0k, and you are just here. couldn t i sit farther back? sir anthony hopkins playing an ordinary man with an extraordinary story. sir nicholas winton was just 29 in 1938 when he embarked on a campaign to bring hundreds of refugee children from prague to london. for 50 years, he didn t talk about his efforts until they were revealed by the bbc tv programme that s life. if they hadn t been rescued and brought over to england, these children would have been killed by the nazis. i m the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and for this edition of the arts interviews, i interrupted sir anthony s busy filming schedule to talk to him about his role in one life. is everybody happy? are you happy, sir anthony? yes. tony, tony. i think this whole story has affected me and has actually stayed with me throughout the whole of my life, really. i also speak to the younger nicky winton actor, johnny flynn. the experience of making it will never leave me. ..and 90 year old renate collins, whos
already said that any kind of relations with taiwan must end. but this is very much not only about the economics, but it also has to do with the geopolitics. a sign that the us is taking the threat of a potential. potentially china coming into taiwan, as a real threat. and so a lot of people are taking lessons from what they are seen happening in ukraine and starting to make some strengthening within their own borders. absolutely. and while you are with us, let s talk about that the debt ceiling deal. passing a very big hurdle last night, but still a lot of work to do if they are to meet that deadline injune the 6th? absolutely. they re going to have. now that it s passed one chamber of congress, it now has to pass the senate. andy thinking has been that they would be able to get it into they would be able to get it into the senate, but now we re hearing from a lot of senators are saying they are going to try. it s not going to be an easy ride, it s going to be a lot of pushb
about half the health trusts in england are affected by today s industrial action, but the rcn, has guaranteed a minimum level of cover, for intensive care and trauma units. a quarter of the trusts involved have also been given extra exemptions, for services like transplant and cardiac care, which means strikers can be called in, for emergencies. this latest 28 hour action ends at midnight, with the government saying it s pay offer, is fair and reasonable. here s our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. they say cut back, we say fight back. nurses on the picket line once again. no nhs cuts. determined to have their voices heard, in this dispute over pay and conditions. i ve been a nurse now for 15 years, and it s just got worse and worse. the staffing is cut, our pay is cut, but patient care is always excellent, but we just strive and we give and we get nothing back. we re on strike because i have seen, over my entire career of more than a decade in the nhs, a progressive
it signals concern about the health of the sector, following the collapse of first republic and its acquisition byjp morgan chase. the wall street giant said it would pay $10.6 billion dollars to the federal insurance deposit corp, after officials shut down the smaller bank. first republic had been under pressure since last month, when the collapse of two other us lenders sparked fears about the state of the banking system. meanwhile, the managing director of the international monetary fund kristalina georgieva says she expects more weaknesses to be exposed in the banking sector. so just how vulnerable is it? let s ask the chief global investment officer of oreana financial, isaac poole. i think there is a real risk of that. this is probably not the end of bank failures. we are seeing these problems in the smaller, regional, medium sized banks, really exposed to higher interest rates. we are going to see another interest hike from the fed which might add extra pressure on dep
the weather is pretty overcast for some of us, but there have been lengthy spells of sunshine in the south west of the uk. high pressure is in charge and you would think it would give us sunnier skies, but here is the extent of the cloud across most of the uk. what we have got right now is more or less or you will have four most of the afternoon. still a few glimmers of brightness possible in one or two locations, but on the whole it is on the cloudy site. how about the temperatures? quite a spread on the north sea coast from newcastle to aberdeen, but out towards the west 17, even 18 degrees in northern ireland. this evening and overnight not much changes. broadly speaking the southern half of the country has plenty of clear spells. the northern half has cloudy skies. around east anglia and parts of scotland it will be quite chilly in the morning, but out towards the west should be relatively mild. here is the forecast for tomorrow. in northern parts of the uk, certainly in