rolling out the rocket that could pave the way for astronauts to return to the moon. after one venue cancels his latest production, over comments on trans rights and the #metoo movement, monty python s terry gilliam says british theatre needs to be more courageous. i think the whole artistic community has to be brave. that is what art is about it is pushing the limits. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. officials in ukraine are warning that the situation at the russian occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is approaching critical. emergency workers have been staging drills and practising cleaning operations in the event of radioactive contamination. russia took control of the nuclear plant the biggest in europe in early march, and there s recently been heavy shelling at and around the site, with both sides blaming each other for the attacks. our correspondent james waterhouse reports from zaporizhzhia city. ukraine s vast, rich landscap
so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back, because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family, in environments where there wasn t actually much to play with. it was sometimes quite lonely, and you had to use your imagination. do you think that was important in your development? it probably was, and i ve never really thought about that. it probably was, but at the time it wasn t part of my plan. i mean, i had no intention or thought about being an artist. and the period yo
lately he has a good voice. des moines, iowa, i don t know if you watched fox nation i watched speech in des moines. ainsley: what is the red. steve: he i think it s lighting. ainsley: what did you see? steve: red long light. ainsley: in the middle of the post. steve: the way they lit. ainsley: see, right there on the right. what is that, brian? brian: let me get into that. ainsley: is it a crane? steve: it s just the way the light is. ainsley: on the side of that building, i see. brian: looks like they are working on something and took the weekend off and they are not up yet. so, again, there is no water and no there is no sunrise. but i do get the sense that iowa is going to matter very soon. after november, on november 9th it s all going to be about iowa. steve: i used to work in downtown des moines when i worked for woi the abc affiliate. then owned by iowa state university even though it was a commercial thing it was kind of complicated. i worke
The dismissal of Oleksii Reznikov signals a strategy shift. Mr reznikov led the Ministry Since before the start of russias full scale invasion in february of last year, winning praise for negotiations to secure allied weaponry and expanding ukraines army. But as ukraines government has ramped up investigations into corruption, mr reznikov has become the subject of increasing speculation over financial misconduct, though he has not been personally implicated. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, ukrainian generals claim that they have breached russias formidable first line of defences in the south, near zaporizhzhia. General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told the Observer Newspaper that extensive minefields had blocked troops for several weeks, leaving them vulnerable to russian shelling and drone attacks. But the general claimed that clearing those mines has allowed his forces to advance, saying that ukraine expects weaker Russian Defences ahead. Questions over ukraines slow progress on the battlefie
To face far weaker Russian Defences ahead. Ukraine says its forces are making gains in the south of the country and has recently expanded its units towards the strategic town of tokmak, which is a Logistical Centre for russian forces. Last week, ukraines military said it had captured the village of robotyne, in the zaporizhzhia region, amid a counteroffensive that is yielding incremental gains. Sources in the Ukrainian Army have confirmed the breakthrough to the bbc. An adviser to president zelenskyy, aleksander rodnyansky, explained the significance for kyiv s forces. Weve been waiting for this moment for quite some time. Weve been hoping that we would pierce through the Russian Defence line, the first defence line, which was the hardest to pierce through, if you believe Military Experts when they talk about it. So hopefully now, when we reach the second and the third lines of defence that the russians have established, those will be easier to essentially overcome. And perhaps hopeful