kim gittleson has more.d decided it would stay awhile — spending the next decade and a half roving over the eerie martian landscape, reliably sending postcards back home. including proof that water, that necessary building block of life, did indeed flow at one point in martian history. but then a summer dust storm covered the rover‘s solar panels and on the 10th ofjune it sent back this image — before falling silent. now, after sending thousands of unreturned messages after the past eight months, scientists have come to the inevitable conclusion — opportunity is no more. it is, therefore, that i am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that i declare the 0pportunity mission as complete. and with it, the mars exploration rover mission as complete. but mars exploration isn't over yet. a new rover will be launched in 2020 and curiosity, which landed in 2012, is still covering ground. like many on social media, it offered its own eltonjohn tribute to its fallen fore—robot, saying... but t

kim gittleson has more.anded on mars in 2004 and instead decided it would stay awhile — spending the next decade and a half roving over the eerie martian landscape, reliably sending postcards back home. including proof that water, that necessary building block of life, did indeed flow at one point in martian history. but then a summer dust storm covered the rover‘s solar panels and on the 10th ofjune it sent back this image — before falling silent. now, after sending thousands of unreturned messages after the past eight months, scientists have come to the inevitable conclusion — opportunity is no more. it is, therefore, that i am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that i declare the 0pportunity mission as complete. and with it, the mars exploration rover mission as complete. but mars exploration isn't over yet. a new rover will be launched in 2020 and curiosity, which landed in 2012, is still covering ground. like many on social media, it offered its own eltonjohn tribute to its fa

kim gittleson has more.t 90 days, 0pportunity landed on mars in 2004 and instead decided it would stay awhile, spending the next decade and awhile, spending the next decade and a half roving over the eerie martian landscape, reliably sending postcards back home. including proof that water, that necessary building block of life, did indeed flow at one point in martian history. but then a summer dust storm covered the rover‘s solar panels and on the 10th ofjune it sent back this image, before falling silent. now, after sending thousands of unreturned m essa 9 es sending thousands of unreturned messages after the past eight months, scientists have come to the inevitable conclusion — 0pportunity is no more. it is therefore that i am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that i declare the 0pportunity mission as complete. and with it, the mars exploration rover mr —— mission is complete. a new rover will be launched in 2020 and curiosity, which landed in 2012, is still covering ground. lik

kim gittleson, bbc news.'s prime minister, theresa may, has asked mps for more time to discuss a brexit withdrawal deal with european union leaders. with no breakthough in the talks, there is mounting speculation that mrs may could delay any vote on her eu withdrawal agreement until close to 29 march, when the uk is due to leave. the opposition labour party has accused the prime minister of wanting to leave mps with a stark choice between her deal and no deal, but she has denied claims that she is running down the clock on brexit. the talks are at a crucial stage, and we now all need to hold our nerve to get the changes this house requires and deliver brexit on time. by getting the changes we need to the backstop, by protecting and enhancing workers‘ rights and environmental protections, and by enhancing the role of parliament in the next phase of negotiations, i believe we can reach a deal this house can support. in her statement, the prime minister has failed to answer even the most basic questions. what pr

kim gittleson reports.room prosecutors led that the accusations against the r&b singer r kelly who turned himself in on friday. they painted dark portal of a superstar who manipulated young women into sexual relationships enabled by a tredrea of accomplices. in 2001, a witness had conversations with robert kelly and robert kelly's associates were the witness was asked to retrieve video tapes showing robert kelly having sexual intercourse with the victim in this case when she was only 14 years old. after the hearing, a judge said balfour mr kelly at $1 million. he ordered him to surrender his passport and to avoid contact with anyone below the age of 18. on behalf of mr kelly, his lawyer strenuously denied the charges. he did not force anyone to have sex. he doesn't have that he is —he is have sex. he doesn't have that he is —heisa have sex. he doesn't have that he is — he is a rock star. he doesn't have to have nonconsensual sex. r kelly, whose name is from roberts or mr kelly, has faced decades of claims a

kim gittleson has more.tory lap for rami malek, the actor whose turn as freddie mercury in the movie bohemian rhapsody has earned him a series of nominations from some of film's biggest awards. # we will, we will... but his success at channelling the front man of the band queen is in danger of being overshadowed by allegations published by the atlantic magazine that the movie's director, bryan singer, had abused underaged boys. now, the bafta awards committee has suspended mr singer's name from bohemian rhapsody‘s nomination for outstanding british film. # galileo. # galileo figaro! in a statement, the body said that: mr singer had been fired from the production three weeks before filming ended, but was still credited with directing the movie. while he hasn't commented on the suspension, in response to the allegations made against him in the atlantic article, he told the bbc that the story was a homophobic smear, that: bohemian rhapsody has also been removed from consideration for an award from the lgbt righ

kim gittleson reports.usations against the r&b singer r kelly, who turned himself in on friday. they painted a dark portrait of a superstar who manipulated young women into sexual relationships, enabled by a coterie of accomplices. in 2001, a witness had conversations with robert kelly and robert kelly's associates, where the witness was asked to retrieve video tapes showing robert kelly having sexual intercourse with the victim in this case when she was only 1a years old. after the hearing, a judge set bail for mr kelly at $1 million. he ordered him to surrender his passport and to avoid contact with anyone below the age of 18. on behalf of mr kelly, his lawyer strenuously denied the charges. he did not force anyone to have sex. he doesn't have — he's a — he's a — he's a rock star. he doesn't have to have non—consensual sex. r kelly, whose real name is robert sylvester kelly, has faced decades of claims that he abused women and teenagers, but the accusations gained renewed prominence after a documentary ca

kim gittleson, bbc news.tional film industry could be excused for feeling a little nervous at the challenge posed by the rise of the streaming services. netflix, for example, has for the first time been nominated for best picture — the black and white autobiographical movie roma. tom brook reports. roma has been the subject of a massive campaign by netflix to win 0scars. the chief aim to bring a best picture victory to director alfonso cuaron‘s largely autobiographical portrait of his family's housemaid in his childhood home in mexico city in early 1970s. cuaron is taking the big marketing push in his stride. yeah, of course. netflix, like any other company behind any of the films, they do a lot of work doing the promotion and the marketing. i am very pleased about it. i'm very pleased because roma is a very unlikely film to have this amazing support that is happening in terms of a marketing campaign. it features a major styles. it has ten nominations to co— lead the 0scars race with the favourite. there is a

kim gittleson caught up with the founder and ceo in new york, to find out how he started the company i had been building different software companies on the internet, trying to figure out what products people would buy, and i would build them myself. i was an engineer at the time. and i was always looking for images to sell the software products on the internet, so i started shooting some of those images myself and i put them on another website called shutter stock at the time and sold a subscription of my own images for a very low price, because they are not very high quality. that's how the company got started. for a while you were the only employee, if i remember correctly you also didn't take any outside funding, so how did you grow shutterstock? yeah, it was a profitable business from the start and we extracted from the 10,000 images that i put on the website in 2003—2004 to over 200 million today. incrementally, week by week, improving the site, spending the marketing dollars very efficiently, sending out the right marketing materials to convert the right customers to get that

kim gittleson has more. a hometown hero returned to soon.nian town, this was not the way they wanted to welcome back one of their most successful sons. translation: without a doubt, we would never have imagined everything we are seeing would never have imagined everything we are seeing 110w. would never have imagined everything we are seeing now. there are 3000 of us we are seeing now. there are 3000 of us and we remain shocked and ove 1120 m e us and we remain shocked and ove rco m e by us and we remain shocked and overcome by the situation is still trying to give emiliano sala the farewell that he deserves. emiliano sala or are playing football here in progreso until the age of 13, when he left the pursuit opportunities. he was bought by cardiff city for a clu b he was bought by cardiff city for a club record of $90 million on the 19th of january. two days later, the plan carrying him and the pilot david ibbotson to his new home the plane crash. david ibbotson‘s remains remain missing. now the residents of progreso preparing to say goodbye

kim gittleson reports.has ground to a halt. 600 flights into belgium have an cancelled and planes flying below 7000 metres have had to be regarded all to a strike which is bolt the small european nation to a standstill. translation: we had no alternatives but to close the airports for two reasons. we know there will be a substantial roadblocks that will hinder the arrival of passengers. and on the other hand, we know air—traffic will be affected because entities who work for and with the airport will be impacted. the workers that the long—term a major union want to see wages increases faster than the annual rate. they also want to see increases to pension and then effo rts increases to pension and then efforts and a better work— life balance. public transport is also disrupted although limited trains are still running into and out of the country. that has meant some airlines have decided to reroute planes in step of cancelling them. translation: we are not cancelling any flights because flights will be dive

kim gittleson, bbc news.o a major defeat on immigration policy by announcing that it will reopen the christmas island detention centre. the centre closed last year — it held around 300 asylum seekers in 2017. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in sydney, hywel griffith. i asked him if reopening christmas island was a way of getting around this policy defeat. it's certainly drawn attention towards the government's border protection policies and allowed it to look tough on immigration, and accusing the opposition, which had a major victory in parliament last night. accused it of being soft and potentially opening the door to more people smugglers and more people trying to seek asylum in australia, by landing here illegally. so, scott morrison, who was himself the immigration minister at one stage saying he needs to reopen the controversial christmas island centre which was the scene of protests and hunger strikes, that in anticipation, he says, of more people smuggling efforts coming into australia. he's also

for more on this i've been speaking to our reporter kim gittleson.he spread of misinformation, link to something like 30 lynchings in india. so whatsapp has been trying to figure out ways to police that. now, it has this problem in that it has this end—to—end encryption, so it's very hard to figure out how messages are spread. so, they say they've been using artificial intelligence to try and figure out when an account seems suspicious. for instance, it doesn't seem like it's typing something, possibly because it's using a line of code to send out a lot of messages. so, that's why it says it's deleted the 6 million messages in the last three months. and just to put that number in context for you, we were talking about whatsapp instituted its forwarding ban, so you can only forward a message five times, some critics have said that because you are in groups you can reach something like a thousand people, so do the math. even if you delete 2 million accounts, they could have potentially reached 2 billion people — that's a lot of people to be able to rea

kim gittleson, bbc news.th the murder of three elderly men in exeter. the bodies of two 84—year—old twins and an 80—year—old man were found, less than 24 hours apart. alexander lewis—ra nwell from croyde in north devon will appear at exeter magistrates' court later. five people have been killed after a shooting at a factory in the american state of illinois. the gunman was also killed during an exchange of fire with police in which five officers were wounded. the shooter has been named as 45—year—old gary martin, a former employee at the factory. military charities have warned they're struggling to cope with the increasing demands on their mental health services. veterans say the number of suicides among those who served in iraq and afghanistan has increased, and one charity has told the bbc that mental health referrals have almost doubled. here's our defence correspondent jonathan beale. gary still has nightmares about his time in afghanistan. he did two tours of helmand and saw friends killed in combat. lik

kim gittleson has more.r whose turn as freddie mercury in the movie bohemian rhapsody has earned him a series of nominations for some of the film ‘s biggest awards. but his success as channelling the front man of the band queen is in danger of being overshadowed by allegations published by the atlantic magazine that the movie ‘s director ram sena had pitched —— abused underaged boys. now the awards committee had suspended his name from the him in rhapsody ‘s nomination for outstanding british on. —— british film. ina outstanding british on. —— british film. in a statement, bafta considers the behaviour completely unacceptable and incompatible with its values. the singer had been fired from the production three weeks before filming ended but was still credited with directing the movie. he hasn't commented on the suspension in response to the allegations made against him, he told the bbc that the story was a homophobic smear. he claims from bogus lawsuits filed by individuals willing to buy for money or attent

kim gittleson has more. a movie but that run sft and after amazon studios declined to distribute his most recent film, a rainy day in new york, which was shot in 2017 scheduled to come out later this yet. now he is suing the company for more than $68 billion in damages. in a suit, mr allen says amazon abandoned the agreement after an accusation surfaced that he molested his daughter, dylan farrow, in 1992. the suit says amazon has tried to excuse its action by referencing a 25 of baseless action against mr allen at that allegation was already known to the public before amazon entered the deals. mr allen has long design. —— mr allen has long denied the claims. that prompted some of the claims. that prompted some of the stars of the film to distance themselves from the project, like timothee chalamet, who said he would donate his salary from the film to charity. amazon has not yet commented on the suit which was anticipated by mr allen in 2016 when heissued anticipated by mr allen in 2016 when he issued a stat

kim gittleson has the story.d after amazon's studios declined to distribute his most recent film a rainy day in new york which was shot in 2017 and scheduled to come out later this year. now instead mr allen is suing the company for more than $68 million in damages. in his suit mr allen says amazon abandoned the agreement after accusation resurfaced he molested his daughter dylan farrow in 1992. the suit says amazon has tried to excuseis the suit says amazon has tried to excuse is action by referencing a 25—year—old baseless allegation against mr allen but that allegation was already known to amazon and the public before engaging in four separate deals. mr allen has long denied the claims which has regained prominence due to the me too movement, which convert the stars of the film to distance themselves from the film to distance themselves from the project, like this post on instagram... amazon the project, like this post on instagram. .. amazon has the project, like this post on instagram... amazon has not yet c

kim gittleson has more. kj matthews is an entertainment journalist based in los angeles. multi—year deal with amazon to make for films multi—year deal with amazon to make forfilms and multi—year deal with amazon to make for films and what he is saying is that his latest film, a rainy day in new york, was supposed to be distributed by now from amazon and they have shelved the idea of distributing that film altogether and according to woody allen, in his lawsuit, he's saying it is because of the allegations against him by his daughter that he sexually molested her in what he's saying is that these allegations, he is denied them and they've been out there for more than 20 years so there is simply no reason that amazon has to have a breach of contract with him that's what he is alleging. some of the actors in the film have spoken out, haven't they? jude law says it's a shame that it's going to not be he doesn't know he dashed if he will work with him. we haven't heard selena gomez say she wants to work with him again. a lot of people are distancing themselves from woody allen

to talk more on this, i'm joined in the studio now by the bbc‘s kim gittleson.n india for some time, but this is quite something, isn't it? it is, so we have been talking about how whatsapp has been blamed for the spread of misinformation, link to something like 30 lynchings in india so something like 30 lynchings in india so whatsapp has been trying to figure out ways to police that. now it has this problem in that it has this end—to—end encryption so it's very ha rd to this end—to—end encryption so it's very hard to figure out how messages are spread. so they say they have been using artificial intelligence to try to figure out when an account seems suspicious. for instance it doesn't seem like it is typing something possibly because it is using a line of code to send out a lot of messages. so that is why it says it deleted the 6 million m essa 9 es says it deleted the 6 million messages in the last three months. and just to put that number in context, we were talking about whatsapp instituted its forwarding ban, so you can only forward five times, people say

the bbc‘s kim gittleson is here with me. so who is david malpass, what do we know about him?nt and have served with reagan and george h w but andy is the chief economist up until the bank needed a rescue in 2008 and he wrote this op—ed in the wall street journal in which he decided that the housing market or debt markets would have a big impact on the us economy which was in 2007 cell history has not looked kindly on that but the number one reason that he is really interesting as a peck as he is very donald trump, he has been a critic of the world bank. and he loves to play people into the positions that they have criticised. so that is why his appointment has raised a few eyebrows. not just his appointment has raised a few eyebrows. notjust in the united states but from people who might need to approve his nomination as head of the world bank. we spoke about what 2019 might bring and you said it could be a time for a reckoning, how do you think he will fit into that? one of his main criticisms of the world bank has to do with what the world bank has seen as its mission for t

kim gittleson has more.enger plane, took to the skies in 2005 it was considered a feat of modern engineering. but now the plane has come to an untimely end. dealing a blow to airbus and it is expected that increased international air travel would lead to demand for big planes like this one. airbus said the decision to stop manufacturing the a380 came after its biggest customer, emirates airlines, decided to trim its orders for the plane. that made it no longer financially viable to continue to manufacture the a380. while the demise has been expected for some time now, the shift to smaller planes, like american rival boeing's stream liner 787 came faster than expected. in a statement the airbus chief executive said that the airbus chief executive said that the decision was painful but that the decision was painful but that the a380 would still be in the air for some time. the last delivery of the plane is set for 2021 and airbus said it hoped it would be able to reassign around 3000 workers. marking the end o

kim gittleson has more.er plane, first took to the skies in 2005, it was considered a feat of modern engineering. but now the plane has come to an untimely end, dealing a blow to airbus and its bet that increased international air travel would lead to demand for big planes like this one. airbus said the decision to stop manufacturing the a380 came after its biggest customer, emirates airlines, decided to trim its orders for the plane. that made it no longer financially viable to continue to manufacture the a380. while the demise has been expected for some time now, the shift to smaller planes, like american rival boeing's dreamliner 787, came faster than expected. in a statement, airbus chief executive tom enders said that the decision was painful, but that the a380 would still be in the air for some time. the last delivery of the plane is set for 2021 and airbus said that it hoped it would be able to reassign around 3,000 workers, marking the end of the superjumbo era. the police service of northern ireland

kim gittleson, bbc news. your candle burned out long ago, but your science never will.ything, will today's achieve? joining us now from westminster to help answer that, is nicola bartlett, the political correspondent for the daily mirror. good morning. thank you forjoining us. i think a lot of people will be watching saint what is happening today, what do you mean an other boat, about what?! yes, ithink today, what do you mean an other boat, about what?! yes, i think that isafair boat, about what?! yes, i think that is a fair question. it is really not about anything you today. this is almost playing for time, as it were, theresa may is going back to mps to get them to support high policy of trying to get a change to the withdrawal agreement. this is almost a confirmation of what mps voted on in. two weeks ago. that is what happened when they said they wanted a change to the backstop, the controversial irish backstop arrangement. the problem is, on the day, mps also voted to indicate that they did not support an ideal. and thatis they did not support an ideal. and that