Voiceover this is bbc news. We will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. As an art critic and ajournalist, ifeel like a very lucky man indeed, because i get to spend tonnes of time inside museums, places ive loved ever since i was a boy. And during my working life, ive witnessed something astonishing how radically theyve changed. The days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects are long gone. Theyre becoming much more dynamic and inclusive places less solemn, less elitist, and less west centric too. Museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and thats what i want to explore. This is amazing. So this is his studio. I can walk around, can i . He was painting the orient within the orient. When you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, lets say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. I think thats rather wonderful. Im in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the cap
And its notjust my industry and the Entertainment Industry, this is the world at large. But in the Entertainment Industry and your industry, you know, as a senior director, there are very few black women in that position. Yes. And what do you put that down to . What i put it down to, i put it down to hollywood being a part of the world. There are very few women, there are very few black people and very few black women in positions of power and status in the world, specifically in the western world. And so its not only the Entertainment Industry. But do you think the Subject Matter of this film was a problem for hollywood . Oh, yes. No, i mean, hollywood is definitely caste ist for sure. Thank you very much indeed, ava. Thank you very much, i appreciate it. Thank you. So lets take a look at some of the front pages. We are looking at the daily mail and it continues with its boost defence spending campaign. Forformer spending campaign. For former defence spending campaign. Forformer Defen
Who dare to defy them are dire. But women are fighting back. Using the power of their voice to resist a regime which the un says could be committing gender apartheid. Gunfire in this amount of darkness, there is i a light still burning. Still we see individuals fighting this oppression through their own talent. Horns blare gunfire after 20 years of a deadly war, the taliban return to power for the second time. Rapidly introducing sweeping changes. Restricting life for women becomes a top priority. Chanting as the world watches on, two sisters in afghanistan, who we wont identify for their own safety, witness first hand the new Taliban Regime tightening its grip on the country. But the sisters have a plan. Chanting at a huge risk to their lives, the sisters started a movement on social media and called it the last torch. She sings a few days after the talibans takeover, wearing blue burqas, the sisters released a song which quickly went viral, even though no one knew who they were. She
On key issues at home the economy, immigration, and reproductive rights the type of issues youd expect to hear in an election year. Biden set out his achievements and whats next for his presidency. He also took aim at his likely republican opponent in november, former President Donald Trump, without mentioning him by name. And it was clear that the president saw his speech notjust as a state of the Union Address but also an address about the State Of The World and americas role at the centre of it. History is watching. United states walks away, it will put ukraine at risk. Europe is at risk. The free world will be at risk, and modern others to do what they wish, to do us harm. My what they wish, to do us harm. My message to president putin, who have known for a long time, is simple. We will not walk away. Cheering. I have had many of my republican and democratic friends say that china is on the rise. And america is falling behind. Theyve got it backwards. The leadership, i say this. Hu
Funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. But i watched the World Cup Final in a neighbours house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. Wow. And you mentioned belfast there. Some people, i think, are still surprised when they hear that you grew up in working class belfast. Uhhuh. And youve now written and directed a film called belfast. Uhhuh. How autobiographical a film is it . Well, its seen through the eyes of nine year old buddy. Its seen at 50 years distance from me. So inevitably, not everything happened absolut