Many fights these days and where they all meeting. I. Talk to one who go welcome to conflict zone thank you europes getting fed up with beijings threatening behavior and telling politicians here where they can go and who they can talk to telling the Nobel Prize Committee who it can award and who it cant what made your government think it could push europe around like this what 1st time for you to hear that but i dont think that that was the government position or there could be a misunderstanding or. You know there was maybe theres a lack communication whatever. I heard from you i dont hear anything from that. Here in china i dont think so well perhaps you dont hear about it in china but just days ago. The german in foreign minister hiker mass told beijing bluntly to stop threatening europe after a senior czech politician has gone to taiwan and addressed its parliament your government had warned hed paid a heavy price for his visit there thats bullying isnt it no i dont think that it w
Russian filmmaker andre conscious of skis furious india comrades is a gripping recreate of a 962. 00 workers strike and the massacre that followed it you need to feel like a boy. To keep. You 3 in. One night in miami by regina king the film set a box a celebration riata party and 964 imagines what can happen when for us icons put their Heads Together on margaret yes. Thats right. My song pretty are. Joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this years lineup. Yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of eyes cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was
Hello and welcome to hull, britains city of culture as we review 12 months of cracking events. Thats right, its been an absolutely phenomenal year. We have so much to look back on. Across four seasons, hull took art out of galleries and theatres and into the streets. 365 days of events changed the way the city has been seen by the rest of the world. The year has gone by so quick, i cannot believe its almost over, and i hope these guys get to stay. The year has gone by so quick, i cannot believe its almost over, and i hope these guys get to stay. This is the latest installation for 2017 called where do we go from here. These robot arms brought out of retirement to do some dancing here in the city of culture. And it sort of mirrors the start of the year back injanuary when the whole of the city centre was filled with lights and sounds. That was amazing. That was how we started this season, made in hull. Crowd eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. 2017 really did start with a ba
And the police are urging people to be vigilant. Depite four terror attacks this year, there will be fewer officers on duty in london at the new years eve fireworks but Scotland Yard says the numbers are proportionate and reflect the threat level, which remains at severe. In some parts of the uk celebrations for the new year are already well underway, not least in edinburgh. Last night, the citys hogmanay festival opened with a torchlight procession through its historic streets. More than 17,000 torchbearers took part in the event, including 30 vikings who had travelled down from shetland for the celebrations. The security minister ben wallace has said the government should consider taxing internet firms, unless they are more willing to co operate in tackling the threat of terrorism in the uk. In an interview in the sunday times, mr wallace said technology fims that refused the Security Services access to encrypted messages were turning the internet into an anarchic, violent space. ani
Whats happening in the year long celebration. Hello, and welcome to hull, the uk City Of Culture. Showcasing the brightest and The Best Of Contemporary Culture has brought us here to hulls cemetery for a Circus Performance with a difference. And continuing our celebration of difference, we meet matt fraser who will be putting his Disability Centre stage to play shakespeares richard iii. Im a deformed actor playing a deformed character for the first time in britain, which is extraordinary that it should be the first but its exciting that i get to do it. We will meet the army of 2017 volunteers giving up their free time for culture. Theres a star man, waiting in the sky. And go on a Trip Down Memory Lane with a spiderfrom mars. Hello, im anne marie tasker, and im the arts and Culture Correspondence for the bbc here in hull and this is kofi smiles. Im the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. Today, we are taking it quite li