territory since friday. the head of the un s nuclear watchdog the iaea says he s increasingly alarmed about the risk of disaster at the zaporizhzya power plant in ukraine. rafael grossi said military action could threaten public health and the environment. the plant is in the hands of occupying russians. cuba has requested help from the us and other neighbouring countries to tackle a major fire in fuel storage tanks, which were struck by lightning in the city of matanzas. i7 firefighters are missing and more than 120 people have been injured. one body s been recovered from the scene. now on bbc news it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur, and this is the stage of the royal shakespeare theatre in stratford upon avon, birthplace of william shakespeare. 400 years and more after his death, his words and stories still resonate around the world, transcending languages and borders. well, my guest today is the just retired artistic director of the royal shakespear
warnings that millions of children in england could go hungry this summer because councils have reduced or scrapped free school meal vouchers over the school holidays. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur, and this is the stage of the royal shakespeare theatre in stratford upon avon, birthplace of william shakespeare. 400 years and more after his death, his words and stories still resonate around the world, transcending languages and borders. well, my guest today is the just retired artistic director of the royal shakespeare company, greg doran. why do we continue to make much ado about william shakespeare? gregory doran, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. nice to be here. well, it s a real pleasure to be on your stage here at the royal shakespeare company. you first set foot on this stage 35 years ago. idid. in fact, this month, it s 50 years since i saw my first show at the rsc, which was eileen atkins in as you like it. and my mum h
what was left behind. the wind direction changed and it s pushed it this way, north. so the houses, where are the houses? just over there? the houses are sort of down here, through the trees, yeah. so when that happened, the decision was made to start evacuating some of them houses. not one house was damaged. david swallow s team managed to contain the blaze, helped by his expertise as the uk s leading wildfire tactical advisor. he had been monitoring temperatures and the wind for weeks. you know, 40 degree heat in the uk with humidity that s down to 20% they are mediterranean, western us seaboard type conditions that we ve never experienced before. losing a whole row of houses, it s not. it s not something that happens in the uk, but i think it s something that we re going to have to be better prepared for. head south, and these are the malvern hills a haven for plants and animals. this is the kind of landscape that needs protecting. but everything is really dry, and it
lucas pom tom lynnson at the white house tomlinson, and virginia republican lieutenant governor winsome sears. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto and happy weekend. so far a happy and, thus far, calm weekend after the supreme court s historic 6-3 decision to essentially gut roe v. wade. let s go to alexandria hoff at the supreme court with how things are looking there. reporter: hi, neil. yeah, a few more protesters have arrived over past hour, several dozen now with chants breaking out. but this time yesterday, neil, when that decision came down, the most immediate and audible reaction came from the pro-life side. there were cheers and tears for what they saw as the recognition of life before birth, something they d been waiting over 50 # years to do. and as the department of homeland security warned of a night of rage, things did remain mostly calm. an american flag was burning here in d.c., similar symbolic symbolic of the anger after the court did undo roe v. wade.