once the new president, gustavo petro, takes office in august. mr petro, himself a former rebel, has become the country s first left wing leader after winning sunday s presidential election. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. after a painful divorce, you never know if the ex partners will be able to build an amicable relationship. for britain and the eu, it seems the brexit break up has left a legacy of mistrust and bitterness, which is overwhelming any desire for cooperation. northern ireland is currently what they re fighting over. the uk is refusing to stick to the divorce settlement and the eu is threatening legal action. my guest is the eu ambassador in london, joao vale de almeida. is this a fight where everyone gets hurt? joao vale de almeida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. i want to start with some words of yours from, actually, early in your posting here in london as eu ambassador. you
for an independent panel to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and corruption in the organisation. he attacks me in the elevator, he comes after me all of a sudden, i pleaded with him to stop, let me go and so, but he was being very insistent and he was being very insistent and he was pulling me on. pulling my arm. the russian nobel peace laureate dmitry muratov auctions his medalfor more than $100 million, to raise funding for children displaced by the war in ukraine. one, two, three, four. and how one of the world s most famous djs, fatboy slim, is using music to help people improve their mental health problems. asa dj, as a dj, what i try and do is help people escape and sometimes it s good to escape your life or stress for a couple of hours. hello and welcome to the programme. commuters across the uk are finding alternative routes to work today as the biggest real strike for 30 years gets under way. after 40,000 members of the rmt union are walking out this week.
from what i can see. if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. london euston is practically deserted compared to a typical day. it has been the same at many other stations as strike action hits the entire rail network. we ll be live with our correspondents around the country, assessing the scale of the disruption.also this lunchtime. ukraine on the verge losing control of the key city of severodonetsk its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. one, two, three, four. dance music plays. star dj fatboy slim holds a music workshop to help people with mental healt
across england and wales and warmer than yesterday. in scotland and northern ireland it was the warmest day of the year so far yesterday, todayis day of the year so far yesterday, today is cooler with much more cloud. not much rain left over and i think the cloud will thin and break so we should see sunshine. some cloud pushing into the far north of england, the rest of england and wales enjoying blue skies and strong sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 2&25, i7 sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 2&25, 17 or 18 sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 21125, 17 or 18 scotland and northern ireland where we have the cloud. some patchy cloud overnight tonight in scotland and northern ireland, the bulk of england and wales dry, clear, no wind, temperature is probably more evenly spread overnight, 11 or 12 degrees, may be warmer in northern ireland with more cloud. i hope we should break through that cloud tomorrow more readily across northern ireland add
actor ben stiller in ukraine he told this programme he s worried the world will forget the victims of the war. as you get closer and closer to kyiv, and to the east of the country, you start to see the roadblocks and see the destruction. i m an actor, so the first thing i go is, oh, it looks like a movie. but the scale of it is even bigger, and it s real. ryan giggs resigns as wales manager he steps down ahead of wales appearance at the world cup. he s not been in his post for after being arrested for using controlling behaviour and assaulting his ex girlfriend charges he has denied. new photos are released of prince william selling the big issue to mark his 40th birthday we look back at his four decades in the spotlight. good morning. in london the sun is already beating down. for england and wales today it is going to be dry, sunny and warm. northern england are seeing more cloud out of the odd spot of rain. scotland and northern ireland are cloudier than yesterd