nina simone, dr simone, it has been a pleasure having you on the programme.ing? i am a doctor, do you know why? you are a doctor of humanities. yes. from malcolm x university in chicago. and a doctor of music. from ambrose college in ambrose massachusetts. 0k, thank you for setting the record straight. it's been a great pleasure. hello. showers or longer spells of rain were the mark of the day on friday in many parts of the british isles, but other areas too got away with a pretty decent sort of day. that was the end of the day in kings cross in london. that was the day in cornwall. and what's driving things at the moment? this area of low pressure, sat in the middle of this great swirl of cloud. you can see the persistent rain showing up, and those with a good eye can see the speckling of showers, some of those were really quite sharp. as we get on into the body of saturday, rather than friday, the same area of low pressure has drifted a little bit further north, taking the prospect with it of those longer spells of rain. not a cold start to the day wherever

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nina simone.f you want to see the video behind that music, you can go to democracynow.org as we showed chelsea manning and oscar lopez rivera, both became free people yesterday. , i'mthis is democracy now! amy goodman. "let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. no to silence." those the words of award-winning mexican reporter javier valdez after onone of his colleagues, miroslava breach, was assassinated in late march. well, on monday, valdez wawas ao assassinated, dragged ouout of s car and shot 12 times less than a block from his newspaper the , newspaper he co-founded in the northwest mexican state ofof sinaloa. as news s coverage here in the united states is hyper-fococused on president trurump, wewe'll lk at a m major scandal just across the border that is not being covered in u.s. media -- the widespread violence e in mexico and the impunity for the killers. the killing of valdez who wrote for the prominent newspaper has sparked widespread outrage across me