collapse of silicon valley bank uk. you re watching bbc news. many of us might like to take a weekend stroll in a beauty spot but here in the uk too many of them are seemingly marred by litter. one group of volunteers says they ve filled hundreds of bin bags with the rubbish collected from a set of lakes in north warwickshire in the midlands. amy cole went to find out more. take a look at this. there are 7a bags of rubbish along here, including some larger items such as this children s trike. it was all collected over the weekend. but look, there are all these white bags of rubbish, too, and that was all collected five weeks ago. and it s still to be disposed of. what s going on? beavering away along lea marston lakes is a small army of litter pickers. well, they told me this was a rubbish story and they weren t wrong. it s everywhere. phil, you re up to your eyeballs in the stuff. where is it all coming from? we ve got our work cut out. it s coming, we feel, from upstr
this is bbc news, the headlines. presenters have refused to appear on more bbc sport shows in solidarity with gary lineker. there s been be reduced coverage of the women s super league and the same will apply to match of the day 2. talks continue to try to resolve the dispute between the bbc and lineker. the row is over impartiality, after the sports presenter criticised the government over its asylum bill. british prime minister rishi sunak has said he recognises the anxiety over the collapse of silicon valley bank. he insisted his government is working to find a solution to secure customers liquidity and cashflow needs. the uk s prime minister rishi sunak is flying to san diego, for talks on defence with the us and australian leaders. it s understood they ll discuss ways of dealing with any security threats posed by china in the asia pacific region at the meeting of the aukus group. now it s time for the travel show. this week, a look back at some of our most fascinatin
I want to talk to you about a few things. S time for a true discussion. Not the lies we get from media and tenured leftists and the rest. Talk about the facts, i wont go to civil war, where Democrat Party was tied to hip with confederacy, and dadavis of a democrat,. No. I wont go to Bles Plessy Versus Ferguson but i will go to woodrow wilson, one of the great socalled leading progressive intellectuals in late 1800s and 1900s president of princeton university, governor of new jersey and elected president of United States, and he overturned every major prointegration law that was put in place by the republicans who preceded him. Recession gated the departments of federal government, Fired Black Forward Administrate hours, and openly sympathetic to the kkk. And he was critical of reconstruction. Less than than 60 years ago, 1964 Civil Right Act was opposed by 69 of Senate Democrats supported by 82 of Senate Republicans and opposed by 61 of House Democrats and supported 80 percent of House
Clashed for the second day running in central paris. The unrest was caused by a deadly shooting on friday at a kurdish cultural centre. Those are the headlines on bbc news. Now on bbc news, zelensky The Making Of A president. For weeks, Volodomyr Zelensky has been leading from the front as ukraine resists russias invasion. Explosion comforting the war s many victims, berating ukraines enemies. Sobs. And demanding more from her allies. A war that was supposed to last days has now lasted months. Russias advance has stalled, and in places it has been pushed back. Applause president zelensky is now lauded as the man of this moment. I think your leadership has been extraordinary. But it wasnt always like this. Before the russian attack, questions were being asked as to whether zelensky, a former comedian, really had what it takes to lead ukraine. In 2019, i was very sad, it was like a tragedy knowing that zelensky could become president of ukraine. I wouldnt say he had policies, he had dire
american democracy. it exists to serve you. that s the know the only kind of democracy, there s also the soviet version of democracy, same word but very different definition. bowl has conviction took power by promising more democracy. the country that created the soviet union became the most impressive police state in human history. yet it was, you should know, a democracy. that s what they called it. east germany was a democracy, too, so was north vietnam, and ethiopia, and albania. democracies all. in his first speech as leader of north korea in 1946, kim i will sung talked about destruction of opposition to his rule, killing of political opponents as democratic reform. almost 80 years later, kim jong-un continues to run north korea as a democracy, a soviet style democracy. so again, they re using a very different definition of the word. in their version of democracy all decisions are made by a shadowy oligarchy. front by a strong man. the point isn t to find out what the p