that the suicide attack that killed 22 people might have been avoided. now on bbc news, talking movies: berlin film festival special. hello from berlin! i m tom brook, and welcome to talking movies. in today s program, highlights from the berlin international film festival. over 11 days, some 280 films are shown with big names from the world of cinema gathering here in the german capital. we sat down with sean penn, whose documentary superpower on president zelensky was one of the festival s big attractions. british acting royalty was in town with dame helen mirren portraying israeli prime minister golda meir. cate blanchett, oscar nominated for her performance in tar, walked the red carpet, as did steven spielberg, at the festival for a lifetime achievement award. and we look at queer cinema in berlin, which was making quite an impact. berlin has a long history of embracing political cinema in fact, it is an avowedly political film festival and this year, because the fir
ken mccallum s expression of deep regret came after an official report found that the suicide attack that killed 22 people might have been avoided. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. nicaragua s veteran autocratic leader daniel ortega has been locking up political dissidents for years now. he has a new tactic mass deportation and withdrawal of citizenship from those who dare to criticise him and his family. my guest today is felix maradiaga, who was recently taken from his nicaraguan prison cell and flown to america. the good news is he s been reunited with his family after years apart. the bad news is ortega is trying to eliminate all opposition. so has resistance become impossible in nicaragua? felix maradiaga in miami, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steven. it s a pleasure to be back here. well, it is great to have you back on hardtalk, not least because you have just emerged from more than 600 days in a nicaraguan prison. was it a sur
this is bbc news. the headlines: a prominent lawyer in america has been found guilty of killing his wife and son. alex murdaugh was convicted of shooting the pair at theirfamily property in south carolina injune 2021. prosecutors said he wanted to distract attention from his theft of millions of dollars from clients. in india, the meeting of 620 foreign ministers has ended without a final joint statement due to bitter divisions over russia s war against ukraine. it s the first time the us and russian foreign ministers have met in public since the invasion, but their exchange was tense. the head of britain s domestic intelligence service has made an unprecedented public apology for mis s failure to prevent a terrorist attack in manchester in 2017. ken mccallum s expression of deep regret came after an official report found
Stephen Sackur speaks to F?elix Maradiaga, the former opposition leader imprisoned by Nicaragua s veteran autocrat Daniel Ortega. Ortega is trying to eliminate.