The i says boris slugs it out with the bear, as it reports the foreign secretarys frosty visit to moscow. The times pictures borisjohnson on his russian trip. Its main story is on claims the government is planning new road tolls. The ft reports on the drop in the value of bitcoin, which tumbled by almost 30 . The mail looks at the new, blue, uk passports following brexit and calls for them to be manufactured here. But, for the guardian, the new blue passports means more red tape and delays at eu passport controls. The telegraph reports on what has been called a tax bill revenge on people who bankrolled brexit campaigning. Its going to be a balmy christmas, according to the express, as mild weather fools nature into thinking its spring. And its bar humbug from the sun. It reports on us owned cadbury replacing the traditional fudge bar in its festive Selection Box with a dairy milk oreo. One frustrated fan fumed christmas is ruined. Now on bbc news through the lens. Welcome to through the lens, marking the anniversary of photos with me rebecca jones. I am in london and ill be introducing you to six of the agencys greatest photographers who will be telling us how they recorded history in the making. We will hear from chris Steele Perkins, whose pictures captured the highs and lows of britain under margaret archer. Elliott erwitt who photographed many of the cold war leaders and Ruth Davidson whose images of the Civil Rights Movement in the us still resonate today. First, lets me david hearn. As a young man he was in the heart of london in the 60s and captured the glamour and create of britain in an era of liberation. For the first time in history, lets call it communication, Everybody Loves one medium. Suddenly Everybody Loves photography. My approach has always been that i really dont like set up teachers, i see myselfjust as as as an of the act of the actresses is eccentricities of life. So i spend most of my time trying to get some kind of relationship between the extraordinary following of fans they had and the beatles themselves andi they had and the beatles themselves and i think this is charming. There is paul on the train and this delightful lady. It is obvious she is talking to somebody saying, look at this is she has suddenly seeing this megastar and my guess is that its a major thing in her life. Im sure she would talk about this moment with great tenderness to her friends for ages when she met paul, probably. I like memory, i like the motion, i like love, i like passion. This picture was taken on the isle of wight pop festival. Bob dylan was there and Joni Mitchell and the doors. People at those sorts of events seemed to lose their inhibitions in a way. Out of nowhere, somebody seemed to be able to get this sort of foreign thing and you just need somebody spraying foa m and you just need somebody spraying foam around the everybody of the ta ke foam around the everybody of the take their clothes off and all sort of ha rd take their clothes off and all sort of hard each other amongst the phone. I love seeing people who like each other. Foam. I dont care if theyre each other. Foam. I dont care if they re really each other. Foam. I dont care if theyre really like each other for ten minutes. The sort of things i love photographing other things that quite a lot of other people to that i wouldnt under normal circumstances ever dream of doing. Queen charlottes ball, just absolutely fascinated me. There were all these young girls, almost like a cattle market, being shoved around for all blokes to look at. It was obviously all to do with meeting the right lobe et cetera. Rate local. Here we have four people, two pairs and all they are doing as far as i can see is talking to each other, but they all have what i would think was an exaggerated gesture. If the gesture that comes from holding a cigarette and i think this is a nice picture. It has authorship, i think. Im basically bizarrely a rather shy person, but the lovely thing about the camera is you hide behind it. Normally if you are shy and somebody talks to you. But if you have a camera you have an talks to you. But if you have a camera you have an excuse talks to you. But if you have a camera you have an excuse to talks to you. But if you have a camera you have an excuse to be there. God, its been a fun life. Its been fun life. Ive loved every minute of it, you know . David hearn who witnessed the eccentricities of britain in the 605. America in the 19605 was dominated by the issue of race. Bruce davidson chronicle5 19605 was dominated by the issue of race. Bruce davidson chronicles the Civil Rights Movement and accompanied black protester5 on the walk between selma and montgomery in alabama. The thing for me that makes meaningful photographs, thats what idid. I meaningful photographs, thats what i did. I was doing high fashion p i ctu res i did. I was doing high fashion pictures for vogue magazine. I came to feel that i could no longer do fashion. That was not weather world was for me at that time. It was important that was not where the world was for me at that time. It was important to me that someone document what was happening in the south. When i heard there was a marked happening in birmingham i would jump on a plane and be down there. I wasnt 5pon5ored would jump on a plane and be down there. I wasnt sponsored by anybody. I didnt have a motor scooter or anything. When i lifted the camera to take a picture, i lost maybe 15 or 20 feet, maybe more, and i would have to run to catch up, but i was i would have to run to catch up, but iwa5 in i would have to run to catch up, but i was in good shape that time. This picture shows two hefty cops from birmingham arresting a young woman. You can see they are twisting her arm. In the background, that 5ign, but i didnt focus on that. But was ju5t happen5tance. That young man who i havent been able to find, it was his idea to put vote on his head and it was a very powerful image. It was also a very dangerous image from him because the National Guard was alongside, waiting in the woods for anything to happen, and they couldnt be trusted. The police couldnt be trusted. The police couldnt we tru5ted. So he was showing off what the hallmark wa5 about and he survived. I was privileged enough to photographed john lewis when he stepped into the bus to ride the mississippi from montgomery alabama. A famous civil right5 leader and congressman now. Thi5 right5 leader and congressman now. This is an important picture in a way because it was the beginning of 1961, freedom bus ride. The previous bus was burned and people were arrested and beaten and they set the bus on fire. I photographed people who voted for the first time in their life and they were in their 705 and that was very moving. Towards the end of the selma march, people could vote. They could vote and geta people could vote. They could vote and get a good education. If you get and get a good education. If you get a good education you can get a good job and a good life, so that was the beginning of opening the door to the new world. Im an outsider on the in5ide, new world. Im an outsider on the inside, you can make an attempt to see inside, you can make an attempt to see and be part of another life. Many of the issues Bruce Davidson documented are still making the headlines today. As documented are still making the headlines today. A5 are those ca ptu red headlines today. A5 are those captured in the photos of elliott erwitt, the child of russian parent5 who emigrated to the us. In the 19505 and 605 he travelled to the 5oviet union and to cuba. The p i ctu res 5oviet union and to cuba. The picture5 he took their revealed the personalities and the tensions of the cold war. The picture was taken in 1959. I was in moscow. Nixon, who was the Vice President at the time, was the Vice President at the time, was on a state visit to the 5oviet union and so i took the opportunity of joining union and so i took the opportunity ofjoining the press corps and followed him around. They were grandstanding, they were just sort of playing for their audience. Nixon was saying that we americans it meet while you russians eat cabbage. It was just a way of nixon saying that we are was just a way of nixon saying that we are well off and rich and you are miserable and poor. The russians have days in the year where they di5play have days in the year where they display their might may date, which i5 display their might may date, which is the workers day, and the revolution. I happened to be there for the latter one. I was well positioned by virtue of going through three rings of security, together with a 5oviet tv group. Somehow i blended in. I must have been badly dressed or something. Thi5 been badly dressed or something. This was one of the pictures taken there. At the beginning of the parade they have. They di5play their military might and then they have the workers parade. The 5pontaneou5 have the workers parade. The spontaneous parade, have the workers parade. The 5pontaneou5 parade, generally less than five hours. Nothing 5pontaneou5 about it of course. In 1964, i went to cuba for about a week or ten days andi to cuba for about a week or ten days and i spent it in havana. I spent it with fidel castro and 5haker there are. with fidel castro and 5haker there are. Check there are. It was fascinating. Fidel castro like to be photographed, like any celebrity. I can sort of compared them to cowboys. They were affable, pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, a5 pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, as you will see. Especially che. He was the Marilyn Munro of the period. He seemed to be ina good munro of the period. He seemed to be in a good mood, as i remember. He even gave me a box of cigars, which idid not even gave me a box of cigars, which i did not bring into the United States because it was prohibited. I regret the Box Office Box of cigars. He was a charming man, apart from what he did or didnt do. Many people have doubtful backgrounds and doubtful histories. Face to face they can be quite charming and accessible. And interesting. I didnt speak so much. I listened more. Photographers shouldnt get in the way of things. I hope that i was an observer rather than a participant. Elliott erwitt remembering the cold war. Dont forget you can catch up on the whole series at the bbc website. Can you imagine taking pictures of one of the most charismatic figures of the 20th century . Well, one photographer did just that when he was assigned to photographed muhammad ali in 1966. You have days where nothing happens and days that are full of surprises. I was working at the magazine in germany. 0ne are full of surprises. I was working at the magazine in germany. One day the editor in chief came here and ask us, would you like to meet a very interesting person in the usa . His name is muhammad ali and he is a fantastic boxer. We had no idea about boxing. It was almost impossible to do interviews with him. Sometimes we went in the morning but he did not show up. You could not anticipate anything. He was a surprise every day. We flew ovei was a surprise every day. We flew over to louisville that he was in the gym and we went to the gym, it was dark and finally he saw as standing there. Youre fair. And he did this to the camera and the gong comes on for the second round and he went back and punched the ball. So i only clicked twice and i had two pictures and these were the best pictures and these were the best pictures i ever took. You have to be very ready for surprises with him. He could be a different person from one moment to the other. One day he said, ok, ill show one moment to the other. One day he said, ok, illshow you one moment to the other. One day he said, ok, ill show you the city. And then we came to the Chicago River and there was a Little Bridge andi river and there was a Little Bridge and i said, could you go up there and i said, could you go up there and without telling him he just took off his shirt and then i said to him, jump. And hejumped from the bridge down and click, another click, only one. Then, 0k, bridge down and click, another click, only one. Then, ok, lets go somewhere else and have something to eat. We drove around again in chicago and suddenly he said, lets stop here, i want to go to the bakery, they have wonderful cookies. So he went outside and it took quite a while, then one hour later said, close to the bakery, let me get a couple more. So he went inside and this time i said, something is strange here. The way went into the ba kery strange here. The way went into the bakery and i saw him in their and then i understood because there was then i understood because there was the bakers then i understood because there was the ba kers daughter. Then i understood because there was the bakers daughter. He was flirting very heavily, so it was not the cookies, it was the young very pretty lady. The funny thing is that i visited him four years later, so i came to his house and we sat down andi came to his house and we sat down and i took the pictures of him and suddenly the door opened and his wife came in and who was the wife . She was the bakers daughter, who i had photographed a couple of years before. U nforg etta ble world heavyweight champion muhammad ali. In the same year that a Young American soldier was killed in vietnam. One of the photographs he took went off to become a poster and an emblem of the anti war movement. Become a poster and an emblem of the antiwar movement. To be a good photographer you have to know what you are looking for. The year was 1966, i was travelling around the south on an assignment for a japanese magazine to photograph southern landscapes, that was my assignment. I am out in the countryside and in the south there are these flat fields that are cotton fields, and i look and there is this church, a wooden church, unpainted, what was different was that there was a brown army bus parked in front of it. I drive up to the Church Car Park behind a bus and go back, and they were going to have a funeral there. All the people were there and they were waiting for the body of this soldier who was killed in vietnam to be brought to the church for the funeral. I talk to the boys grandmother, and i said, is it ok to take pictures . She said sure, is it ok to take pictures . She said suie, suie. Is it ok to take pictures . She said sure, sure. This was a moment when the bus carrying the honour guard, which was the soldiers who are carrying mccaughan and a cough and in the ambulance, that the hearse, they brought the cotton from the hearse to the burial site. That is a symbolic picture, coffin. Showing the soldiers, who were the honour guard, and theyve wrought the boys wadi to the church cemetery. Boys body. The picture of the lady crying became iconic. It became an anti war poster in europe, and it was a big poster that was all over europe. That was a time when people we ie europe. That was a time when people were protesting against the war and it just became were protesting against the war and itjust became a Real Progress picture, it is a historical picture because it is a specific moment in that war that shows how it touched ordinary people. I dont know who the little boy is, to be honest with you, he was never identified in the article. I assume that he is either article. I assume that he is either a cousin or a close friend who knew this boy, who was killed, and that is the way it affected him. That is what i saw and i photographed what i saw, and the pictures speak for themselves i think. It was all over in about half an hour, they came with the casket, they had a service this is a moment that happened once and never happened before, will never happen again, and that is that kind of picture i think. And a very touching story to appear at that time when people were tired of the vietnam war, all these boys had been killed. Constantine manos on his heartbreaking images of grief. Chris Steele Perkins is truly best known for his documentary pictures of life in britain. In the 19805 he produced a range of photographs which ca ptu red a range of photographs which captured the nation under the conservative Prime Minister margaret thatcher. Pointing his camera at every section of society. Photography is about history, demarcating a period and a time. The wolverhampton set of pictures was done to the sunday times magazine, and the whole idea was to go back to wolverhampton ten years after enoch powell had given his famous, as it was yet to be known, rivers of blood speech, and go look at the asian and African Caribbean Community up in wolverhampton and see if they were actually drinking each others blood 01 actually drinking each others blood or not. There was a church club which seemed seemed to cater quite well for local kids, they could go down there and play their own music, hang out, there was a kind of rhythm to the whole thing, and you kind of tuned into that, and that is what youre after. The exact sort of compositional elements and more importantly in the overall composition, rather than the small details. The idea was about trying to photograph the english, trying to have fun. Trying to sort of show the world that they kind of. Had a good life. Finding the oddities in people, it is almost like an act of mars rather than act of high homage. I went to a lot of nightclubs, was hanging out, with couples who dont speak to each other for hours, and couples who dont speak to each otherfor hours, and i was photographing in this way, and people were going, there there i thought maybe this was a new dance, and a turnaround in this fight was going right behind me. They are all rather well dressed up for the sort of night out of being cool, and they end up on the floor sort of being punched in the mouth. 0nce end up on the floor sort of being punched in the mouth. Once again, thatis punched in the mouth. Once again, that is a metaphor for the way we live. There was a sort of tail end of National Front and people like this still sort of act if in street demonstrations. It like it needed to be covered, and to me that was about the posture and sort of posturing and expression, and projection that they wanted to give. It is hard to know what people really think any more. I mean, you know, methodologies kind of creep up and covei methodologies kind of creep up and cover things in the new realities. Thats shot of thatcher is, i found quite ambiguous. Yes she kind of looks startled and kind of looks confused almost. But at the same time she is quite glamorous. And then obviously you have the parody of the people in the background who are all openmouthed and overcome by being in her presence. Ifeel like i got one picture that has kind of stood the test of time, and is still ambiguous which i like about photography, that it can be ambiguous, you can read it in ways. And they are all right. Chris Steele Perkins. And the ambiguity of photography as a historical record. And that is all from through the lens here at the southbank centre, see lens here at the southbank centre, see the rest of the series at our website. Hi, there. It has been cloudy for the past few days, very mild as well. More of the same to come over the next few days in the run up to the big day itself. Staying mild, turning a bit windier, and a bit of rain across the north west the uk. For the time being weve got a lot of cloud and High Pressure to the south of the uk. These westerly winds bringing cloud off the atlantic. The weather front approaching scotland, bringing outbreaks of rain and wet weather to start the day across the northern isles. For many of us its a dry, a cloudy and mild start. Misty and murky around western coasts and hills, but probably not as murky as it has been over the past few days on account of the stronger winds. The winds pick up on saturday in the northern half of the uk and they will encourage a few breaks in the cloud every now and then. Not many breaks for most of england and wales. It stays pretty dull and cloudy for most of the day. Still murky over high ground of the moors in the south west, across the hills of wales and pennines too. Temperature wise, 10 12 celsius, similar to the last few days. The rain working in through the afternoon in Northern Ireland. Turning wet in scotland. In eastern areas, prospects of a few bright and sunny spells on account of the strong winds blowing holes in the cloud sheet. Through saturday night, there will still be some pulses of rain coming and going across scotland. If anything it turns heavier in Western Areas and it will be persistent. Another mild night. Temperatures 9 10 celsius widely. For Christmas Eve and christmas day, this weather front becomes very slow moving, often targeting western scotland, with pulses of heavy rain. Those rainfall totals mounting up. We could see some localised surface flooding across western scotland in the run up to the big day. So the potential for localised transport disruption here. Christmas eve will be a breezier day. 0ften cloudy, still with spots of rain and drizzle in Western Areas. The stronger winds again encouraging a couple of cloud breaks every now and then. Temperatures, as you were 10 12 celsius. Christmas day, we continue the theme of mild and cloudy weather. A bit windier. The band of rain moves in across Northern Ireland and scotland and into the far north west of england and wales. If you go into the high mountains, above 500 metres elevation, you might see a bit of snow, but for the vast majority it is going to be a mild christmas day. But after christmas, keep in touch with the Weather Forecast because it turns colder and the chance of seeing heavy snow perhaps affecting parts of the pennines, which could cause disruption after christmas. Thats your weather. This is bbc news. Our top stories the United Nations begins flying refugees from libya to italy to help stop Vulnerable People being trafficked to europe by sea. A mans been charged in the United States with planning a terrorist attack in San Francisco over christmas. 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