Cassettes as well . No nana, itsjust cds. Why, do you have cassettes . No. The bafta winner played nana in the royle family. One of her co stars, the actress suejohnston, said she was devastated at her passing. In halfan in half an hour, reporters takes a look at the bbcs bestjournalism from the last year, including an exclusive report on chinese militarisation of International Waters. Some Breaking Newsjust in. The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams has died, aged 96. His tale about a family of rabbits was a bestseller and also became a celebrated film. A statement from his family said he died on christmas eve. They posted a quote from the book on the Watership Down website which read it seemed to hazel he would not be needing his body any more. Nick higham looks back at his life. They seem sad, like trees in november. It became a worldwide bestseller and animated film and made its creator a millionaire. Not bad for a story about Intrepid Rabbits originally devised by a Civil Ser
Edition of reporters. In this Special Edition we look back at some of the best reports from this year from the network of correspondents around the world. Coming up stand off in the skies above the South China Sea as we fly over one of the most contested areas in the world, incurring the wrath of the chinese. The captain has said we are a civilian air craft but it made no difference whatsoever they just repeated that threat to leave the area over and over again. Tiny victims of yemens forgotten war, we find starving children in desperate need of aid. They have fever and diarrhoea and without medicine he passed away. Under fire on ukraines frontline, tom burridge and his team reach one of the conflicts most volatile hotspots where the fragile ceasefire has collapsed. Make no mistake, it can cost you your life. Ian pannell reports from Barack Obamas former hometown and finds gun crime is out of control. And battle of the sexes. We meet the moroccan warrior women taking on and beating the
He is ordering a Major Investigation into voter fraud, still convinced that illegal votes affected the election result. And gun violence in chicago the president says he is considering sending in the feds would it help . Well have reaction from the city. Hello it is wednesday afternoon here in washington, donald trump has promised a big day in the reform of Americas National security laws. The president is outlining changes to immigration, visa controls, and a crack down on gun violence in chicago. And of course there is the promise, which he made throughout that election campaign, to build that wall. Hes also given his first tv interview as president , here is what he said about that wall to abc news. Ultimately we will start negotiations relatively soon with mexico and we will be reimbursed by mexico. So the american taxpayer will pay for the ball first. We will be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from mexico. The mexican president said mexico. The mexican
Theyre telling us that theyre starting slowly to unload these places. There are five sets of those. So its very slow and were pretty far back in the line. Its going to be at least two hours. He also says he doesnt know whats going to happen to us once were deplaned, where well go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. He said it will take a number of days before things get back to normal. Were in it for the long haul. Weve totally run out of water. Theyve asked us kindly not to flush the toilets. Otherwise everyone seems to be in a relative calm. They gave us beverages about an hour ago and were just waiting. Wow. It doesnt sound good. How long have you been stuck there . We landed at 2 15. So about five hours. Wow. And the pilot is telling you it could be two hours more before you can get off. Did you hear what led to this . Reporter its unclear to us. Its a construction issue. As far as we know theres no power at the airport. Lucky for us. People are stuck in tram
Weve seen over the past nine months that people like the aca. We had overwhelming support for it. Its interesting to see these issues that if you were to ask someone how you feel about people going and getting an education or having health care, those are pretty evergreen. Martha heres the problem with that. A moral document, you say. Some people think its immoral to have 20 trillion in debt and some people feel like their tax dollars when they get sent to washington are being wasted. For them, they find, perhaps, a different kind of immorality in the way we pay taxes on the way the money is spent. Whats more about me paying 17,000 in land taxes . This is where the job is. Why should i have to move . The burden should not be on such a small percentage of people. The problem in our country now, the tinkerers are outnumbering the makers. We are doomed to socialism. Im sitting here as a Graduate Student and what im hearing is my income has apparently tripled and you say the takers are goi