A huge area of Popular Culture i have missed out on. Youve missed out on the 19805 to your credit we could all go and meet him because you could join the official fan and spend a week with the of. There is a5 spend a week with the of. There is as david in person and you would learn all you needed to know about the of, on a boat i never know what to get friends as a present. There you go and early Christmas Gift thank you both very much the coming in. Coming up next, the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases is mark kermode. 50 mark, what do we have this week . The big release is goodbye christopher robin, a film about the creation of winnie the pooh. We also have Reese Witherspoon in home again, a likeable if daft rom com. And daphne, a very interesting and edgy home grown pic. Goodbye christopher robin. I used to make up stories for my kids, so i am fascinated by this. Tell me im going to love it. I really liked it
Theyre toys, but the woods are real. The size is wrong. The bear should be smaller. The size of the little brother. Yes. Yes, thats it. Are you writing a book . I thought we were just having fun. Were writing a book and were having fun. I didnt know you could do both at the same time. You dont usually look like youre having fun when youre writing. Its not your turn, tigger. This is more than a few poems. Hmm. Its a little world. Like you said, a hundred acre paradise. Be very, very quiet. Vespers. This ones for daphne. You said it divided critics. One said it was like a John Lewis Christmas advert. That is completely wrong, because it actually has a lot of darkness in it. The script is by Frank Cottrell boyce, and he has taken the trauma of the great war, and this is a glade of happiness existing between the two wars, world war i and world war ii. Much as with the winnie the pooh stories, it is something which has beauty and charm, but also underneath it has darker themes. It is film a
Of the end of one of the bloodiest battles of all passchendale. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The uk has two weeks to make it clear what it will pay for to leave the eu or talks on a trade deal wont start next month. That is the ultimatum from the eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier. He says its vital that the uk makes concessions and increases its offer. The brexit secretary david davis says Good Progress has been made in talks so far though how to resolve the border between ireland and Northern Ireland remains a Sticking Point. Our europe editor katya adler has been following the latest round of talks in brussels. Time is a precious commodity. And dont the uk and the eu know it. Were halfway now between the date of our Eu Referendum and actually leaving the club. Expect many more face offs along the way. By now, round six of brexit negotiations all attempts at bilateral banter have gone. This is a serious business. Said david davis. It is. The eu is the uks biggest trading pa
York and onceew again, a series of negative headlines. Is point around north korea that they say they have successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb. With north korea, it is very hard to vera why the facts. To verify the facts. Guy it reduces the size and increases the yield of the device. As a result, maybe one step further forward to them being ale to put a device on missile and hit targets around the region. Another reason for global instability and regional instability. Which is more significant this morning, another geopolitical event or another market event . The chinese once again letting their currencies slide a little bit further. In august, that huge move. It just looks like a blip now. Risk,an north korea tail nuclear. Weaker fix. N, a we talked about manufacturing numbers. Theas been offset by Services Data. That is going to be a concern for a lot of people if that is not a oneoff. Guy we will talk about that later. Mohamed elerian lays out some of the risk. Investors are going t
Welcome to the pulse. We are just getting breaking news. Euro area december services pmi are unchanged at 54. 2. But when you look at the strength of the economies. France weaker than expected. Germany doing better than expected. The most volatile start to the year since 1999. 1. 0732. Dollar at mark china again devaluing its currency or weakening its currency in an orderly fashion. The currency falling to a fiveyear low. This is the last 8 trading days the currency has fallen against the dollar and all but one of those trading days. Hen fall into a fiveyear low. The signal is from policymakers that they are more tolerant it seems of a weaker currency. Yuan also sent to a fiveyear low in hong kong trading. That is freely traded currency. The gap between the onshore in the offshore rate was the widest on record. What is significant is that asias currencies, ages, chinas neighbors will be watching this closely because chinas yuan currency swings does tend to impact exporters. Many of the