Finalfor eight years, they havent met in a grand slam final for eight years, but they havent met in a grand slam finalfor eight years, but in they havent met in a grand slam final for eight years, but in the next half hour Serena Williams takes on her sister venus for the australian title and a record breaking 23rd major crown. And chris has the weather. It is not as cold as has been over recent days, but we have got some rain to contend with today and it is still just about code rain to contend with today and it is stilljust about code and for some of that rain to fall as snow in the hills of scotland. Good morning. First, our main story. The actor Sirjohn Hurt Has died. He was 77 and had recently been ill with cancer. He starred in around 200 films including harry potter and was nominated for an oscar for his roles in The Elephant Man and midnight express. Our correspondent nick higham reports. Everything seemed to come to a head today. John hurt, as the political diarist alan clark.
the evidence is there that he was told repeatedly. it is not too early to remind everyone of axiom number one. trump cannot testify. so think about how he can even make these claims. and finally on the time line in bloomberg s report. it seems to me it s possible, since they haven t met since the 5th, that the grand jury has wrapped up or they ve gotten most of the info from jack smith and that s what report theers are talking about. we have to remember, there is a process to comeha i think days weeks is referring to. even though he will defer, i think it will be methodical, careful, and will involve his kitchen cabinet and smith and others. and that s what people don t quite understand yet, don t quite know, which is the duration from smith saying, i want to go forward to garland s actually green lighting. that s really interesting for a context.
will granted there. earlier i spoke to venezuelan born raul sanchez urribarri. he is associate dean and senior lecturer at the school of humanities and sciences at la trobe university in melbourne. i asked him how ordinary venezuelans are reacting to the news. as you can imagine, for normal venezuelans, this is a very important development. we ve seen 15 months of no progress whatsoever of a significant nature at the international level in dialogues, precisely because they haven t been able to meet. the maduro government refused, abandoned the opportunity for dialogue 15 months ago, and ever since the two parties involved, government and opposition, haven t met. so this is a major news for venezuelans across the political spectrum. the country has been
terms of how he delivers a message. the latest example today, you know, face to face for the first time with the chinese president and one of the things that didn t come up, martha, the fact that a million americans died from were killed by a virus that started in china and our president didn t raise that issue. the white house read-out confirms that. you know, he said that he wasn t looking for confrontation with china. he should have been looking for confrontation on that issue. the only way that we re going to be assured another pandemic doesn t occur is if china is transparent with what happened with the world s scientists and virologists that can give us those answers. that s the kind of performance that gives everyone a lack of confidence in how president biden delivers messages on behalf of the united states national security interests. martha: it s stunning omission given what we ve gone through and the reason they haven t met for three years is
it. the young royals, wall to wall coverage of this. as you say, one of the standout moments was that little film with paddington and that is a great headline there on the front of the mail on sunday. just picking up the mail on sunday. just picking up the little bits from the speech that prince charles gave, the sunday express, thank you for being there for us, mummy is what they pick out as their headline. just underlining obviously she is his mother, described in another paper as the nation s grandmother, just that remainder she has been in the fabric of all of our lives as a central figure who is just so familiar to us all. most of us haven t met, but we feel like we know her. you all. most of us haven t met, but we feel like we know her. feel like we know her. you do feel as if ou feel like we know her. you do feel as if you know feel like we know her. you do feel as if you know the feel like we know her. you do feel as if you know the queen. - feel like we know her. you do f