why does trafalgar square need to have that on?hen these are commemorating. >> he's commemorating people from the cursory look at the story who have been, i think it's been people who've been killed. >> they're not dead, they're not dead, they're not dead . dead, they're not dead. >> they had their faces. >> they had their faces. >> there was memorial no, no, the type of art is a mexican style of memorial. >> so in mexico, that sort of. but they would use real they would use they would use death masks and also sometimes real skulls. okay. so that's, that's sort of the mexican element of it. again, why are we not celebrating british art and a british way of portraying art, but also the conversations you have to have claire with your kids about the trans and non—binary issues. i'm having it forced down my throat again. >> well, you are, and it's such a small proportion of society which is which is not representative are is there for everybody. art is there to educate. art, as i said, is very subjective. some people love it, some peop

tonight though, it's trafalgar square for the weigh—in which isjust getting underway.events at iconic locations here in london and perhaps fitting with anthonyjoshua trying to achieve a landmark moment in his career alongside me is the writer and broadcaster, the landmark i'm talking for anthonyjoshua is he wins, hejoins a very talking for anthonyjoshua is he wins, he joins a very exclusive club of fighters who have won the title three times stop walking with giants as they say, walking alongside regal, mohamed ali, the greatest. and even brilliant fighters that regal, mohamed ali, the greatest. and even brilliant fighters- and even brilliant fighters that is the club you _ and even brilliant fighters that is the club you are _ and even brilliant fighters that is the club you are joining. - and even brilliant fighters that is the club you are joining. they i and even brilliant fighters that is | the club you are joining. they are notiust_ the club you are joining. they are notjust heavy weights, they the club you are joining. they are not just heavy weights, they are t

the standoff in trafalgar square in london saw hundreds of anti -racism protesters clash with activistsdvocating for the preservation of traditional english society. those waving flags of england and great britain held posters with slogans: unite the kingdom, save our culture, our heritage, our values. on the opposite side of the square, protesters held posters with anti-russian slogans and calls to stop the right-wingers, who for some reason were also equated with racists. to prevent the standoff from escalating into clashes, police were on duty at the square. there are more and more disagreements in the relations between georgia and the european union, the country's membership in the union is in great question. the eu previously suspended the country's european integration process, and has now threatened to cancel the visa-free regime. the country is being called upon to moderate its georgian dream, and continues to be stifled by restrictions. about the stumbling blocks between tbilisi and brussels, details in the author's column mendelian table. pressure before the elections, sanctio

but they were seen going to the trafalgar square . going to the trafalgar square.o the day ahead and we still don't know what brand because this is what people are worried about. although there was protective glass, which i don't think is an argument, that's a bit like kind of saying, you know, the frames 400 years old, that's okay. it's like it was like 30g of damage already. yeah, exactly. and stop it. and, you know, in the cost of living crisis, i've said this before, why are you throwing food around? yeah. you know, thatis food around? yeah. you know, that is the whole thing. and i get your aims, but i think you're really negate the cause. >> and also your aims have been achieved. labour are now in power and they've got an incredibly progressive. and i'm not saying that as a, as a positive thing, an incredibly progressive energy policy. they've put an end to north sea oil and gas. there's going to be no new exploration . and they're no new exploration. and they're they're going to be pumping taxpayers money into their buddies green energy schemes. yeah >> this

this was in trafalgar square.ois, a few pounds less at 17.10 that's still the heaviest he's been. a post war record crowd, of 96,000 fans, are expected to pack out wembley stadium later. the london roars, went up forjoshua, and he had a message for his fans, ahead of the fight. it's a blessing to be back again, to be able to perform, prove to myself, prove to my team that i have listened to a go home and make a player for after a much more positive 2024 and hoping to return to the world's top 50 there's now, another injury blow for emma radacanu. it's been a disappointing morning for her, on the other side of the world, as she was forced to retirejust half an hour, into her korea open, quarter—final against daria kasatkina, herfirst tournament since her opening round elimination, at the us open. the 2021 us open champion, was trailing 4—1 in the opening set, when she had a medical time out, because of a problem with her left ankle. radacanu, who's still only 21 was given what appeared to be pain killers, but she l

the two boxers, then had their traditional face—off, this was in trafalgar square.ne 10 pounds, that's still the heaviest he's been. a post war record crowd, of 96 thousand fans, are expected to pack out wembley stadium later. the london roars, went up forjoshua, and he had a message for his fans, ahead of the fight. ijust wanna i just wanna say ijust wanna say a massive thank— ijust wanna say a massive thank you... thank you for sticking _ thank you... thank you for sticking with me... i'm gonna ask— sticking with me... i'm gonna ask you — sticking with me... i'm gonna ask you one favour... go home tonight— ask you one favour... go home tonight and _ ask you one favour... go home tonight and pray for me for success_ tonight and pray for me for success tomorrow. plenty of cricket going on today, with australia right one going for their 14th one day win in a row, it would be their 7th straight win over england in 0.d eyes that is underway at headingley in leeds you can go to our website. that's bbc.com.sport. i'm just going to take you to the live picture that we are

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well, the big statue in the middle of trafalgar square. obviously nelson , you've square.ff. yeah. you a horse. good stuff. yeah. you do, why? why can't we just have a normal statue there on the fourth plinth? it's been suggested time and time again that this is the place for her majesty queen elizabeth the second. >> may i just say, this artist at the beginning of her career, she was given a stillborn foetus by her mother, which she encased in cement. and she was also known for smuggling blood in greece from these autopsies to use in her sculptures. is that legal? it doesn't sound very legal. perhaps in mexico it is. i don't know. anyway, shall we speak to rafe heydel—mankoo from the new culture forum? who? i imagine will have something to say about this? rafe i think i may have spoken to you a little while ago about sadiq khan's plans for statues in our public realm , well, this is an realm, well, this is an interesting one. >> it is . >> it is. >> it is. >> look, you know, this is ugly. it's crude , it's unimaginative, it's crude, it's unimaginative, andifs it's crude,

the two boxers then had their traditional face—off, this was in trafalgar square.ubois, a few pounds less at 17 stone 10 pounds, that's still the heaviest he's been. a post war record crowd, of 96,000 fans, are expected to pack out wembley stadium later. britain's lando norris is on pole position for the singapore grand prix. it's the mclaren driver's fourth pole in six races. he's currently 59 points behind championship leader max verstappen who'll start second on the grid for red bull with lewis hamilton's mercedes third. but carlos sainz�* car will need plenty of work to be ready to race on sunday after he made a mess of a bend and crashed his ferrari during qualifying — the session had to be paused for the car to be removed. azadeh, i can tell you there was also a liver that had to be removed from the practical session early this morning, let's hope for none of that during the main race. yes, thank you. president zelensky says ukraine still does not have permission from the united states or the uk to use long—range western—supplied missiles, on targets in russi

the two boxers then had their traditional face—off, this was in trafalgar square.he heaviest he's been. a post war record crowd, of 96,000 fans, are expected to pack out wembley stadium later. and that's all the sport for now. ididn't give i didn't give this weather, i did the sport, but i am pretty sure it is going to be nice and dry that that later on. you did a fantastic — dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, _ dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, thank- dry that that later on. you did a fantasticjob, thank you i dry that that later on. you did a fantastic job, thank you for | a fantasticjob, thank you for that. all right, let's go back to news now. us presidentjoe biden will shortly meet japanese prime minster fumio kishida, as part of the indo—pacific quad summit. mr biden is hosting his counterparts from the group, which also includes australia and india, with plans to announce new strategic security initiatives in the indian ocean. for more on this, let's speak to tomohiko taniguchi, special advisor at the think tank fujitsu future st

lisa an lgbt migrant charity taking pride of place on trafalgar square's fourth plinth. >> i don't imind it. i'll be. i'll be honest, i thought the queen. well, i don't like the queen. well, i don't like the monarchs, so i mean, we've got enough of queens all over you know, we've got enough of the royal family everywhere. so i don't mind this, actually, i've had a look at it and i thought at first it's, you know, it's got a sort of a headline that would wind people up, but actually i'm not i'm not really against it because migrant lgbtq+ people , you know, let's lgbtq+ people, you know, let's think about the places that they're probably coming from. we should be defending that, you know, a few weeks ago when we were talking about the boxer, why should we be defending that? >> because we got to do with us. >> because we got to do with us. >> well, we're a liberal law. we're a liberal. we are a liberal democracy. we are a country that is accepting of people. and we know that there are countries that are not accepting of people . so accepting of people. so therefore i'm not really i'm n

british heavyweight title fight between anthonyjoshua, and champion, daniel dubois, took place in trafalgar squareion when oleksandr usyk vacated the belt, but he feels he needs to beatjoshua to be recognised as the world champion. matt baldwin has equalled the tournament record to lead by two shots at the halfway point of the bmw pga championship at wentworth. a second round of 66, including seven birdies, saw him end friday 13 under par at the top of the leaderboard, equalling the mark set in 2008 by ireland's paul mcginley. rory mcilroy is four shots further back on 9 under after a birdie at the end of his round. i'm happy with where i'm at. i could have been a little bit better but i think also it could have been a little worse as well. so, yeah, four behind going into the weekend. not too many people between me in the lead. it's a good position to be in. british driver lando norris was fastest after second practice at the singapore grand prix. the mclaren driver leapfrogged ferrari's charles leclerc by six one—hundredths of a second, with team—mate carlos sainz six tenths off the pace in thir

tommy robinson banner as well, laid out upon part of trafalgar square here.hen around 1:00, when the unite the kingdom protesters only about 20 or so of them that turned up today. but one gentleman who was singing rule britannia on the steps of trafalgar square, here with his england flag in both of his hands. one of the counter—protesters actually ran up, ran up from behind him and tried to snatch that england flag off him . that caused a bit flag off him. that caused a bit of a situation with the metropolitan police, who were able to take him out of that situation. he wasn't arrested. he was let go. but the protester that was holding that england flag said that it did break the two sticks, that the flag was , two sticks, that the flag was, was held to. and then they stood here. many of the unite the kingdom protesters stood here with tape over their mouths. they felt like that was a more powerful message to bring today, holding placards such as stop two tier policing, stop a two tier justice two tier policing, stop a two tierjustice system, stop illegal imm

the two boxers then had their traditional face—off, this was in trafalgar square. joshua weighed in atad of the fight. ijust want i just want to say a massive thank you to everybody. you guys are here sticking with me through thick and then. if i can ask you one favour, one favour, make a prayerfor me for success tomorrow that i will become the three—time heavyweight champion of the world. . . . , :: world. fulham are currently 2-0 u . world. fulham are currently 2-0 up against _ world. fulham are currently 2-0 up against newcastle, _ world. fulham are currently 2-0 up against newcastle, more - world. fulham are currently 2-0 up against newcastle, more onl up against newcastle, more on that on the website and more on it a little later indeed. here, the labour party will this weekend hold its first annual conference since its landslide general election win. the conference is at the end of a week in which senior labour figuress have been criticised for receiving gifts from party donors. downing street says the prime minster, his deputy and the chancellor will no longer accept any donatio

trafalgar square, i think. i think we should aim higher, that's all.and i also accept that some art can be, propagandistic. but i find propagandistic art to be really boring. i don't like it when i'm being preached at when art is concerned. >> what was on the plinth before? >> well, nothing for a long time. and then there were various. do you remember there was the one of the, the whipped cream with the fly on it and the drone on it. yes. which was also absolutely terrible. so i mean, and again, i mean, there is terrible art and we have to accept it. >> and again, it's like comedy. it's subjective. sure. you know, but although i haven't met anyone who liked that whipped cream flying. >> no. >> no. >> and we've got something similar in scotland. it looks like a sort of turd on the top of john lewis. >> okay, so maybe that's just john lewis describing their wares. >> exactly. but i think it's interesting when we come to sort of public sculptures and statues and things, that there's still the ongoing row about the eric gill sculpture inside the bbc, which

it's very hard for her. >> i think she spent much time in trafalgar square. >> no. >> no. >> but.we putting up with this woke nonsense? it's woke nonsense. that's what it is. >> keep voting for sadiq khan. that's why. right? >> okay, so you know how much i love ed davey everyone. well, this week he arrived for his final speech at the lib dem conference and he came in to a excruciating karaoke version of abba's take a chance on me. with the obligatory dad dancing. i think. see it before i say anymore. my first in line, because this is free. >> take a chance on me , leave >> take a chance on me, leave me, let me go and be around. you got no place to tell me, dad . got no place to tell me, dad. >> hello, friends . >> hello, friends. >> hello, friends. >> thank you so much for that kind . welcome. kind. welcome. >> well, i mean, as one generally has to be drunk to do karaoke. he continued to perform and he delivered an incoherent speech with no content whatsoever. well done. the lib dems carry on as you started. >> oh, what an embarrassment to the whole country. i know he really is a

in trafalgar square and. yeah. well, let us know. gbnews.com forward slash. yeah.e a giant egg or something up there. i don't know whatever. >> all right. we're going to see what's making the papers in a couple of minutes for you with emma woolf and jonathan lewis. that's next. right. let's have a look at some of the front pages of the newspapers. and if dawn stops gossiping in the break. terrible. you've never known anything like it. and with the telegraph leads, with the england manager, lee carsley, saying he won't sing the national anthem at tonight's friendly. >> meanwhile, the times reports the rich are ready to quit britain if labour's upcoming budget raises tax thresholds. >> the express calls for sir ian mckellen to give back his knighthood after he criticised queen elizabeth. >> the daily mirror even leads with ex top gear presenter chris harris saying he warned the bbc someone will get hurt before a freddie flintoff was badly injured in that horrific crash. >> all right, let's go through some of those and some more with the writer and columnist, emma woo

today's well title fight against daniel defore. hundreds of boxing funds packed london's trafalgar square. for the way in joshua came in at a 114 kilos. with opponent was tipping the scales at a cray heavy, $112.00 killers was ibm belts is on the line. if joshua wins will become the world heavyweight champion for a 3rd time, the flight will take place at london's wembley stadium in front of $96000.00 spect places easy and edged out australia and the rug the championship use blacks run in full tries and city in the 1st 25 minutes. i had too many other call did that help us to flight back from the one of these 2031 points to 28 is easy to 8 straight when i go straight is to obtain the plug slope. just as a also making history by becoming the 1st space of why it's res, 50 home runs and seals 50 bases in a single season. say hey tony has been a civic in daylight though. just the added to that record, making it 5252 as his team raleigh to beat the colorado rockies 6 to 4. and he's given a standing ovation. by that though, just feeling of a standing ovation, the chicago becomes kept to live tha

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head to head with celebrate daniel, do well. hundreds of books and friends packed london is trafalgar square for the way. and that that will be $96000.00 spect sites is at wembley stadium. so about if joshua wins who becomes become a will have to wait chopping for 3rd time, while to boss says he's out to prove his wife and cement his name as i'd be f jump him outside of his labour cop, call us out grouses, making his debut in the singles representing team europe outcries got the best refund shelton he was playing for the rest of the world. see this finance winning 6 full 6 full to clinch 2 points for your assess team. 2 in the 13 points. when is the tournaments, the scores currently tied up for 4 and then go for the next. so we will go into the final round of the bmw p. j championship is 3 shots of the lead. the 3 major eagle and full bodies in a 30 free said round. but how about this for a halt straight is playing partner billy horshal, hit 7 buddies in a row during his round. american finish finished alongside mcroy at 15 on the phone . that is what you'll sports now. i will have more lase

. >> so this is trafalgar square's fourth plinth, which they have you know, art installations on. it has gone to an lgbt migrant campaign group. so this, this pedestal is used to display a rotating series of artworks and the latest publicly funded piece is imprints by theresa teresa margolles, which comprises of plaster casts of the faces of 850 transgender people. shame. it was the faces that could have been more interesting, but and probably easier to climb. but enlisted to help with the production of the sculpture was the campaign group micro rainbow, which pushes for the release of detained migrants and seeks to place them in housing. so when they say lgbt migrants , so when they say lgbt migrants, quite often people pretend to be gay, there's no test. you don't have to touch anything. there's no you know what i mean? so they pretend to be gay so they can then trick the system to stay, or they pretend to be christian or they pretend to be christian or whatever. and then, you know, they get free housing from this state funded, basically. you know, this is this isn't an entirely

. >> it looks like the sort of thing they would put on the fourth plinth in trafalgar square. >> i bet, because i know i think there's a company in france that makes the kind of thing they'd do, like the elephant. have you heard of the elephant. have you heard of the elephant that was in britain. it was in london. they brought the moving elephant, and there were like hundreds of thousands of people in at the mall, the mall, whatever. >> i think i speak for many viewers when i say, you've lost me there, lewis. yeah anything. we've got to move on. >> we should move on. >> we should move on. >> i have no idea what he's talking about. oh, brilliant. >> all right, well, that was that wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be. no good. that's a ringing endorsement of the show. but coming up, the backbenchers are turning on keir starmer, pension death tax and goes after donald welcome back to headlines i'm nick dixon still here with the meaty combo of the people's game and paul cox and louis r shaffer. there he is waving for the radio listeners. he's waving for no reason. let's do the tel

the two boxers had their traditionalface—off in trafalgar square. joshua weighed in at 18 stone, withcted to pack out wembley stadium later. and in the second odi between england look to be heading for defeat against australia in the second one day internaional. austrlia were all out for 270 off 44.1; overs. england need 95 runs to win with two wickets remaining. here — the labour party is this weekend holding its first annual conference since its landslide general election win. despite delegates celebrating the party's electoral success, ministers will be urging party members at the liverpool conference to prepare for more tough decisions in next month's budget. the conference is at the end of a week in which senior labour figuress have been criticised for receiving gifts from party donors. —— senior labour figures. downing street says the prime minster, his deputy, and the chancellor will no longer accept any donations for clothing. live to our political correspondent alex forsyth, who is in liverpool. alex, they are going into this with some of those criticisms hanging over their h

this was in trafalgar square.ight. ijust want i just want to say a massive thank you throughout all myjourney, my abs, my downs, you goes out here sticking with me, through thick and thin. i want to ask you one favour — one favour: go home tonight and make a prayerfor me, for success tomorrow, that i will walk the path of the heavyweight champion of the world. it's the final weekend of the regular season in super league, and hull kr will finish second to wigan, earning a home semi—final, after beating leeds rhinos 26—16. leeds miss out on the eliminators. warrington wolves end the season third after thumping london broncos 54-0. and leigh leopards won a nailbiter against st helens 18—12, with both sides making it through to the knockouts. josh charnley with a late score for leigh. in the new rugby union premiership season today, exeter host leicester, before saracens and new captain maro itoje travel to gloucester. the action, however, got underway last night with a repeat of last year's final, bath taking on cham

. >> i mean, trafalgar square, there has been some monstrosities in terms of artwork, ice cream withne. >> blue chicken. >> blue chicken. >> i'm just reading here in the write up to the report on this bronze sculpture, locals hit out at the piece, with one saying whoever signed that off needs their eyes tested. others said their eyes tested. others said the prince and dogs look nice, but the figure doesn't look like the late queen and there's something not right about it. they can't quite put their finger on it . they can't quite put their finger on it. there's something not quite right. so there you go. poor sculptor. sculptor. you know, you try to do a nice thing. you try to do a nice thing, and then all of the locals, everyone who goes and seesit locals, everyone who goes and sees it says, i could have done better. >> and then the nation and then the nation. it all off. >> right. well, we're going to move on. please do get your views in. perhaps you think it's a rather fine sculpture and that, no, you couldn't do any better, actually. anyway, we're going to move on because a unive

labour's sadiq khan ignored calls to put a statue of our late queen on trafalgar square's fourth plinthnow have this monstrosity, an installation of the faces of 726 trans, non—binary and gender non—conforming people. but, wait for this, because if we zoom in on the faces a little bit actually, as well, isn't it funny if you do that? how they all look exactly like men. anyway, labour wants to make it easier for people to change gender by dropping the need for trans people to prove that they have lived in their preferred gender for two years. that means more men in women's changing rooms. rachel reeves now wants to replace every picture in number 11 with a portrait of a woman, or a painting done by a woman, or a painting done by a woman because she is a woman and she's the first woman to be chancellor. but she can't tell you what a woman is. >> is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix? but is it transphobic yes or no ? transphobic yes or no? >> look, i is it. is it transphobic? look >> angela rayner is absolutely desperate to be a gay icon. hi, i'm angela rayner with terrence hi

you know, nelson in real life was only five foot six, and yet his statue in trafalgar square is actually> they asked me if they if i wanted it in copper or bronze , wanted it in copper or bronze, and i said, well, either or really ? really? >> but i think art art is very subjective. you know , i'm old, subjective. you know, i'm old, i'm old. i mean, i'm only a couple of years away from having my winter fuel allowance stopped, but i'm old and i like statues that look real, you know? i mean, i'm looking at this one here in the. and i've known audiences less lively than that statue. i'll be honest with you. but i do feel i feel a little bit sorry for the artist. you know, he's getting a lot of criticism and he's comes from a family of artists. this guy and sculptors. in fact, he's a real chip off the old block. he is this guy, >> but apparently someone asked him, could it be changed? >> and he said, no, it's set in stone now , so i feel a little stone now, so i feel a little bit sorry for him. you know, art is like comedy, you know , is like comedy, you know, everyone has their own opinion,

take the smirk off your face and i'm quite glad we don't have to get weighed on trafalgar square beforeh, yeah, i'm just. yeah. exactly. 18 stone of man coming at you with a punching glove. my goodness. >> yeah, that's. well i still think he needs a bit of a statement win. i mean, i look at his record over the last few years since he started losing to usyk twice and, of course, andy ruiz five years ago now, that was the one that really psychologically damaged him, i think because ruiz was somebody who was a replacement for the for the original opponent, and then he just absolutely wiped then he just absolutely wiped the floor with him . and he was the floor with him. and he was a he's a bloke who wasn't prepared for the fight. he was he was small. he was out of shape. and he absolutely busted the myth of anthony joshua. and i think it did have a psychological effect on him. he doesn't fight the same way he does. and if you look at the opponents he's fought since then, even the ones that he's won and you can't accuse him of going into the ring with, with weaker opponents because he fough