so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week before we go to air we like to record the interview a little bit closer to air as we ve seen, elections move pretty quic
we start in the us, where the british tech tycoon mike lynch has been cleared of fraud charges in a san francisco court. once hailed as a uk bill gates, mr lynch was facing fraud charges over the $11 billion sale of his software firm, autonomy, to hewlett packard back in 2011. mr lynch had been accused of inflating the value of his firm ahead of the sale a jury has found him not guilty on all counts. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the details. when autonomy was sold to hewlett packard 13 years ago for $11.1 billion, it was one of the top 100 public companies in the uk. the sale marked the la rgest ever takeover of a british technology business. but hewlett packard later wrote down the company s value by more than $8 billion, leading to criminal charges that mike lynch had defrauded hewlett packard by inflating the value of autonomy. the businessman was extradited from britain to the united states to stand trial on the charges, which could have put
How big, How Deep Breath do you have to take before making a movie in the days egypt, particularly a movie that is about politics, society, culture in your country today . Im going to tell you what everyone around me told me before making that film dont. Everyone told me, even my family, everyone knew this film was going to explode in my face at the end. Making a political film, or something that has a political statement, its almost suicide. Notjust because the government or the regime, its because of everyone. Everyone were in the midst of a big division in egyptian society, almost amounts to civil war. Maybe the streets, people are not killing each other these days but at some point they did, and the hatred extends to every family member. Egyptian families, the first rule of any Family Gathering is dont talk about politics. So, if everybody, yourfriends, your professional colleagues, everybody said dont, and you did, would it be right to Characterise Eshtebak the movie your act of r