caught in a spiral of violence that they have no way of controlling. but today, these syrians became activists. doctors, rescue workers, children, a silent protest, an expression of dignified rage, an act of self preservation. they're demanding punishment for the assad regime and prote