john berger, who's died at the age of 90.h us on bbc one. it's time for the news where you are. good evening, i'm asad ahmad. as you will have heard, rail fares have gone up today at a time when strikes, delays and cancellations have blighted the lives of hundreds of thousands of commuters in and around london, for months. it's left many passengers angry, including those who thought their fares wouldn't rise for years. here's sarah harris. new year, new real prices for londoners and for hundreds of thousands of commuters, the only way is up when it comes to the cost of their journey. many had is up when it comes to the cost of theirjourney. many had hoped they would be included in the mayor's four—year fare freeze. would be included in the mayor's four-year fare freeze. i have a fully funded package to freeze fares overfour fully funded package to freeze fares over four years, so fully funded package to freeze fares overfour years, so londoners pay not a penny more until 2020.m emerged the mayor can only set fares not travel

john berger challenged convention, the establishment, and us.and the charisma of a born performer. the lights are kept low so as to prevent the drawing from fading. he was, though, above all a writer and storyteller. the activity of writing has, for me, been a vital one. it helps me to make sense of things, and to continue. he enriched our lives through his novels, poetry and criticism. he showed us how to see, not as individuals, but together. john berger, who has died at the age of 90. time now for all the sports news in sport today. hello. i'm marc edwards, and this is sport today. we're live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on our programme: liverpool drop points after sunderland hold them to a 2—2 draw. jermain defoe the hero once again. it's six consecutive league wins for manchester united, who see off ten—man west ham. and he's back — the fed express rushes through his return after a six—month break from tennis. hello, and thanks for joining us on sport today. we're going to kick things off in the north—east of england, where sunderl

john berger, who's died at the age of 90., after 60,000 people came into the city centre on its first day. organisers estimate tens of thousands more also watched the huge fireworks show from points along the banks of the humber. anne—marie tasker reports. hull's reign as city of culture came in with the bank as 15,000 fireworks exploded across the city sky. 25,000 people packed in to see a show organisers promise would be bigger than london's new year's eve.|j thought the show was amazing. it was good to hear what hull has too far. it was fantastic. i can't wait to see all the events. loads of work must have gone into that and it is nice to see something that spectacular in hull. another spectacle opened at the year of events. for a week, spectacle opened at the year of events. fora week, made spectacle opened at the year of events. for a week, made in hull will look back at a century of the city's history. the blitz, the dozens city's history. the blitz, the d oze ns of city's history. the blitz, the dozens of lost at sea,

in a code that is john berger speaking in 1972. he died monday at his home in a paris suburb at the age of 90. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. undercover to let congress meets today. and one of the first moves, house republicans have voted to gut the office of congressional ethics, dismantling reforms adopted after a previous republican ethics scandal. the vote reportedly came as as a surprise and without the support of house speaker paul ryan or majority leader kevin mccarthy. the full house is scheduled to vote later today. under the measure, the office of ngressional ethics will be renamed the office of congressional complaint review and placed under the oversight of the house ethics committee. the move will take away authority and independence from the investigative body and gives more power to lawmakers over internal inquiries. according to "the washington post," under new rules the office will not be able to employ a spokesperson, invest

but family disputes the case and that's why they've listed the help of attorney john berger. capel anti police tear project organized the memorial. the district attorney's office is investigating the deadly shooting. >> marty: more than a hundred people search dogs drones and moral part of the search on saturday at has been a week since strengthens i'm missing. kondo was recovered on tuesday researchers not able to find her after spending hours searching yesterday loved ones are not losing faith in finding her. unclear to when they will continue the search for jenkins. police in fremont asking for the public's help in finding a package the the police a man still package from fremont home back in november. police have now found the picture when the incident occurred. ask anyone with information to contact from police. all lanes of highway 47 open. . >> marty: there were closed because of heavy flooding and then video from the clock copter for of what the area looked like caltrans crews worked all week to pump up the water chp reopened eased on lanes of highway 37 wednesday. wa

in the process leading up to the every student succeed stacked before that working for john klein of minnesota berger she has a ton of experience in federal policy . and then immediately to her left is our need done 10 -- arne duncan two needs no introduction of partner of the emerson collective as well as being a senior fellow here brookings. obviously secretary of education under president above the seven years before that was at the chicago public schools and then american fellow but once following the election a member of the presidential transition team for president-elect trump install serving as an informal adviser to that ever before the commissioner of education in the state of florida as well as secretary of education for the commonwealth of virginia. but not at the same time laugh laugh. >> let me start things off with those different ways of what we might see or want to see? wednesday you played the key role in the successful legislation of every student succeed sacked that he expects that to roll over the next tender 20 years. so what else to expect to see from the trump administration q

john mcwhorter. [applause] >> i want to talk to you about the new wave of late wage because to explain the reality of how language works and what it really is berger ultimately to understand what we do but there is a lot of common between language and natural history. you would never know which by the way languages taught in the school system or you would never know that and to give you a new way. and then to feel better about your own speech. what it comes down to is language is inherently a changeable and italy's will change but if u.s. somebody but we tend to think first of all, you have new words for new things he was soon the lot of the words but it is much more profound than that and here's what you don't learn. we have new words for new things that is true but language changes inevitably as the cloud pattern changes and how you feel if you look up tomorrow to see the clouds in the same place that is bizarre is the same thing with language and passed to change the way cloud patterns change. that has never not happened but it if he took a group of people and for some reason put them in a cave in their lives to their with everything that they