the death of paul ritter at the age of| death of paul ritter at the age of 54.he pandemic. as our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt reports, light pollution can affect human health and wildlife by disturbing biological cycles and behaviours. this is what a truly dark sky looks like. billions of stars wheel above the kielder observatory in northumberland. set deep in a forest, the observatory enjoys the darkest skies in england. and, throughout lockdown, senior astronomer dan monk has been filming the incredible views. people often do get emotional when they sit underneath this amazing dark sky and they realise how small they are in the universe. it can actually make people cry, at times. it�*s estimated 85% of us have never seen a truly dark sky. it means we are missing out because — it gives us a sense of our place in the universe, the awesome vastness of space. but look at this. even a tiny light is enough to extinguish the stars and bring us right back down to earth. the reduction in light pollution this year is an exception. satellite images sh

ok let's get the thoughts now scott ritter he's a former united nations weapons inspector we appreciate your time thanks for coming back on thursday let's talk about russia's response i'm not sure how much you heard of that so i just run through it with the in response russia's proposed to expel proposed to expel 10 u.s. diplomats it said that it could reduce the u.s. diplomatic mission in russia considerably it hasn't gone ahead with that but it's a threat and it said it will stop u.s. organizations from operating in russia although not stating exactly who yet and 8 american individuals will be sanctioned. well it's clear that russia is being far more mature about this than the than the united states and i think that's a recognition on the part of russia that what they're dealing with is is an american domestic problem not an american national security problem. and the best thing to do is to let the united states resolve its problem it has with russia internally and that's happening right now the it within the by the ministration there is a developing dialogue that talks to the reality

paul ritter, star of friday night dinner has died aged 54 of a brain tumour.ooth and 0livier award—winning actor, and the american tony awards, as well. whenjoe biden was vice—president under barack 0bama, his son hunter became something of a liability. his drug and alcohol addiciton and a lucrative appointment to a ukrainian energy company were later seized upon by donald trump as he sought to undermine mr biden�*s presidential campaign. well, hunter biden is now telling his side of the story in an unflinching memoir. he has given a wide—ranging interview to the bbc. mishal husain takes a closer look at his life so far. hunter got thrown out of the military. thrown out, dishonourably discharged. that's not true. and he didn�*t have a job until you became vice president. he made a fortune in ukraine and china and moscow. that is simply not true. 2020, and hunter biden�*s name resounded on the campaign trail. as the younger son ofjoe biden, he was part of the democratic candidate�*s family man persona, and inner circle. forthe trump campaign, his lobbying work

paul ritter played dad martin goodman in the popular channel a comedy friday night dinner. test which caused the disaster. he also appeared in the films harry potter and the half blood print and quantum of solace. as we've been hearing, there's just under a week to go until we can have a drink and a meal at a pub or restaurant in england — as long as we sit outside. nina warhurst has been finding out what preparations are taking place to re—open. will you be ready here for the 12th? yeah, should be done by thursday. the pressure's on. these stones will become new walls for a new beer garden and a new alfresco way of drinking. we can't wait. the team are all raring to go. i can't wait to get back to work. we start back next week and i think itjust going to be amazing to get back in the pub, cleaning it back up. i think when the beer truck arrives, the regulars in the village will all be out cheering. i just can't wait. let's face it, april on the lancashire—greater manchester border, you are not guaranteed sunshine. what do you do if it rains, how do you ride that storm fina

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program germany is switching gears in the fight against the pandemic of parliament approved a legislative amendment paving the way for a more centrally coordinated response on saturday night elf already has patrolled cities across the country to enforce the most controversial of the new measures a curfew between 10 pm and 5 am our reporter kate brady was out in the capital but in. it's saturday night in berlin's friedrichs hine district with just minutes to go before the new curfew kicks in at 10 pm enough time to grab a quick beer all some late night food for the road. right on cue as the clock strikes 10 many local shops begin to roll down the shutters minutes later police arrive to class struggle is from the square. according to federal rules repeated violators of the measures risk a hefty fine of up to 25000 joe writes for most tonight though it's just a polite request to head home the restrictions on movement during late hours have been met with mixed response and. it's annoying but. he was the freedom to foster. activity and that's a good we acce

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program britain is mourning the death of prince philip husband to queen elizabeth he died on friday morning at the age of 99 today military guns will fire salutes and sporting events will pause for minutes of silence flags will fly at half mast until the day of his funeral which is yet to be announced although buckingham palace has asked crowds not to gather all a flowers during the pandemic people have been coming out to express their great. it's been a year filled with pain and oscillation for those in the united kingdom with many losing loved ones in the coronavirus pandemic. but much of british society is pausing to give special attention to the passing of one man they hold dear. i have a huge huge amount of respect for the royal family. even talking about it. the nice break. that's come down here in just being in the. safety and everything else and just be placed the family today for the prince philip was wonderful father and a real asset to british life and i'm sure the queen is grieving terribly my wishes to her very sad actually. it's. still

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program hospitals in india alone ching desperate appeals for help as the country's health system crumbles corona virus infection writes continue to break global records the government has given top priority to the transport of lifesaving oxygen but hospitals are so overwhelmed that many people can't even get inside the situation is particularly in the capital delhi well exception supplies are running out fast. fighting for breath these patients outside a covert 900. little in delhi are among the fortunate ones. the clinic is overwhelmed and lacks free beds but at least it still has oxygen to administer to the most gravely ill among a steady flow of new arrivals. this vision right now here is really very worst critical and of all the full control of. the stuff is really cooperative but due to the older girl being also though meanwhile on the walking casualty it is different they're deploying to equal treatment to all the vision of the next 5 years of high gear you didn't trade. these scenes are no exception across the country hospitals are full and t

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program voting is underway in chad in a presidential election with several candidates the expected when a is already clear members of the armed forces have been casting their ballots it's widely anticipated the incumbent will win the 1st round authoritarian president idriss deby has ruled chat since it seems some 30 years ago his main rivals have been barred from running or has pulled out claiming intimidation to double his freedom of a new reports from chad which is home to nearly half a 1000000 refugees and plays a key role in battling islamist extremism in the saddle region. idriss deby is an experienced military man with the rank of marshal. he says have achieved this military our current well do worried. he came to power in 1993 to any terry coup and he has stayed in power since then there. was at this campaign in the capital in german or he jokes that he's been in power since before his supporters we're born for some like he's 8. did. then the others come a long way. behind felipe built this country. president debbie has 30 years of experience

some guy who were some guy was shot here last summer got killed ritter the gas station a boy or somebody got shot and killed just last week to reconsider another guard or shot. there was a couple gunshots at night time. like 44 and. comparing. it. to the city keep your kids 247 just let them out of village like they do. take some adjusting. don't some good taken off the stage. you know. somebody trick. probably something happened to my opinion that i don't like. doing and i think i know our approach. which means that all the cost and everything i can. buy the kids small kids are saying. will move 5 years so i'm 14. within 5 years and. from my perspective it isn't just a it's become a mill for the federal and state agencies where they say hey let's let's do a study. let's let's do this and will fulfill our budget in turn encourage a very big and somewhere else nor make a living for us at the expense of new talk people. well i'm optimistic about if feature the only one. to go forward to 21st centuries to have a healing process. is going to take time and i believe in the future everything w

somebody were some guy was shot here last summer got killed ritter the gas station a boy or somebody got shot killed or just last week to reconfigure another guy. there was a couple gunshots at night time. like a 44 and. comparing. it. to city keep track your kids 247 can't just let them out of village like they do. take some adjusting. taken off the stage. you know. i'm going to trick. probably something out of. my opinion that i don't like. doing and i think i know our approach. which means that all the costs and everything like that. by the kids small kids are sick. and. will move 5 years saw 14. within 5 years and. from my perspective it isn't it's just a has become a milk cow for the federal and state agencies where they say hey let's let's do a study. let's let's do this and will fulfill our budget here in anchorage and fairbanks and somewhere else nor make a living for us at the expense of new talk people. well i'm optimistic about a future the only way to go forward to the 21st century is to have a healing process. is going to take time and i believe in the future everything

course those who have suffered more from that not make the paper is concentrating on tributes to paul ritterme being, thank ou at the papers. for the time being, thank you both. _ at the papers. for the time being, thank you both. that _ at the papers. for the time being, thank you both. that is _ at the papers. for the time being, thank you both. that is the - at the papers. for the time being, thank you both. that is the first i thank you both. that is the first look at the papers. good evening, i'm chetan pathak with your latest sports news. it's been a mixed night for the two english teams in the champions league. there was late drama at the etihad where manchester city scored a last minute winner against borussia dortmund but the six time winners liverpool have it all to do next week, after they were beaten 3—1 in the first leg of their quarter final at real madrid... asjoe wilson reports: liverpool versus real madrid, history versus dynasty. 19 times between them, they've been european champions. 13—6 to the spaniards, if you're keeping that score. real madrid are rebuilding theirstadi

which would have forced him to resign however most of disapproval power has been passed accusing ritter of not telling the truth about coalition talks he said a position for a vocal opponent hadn't been discussed but documents later emerged contradicting his statement from our quarter is a conservative who's been in charge for more than a decade he's often called teflon mark his ability to avoid scandals in january he announced his resignation over child benefit fraud scandals which wrongfully drove thousands of families to financial ruin but his cabinet remained in a caretaker role to manage the coronavirus crisis until the elections well last month wrote a claimed an overwhelming victory in elections and vowed to use his 4th term in office to rebuild the country after the pandemic let's get more on this we're joined by the goddess logic in the hague he's an assistant professor in the university good to have you with us on the program sir how much trouble is mark ritter the man in with not only his own party with it but also with his potential coalition partners. yes what i would say q

he's just a really interesting character and his story really cool and he got a letter from raman ritter that can't wait for that. speaking of characters marshawn with with the party. also very character he did today with i'm not sure i did talk to doctor fauci oh yeah. hysterical insightful poignant and that whole 30 minute exchange is on our website. if you want to check it out. so. >> nasa held a contest for astronauts to see who took the best picture of earth pretty cool. and we know the winner. take a look at this stunner. it shows a swirling majestic view of lake van in turkey. it was taken by nasa astronaut kate rubins in 2016 from the international space station. the competition was called nasa's tournament earth and nearly a million votes were cast. lake van is one of the largest alkaline lakes in the world and it has and almost mystical appearance in the image and you see so many of these pictures from that. so, you know, the bay area while fires they'll take pictures and send them back in. that's a good one. oh, yeah. so many submissions. and this was the winner. they have a b

also contained like videos or examples an illustrative type of materials as part of the training ritter right. let me rephrase sometimes in a powerpoint presentation there may be a video embedded in that in that powerpoint presentation and that video is an example of a specific move or it may be training exercises or the scenario based dreams did you see all of those no i did not know it was able to because most of the power point presentations were in a p.d.f. form so i was not able to view that ok so you've not seen the training videos prepared by the minneapolis police are you know. but all of this material that you have received is in fact what you used in part to form your opinions in this case right yes you relied on those materials to a certain extent yes and some of those materials were completely irrelevant to this case reed yes such is the use of the tazer right yes such as. the mounted patrol unit. but you received other information that was informative and had an effect on your analysis. yes so those training materials were in an important part of how you came to form your o

bring core intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear the size information as opposed to hard intelligence that the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they wear big boy pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with a changing world a changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth and russia is. still ahead the funder of an investigative journalism blocked on twi

marines intelligence officer scott ritter explained how can have got american and nato support for it stuns the support comes and 3 things one is the ongoing material support the united states continues to provide big holes arms munitions another military equipment to the ukrainian military much of this is lethal in nature meaning used to combat then there's the the the training that's taking place across training between nato forces in americans and ukraine and ukraine believes that this training shows that they're somehow you know brothers in arms and then there's the political rhetoric of the phone call for instance from the secretary of defense to his ukrainian counterpart yes ukraine is being led to believe that there will be support and there will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic political you know they they support the right of the ukrainian objectives and they also view the ukrainian russian. tension as supporting an overall western strategy of containing and destabilizing russia so everything bad that you have in ukraine today you know props

there was also a posthumous nomination for friday night dinner�*s paul ritter. earlier this month, before his nomination for best male comedy actor was announced. lizo mzimba, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. good afternoon to you. we have a lot more cloud around them recent days, especially in the south, with patchy, light rain around. some sunshine over scotland and northern ireland, but here there are some servers. this weather front over the south of the countries producing thicker cloud and longer spells of rain. it will slowly sip its way southwards and eastwards through the rest of the afternoon and evening. you can see with the thickest of the cloud has been on the radar satellite picture. some patchy, mainly light rain. some sunshine for eastern england and parts of southern scotland and northern ireland. there will be showers for northern and eastern scotland. some turning wintry over the higher grounds. furthersouth, turning wintry over the higher grounds. further south, we could stay dry over the rest of the afternoon. temperatures strugglin

paul ritter, star of friday night dinner, has died of a brain tumour at the age of 5a.lf—blood prince and quantum of solace. new zealand has agreed to open what's known as a "travel corridor" with australia in two weeks time. the arrangement will allow quarantine—free movement between the two countries, which have seen some of the toughest travel restrictions in the world. passengers will not be allowed to travel with any cold or flu symptoms. speaking this morning new zealand prime ministerjacinda ardern said the conditions for resuming travel between the two countries have been met. the scheme takes effect on the 19th of april. rus— on the 19th of april. is an this on the 19th of april. is an important step forward i oui’ this is an important step forward in our covid _ this is an important step forward in our covid response _ this is an important step forward in our covid response and _ this is an important step forward in our covid response and it's - this is an important step forward in our covid response and it's an - our covid response and it's an arrangement— ou

marines intelligence officer scott ritter he thinks the flare up of the fighting is being driven by cancer economic concerns the cravings also understand that they could very well be being put in a very difficult economic situation in the months and years ahead if north stream too is completed and russia decides to stop transmitting gas through ukraine depriving ukraine of billions of dollars in revenue there will be an economic crisis so i think ukraine is anticipating this and seeking to promote a euro or at least advertise the kinds of to a military solution in hopes that nato in europe will intervene politically and diplomatically on their side to get a resolution to this issue or to stop north stream to unless is in support of the ukrainian objectives of ukraine is being led to believe that there will be support and there will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic or political but the united states is not going to deploy military forces to fight on the soil of ukraine against the russian army it just isn't going to happen. this is out say still to come ano

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independent institute and author of the book war and the road presidency in del mar we have scott ritter is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector and in los angeles we cross the joe collins he is a former california congressional republican candidate and u.s. navy veteran our gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate.