Anniversary of the woodstock Music Festival which affected half a Million People to a dairy farm in up state new york. Next an interview with woodstock cocreator Artie Kornfeld. He recalled how the concert came together, how he signed the Musical Artists and the business arrangements for the documentary film. This is half an hour. I wanted to be a baseball player but i always loved music and my mother always had Benny Goodman of the lombardos. Not guy lombardo, but the two brothers. They both had bands. One of the two guys who had the big bands. Anyway, she listened to big band music and my uncle loved jazz. And he was always listening to jazz. That was the influences i had. Then was your mother a pianist, a performer . No, my mother founded the freedom rides and became a very famous shes a founder of the freedom rides. If you get my book, youll see the letter that will blow your mind about shirley kornfeld. Shes a star in my family. Not me. Today you are the star. Im just a representa
And also for viewers of aljazeera english or very interested in American Foreign policy but given whats happened just in the last short period of time with the president president from firing his National Security advisor john bolton and throwing the whole National Security and Foreign Policy process into disarray the ongoing trade war with china a very Important International issue and what weve been talking about on aljazeera all this evening about saudi arabia and the revelations that there is a now going to be an individual named who ready is connected with the saudi government and the was involved in some fashion in the attacks of september 11th 2001 given the Trump Administrations very close ties to the saudi royal family all of these are extremely for. Will grow and i would should think for the candidates to speak out and attack the from Foreign Policy so i think we will see a little more of that tonight and also will see some discussion of the really one of the most pressing In
In with my friends visit with me to do one on one here today. Looking for a very strategic. Very distinguished relationship you know 2 nations. While him took health talks with his host his ministers met their south sudanese counterparts topping the talks were economic and trade ties to south sudan seceded in 2011 with most of sudans Oil Facilities they once brought in more than 60 percent of the countrys revenues but sudans pipelines and ports are needed to export south sudans oil the 2 also share the longest land border in africa and parts are yet to be formally demarcated more than 80 years after south sudans independence thats caused tensions in the past and was discussed in the talks we have discussed many bilateral issues concerning outstanding issues in the music remember not the recent one but the comprehensive Peace Agreement where the issues of borders issues of operations issues of economic and political issues seem to be discussed and those werent the only things brought up
as leaders of nato countries prepare to meet at a summit in madrid on tuesday. now on bbc news, it s talking movies. hello from the washington heights neighbourhood in new york city. i m tom brook and welcome to talking movies. in today s programme, highlights from this month s tribeca festival. an opening night film goes behind the scenes with new york born megastarjennifer lopez. it wasn t about me. it was about, really, the moment, and how i could contribute to that. # hallelujah.# a documentary paying tribute to canadian singer/songwriter leonard cohen and his famous song, hallelujah. leonard is in my psyche. he s in my conscience. i m not sure you could really class it as a fantasy as such. it s a bit mundane for that. emma thompson impressing tribeca audiences by boldly portraying an older woman seeking sexual fulfilment. yes. the great thing about this film is that it s very honest about sex. also, a tribeca film in whichjohn lennon s one time personal assistant, may p
president vladimir putin, has accused nato of having imperial ambitions. and said its members had no interest in the well being of ukrainians. farmers across the uk are cutting back on food production, as they struggle with soaring costs, according to a study by the national farmers union. it found that a third of farmers say they re cutting back on crops, such as wheat, for food, because fertiliser has trebled in price. instead they are planning to grow wheat for animal feed because it needs less fertiliser. our business editor simonjack reports. if ukraine is the breadbasket of the world, lincolnshire is the breadbasket of britain. it produces one eighth of the uk s food, but there is a chill wind blowing through the farming industry. rising costs, labour shortages and pressure from supermarkets is causing a crisis of confidence. we ve got this massive shortage from ukraine and russia. andrew ward says a quadrupling of fertiliser prices mean his crop could be down this yea