peter hall, the text was a lwa ys weeping. . peter hall, the text was always paramount.paramount. hisjob as director was commonly thought, to get the playwright to speak. you wa nt to get the playwright to speak. you want to get to the centre of the play, he said, not me. iwill employee the back again. i find thee must fit for business. it was an approach that had the finest theatrical talent in the land making a beeline to work with him. peter is sublime at directing. when we did antony and cleopatra he had them actually beating out the line, our royal lady's dead, dead, dead. it took us ages to do. the end of the morning we got to, our royal lady's dead... there was a pause and peter said, thank christ! i think she wa nts to said, thank christ! i think she wants to be that side. give me a stage and three actors and a text, andi stage and three actors and a text, and i have the confidence to know instinctively what should be done. he was from the outset a confident, precocious, risk—taking director. with some luck and plenty of good judgment, it was he who brought samue

sir peter hall speaking in 2011. see you on what is a very sad day in the world of theatre. how significant was sir peter hall to your theatre? hugely significant. there have been a group of theatre lovers in kingston trying to get a theatre—going. it was david jacobs, our then chairman who invited sir peter tojoin jacobs, our then chairman who invited sir peter to join along with sir frank wakeley who was running drama at the university of kingston. it was his business acumen, that really drove the theatre forward. it openedin really drove the theatre forward. it opened in 2008 and we are coming up to our tenth anniversary. without sir peter, we would not be here today. passion is a word that we hear a lot today. passion is a word that we heara lot in today. passion is a word that we hear a lot in relation to him. what was it like to work with him and alongside him? he was a big character, which is one of the things that made him successful but some people might say was one of the challenges. he was passionate but h

beckett's career would not have started without peter hall.champions early in his career of tennessee williams' work on the london stage. he had the most extraordinary instinct for great living writers, for writers at the beginning of their careers. he loved opera, too, and for six years was artistic director at glyndebourne, where he demonstrated that an opera's director can be as important as its conductor. and he also made films like akenfield, a nostalgic portrait of rural life in suffolk village like the one he'd grown up in. he gets to here somewhere and he trips. right, he's going to fall in the slop, so you all appreciate we can only do it once. it was shot mainly at weekends using amateur actors. the work of a fine director and talented impresario who ended his career as the grand old man of british theatre. and there'll be a special tribute to sir peter hall at 9pm tonight on bbc four. time for a look at the weather. here's alina jenkins. things have been going steadily downhill from the west this afternoon. 0ur downhill from the wes

laurence olivier stepped down as the artistic director of the national theatre in 1973, it was peter hallinto a globally respected theatrical giant with a modern home on the london south bank. all peter's successors as director of the national would acknowledge without petered out might be no national to run. it's easy to forget how hostile the reception was when the national moved to the south bank. it wasn't a popular place. he loved opera, and delighted in his time as a director at glyndebourne, making, in the eyes and ears of many, some of his finest work. sir peter hall will be remembered as one of the most significant figures in british theatre. he was the man who, by developing a model of public subsidy and private finance, created the landscape for today's golden age of british theatre. he was, as the director trevor nunn has said, the man who changed theatre from ancient to modern. david will gompertz, bbc news. a hugely popular internet reality show called the rap of china is shining a light on chinese hip—hop. with more than 2.5 billion views injust two months, the show has hel

sir peter hall, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ave had a long career, more than 50 years in the theatre. you've worked through good times and bad times, what is the state of the theatre today do you think? well, first of all one must use the word subsidy and say, you know, with less subsidy things would be healthier. i've even heard that said from the right. but the thing that worries me is if we stop subsidy next week, there's still a subsidy, and it's a subsidy that the artists give. i don't think the public has any understanding whatsoever that although a few great stars may be jolly lucky and may earn a fortune, 90% of people that work in the theatre work for appalling money, absolutely appalling, and that i think is the chief worry about the state of the theatre at the moment. to be clear about this word subsidy, do you believe that in essence subsidies are bad for the theatre, that they can stifle creativity? no, i don't. i don't at all. one goes around in circles on these subjects. it's very clear to me that the only thing t

atjust 2a peter hall directed the premiere.ed the royal shakespeare company. not bad for the working—class son of a railwayman. we're not... it was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hold triumphant, a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi blaze as the walls of the roses. but his marriage failed as he suffered a nervous breakdown only to re—emerge as laurence 0livier‘s successor as the director. he revelled in a new role. it is a very complex, stimulating job because it is both concerned with management and with art. he combined creative flair with art. he combined creative flair with a phenomenal workrate administrative skill and formidable powers of persuasion. he transferred national productions like amadeus to the commercial stage and later formed his own company to direct classics and new plays in london, bath and on tour. he loved opera too. and for six years was artistic director at glyndebourne where he demonstrated that an opera's director ca

sir peter hall.ed in to bail out northern rock. the move sparked a run on the bank, and then came the rest of the financial meltdown. this week, newsnight is looking back at what happened a decade ago and trying to work out where it leaves us now. we sent our business editor, helen thomas, to ask whether current regulation would protect the economy from similar shocks in future. and sirjohn vickers, who led the government's inquiry in the wake of the crash, told her thinks he thinks we're only halfway there. here's helen's report. should we have seen it coming? debt piling up, loans repackaged into an alphabet soup of investments, sold widely to... well, game investors, who bet that a aaa badge meant a sure thing. then, a tremor in the us housing market. and the slow realisation that one knock in one place could set off a series of calamities around the world. most people, most intelligent, thoughtful people in positions of power in the financial authorities believed that they had things under contro

the notable tributes to sir peter hall who has died at the age of 86. about sir peter hall, we have sir trevor nunn with us who succeeded peter at the royal shakespeare company. idid not shakespeare company. i did not want him to go but yes. where on earth do we begin to talk about his contribution? i suppose i can begin at the beginning by saying that all the way back to 1960 i quite coincidentally went to a lecture and heard this young man talking about a vision of the theatre where there would be a permanent company, where it would be shared and antique wall. there would be democracy in the company and it would be an ensemble. it would be the most educated and trained shakespeare company in the world. it would be in competition with the moscow theatre and the berliner ensemble, and that young man turned out to be peter hall and he made that vision happen, the royal shakespeare company, and then went further than that. there was a kind of hubris and madness in him that he also said, we have to have a theatre in london. my company has to be seen in lon

one of the greatest names in british theatre, sir peter hall, has died at the age of 86.nd went on to become the director of the national theatre. 0ur correspondent nick higham looks back at the life of the man who's described as a "colossus". i think she wants to be that side of the camera. give me a stage and three actors and a text and i have the confidence to know instinctively what should be done. he started as britain's most talented young director, charismatic and adventurous. samuel beckett's waiting for godot was a theatrical bombshell — atjust 24, peter hall directed the uk premiere. at stratford, aged 29, he created the royal shakespeare company. not bad for the working—class son of a railwayman. we are not going to read the play — embarrass each other and ourselves. the rsc was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph — a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi plays as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus, striding the world of the british theatre

beckett's career would not have started without peter hall.writers, for writers at the beginning of their careers. he loved opera, too, and for six years was artistic director at glyndebourne, where he demonstrated that an opera‘s director can be as important as its conductor. and he also made films like akenfield, a nostalgic portrait of rural life in suffolk village like the one he‘d grown up in. he gets to here somewhere and he trips. right, he's going to fall the slop, so you all appreciate we can only do it once. it was shot mainly at weekends using amateur actors. the work of a fine director and talented impresario who ended his career as the grand old man of british theatre. a decent enough data central and eastern parts of the dish isles but the cloud and windows already gathering and the first storm of the seasonis gathering and the first storm of the season is causing concern for the met office to issue an ample warning. the busts through the evening in the first part of the night 50—60 mph were quite widely across the central and so

sir peter hall has died at the age of 86.ecome the director of the national theatre. nick higham looks back at the life and career of a man described as a colossus. i think she wants to be that side of the camera. give me a stage and three actors and a text and i have the confidence to know instinctively what should be done. he started as britain's most talented young director, charismatic and adventurous. samuel beckett's waiting for godot was a theatrical bombshell — atjust21i, peter hall directed the uk premiere. at stratford, aged 29, he created the royal shakespeare company. not bad for the working—class son of a railwayman. we are not going to read the play — embarrass each other and ourselves. the rsc was a company of international standard which attracted the very best actors. peggy ashcroft was one, here in an early hall triumph — a reworking of shakespeare's henry vi plays as the wars of the roses. sir peter was a visionary. he was a colossus, striding the world of the british theatre. in a way it would be iniquitou

here is sir peter hall at the table. to be a conductsor, i have to say, i've had a lucky life professionally and i've had a wonderful life. if you say to me you're going going back to go and say what would you like to do again? ieferred be a director. >> theater director? >> yes. it's the best job in the world, terribly tiring and terribly demanding. you get paid for living in chekof's head for a month. pretty amazing. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. steves: the dramatic rock of cashel is one of ireland's most evocative sites. this was the seat of ancient irish kings for seven centuries. st. patrick baptized king aengus here in about 450 a.d. in around 1100, an irish king gave cashel to the church, and it grew to become the ecclesiastical capital of all ireland. 800 years ago, this monastic community was just a chapel and a round tower standing high on this bluff. it looked out then, as it does today, over the plain of tipperary, called the golden vale because its rich soil makes it ireland's b

california irvine and she's joining us now from there via skype thank you very much for your time peter hall clearly established some of the icons of the theatre was able to do that because of the kind of person he was or was it as much to do with the times during which he was doing it. well it was clearly i mean he was living in a very exciting period for the theater he was the first english director to stage back and he did that as a very young man and captured the attention of tennessee williams and other theater directors and actors of that period and he went on to really revolutionize the production of shakespeare by bringing together a modern sensibility with the real love for the music and poetry of the text and he really just changed how people experience these plays is there a particular performance or a particular structure that he created within the world of theater that is if you like a definition of who peter hall was well i do or his his midsummer night's dream he had pretty stage that on the stage first and then he made a fantastic film in one nine hundred sixty eight with dia

in a statement, the administrators bdo have said: tributes have been paid to sir peter hall, who foundedny and was a director of the national theatre. sir peter has died at the age of 86. he'd been diagnosed with dementia in 2011. his career included staging the english language premiere of samuel beckett's waiting for godot and the world premiere of harold pinter‘s homecoming. that's a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight. now on bbc news, it's time for newsnight with emily maitlis. remember this? do the tories expect our support in the light of another 1% pay increase? there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want. today the government announced it would lift the public sector pay cap for some. are the green shoots of the magic money tree starting to peak through? we ask one of austerity‘s architects if this signals a rethink. also tonight: the campaigners get their way, for now. the government presses the pause button on murdoch's takeover of sky. should we be worried it will turn into this? there's got to be s

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obviously a lot being written and said about sir peter hall.hotograph on the front of the guardian. one of the theatre greats. we know he has been ill for a while. suffering from dementia for a few yea rs. suffering from dementia for a few years. the focus on all his achievements. founding the rsc, and his work. a real frisson around the office when the alert came through it about him dying. a real significance. someone who was really, really a key figure in our cultural life. i'm glad we put that on the front page. all the coverage it will get. really important when someone it will get. really important when someone makes a contribution like this, that we're able to recognise it. what has been striking, the contribution is not what he did, but how many other careers have benefited as a result of what he did. you can see that from the ranger tributes coming out. the people he touched on health. we will finish by going back to the telegraph. stubble ban for border staff. is there a reason. you are well groomed as ever. with all the issues our bo

and tributes to sir peter hall, one of the greatest figures in the history british theatre, who's diedt the age of 86. in a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. in beyond 100 days, katty kay and christian fraser will looking at the damage caused by hurricane irma in the caribbean. they'll be hearing from the captain of a royal navy vessel that's helping with uk relief efforts. as the government announces its lifting the cap on public sector pay, but only for police and prison officers in england and wales, we'll be getting reaction from a nurse. and talking to a charity that helps victims of modern—day slavery as nine are members of one traveller family are jailed for enslaving vulnerable adults. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. good evening and welcome. jose mourinho and antonio conte lead their teams into champions league action for the first time tonight. we'll look ahead to tonight's action. and mark sampson the england women's manager tells the bbc he's not a racist. yes, neymar, mbappe and edinson cavan

the theater world is mourning the death of so peter hall hall is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the english language theatre since world war two in the nineteen fifties and sixties he led a movement to modernize the way shakespeare's plays were staged over a career spanning more than fifty years he founded the royal shakespeare company run britain's national theatre and was also a key figure in bringing the works of samuel beckett's to public notice peter hall was eighty six and every clinton has revealed who she thinks is to blame for last year's election loss to donald trump in a new memoir it's called what happened and it gives clinton's view of her defeat some of her democratic colleagues say rather than looking back it's time to move on diane estabrook has more from washington. in her five hundred twelve page memoir hillary clinton is candid about losing the presidency to donald trump i felt like i had let everybody down clinton blames herself for using a private e-mail account when she was secretary of state that led to a government investigation but she also qu

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one of the greatest names in british theatre, sir peter hall, has died. he was 86.tre. he also directed opera and films, and was a campaignerfor public funding of the arts. the us secretary of state rex tillerson will meet his russian counterpart sergei lavrov next week. the russian foreign ministry says the meeting will take place on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly in new york. those two men have a lots to discuss. this is beyond 100 days. still to come — apple unveils its tenth anniversary iphone — and plenty more besides. we'll take a first look at how the tech giant is giving itself its very own upgrade. the future of one of england's oldest monuments could be a little calmer after the british government approved a scheme to build a tunnel for the main road which passes within metres of stonehenge. more than 25,000 vehicles drive past the ancient stone circle each day. but not everyone is happy with the plan, as duncan kennedy reports. from the thunderous blight of this... to the wondrous sight of this. the a303 and stonehenge have long been

peter, you know these halls well. we've all walked through them, but there's applause from tourists, from others, from staff as the republican whip returns to work. let's listen again. >> reporter: andrea, can you hear me? >> garrett, i can hear you. i saw you got a question to the whip as he walked by. talk about how emotional this day is. >> reporter: the whole day has been emotional, andrea. when you first tossed to me, i was not speaking because this entire room, probably a hundred journalists, and maybe that many tourists, had fallen completely silent watching steve scalise work his way down this short maybe two or three-foot-long ramp, trying to get out here. just moving ever so slowly, clearly in pain on his crutches, and people had stopped talking, stopped breathing audibly in respect watching him come back into the room, sort of a capstone to what was an emotional, truly general feeling bipartisan moment on the floor where he was introduced by the speaker, he was praised by nancy pelosi. he spent maybe half a

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. >> all the girls that were in the hall used to call me peter pan. she is my girlfriend. even though i am leery of being with men because of what i have been through in the past, i think being with her, i don't know, it's just -- it's something about it, her looking like a guy but knowing she is a girl is intriguing i guess. >> emilee keen is assigned to a neighboring housing unit. but the couple has learned to skirt jail regulations in order to carry on their clandestine courtship. >> we are not allowed to have any letters we can't pass to any other inmates. so we have to be sneaky about it. so we go tthis doo and then after it is folded like this, we just pass it under like that. and then they grab it. and then they write one and send it back. i stuff this in my legal folders so they can't search it. this, i covered it with like a cover letter to the -- to the judge. but these are all of the letters from emilee. and i think i have given her even more. there's 71 letters in here. >> keen still remembers the first time dailey wrote her. >> i, you know, read the letter fro

peters. senator wicker. >> mr. spehr, what do you say to that cyber threat argument that mr. hall raised?> i think it is a serious issue and i think the auto industry and trucking industry are ensured to committing -- there is nobody out there that wants thb equipment to be compromised. so i think putting together very strong protocols in concert with federal policies, we work very regularly not only with d.o.t. and nhtsa, but also with dhs. i agree with mr. hall, i don't think you want a tank truck that's driverless in an isis world. that is not something that we are advocating. going back to the earlier discussion about driver displacement, that is not something that we believe is in the foreseeable future. but where we can use technology to enhance, you know, the safety and the productivity of the fleets and the driver, we are all in on that. >> just as we guard against cyber threats with airlines and in other aspects of our economy, we can answer that question with a trucking question is that your position? >> yeah, i think so. we work very closely with dhs, fbi, volleypy. we have bee

thune, senator peters, members of the committee, i thank you again for the opportunity to testify on this important subject and look forward to questions. >> thank you, mr. spear. mr. hall. >> chairman thune, senator peters, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on an issue that is of vital importance to american workers. i'm the general secretary treasurer of the teamsters union, the nation's largest transportation union representing workers in almost every transportation industry. teamsters members could be delivering anything from bakery goods to concrete, palletized material to your latest online package, or getting you to work on time and safely transporting your kids to school. while nearly 600,000 of our 1.4 million members turn a key in a truck to start their work day, the issues that we will be discussing today don't just impact those who drive vehicles for a living. the future includes partial and fully autonomous vehicles could also change the nature of work for those in nearly every part of the transportation industry in our country. planning for the future and incorporating new technologies into our members' dai

peter alexander. coming up right now, more news with halle jackson, all yours. >> i know you stayed up late enough.know how you do it. >>> it has already been a morning here in dc over the program that protects so-called dreamers. don't ask deal or no deal. ask what kind of deal? when it might come together? and what that means for the president's space? it is clear there is some kind of frame for agreement, even donald trump himself saying, he and democrats are getting close. and that might have his have his hard core supporters close to something else, revolt. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi saying they'll throw in more money, but nothing for the long-promised border wall. he he's promising to push for that. you've heard from the president on all of this. and up next you'll hear from nancy pelosi herself taking questions at this microphone later this hour. plus the governor one of the states suing over daca, will join us. we're also following the very real storm down south. president trump right now is on his way to florida. he'll be landing in fort myers momentarily to tour damage from hurricane

halle berry in the class glasses and eneltlton john. they have giving it a 50% splat on rotten tomatoes. i like it. you had me at fun. peterraverse, our colleague says even when it stops making sense, "kingsman" is unstoppable fun. >> some think it's fun. >> some think it's fun, but everything else is ridiculous. >> frank wants to see it. the first one was so good. next up, battle of the sexes starring emma stone rel carell, based on the match with billie jean king. she was struggling with equal pay and her own sexuality. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is custer's last stand. this is a lobber versus a lebber. >> keep talkin', bobby. the more nonsense you spout, the worse it's going to be when you lose. >> i'm the champ. why would i lose? >> because dinosaurs can't play tennis. >> i'm going to put the show back in chauvinism. >> ooh, throwing a little shade. kind of like when the boxers go head to head. and the critics by the way are loving battle of the sexes, giving it a solid 88% certified fresh on rotten tomatoes. peter debruce writes it should appeal t enough to remember and old enough to want to know more. and one says

peters: thank you. wicker.ne: sen. sen. wicker: what do you say to that argument mr. hall raised? mr. spear: i think it is an important issue. nobody wants their equipment to be compromised. i think putting together very strong protocols in concert with federal policies. we work regularly with dot and dhs. i would agree with mr. hall. i don't think you want a tank truck that is driverless in an isis world. that is not something we are advocating. going back to the discussion about driver displacement, that is not something we believe is in the foreseeable future. where we can use technology to enhance the safety and productivity of the fleets and the driver, we are all in. wicker: just as we guard against cyber threats, we can answer that question with the trucking question. mr. spear: i think so. fbi,rk closely with dhs<, dod on testing. now with the auto industry information sharing advisory committee, they are accepting our companies to be a participant in that room. you will have the auto and trucking industry comparing best practices to make sure there is a seamless protocol. sen

kansas city chiefs, quarterback, peters took a seat during national anthem at last night's opening game. nfl hall chris carter is coming up on this program next. is he going to defend marcus peters, we will ask him. stuart: happening now, governor rick scott with update. >> to now henry and palm beach and glades county. the decision is made based on sole focus on life safety as irma approaches florida. you can find more information at floridadisaster.org/info. right now the national hurricane center is reporting that hurricane irma remains dangerous and life-threatening category 4 storms of winds of 150 miles per hour. jupiter around the florida peninsula to florida keys. a storm surge watch is in effect for north jupiter, to venice. the storm surge is forecast to be 3 to 10 feet, think about that, 3 to 10 feet in many areas this is life-threatening. a hurricane warning is in effect for jupiter inland southward to banita beach. the florida keys, lake okachobee, north of jupiter inland to ana mary island. isolated areas receiving up to 20-inches of rain. based on what we now know the majority of f

hall of the people at the market. for your money while the people. must times the government knows what they do and they do nothing. welcome back across time for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok marc before i went to the break we were talking about the weaponization of morgan freeman it's a it for me it's a very interesting phenomenon but i think all already it is deemed a failure go ahead yeah i think it is a fact that it didn't even get support from its own echo chamber and there was a degree of the barest. we have to look at i mean take a just take a look at the short role list of who are the directors the board of directors the. lies or as with any prejudice there is no one who speaks russian there is no one who is an expert on russia in any way there is no one who is an expert in cyber or security policy. and there's no real security experts whatsoever on this committee to investigate russia's own website you know within a week of launching they had this profile of the rain from this russian equal into of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff grass moss and they there's all these references media to a gerasim

just across the border peter as we've been hearing as well she has a very clear idea when it comes to the percentage is she saying half the villages were not so tacitly she's saying hall falls them would here's what she said more than sixty percent of the villages of muslims intact the eye as she was before the attacks took place. and we would like to know why this is what i think we have to worry too much not just looking at the problems but also looking at the areas where there are no problems i guess scott in one sense is well it doesn't really matter whether it's fifty percent forty percent sixty percent say she's saying there will be security she's saying you can come home but there's no place for them to go to the villages and the longer this exactly peter and what i find very interesting about that point that she was making there is it so they're saying that in just over fifty percent of these muslim villages in rakhine state things were going right or at least things were ok when this violence is erupting around them so she is saying let's focus on what was going right there and try to replicate that but i would believe it to be a very important thing is to lo

hall, we appreciate it. will read about it on tuesday, maybe labor day. >> molly: we want to show you these incredible pictures 'ictu we have peter doocy, he's on a chopper. they're heading for a heavily damaged area northeast of houston, and quotable pictures and a lab report coming right u up. as king midas, i expect a lifetime guarantee. and so should you. on struts, brakes, shocks. does he turn everything to gold? not everything. at midas we're always a touch better. book an appointment at midas.com >> molly: a fox news alert. rescue crews are still searching for survivors in texas as floodwaters from hurricane harvey just beginning to recede. peter doocy is in a helicopter, he's surveying some of the hardest hit areas right now over lake lane, texas. peter, tell us what you see. >> what we're seeing right now is an area that was completely underwater just a few days ago. the water was up to the rooms of houses. if you look now, it is starting to pan out the window. you can see that the cleanup effort is really beginning. just about every single thing that was inside every single structure is being taken outside right now. that's homes, that solo apa

peter will have all the details it's ball. out again let's get straight on to sports people standing by in the hall. mick thank you very much team europe have taken advantage on the first day of the in all gear all lay the cup tennis tournament against the rest of the world team in prague the twenty fourteen u.s. open champion marion chillis of croatia beat a man who took roger federer to five sets earlier this year at flushing meadows so that is francis. the result this time around not quite as successful forty after all though it was a close call with both it's going to a tie break seven six seven six the final score. mixed up on court austria's dominant team he faced american john isner who took the first hit in american tie break ending seven to fifteen but team fought back to take the next two sets giving team europe and front. has powered into the semifinals in her first tournament since becoming world number one the wimbledon champion in the far court here defeating caroline garcia six two six four at the w t a event in tokyo in japan the twenty three year old spaniard now faces defending cha

you mentioned peter whittle has been named as one of the bookmakers favourites along with anne marie waters but there are five others who, just walking around the hallresting about this leadership contest is that it is the third in just over a yearfor contest is that it is the third in just over a year for ukip and many are seeing it as a battle for the direction, the purpose of the party. there are people here who think despite the eu referendum, the success ukip hard, there is a place in the political debate for ukip to be making a strong case for brexit. there are others, particularly anne—marie water, who think ukip needs to take a brand—new radical direction. she said ukip needs to be brave and take on subjects others won't but it has attracted a lot of criticism with some members suggesting it is the wrong direction for ukip. some telling me today it would mean the end of the party in the political mainstream. this is a really important leadership contest for the party. 0ne really important leadership contest for the party. one that feels like a possible make or break moment, a turning point after what has been a turbulent i8 turning point aft

left because they keep having these town hall meetings where they're getting hammered on health care. >> coming up, the alabama story. "the new york times" peterbout the alabama election that circulated among republican donors written by the president of the mcconnell linked leadership fund superpac. it said primary voters were. saying the republican congress has replaced -- this narrative is driven by trump himself, and it resonates with primary voters who believe the republican congress isn't doing enough as we frequently have heard in focus groups to advance the president's agenda. law went onto say the party should expect to fight hard right primary candidates in states like mississippi and nevada. and he criticized steve bannon who backed more in the alabama race for being focussed mainly on, quote, promoting his own brand. peter baker, the alabama story -- it seems we might be seeing more of this. explain why. >> i think that's exactly right. no you have a party that's in rupture right now. you have a party that is dominated by this extraordinary figure in the white house. who basically engineered a hostile takeover last year and is stil