really high pressure, you know? but we did it in the end very happy. i thought nigeria were a good team. watching the prelims, watching the group stage, i was a little bit scared, not going to lie, but. they shout. my heart was going. yeah. that was tight. it was. ijust can t believe we re in the quarterfinals. literally stoked. we ve flown all the way for this tournament. one of the world s longest serving leaders, hun sen of cambodia, has handed over power to his son. hun manet has been appointed prime minister by cambodia s king. 0ur southeast asia correspondent jonathan head gave us more details of the new prime minister s background. hun sen s eldest son, hun manet, who is 45 years old, is now the new prime minister,
he has a version of the caine mutiny, the caine mutiny court martial. that will be seen at the venice film festival, a chance to see one of our great filmmakers for the very last time. sad news today i think with william friedkin but, you know, his films will carry onwards. maybe he did not achieve quite the same potential after the oscar wins for french connection and the excitement that surrounded the exorcist but, nevertheless, he had something of a comeback with a film called killerjoe in 2012, with matthew mcconaughey, and it is always worth seeing a william friedkin film. siobhan synnot. those opposing the leader of belarus autocratic regime face imprisonment but now it seems must also endure total isolation in jail.
so something like the french connection, a cop movie, could have been a potboiler but in his hands it was something far more elevated than that. and he got an amazing performance out of gene hackman, despite the fact gene hackman felt that his character, popeye doyle, was morally reprehensible and had to be pushed by friedkin to give his character its full weight. and the exorcist, you know, he never regarded that as a horror movie, despite the spinning heads and the pea soup. he regarded it as a serious drama, a moral question, and when he felt the energy on set wasn t quite as energetic as he would like, he punched one of the characters, one of his actors in the face. notjust any old actor either, a priest. well, incredible stories there. and also at the age of 87 he actually had a new movie coming out? that s right.
counting the cost in china as floods hit the country are raising concerns about food security. and a paneer of the clubbing scene here in singapore said that those on a global expansion. sets its sights. hi there, welcome to asia business report, with me, mariko oi. as we have been telling you, china s most severe weather in recent weeks after two powerful typhoons in the country in just one month. more than 7 million people across the country have been affected, including in the capital, beijing. floods have also hit one of the country s top grain producing regions, raising concerns about food security. earlier i spoke to a
years injail. the supreme court suspended the ruling last week, opening the way for his return. the un s children s agency unicef says south asia has the highest percentage of children exposed to extreme high temperatures compared to all other it estimates around half a billion children in the south asia are exposed to temperatures exceeding 35 celsius for approximately a quarter of the year. one of the most impact that our children in afghanistan, india, pakistan and bangladesh. our children. the american film director william friedkin has died at the age of 87. he won the best director oscar for the 1971 thriller, the french connection, but he was perhaps most well known for directing the iconic and controversial horrorfilm, the exorcist. the film, about a young girl possessed by the devil, was infamously banned in many countries, but it became one of the most sucessful and influential