paula mclain's novel love & ruin tells the extraordinary story of martha gellhorn and ernest hemingwayn with a gift for words, thrown together in the chaos of the spanish civil war, and hopelessly in love, but driven to buy individual passions that couldn't survive the marriage. a novelist and a journalist who wanted each other, but needed even more to be themselves. welcome. we are talking here about a tempestuous marriage, i think, to put it mildly. let's talk about the two characters. let's leave hemingway to one side, for a moment. if we can! martha gellhorn, who became a journalist absolutely cut from original materialfor the rest of her life, just describe what she was like in the 30s. in the 19305, so she met hemingway in 1936, and he was about to go off to the spanish civil war. see, it's impossible to leave him to the side, he won't be left to the side, and that was really her first war and she was 28—years—old. for the rest of her life, she found her true calling as a storyteller and her voice as a journalist and then she went on to be one of the most significant war correspo

martha gellhorn and ernest hemingway. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news.eresa may says the nhs in england will get an extra £20 billion a year in real—terms funding by 2023. in a bbc interview today the prime minister said some of the money would come from savings made when britain stops paying into the eu budget. and that a section would have to be funded by higher taxation. labour say the government was relying on a "hypothetical" windfall. the institute for fiscal studies said there would be no brexit windfall because the uk faces a steep exit bill. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. as the pressure on the nhs has grown, so too have calls for more money for the health service. finally, after weeks of tough talks in whitehall, the prime minister has revealed the nhs budget will grow — paid for partly by the so—called "brexit dividend", but also possibly higher taxes. at the moment, as a member of the european union, every year we send significant amounts of money — we spend significant amounts of money — on our subscription, if you like, to

and this fake letter that she had bagged from an editor friend in new york saying martha gellhorn isothing of the kind. she lied her way over. she just went over on pure nerve. in other words, it is notjust a story about talent, it is a story about courage. about courage and something else. something more like i don't know, chutzpah, grit. we know it when we see it. yes, we know it when we see it. paula mclain, author of love and ruin, thank you very much. thank you. we had another very warm and humid day across england and wales with a lot of cloud to start the day but sunshine later on in the day. in northolt, crummer another fine day. fresher air across the rest of the uk from very different places. across scotland and northern ireland from greenland. and the south tropic for england and wales and that is why it felt humid. the weather front getting active at the moment. this cloud working its way across northern ireland and scotland and thatis northern ireland and scotland and that is rain bearing cloud and the rain has been quite heavy particularly in scotland in the past couple

american writer paula mclain whose novel love & ruin tells the story of ernest hemingway and martha gellhorno and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are owen bennett, deputy political editor at huffpostuk and the journalist and broadcaster penny smith. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer pictures the mackintosh building in glasgow destroyed by fire late on friday night. the paper leads on details of a £20 billion injection of extra cash for the nhs, expected to be unveiled by theresa may tomorrow. the mail on sunday also leads with the announcement claiming the timing comes as mrs may faces "intense pressure" on her leadership ahead of the eu withdrawal bill debate on wednesday. the sunday express says theresa may's announcement will be accompanied by a crackdown on nhs waste and inefficiency in a bid to ensure all the extra money is well spent. the sunday telegraph says the additional £384 million per week into the nhs after brexit exceeds the amount mooted by the official leave campaign. and, the sunday times pictu

to kim jong un the korean leader has no intention of disarming joining me from virginia is a martha gellhorn prize winner for journalism gareth porter author of perils of dominance in balance of power and the road to war in vietnam thanks for coming on going underground what do you.

to kim jong un the korean leader has no intention of disarming joining me from virginia is a martha gellhorn prize winner for journalism gareth porter author of perils of dominance in balance of power and the road to war in vietnam thanks for coming on going underground what do you make of the cia leaking this information to n.b.c. owned by comcast the north korea won't disarm their nuclear weapons well first of all this this story which is really quite an exercise in just information by the corporate news media is just. one small part of a much larger campaign that has been going on for weeks now and which i think is certainly one of the most important developments surrounding the whole us north korean developing relationship that that has occurred so far and that's because i think the corporate media are very very closely aligned with those forces within the u.s. national security bureaucracy the pentagon some of the cia people who are very very much opposed to reaching an agreement with north korea that would change the entire face of geopolitics in northeast asia because the the u.s. rol