Drama about the queens life has gone online today. It comes at a time when netflix and other streaming Services Like amazon and apple are ploughing billions of pounds into programme making. And as our media editor amol rajan reports, its dramatically reshaping the way we watch television. 70 years ago, the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip was broadcast on a Single Channel in black and white. The world has changed. Today, their marriage and times has been dramatised in a multimillion pound, high tech production, consumed on a range of devices. Yet this very british story was made by netflix, not the bbc. The company now boasts over 100 million subscribers, and was irresistible to the british executive behind the crown. Well, you know, you can get to see Tech Companies very, very easily, and they make decisions very speedily, and they seem to have lots of money. So all of these are very attractive qualities when youre trying to sell a tv show. Netflix have said they will spen
In august 1996, ken and ruth pohler, an american couple from michigan, arrived in china. In the town of suzhou, they adopted a baby girl from a social welfare home. They called her kati. Hey doesnt she look like a picture can you wear shorts in china, when youre teaching . I mean my knees are pretty hot, so i mean. Yeah, no i can. I think trans racial adoptions makes it super obvious that youre different, from day one. She was just beautiful. But seeing that picture and then seeing her in life was, yeah. Very happy, very emotional, just tears running down my face. I grew up in a place that was very white, very caucasian. But for me, my community was so close and so tight. I saw myself as different but i was actually really accepted. But then things started to become different when i went outside that community, and everyone knew me and knew my story, and they expected me to act certain ways. Kati was probably five years old. And she came up to me, we were at a meeting at church, she as
An amber weather warning, urging people to be prepared for possible disruption. Some eastern areas could also be affected. Olivia richwald reports. Layers of thick snow a scene of beauty in shropshire, but the first heavy snowfall of the winter is bringing disruption to parts of the united kingdom. Motorists are being told to avoid driving unless absolutely necessary in parts of the north because of the icy conditions, as temperatures plummet down to minus six tonight in parts of scotland and wales. In oldham, greater manchester, this depot has been working 2a hours a day since thursday. The drivers here grit more than 300 kilometres of road. From busy urban centres to remote routes through moorland. With heavy snow showers forecast overnight in this area, they say theyre prepared. Weve just had the forecast in so the temperatures are going to drop quite significantly. Sub zero. So what were doing this afternoon now is we will pre grit all our primary gritting routes and then overnight
Myrie will have a full round up of all of the news. First, it is time for our world. In august 1996, ken and ruth pohler, an american couple from michigan, arrived in china. In the town of suzhou, they adopted a baby girl from a social welfare home. They called her kati. Hey doesnt she look like a picture can you wear shorts in china, when youre teaching . I mean my knees are pretty hot, so i mean. Yeah, no i can. I think trans racial adoptions makes it super obvious that youre different, from day one. She was just beautiful. But seeing that picture and then seeing her in life was, yeah. Very happy, very emotional, just tears running down my face. I grew up in a place that was very white, very caucasian. But for me, my community was so close and so tight. I saw myself as different but i was actually really accepted. But then things started to become different when i went outside that community, and not everyone knew me and knew my story, and they expected me to act certain ways. Kati w