a warning that the coming decade will be the most dangerous and unpredictable since the end of the second world war. he denied he had any intention of using nuclear weapons in ukraine and accused the west of trying to destroy russia. now on bbc news it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. he is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. the work of william kentridge is now being marked with the major exhibition here at the royal academy, in london. in 2020 i travelled to his studio injohannesburg, and i asked him how far south africa s violent, racist and difficult past has influenced his art. william kentridge, injohannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio in johannesburg. you were born injohannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers. how did growing up under aparthei
and all the main news stories where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. the work is now being mark here at the royal academy in london. in 2020 and travelled to his studio injohannesburg. i asked him how far south africa s violent goat passes influences are. william kentridge injohannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio in johannesburg. you were born injohannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti apartheid struggle, from a young age i was aware of how unnatural south africa was. there was always a slight disjunction between myself and say, other people in the class whose parents took it as a natural. remember all white school, all
he took us out one at a time. just incredible. cnn s evan mcmorris-santoro is in hazard, kentucky. tell us what you re hearing and seeing from folks there. it s just heartbreaking. reporter: well, jim, this is the staging area in breathet county right near jackson where people are trying to get out there and do those rescues that you re talking about and do those efforts to find out what happened that you ve been talking about. we have some fresh drone footage in, we have the cnn drone out here flying around, and you can see the waters have receded, but leaving behind all that damage. now, what that s meant for this rescue effort is people can now get out on the ground and start looking around, and i have some news, some sad news that i just got from the sheriff here, john holland. he told me three bodies have been found just today from those searches, and he expects that there will be more as the day goes on. it s just a very harrowing situation, and there s a lot more t
That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
Studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at Alfred Herberts machine tool factory all his life. Ao odd years. Skilled worker, then . Yes, a skilled worker. Electrician. And he had a work ethic that was formidable. He worked seven days a week. And my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. But. Lovely woman, very kind. What sort of cultural upbringing did you have at home . Well, it was a very normal, i guess