Now on bbc news hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The International Reach of the black lives Matter Movement has put a new focus on racism in sport. My guest todayis focus on racism in sport. My guest today is an athlete who made a stand. Adam goodes was a star in australian rules foot pole. 0ne stand. Adam goodes was a star in australian rules foot pole. One of the greatest ever players of aboriginal descent. He quit the game after yea rs of racist aboriginal descent. He quit the game after years of racist abuse. A movie has been made of his story. What can australia and the wider world learn from it . Adam goodes in new south wales. Welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, mate. You quit your sport aussie rules football in 2015 having made a stand against racism. Five years on, racism and racism in sport is top of the agenda with the black lives Matter Movement making it such a theme right across the world. How much do you believe is changed in the past five years .
Including atlanta and denver, activists make a stand outside the white house, calling for justice for victims of police attacks. Three, two, one, zero. Ignition. Left off. Go nasa, go spacex. God bless bob and doug. A new era for space travel, as the first ever comercial rocket carrying people into space is successfully launched. Welcome to bbc news. There is no sign at all of an end the protests that have spread all over the United States in the last five days. They began to mark the death of george floyd, an African American man from minneapolis who died as a Police Officer knelt on his neck. Some have now turned violent, with buildings set alight, shops looted, and Police Vehicles set alight. Crowds are gathering in los angeles, new york, washington, detroit, atlanta chicago and philadelphia, and many more cities. These are life pictures from new york. It has just gone nine p. M. New york. It has just gone nine p. M. Protesters have new york. It has just gone nine p. M. Protesters h
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The global coronavirus pandemic has changed pretty much everything for almost everybody. It is of course a Public Health emergency, but it also is having massive economic social and cultural impacts. This very building usually houses our hardtalk studio. Now, that is currently out of commission. But thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the show can go on, and my guest today is the much acclaimed british actor brian cox, who is currently in the smash hit hbo tv drama succession. Now, he is living in self isolation in upstate new york, but im happy to say he is able to talk to me. Brian cox in new york state, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome. Thank you, stephen. Well, thank you for inviting us into your home, so to speak, via your laptop. You have been living in brooklyn, now youre in a cabin in new york state. New york state of course is at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in the us. What has life been like for you . Well, i havent. Be
Weather systems around the world and as you can see it is steering weather systems in our including this frontal system here, sliding slowly eastward, bringing further out breaks of heavy rain particularly over high ground in southern scotland, Northern England and wales where we already have a lot of water flowing through the river catchments. As we go through thursday this band of rain will work eastwards and contained within this there will be a short and sharp burst of torrential downpours with some squally and gusty wind. Behind the rain things will brighten up with sunshine but it will turn colder from the north as the day wears on and we will see showers across Northern Ireland and scotland, even to lower levels at times and for the scottish mountains there are likely to be blizzard conditions because the wind will pick up again as we head towards the end of the day. Through thursday night briefly this ridge of High Pressure will provide dry weather but he comes another frontal
The day the uks set to leave the eu. During a tumultuous time in british politics, hidden from view, this 4 year refurbishment has continued. All of the stone that we put onto the tower is hard carved, which is a phenomenal thing to see, brilliant, and it may take them between three and four weeks to produce a carving such as this crown that you can see along here. So, a real labour of love. So, this is the eastern clock face, high up the elizabeth tower, and the most striking thing is the colours. Its not the black paint were familiar with, but gold and blue. So, we found that as we scratched back through the layers, we were scratching, basically going back through time, and found that this was the colour that it was originally. So, its really exciting to find that blue colour as we went back through the layers. And its prussian blue. Prussian blue, yeah. This is gold leaf. And weve reglazed the whole of the clock face with hand blow opal glass. Even standing here, on a rainy day, sur