Broadly, could the buildings of the future be made of more Sustainable Materials . Or is it simply far fetched. Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents moved to denmark, your mother was a seamstress, your father was a moved to denmark, your mother was a seamstress, yourfather was a cook, how did your early life and influence you in your work . |j how did your early life and influence you in your work . I spent my vacations in iceland, my father also worked as an artist, actually. My also worked as an artist, actually. My mother in denmark would make sure i would go to school and he would say that my mother had the more disciplined approach to life, but my father had the more hedonistic approach. Being in nature over the summer, playing around as a child, with my father, that really influenced me a lot. But also to be fair, my mother gave me a sense of purpose and direction, and made a great difference for me. You also took part in sort
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with zeinab badawi. Welcome to hardtalk from tate modern in london where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist. He believes that art can change the world by, for instance, tackling Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss. The idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment, for instance, could buildings of the future be made more sustainably . Is this sort of thing visionary or far fetched . Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you, in your work . Well, my father moved back to iceland and i would spend my vacations in iceland, running around in nature while he was painting. He also worked as an artist, actuall
Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u. S. And saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing that yemens hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such a destructive military operation. But the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the Technology Used in these attacks all draw a Straight Line back to tehran Foreign Ministers of odds are it has said of the iran coincident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran wont think twice about defending itself. He also warned u. S. President donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march into war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they wont get what they seek theyre still paying for a much smaller a human war that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from to iran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying an
Overbudget, according to latest figures. Please pray for us. Hurricane dorian claims at least five lives in the bahamas and causes widespread devastation the Prime Minister calls it an historic tragedy. Susan powell has the weather. We will be taking a closer look at why this key 24 hour period on the satellite sequence really tells of the massive impact dorian is having on the bahamas and a look at what is ahead in the uk, as well. Gavin has the sport. One change for england ahead of the fourth ashes test match against australia tomorrow, Craig Overton comes in in place of chris woakes as england look to take the lead in the series at old trafford. Hello and welcome to westminster, where the Prime Minister is facing a showdown with mps who are trying to block britain leaving the eu without a deal. Conservative backbenchers are joining forces with opposition parties to try to take control of parliament. They want to force Boris Johnson to ask brussels to delay britains exit again, if a
Last year he was barred from entering a migrant child jail inside an old walmart in brownsville, texas, where over 1000 children were being held. He is out with a new book americas better than this trumps war against migrant families. There is nothing darker than the deliberate mistreatment of Migrant Children as a strategy to determine immigration. Literally mistreating children is not acceptable under any moral code or religious tradition. We have to stop his new plan of indefinite incarceration of these children. Amy are houses is on fire. As the french president declares the devastating fires in the amazon to be a an International Crisis at of the g7 summit, we will looook at how the policiesf brazils far r right president Jair Bolsonaro are destroying the amazon. Bolsonaro needs to face stop the b burning, that we will not tolerate deforestatation. We will fight the crimes that deststroyed thee forest. He attacks inspectors and scientists in the indigenous. He criticizes them all,