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
many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. 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. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. 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. yeah. 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
rioters with the story we heard on tuesday. i informs the vicinity and they said something to the fact like i don t care that they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, let me people in, they can march to the capital from here. president trump was aware that a number of the individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. and here is what president trump instructed the crowd to do. we re going to walk down, i ll be there with you. we re going to walk down to the capitol. former chief of staff said that was a claim changer. i have seen him try to bring violence with no violence at all. but after yesterday when he testified he knew there was guns on the property and he still encouraged people to go to the capitol that certainly changes my mind. so the question now is does that change other people s minds? or if they heard something in her testimony that might be a smoking gun. one of the key potential witnesses now is very clearly pat cipollone
the battleground state of georgia, where trump hand-picked several 2020 election deniers to run for critical offices that oversee elections like secretary of state, attorney general, and governor. now, the primary race for governor is the race to watch today in georgia, incumbent brian kemp is trump s number one target in what s being called his vendetta tour. trump is on a mission to bring down republicans who refuse to go along with his 2020 election lies. he enlisted and then endorsed kemp s rival, david perdue, and headlined a tele-rally there for him yesterday. on the same day, trump s former vice president, mike pence, stumped with kemp in georgia. we have a team of correspondents covering election day in georgia, so let s start with cnn s jeff zeleny, who is reporting on governor kemp s campaign. jeff, what s the latest? reporter: alisyn, we are outside a polling location here in atlanta, and there are several hours to go until the polls close, about five more ho