anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
Continue to get details confirming 21 people have died and a0 people are injured as a rich Rescue Operations are still under way. We can take a look atjohn donis ands report now. In the darkness. Emergency crews are battling to rescue the injured and recover the dead. The bus upturned and crushed by the force of the fall disaster. From up on the bridge, it veered off. You can see the drop. Eyewitnesses say the bus then caught fire when it hit the ground. It happened in the m district on the mainland across the water from venices tourist centre. In a statement on social media, the citys mayor said the scene at the crash site was apocalyptic, and italys Prime Minister expressed her deepest condolences on the bridge. You can see where the bus went through the crash barriers. Investigators are now trying to work out why. Officials are warning the number of People Killed is likely to rise with italian media reporting that several children are among the victims. Jon donnison, bbc news. Live
Good evening. After weeks of speculation we understand tonight that the Prime Minister is going to scrap the plans to build the h52 high speed rail line between birmingham and manchester. He is expected to make the announcement in manchester at the conservative Party Conference tomorrow. Our Political Editor chris mason is there for us now. For the last couple of days, the Government Machine has felt quite low key, even underpowered, from the Prime Minister down, when it has come to the announcements they have had to make but tonight, that looks like it is about to change, not least with the confirmation is widely expected over the last couple of days, of the scrapping of the h52 rail line between the West Midlands and manchester. My understanding is the mayor of the West Midlands, a conservative, we included his views on our reporting of this last night, saw the Prime Minister this afternoon and tonight is distraught. Expect rishi sunak when he sets out his announcement to say that in
desus: there is, there is. if people would like, you know, get over their bias and come above 96th street they would find out. man: you learn fast. anthony: i mean, if the bronx were a neighborhood in manhattan, sort of shrunk-down, you d have hipsters crawling all over this place. desus: oh! oh my god. if you live in the bronx, it s not necessary that you re going to ever leave the bronx, go to manhattan, cause everything you want, everything you need is in the bronx. so, why would you go past 149th street? anthony: right. desus: so, all that repping my neighborhood, the ethnic pride and all that stuff anthony: right. desus: people definitely hold on to that. and that s definitely true of rhinelander avenue, the italians, the doo-wops, all that stuff. even this neighborhood was all white until the 50s. it s very recent, the whole immigrant experience. anthony: who lived here in the 50s? desus: all white people. anthony: what what kind of white people?
anthony: man, i mean, correct me if i m wrong there s a lot of good food in the bronx. desus: there is, there is. if people would like, you know, get over their bias and come above 96th street they would find out. man: you learn fast. anthony: i mean, if the bronx were a neighborhood in manhattan, sort of shrunk-down, you d have hipsters crawling all over this place. desus: oh! oh my god. if you live in the bronx, it s not necessary that you re going to ever leave the bronx, go to manhattan, cause everything you want, everything you need is in the bronx. so, why would you go past 149th street? anthony: right. desus: so, all that repping my neighborhood, the ethnic pride and all that stuff anthony: right. desus: people definitely hold on to that. and that s definitely true of rhinelander avenue, the italians, the doo-wops, all that stuff. even this neighborhood was all white until the 50s. it s very recent, the whole immigrant experience. anthony: who lived h